Dallas High School - Dragon Yearbook (Dallas, OR)

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WRESTLING . . Building his team around seven veterans, Coach Gabbert gave the call, December 6, for his grunt and groan men to start putting the kinks in and taking them out. They finished their most successful season of their career at West Linn, March 9, 1940, by beating West Linn, Chemawa, Silverton, and Molalla for the WVI Championship. Out of the 13 dual meets, they succeeded in winning 11. The first match of the year was with Chemawa, here, followed by Canby, Corvallis, Newberg, Salem, Newberg, Oregon State Blind School, Salem, Corvallis, Tillamook, Silverton, McMinnville, and Silverton. The only two bows Gabbert's mat artists took during the year were to the muscle-benders of Canby and Salem. The WVI Champions are: Armund Frey 95; Ray Dick 115; Paul Buhler 135; Clair Franck 145. The runners-up were Zean Smull 115; John Peters 135; Arnold Fast 155.

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BASKETBALL'A'Squad . . In spite of the unsuccessful ending the Dallas high basketball squad as a whole enjoyed their share of good luck in the gamble of sports for the past season. The team was made up of four members of last year's Co-Willamette Valley League champions, and all were members of the state tournament crew of 38 . Although the lads did not go to the state tournament this year, they showed lots of fire during the regular season by winning the Willamette Valley League with thirteen wins and one loss unto the hands of Chemawa. Five losses were suffered during regular season play. Two by high school teams, Chemawa and Salem, two to the University of Oregon frosh and one to Linfield frosh. The team was composed of Don Low, Lloyd Jackson, Mel Dornhecker, Mike Peters, A1 Kroeker, Ed Kroeker, Jack Boydston and Kenny Kliever until ineligibility struck him at the end of the first semester. The stellar basketeers Low, Jackson, Peters, Dornhecker and Kroeker, who have played together for the last three years, are all members of this year's graduating class., leaving Blackley, Boydston and Ed Kroeker to make up the Dragon team of next year. BASKETBALL'B'Squad .

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FOOTBALL . With six returning lettermen, Don Pinkerton, our sports manager, started passing out the uniforms for the first official football practice of the season on September 25. Not long afterwards, October 6, we played our first league game with Silverton High. This year finds us with a new coach, Mr. Hagan. Everybody should know him well by this time and appreciate the good work he has done with the teams his first year here. He went to college at the University of Oregon and coached five years at Burns High. The Dragons went through the season with one lone victory over our arch rivals, Independence. Alvin Kroeker, veteran backfield ace, scored the only touchdown of the game to dump the Hop-pickers 6-0. As a result of not enough boys turning out, the Baby Dragons, or the B squad, went through the season not having any games of their own. A list of the boys that were on the team are A1 Kroeker, Ed Kroeker, John Klassen, Glen Wiebe, Norman Coy, Arnold Koelfgen, Guy Dickey, Mike Peters, Delbert Kliever, Ralph Elliot, Dave Brown, John Kliever, Ty Brown, Jay Hyde, James Smith, Bob Woods, Bill Blackley, John Peters, Bob Dunn, Benny Smith, Don Julian and James Houtz. Coach Hagan's opinion of this year’s sports is, I feel that the Athletic department of Dallas High school enjoyed, in general at least, a very successful year especially in basketball. “Next year will see many new faces in the team lineups and a period of rebuilding faces the coaching staff of Dallas High. Participation in inter-school team athletics is urged upon all boys so that the school will be represented by the strongest possible athletic teams. —Football Schedule— Scores Opponents We They Silverton 6 25 Chemawa 0 50 Molalla 6 21 Sweet Home 6 25 Independence 6 0 West Linn 6 25 Woodburn 7 13 Lebanon 0 6