Fairbury High School - Trail Yearbook (Fairbury, NE)

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epresentative of the 1939 track season are such pictures as appear on this page, taken at the Fair- bury invitational track and field meet held April 21. In the upper left Buford Johnson had just passed a Beatrice runner to win the 880 yard relay. To the right is Orville Remple taking off in an attempt at the high jump cross bar. At the center left, Johnson is racing ahead of a Beatrice high hurdler to win that event while below hini Patton jogs his weary way in the 880 yard run. To the right, Butterbaugh gets poised for one of those shot puts. Shipman is seen in the lower left, tieing for one oi the first four places in the pole vault and to the right is Ellsworth just releasing the javelin. U fPage Fortyffourij

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Back Bow: Duane Sams, Coach, Max Melvin, Lynn Shuck, Leonard Hand, Harold Jones, B111 Cook. Front Row: Bob Ayers, Harvey Cunningham, John Busboom, B111 Armstrong', Raymond Opfer, Willis Lonn. 515105 Bai55EgaZZ7 The reserve basketeers had a slow starting season, winning four out of twelve games played. Three of these four were won in the last live games. The slow starting was due probably to the fact that the team was com- posed of three freshmen, Shipman, Jones and Hand, and two sophomores, Reid and Lon. The reserves opened their season by losing to the Beatrice seconds, 19 to 9, on the home floor. Also on the home floor, the second team lost a heart-breaker to Hebron, 19 to 17. They next journeyed to Wilbur to lose another close one, 25 to 23. The reserves came back to beat Steele City Hrsts, 21 to 14, on the home court. Next followed three defeats on the local floor by the first teams of Plymouth 31 to 243 Diller, 25 to 205 and Reynolds, 36 to 24. The reserves were eliminated in the first round of the tourn- ament by Plymouth. The little Jeffs came back to beat the Wymore reserves by a score of 31 to 20. To make it two in a row, they defeated Endicott, 27 to 17. The county tournament winners, Reynolds, trounced the reserves by a 49 to 14 count. Without the services of Ship- man and Reid who had been shifted to the first squad, the seconds lost to Diller, 23 to 19. With Shipman and Reid back in the line-up, the re- serves tinished their season by a 28 to 23 vic- tory over Deshler. The second team had the problem of develop- mg a team out of inexperienced material. The only minor letter winners back were Reid, Lonn and Busboom. Shipman and Reid were moved up to the first squad near the end of the season when mumps and two cases of appendicitis had cut down the varsity roster. Both won major letters. Lonn and Jones were other consistent scorers on the team. I:Page Fortyfthreeil

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U55 7Q3Q Uzacg .gucfua Back Row:,, Dick Long, Ed Patton, Randall Butterbaugh, Orville Rempel, Darrell Wiles, Buford Johnson. Second Row: Coach Sams, Bus Ellsworth, Orpheus Shultz, Leonard Hand, Bill Neilsen, Ramon Garcia, Coach Sloan. First Row: George Reid, Richard Miller, Frank Shipman, Dwaine McKenzie, Harold Jones, Jack Aasen. Given little chance at the first of the season to make much headway, the 1939 track and field team proceeded to step out and win the Mid-East conference meet held at Beatrice. Prior to that meet, Fairbury had defeated Superior and Wilber in dual meets and finished four points behind first place Beatrice in the Fairbury invitational. Main point winners were Nielsen, Butterbaugh, Patton, Johnson and Yoachim. The 880 relay team of Nielsen, Long, Wiles, and Johnson placed lirst in the Mid-East meet and brought back a beautiful trophy for their efforts. Those who had earned the necessary eight points, and over, for a letter up to the time the annual went to press were Nielsen, Butterbaugh, Patton, Johnson, Yoachim, Wiles, Long, and Ellsworth. Others assured of lettering were Shipman, Remple and Mc-Kenzie. 1939 Track and Field Results Fairbury ...,...............,,,.....,,,,,....,.. ,,..,...,.. ,.,..,,, 6 5 ig Superior .... ................ ......., 5 6 M, Fairbury .... .......,. 6 9 VVilber ..... ....,,.............., ..,,.,,.. 5 3 Fairbury Invitational Beatrice ....................., ,........ 5 2 Fairbury ...., i..,,.... 4 8 Wymore .... ......... 3 4 Diller ..... ............... ......... 3 0 Mid-East Fairbury .... ,........ 4 0 Jackson ...... l........ 3 3 Beatrice .... ........ 2 45 York ......... ........ 2 35 Hastings ,... ......... 2 0 Crete .... ......... 1 3 I:Page Forty-fivej