Bridger High School - Scout Yearbook (Bridger, MT)

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CHIEFTAIN . . . 1946 BASKETBALL Standing—Helt, Swan, Jurovich, Wood. Kneeling—Currie, Blank, Brown, Schmidt, Skorupa. The Bndger Scouts, a hot and cold basketball club, proved themselves a strong tournament team by taking fourth place in the district meet at Laurel. The Scouts went up and down during the season, end- ing with a record of of seven wins and nine losses. Two of the defeats were administered by non-conference teams, making a conference standing of .500 with seven wins and seven losses. The Scouts won their opening tournament game by eliminating the Edgar Wildcats by a wide margin. They received their first defeat of the tourney on the second night when they bowed to the Laurel Locomotives. The Scouts then came back to defeat and eliminate Fromberg and Joliet in the following two days, obtaining the right to play Red Lodge for third place. The tired Scouts dropped their last game in the tour- nament to Red Lodge to take fourth place. Coach Max Wilson

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CHIEFTAIN . . . 1946 FOOTBALL Front— Coach E. L. Cooper, Ray Dietz, Jim Schmidt, Matt Brown, Bill Meinhardt and Leslie Kercher. Back—Fred Blank, Cecil Mayes, Dick Wood, George Thomas, Charles Skorupa, George Jurovich and Vally Swan. In the 1945 season our gridiron six, coached by E. L. Cooper, played Byron, Wyo., high school team twice, winning and losing. The Byron Eagles defeated the Scouts, 30 to 8, but when the Wyoming team came here for a return game, the home squad gained revenge with a 34 to 12 victory. Scouts Down Byron, 34 to 12, in Only Home Game Games scheduled with Stan- ford and Denton in October were postponed because of the polio epidemic in southern Montana. The Scouts were in- vited to play Three Forks for the Class C six-man cham- pionship of southern Montana but declined the invitation. Next year’s prospects are not so bright with five lettermen graduating. Victories that are easy are cheap—Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting. —H. W. Beecher

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CHIEFTAIN . . . 1946 Front—Currie, Don Graham, Kercher, Capt. Rangitsch, Schwend. Middle—Clark, Dietz, Preuninger, Cliff Graham. Back—Coach Scott, Loyning, Jurovich, Helt, Shatto. TRACK Twenty-five boys reported to Coach Scott for the 1946 track sea- son. In March, an interclass meet was held in which the juniors took first place, seniors second; sophomores, third, and freshmen, last. The Powell Panthers defeated the Scouts in a dual meet here April 6, and the following week in a triangular meet here, Columbus placed first, barely nosing out Bridger, and Belfry was third. April 20 the Bridger track team traveled to Powell to place fifth in a six-way meet of Montana and Wyoming schools. During the latter part of April the Scouts lost to Red Lodge in a meet there. The final affair in which Bridger participated was the Tri-County meet at Columbus.