Minden High School - Log Yearbook (Mindenmines, MO)

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 The Minden Lob i 11 i hh-h-h- The Starting Line-up BASKETBALL SQUAD First Row: Donald Bolton, Donald (Doc) McKee, Bill Claunch, Calvin Percy, Warren Polston, Edward Forrest, Forrest Miller. Second Row: Don Flaker, Donald Maxwell, Raymond Turpin, Harry Hughes, Joe Medcalf, Neil Edds, Jim Morey (Coach). Third Row: Jack Caslavka. Wilbert Davis, Floyd Simon, Floyd Crain, George Gilbert, Gene Smith. Robert Hecht. I ; ] h-m-h-i- 1111! H-1I-I--I 1-H-l- Education Through Experience H !■ 1 !■ 1

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H-H-11111! 11-H-i-n ; 1111!! h- The (V)jndef) Log ♦ FOOTBALL SQUAD Top Row, Left to Right: Homer Snyder, Clinton Armstrong, Joe Medcalf, Gordon Dingman, Don Hickman, Howard Lawrence, Gene Smith, Ernest Crowe, and Norman Jones. Second Row: Eilly McKay, Orvis Taylor, Russell Clary, Bob Davis, Forrest Miller, Donald Bolton, Edward Forrest, Clarence Mapes, Melvin Howard, Merle Rouse, and James Bolton. Third Row: Coach, James Morey, Ollie Suiter, Carl Zellers, Don Flaker, James Kirby. George Gilbert, Johnny Varisto, Earl George, and Donnie McKee. Fourth Row: Richard Smith, B. J. Crouch, Okley Smith, Harry Hughes, Ellis Brown. Merle Gregg, and Jack Caslavka. Football season started at the first of the year with 36 boys out for practice, most of them being green without any experience whatsoever. The boys met plenty of strong opposition, but the team turned out to be one of the best defensive teams in the Mineral Belt League. , I I ] I I I I 1 1 1 i l H M'l-l T-l“l“,“l--1 l ,-A “Education Through Experience” | 1 1 il 1 1 1- i-W +++ ++-H- + ++

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The (vjinden Log ♦ BASKETBALL The Pirate Basketball team displayed some real basketball this season, winning seven and losing two league games. By defeating Cherokee, the Minden Ball Club won a beautiful trophy for third place. Th:s years team was the besi Minden has had in recent years. One of the players, Floyd Crain, made the all-star Mineral Belt League second team and George Gilbert and Floyd Simon received honoraolc mention. Jack Caslavka received honorable mention in the Cherokee first team tournament. Mir.den’s second team also had a very good year. At one time they had a winning streak of thirteen games. The team lost to Weir in a hard fought game in the finals of the M. E. L. second team tournament, and received a trophy for second place. The Freshmen also had a very nice team. They received a trophy in the Tri-State tournament at Cherokee for fourth place. The Minden Squad will lose five members this year: Crain, Caslavka. Gilbert, Simon and Hughes, but with the fine showing of the underclassmen of this year, a good basketball team is anticipated for the ensuing year. WATCH THE MINDEN PIRATES IN 1 9 4 0-4 1 whoo-oo-oo-sh ! ! ! BASEBALL AND TRACK With the coming of spring, Coach Morey issued a call for baseball and track. Twenty-five boys reported for baseball and ten for track. Baseball will be the major Spring sport. This is the first time that Minden High School has had baseball for several years. A few boys will work out for track, but merely for conditioning purposes. Minden is playing a fine baseball schedule. They will play Riverton, Alba, Mulberry, Carl Junction, and enter the baseball tournament at Springfield. Mo. Some of the boys who are expected to make good in baseball are Dick Wirt, Don Maxwell, Calvin Percy, John Varisto, Ellis Brown. Harve Fuqua, George Gilbert, Clinton Armstrong, Earnest Crowe, Clarence Mapes, Gene Smith, and Homer Snyder. These boys are being counted on for a fine season. In track there are ten men reporting daily. Among the outstandig track men are: Jack Caslavka, Quarter-mile; Delbert Kent, Half-miler; Don Flaker, Weights; Melvin Howard, Emile Jamar, Carl Zellers in the dashes. These two sports rounds out a nice spring program, and we are all hoping for a fine season. 1 ; ; 1 I 1 1 K- Education Through Experience” h-I-dH- l-d-H-H-H-1-1 1-H1I!■ 1 I M