Clallam Bay High School - Golden C Yearbook (Clallam Bay, WA)

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This ear' season of football recorded an encouraging upswing for the Bruins in tne fact that they won four out of six contests, in splte f the loss of two power house units who graduated The Bruins started practice with six holdovers from last year's team, all of them first string material A newcomer from Forks, Clarence Miller was added to the list and even tho Clarence had llttle experience in six man football, he proved out to be a good center Coach Willlson worked all of his material or the basis that the player rho could produce was the one who qualified for a berth on the first string team regardless of his former stsnlin , result four w'nsl On September the nineteert the Weah Bay Red Devils met the B ulns at Clallam Ba ln a awe wklch wert to he Red Devils by a score of 46 to 26 The Red Devlls worked as a one man' team with Bowchop scoring most the 46 points for them The second gane was pla ed September twenty slxtx at Clallam Bay against the guilcene Rangers who put up a fine clean game They were beaten by the Bruins, the score 37 to Z6 The Bruins played their third game at Neah Bay on October tenth with the Red Devils as opponents Both teams played a really hard game, but in spite of all the B uins attempts, they were bettered by the Red Devils to the tune of 51 to 12 The fourth game was played the followin week end, on October seven teenth at Quilcene The trip was made during a heavy downpcur of rain, but fortunately the weather cleared by game time The B uins got off to a good start in the first quarter The rest of the game proved ntl htn all around Score, 25 to 6 in favor of the Bruins The Joyce lor ers were the next victims of a strong Bruin lineup 41 the fifth game of the season, which was played at Clallam Bay on Octooer t GH ty fourth The Log ers got off to a poor start this season, most cf their players were 1uex,er'enced, but n sp'te of heir lnexperlence the game showed some fine ball handling on their part The final score Bruins Loggers O Spartons on their own field, OCtOD8P thirty first, The B ulns really 'brought home the bacon in this contest with the Spartons on the short end of a 27 to 7 s ore The B uins will lose five stalfarts thru graduation in June Gagnon, Newscm Baker, Max Balberde, Earl and Clarerce W'ller have played their last game with the B uins, an we ish he t e oest acknowledging their contributions to athletics at O 5 H S The football letterman of 47 are Buzz eagnon, Rarl Doran, Newsom Baker, Max Balberde, Robert Doran, I Fernandes, Lar y Gullikson, Clarence Miller, Ed Nickolas, Wallace Sands, Donald Treece and L le Stilwell Q Clallam Bay Ieah Bay luilcene Yeah Ea, quilcene Joyce Forks To tal Total TT' x Home Games W S f, 5 '.' - o ll N A V I Il YY , . U . 'I' A A 1 .A , 1 I , li ' . . h . - Q ., A . 5 . . . ' n A v V ,N U . . . 12 - . , . 5 . . of .. A+ . 4, A W . . n l c 1 rl tl ' ' . - 47, . . The last game of the '47 season was played against the Fork's N . c . ' w . ' . 'v'i , ,or n g nl d w t m h nl - H in o. E. . . g nv rv - 1 rv-nr4 ' g ' . y ' L ' 26 J ' ' 46 Q N I1 57 A 26 ll ll J -v V1 ll N H ' ll ll n n 27 7

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The Clallam Bay Bruins ibught their way through a tough season to w1nd,up in fourth place in the 'Olympic Penninsula West End District Circuit The Bruins and Cubs were coached by Coach Glen Willison The Bruins started rigid turn outs at the beginning of this year minus two of our former first team of last ysar The first night found the gym alive with a large numberof boys but as days rolled by some dropped out and the first and second teams began to take shape On December fifth, the first of interschool practice games found the B ulns and Cubs ready and willing to meet the Joyce Loggers on their own floor, where the Bruins fought a good game winning 52 to 25 The second game of the season found the Bruins playing hosts to the Red Devils from Noah Bay High School on whom they scored a surprizing victory of 45 to 29 This was the first time 1 two years that the B uins won a game from the Reds The next game found the B uins matched against the Joyce Loggers at the Olympic Peninsula Jamboree lhree teams from the west met three teams from the east Representing the West were Forks Spartans, Neah Bay Reds, and Clallam B uins and representing the east were the two teams divided evenly consisting of first and second team Angeles Teddies mixed up and the Joyce Loggers The west won by two points with Forks tying their game with one of the Teddies teams, Reds winning by two points over the remaining Teddy team and the B uins tied the Loggers 15 all The fourth game of the season found the B uins on the road to Neah Bay to match the Reds in the second pre conference game with them The B uins seemed then to catch a loosing streak and lost four in a row by losing to the Reds 52 to 44 The next game the Bruins stayed at home and played the Forks Spartans who traveled to Clallam Bay to play the first conference game the season. The Spartans won the second victory over the B uins 30 to 18 The sixth game still found the Bruins at home to greet the Reds at Clallam Bay The Reds won a hard fought and close game with the score of The seventh game the Bruins traveled to Chimicum to play the C0'b0ys on their new gymnasium The floor was big and the back boards were solid the Bruins couldn't seem to find the bucket The final score was 14 to 29 in favor of the Cowboys The eighth game proved to be a very closely matched encounter with the Spartans at Forks The game was led at the end of all the quarters the B uins and up to the last four seconds led by two points when the game went into overtime with a long shot by Forks Forks gained a lead of one point and stalled the game for the remainder to win by one point 33 to 52 The next game the B uins waded through a heavy dowrfall of snow to Joyce to be guests of the Loggers and won a very difficult game by a score of 39 to 57 The tenth game the Bruins took a trip to Noah Bay to meet smashing defeat at the hands of the Reds with a score of 29 to 46 The eleventh game gave the B uins a rest by remaining t home They played the last game of the season with Joyce and won an easy' victory by coming out with the long end of the score 45 to During the Christmas Vacation the Bruins played a game with the Sequim lolves and were beaten 45 to 25 The Sequim Wo ves went on to place second in the B League to be second only to Bainbridge . n of 25 to 18. . I . by a a . 55.