University High School - Cub Yearbook (Oakland, CA)

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BASKETBALL TEAM HIS season the University Varsity basketball team was un- lucky in most of its games, but winning is only a small part of victory. Coach Allison, handicapped by the lack of veteran material, did not produce a championship team, but he did produce a clean playing, hard fighting bunch of real sports. Other high schoolsrespect University High, mainly through contests with such teams as this, and we should feel justly proud of the fine sportsman- ship displayed by our team. DIQACTICE SEASUN UNIVERSITY vs. coNcoRn1A Opening the 1929 O. A. L. basketball practice season, the Cubs played the Concordia Preachers January 16 on our own court. In the first quarter the Uni rooters led their guests. After a few futile marches up and down the court, Eppstein broke the ice with a free throw. In the final quarter the game was evenly contested, but the Preach- ers, with their lead gained in the beginning of the tilt, held the Cubs to the final 28-18 decision. UNIVERSIT Y VS. FREMONT Probably the most exciting game of the practice season was the Bengal-Cub game, played January 18 on our own floor. The tilt was a nip and tuck affair up to the fourth quarter. VVith the score 17 all, and only two miinutes to go until the end of the game, Townsend sank a long shot from the middle of the court, breaking the tie and win- ning the game for Fremont 22-17. UNIVERSITY VS. ROOSE'VEI..'l' I11 this game, played on January 22, the veteran Roughriders, last yearis U.A.L. champs, were slow in getting started, and the Cubs held them on practically even terms i11 the first period. In the second and third quarters, Keith' Singleton, Roosevelt star, found his eye and rang the hoop for a total of ten points. Dana lNIurdock

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was the star player for the Cubs, Singleton for the Teddies. The end saw the Cubs on the short end of a 29-14 score. UNIVERSITY VS. SAN LEANDRO Piracy once more came into vogue when the San Leandro Pirates beat the Cubs on our own court January 25. University took an early lead when Lancione and lllurdoek sank buckets. San Leandro retal- iated withs two field goals and then a foul throw. The lead was main- tained until the final quarter, when the gun went off, leaving the score 11 to 8 in favor of the Pirates. UNIVERSITY VS. RICHMOND University's fighting Cub quintet could not upset the Oilers at Richmond, January 28, during its practice game with the Oily city hoopsters. The initial tip-of f went to Richmond, but close guarding of the Uni bucket forced the Oily boidsn to take long shots. In the last stanza the Oilers let loose with an attack that netted them 24 points. Laneione raised the Cub,s total to 14 by a foul shot and a field goal. The game ended with the score 24 to 14. UNIVERSITY VS. FREMONT The second game with the Tigers, played February 1 on the Ben- gals' court, looked as if it would be the first win for the Cubs. A spectacular field goal by Blake, who got into the game early in the fourth quarter, followed by VVasson,s bucket and Murdock's fouls, strengthened that belief. But the game ended with Saunders, Fre- mont guard, taking a free throw which he failed to make good, leav- ing Fremont the victors by 19-16 score. UNIVERSITY VS. ROOSEVELT The scoring in the second game with the Teddies was mostly done by field goals, there being very few foul shots called. The game was played on Universityas court February 5. University's men, VVas- son, Lancione, lNIurdock, Hadlen, and VVallstrum, were in the game almost the entire time. Substitutes went into the game the last few minutes of the fourth quarter. At the end of the tilt the Cubs were on the short end of a 34 to 18 count. UNIVERSITY VS. SAN LEANDRO In the second game held February 8, at San Leandro, both the Pirates and the Cubs made a slow start, and as a result there was very little scoring for either team in the first quarter. The Cubs were weak- ened eonsiderably by the loss of Cap-tain lVIurdock, who was forced