Millard High School - Millard Yearbook (Fillmore, UT)

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O maintain life on a high level of vitality and creative ness, to avoid periods of physical and mental depression, to reinforce and recreate human powers exhausted through toil and daily burdens of life, athletics are provided at Millard High School for all who wish to participate in them. A year-round program of recreation and physical education offers such activities as football, basketball, boxing, wrestling, dancing, field and track events, baseball, and tennis. All these sports serve to lend significance to lives otherwise meaninglessg they involve discipline--the discipline of con- trolling interests. Their value depends upon the intelli- gence with which they are utilized. Supervision, discrimina- tion, and guidance help make all activities wholesome, help develop loyalties, skills and devotion-participants as well as spectators. Athletics ceases to be the play life, ceases to be mere amusement as soon as it promotes civilization. For in itself it is neither good nor bad, it requires a study of consequences. Keeping this fact in mind, proper recreation turns out to be a gateway of individual experiences and not just a func- tion for giving relaxation. lt effects personality, moral char- acter, and the spiritual outlook of life. It prevents life from becoming drab, routine, and humdrum, it cfevefops clzaracter tlH'OUgl7,

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QQ W' f-N W GW W GN W CN W GN' V0 GW W QQ W IM' S8I'lSdtl'OI'lCl! rulers Cgdootbaff PROTECTORS OF OUR FAME A supply of potential energy, to be used effectively, greeted Coaches Watts and Hunter. Back row: Eldean Jensen, Reed Kesler, lack McBride, Earl Frampton, Claude Iohnson, Mell Stewart, Viron Penney. 3rd row: Boyd Petersen. Ronald Ander- son, Floyd Trimble, Linford Stephenson, Glenn Whatcott, Lee Warner, Gordon Thompson, Dennis Shaw, Bill Davies. 2nd row: Coach Watts, Cecil George, Thayne Robinson, Preston Thompson, Stanley Whitaker, Bill Richards, Gordon Beckstrand, Gerald Hansen, Larry Labrum, Mark Staples. Ross Peterson, Vernon Hunter. lst row: Bruce Wasden, Bill Tomkinson. Dan Speakman, Henry Stevens, Vance Keele, George Stott, Don Turner, athletic manager: David Melville, Omar Gillespie, Dick Warner, Vernon Christensen, Elmer George. HEN the final gun sounded and the all-important, thrilling game between the powerful Miners from Bingham and the high-flying Eagles from Millard ended, a new and glorious chapter was added to the already colorful football history of the Millard County High School. For the first time in its existence-in thirty years-its eleven had finished a season without the taste of defeat .... For not even Bingham, the later State champion, could leave the field with the pride of having entered our pay-dirt. Their win was due to a new ruling of semi-finals IT FINALLY WORKED . . Practice and practice . . . the same play over and over again until it works . . . poor first stringers, poor subs . . . who will get the blame next? 74