East Fairmont High School - Orion Yearbook (Fairmont, WV)

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-.,- kingmont winner of first half-won 10' lost 2-captain, vincent. number of teams entered-8. piney run and norwood have the same number of wins and losses. 'fsaturday morning league about 115 boys play in the saturday morning league. this is divided into three groups. each of these sections contains four teams of eight players each. the midgets consist of boys weigh- ing less than 115 lbs. the light weight is composed of players between the weights of 115 and 129 lbs. the heavy weight portion holds the cagers who balance the scales at more than 129 lbs. the names of each of the teams are as follows: celtics, passing fools, shooting stars, bees, all belonging to the midget league. the light weight league consists of: mountaineers, polar bears, palatiners, and big five. the heavy weight league consists of: blue eagles, rockets, packers and five aces. girls bus league mary wilson's keenly organized bus league for girls certainly offers some entertainment for those noon-hour loafers. the girls play each tuesday and thursday at noon in the old gym. six teams compose the league. the teams are as follows: kingmont, piney run, town: jordon, colfax, hopewell. the champions are the town team with five victories and no defeats. noon soft ball team fgirlsj this is composed of two teams the gold team and the blue team. the blue team has to their credit two victories and three defeats. while the gold team has three victories and two de- feats, making the gold team champions. class volleyball league the volleyball team always draws interest to sports lovers. this year the freshmen, sopho- more, junior and senior girls reported with good hard fighting teams. the freshmen had three victories and five defeats: sophomores had two victories and one defeatg the juniors had three victories and no defeats, while the seniors had two defeats and no victories. the returns: the winners - juniors bus league tournaments the boys' bus league tournament is held at the noon hour. this is similar to the girls bus league tournament. the teams entered this year are: kingmont, colfax, rock lake, piney run, hopewell, jordan, greenwave, and norwood. these games have been played during different noon hours and norwood met kingmont in the finals. the score was 25 to 24, kingmont being the win- ner. ping pong tournament many boys participate in the ping pong tournament. different games are run off at different times. all matches are 2 out of 3 games of 21 points each. the finals are run off at the night of the sports carnival. inner club league different clubs of the school take part in this. hi-y won in the finals with the thespians and latin clubs tied for second place. boxing forty-eight boys participated in the boxing tournament. they were divided into seven differ- ent weight classes. the finals in this tournament were held during the sports carnival. sports carnival the sports carnival is directed by mr. sprouse. this creates much interest among the students of east fairmont because finals in the wrestling and boxing tournaments are held then. ping pong, tumbling and basketball are also included in the program. the object of the carnival in to sum- marize and bring to a close the different intra-mural sports activities of the year. east park grade school entered their baby tumblers and a group of dancers. east high girls had dancing, pyra- mids, tumbling and the finals of the noon hour basketball tournament. the most spectacular event was the living statues posed by joe egidi and clifton scritchfield. our thanks and appreciation go to mary wilson and earl sprouse for the success of intra- mural sports for the year of 1937-38. keep up the good work. v lyii

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intra-mural athletics intramural sports began at the east fairmont high school in 1932. through the excellent leadership of mary wilson and earl sprouse, the intramural sports have been a great success this year. the class tournament opened this year with the freshman boys playing the sophomore boys and the junior girls vs. the senior girls. both of these games were thrilling and were witnessed by a large crowd. the sophomore boys and the junior girls emerged victorious in the opening round. the sophomore lads eliminated the freshman 2'r to 21 and the junior lassies defeated the seniors 24 to 15. both games were interesting, hard fought affairs. the second night of the class tournament found the junior boys vs. the senior bays playing a hard fighting battle and the freshman girls vs. the sophomore girls giving all they had to their teams. the winners of these two games namely: sophomore girls and the sophomore boys, met the junior girls and the senior boys in the finals, which were played the following night. the senior boys tackled the sophomore boys while the sophomore girls tried to halt the junior girls, but the senior boys and the junior girls crashed through with victories over the sophomore lads and lassies to cop the annual east fairmont class basketball tournament before a large crowd at the east high gym. a last rally enabled the senior boys to trim the sophomore boys to the tune of 28 to 21 and the junior girls who have never been defeated since entering high school and have taken the tournament for three straight years easily trounced the sophomore cuties 41 to 16 in the finals. many players were outstanding in the climax to the east fairmont basketball season, the an- nual class tournament. earl sprouse and mary wilson, east fairmont's physical education instructors, directed the meet and mary wilson refereed the girls' division while joe talerico handled the whistle for the boys. martha gibbs of fairmont state college was umpire for the girls' games. many valuable prizes donated by local merchants were awarded to outstanding players in both divisions, which were as follows: girls awards all tournament team-forwards: evelyn muto, anna mutog center: virginia morris: guards: esther anne morris, virginia mitchell, martha jean rinehart. most valuable: genevieve mitchell. most valuable substitute: rosie talerico. best sport: doris price. best senior: mary vuckovich most attractive: louise cain. best junior: virginia morris. best foul shot: gwendolyn hostutler. best sophomore: anna muto. high point single game: virginia morris. best freshman: genevieve mitchell. high point in tourney: virginia morris. best cheerleader: elizabeth miller. contributed most for tourney success: jerry horner. coach of winning team: jimmy mazza and denzil brown. boys awards all tourney team: forwards: jack carpenter and john talerico: center: edward hughes: guards: joe grazlani and .Asc mm... most valuable substitute: goff rollins. most valuable: arthur cassell. best senior: arthur graziani. best sport: carl nuzum. best junior: joe graziani. best foul shot: vester kerns. best cheerleader: loris gaskins. high point in single game: jack carpenter. coach of winning team: clarence lynn. high point in tourney: john talerico. contributed most for tourney success: ralph huggins. the sophomores had the best cheering section and were awarded a silver loving cup. unoonhour basketball league the, noon hour basketball league under the supervision of mr. earl sprouse has grown into an interesting past-time for students who lunch at school. kingmont, the last year's champions, are still going strong this year with an undefeated and untied basketball team. piney run is running second with only one defeat to their schedule. kingmont is a strong and rugged, sharpshooting team with such experienced players as jack carpenter, don richards and henry martelli. norwood, the last year's runner up for first place honors, lost most of their players and consequently they have been defeated twice, once by the kingmont champions and once by piney run. eventy-four

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