Merna High School - Coyote Yearbook (Merna, NE)

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A Basketball I 95 0-1 951 The Coyotes suffered defeat when they traveled to Sargent for the first game of the season. December l Merna Z9 -- Sargent 32 The second game of the season was a hard fought battle between Mason City and Merna on the Merna floor. December 5 Merna Z9 -- Mason 43 The third game was scheduled again on the home floor with Comstock and proved to be a close game, December 12 Merna-35 -- Comstock 37 The fourth game was played with Callaway on their floor. This game was in Ca11away's favor. December 15 Merna 26 -- Callaway 50 The Merna team traveled to Arnold for their fifth game of the season. December 19 Merna 30 -- Arnold 74 Dunning was Merna's next opponent on the Merna floor. This game was a real thriller with the score tied up at 35-35 when the final whistle blew. The game went into overtime. January 5 Merna 40 -- Dunning 41 The next game was with Callaway and the score was the same as in the Dunning game but Merna was on the receiving end. January 9 Merna 41 -- Callaway 40 The eighth game was played with Anselmo on the Anselmo floor. January 12 Merna 39 -- Anselmo 45 Mullen was the next opponent for the Merna Coyotes on the Merna floor. January 16 Merna 28 -- Mullen 55 The Arnold Cardinals proved too much for the Merna Coyotes on the local floor. The game was played very fast with both teams working very well together. January Z3 Merna 45 -- Arnold 64 Dunning was host to Merna for the eleventh game of the season. This game proved to be quite a rough and tumble affair. January Z5 Nlerna 34 -- Dunning 36 The Merna Coyotes traveled to Mason City for their next scheduled game. February Z Merna 42 -- Mason 57 Anselmo, the Merna rival, appeared on the local floor one Tuesday night for the homecoming game. The game was very close and very hard played by boys on both teams. February 6 Merna 41 -- Anselmo 46 The Me rna Coyotes had their revenge on the Sargent Bulldogs when they came to Merna. February 9 Merna 35 -- Sargent 31 The Custer County Tournament was held at Sargent on February 13 -14-16. The District Tournament was held at Anselmo on March l-Z. 39

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Track Left to Right: Coach, Clark Adams, Dean Wolford, Don I-Iogaboom, Bill Foster. A The Merna High School Track Team suffered the loss of six Senior letter- men from the 1950 track team. These were as follows: C. Wymore, A. Rector, B. Cole, J. Miller, who all qualified to enter in the State Track Meet at Lincoln. Merna also lost two other lettermen: J. Hunt and Tom,Klindworth. The Merna Track Team placed 3rd in the Kearney Invitational and second in county. Don H. placed in the shot-put, Dean W. placed in 440 and 880 relay, Bill F, placed in mile and mile relay, Grade Basketball Mr. Adams acting as coach for the 6, 7, 8 grades in basketball. The grades had a practice period from 1:45 to 2:30 every afternoon, to this date 8 games have been played of the ten scheduled games with 6 wins and Z losses. Schedule and scores as follows -- games played: Me rna Me rna Me rna Me rna Me rna , 34 vs. Callaway IZ Z7 vs. Arnold ll 38 vs. Sargent ZZ 35 vs. Arnold ll vs. Mullen - Me rna Me rna Me rna Me rna Me rna 41 3 Z Z Z Mullen 14 Anselmo 30 Callaway 12 Anselmo 30 Sargent --