Clatskanie High School - Tiger Yearbook (Clatskanie, OR)

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THE TIGER Basketball This year's basketball season was very difficult. In fact, it was so diificult that the Tigers did not win a league game. But this could be expected, as only one letter man reported, and the rest were inexperienced. At the end of the season only seven men were turning out, and every one was playing on the regular team. The first game was at Rainier. The Tigers put up a hard fight against their heavier and more experienced opponents but lost the contest. Clatskanie dropped the second game to the St. Helens suin- tette, who out shot and out played them all through the game. The Tigers played one of their best games against Astoria, but lost out because of the teamwork of the Astorians. Seaside was the next to defeat the Tigers, but only by a narrow margin. The team then journeyed to Scappoose, where they were defeated by the close checking and good shooting of the members- of that team. S o 'Pu' v-1 Yrjsx -:ui all ., -' l A- I--Tl:

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X A 'fa rl. THE TIGER quarter Scappoose made a touchdcwn and a field kick and were accordingly chalked up with 7 points. Both teams work- ed hard during the third quarter, but neither side succeeded in scoring. Scappoose scored a touch down duing the fourth quarter. The goal kick failed to go over the goal, leaving the score 13-6 Scappoose's favor. Sundberg was the star player on the Clatskanie team, and several times ran away from the swiftest opponents. Zimmerdahl, one of the old standbys of the team, was forced out of the game by injuries, leaving the line considerably weakened with less power to withstand the rushes of the Scappoose players. On October 21 in the gridiron contest with Astoria the Tigers were walloped 34-0. The Clatskanie team started the game when Johnson kicked off. Early in the game Astoria scored two touchdowns, but did not make any more successful plays until the last half. Thomas, Stratton, and Sundberg played a fine game. All plays coming their way were blocked and the heavier opponents of the Tigers did not s-ucceed in the plays through the line but made use of their quick back- field in passes and end runs. The Tigers played a tie game November 5 with the Vernonia eleven. The game was a thriller all the way through. The teams were evenly matched, and at the last quarter the score stood 0-0. The game started with Vernonia kicking off. Gra- ham recovered the ball with a large gain for Clatskanie. It was a hard fought game from start to finish with the last half given over mostly to punts. Vernonia came startlingly close to their goal twice and a touch down seemed inevitable, but due to Puzey's long punts they were put far back on the field. Vernonia substituted in the second half but Clatskanie did not use any subs.. St. Helens won a decisive victory over our team by a score of 13-0. On Armistice Day the boys journeyed to Rainier to put their skill against the Rainier warriors and came home with the short end of 37-0. A large crowd of students and football fans watched the battle which was fought in a sea of mud. The last game of the series was to be with Seaside. How- ever, the game was postponed. The line-up for the year was as follows: Backfield, Zimmer- dahl, Graham, Holombo, Henderson, and Thomasg Line-men: Finley, Puzey, Doran, Viuhkola, Orwig, Campbell, Karasti, Erickson, Stratton. The boys were under the capable coaching of Mr. Wilcox who has trained them in previous years also. 40 Qggf 49' . . 4:1 '1 I f:1fjiff' f -- 21 .0 -1. -sr wat, . R-44 '!11,L'!li' , Y f, J-. -- . - .eff

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ee F15 PTE TIGER, Vernonia crme next and defeats the home team again by close checking. The team then went to Astoria, who defeated them this time by an overwhelming score. Rainier defeated Clatskanie the second time by a larger score than the previous encounter. The Tigers then went to St. Helens and gave them a great race but dropped the contest by a few points. Scappoose took the next contest by the narrow margin of two points. The last game of the season was played at Vernonia and lost again by only two points. The members cf the team avid the points the? scored this season are as follows: Sundlrerg, forward, 773 Finley, center, 3832 Erickson, forward, 18Q Rasmussen, forward, 123 Orwig guard, 53 Johnson, guard, 43 and Campbell, guard, 2. The games played and scores are as follows. Clatskanie 18, Rainier 27, Clatskanie 17, St. Helens 37: Clatskanie 24, Astoria 39, Clatskanie 16, Seaside 23, Clats- kanie 9, Scappoose 203 Clatskanie 9, Vernonia 233 Clatskanie 43 As-toria 443 Clatskanie 14, Rainier 261 Clatskanie 27, St. Helens 391 Clatskanie 16, Scappoose 183 Clatskanie 18, Vernonia 20. ' uv' 5 N 9' ,rl 'I I . ,!:,3,31'l -l3 2 3tQ 'g fs, if 5341? g g