Milwaukie High School - Maroon Yearbook (Milwaukie, OR)

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ln the latter part of the season two excellent games between the Sophomores and the Freshmen, of the High School, were played. These games gave the Freshmen and Sophs who were unable to take part in the first team a chance to play. These games were a series of exciting events from the start to the finish and gathered a larger crowd than any of the first team's games. The first game ended in a score of 0 to 0 and was played at the length of five quarters. The second game, played at the regular length ended in a score of 6 to 0 in favor of the Freshmen. The lineups of the teams were as follows: Changes being made in the sec- ond game. A Freshmen. 3 Sophs. Blackman and W. Moore ..... ..... F ullback ..... .......... B lue and Keeler Reynolds and W. Moore .... .... R ight half ..... .................. R oach Johnston ................ .... L eft half ..... .... E nghouse and Fox Hansen and Blackman ..... .... Q uarteri . .. ........... Edwards Baker and Mottal ........ .... C enter. L , . . .... Thos. Saunders Mottal and MacDonald .... ...... L eft guard .... ..,......... A lexander Mottal and Green ......... ..... R ight guard .... .... K lipple and Morgan Bumgartner and Green ....... Lefttackle .... ................ J ahn Norton and MacDonald ..... Right tackle .......... .. Morgan Raabe and Hansen ...... ..... L eft End .... .... H utchins Fisher ................ .... R ight End . .. .... Oetkin BASKETBALL. Extensive interest and enthusiasm has been manifested by both the boys and girls in basketball this year. A surprisingly fast team has been organized by Mr. Goetz and our success is mostly due to the coaching given by him, and this surely shows his worth and ability along that line. The boys have faithfully turned out to practice and great success has been shown. Claude Buckner was appointed captain and played guard in every game. Clyde Davis, at guard, also played an excellent game. Leslie Blue, playing for- ward, threw many excellent baskets. He, later in the season played center and his work helped the team greatly. William Miller, at center, played an all- around good game. He also played forward. Louis Shindler, at guard, was the find of the season and played a star game. Boyd Gibson, star of the team, played center and forward. His weight and long passes helped to raise our side of the score card to a great extent. Ernest Keller, at forward, threw some of the best baskets of the season. Shorty', Edwards played forward and thref most of the free baskets, for fouls made by our opponents. During the Christmas vacation a game took place between the Alumni of the High School and the High School. This being the first time some of the boys had ever played, a rather large score was marked against us, being 48 to 6. On March the first, the Oregon City Athletic Culb played Milwaukie and a worthy fight for the winning side of the score card ended at the score of 35 to 7 in favor of Oregon City. March the thirteenth marked the date of another game between Milwaukie and this same team, the game lending at the score of 26 to ll, our opponents winning. On the twenty-seventh of March, the Commercial All-Stars of Portland played us, the game ending to the tune of 36 to ll in favor of the All-Stars. This was our last game and considering the fact that it takes at least four years to turn out a good finished team, we did very well. Had it not been for the kindness of the school board, in giving the High School the privilege of using the Grammar School Gym, basketball would have been a missing innovation in our field of atheltics, and I am sure every one in the Milwaukie High School, who has used the gymnasium, boy or girl, lfeel very grateful to the school board. zs , e'

