Lake Forest Academy - Caxy Yearbook (Lake Forest, IL)

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LAKE FOREST-27 FORT SHERIDAN-24 January 9 The first game of the season was played at the academy gym with Fort Sheridan. The soldiers gave us stiff competition, but our lads downed them 2724. The Hrst game proved that we were going to have a fast team. The military men were much taller than our boys, making it hard for our quintet to pass. LAKE FOREST-42 QUIGLEY-15 january 14 Quigley met their downfall on their trip to Lake Forest. Cur team was ahead from the Hrst of the game and wasn't threatened during the contest. L. F. A. outplayed them in all branches of basketball, defeating Quigley 4245. Buckmaster with his dead eye sank five baskets the first half. LAKE FOREST-23 MARQUETTE FROSH-21 january 20 The Marquette crew is always one of the hardest for us to beat. Besides being fast, these boys are always of huge size, making passing somewhat difficult. Our team had to fight all through the game to keep up with the Milwaukee team, finally beating them by one basket. Both teams were playing excellent basketball. LAKE FOREST-36 WHEATON ACADEMY-ll january 23 The entire squad left Saturday morning for Wheaton, where they were to engage in battle with Wheaton Academy. The first few minutes of play our team gained the lead. All the fellows on the squad played. Lake Forest trounced Wheaton by a score of 36-11. LAKE FOREST-45 CONCORDIA COLLEGE-10 january 30 Concordia college was scheduled for January 30 and also scheduled for a trimming. Concordia had been going good until they reached Lake Forest. They hadn't lost a game this year up until this time. Our fellows outclassed them by far and ruined their record by a song of 45-10. I Page one hundred fourteen

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. - :V K BASKETBALL The basketball returned to school Monday, january 4, to resume practice again. Practicing in the morning and afternoon for three days. Peterson being the only letter back from last ycar, The tcam this year was not nearly as heavy as last year's team, but the fellows made up in speed, what they lacked in weight. The team lost two games, but they put up a hard iight in both. L. F. A.'s squad was at a disadvantage during the whole year on account of sick' ness. The men playing the forward positions were: Young and Kellar, working to' gether like a clock, while Davis and Clark ran the position when the other two were not in the game. Davis being the smallest and fastest man on the team. Jensen and Sloan alternating at center, with both of them leading the scoring. Captain Peterson and Buckmaster shared honors at running guard. Colucci and Stokes took care of back-guard, this being Cal's iirst year of basketball and it is said that Cal is the one who always kept up the fighting spirit. Knight, Stevens and Beat were the other men on the squad. The members of the squad who received letters were: Captain Peterson, Captain' elect Kellar, Colucci, Young, Davis, Buckmaster, Stokes, Sloan, Jensen, and Manager Gallagher, Knight, Stevens and Beat received second team sweaters. john Garrity was elected next year's manager. Page one hundred thirteen

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LAKE FOREST-29 CHICAGO TECH-23 February 3 The team won their sixth game from Chicago Technical College by a score of 29-23. The Technical school put up a much harder fought battle than they did last year.. They remarked that next year with the same kind of improvement over last year, they will defeat us. Time will tell. LAKE FOREST-19 NOTRE DAME FRESHMEN-42 February 6 Lake Forest was handed a decisive defeat by the strong Notre Dame Freshmen. This is the first game the Academy has lost in three years. Notre Dame gained a big lead in the iirst half, but were outplayed by our boys in the second. The Fresh' men had too big of a lead for our team to catch. The crew from South Bend made about seventy-two per cent of their shots they attempted, showing what wonderful team work and the scoring ability these fellows had. Lake Forest had met a better team, and our hats are off to them. LAKE FOREST-30 AUSTIN HIGH SCHOOL-24 February 10 We played our only night game with Austin High School of Chicago. We found out that our boys worked as well at night as in the afternoon. Although they have played much better ball than they did with Austin. The game was rather slow and our fellows missed the greater per cent of their shots. In team work, Lake Forest played all around Austin, but we were unable to put the ball through the hoopg it rolled around but seldom seemed to drop through. LAKE FOREST-39 ELGIN ACADEMY-21 February 13 Elgin's aggregation was not as strong as their last year's team and fell an easy prey to Lake Forest. Again every man on the squad played. Lake Forest scored their greater part of the score in the first half, while Elgin scored 10 points the first half and ll the second. LAKE FOREST-57 WHEATON-16 February 20 The game of February ZO, being one of the features of Mid-Winters was played in the college gym. This was the second game we played with Wheaton. All the men of the team got a chance to perform before the large crowd attending the game. Lake Forest defeated the Academy team from Wheaton by a score of 57fl6. Page one hundred fifteen