Browns Valley High School - Thunderbird Yearbook (Browns Valley, MN)

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«1 material, we have great promise of success. Our coach has laid a foundation upon which future teams can he developed. He took up the work with the idea of preparing the path for next year and he certainly deserves great credit for what lie has accomplished. lie introduced a code of signals which none of our opponents could master. He was out at, every practice and made himself a part of the team in every way. The football team vote him hearty thanks for the services that he has ren- dered them. Browns Valley-Sisseton Foot Ball Game Early last fall, our football team made a trip across the Reservation to Sisseton, to play the team of that place. Tin teams were evenly matched as to weight and speed, but our hoys knew the fine points of the game better than their adversaries and, aided by this knowledge, put up a fine game, beating the Sisseton boys by a score of 50 to 0. Sisseton was outclassed in every department of the game. The work of Gordon, at half, was a feature of the game. He made five touchdowns and kicked four goals, making a total of 2!) points for Browns Valley. Barrett, our quarter-back, play- ed a steady, thoughtful game and was one of the stars. And so it was with the rest of the team; all did their best. The game showed how a team that has been trained by a competent coach can overcome a team that has had no coach. We were royally treated by the people of Sissc- ton and we thoroughly appreciated their good will. It is rarely that a team takes defeat in as graceful a, manner as they did, and, from start to finish, we feel that they deserve the highest com- mendation.

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V ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT FRED SMANDORF Edito» FOOT BALL 07n t Wliat success tlie Browns Valley football loam lias gained, is duo in a large measure to the un- tiring activity of Mr. El son, our coach. He is instructor in mathematics and manual training and has shown himself to be a coach of experience and ability. When the boys met I he first day for practice, I lie coach had many things to discourage him. He had a small squad of “green” material, very light, and with very little knowledge of the game. Many would not oven have tried to develop a team out of what material was at hand, but our coach took it up with a vim and, had we had a longer schedule, we would have been more suc- cessful. But, as it was, we were just learning the rudiments of football, when we were out of games. Now, that the season has closed, all thoughts go on to next year, when we expect to have an all-winning team; for Mr. Elson has taught us the scientific side of the game and, with improv- OUR COACH

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Girl's Basket Ball Team—Strasburg. Lehn, Train. Gunderson. Miss Kelsey. (Coach) Hardy. Palm. Connelly.