Johnson St Paris High School - Parisian Yearbook (Saint Paris, OH)

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Our Track Team of 1921 Great credit is due the efforts of our Coach in working up such a marvelous track team. However he did not do all the work, for our boys worked hard all season and as a result did not suffer a single defeat. We are very sorry to state that the score book was destroyed in a fire that occured in the furnace and we are unable to print an official record of the season. Although we cannot say with pride that our boys won over every team they went up against by a large margin. You have read of “mythical all state” or “All Conference” teams of different kinds. Well, our team this year is somewhat similar to them, in that, it is mythical (imaginary as it were). However not all of our track teams have been mythical (to us). For in preceding years our High School has had some extra fine track teams. We are now in possession of a beautiful silver loving cup, that was won at the County meet, for having the highest percentage for three consecutive years. Beside the new loving cup, many individual prizes were awarded to individuals on the team. We also have a pennant which wc won at the first All-County track meet held in 1916 at Urbana. Next year’s track team, however, we hope will not be mythical, like this year’s team. There isn’t any reason why S. P. H. S. could not have a splendid track team next year, for next fall we will have a quarter of a mile track, besides the other equipment we now have, necessary for a track team. 64

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Robert Taylor, “Cheer Leader” We desire to express our hearty admiration and appreciation of Robert Taylor our “cheer leader.” Too much can not be said in commendation of his marked ability along this line. We know that much credit is due him for the successful basket ball sea- son just past, for with “Bob” as leader we were able to express our enthusiasm and true school spirit and our boys knowing they had the whole- heai'ted co-operation of students and faculty back of them were urged on to greater victory. Will we ever forget how those pep meetings quickened our hearts and how our voices rose with Bob’s in many mighty cheers for dear old S. P. H. S., or forget the thrills as hand in hand we wound in and out through the snake dance to the tune of “The Yellow and the Black?” No game or High School celebration of any kind would be complete without “Bob ’ and in re- turn for his faithful services and unswerving loy- alty the Parisian tenders him this recognition. 66