Dawson High School - Red and White Yearbook (Dawson, NE)

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p SCHOOL DAYS VOLLEY BALL Front Row Cleft to rightj--Evelyn Heim, Audrey Spaulding, Ella Mae Sinnett, Onneatta Nichols, Lucille Rexroth, Colleen Mullins and Dorothy Lanning. Back Row-Miss Marian Peterson, Myrtle Mae Lanning, Mary Alice Mullins, Lucille Boring, Mary Margaret Quinlan, Marilee Lollman, Maxine Gilfillan and Dorothee Yates. Volley ball was inaugurated in the Dawson Schools in the fall of 1938. From the very first, the sport proved popular and by the spring of 1939, the girls had won the consolation cup in the Richardson County Little Ten Association volley ball tournament. During the school year of 1939-1940, new red and white volley ball suits were purchased, and with these as added inspiration, the team was runner-up in the second volley ball tournament to be held in the Little Ten conference. The year 1940-1941 was destined to be the outstanding season for the Dawson volleyballers, for in that year they copped the Little Ten championship by crushing Salem. This school year, 1941-1942, witnessed seven pre-tournament games, four of which were victories for the Dawson girls. The first team consists of Colleen and Mary Alice Mullins, Dorothy and Myrtle Mae Lanning, Ella Mae Sinnett, Marilee Loll- man, Dorothee Yates and Lucille Rexroth. Four of these girls, the Lanning sisters and the Mullins sisters, have been on the regular squad ever since the team was organized.

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SCHOOL DAYS x A . 'I 1 We GRADE BASKETBALL The following boys who participated in basketball for the season are, left to right: Top Row-Billy Cummins, Billy Joe Riley, Riley Duryea, Don Nichols, Herb Spaulding, Gene McGinnis, Floyd Dean McGinnis and Coach Robert Witt. Bottom Row-Frank Kean, Jack Beutler, LaVerne Meyerkorth, Kenneth Spur- gin and Everett Yates. The grade basket ball team which is coached by Mr. Robert Witt, has had a very successful year, with eleven victories and but one defeat. They have won the fol- lowing games in the season of 1941-1942: Dawson 23, Auburn 4, Dawson 34, Verdon 1, Dawson 16, Honey Creek 35 Dawson 19, Sacred Heart 73 Dawson 22, Auburn 203 Dawson 33, Humboldt 143 Dawson 28, Bratton Union 79 Dawson 18, Honey Creek 1. Their only defeat was at the hands of Shubert, the score being 25-13. The grade tournament was played off in March, and consisted of the 7th and 8th grades. Dawson played Honey Creek the first night and defeated them by the score of 9 to 7. Then they played Stella and defeated them by a score of 19-10. For the finals they had to play Humboldt and defeated them 15 to 12, which gave Daw- son first place in the grade tournament. There are only three Freshmen on the squad-Frank Kean, Jack Beutler and LaVerne Meyerkorth.