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

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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)

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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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99 TRUE BLUE BASKET BALL The outlook for basket ball this year is very bright. We expect to play a much larger schedule this year than ever before, and it is up to the boys to be out for practice, and help to regain our lost leadership. Basketball tickets will be out in a few weeks and we need yoilr help to boost the sale. Our motto “Every student must buy a basketball ticket.” The Schedule f Dec. 11. Menomonie at Menomonie. Jan. 8. Menomonie at Hudson. Jan. 15. Stillwater at Hudson. Jan. 22. Stillwater at Stillwater. Jan. 29. Spring Valley at Hudson. Feb. 5. Spring Valley at Spring Valley. Feb. 12. Glenwood at Hudson. Feb. 19. Glenwood at Glenwood. Feb. 26. Baldwin at Hudson. March 5 Baldwin at Baldwin. March 12 Elmwood at Hudson. March 19 Elmwood at Elmwood. We also hope to play River Falls. GIRLS BASKET BALL For the first time since 1905, the girls of the Hudson High School are going to have basket ball teams and play at least class games. Wonderful, isn’t it? It didn’t seem very wonderful though at the first practice when two Seniors, three Juniors, and one Sophomore appeared for practice. But at the next practice there were nearly fifty girls assembled in the gymnasium. It is true about twenty-five of these were freshmen, but it showed a start in the right direction,— one of the first indications of school spirit. Regular practice is held twice a week on Tuesday and Thursday, and the girls are ably coached by Miss Thurston and Miss Flynn. Class teams are going to be organized and class games played. But if we can have class games, why not have a high school team and play other schools? Surely it is not because we lack material, for in a bunch of fifty girls there ought to be at least five who could play well enough to go against outside teams Why not have a champion team like they had in 1905, when Nina Webster, Florence Fall, Pearl Mayer, Uucill Menkey and Estella Crogan were in High School? We have just as good material and with good hard practice ought to be able to turn out a team the High School could be proud of. One of the things noticed at the first practice was a tendency of the girls to plav football, rather than basket ball,—to run with the ball every chance they got, but after a few days’ practice they learned better and are