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High School Athletics Believing that one of the most essential things in building up character in the High School is clean athletics, Croswell has put much stress on her athletic success. Our motto has not been, “Win, and win at all casts,” but rather, “Win if you can and be fair while winning.” If you would investigate Croswell’» gradual rise in athletics, especially track, you will see that 1907 marks our first success in this line. This was in the county meet held at Sandusky, when our school won third place in the meet. The next year we kept plodding along and landed the county championship at Croswell by the narrow margin of three points, beating Marlette, who were picked by critics to win the meet easily. Ever since 1908 Croswell has held the county championship. In 1909, we won the meet at Marlette, winning first in every event except the shotput, and in 1910 we scored a total of ninety- nine points at Peckerville and were again the county winners. In 1911, the other schools being unwilling to compete in a county meet, a Thumb meet at Croswell was proposed, inviting every High School in the Thumb. Only one school put in an ap- pearance, and that was Cass City High School, from whom we won the meet, making us champions of the Thumb District. Croswell had been entered in the Michigan Interscholastic Meet held in Ann Arbor, May IS and 19, 1910, and Wm. Howard, the only contestant, won third place in a gruelling |uarter-uiilc run. He was also entered in the University of Chicago Inter- scholastic meet, held at Marshall Field, Chicago, Illinois, June 11, 1910. He was defeated in the quarter and half-mile runs. This proved to the Croswell High School athletes that they must train more rigorously if they wanted to become state champions. Frank Quail and Wm. Howard were entered in the Michigan Agricultural College’s Interscholastic Meet, held on May 12, 1911, at East Lansing, although no one thought that they would win their events. But Quail carried off first honors in the hammer- throw and Howard in the 440 yards dash and the running broad jump. This meet spurred us on to greater things. We sent seven athletes to the University of Michigan Interscholastic Meet, at Ann Arbor, Bigger, Howard. Martin, McGill, Xiles, Oldfield and Quail making the trip. Our team tied for second place in this meet with the large Muskegon High'School track team, Toledo Central High School beating us out for first place by the narrow margin of fifteen and one-quarter points, for the championship of the meet. Quail and Howard again winning the hammer-throw, quarter-mile run and running broad jump respectively. The reception tendered The “conquering heroes.” for as such they were spoken of, was something to make any track team of Michigan envious. We were met at the depot by practically all the town, horns tooted, the band played and the school’s banners were in evidence. When the boys got off the train the High School cheered each member of the track team, and then they marched down to the new school house and each member was called on to make a speech. When each one had said a few words, for we were so excited not erne could think clearly for hours afterward, we ended up with the school song and nine “rahs” for the winning track team. In the fall of 1911 we organized a football team and played our first game at Sandusky, it being the first game in which ten of the team had ever played. Sandusky scored in the first five minutes of play, but could not make any more counts after that, the game ending with the score still 5 to 0.
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