East High School - Tiger Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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A SUMMARY OF ATHLETICS -1- -4 -- ---1l--'!n '--L- 1-141-A-1-H---1 -1- HE record of athletics at East High School for the first year, to be complete, must contain a record of the difficulties encountered and overcome, much as we dislike to include this feature in our account. Most people who knew about our new school and its equipment naturally expected us to make quite a record in athletics, but on account of the difficulties in completing the building we did not have the facilities for athletics. Those of us who are familiar with the tryingfconditions under which our coaches and teams worked, fully recognize that commendation is due those who made possible our representation in the various lines of sport. As a new school, moreover, We had no athletic traditions, with the incen- tives of such traditions, but if our teams display in the future the same spirit of play your best up to the last minute as the boys have shown this year, we shall have no regrets. The fact that our pupils came from many different schools, and were unfamiliar to the coaches made the task of selecting the teams wisely very difficult. One thing in particular that the coaches have tried to do, which we hope to make a permanent feature of the athletics of East High, is to give the positions on the teams always to the best fellow for the place. Another principle which must be made a feature of our athletics, is that it is the duty of every fellow to keep himself eligible to represent East High on any team for which he is needed. About forty boys responded to the call for football candidates, and the boys certainly are to be commended for the regularity with which they reported for practice. For not all of our pupils realized that a practice session meant a hike of a mile to and from the practice field, with no facilities for a shower at the end of an hour and a. half of hard work. The percentage of games won in football may not have been what we had hoped, but win or lose the boys played the game until the final whistle. Con- siderable shifting of men from one position to another was necessary, so that it is impossible to mention certain ones as outstanding. Bray, Roos and 'Keating were seen oftenesf in the backfield, and they did some fine work. To the usual inexperienced onlooker who sees only the carrying of the ball in a football game, much of the good hard work of the linesman is over- looked, and for this reason the good playing of Richardson, Greene, Mathis, Bangham, Pinney, Christie. Holden and others did not receive the credit that they deserved. After this yearls experience, with additional material for next year, the opportunity to play our games in our magnificent stadium, we look forward to a great season. The response to the call for candidates for the basketball team was just as generous as the response for football, but again we were confronted with difficulties as to a place for practice. After a trial of the gymnasiums at Oakley school and at Madisonville, a room of the Industrial Arts building was fitted up in a fashion, and here the boys practiced for the remainder of the season. I 104 I