Altona Collegiate - Green and Gold Yearbook (Altona, Manitoba Canada)

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One of the biggest single changes in Altona Collegiate sports, has been the inauguration of basketball. The purchasing of expensive equip¬ ment was necessary. Thus, in that first season (1956-57) Altona had one of the best basketball courts in Southern Manitoba, but it lacked a good basketball team. In this same year the Red River Valley Basket¬ ball League was organized. It consisted of teams from Morden, Morris, Winkler, Altona, and one year later Lowe Farm. That first season was one of disaster for the Green and Gold. It lost all six games. However, in the sophomore year Altona won four of eleven games, and our coach, Mr. Dave Dyck commented, “Wait until next year.” This past year has been terrific. In the be¬ ginning of the year more than one hundred sea¬ son tickets were sold at $1.00 each and assured A.C. of good attendance throughout the season. And the team began winning. Although the year was marred by a second-round loss in the annual tournament, The Green and Gold topped the league with a record of 7 wins and one loss. Remembering briefly former stalwarts on A.C.’s “fighting five” we recall names like Jim Schellen- bcrg, “Hurricane” Hiebert, Donald Braun and Dave Kroeker, the latter being the holder of our school’s scoring record, 106 points, and being the winner of the athletic scholarship as the highest scorer and most valuable player on the basketball team. The league championship has assured this year’s team of a trip to Winnipeg during the Easter holidays to represent Southern Manitoba in the Manitoba playdowns. —Bob Wieler STATISTICS ALTONA 36 — Winkler 30 Morris 22 — ALTONA 32 ALTONA 33 — Lowe Farm 34 Lowe Farm 35 — ALTONA 67 Neche 77 — ALTONA 56 Morden 39 - ALTONA 48 ALTON A 39 Neche 56 Winkler 21 ALTONA 35 ALTONA 27 — Morden 26 ALTONA 47 — Morris 36 Exhibition games.