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FOOTBALL The term ending in January, 1917, made football two years old in Milwau- kie. In its infant year many heavy defeats were faced, wherein, the second year, great changes in the team and scores were made. Mr. Goetz and Mr. DeLong together organized and coached the team and under their training a great amount of pep and Hspiritu alone from Hteamworkl' was accomplished. Some of the boys played with us last year and the experience gained surely helped this year's team. Several new fellows joined in this year, but few had ever played football and therefore had to be drilled into shape by good hard practice. Early in the season a game with Washougal was scheduled, and, as the boys had practiced only a week, they gave us the rub at 39 to O. To show the change in a year, the score last year with this same team was 119' to O in favor of our Opponents. The outlook for next year looks like some team will present us with the championship 'of the county. Our team will not be a green one as were those of the preceding years and will be full of pep and Hfightl' to the brim. Rolfe Skulason, captain elect, played left tackle and his weight and spirit together, greatly helped the team. Later in the season he played center and the first man is to be seen to come through his territory. Arthur Johnson, star of the team, made the only touchdown of the season and also many long end runs, his position being left half throughout the season. Claude Buckner played cen- ter in the first of the year and right half in the latter. Boyd Gibson at full played a remarkably good game. His punting and line plunging made several long gains for Milwaukie. Harold Dedman played left tackle and his weight and punting were a great help to the team. Clyde Davis, right half, played a splendid game. He worked with Johnston to a great advantage and together several plays were made successful. In the latter part of the season he played left tackle. William Miller, at full, played a brilliant game and at the end of the season valuable results were shown when he played right tackle. Shorty Edwards held his former position at quarter-back and missed but one game of the season. He did the forward passing for the team and made some long passes. Charles Fox on right end was the find of the season, being fast and having a number of excellent tackles to his credit. He also played right tackle and kept men twice his size on their own side of the line. Edward Keeler on the left end missed very few passes in or around his territory and some of his tackles could not have been more perfect. Louis Shindler, the fighter of the team, played right end, made a number of excellent tackles, and few men came through his part of the line. K'Bill and Bud Moore were two valuable men to the team. The positions played by them were left 'end and right guard. Ernest Keller at center played a fine game and few fumbles are due to him. Burley Reynolds was the right hand man to the team and played right end guard. Homer Klipple, at guard, could not have been beaten. He was always on the bottom and few men passed through his part of the line without help. Herman Fisher, at left guard, strengthened the center of the line when such was badly needed. Last but not least is ReRuben Spring, at guard, playing a good steady game. The following is the ilst of games played this season and the scores of each 0 VS 39 At Milwaukie. . . . .... .... W ashougal .......... . Milwaukie. Milwaukie .... 0 .... vs .... Estaoada ............ 32. At Milwaukie. Milwaukie .... 0 .... vs .... Columbia Juniors 41. At Columbia University. Milwaukie .... 0 .... vs .... Camas .............. 26. At Camas. Milwaukie .... 0 .... vs .... Gresham ............ 48. At Greshham. Milwaukie .... 6 .... vs .... Canby ..... 19. At Canby. Milwaukie .... 0 .... vs .... K. E. DF ........... 6. At Milwaukie. Milwaukie .... 0 .... vs .... Canby .............. 0. At Milwaukie. if K. E. D.-Knights of Empty Domes-of Oregon City. 22

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BASEBALL. Every one in High School looked eagerly forward to baseball this year and even went so far as to organize class teams and for those not able to take part in these a team was formed. A captain of each team was elected and a schedule was marked. The captain of each team was: Arthur Johnston, Freshmang Edward Keeler, Sophomore, Harold Dedman, Juniors and Seniors, and Mr. Goetz, Independents. As the Maroon goes to press a game between the High School and the Gram- mar School is to take place at Crystal Lake Park. The teams will probably ex- change batteries as they did last year. This is the sum of the M. H. S. baseball season as the league was suspended from the county for the time being and therefore no league games could be played. Also several of our best players enlisted at the call to arms and no effort wasadvanced to form a team. TENNIS. A great deal of interest has prevailed in Tennis this year. The president of the M. H. S. Student Body appointed Dorothy Wissinger, manager of the Tennis Association, and with the aid of a few of the boys, she put the court in A-1 shape. Again as the Maroon goes to press, a tournament is to be played between several of the High School students to determine the champion of the school. Mr. Perry, of the Perry Pharmacy, will present a five dollar racquet to the winner, as he did last year to Ben Alexander, who won from Wm. Merriot, giving him the racquet. -LeRoy Edwards, ffthletic Zllrznager. Happiness is a by-product of hard work well done. Q Q 3 Money savers are often shrewder than money makers. . 3 Q Q The race is not always to the swift-and never to the loafer. -- -'Q Q. Q Are you blazing away without aim or have you picked out some certain achievement for your bull,s-eye? 3 Q. 3 Men who tell hard luck stories generally have lots of hard luck stories to tell. 24