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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, The members of this Body are honored to join in
3 the recognition of two outstanding football teams of
4 Centralia High School; and
5 WHEREAS, It has come to our attention that the 1926 and
6 1927 football teams, coached by A. L. Trout, were recently
7 inducted into the Centralia Sports Hall of Fame; and
8 WHEREAS, In its second year of football at CHS, the team
9 ended the season with a record of 7-0 and outscored its
10 opponents 194-32; and
11 WHEREAS, In 1927, the CHS team ended the season with a
12 record of 7-0-1; the team's halfback Bob Hails scored 102
13 points during the season to become the first All-State
14 football player in Centralia history; and
15 WHEREAS, Members of the 1926 team were: Robert Mapes,
16 Earl Eggers, Clarence Curl, Glendon Grimes, Fred Wham, Donald
17 Roper, Luther Neubauer, Myron Addison, Robert Hails, Dee Fox,
18 Veron Frost, Wilfred Niedringhaus, Cliff Hight, Robert Hight,
19 Emmet Woley, Charles Pound, John Merkelbach, Merle Ray,
20 Charles Hurst, Stanley Yuseitis, Raymond Estes, Warren Wells,
21 and Wilson Neubauer; the coaches were A. L. Trout and C. I.
22 Linthicum; and
23 WHEREAS, Members of the 1927 team were: Merle Ray, Jimmie
24 Evers, Luther Neubauer, Wilfred Niedringhaus, Robert Hails,
25 Earl Eggers, Paul McCullough, Charles DeWitt, Charles Hurst,
26 Emmet Woley, Myron Addison, Robert Hight, Merrill Mooney,
27 Clarence Jolliff, Robert Mapes, Clair Frost, Russell Snyder,
28 Robert Reichel, Eugene Carl, Ray McLaughlin, Robert Jensen,
29 and Robert Ray; managers were Forsyth, Conder, and Stout; and
30 WHEREAS, These two teams were the first of an outstanding
31 tradition of football excellence which continues to this day;
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1 therefore, be it
2 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
3 NINETIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
4 join in saluting the 1926 and 1927 football teams of
5 Centralia High School as they are inducted into the Centralia
6 Sports Hall of Fame; and be it further
7 RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
8 presented to Principal Edgar Coller.