Dixon High School - Chanticleer Yearbook (Dixon, CA)

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- Ghantlcleer Kilkenny Hdrtley Pritchard Parsons Maclf Cagle , H. Dutra , V Greene , Grady Callaghan St olle Cowdsn Siefert Witt , C.

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To the WChanticleerW - X The hours of play are perhaps the most important in a boy's life. These hours of recreation can be either constructive or destructive. Constructive recreation means better boys today, better citizens tomorrow. Destructive recreation means going the other way, and if a boy travels far enough along this path he comes at last to bad companionship, lawlessness, and crime. Between the two is no middle ground. A boy at play goes forward or else he goes backward - he never stands still in those formative years. Character is caught, not taught. Young people don't learn character out of textbooks or by listening to lectures in classrooms If they did, education would be the simplest matter on earthg for after all the real end of education is not Latin or Mathematics or any special form of knowledge whatever, but character. The great teachers of any generation are not writers of textbooks. They are men, and women, too, who are able to reach straight through to the imagination and the heart and the soul of young people around them and shape the clay of youth while it is soft to the touch. Therefore, sports properly taught in high school and college sows the seeds of clean, healthy, vigorous, and intelligent citizenship in the most fruitful soil - the soil of the formative years of youth. The worth of that contribution can never be measured. With every good wish for the future success of the nChantic1eerW. ' Sincerely, W Ghcmticleer 1.

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vfxis sw foomxli The Rams opened their season with the annual game with Vacaville. This game proved that Dixon could not depend upon their passing attack as much as was hcped. The team came home with a defeat of 6 to O, but with one of the biggest lessons of the season. The next week Dixon met Vallejo on the Rem's field. Vallejo had a powerful team, and when the gun sounded the finish Dixon was trailing 6 to O. Following the defeat from Vallejo, Dixon seemed to realize that they had not scored yet this year. All that week the team trained hard to play their first league game with Winters. The boys were rewarded for their hard work, when in a hard, fast, and clean game with Winters, they won by a score of 17 to 6. The blue and white of Clarksburg was next in the path of the Dixon Rams. This game resulted in a 6 to 6 tie. The Rams further improved their record by taking the long end of a 15 to 6 score in a rough and interesting contest with Esparto. Dixon fell an easy prey before the battling Indians from Armijo. This easy defeat was chiefly due to the costly injuries received by several of the Ram's players in the previous game with Esparto. This loss did not stop Dixon on their path to the championship because this was not a league game. The Dixon Rams next encountered the Blue Devils of Davis. Three men out due to injuries greatly weakened the Rams. Dixon made several threats to score, but lacked the final butt to push the Blue Devils back of their goal. Davis won by a score of 52 to O. Vaoaville and Dixon met on the Vacaville turf Armistice Day in a post season game. Dixon lost to the Bulldogs in a closely contested game with a final score of 19 to 12. The Rams placed second in the league and were rated high as a clean group of players. Four members who will not be with the Rams next year are Captain WDocN Stolle, Vernon Dutra, Gordon Marvin and James Parsons. X. ff' fs ' 2.11 .1-'L .2 2 -f '9 .. N .nQW5f,HneT Ghczntzclceru ,ls 1-