Phillips High School - Phillipian Yearbook (Phillips, ME)

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THE PHILLIPIAN 31 them suffer their first defeat in their new hall. Using 11 men we easily beat them 30-21. Field was high scorer with 141 points. The results of the non-league games are much better as we lost only one of these, although the teams played 'were just as diliicult. The games were as follows: NOV. 15. Phillips 38, Andover 11. Leavitt was outstanding player. LESTER GATTRELL Basketball Coach JAN. 16. Wilton 28, Phillips 15, Stinchfield tallied six points for us. JAN. 31. Phillips 24, Anson 20. Field was high scorer with 13 points. It should also be added that this was the first time in two years that Anson Academy had been beaten on its own floor. FEB. 4. Phillips 25, No. New Portland 18. Field got 13 points. FEB. 7. Phillips 28, Wilton 26. Badger stored away eight points for us. FEB. 12. Phillips 36, No. New Portland 12. Stinchfield was high with 10. FEB. 13. Phillips 27, F. S. N. S. Re- serves 17. Stinchfield was high with 12. The game at Kingfield completed our schedule until the tournament at F. S. N. s., Feb. 27-Qs. The inter-class games took place Feb. 28. In the first game the Sophomores easily beat the Seniors 65-16. Then, in an overtime period, the Freshmen nosecl out the Juniors 22-20 by scoring a basket in the last few seconds of play. Then the Freshies came back strong in the nnal game to nearly upset the dope and beat the Sophs, lwho were the strong favor- ites. However after a hard, even battle the Sophs finally won 31-30. F. S. N. S. SECOND ANNUAL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT ln the first game we were matched against our most bitter rival, Strong, who, with the amazing record of having won 15 straight games, was strongly favored to win the tourney. But our team fhaving been firmly impressed that our lives would not be worth a plugged cent if we returned unviictoriousj cooperated so well that we outplayed S. H. S. throughout to win 30- 21. Our guards White and Fairbanks not only guarded perfectly but shot baskets at will. Stinchfield, :who was playing after a week's illness, and Fairbanks were high scorers with 8 points apiece. To quote some of the papers- The Lefwisfon. Sim-Plzillips High 15 Farmington Surprise. The sensational Strong team, winner of 15 straight games, was eliminated in the first round by the mite team from Phillips. The Strong out- Ht had previous-ly defeated the Phillips team twice but today the little band of warriors from the town of Phillips showed superiority in all departments of the game.

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THE BASKETBALL TEAM

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32 THE PHILLIPIAN THE TRACK TEAM The Franklin Journal-The big upset was when Phillips High outclassed Strong in the preliminaries, then gave the tourney winners a run for their money in the semi- finals, and Hnally came back in the conso- lation contest to win easily from Anson Academy. . . Strong had previously won twice from Phillips and was expected to repeat, but the Phillips boys, playing the coolest and hcadiest game of any team in the tournament, ou-tpassed and outshot their closest rivals to win 30-21. The next afternoon, against the much stronger opposition of Livermore Falls High School, our teamwork was all off, in fact all the team except White played poorly and we were defeated 25-14. Later Livermore won the tourney, defeating Jay hy a larger score than they defeated us. Stinchfi-eld was high for us with 4 points. That evening we got going again and easily outplayed Anson Academy through- out to win 32-20. Field was high scorer with 18 points. 4' Red White was our only player to make the all tournament team. He not only made it but was the only man on it to be elected unanimously. BANGOR Y. M. C. A. TOURNAMENT VVe were chosen to participate in the Y tourney at Bangor, being the only team from this district. In the first game we were chosen to play Hermon, who was favored to beat us, we being a dark horse. We easily downed Hermon 30-18 and were matched against Winthrop in the next game. We were again favored to lose and did not disappoint the dopesters this time Calthough we nearly didj. At the quarter we lead 4-3 and at the half 10'-9. The second half was also very close. At one time we secured a four point lead and once they didg this 'being the greatest -difference in score during the game. When the game ended, however, they were two points ahead of us, 22-20. In the first game Field and Stinchfield scored most for us with 9 and 8 points respectively. In the second game Field xwas high scorer with 12 points.