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TONIGHT'S GAME with Glenbrook North marks the end of this year's varsity football season. There is no question that this has been a rather unusual year for the Warriors. One of the prime reasons for this year's surge of unexpected upsets is found by surveying past Maine West records. Last year the Westmen were undefeated in Conference play, easily subduing Deerfield and their probable successor, Prospect. The year before that, they did the same.
There was not a team in the league this season that did not have Maine West on the top of its list as ''this year's team to beat." It's not easy to win when the rest of the Conference is as hungry as it was this year.
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THE STANDOUTS from the 1963 season (Curren, Cichowski, and Jackson) were back again this year, but the void created by the graduation of '64 was not easy to fill. Coach Olson indicated at the beginning of the season that lack of depth was to be a problem this year. The elimination of Al Kruse and Jerry Hanselmann from the lineup most certainly aggravated that problem.
Never out of a game the Warriors could just as easily have been 6-1 or undefeated at this time. In any case, an "off year" for Maine West is still equal to a good year for most other schools.
"WE'RE SORRY!" The exchange trophy mentioned in last issue's column was not built by the Student Councils of Maine and Prospect; it was built by the Boys' Clubs of the two schools.
AL WATERS '63 is now a chief reserve defensive back for the University of Illinois. We want to wish him good luck and hope to see him in the regular lineup soon.
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