L'Anse High School - Envoy Yearbook (L'Anse, MI)

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Junior FIRST ROW— Almli, Knight. Wandell. Foy, Nevala, Pekonen, Stiglich, Mattson, LaBelle, Gronlund. CENTER ROW—N. Gronlund, Lundberg, Ellico, Fleming, BACK ROW H. Jurmu, Ellis, Hansen, Almli, Spruce, J. Mattson, Coach Maurer, Goodreau, P. Jurmu, Corgan, Borgen,

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rr 'I n he lp31 Season The football record of 1931 speaks for itself. It has been the result of hard, con- sistent work and determination on the part of coaches and players alike. At times the “going” has been hard, but the boys have persevered and have emerged as victors in the end. They stand the “Football Champions of the Copper Country Conference,” un- defeated and “unscored” upon for the season of 1931. THE SQUAD Almli, George Guy, Louis Olson, Harris Bierschbach, Emil Immonen, Oswald Pyhtila, William Boyer, Arthur Jentoft, Chester Samardjic, Matt Carlson, Leonard Jacobs, Adrian Riley, Samuel Dault, Francis Keranen, Elmer Smith, Stanley Davis, Harold Kotila, Ralph Soli, Thorvald Eliasson, Levine Lofquist, Charles Streeter, Clair Ellis, John Markovich, Anton Streiter, Walter Fish, Mello McGlue, Leo Thorsen, Wilbert Grainger, Vernon Menard, Curtis Whipple, Kenneth THEIR RECORD COPPER COUNTRY CONFERENCE September 19 L’Anse 6 Lake Linden 0 September 26 L’Anse 18 Hancock 0 October 3 L’Anse 19 Houghton 0 October 10 L’Anse 19 Lake Linden 0 October 24 L’Anse 0 Houghton 0 October 31 L’Anse 6 Hancock 0 NON-CONFERENCE October 17 L’Anse 0 Wakefield 13

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HISTORY L’Anse High School has enjoyed an unique record in athletics for the year 1931. Beginning early, the basketball squad not only decisively defeated Hancock, the Class B Champions, but won the Championship of the Class C Tournament held at Houghton. At the Regional Tournament at Gladstone, the L’Anse team was the runner-up. No sooner was the court deserted than the wearers of the Purple and White donned track suits and won second place in the Class C Regional Meet at Houghton. At the In- vitational Meet sponsored by the Michigan “Tech”, a week later, the L’Anse athletes won the Copper Country Championship. Following this victory the L’Anse team en- tered the Upper Peninsula Relays-at Escanaba and won a cup in both the 440 and 880 relays. When the football call was made in the fall, it was found that graduation had claimed a number of regulars but their positions were ably filled from the substitutes of the previous season. For the first time in the history of the school, the L’Anse foot- ball team played for an entire season without being scored against by a Copper Country team. While their opponents were held scoreless, the L’Anse boys ran up sixty-eight points against their adversaries. This year has been a new era in the L’Anse High School Athletics. Three Copper Country Championships in one year is a record that all schools aspire to, but a goal which few attain. It has been the result of a “building up process” at L’Anse. Past years work has not always been productive in games won but the teams were being transformed from unskilled participants into experienced athletes — championship material. This year’s success has been the culmination of that work. Clean sports- manship has characterized the playing of the teams and has added much to their success.