Tomah High School - Hamot Yearbook (Tomah, WI)

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The New Men FLOYD FOLSON CHANSD Shifted from guard to regular position at center he showed the stuff which charac- terizes the Bloody third. PETER BRUNETTE CPETEJ Lots of Pep. Cause-Mexican Chili con carni. XKVALTER BORCHERT CREDJ Red is one of our best men. I-le plays a brainy game from start to finish and the school as well as the team will feel his loss next year. FRANK MILLER QFRANKIED Small, but, Oh my! Miller put up a fast game at forward although handicapped by his Weight. LAWRENCE WESTLAKE CWESD When the Indians got in the way of an epidemic of German Measles he came to the rescue and fought well for the honor of Tomah High. HOWARD O,LEARY CBUCKOJ It takes an Irishman to beat the Dutch. He came out when Tomah was in a ti ht inch and his watch-word was, Ireland ueber Alles. g P GEORGE STRACHAN CJUDD Another member of the above named family whose natural tendencies seem to run to black eyes, but he's a coming basketball player for Ha' that. The Basketball Season The basketball season began in December with a large amount of material to begin with. The first two games of the seaons, Galesville and the Alumni, were played With the following lineup: Miller, forward, Borchert, forward, Moran, forward, Wolf, guard, Hopp, guard, Anderson, center. By much lucky basket shooting Tomah defeated the Galesville squad by a score of 24 to 19. Then we lost Anderson and Moran and the team was again shifted around, putting Wolf at center and Borchert at guard. DeNomie, who had returned from the border, was placed at forward. Folson was then placed at center and Wolf at forward. This strengthened the team, but, owing to hard luck in shooting baskets, was defeated in every game away from the home floor. Another unfortunate incident occurred just previous to the La Crosse game. The Indian School was quarantined for measles and this prevented Wolf, Brunette and Miller from playing. The game, however, was not postponed and the team left for La Crosse with only two regular team men and held La Crosse to a 33 to I0 score. Although We finished the season with a defeat on our own floor by Baraboo, basketball fans will agree with us that Tomah can be a good loser as well as a good winner. In the inter-class games the Freshman basketball team proved that the old saying, Green as grass, is untrue by defeating all comers for the class championship. 28

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Clippings TOMAI-I WINS FIRST GAME IIOME TEAM HAS EASY VICTORY OVER RIVALS THE TRIP TO PORTAGE Four-thirty is an early hour to catch a train, but all of the fellows were there when the time came with the exception of Bruno Krueger. After an uneventful ride, we reached Portage about 6:30 and were taken to the hotel in autos where we proceeded to have our breakfast. V After this we went out and walked about the town, viewing the canal, high school building and pther points of interest until 10:00 when the boys went up to the rooms and went to bed for a couple of iours. .lust as we had finished dinner, Krueger arrived, having caught the freight and ridden four hours. This kind of helped things out and the team felt that when a fellow was willing to make the trip anyway to be there, that they would play all the harder to show Tomah people that they were out to win. Our line played a line game Saturday and the consistent gains of O'Leary, Ziebell, Miller, Smith and Johnson, combined with the gains through the center by Moran and the passes by Zy, all contributed to the fact that the ball was in their territory most of the time. Miller, also, did exceptionally line work, intercepting their forward passes, so that only two of them went for gains. Tomah was penalized for holding and off-side more than Portage was, but the penalties did not come when they were danger- ous, so that they were not disastrous. A dance was given in the evening for the Tomah players and most of them attended until 11:20 when we left to catch the train.-Alonitor Herald. LA CROSSE 33-TOMAH I0 The T. H. S. basketball team went to La Cicsse in a badly crippled condition and were defeated by a score of 33 to 10. DeNomie went past the age limit last Friday and Wolfe, Miller and Brunette were kept home at the last minute on account of German Measles. Folson pla ed center, Borchert and Hopp, guardsg and Westlake, Strachan and O'I..eary, forwards. We missed Wolfe in shooting baskets from field. O'Leary registered the only held basket for Tomah. Hopp, however, proved an excellent experiment at registering free throws. Although he has never acted in this capacity in former games he registered eight out of eleven chances. The team that went to La Crosse are to be congratulated on their loyalty and gameness against heavy odds. This is a true Tomah spirit for during the past seven years Tomah has carried out its complete schedule in all sports and contests and has never quit a game though sometimes it has re- ceived a good sound drubbing. This kind of athletics is bound to yield the best results and make expenditures in athletic contests worth while.-Tomah Journal. Overconfidence nearly defeated the La Crosse High School football players in the second game of the season at Tomah Saturday when they managed to win only by desperate efforts in the last period by a score of 7 to 0. Coach Bell, although secretly disappointed at the showing of the players, said it was the best thing that could happen to an overconhdent aggregation. His hopes for beating Chippewa Falls, which has not won a game this year, here on Friday are rising. TOMA1-1 HAPPY Tomah felt highly elated over the score. Coach Davis of the eleven is today being praised by all the fans in Tomah who feel that he has worked wonders with his material. Many La Crosse rooters saw the battle and cheered themselves hoarse when the team marched the length of the field and Feinberg went over for the only marker of the contest. A large number of local fans went to the game in autos, the day being ideal for a cross country ride.-La Crosse Leader Press. TOMAH 49-S11-ARTA 0 Tomah won the football game from Sparta Saturday by a score of 49 to 0. Capt. Ziebell and quarterback hloran stood out as stars in Sparta's defeat. Ziebell was everywhere and Moran's judg- ment in plays has never been equalled on the Tomah Campus. Sparta played in streaks and were not outgamed but were outplayed. In the fourth quarter Tomah piled up 28 points. Tomah got off with a jump and scored I4 points in the first four minutes of play. For the rest of the half Sparta came back strong and were threatening to score at the end of the half. A stiff defense at the critical moment and TIME saved the Tomah goal line. Although Tomah had never witnessed the Sparta ag regation in action they had been coached to stop Capt. Evans and the forward pass. Capt. Ziebell's Iong arms pulled down pass after pass as did O'Leary at half-back. Had Sparta resorted to a kicking game she would no doubt have greatly reduced the score. As it was, her desperate effort to score caused her to constantly use the forward pass. This was invariably interce ted, placing Tomah within striking distance of the goal. Capt. Evans stood out as the star of the Sparta team and did yeoman work on both offense and defense. He was in the bottom of every pile-up, but he weakened noticeably in the last quarter.-Monitor Herald. 30