West High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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West Hockey Team Bruce Lewis Calloway Overlock Bateman Gainsle Orth (Capt.) Schobbrg Brown Minneapolis High School Champions, 1908-1909 T N POINT of championship laurels in the athletics of the school, West hockey team, through a season of clean victories, must be conceded the palm. The loyal support of the school has done much to interest and further the comparatively new game among the student body. Under an organized league a schedule of games has been played. Through the help of Carl F. Struck, the use of the M. A. H. A. rink was obtained, and some very fine exhibitions of the Canadian sport were pulled off. Central was the first team to fall before West, the score being 12 to 0. South did not fare so well, being defeated by a score of 17 to 1. North was next taken and worsted by a score of 7 to 0. The last game, with East, proved to be an exciting struggle from bell to bell. The final count, however, resulted in a victory for West, with a 5 to 2 score. Twenty-four

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in the East High game, broken his hand and so was unable to take part in the next three games. We met South on October l'6th and were handed another defeat, the score being 21 to 6. The following week was a discouraging one for us, but we kept at it, determined to hold North down to as low a score as possible for they were looked upon as the champions of the city. As this game was our first victory of the season it deserves notice. Friday, the 23rd of ()ctober, was a wet and dark day, but the rain stopped just before the game started. The team certainly showed what it could do, and at the end of the game we had won by a score of 22 to 11. and this against the team that had not been scored on the year before. From this time on we had work, work, work, to perfect the plays that our coach had already drilled into us, but the next Friday we met defeat at the hands of Central by the score of 17 to 0. On the Friday following, we journeyed to St. Paul and held the fast St. Paul Central down to a score of 10 to 0 in their favor. The next Saturday we met Shattuck in Faribault where we were again defeated 17 to 0, and this ended our games for 1908. Next year, under the captaincy of Bright, the West High team should be one of the strongest in the city, as every man will be back except Webster, our star fullback. The men to earn the first football “W” given by West High are as follows: Joe Mattern....... Carroll Coppage. .. Floyd Langdon Earl Tumy......... Clifford Pollock. . St. Mathew Clark Russell Stair..... Noyes Bright...... Clinton Webster. . Ralph Capron...... Paul Ash.......... Carl Laurit .en ... Philip Lewis..... ......Right End ...Right Tackle ...Right Guard .....Left Tackle .....Left Guard .......Left End .....Quarterback ....Right Half .........Fullback ......Left Half .......Substitute .......Substitute Center, Capt. ’08 Philip Lewis. Twenty-three

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To try to select individual stars would be unfair to the other players, for each and every man proved to be a mountain of strength (especially Phil Lewis) in his position. Much can be said in praise of the team-work, the machine-like precision of every play proving a terror to opposing players. Considering the newness of the game, the attendance was more than gratifying to the management; after deducting one-half of the receipts for the use of the rink and one-fourth of the remainder for the visiting teams, there was left in tne treasury the sum of twelve dollars. The players receiving “W V for the season’s splendid work are as follows: Callaway. Gainsle. Brown, Overlook, Schoberg. Lewis. Bruce, Bateman and Orth. As all these players are to be with us again next year we can surely anticipate a brilliant season and another pennant-winning team. Harold Orth. Tumy McCarthy Haynes Thompson Shepardson Bateman Inter-Class Champions, 1909 Junior Class Twenty-five