Dixon High School - Chanticleer Yearbook (Dixon, CA)

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r -M . Gliantlcfeer v-vu.--. A BASKETBALL Due to the late football season the HAH team, which is composed mostly of foothall players, could not put in much practice before the season opened. The team played hard and at times it looked like championship material. Like a great number of teams the A's played in spurts. The spurts were not close enough together to enable the team to win the championship, but it left them standing third in the league. With the opening of the league in three weeks Dixon played their first practice game with Vallejo. Dixon A's won an easy victory 55- 30. Vacaville was to be their next opponent in a practice game. It was in this game that the lack of practice showed up. Vacaville won 28 to 9. The WAV team took the next practice game from the Rio Vista five 29 to 15. The league opened with Dixon scheduled to play Winters. Dixon was on top of the score, 18 to 10. Traveling to Clarksburg the following week, the Dixon WAN team played their second league game. When the gun sounded the final quarter of the game the score board showed-that we had lost by one point, 26 to 27. K Dixon next challenged Esparto to a game to be played on their court. The A's came home with a victory 26 to 25. Vacaville played a return practice game with the A's. After a fast game Dixon lost by one point, 22 to 25. Again the decisive game was to be played with Davis. The winner would be in the running for the championship. Our A's came out fighting and at the end of the half we were leading by a small margin. The next half Levis came back and proved to be the stronger. Davis won 26 to 16. The Davis game ended the first half of the season. Davis was also to start the second half with Dixon. The teams met on the Cal. Aggie court which was a large court. This handicapped our team some and they lost 56 to 20. Dixon journeyed to Winters to take the game 51 to 22. 24 to 22 was the final score of the Esparto- Dixon game with Dixon holding the smaller figure. To finish the basketball season for 56-57, Clarksburg forfeited their game.

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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-

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C BASIQETBA LL The WC' team, after losing two practice gamesg one to Vacaville, and the other to Rio Vista, showed a marvelous improvement for their first league game with Winters. On the eighth of January of this year, Dixon's WCW team was suited up and ready for their long waited chance to meet the 'CW team from Winters. Although they lost by one basket, they showed so much fighting spirit that it looked as if Dixon might have another championship 'CW team. Clarksburg was the next opponent for our WCW team. Hard luck caused them to lose by only one pointy 13 to 14, to Clarksburg which ruined their chance for a championship. Though this defeat was heart- I breaking to the 'C's' it did not stop their fighting spirit. The following week they trained hard to make a comeback when they played SQ Esparto. The Dixon 'CW team won by the score 18 to 4. A The team showed continuous improvement in the following ga es Q3 when they played Vacaville and Davis, although they lost to both Q7 schools. This ended the first half of the 56-57 basketball season with the WC' team winning one league game out of four. Not wanting to end up in the cellar, the team put in some hard Q work before the second half started. Davis was the first on the i schedule. The team made a much finer showing than in their previous N game with Davis, but Davis was just a little too strong. They won by three points, 21 to 24. The team kept working hard for the rest of the season and were rewarded for their hard work by taking the last three games and , placing third in the league. They won only a few games, but the team as well as their coach, 'Q Mr. Williams, are to be congratulated for their sportsmanship and . spirit. N Those who earned their letters were: Taylor, H. Witt, Hopkins, 'H Firchow, Brown agnohwer. . V X? cmtncleer it i r il