Grove High School - Futurist Yearbook (Paris, TN)

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Jia , . . ., M, Fjf ww? '55 41-1 -:- :Q THE-FQTURIST : -:- p Football at Grove Grove had a very successful football season in 1930, especially when the fact. that the team was handicapped by injuries all the year is taken into consideration. 4At no, game dur- ing the entire season, not even excepting the opener with Huntingdon, were Coaches Robison and Wilson able to put their full strength on the field, and naturally the team's record suf- fered to some extent. Nevertheless, Grove beat some excellent teams, and it certainly was not discreditable for Grove, or any other high school team in West Tennessee, for that matter. to lose to teams of the caliber of Humboldt and Union City. Union City, it will be remembered, later beat the highly touted South Side High grlders of Memphis by a' larger score than they beat Grove. While many Seniors have played their last game for the Blue and White, and their loss will be keenly felt, prospects are indeed bright for a good team next year. Baseball Coaches and players confidently expect. that the 1931 Grove baseball team will be the best in the history of the school. And the opening games have surely borne. out their prediction. The few games played have been won: and Gleason, beaten by , Grove 7-6, is known throughout all West Tennessee for its excellent baseball teams. All departments of this year's team are exceptionally strong and there are several good reserves who can: step into the breach at any time, if necessary. Probably what is most gratifying to the coaches, outside of the prospects for a winning team, is the large number of Freshmen out for base- ball this year. If conditions at Grove give any indication of the enthusiasm with which the game is being played throughout America, baseball is still growing in popularity. Grove's schedule is the hardest in years, and Messick High, of Memphis, will play two games on Barton Field. The record of the 1931 team at the present is: ' Grove 'Z-Puryear 0. V ' Grove 13-Milan 1. 1 ' Grove 7-Gleason 6. Grove 5-Trenton 0. ' Grove 6-Humboldt 5. Grove 4-Trenton 2. ' Grove 14-Murray 1. ,L Grove Track Team Grove has a splendid track team this year, one that will help to send Grove' ,to the front in athletics. Under the capable coaching of Charles E. Wilson, we have a team that any high school should be proud of. Q To see these boys in action one would think they had been in training several years, but as it is, all except a very few, who were track boys last year are new to the work. We are proud to say that more new members have been added to the team this year than ever before. These boys work hard in the afternoon until nearly dark hoping- to reach -tip-top per- fection by the time of the first meet, which will be at Murray, Ky., Saturday April 11. ,We arevsure they will be successful in this meet, although the nearby teams and the one of Murray boast of their well-developed teams. Grove has been invited to compete in a track and field meet at Martin and Covington. Our boys are eager to show these teams what they are made of and they will dofit too. Billy Askew is manager of the '31 team. He has been doing some good work and is try- ing to get a meet herzwsomething Grove should have very year. So let us give three cheers to the success of our team, manager, and coach. S' I9 3I

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