Moundsville High School - Orospolitan Yearbook (Moundsville, WV)

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THE 1921 FOOTBALL SEASON This year 's football season has been a success in 'more ways than one, al- though the record of games won and lost may not seem so creditable. Ten games were played of which four were won and six lost. Most of thetteam this year were inexperienced and this, coupled with the fact that tive of the .games were played away from home, caused most of the defeats suffered. The team slumped after the first three games and lost five straight, but finally pulled up enough to win the last two games. Last year 's defeats by War- wood and Cameron were wiped out this year in decisive fashion, Cameron being defeated on their home grounds. Coach Tilock deserves great credit with the team this year. His cool judgment and sincere efforts in behalf of the squad have made him one of the most admired and respected coaches ever at Moundsville High School. It is almost a certainty that he will be with us again next year, and if so, the chances of a successful season next fall will be greatly increased, The squad next year should be one of the best ever turned out at M. H. S. Only five regulars will be lost by grad- uation, and with six players from this year's squad, and a host of green ma- terial to pick from, the 1922 team should repeat and add to this year's victories. Games away from home designated for the spirit and skill he has shown by 'FMoundsville 0 New Martinsville 10 Moundsville 13 Wellsburg 0 Moundsville 53 Sistersville 0 tMoundsville 0 Follansbee 27 Moundsville 3 Parkersburg 53 fMoundsville 0 Linsly 53 tMoundsville 0 Triadelphia 6 Moundsville 0 Spencer 6 Moundsville 24 Warwood 0 fMoundsyille 20 Cameron 0 GS THE OLD OHIO It's a beautiful old Ohio at that, 4 Where the farmer plants his seed in the If you get away from where Spring The drift and the waste are scattered about Mid the pure and balmy air. ' This is d-own in old Kentucky Where the stories of old are told How that Night Riders and the Ku Klux Klan Fought so venturesonie and bold. And reaps from it in the fall Quite different from the arctic man For he reapeth not at all. You may talk of all your travels. though, No niatter where you may roani The best of your journey, you'll have to ad- init, ls the journey toward your honie. The Old Ohio it Hows the saine, The bridge, the road, and the little lane Have not changed one bit. then you'll want t 1 1 In your own dominion of Home Sweet Homf -ili. HARNICT l I4

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WHEN WE MET DEAR CLD CAMERON! Revenge is sweet! On Thanksgiv- ing afternoon, the Orange and Black football team stepped upon the native gridiron of our ancient rivals, Cameron, determined to wipe out the 18-13 defeat administered on the M. H. S. field last year by the Purple gridders, On all sides were the Cameron root- ers. sure of another victory and cheer- ing their home team, that is, what there was of it. The field was a swamp ,with one arm of Fish Creek flowing thru the lowe-r side, but it took more than cold and mud and hostile rooters to stop the Orange that day. Scarcely after the opening whistle, and before the pigskin artists of the Purple knew what had happened, M. H. S., had rushed over a touchdown. From then on it was a massacre. Cameron strove desperately to hold the charging line and driving backs from old Mounds- ville, but they might as well have tried to stop a tank fleet. Two more touchdowns followed in rapid succession and a safety in the last quarter made the score 20-0. We did the unexpected. lt was the first time we had shut Cameron out from scoring in three years. That night there was a monstrous celebration over the few streets in the camp of the de- feated enemy. Led by the M. H. S. band, and followed by an army of home rooters, we celebrated the victory by much noise and marching until train time. Where is the Cameron rooster now? M. H. S. certainly did a good job of stripping him of his tail feathers. Last year the Cameron gridders crowed over an 18-13 victory over our squad for almost a year, In their year-book, The Hilltop they used several statements which they suppos- ed were Uoriginalt' and sarcastic to the effect that M. H. S. was afraid to come down off our perch and play them in Cameron, and that they Hplayed too rough for our teams. We have gone to Cameron and 'tcome down off our perch. What the Or- ange and Black didn 't do to the Purple and White wasn't worth doing. We hope Cameron is satisfied with the re- sult. We are. Enough said. We played them on their own home field A And piled up twenty points to none, But when we meet again next year, They'll know we've Just Be- gun. May M. H. S. in future years, ever repeat the Turkey Day victory of the Orange and Black warriors of 1921. Good VVO-rk, Squad of 1921, Good VVork. IN THE STORM CENTER. . . First Kansas Farmer: Too bad the last cyclone took your dog house, Second Kansas Farnicrz Oh, l don't know. lt brought me a grand piano. Say it with tiowers, but don't throw boqucts at yourself. i THE POWER OF SUGGESTION. Vtfeary VVillie: VVill you please give me a drink of water? I'm so hungry I don't know where to spend the night. Girls are better looking than boys. Naturally No. Artiticiallyf'