Biggs High School - Rice Blade Yearbook (Biggs, CA)

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BASKETBALL The I934 baske+baIl season was The mosT successTul one ThaT The local school has ever experienced. The A, B and C Teams won The Sub-League Championships in each class. Coach L. E. Reynolds coached all Three Teams. During The league schedule we won 23 ouT oT 24 games played, which is quiTe an unusual record. The regulars on The Teams were as follows: A Team B Team C Team Fiedler-F..Cap1ain Gosselin-P, CapTain Honda-G., CapTain Freidman-F. VenTioner-F. PraraT-G. SmiTh--C. Dunlap-C. Darby-C. Grein-G, MarkgraT-G. Johnson--F. Markgraf-G. Moreland-G. Dal PorTo-F, Subs: Bayles-G. Subs: Millard-F. Subs: Baker Gorham I-londa Lindberg LiTTle Cameron Lofgren Friedman Dunlap The scores OT The games were as Tollows: PRACTICE GAMES Maxwell PrinceTon Maxwell Oroville Colusa Red Bluff WheaTland Fasf Nicolous Live Oak SulTr:r Live Oak WheaTland LasT Nicolous SuTTer A B C Biggs Biggs 30 25 PrinceTon 6 - 50 Marysville 39 - 20 Maxwell 23- I9 Maxwell 23 - 25 Oroville 25 - 26 Oroville I9 I7 Colusa 32 I8 Colusa 48 - I7 Marysville 3I - 2I Red BluTT 48 - 25 Marysville .laps Big I9- I7- 27- 25- 22' I6- 2l- 3l- 515 20 25 37 2l 73 38 24 33 LEAGUE GAMES WheaTland EasT Nicolous Live Oak, SuTTer , Live Oak WheaTiand EasT Nicolous SuTTer B I7 28 2 I4 I7 I2 22 24 ie Gi 2I 38 26 25 I9 52 3l 35 ProspecTs Tor l935 C WheaTland EasT Nicolous Live Oak SuTTer , Live Oak WheaTland EasT Nicolous SuTTer , B 24 II I8 I3 37 I5 B I2 7 7 I2 5 I3 8 Il iq ie gs 30 25 I4 I6 I4 2I gs 22 22 22 29 I0 I4 I I 2I The prospecTs Tor nexT year are very good Tor The B Team as The championship C Team oT This year will be B's nexT year. The A Team prospecTs are noT so brighT as we will have only one veTeran Trom This year's championship Tive. Friedman is The only veTeran reTurning. VenTioner a promising B player oT This year's championship B Team has leTT school. The mosT likely A prospecTs Tor nexT year will come Trom The Tollowing squad: Millard, Gorham, Gosselin, MarkgraT, Friedman, Honda, Dunlap, Lindberg.

