Marcuse High School - Islander Yearbook (Big Island, VA)

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The Islander — Sports Review Marcuse High School put out another winning basketball team this year, taking eleven of the sixteen games played. We attempted a stronger schedule than usual. Included for the first time on our schedule were such teams as Shrader Field, Brook- neal Boys Club, Huddleston, and Moneta, the latter undefeated for two years. High spots of the season included a victory over a strong Huddleston team and two vic- tories over Natural Bridge, Rockbridge County champions. Only Tanner and Keller will be lost by graduation, and if these gaps can be filled, the team should enjoy another successful season. Even if the girls did not succeed in winning so many of their games, we can truthfully say that we have had a group of good sports and players on our girls’ basketball team. Marcuse closed its most successful baseball season in six years last year with a 29-12 victory over Moneta High School, winning the Bedford County championship for the third consecutive year. The 1938 season opened with a one-run decision going to Glasgow High School team. Glasgow in a return engagement and Brook- ville made trips to Big Island, and both were defeated. Journeying to New Lon- don, an arch rival, the Big Island team received its second and last defeat of the season in a close contest. After the New London game, Marcuse won six consecu- tive games, including two decisions over New London and the championship game against Moneta. In the county track meet at Liberty Academy last spring Marcuse took third place among the schools and many individual ribbons including first place in the re- lay, in which Aubrey Keller, Heyden Camden, Richard Gregory, and Richard Bry- dges participated; first place in boys’ high jump, won by Aubrey Keller; second place in broad jump, won by Aubrey Keller; second place in the 220 race, won by Richard Gregory; and third place in the 100 yard dash, won by Aubrey Keller. Madeline Dayton and Marguerite Dayton won second and third places respectively in the girls’ baseball throw, Marian Yakes won third place in the broad jump, and Mae Leftwich won second place in the girls’ high jump. Besides the above mentioned organized inter-scholastic athletics, there were other sports quite popular, such as touch-football for the boys and volley ball for the girls in the fall and soft-ball in the spring. An universallv popular year-round sport was marbles. Enthusiasm burst anew in the spring, but with some of the boys in the grades it was an eternal favorite.

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=The Islander Boys and Qirls Track i 111111 First Row : Second Row: Third Row : Fourth Row : McNeely, Hughes, Horton, Putney, Griggs, Dayton, Hawks, Wilson, Keller, Tanner. Peters, Burks, Feagans, Brydges, Wright, Camden. Fifer, Davis. Dayton. Last year at the county track meet Marcuse took third place among the schools, with many individual placings. Aubrey Keller was high point man for the school in individual rating, winning a first, second, and third place in high jump, broad jump, and 100 yard dash respectively, and being one of the members of the relay, which won first place. Since few of the track team members were lost by graduation, the prospects for this year look promising.

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