Merchantville High School - Record Yearbook (Merchantville, NJ)

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FOOTBALL ERCHANTVILLE, in 1931, enjoyed the best year in football the school ever experienced. We opened with a hard fought victory over the strong Alumni team. The score was 641. A week later, in the first Tri-County League game, Merchantville went down to defeat, 30-0, at the hands of the heavy Gloucester team. But the next week. Merchantville came back and won the first game of the Tri-County League and the second of the season when they defeated Clayton in a hard-fought game 7e0 at Merchantville. October 17, marked the first time that we ever defeated our closest rivals, Camden Vocational, in football. Both teams fought exceptionally hard and in the end. Merchantville won 6e0. In the next game the team fought its hardest of the season but went down to defeat l3ef0 at the hands of the strong Paulsboro High. The following week, Merchantville met her arch rivals of the court, Pitman, on the gridiron. The final score was the closest of the season with the Garnet and Gray supreme by the score of 745. The margin of the extra point was gained by a wonderful forward pass. 1Ve traveled to Glassboro a week later and lost 19-0. November 14, Mcrchantville ran up the highest score ever compiled by a Mer- chantville Football Team in the past ten years when they defeated VVoodstown, 24-412, in a sea of mud. Four touchdowns to our opponents, two gave us an easy victory. Another red letter day was the Friday following, November 21, when, for tl1e first time in three years, we defeated Swedesboro in any line of sports. The result of this hard fought, skillfully-played game was 6e0 in favor of Merchantville. Thanksgiving day, November 27, was the game of games. In the Turkey Day battle, Merchantville played Audubon before one of the largest crowds that ever Cfl0I1fI.II1IL'!I on page 3.41

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51.11. A ,L lm A Mildred Ackerman Dorothy Allan Marjorie Applegate Edith Aregood Wvynnefred Armstrong Katherine Arrott Robert Auchenbach Richard Ballinger Olga Bermes Catherine Booth Henrietta Brown Grace Burgess Virginia Burtis Elva Bushong Douglas Campbell Joseph Carson Anne Casper Ethel Chaka Mary Chranowsky Warner Collins Myrtle Crist Virginia Cutler Jean Davis CLASS OF 1933 Betty Deacon John Donahue Elvinia Ebling Edward Ellis Grace Falchetta Mary Fean Gene Firth Lavinia Firth Martynette Firth Samuel Forrest Mildred Foulks Belva Frenz Evelyn Fritz Margaret Gebhard Pearl Glass Howard Goetz George Good Harold Groff Richard Haage Florence Hackney Hobart Hankins Edith Heritage Parthenia Higginbotham Robert Hollenfer Robert Hopkins Kenneth Howard Emma Hyer Daisy Jensen Eleanor Johnson Elizabeth Johnson Elinor Keely Eleanor Leib Mary MacNicholl Ruth Magowan Ruth Matthews Irma McAfoos Edna Miller Sarah ltliller Dorothy Myers Ruth Nichols Florence Olwell Dorothy Parker Sara Pennell Fred Reed James Reynolds .ar 29 Ii:-A Amanda Richards Marie Robb Norman Roberts Elizabeth Rotbgerher William Russell Dorothy Shaw Donald Sleeth Florence Smith Mae Smith Evaline Smyth Norman Steadman Alice Still Harriet Stone John Taylor Howard Thomas Frank Tucker Willas Turner Frances Watson William lYatson T heora Weeks Herbert Williams Walter Williams Thomas Young

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1 , . BASKETBALL ERCHANTVILLE in 1931 had the best basketball season which we, as a high school, have ever enjoyed. In the beginning of the year prospects for Coach Elder's turning out a winning team were most dubious. But, after losing two practice games before Christmas, scheduled to give the new subs experience and confidence in themselves, the team was able to submit a wonderful record in the regularly scheduled league competition. Two games were lost, one to Gloucester. and one to Pitman. placing Pitman and lilerchantville in a tie for first place. Un entering the Class B State Tournament, Nlerchantvillc was scheduled to play the winners of the Pitman-Gloucester game. the victor turning out to be Pitman. This meant that Pitman and Merchantville had to play two games, one for the cham- pionship of the Tri-County League and one for advancement or elimination in thc State Class HB Tournament. Each of these contests aroused the keenest interest among fans of both schools because both the preceeding games in thc league schedule had been real battles, undecided till the closing whistles, each team winning on its home floor. After a hectic battle on Friday Night, lNIarch 13, at the VVoodrow VVilson Junior High School, lilerchantville defeated Pitman in the Class B Tournament. Q4-QQ. On the Tuesday immediately following. Pitman was again encountered at 1Voodrow 1Vilson Junior High, for the League Championship. After another just as fast, furi- ous, uncertain, and extra period fray, Pitman emerged victorious by the score of 2635. ln the four games played with Pitman. lilerchantville scored 100 points to Pitman's 99. Thus did this spirited feud come to a fitting end. fl'or1f1'1zuerl on page 3.41 3 1 Ig..