Hudson High School - True Blue Yearbook (Hudson, WI)

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PURPOSE OF ATHLETICS IN A HIGH SCHOOL Perhaps as you have journeyed around this terra firma ,a yell from a group of High School students as they gave a bon voyage to a parting team or welcomed a victorious team home, met your ears. Perhaps if you possessed the quality which killed Ix t’s wife, you asked, “Why a celebra- tion?” Then some excited youngster exclaims, “Why this is our team.” What does athletics mean to the general public? A form of gladiatorial combat wherein might makes right. What does it mean to the average school board? 1st. A good form of cheap advertisement. 2nd. A good way to keep some of the more energetic youngsters busy and so out of mischief. 3rd. A form of exercise which tends to make physical giants out of their boys. To the average student school athletics may mean: 1st. A chance for personal glory. 2nd. A way to spend odd hours. 3rd. A cheap form of amusement. 4th. A good way to show some neighboring hamlet that our High School can carry off the bacon at any and all times. Such people clamor for a winning team irrespective or ways and means and as a result H. S. athletics defeat the very purpose for which they were placed in the high school. What should be the aim of athletics in the High School? 1st. To givp a form of enjoyable and agreeable physical exercise open to all High School students. 2nd. To give something of general interest to all where each one will put aside their petty grievances or false standards and stand on an equal footing with his or her fellow creatures. 3rd. To make sports of all, not in the street sense, but in the great, broad, democratic- sense. Perhaps we had better define this term. Who is a sport? Not one who cannot put aside the joy of cost, nor one who would steal by trickery from an opponent a prize won. But one who knows the rules of the' game, who fights hard, plays the game from the word go; men, high minded men:

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TRUE BLUE 19 SOMETHING WRONG Just stop and think a moment, And I’m sure you all will say That it’s apt to keep us hustling. If each teacher we obey. “How long did you study your History?” Asks Miss Holden in accents clear. “One period ma’am,” “Twill never do; You won’t get thru this year.” And Shorthand needs two periods. Not a minute less will do. Physics needs two also. And English Literature two. Now we have just seven periods To study and recite, Reciting six, and study nine. Have I got the number right?

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TRUE BLUE 21 men wlio their duty know, but know their rights and knowing dare main- tain. He was a sport who, when his team, was tired and bruised, cheered them on to victory with the words: “Comrades, play up, play up and play the game. Who, when his brigade was broken and ragged by rifle shots, picked up the fallen standard and rallied the brigade by, “Comrades, play up, play up and play the game.” For you, readers of this paper, you who are representative of the thought of this community, what does H. S. athletics mean to you? Are you with the coach in his efforts to make this years athletics fulfill the big aim herein set forth and make your school a by word for sports- manship among other schools? —C. C. SHERMAN, Coach. FOOTBALL The season's athletics began this year with football. There was much talk about having a good showing up of players, but when the actual prac tice came, there were hardly enough men to make one team. However, Nr. Sherman, our coach, instilled into the minds and hearts of the few players a little enthusiasm, which was not advanced by the student body. The first two games played were scrimmage games between Hudson High and Galahad. The boys made a pretty fine showing in the games. The first and onlv real game played was with River Falls High. Hudson vs. River Falls. On Oct. ? d our boys, I say boys, because our Prof, and Coach, due to the phenomenal condition of the freight train being out on time, went in a Chinese Mercedes, But our boys, did 1 forget the girls (?) went on a freight to River Falls to indulge fn the first, hish! also last football game. After much meditation, over officials, the game was called about three o'clock. Referee tossed up a coin and River Falls won choice for goal Hudson received the kick but lost ball on a fluke forward pass. River Falls plunged line for touchdown, etc, etc. Final score of game 12-0. Which considering that the only man who ever had played football before was Beggs, surely doesn't seem very bad. Some of our boys played an exceptionally good game considering: i. e. lew Coit, John Durning and Edmund Bleier, not.to forget our end, Starr, who tipped his men in pile-driver style. What about a team next year? Do you belong to the boosters club? FOOTBALL LINE-UP Denniston, Durning, Beggs, Coit, Hosford, Slater, Lystad, (Stevens) Phil Tourtellot Paul Tourtellot Edmund Bleier (Hodgins) Olson (Martinson)