Football

The football team of 1938.

First row: Harry W. Wilson, William D. Reese, James C. Kinney, Clarence S. Shenk, Samuel Padjen (Captain), Kinzie L. Weimer, William Morgan, William H. Hendrickson, Austin W. Bittle, Gerald L. Darr

Second row: E. Albert Task, John I. Jones, Milton L. Silver, Lyman Gilbert Hertzler, Jr., Alexis M. Fludovich, Bernard J. Kotulak, William R. Headington, Kenneth F. Tyson, Jay G. Elicker, Richard W. Wagner, John A. Bogar, James R. Hertzler

Third row: Robert C. Shenk, Albert G. Burdulis, Robert W. McWhinney, Dean Fencil, W. Roberts Pedrick, Paul L. Wheeler (Jr.), William B. Kerfoot, Richard A. Zimmer, Robert C. Baker, Richard F. Weimer, Robert L. Laughton

Clarence B. Hendrickson Jr., a member of the Class of 1938, runs in his football uniform.

Austin W. Bittle (Class of 1939) poses for a picture in his football uniform.

View as Austin W. Bittle (Class of 1939) jumps to catch a football.

William Henry Hendrickson (Class of 1939) runs with a football.

Bernard J. Kotulak (Class of 1939) runs in his football uniform. 

Samuel Padjen, a member of the Class of 1939, prepares to throw a football.

View of Clarence Sylvester Shenk (Class of 1939) in his football uniform.

View as Kinzie Lamar Weimer (Class of 1939) runs with a football. 

Franklin Curtis Yoh (Class of 1939) catches a football.

A posed photograph of coaches and football team alumni at the Newton Hamilton Football Training Camp in September 1939. Coach Richard MacAndrews is standing in the center.

A live-action shot from a game between Dickinson and Albright in fall 1939.

A Dickinson football player avoids an opponent's tackle in a circa 1940 game.

A football game between Dickinson and Ursinus, circa 1940, played at Ursinus on Patterson Field.  The large sycamore tree in the endzone is a famous landmark of Ursinus.

William Morgan (Class of 1940) runs to catch a football.

This photo, published with the same title in an issue of the Microcosm from the 1940s, is a football game against Gettysburg College.  Dickinson here is attempting to bring down the Gettysburg receiver, shown in the darker colored uniform in the center of the tackle.

View as Robert Clayton Shenk (Class of 1941) runs with a football.

View of Thomas McIntire Eliason Jr. (Class of 1946) in his football uniform as a freshman in 1942.

The football team of 1942, the only football team to form during World War II, poses for a picture.

First row: S. Francis Melcher (Manager), James Prescott III, Charles S. Brown, Steward H. Hartman, Abner H. Bagenstose, J. Fred Dittman (Captain), Thomas S. McKee, Douglas C. Rehor, William H. Kenety, Phillip D. Patterson, C. Jay Overcash, Roger B. Turk (Manager)

Second row: Roy M. Ellis, James P. Malloy, John W. Langley, J. Raymond Bowen, Thomas J. Valaika, William R. Wasko, Steve Padjen, George Benedict, Richard M. Nicklas

Third row: Richard M. House, Lloyd S. Wolf, L. Holland Taylor, Bernard C. Brominski, Thomas M. Eliason, Richard S. Brown, Raymond G. Brown (Jr.), James H. Diffenderfer, C. Robert Miller, Robert E. Kennan, W. Stanley Warwick

Fourth row: Thomas P. Lacek, Fred J. Croop, R. Desmond Dailey, Vincent J. Schafmeister, Paul G. Bucher, Jack W. Miller, Robert M. Casey, James A. Turner, W. Richard Thompson, Frank A. Powell (Jr.), Richard M. Boccelli

Fifth row: Benjamin D. James (Head Coach), Thomas D. Gordon, Paul Rinaldi, Frederick Capp, William Nemick, John S. Mathews (Jr.), Peter J. McCormick, Stanley F. Victor, James M. Hunter, Shamos A. O'Shea, Charles H. B. Kennedy (Assistant Coach), Richard Henry MacAndrews

View as Leonard Peter Supulski (Class of 1942) catches a football. 

View of James Prescott III  (Class of 1944) in his football uniform. 

View of William Richard Wasko (Class of 1946) in his football uniform.