Bedford High School - Torch Yearbook (Bedford, IA)

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A brief account of the BEDFORD BULLDOGS : SEPTEMBER 23-Bedford won their first scheduled ,game of th-e season by d-efeating Blanchard 12-0. Little scored both touwchdownsl, one on an eighty yard return of a punt and the other on line plunging. SEPTEMBER 30-The ZBAULLD-OCS lost a hard fought game to Villisea 13-6. Rains starred for Villisca making both touchdowns while Little made Beidfor-d'.s lone talley on a seventy yard run through a lbrokvzrn field. Poor gener- alship cost Bedford this game. OOTOIBER 7--Lamoni won a one-sided lcontest from Bedlfiord, def-e-ating them 24-0. Little, Gilchrist and Taylor were injured during the fray, Henry's team was both outweighed and' loutplayed. OCTOBER 14-The BUI.lLDOGS journeyed to Des Moines and were de- feat-ed fby the DMCA 26-7. Bedford was outplaye-d in all stages of the game until the final period. Little made Bedfordl's touchdown on straight football. OCTOIBER 28-Bedford's sceond victory of the season was won at the ex- pense of the New Market Miners. The BULlLDfOGS defeated them 37-0, Little and Talkington made SlO'm6 very nice gains and the whole line played a very creditable game, especially Greenlee. NOVEMBER 11-Cornin'g's well balanlced team proved themselves too strong for the Be-dford gridders and won the Armistice Day game in easy fash- ion, trouncing the UBULLDOGSU 27-0. Wyicoff distinguished himself in this game by his great defensive work. NOVEMBER 2--Failing to get the breaks :of the game cost the Bedford 13-6 defeat at the hands of Clarinda in a slowly played -game. The local team outplayed their oppon-ents .tlhroughlout most of the game. OCTOBER 21--Sh-enandoah's S. W. Iowa championship t-eam maintained their winning streak by totally loverpoweriintg the BULLDOGS and winning by a score of 46-0. The Page County team played smart football and were superior in all stages of the game. NOVEMBER 18-Bedfo-rd's third victory of the yeay was annexed by de- feating the Mt. Ayr Gridsters 12-6. The Ringgold County team was first to sc-ore but with the enltranfce of Little into tlhe game the tide turned from de- feat to Victlory. Little, .Mohler and Wycoff lookevdlbest in the backqfield with all the linemen displaying a high calibre of football. NOVEIMBER 25-+Lenox won the Turkey Day game which was played on the-ir home field. The Lenrox team was much faster and showed mulch more pep which helped contribute to their 13-0 victory. This game closed the high school football careers of Tfalkilngton, Culbertson, Huff, Geagley, and Greenlee.

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.-Jw-.-.-.-.-J LGS -4-rw.-.-.I- I I1 IE HOWARD GILCHRLST-Junior CEndJ A heady player with lots of fight and first man down on punts. CHARLES GREENLEE-Senior iTackleJ When Goodin was hurt in th-e tussel with Mt. Ayr, Greenlee was ready to take his place. He played a good game and his he-lp will be mfssfe-d by graduation. DONALD SHERRICK-Junior CGuard5 Sherrick had lots of fight and plenty of spirit. He will be a head liner next year,

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Las GIRLS' BASKET BALL The Bedford girls had another victorious season in 1927 and '28. They played 17 games in all and piled up a score of 465 to their opponents' 299. The first three games rbefore Christmas were with Gravity, New Market and Maloy. The girls easily de-feated Gravity 28-10. The nc-xt game was with New Market. This game was clos.er than the score would indicate. At the end of the half the score was 8-7 in favor of Bedford. The game ended in favor of N. M., 19-13. The girls were hampered by lack of playing room. The Maloy game proved' easy, the girls winning by a large margin, 33-13. The- sextette triumph-ed over the next two teams. Winning from Conway 33-19 and from Maloy 21-20. The next game was with the chimpionship team of N. W. Mis- souri, Ravenwofod. This game was the second 'defeat of the season, Losing 22-33. But when we findi Ravenwood Missouri State Champions for 1928 we cannot feel hurt . The next contests were with Gravity, both games being easily won by scores of 27-12 and 33-6 respectively. The latter was played on Gravity's floor. The last game before the tournament was played with Lenox, here. It looked very doubtful for Bedfiord until the last quarter. The girls staged a last minute rally and brought .the score up from 13-7 to 13-13. The Girls' Taylor County tournament was held' at Bedford the 17th and 18th of February. This proved to 'be one of the best girls' tournaments ever wit- nessed on the local floor. The three strong teams, Bedford, New Market and Lenox, came through the first round with flying colors. Bedford played Clear- field in the first nound. the second team playing the whole. second half. The score was 28-17. In the second round Lenox played New Market, Saturday morning, Lenox winning by a vory small margin 12-13. Saturday afternoon Bedflord played New Market. This game was very close until the last three minutes of play when the girls broke lose on a scoring attack, making the vic- tory 23-17. The final was played before a pa-cked house Saturday night at 8:00 o'clock. This was a breath-takin-g game. The score was tied at the end of every quarter except the last one. In the last few minutes of play the players came back with their famous last quarter rally and won .the game by three- points, 13-16. Although we proved we were the best team in the County-Jfrrie Rob- erts was .the only player placed on the all-tournament team-Ruth Daugherty and Mildred Kemery were placed on the second team. The, girls had a little hard lu-ck in the Se-cti-onal Tournament. After defeat- ing Gravity 45-8, they were defeated by one point by LeRoy, In the final LeRoy defeated Lenox 24-11. ' '.'u'.'n u'-'u u'-'u -'n'.'n'-'u'n'- -'n'h'.'n'n'u5'n'n'n'L'nH'n'n'n'u'u'n'u'n'u'n'u'u'-5N'u'u'u