West Fairmont High School - Maple Leaves Yearbook (Fairmont, WV)

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I, 1 l Page 113 O ' - t EARL JACKSON Guard Second year on team Jack was a hefty guard. He played regular on the second team and broke into several of the major games. Jack played his position well. He would often be seen breaking up plays which seemed to be headed for the basket. Jack gradu- ates this year and sure will be missed in F. H, S. EDWARD NEY Center First year on team Pigeon played in and out all through the year. He always has plenty of fight and is an expert foul shot. He beat Shinnston 19-20 by shooting a foul in the last of the game. Ney will be back with the same old tight. JOHN CRANWELL Forward or Center First year on team Johnnie is a Sophomore and will be back for a couple of years more. He is rather small. but is growing and will be out to light for a regular position next year.

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ond team for Biz Dawson. GATHA HOFFMAN Center First year on team Gatha is the lanky center on the second team. Long improved as the season progressed, and was playing bang-up basketball at the end of the season. Hoffman is only a Freshman, and much is expected of him in the future. JAMES ALTMAN Guard First year on team Happy is another second-string guard, but he was not fortunate enough to get in a Hrst team's game, although he played head-up ball on the sec- Altmari, being a Sophomore, has a wonderful chance to make good next year. He is a good man EUGENE WRIGHT Guard Second year on team Gene played good basketball all through the season. He i'dings them right and left when they come into his territory. He got in most of the games, and always let the opponents know he was there. He will finish next year. Page 112

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oar-HIGH if la 2. 13152 v 'W I ,f . 7, , .6 A A I I I 1 ,-1545 9 'oN1-'ld 'Qtr V1 N 7 ' SECTIONAL TOURNAMENT OING through the tournament and meeting East Side in the finals, the Fairmont High School Basketball Team won the meet by .-fW,v' , defeating them 39-14. The big score of the tournament was in the opening game, when the Bears downed the Kingwood Team 4'i'+'ff ' 57-13. The Polar Bears played Hundred in the next round and again won 26--12. The next victim was Shinnston, who fell to the tune of 30-19. This placed F. H. S. in the-finals with East Side. At the end of the first half of this exciting game the Polar Bears were leading 18-12. The team showed even better form during the second half and allowed the East Side tossers only two points while they garnered 21 points, making the final score 39-14. Thus endeth another perfect day. During the entire tourna- ment our boys scored 152 points to their opponents' 55. STATE TOURNAMENT For the first time in the history of the Fairmont High School or any other school in Fairmont or surrounding territory, the Fairmont High team, known as the Polar Bears, won the State Championship of West Virginia. The Polar Bears started off with a bang, playing the first game of the tourna- ment with Montgomery and never were headed off throughout the fray. The score ended ll to 6 in favor of the Bears. The next game was played with the fast Pineville live. The boys started off well, and before Pineville boys knew what was going on, had a comfortable lead. The game ended 36 to 19, Fairmont. Although they were without Satterfield, who was ill at the time, they could not have gone better with him. Of all the games the Charleston game was the thriller. The Kanawha boys were all six-footers, and the small Bears looked like midgets beside them. This was the game where size did not count. The Fairmont team had the old West Virginia fight, and managed to come out ahead 22-21. This game was the hump of the tournament, and the boys knew if they could get through this game safely, they had a good chance to take the meet. Saturday morning, everyone was feeling good when the team met the fast Benwood team in the semi-finals, and the boys played head-up all through the game, and at the end of the game, the score stood Fairmont 3l-Ben- wood 20. Then came the finals, Saturday night. with Washington-Irving, the team that beat us twice during the season. The half ended 13-9 in our favor. The third quarter ended 20-13, and at 3 seconds to play the score was 20--18, and Lover, one of their guards, was shooting a foul but he missed it, and before anyone could get the ball off of the banking board the gun shot--Fairmont 20, W. I. 18. Fairmont had won five hard-fought games, and now the Polar Bears, under the direction of Coach F. A. Ice, for the last time had won the championship of West Virginia. Page II4