West High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Review of the Season AS THE 1909 football season approached, the natural question of what kind of a team will we have this year was the conversation of nearly every boy in West High School. All the schools of the city had good material to start the season, but the determination for a championship team among the West boys was not to be equaled. October 15th, West lined up against East for the first game of the season. The game was hard fought from beginning to end. Score: West, 1 I ; East, 0. A week later, the 22nd, was the big game with Central. It was a great game and showed the individual work of the team. Score, 17 to 0-Mechanics Arts was the next on the schedule. Score, 0 to 0. On the 6th of November. West was in the height of training and played their hardest game against North. Score, 0 to 0. On November I 3th South was defeated, on a field of mud and water, by a score of 10 to 6. giving West the title, “State High School Champions.” Vest-wAHO ho'

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‘it Sinclair Williams Mackin Wheaton Walker Hudson H. Lees Griswold Shannon Plank Haines Crawford Weiskopf Hale SENIOR TEAM Inter- Clan Champions The Inter-Class Games ON THE Tuesday following the close of West’s football season, the first two of these games were played at Nicollet Park. The Juniors first played the Freshmen. The contest was much closer than it was at first expected it would be. Weight told, however, and. after a long sec-saw contest, the Juniors managed to push the ball over the Freshman’s goal. No goal was attempted and the score was 5-0. This game stopped here so as to give the Seniors and Sophomores a chance to battle before dark. Ticenty-one