Cortland High School - Echo Yearbook (Seymour, IN)

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Sports The whistle blew and the ball went up as the Cortland Eagles opened their 1950-'51 basketball schedule against the Tampico Bobcats. The Eagles went right to work from the start and set the Bobcats down by a 48-Z3 score. The second team showed their good playing by whipping their end of the cats 40 to 14. ln the next game of the season the Cortland Eagles took on a tough Austin team and finally won after a hard fought game by a 39 to 30 score, It was the sec- ond win for the Eagles. The next game of the season the Cortland Eagles played host to the Vallonia Redbirds and were not so lucky as the Redbirds won out by a 2.9 to Z6 score. It was the first lost game of the season for the Eagles. They now have a 2 and 1 rec- ord. The Cortland Eagles took to the road for the first time this season and it seemed to be too soon as a tough Nledora team sent them home with a 33 to Z9 beat. This was the second defeat of the season. The second team doesn't seem to let anything worry them as they went to work and whipped the Medora seconds 2.6 to 23 for the fourth win of the season. Returning home again the Cortland Eagles played the Freetown Spartans. After being on the losing end for two games, the Eagles came back after a clean, hard fought ball game and won by a 40 to 37 score. The Eagles seem to like the idea of winning as they played host to the Clearspring team and sent them home on the short end of 70 to 36 score. The Eagles couldn't seem to do anything wrong as they downed Clearspring for a sea- son record of 4 wins and Z loses. In the next game of the season the Cortland Eagles played Clifford. This game was different from the others as the Eagles edged the Clifford team by a 54 to 51 score, I The second team kept on winning as they stopped the Clifford seconds 2.8-18 for 7 wins and no losses for the season. The Cortland Eagles were host to a new team of the 1950-'51 schedule and that was Williams. The Cortland Eagles sent their new opponents home on the short end of a 45 to 33 score. For the last scheduled game of 1950, the Cortland Eagles were host to the Crothersville Tigers. After a rough, tough ball game, the Eagles were on the short end for the third time this season for a 51 to 41 score. The second team met their first defeat as the Crothersville Cubs topped them Z4 to l 1. Z9l

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Next in line for Cortland was the Blind Tourney played in Vallonia's new gym. After the drawing, Cortland played Clearspring and Freetown took on Vallonia, The Eagles took their first game of the tourney from Clearspring by a 41 to 33 score. That night the Eagles took on the Vallonia Redbirds and got revenge for the defeat the Redbirds gave them, by beating them 38 to 33 to win the first tourney since 1941. The Eagles were awarded a trophy and the nets from the Vallonia gym for their efforts, The Cortland Eagles started the 'Sl part of the season with a bang, as they went to road and stumped the I-Ieltonville five by a 68 to Zl score. The Heltonville team was another new member on the 1950-'51 schedule, The Cortland Eagles went back to the ever beloved town of Vallonia and played their third ball game of the season with the Redbirds. This time, the Cortland Eagles were sent home with their fourth defeat of the season by a 42 to 41 score. The Cortland Eagles continued their road trips and this time stopped in Austin. It was the second game with Austin and the Eagles made it the second win as they went home with a 58 to 43 Score The Cortland Eagles traveled down to Orleans for their next game of the season and went for a long trip just to come home loser by a 60 to 67 score. The Orleans team is the last of the new names to appear on our 1950-'51 schedule, The second team lost their second game of the season by a 42. to 2.8 score. C oleen Im O gene Shi R ley Les T er Bil L Velm A So N ny D elores Jew E ll M A ry G ene Bil L .Io E Loui S Waite R Fr'A ncis C H ester 30