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posiTion. Then almosT immediaTely Friedman again riTled anoTher, inTo MarkgraT's arms on The Tive yard line, who plunged Through Two Gridley men, Tor The one and only Touchdown oT The game ending wiTh a score OT 6-O in Tavor oT Biggs. The lasT game oT The season wiTh Chico, who won The league TiTle, was won by Biggs, I2-7. However, Biggs had To TorTeiT because OT The ineligibiliTy of several players. This was a unique game, being played parTly in The dark, as iT sTarTed aT Tour p.m. ProspecTs Tor nexT year's Team are Tair, alThough six TirsT sTring men, are gradu- aTing This year. FirsT sTring lineup: L. E. Fiedler, L. T. Conway, L. G. LiTTle, C. Baker, R. G. SmiTh fPraraTl, R. T. Lofgren, R. E. Grein, Q. B. Friedman, L. H. MarkgraT, F. Kuhl, R. H. Dal PorTo. ' TRACK This year saw one OT biggs' mosT successTul Track seasons. From The TirsT They aimed aT winning The unlimiTed N.C.H.S.A.L. preliminary meeT. ConsequenTly many excepTional limiTed men were placed in The unlimiTed division. A large squad Turned ouT Tor The Track call, buT in all pracTice meeTs, Biggs could noT geT enough men TogeTher aT one Time To place very high. However, several men showed up well in These pracTice meeTs, Several OT The boys did noT geT in To any oT These mceTs which placed Them aT a disadvanTage in The preliminary meeT, as They had had no inTer-school compeTiTion during The year. AbouT a week beTore The daTe oT The preliminary meeT. Biggs was inTormed ThaT The meeT was To be held here. A week oT rapid preparaTion ensued. The Track was surveyed, cleared, packed and laned. On The day oT The meeT, SaTurday, May 5, The Tield was in Tine shape, considering The shorT Time oT preparaTion. The aim of The Biggs sTalwarTs was TulTilled, They Took The unlimiTed meeT by a score of 53lf2 To 47. The score oT HamilTon CiTy, Their nearesT compeTiTor. Biggs was low in limiTed sTandings. Places Taken by Biggs men were as Tollows: IO0 yard dash-Grein, IsT: Markgraf, 2nd, I20 high hurdles-Dunlap, Tied Tor 2nd7 Millard, 4Th. 880 yard run-Gorham, Znd: Dreyer, 3rd. 440 yard dash-Gorham, 3r:'l: Gosselin, 4Th. 720 yard dash-MarkgraT, Znd: Grein, 3rd. Broad Jump-Honda, Tied Tor IsT. High Jump-Gosselin, Tied Tor Znd. Pole VaulT-Dal PorTo, 2ndg Moreland, 3rd. ShoT PuT-MarkgraT, lsT7 Friedman, Znd. FooTball Throw-Friedman, 3rd. Relay-Biggs, 3rdg lHon'la, LiTTle, Grein, MarkgraTl. Mile Run-Cameron, 2nd, Dal PorTo, 3rd, LimiTed places: IOO yard dash-Honda, 4Th. 660 yard run-King, 3rd. T60 yard Low Hurdles-Harvey, 4Th. Broad Jump-Honda, Znd. Pole VaulT1Johnson, 3rd. Relay-Biggs, 3rd. Times and disTances Tor The meeT were noT excepTional. AlThough several Biggs men were eligible To enTer The N.C.H.S.A.L. Tinals aT Chico, only Two, Gorham and Dal PorTo, enTered. Gorham Took a 4Th in The 880 yard run. Several consTanT Trackmen will be losT To The squad nexT year, buT The maioriTy OT place men reTurn To The cinders nexT year Tor a beTTer Team Than ever.

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BESSIE JAMES and DELIGHT I-IIXSON OFFICERS of The GIRLS' LEAGUE FirsT Semesfer Second Semesfer Louise Slusser. . . , ,, . PresidenT , ,, , , ,,,,,,,,, , Louise Slugger Alyce Savage , . . Vice-PresidenT . . , . ..,, Melva Lindberg BeTTy Brinlc, ,. ., .. .Secy.-Treasurer. .. . NaomiCasalong RuTh Vance. ,, . ,, . . ,,,., . . Yell-Leader . .. ,, ,..,,..,. ,,,.,.Fern Albers Those aTTending The Older Girls' Conference on March I6 and I7, aT Richardson Springs were: Eloise Farley, Vera Gray, Louise Slusser, BeTTy Brink, Marie McLean, Eleanore Longaneclcer and Miss Edwina Dean. MaTching Our MounTains was The Theme oT The ConTerence. TwenTy-seven girls aTTended The Girls' Play Day wiTh Durham High School on April 2l. Miss Edwina Deen accompanied The girls. Winning by a very close score from The Junior Class Team, The Seniors won The InTercIass Championship BaslceTball game. They also won The lnTercIass Volleyball Championship wiTh The Sophomore Team as a close second. The Girls' League sponsored a MoThers' Tea on April 26, I934. Upon The arrival oT The guesTs several hosTesses escorTed The moThers around The school building To The diTTerenT classrooms and explained abouT The school. A large group oT moThers aTTended. The Tumbling Team has increased in size This year and under Miss Dean's supervision has been able To Torge ahead in Their worlc. There are I2 in The Team and They are planning To have more members nexT year. RuTh Vance Eloise Farley Pearl Sfarlcey Vera Grey Della Vance Nadine Albers MEMBERS G De Laine Gray Mildred PriTchard Elsie Jones Alice Sheppard Inez Wellman Fern Albers Continued from Music Page The liTTIe orchesTra has also appeared on numerous occasions. IT has been diTTiculT To Tind Time To pracTice wiTh a Tull schedule, buT The orchesTra has given a good accounT OT iTselT. IT has also been diTFiculT To Tind rehearsal Time Tor The Girls' Glee, buT They have sung aT some occasions during The year, and have Taken a Tew Trips wiTh The band.