Kingfield High School - Abram Breeze Yearbook (Kingfield, ME)

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QE Yi W QC: F11 BOYS' BASKETBALL SQUAD FIRST ROW: Sillanpaa, Niemi, Winter, Dunham, Morrell, Brackley, Dunham, SECOND ROW: Mgr, Hinckley, McLaughlin, Thompson, Vose, Wing, Graham, Coach, , , . 21 .. -al ' GIRLS' BASKETBALL SQUAD FIRST ROW: Trask, Turner, Packard, Loucks, Niles, Vose, Dyer, SECOND ROW: coach, Clunie, Taylor, Davis, Mon-Q11, Knapp, Donahue, Pinkham, Nile,

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GIRLS' ATHLETICS Athletics for the girls this year have been confined chiefly to basketball, We did, last fall, play softball and volleyball during Activity Period, We hope to again this spring, We may be able to form a softball team and play a game or two with other teams, We did this last spring, playing two games with the Strong girls, The basketball girls, under the able coaching of Principal Clunie, have finished a very successful season, The squad lost two players from last year's team, Christine Donahue and Viola Reid, but it gained new ones from the Freshman class, Early in the season the squad chose a manager Lillian Nile '49 and as assistant manager Louise Taylor '50, The team played eighteen games in all: Seven non-league games, ten league games, and the All Star game, They lost four of the non-league ones, but, of the four, three were with Class M Schools, They won all ten of the games, thereby be- coming Champions of the Franklin County Small Schools League, Because they were Champions, they played, at Phillips, in the All Star game against the team composed of three All Star players from each of the other schools, The three Kingfield girls chosen as All Star were Naida Loucks '49, Bettie Packard '49, and Dena Vose '50, Following is a list of the girls on the squad, Forwards Dawn Davis '49 Bettie Packard '49 Dena Vose '50 Helen Knapp '51 Beatrice Morrell '51 The schedule of games played and the scores follow, Home starred: Kingfield 26 'FKingfield 28 'Kingfield 45 Kingfield 10 'Kingfie1d 2.4 4'Kingfield 27 '9'Kingfield 27 'Kingfield 32 Kingfield 30 Farmington Jay North Anson Jay Rangeley Town Team Strong Stratton Phillips Guards Naida Loucks, Captain '49 Arlene Niles '49 Ruth Donahue '52 Gloria Dyer '52 Eleanor Pinkham '52 Virginia Trask '52 Irma Turner '52 games are 4'Kingfield 28 Mexico 34 '9'Kingfie1d 34 New Sharon 13 Kingfield 27 Strong 23 Kingfield Z3 Stratton 16 fKingfield 22 Phillips 7 Kingfield 34 Kingfield 1 6 Kingfield 22 BOYS ' ATHLETICS New Shar on l 8 North Ans on 1 8 Rangeley l 6 The boys were very fortunate to have Mr, Graham for their athletic coach again this year, He asked all boys who were going to run Cross Country or to go out for basketball to meet with him after school, September 27, A large number answered that call, Both groups began running at once in order to get into condition, The boys who ran Cross Country were Gene Boyce, Wendell Dunham, Russell Riggs, and Austin Thompson for Juniorsg Leo Boyce, Hedley Reid, Odlin Thompson, and Richard Trenholm for Freshmen, Friday, October l, they ran their first meet over their own course, Because of the unfavorable weather not all of the teams that were invited participated, On October 8, the boys went to Rangeley to run against Phillips, Rangeley, Stratton, and Strong, The Kingfield boys won the meet, The following Tuesday, October 12, the boys journeyed to Bates College, Lewiston to run against the Bates College 24

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Freshmen, On October 22, the tearn went to Wilton to run in the County Meet, They succeeded in bunching enough of their runners among the early finishers so that they won the meet, Because of this they brought' home the cup showing they are County Champions, In addition, Russell, Austin, and Gene each received individual medals for placing first, fifth, and sixth, respectively, On November 4, Mr, Graham, the squad, and the manager, Eugene Wing, traveled to Orono to participate in the State Meet, Although the competition was very keen, Kingfield finished in seventh place, and ahead of some schools much larger than ours, Because our star runner, Russell Riggs, came in second of all partici- pants, he received an individual medal, This meet brought to a close a very successful season in Cross Country, During all these weeks the basketball boys were working at their running and, as the season approached, they went into the hall to practice, The season opened officially on the evening of November 23, with the Round Robin games played here in Webster Hall, The squad lost a few men before the close of the season, The junior Varsity players included Richard McLaughlin '49, Gene Boyce '50, james McLaughlin '50, Russell Riggs '50, Garnald Hewey '51, Emerson Barron '52, Leo Boyce '52, Hedley Reid '52, Odlin Thompson '52, Richard Trenholm '52, and Robert Tufts '52, The ten on the Varsity Team, who represented us in all the tournament games were Howard Dunham '49, Eugene Wing '49, john Winter '49, Lewis Brackley '50, Wendell Dunham '50, Burchell Morrell '50, Austin Thompson '50, Robert Niemi '5l, Martin Sillanpaa '51, and Edgar Vose '52, These boys were champions in the Franklin County Small Schools League, won Consolation at the Franklin County Tournament in Farmington, and were winners of the Western Maine Small School Tournament in Lewiston, They lost a fast, but hard-fought game to Schenck High School of Millinocket, thereby losing the opport- unity to be champions of all Maine Small Schools, Because the boys were champions in their own league, on March 10, they played their final game at Phillips against the team composed of the two All Star players from other tear'-s in the league, Two of their own members, although they played with their team mates, were named All Stars, They were Howard Dunham '49, and Lewis Brackley '50, The following is a schedule of the gaxnes played by the Varsity along with their scores, Home games are starred: Kingfield Farmington Kingfield Stratton '9'Kingfield Jay Kingfield Phillips '9'Kingfield North Anson 'Kingfield Phillips Kingfield Jay Kingfield Mexico 'Kingfield Rangeley 'Kingfield New Sharon '0'Kingfie1d Town Team Kingfield New Sharon Kingfield Mexico Kingfield North A118011 'Kingfie1d Strong Kingfield Rangeley Kingfield Strong Kingfield Kents Hill 4'Kingfie1d 57 Stratton 30 The games and scores in the Tournament in Farmington were as follows: Kingfield 23 Rangeley 26 Kingfield 80 Stratton 34 Kingfield 48 Strong 47 This is the third consecutive year that Kingfield has been invited to the Western Main Tournament, Class S, at Lewiston, The team played against the following schools: Kingfield 37 North Berwick 36 Kingfield 52 Wiscasset 42 V Kingfield 74 New Gloucester 33 Because the boys won these games, they brought home with them a cup with the following engraving: 26