Braham High School - Echo Yearbook (Braham, MN)

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ni-14:1 014' 1 :n1o1r 1 111 -1-1 15014: 1 :v1e-1v1m1nz 1 111 141 : 1014: 1 31:-11,1011 : ie As High School athletics are a comparatively new thing in Braham, our teams during the past two years have not been of a winning calibre. However they have shown that they possess a great fighting spirit and always die fighting, an asset which always leads to winning teams. As yet basketball and baseball are the only branches of athletics which are fostered by the local school. A football team is lacking due to the small enrollment but a team in this branch is also hoped for in a few years. With a large amount of promising material in the school, the future athletic prospects may be said to be very good. , Every member of the High School is a member of the Athletic Association. The purpose of the Athletic Association is to further school spirit, and to finance the High School athletic teams. No membership fee was charged this year, but a tag day was conducted and nearly every member of the High School purchased a tag. Braham is classed as a Departmental High School, due to the fact that property valuation of the village does not exceed 3300,000, the amount which is necessary to become a member of the High School As- sociation. The other teams in our sub-district are North Branch, Chisago City, and Taylors Falls. TOURNAMENTS The inter-class tournament which was conducted during the basket- ball season was very interesting, and also brought forth much class and school spirit. In the preliminaries the Juniors eliminated the Freshmen by the score of 14 to 11, and the Seniors defeated the Sophomores by a score of 30 to 2. In the finals the Freshmen won third place by defeating the Sophomores 20 to 9, and the Juniors defeated the Seniors 15 to 16 in a hard fought game, thus winning the coveted championship. 'Both the sub-district and district tournaments were held in our gymnasium. In the sub-district tournament Braham. Chisago City, North Branch, and Taylors Falls were the teams contesting. The tournament was clean and hard fought through-out, Chisago City finally being re- turned the winner by defeating North Branch in the final game, by a score of 27 to 14. In the district tournament Chisago City, Bloomington, Ogilvie. and Willow River were the competing teams. This tournament was also won by Chisago City, when they defeated Bloomington by the score of 12 to 11. A week later Chisago City proved themselves to be a real team when they won the state championship at a tournament conducted at Hamline University. The fact that a team from our sub-district won the state championship speaks well for athletics in our High School and should be an encouragement in the future. , 11014 1110101111 1 1 1

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Left to right-Top row-Floyd Patten, Orlo Patten, J. M. Lunemann, Leslie Schwar- ten. Herbert Skjod, Clarence Skjod, Eric Gustafson, William Franden, Wallace Stay. BOYS' BASKETBALL If's not the fact that you lost that counts, but how you lost and why Although this years basketball team won but few of their games, the fact that a practically new team was put onto the fioor must be taken into consideration. Only two of last years regulars, Gustafson and C. Skjod, were back for the team this year and as such the other three positions had to be filled by inexperienced men. The first part of the season was a disastrous one, but the boys improved steadily and were able to win their last game of the regular season, that from Taylors Falls by a score of 12 to 9. Other close games were played with Ogilvie, Mora. Cambridge, North Branch, and St. Francis. Four veterans will be back to form the nucleus of next years squad. They are Floyd and Orlo Patten, William Franden, and Wallace Staff. ATHLETICS No one is beat till he quits, No one is through till he stops, No matter how hard Failure hits, No matter how often he drops. A fellow's not down till he lies, In the dust and refuses to rise. Fate can slam him and bang him around. And batter his frame till he's sore, But she never can say that he's downed While he bobs up serenely for more. A fellow's not dead till he dies, Nor beat till no longer he tries. -Edgar Guest. 101 :iaizzixi::i:.:::.:-::.fvi1:-L-':1.:-1 zi :1 ri-ri :igi 1 1-viuixz. 1:1121-: cpu: -1 in-in P :u1uico: 3 iurievioiojoivicninjciioiaujozuvif 5011 Q21-1111111111:,ities--xoioxozoxf-1--0:4v1-:1o1u14-go:01-- jo:-n:1v:0:1-1-froze-101011

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