Mineral Ridge High School - Ridge Yearbook (Mineral Ridge, OH)

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I 1928 Tllli RIDGE MIRROR - IU BASKETBALL First, row lvfl In right: William l'ort0r, lloralcl Sl, Clair. .lzunvs Woods. llrnry Young, llussvl Le-wis, lluwnrrl Slmllvr. Mn-lvin Yilllllg, .lohn llosv. Sm-mul row lvfl In right: Milfurd Nlurrow. Julin llnrinsi, Dunulcl lllulgn-. Williunl lllmwirisky, lfrvd Chilluvk, Lloyd Junvs. HZIYIIIOINI Lynn. xyllllillll IAIFIIIIIPX, .lm-k ll 1-Ish flnncll llugvrs. Sir!-v-I wo

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A 'A MW 1928 THE RIDGE MIRROR 1928 lf as 41+ FOOTBALL Mineral Ridge had a high school football team this year for the first timein the history of the High School. Mr. Rogers was a very capable coach, and although he did not have very much mat- erial to pick from, he succeeded in teaching the boys good clean football. With his help the team turned out to be a fairly good squad for their first year. The team showed more improvement than any other in the county, which was proved by return games. The first game was played at Cortland but Cortland,having had about six years experience, beat our boys by a large score. Although our team was beaten it was a great experience for us. The rest of the schools that we played had teams that also had more experience than the Ridge. The Ridge was beaten by all of them except Liberty which was the only team on the schedule with whom we were evenly matched. Although our team had them out- weighed they had much greater experience than we. It was the hardest fought game played during the season, by both teams. Neither team had won a game that they had scheduled. Both teams played hard and Liberty was close to making a touchdown twice, but failed. During the second half our team scored one touch-down which won the game for the home team. We had one more game after this which was also another defeat. This time Austin- town was the winner. This game ended the season for the team with all defeats, but one. Henry Young Sixty-one

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II ' -L . -. Y '1T - ' - 3 E M R - - - .Q 1 ,L-gms AA iiu RIDG IRRO -g gggaugiggigiig BOYS' BASKETBALL This year's schedule was a much harder one than any schedule in the history of the team. but we were prepared for it, for we also had a stronger team than any year before. The squad was composed of two players from each grade of the high school. The first two games we won while three defeats followed. The boys were just begin- ning to work together. for after this we had seven straight victories and only two defeats. This made a total of nine victories and five defeats. About the middle of the season the team went strong and of the nine games played. only two of these teams were a match for us. The other seven were beaten by a large score. Our greatest surprise was in the tournement when Johnston beat us by one point in an over-time period. We had one more game after the tournament which ended the season. Next year We hope we will have a much faster and stronger team and will win the eounty championship. SCHEDULE Mineral Ridge 25 Mesopotamia 24' Mineral Ridge 9 Liberty 15 Mineral Ridge 18 Mc-Donald 15 Mineral Ridge 18 Liberty 29 Mineral Ridge 23 Mecca 27 Mineral Ridge 15 Bloomfield 8 Mineral Ridge 30 Bloomfield 10 Mineral Ridge 30 McDonald 29 Mineral Ridge 38 Mesopotamia 13 Mineral Ridge 50 Vienna 13 Mineral Ridge 27 Johnston 28 Mineral Ridge 15 Girard 27 S irly-lhree