Billings Senior High School - Kyote Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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F ootball Billings Brones, for the second successive time, won the state and “Big Fourteen championship” by defeating Missoula County High School, 28-12. During the season, Billings played a schedule of 10 games. At the beginning of the season the team showed promise by winning the traditional game with Roundup, the nby later defeating Great Falls and Anaconda. After two defeats, one to Butte high school, 20-0, and one to Sheridan, Wyoming, 14-13, the team made up its mind to finish the rest of the season undefeated. It won victories from Bozeman, Miles City, Livingston, Lewistown and Missoula. The championship game at Butte on Thanksgiving day gave a very fitting end to its triumphs. We congratulate Mr. Clyde Carpenter on his splendid coaching with the help of the assistant coaches, Mr. William T. Hodges and Mr. Gene Pearson. Fred Jones .playing his fourth year as a regular tackle, was captain. It was also Eddie Bayne’s fourth year as a regular. Both of them, along with Harold Blick and Floyd Novasio, made the All-State team. Nick Maltese and Lewis Ross made the second All-State team. Coach Carpenter said, “In Butte, Thanksgiving, every man on the team was an all-star. We had a fine first team and very able reserves. All but four of the 19 lettermen graduate and we hope the gaps can be filled by men from the B and C squads.” The graduating lettermen are: Fred Jones, outgoing captain and all-state tackle; Ed Bayne, all-state halfback; Nick Maltese, all-state center; Joe McClellan, end; Floyd Novasio, all-state fullback; Tony Ferro, guard; Harold Blick, all-state guard; Ed Allard, quarterback; Lewis Ross, second all-state tackle; Bill Grusonik, fullback; Jack Lynch, tackle; Jack Hay, guard; Jack Vinner, end; Bob Brown, center; and Bill Adler, guard. The lettermen who are returning are: John Conway, next fall’s captain and end; Kenneth Fargo, halfback; Bill Mains, halfback and R. C. Rogers, fullback. Bronc football followers feel that part of the A squad’s fine showing must be credited to the work of Assistant Coach Bill Hodges and his “B“ squad. The “B” squad played only one regularly scheduled game, losing a close contest to Columbus, but its work in scrimmaging the A squad, and in giving the regulars work against plays of opposing teams, was invaluable. Next year’s squad will be composed almost entirely of Coach Hodges’ boys who will come into their own at last as a result of the graduation of most of this year’s fine squad. Page Twenty-Nine

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Basketball Basketball season opened this year with the Billings Brones’ successful invasion of Wyoming. In a five-day trip they defeated Lovell, Worland and Casper and were defeated by Thermopolis. Later in the season, after making a long trip to Anaconda, they were defeated by both Anaconda and Butte with scores of 33-27 and 26-24 re- spectively. The Broncs later took five straight victories by winning from Missoula, Bearcreek and Great Falls on the home floor and Livingston and Bozeman on their floors. After holding Miles City to a 28-33 victory earlier in the season the Broncs were trounced by them 44-17 in the last game before the state divisional tournament. Billings was eliminated from the tournament after losing to Miles City 24-27 and to Butte 33-16. Coach Frank Ward developed a group of enthusiastic players who fought hard in an endeavor to bring Billings the state title. Of the eight lettermen, including Eddie Bayne, Bill Grusonik, Jack Hay. Joe McClellan, R. C. Rogers, Bill Faxon, Dale Galles and Dick Bostwick, only two will be back next year. They are: R. C. Rogers, a sophomore and Dick Bostwick, who will captain next year’s team. Dick will take the place of co-captains Jack Hay and Bill Grusonik of this year’s squad. Other members are: Ed Reams. Delbert Sirrine, Jerry Ottem, Hubert Cook and Gwynne Tompkins. Track 1935 Billings high school has a hard task each year with her track season, fighting such opponents as nature and the lack of interest in track. Usually the spring weather is not adapted to the performance of track men; the spring of 1935 was an exceptionally bad year. Nevertheless, the Orange and Black made a successful bid for honors. Three lettermen returned in the spring of 1935 to uphold track honors for the Broncs. These included Bob Bateman, R. C. Rogers and Lew Shelton. Other men turning out for the track team were: Ed Reams, Jack Johnson, Jack Ramsey, Rex Welton, George Stephenson, Sutton Hammond, Dale Sanderson, Franklin Martin, Bud Edwards, Diego Gonzales, Albert Gonzales, Sam Neibauer and Herman Nei- bauer. The track season started with an invitational meet at Livingston in which Butte won, with Billings second. Park County third, Bozeman fourth, and Anaconda fifth. The week before the state track meet, the Polytechnic held an invitational meet in which twelve schools competed, the Broncs winning by a big margin. In the state meet a week later, the Orange and Black scored ten points, Butte winning the meet with thirty-five points. Men who scored consistently in the meets during the season and those receiving the official track “B” for the season were Boh Bateman, R. C. Rogers, Ed Reams, George Stephenson, Rex Welton, and Lew Shelton Page Thirty