Dearborn High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Dearborn, MI)

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Review of the Basketball Season of 1924-25 Boys With three veterans from the team of 1923 and several other monogram men. Coach Foy whipped into shape a fast going quintet that showed its heels to everything in its class in the district. League teams during the past few years have become leaders at state and district tournaments. Dearborn High this year had, without doubt, the best quintet in the league; and but for illness, which crippled the team, would have finished the league schedule without a defeat. The team, however, succeeded in taking second place after leading the league until the final game of the season. Dearborn entered the District Tournament at Ypsilanti with fifteen other class “B” teams. In the draw Dearborn was matched with Albion, the champions of the South Huron League and succeeded in eliminating them in a close hard-fought game that left no doubt as to the better team. Again in the pairings. Dearborn was matched with a championship team. Wyandotte, State Champions the year before with a team of veterans. Dearborn trailed throughout three quarters of the game when Wyandotte grew over confident. Dearborn crept up to within two points of a tie and with two minutes to play, tied the score and then went into the lead. The Wyandotte team broke and Dearborn caged two more baskets—and so ended the best game of the tournament. On the morning following Dearborn was eliminated by Eaton Rapids, future district Champion. And thus ended the most successful Basketball season of all time at Dearborn High. 28

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Review of the Football Season of 1924 The football season of 1924 saw the beginning of a Dearborn Comeback. After the successful failure of the team of last year. Dearborn Coaches started rebuilding for a team that with a year of experience would become a leading contender for league honors. This inaugural call for candidates brought out six letter men from the squad of last year together with a host of inexperienced material. It was found after a brief survey of the candidates that while the forward wall seemed to be well fortified, there was a noticeable lack of experienced backs. Some of the veterans were switched to the backfield and others placed in such a position as to strengthen the weakened places in the forward wall made by this change. Practically every man was green at his position yet the team functioned smoothly. There was but one major fault with their playing throughout the season and that was a slowness in starting. The team rarely “got going until the second half of the game. They played good ball the first half, to be sure, but the “drive” always seemed to be lacking. A second fault, a really minor yet noticeable flaw in the working of the team was, the independence of the exceptionally light backfield on smash plays. This green inexperienced team went through a successful season whipping such teams as Wayne, Northville, and Farmington. Present conditions indicate that next year, the football team of Dearborn High will be practically invincible and a season of wins is being looked forward to. 27

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Review of Basketball Season of 1925 Girls The girls sextette of Dearborn High with five veterans from last year and a host of inexperienced material developed into a team of rare offensive and defensive ability. Early in the season there was a lack of good guard material but Coach Pletcher succeeded in developing guards of better than average ability from the inexperienced material. The centers proved to be the best in the League and the forwards ranked first in points scored. On the whole, the girls team was a well balanced aggregation of fighters, girls with spirit to win and win fairly. The team finished the season with the best percentage of games won and lost. The sextette in the League this year were better than ever and Dearborn was always pressed to hold the lead. Much can be said of and for a team that though pressed throughout the season, fails to crack under the strain. Dearborn girls have been in active competition four years and have never finished lower than third and that the first year. They have finished in third place once, second place twice, and now this year have captured the Championship of the League. The Orange and Black Championship sextette succeeded in defeating such teams as Redford, Northville, Plymouth and Farmington. A win over any one of these teams would give them prestige but to defeat them all puts them in a class by themselves. A team of fighters will represent the school in the season to come and the laurels won this year will be continued next winter. 29