Mattawan High School - Mirror Yearbook (Mattawan, MI)

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1st How- Bob Krajewski, Lloyd Harrington, Coach Phelps, Dean Rix. 2nd Row- Andy Chopp, Sheldon Weed, Phil Kimble, Clyde Mumford, Ken Stratton. SCHEDULE Ma ttawan.. . .29 Bangor ,2k Mattawan.. ..so Plainwell.•. .22 Mattawan.• .42 Paw Paw •52 Mattawan.. Vicksburg... .23 Mattawan.. ..45 Kellogg •32 Mattawan.. ...30 Paw Paw 40 Mattawan.• ...38 Galesburg.•. .52 Mattawan.. ..58 Corns took.... Mattawan.. .42 Plainwell... .33 Mattawan.. ..2k Vicksburg.•. .33 Mattawan.. ...32 Plainwell.•. ■2k Mattawan.• Vicksburg..• .27 Mattawan.. ..41 Kellogg .23 • Mattawan.. ...30 Coloma .31 K.V.A; Tournament Games and the last game was the District Tournament Game. The Mattawan Wildcats won the K.V.A. League Championship and thus earned a trophy.

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The Wildcats opened their season with a good start by knocking off Galesburg in the first game of the season. It was a rough and tumble game because three of our regular players were not there. Phil Kimble and Clyde Mumford were tied for high point man with eleven points each. The second game of the season was a very easy victory over Comstock. Our three regular men were back and played very good ball. It was Andy Chopp's first game of the season. He went wild and scored nineteen points. In the third game of the season the Mattawan Wildcats really got rolling. They defeated Bangor in a very hard fought game with a score of 29 to 2I4.. Phil Kimble received high scoring honors with eight points. The Mattawan quintet next came up against a hard fighting Paw Paw team. Paw Faw was a little too much for the Wildcats and defeated them by ten points. Two members of the Mattawan team went out on fouls and that left it all up to Chopp, who went wild by scoring twenty-six points to give him high scoring honors of both teams. Mattawan's next encounter waa with Vicksburg on their low ceilinged court, which put the Wildcats at a great disadvantage. However they came out at the large end of the score, with Clyde Mumford leading them in scoring with nine points. The Mattawan five chalked up their sixth victory of the year when they defeated the hard fighting Kellogg team. Andy Chopp came out with twenty-one points to take the well deserved scoring honors of the evening. The Wildcats didn t have very good luck In the K.V.A. Tournament this year. They started out well, defeating Comstock. Andy Chopp, our star forward, dumped in eight field goals and one charity toss adding up to seventeen points. The second game of the tournament came out fairly well by our defeating Plainwell. That put us in a position to play the championship game on Saturday night with Vicksburg. The first half of this game went well for both teams. When the second half rolled around,Vicksburg set up an airtight zone which stumped the Wildcats. Vicksburg went on to defeat the Mattawan team by nine points. Clyde Mumford was high point man for Mattawan in both the second and third games of the K.V.A. Tournament. Mattawan is known today to have the best team that they have ever had In the history of.the Mattawan Easketball teams.

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 e e'Ti ea Z?a 3he tLall 1st Row- George Geissel, Lloyd Anspaugh,Ray Sokolowski, Jack Ruzick,Robert Swanson, Don Parrish, Joe Aleksich 2nd Row- Alfred Carlisle, Allan Gage,George Kerlca, Jerome Harrington, Bob Brisky, Jack Quan,Roy Bird, Ralph Moyle, Ted Krajewski, Mr Phelps Jrd Row- William Brisky,Robert Dunn,Norman French, Bill Baumgartner, Steve Dragicevich, Bill Frommann, Phil Van Wiltenburg The Wildcats second team has not made as good a showing this year. They have won one game out of ten. This is understandable when we consider that the second team is made up mostly of ninth graders. They are not winning so many games but they are gaining experience for future year and they will make a very good first team.