Macomb High School - Spiderweb Yearbook (Macomb, IL)

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FOOT BALL SEASON 1936 BASKET BALL SEASON 1936 FOOTBALL Although the 1936 football team won only four games and lost four, the season proved to be the most successful one a Macomb High team has had in many years. The team was rather inexperienced at the first of the season due to the loss of several veterans, but what the boys didn’t have in experience they made up with fight. The Orange and Black defeated Lewistown, Carthage, Bushnell, and Havana while going down to defeat before Quincy, Beardstown, Galesburg and Monmouth. Bushnell, Lewistown, Havana, and Beardstown were Spoon River Valley opponents and Macomb finished second in the Spoon River Valley Conference with three wins and one defeat. There were five seniors on the team and each one of these boys will be greatly missed next year. BASKETBALL SEASON, 1936-1937 The past season with 20 wins out of 29 games was considered very successful by the coach and local fans. Although the team lost several lettermen and was a little slow in starting, they soon turned out a winning combination. The team reached a peak near the end of the season and finished out the season in good form. Our guintet took the regional tournament at Roseville and entered the Galesburg sectional tourney but on the first night the team played off form and lost to Dunlap. At the end of the season the Macomb Business Men gave the team a very fine banguet at the Hotel Lamoine. - { Page 28 )«-

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THE GLEE CLUBS The Glee Clubs met separately during the first semester, but the second semester the groups rehearsed together once each week. Both boys and girls presented Christmas music in assembly and later they took part in all county choruses for Teacher's Institute and the County Music Festival. In May the combined Glee Clubs presented the operette, The Gypsy Rover, with the following people taking the principal parts: Meg............ Zara.......... Marts.......... Sinfo.......... Rob........... Lady Constance Lord Craven. . . Sir George..... Nina........... Capt. lerome... Sir Toby Lyon.. . . Betty June Zettle Jeanette Bartleson . . Robert Pollock . . . .Lyman Brown .James Kaufmann . . .Alleyne Mullan ......Dick Smith .Charles Patterson .Virginia Icenogle . . .John Campbell .Thomas Gossage Page 27 } -

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TRACK — 1937 M. H. S. enjoyed a most successful track season in 1937, due to the increased interest shown by both members of the team and the students. Dual meets were held at the beginning of the season with both Roseville and Lewistown. The thinly clads took the County Meet with 67 points. The team also finished fifth in the Spoon River Valley Meet at Beardstown, and did very well in both Military Tract and the District. Coach Strickland took several of the boys to the Pittsfield and Fort Madison Relays held in May. The underclassmen, who will make the future team are doing well this year, and we expect to have an even a better team next year. BASEBALL — 1937 The baseball sguad held its first game at Colchester. Although they did not do so well in this game, they have improved. They also had several games with various teams in the county. All in all M. H. S. had a very successful baseball season. Page 29 }« -