DuBois Area Middle School - Mirror Yearbook (Du Bois, PA)

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The Green and White team, under Coach Boozer's excellent supervision, showed much improvement as the season progressed and each successive game was played. By the end of the season they were making a good percentage of the shots attempted. The highest percentage of the shots completed for any one game was 57 per cent. This average was made in the first tilt between junior high school and Sandy Township at the Litts Hall on January 14, 1942. They attempted 30 shots and sank 17 of them in this game. Of the 317 shots attempted in 11 games, 122 of them were sunk , thereby making it possible for the Beaverlets to hang up the best team average acquired in the past few years. For the whole season their shooting average was 38 per cent. The best scoring game for the team was the second Brookville game played at DuBois on March 4, 1942, at which time the Beaverlets scored 37 points. Anderson, playing at the forward spot, was the team's leading scorer with 80 points in 11 games. He had his best day when the basketeers met and polished off Brookville for the second time. He scored 19 points, or over one-half the total of his team's points in this game. By virtue of his 80 points he broke the junior high scoring record for a ninth grader. Jim Stanley, in his eighth grade year in 1939, made and still holds the coveted junior high scoring record of 102 points in 11 games. Despite this fact, Anderson's 80 points are still tops for a ninth grader. Anderson's average for shots was 59 per cent, which was considered very good. ' Wray, a guard, was next on the scor- ing list with 53 points, and his 10 points against Clearfield at DuBois on January 23, 1942, topped his single game scoring. Miller, another forward, was third high scorer with 35 points. When play- ing against Falls Creek on January 9, 1942, at DuBois, and against Brookville on February 27, 1942, at Brookville, he scored 8 points each game. These were new highs for him. The squad of 18 was composed of 9 ninth graders, 5 eighth graders, and 4 seventh graders. Winners of letters were: ' Z . Anderson, Wrajff Miller, Griggs, Shobert, Prontock, Bail fy, and Ed Brown, the senior managif. Other members of the squad were :,Gf::1-Mack, H. Hetrick, Bakas, Coder, O,Neill,,fBoucher, Ritter, Landis, Dolan, Federicci, and Chesonis. The regular starting lineup was Miller and Anderson at' forward, Griggs jumping center, with Wray and Prontock or Bailey holding down the guard positions. Seasonal record for 1941-42: I ' 26 16 DuBois. ...... Falls Creek ...... Home DuBois ......., 36 Sandy Twp. .... 11 Away DuBois. ...... .24 Clearfield ........ 11 Home DuBois .- ...., .28 Jay-Vee Res ..... 14 Home DuBois . ...... . 14 J ay-Vees ........ 17 Home DuBois--. .... 17 Clearfield ........ 16 Away DuBois. ...... .25 Falls Creek, ..... 15 Away DuBois. ...... . 30 Sandy ......,....... 15 Home DuBois ........ 13 DuBois J . V. .... 26 Home DuBois ........ 33 Brookville ...... 23 Away DuBois. ....... 37 Brookville ...... 29 Home WRESTLING - . An interclass wrestling tournament for ninth, tenth, and eleventh grade boys was scheduled during the week of March 23, at the high school gym. Any ninth grader was permitted to enter. At the end of the tournament when the class standings were counted, ninth grade was in last place. Competition was great, and there were not enough junior high repre- sentatives in the heavier classes. Place in Class Entry meet 95-lb. Williams second Shobert third . , 103-lb. Crawford first Laman fourth 112-lb. Wray first Miller fourth 120-lb. Shenkle second Whitehouse fifth 127-lb. Thompson second Mack ftiel fifth Hetrick Ctiej fifth 138-lb. Leech fifth . ' 145-lb. Young l fifth Heavyweight Kaufman second 11 I.,

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SWIMMING MEET The boys annual intramural swim- ming meet held this year was quite an event. The pool was not available for the final races between sections, and the championships were decided by the best time. Individual winners in each event were as follows: 9-1, 9-3: Francis Clark won the 25 yd. backstroke, the 25 and 75 yd. crawls. Kenneth Johnson finished out in front in the 50 yd. crawl. 9-5, 9-2: Gerald Mack splashed his way to victory in the 25 yd. backstroke and the 75 yd. crawl. He tied with Bill Benson in the 25 yd. crawl. Homer Het- rick captured the 50 yd. crawl in this section. ' 9-4, 9-6: Dick Cochran was tops in the 25 and 50 yd. crawl races while Kirby Hook took the 25 yd. backstroke. Sheldon Rideout set a new record in the 75 yd. crawl by clipping 5! 10 of a second off Don Sykes' record of 1 min. 2 5!10 sec. This record was the only record broken in the ninth grade. Winners judged by time were: 25 and 50 yd. crawls-Dick Coch- ran, 75 yd. crawl-Sheldon Rideoutg 25 yd. backstroke-Kirby Hook. The eighth graders were successful in breaking two of the four records. Dave Johnson accounted for both of them., 8-1, 8-4: In the 25 yd. crawl Dave Johnson glided through in 16 sec. He was on the beam that day breaking the record in the 75 yd. crawl, too. His time was 1 min. 6 sec. He also won the 50 yd. crawl and tied with Bruce Bogle in the 25 yd. backstroke in 23.5 sec. 8-2, 8-3: Lon Dillman won both the 25 yd. and the 50 yd. crawls, while Harry Hiner won the 25 yd. backstroke. In the 75 yd. crawl Bob Jones was the winner in 1 min. 14 sec. 8-5, 8-6: Jim Cochran won the 25 yd. crawl in 19 sec. Joe Miller came in first in the 50 yd. crawl in 46 sec. and in the 75 yd. crawl in 1:19 sec. The water was really sizzling when the seventh graders left the pool. Not one record was left unbroken. Jerry Dolan easily smashed two of them, the 25 yd. and 50 yd. crawls. Merle Shively broke the other record. His time of 20.5 sec. in the 25 yd. backstroke was 5 sec. faster than the old record. Dolan's time in the 25 yd. crawl was 18 sec., more than 2 1X2 sec. under the old record. His time of 42.5 sec. in the 50 yd. crawl was .7 of a sec. under the record. 7-1, 7-2: Dolan won all the races in this group. 7-3, 7-4: In the 25 yd. backstroke Bill Smith was pronounced the winner: Al- bert McCullough with little trouble cap- tured the 50 yd. crawl title. Bill Anthony won the 25 yd. crawl. 7-5: Shively finished first in all con- tests. THERE'LL BE SOME CHANGES MADE We're leaving dear old junior high, but before going we ninth graders would like just one day when we could be kings . Just in case we ever did get our wish, here's a list which will give you a hint of some of the changes that we have taken the trouble to dream up: ' To begin with, we will construct a brand-spanking new school and place all the rooms on one floor, so some of the lazy students in rooms 15 and 18 who are still pounding their ears at 8:05 in the morning, wouldn't have to run u all those steps to beat the late bell. lgfhile speaking of bells, we might make a new rule and have the late gong ring at 8:31 so boys like Boo Grinnen could be on time. But now getting back to the subject, we are still in tlfe mood for new things so we'll tint the walls in those new pastel shades that were all the rage this spring, and have harmonizing fblackj boards of greens, blues, and whites with contrast- ing chalk. fMaybe a new eraser now and then.J In these rooms we will have chaise lounge desks with the individual reading lamps. Here's the catch, you break the bulbs-you buy the new ones. But ser- iously now Kas if this could be seriousj since we are always trying to make the better for worse, or vice versa, we might