Lincoln High School - Lincolnian Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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Page 1 6 THE LINCOLNIAN jiihletks LOUISE UNTHANK This rose blushes not unseen Slopping the boys teasing 1916 Members Their Charadteri ics and Chief Delight IRMA FRAZIER Boisterous snd Noisy Talking to Leo in class THE FOOTBALL TEAM enccd players and also they were much heav- icr, but with all the disadvantages our boys played them a hard game, although we lost The second game was with Liberty, a stronger team than W. U., because Libert} had not and did not lose a game the whole season, and too, they had beaten W. U. a few weeks before, although we played them and showed great improvement since we played W. U. The third game was our equal in weight. This game was with Sumner High of Kansas City, Kan., and we were so used to playing teams over our weight and equal that we fairly ran away with Sumner, 39 to 0. Our fourth and last game of the season was played Thanksgiving day in St. Louis, Mo., against Sumner High School. We again went out of our equal and weight, although we never backed out because we were always ready to take a’ trial with any team once. Afternoon came and about time for the game it began drizzling rain which lasted almost the whole game through. The ball was kicked off, the old gold and blue crashed with the white and maroon and the game was on. The shouts from the grand- stand could have been heard for miles away. Lemuel Williams was hurt in the third quar- ter and this was another defeat to add to our list, because with the great difference in Y. eight and experience we were defeated.

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Athletics THE LINCOLNIAN Page 15 THE BASEBALL TEAM THE FOOTBALL ELEVEN. Lincoln High had lost all interest in sports since 1912 , until this year when the spirit broke out new and the boys asked some of the teachers to help them organize a football team. After hard and earnest work they man- aged to get Mr. Westmoreland as coach and Mr. Cook as manager. Then they gave a dance and got money to buy their uniforms. The team began to train as soon as they got their coach, although the training was hard because sometimes the boys would almost fall from exhaustion, but they would keep on, for the coach had told them that they had to stand almost anything to be good football players, and that was what every boy on the field wanted to be. After Mr. Westmoreland got the team arranged the best he could, we then voted for a captain. For this important position, Mr. Ruben Curry, our fullback, was elected and the team was as follows : Ruben Curry, captain and fullback; James Pryor and Lemuel Williams, right and left halfback; Maceo Williams, Vernon Page, Clarence Porter and Vassal Tolbert, ends; Edward Pryor and Thamon Hayes, tackles; Leonard Fields and Walter Page, guards; Roland Bruce and Edward Fladger, centers. Our first game was with Western Univer- sity on their grounds. Although our boys and the W. U. boys were not evenly matched, because some of the W. U. boys had been playing for four or five years and were experi- PAUL1NE RONE Can’t she talk? Playing tennis CECIL PENISTON Rare femininity Going to Kansas

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jllhletics THE LINCOLNIAN ‘ Page 1 7 Mr. Westmoreland, our coach, worked haid and earnestly with us, but with just six weeks time with boys that had never played foot- 1 all before he could not make very fast pro- gress, but the students and teachers thought he had done excellent with the team and all are wishing and looking for a fine team next year. J. W. P. HELEN CANTERBURY Our Dimpled Darling To powder in class NAOMI THOMAS Coming Grand Opera Star Flaying T agtime