Kenmore High School - Kenmore Eighty Yearbook (Akron, OH)

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MIL U9 . U 1! In 1918 Basketball Season Kenmore High School began her 1918 season of Basketball with two new eoaches. a number of new players and a new gymnasium. The team have received splendid support throughout the entire season. At each home game there were as many as could bc accommodated, and a large number of rooters went along with the teams on each trip abroad. Our Hrst game of the season was a double header with Springfield. These teams proved to he about the best that Kenmore was to meet during the entire season. Kenmore girls won but the boys did not seem to be able to find the basket and lost their first game. On January the fourth Kenmore boys' team accepted an invitation from Newton Falls. This was Kenmorc's first Athletic relations with Newton Falls. and was the beginninv of what may be a very pleasant series of Athletic events between Kenmore andigtlewton Falls. Newton Falls is much in need of a suitable place to play Basketball. The Kenmore boys are ready to wager that of all the floors that Basketball was played upon in the State of Ohio. Newton Falls' floor would take the lead for lack of room and the number of obstructions in the way. Kenmore did not feel discouraged when they lost this by three points. Spike cried because he did not get into the game and one of our boys had a narrow escape. when the stove pipe fell down. On the way home Kelley amused the crowd by playing street car conductor. The tide began to turn in favor of Kenmore in the third game of the season when our boys defeated a delegation from YVest High of Akron. Both the boys and girls sufiered a reverse at Springfield in the fourth gamc of the season, this being the only defeat met with during the entire season by Kenmore girls. At the end of the first half Kenmore boys were rather certain of victory, rather too confident in fact. The score at the end of the garlic was a valuable lesson' to the boys on the need of consistent team work. when the coach came into the dressing room after the game, he found a little scene being inacted that had better not be described. The team was stuttering the agonies of defeat. For addi- tional information ask Kime. The fifth game of the season was a double header with Uniontown on the home floor. This was the beginning of a series of victories for Kenmore. The Basketball Fans of Kemnore were compelled to witness but one defeat on the home floor during the entire season. The Uniontown center was the outstanding feature of this game. But it was again proved that one man cannot win a game. On February the first ,Kenmore made extensive preparation to go to Hudson. You eonld hardly imagine a more disappointed group than was assembled in the Union depot at Akron. when it was learned that the train would not stop for the team and rooters. Miss Billiter collected tickets and returned money to about thirty disappointed Junior High pupils. The long-to-be-remembered incident of this game was the argument between Coach Shade and Meeker. The air was blue with words, neither knowing what the other was talking about. But things were finally settled without any serious damage. Kenmore won both games, the train stopped and every one came home happy. 42