Big Sandy High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Big Sandy, MT)

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THE CENTENNIAL and winning over the Ft. Benton Scouts team. A great deal of credit should be given the second team for helping to develop the first team, but most of the credit goes to coach “Scotty” Cameron. S. M. ’24. DISTRICT TOURNAMENT Big Sandy entered the district tournament with all the outside predic- tions against it. Four other teams were ranked for the first four places without the Big Sandy team being assigned any particular place in the final results. But the indomitable pluck of our team, together with real knowledge and ability in the game, carried them to the end as victors in the fastest tournament ever held in this district. Our first game was with Havre who had defeated us twice during the season by one point margins. But our boys went in with a determination to beat Havre and win the district championship. It was a close fight from start to finish and was the fastest game of the tournament. The game ended 26 to 20 in our favor. H. Hurd was high point man with six field baskets and two free throws. The second game was with OUR OLD RIVAL Fort Benton, who had also defeated us twice during the season. They were confident that they would defeat us again but when Uhl came up against the stonewall defense put up by Cal'lison and Shults, he was unable to do his stuff. Consequently we won by the one sided score of 26 to 9. Moe was high point man with five field baskets and a free throw. The next game was against Great Falls for the district championship. By this time we were the favorite with the crowd for the winner. The game was a thriller from the first whistle to the final gun of the extra period required to play off the tie, which existed at the end of the regular time of play. Sig Moe was high point man with four baskets while R. Hurd was the hero of the game, making five out of five free throws besides one field basket. The final score was 21 to 17 in our favor. This made js the champions of the North Central district. H. Hurd and S. Moe were placed on the first All-district team and Dosia Shults was placed on the second All-district team. MONTANA STATE TOURNAMENT By virtue of winning the championship of the North Central district, the team was requested to compete for the State Championship at Bozeman, March 7th to 11th. The team placed seventh in the state, which is a very good showing for a high school as small as ours. The clean and hard fighting of the Big

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District Champions 1924. Standing—Moe, Coach Cameron, Hanson, Sitting—H. Hurd, Shults, Callison (Captain), Bartlett, R. Hurd.

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THE CENTENNIAL Sandy boys won the respect of their opponents and the support of the fans. The Weekly Exponent, college paper, says, “Big Sandy a favorite with the crowd.” The sportmanship displayed by the Big Sandy team was in marked contrast to that which a few high schools in the state would have people believe, because of the football mixup last fall. This fact was evidenced much more clearly by H. Hurd of the Big Sandy team winning the sportsmanship medal, which is valued more, by many, than the winning of the tournament. H. Hurd was also placed on the All-star team. The scores of the games were as follows: Big Sandy ...................... 22 Forsyth ........................ 17 Big Sandy ...................... 24 Helena ......................... 30 Big Sandy ...................... 14 Park Co.......................... 7 Big Sandy ...................... 11 Billings ....................... 27 Total ........................ 71 81 Those who made the trips to Bozeman were: Coach Cameron, (Capt.) Callison, Dosia Shults, H. Hurd, R. Hurd, S. Moe, Bartlett, Hansen and our All-district yell leader, Sam Sprague. GIRL’S BASKET BALL. The basketball season opened with a great deal of enthusiasm among the girls who came out for practice. Uuider the direction of Miss Mack and Miss Von Tobel, we developed a team. Although we suffered defeat at the hands of two of the rival high schools, we ended the season with a deter- mination, among those who remain, to carry the “Purple and Gold” over the top next year. Only three games were played, two against Havre and one against Fort Benton. The Havre girls being more experienced, defeated Sandy 19 to 7 in the game at Big Sandy and 24 to 7 in the game played at Havre. The game against Benton was a real fight from start to finish. The outcome was uncertain until the final whistle blew ending the game 8 to 9 in favor of Benton. The squad consisted of Irma Arnold (captain) and “Barney” McClellan centers, Lela Robertson and Lottie Heise forwards, Bertha Carnahan, Bessie McClellan and Marie Black guards; and Marion Heise, Selma Simonson and Bella Corrigan subs.