Houlton High School - North Star Yearbook (Houlton, ME)

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GIRLS' BASKETBALL TEAM Front row, left to right: Taylor, Watson, Kelley, Bates. Second row: K. Gilland, Bostrom, Coach Wood, M. Gilland, and Titcomb. Girls' Basketball, 1940-41 The 1940-41 girls' basketball team was fondly known as Elsa and the Five Dwarfs . Lanky Miss Bostrum led the Aroostook League in scoring by amassing a total of 199 points in ten games, that's 20 points per game! Jackie Kelley, a vot- eran, Katherine Gilland, Dot Young, and Jean Hovey played fine, cooperative ball under the net. On the other side of the center stripe, Maggie Watson, another vet- and eran, Donna Bates, Marion Gilland, Shirley Titcomb performed nobly for Coach Wood. The girls gained permanent poss- ession of the league trophy this year. Here's a summary of Coach Charles W. Wood's record at Houlton for the past ten years: the total number of games played is 144, 114 wins against 30 losses, the total of points scored by the Houlton lassies in these contests is 3,461 against 2,508 tallied by opponents. Houlton was undefeated in league competition during 1933-34, 1937- 38, and 1940-41. In 1932-33, 1934-35, and 1938-39, the Black and White dropped but one tussle, while in 1931-32 and 1939-40 they lost two. Houlton has won the Aroos- took League crown six times and finished as runner-up thrice during those ten years of fine tutelage. The 1940-41 results: Houlton 23 Patten 13 Houlton 41 Stearns 23 Houlton 36 Shead 34 Houlton 43 Fort Fairfield 8 Houlton 27 Stearns 27 iContinued on Page 273

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THE' 'CROSS COUNTRY TEAM Front row, left to right: Larson, Dow, Doescher, Hall, Boyne. Second row: Fortier, Grant, Gogan, Gardiner, Coach Stinson, Stewart, Lambert, Smart, Palmer. Cross Country, 1940 Again this year Coach Stinson produced at champion. The Houlton trekkers were set-ond to a phenomenal Presque Isle crew in both the county and state meets, but it was our own Abe Hall who led four- score hopefuls to the tape to cop individ- ual honors at the state meet, and who eas- ily beat the best in Aroostook in the county meet. He set a new course record in the trisineet between Lee, Colby Frosh, and Houlton. Consistent placing by John Dow, Fergy Ferguson, and Pussy Albert balanced the squad. With four of the following lettermen re- turning next fall. Coach Stinson is making plains to bring home a seventh state cham- pionship. His record of seven county, six state. and one national title in the last eleven seasons shows he's justified in plan- making. The 1940 hill-and-dalers combination con- sisted of Captain Sterling Hall, Paul Albert, Irving Ferguson, Earl Bickford, Galen Grant, .Iohn Dow, Philip Boyne, Ken Lar son, and Fred Doescher. Scores: Houlton 21 Maine Frosh A 37 Houlton 42 Presque Isle 17 Houlton 31 Lee 26 Colby Frosh 71 Houlton 23 'Caribou 32 The County Meet lst Presque Isle 23 2nd Houlton 61 3rd A. C. I. 70 4th Caribou 78 The State Meet lst Presque Isle 32 2nd Houlton 105 3rd Old Town 110 4th Portland 116 5th Bangor 118

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BOYS' BASKETBALL TEAM Front row, left to right: Mason, Taylor, Niles, Captain Logan, Anderson, Lambert, Berry. fSecond row: Asst. -Coach Peabody, Popham, Mgr. Myshrall, Downie, Coach Tibbetts. Boys' Basketball, 1940-41 ' With a wise eye to the future, Coaches Tibbetts, and Peabody selected for their '40-'41 basketball squad a dozen promising underclassmen and combined them with vete1'ans. The result was seven wins against eleven losses, a half dozen of which were lost by only two or three baskets. Around the nucleus of Mason, a star for- ward: Logan, a guard and forward of equal ability: and Lambert. a center and guard, the coaches built a team that was slow in starting this year, but one that will go places in the next two years. The loss of Wolhaupter, Bell, Stoton, and Donovan, all six-footers, was heavily felt. Logan, with 181 points, and Mason, with 92 points, were the big guns for the Black and VVhite. Downie returned to the wars after a year's lay-off and played hard ball. Dick Niles, a sophomore who's a natural, is the boy to watch in 1942. His classmates, Anderson and Berry. are shaping into good ball- players, too. The schedule and scores: Houlton 28 Patten Houlton 26 Stearns Houlton 22 P. I. H. S. Houlton 22 Old Town Houlton 37 Caribou Houlton 26 Waterville Houlton 29 John Bapst Houlton 44 A. C. I. Houlton 30 F. F. H. S fContinued on Page 283