Monroe High School - M Book Yearbook (Monroe, WI)

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immmiiiiimmmiiimmiimimmmmiMimMHmimtHimmimimiiimiiiHiiii iiiiiiimiimmimmiiiimiiiHmiitiiiiiitiiimimiimimimimMimmimtHmiiifH Top Row—Field, Wenger, Moe, Drake. Second Row—Schneider, Gnagi, Stoneman, Zurfluh, Stauffaeher, Schindler, Spaeni. Third Row—Bruni, Share, Stair, Stauffer, Wyss, Chambers. Bottom Row—Burke, Trukenbrod, Dillon, Witt, Davis, Zilmer. The Football Season IX looking over the past 1925-26 record in Football, one comes to the conclusion that it was only a fair year, but one that is no disgrace to M. II. S. We have had, in the past, better teams in football, than we did this year, but every one remembers the Delavan game and its significance. Coach X. A. Stoneman, serving his first year in Monroe, began the football season with a relatively green team, and consequently the first two games were lost. It was a remarkable thing how fast the green candidates improved in their form of playing under the direction of the new coach. Thus playing in veteran style the M. II. S. gridmen won their first game away from home, giving Orangeville a 16 to 3 beating. The day before this victory the second team or All-Americans won the first football game in two years for Monroe by downing the Blanchardville eleven, 14 to (i. Stoneman and his warriors ended their season by playing the tough Oconomowoc team on Thanksgiving day, with 3 victories, 2 tie games and 4 defeats. Gnagi, playing at half-back, was high point man of the season with 19 points to his credit, while Burke, quarterback, was a close second with IS points. Chambers and Schneider each succeeding in scoring a touchdown, thus making the M. II. S. total 49 points for the season to our opponents’ 56. The men ending the season for Monroe were: Dillon, end; Moe, tackle; Witt, guard; Zurfluh, center; Schneider, guard; C. Stauf-facher, tackle; Stair, end; Drake, end; Burke, quarterback; Zilmer halfback; Chambers, fullback; (Jnagi, halfback; Field, tackle; Trukenbrod. tackle; W. Share, guard; E. Davis, halfback; R. Wyss, halfback; and A. Bruni, guard. I Page Twenty-five ]

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iimiiiiiHmimiiiiiiHiiiMiimmmiiiiiimiiMiiimiiHMimiiiimmmiiiimiiimim M I III Mil 11111111111II Ml Ml III) lllll 11 III III! HIM I Hill I.Ill llll.Ill II millilllllllllllllH Coach N. J. Stoneman N.I. STONEMAN came to ♦ Monroe this year after having been two years at Marshfield, Wisconsin. He came to us with an excellent record t'or work and for his attitude toward High School athletics. He graduated from both Platte-ville and La Crosse Normal Schoo's and has had work at the University of Illinois during the Summer Session. His aim is and has been to put athletics in Monroe High School on the firmest foundation there is. The first year of his work here has proved that he will do his best to accomplish this aim. With the support of the school he will reach the goal. Coach Stoneman returns to Monroe for the 1926-27 season with a year’s work in this school. Undoubtedly he will accomplish a great deal for the school in victories next year because this year he has found lrs place in the school. lie has instituted Spring football practice and in his Physical Education classei he has introduced some new sports. The work taken up in his classes during the year includes setting up exercises, apparatus work, soccer football, indoor baseball, basketball, and volley hall, and interclass tournaments. Next year we are looking for great things in athletics. The Track Season TRACK does not seem to be a very popular sport in Monroe, for in looking over past years, it has been seldom that we have had a good track team, with the exception of last year. It is a very unstable sport in M. II. S. because every year a vote is taken, whether to have baseball or track, so far track has always won out. Our present coach, X. .J. Stoneman, is more interested in baseball than track, and if more schools around here take up baseball, Monroe may follow suit. The second Southwestern League Meet, held at Mineral Point, was the only meet that we participated in this year, partly because of lack of interest shown in this sport and also because of lack of good material. McGuire, a valuable point getter, was barred this season by his physician because of illness. Coach X. J. Stoneman journeyed to Mineral Point with all the men that reported regularly and garnered 9 points, Zilmer, also of last year’s team, scored 6 points, taking first in the 220 low hurdles in 29 fiat, breaking Hadden’s league record of last year, and third in the 120 high hurdles. Henry Detweiler placed third in the mile, Feldt, third in the javelin, and Monroe took third in the relay. Other men entered in the meet for Monroe were Dillon, Spaeni, Share, R. Stauffacher, Paid Wenger, Roy Zinser, P. Rubin, Arthur Bruni, and George Wenger. Platteville won first in the meet and Monticello second. Last year the Monroe track team, under the direction of Coach .Jacobson, won two firsts, one second, and one third, a very good record. Much of this success is due to the fact that we participated in more meets than ever before. Of this team, Alfred Stauffer, half-miler, and Holcomb and McGuire, 440 men, and Dettweiler, hurdles, were dependable point getters. 1 Page Twenty-four ]

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 i ii ii iiii iii i iiiii iiiiiiiaiiiais l iaaiias«ii0«aaliaiiii iaiiiiitaaiiaaiaaiilia(a,,gitaalli laiiiiaaaiaiaaiiaiiiaiiiaiiiiaiaiiaaiaaaiaiaiiaaaiiaiiiaaaiBaiaiiiiiaaiiiiiaiaiaaiiiiaaiiaiiaiaiiaiait Standing—-Stoneman, Hadden, McGuire, Meyers, Stauffer, Spaeni, Aeschli-nianii, Feldt, Garness. Sitting—Burke, Swan, Bruni (Pat), Holcomb, Zil mer, Bruni. The Basketball Season T11K Basketball season this year was not quite as long as that of last year, because of the late football season. Owing; to this fact only om game was played before the Christmas holidays; eleven games composed the regular season for the Monroe Cagers. The past season can be called a good one for M. II. S. Out of the eleven games on the schedule. the Monroe Cardinals won six and lost five making a total of 186 points to their opponents’ 157. The Monroe basketball squad, under the direction of X. J. Stoneman, got a poor start as they lost the first three games, only by narrow margins; but they ended strong by winning the last four games on the regular schedule. In the eyes of some students the win over Mon-ticello on February 26, on their own floor and their first defeat of the season, was sufficient to give Monroe a good season even if she had lost all the other games. New Glarus, Cuba City, Evansville, and Blanchardville were new teams that Monroe played this year that they had never played before in their regular season’s schedule. Of the 15 men composing the squad at the beginning of the season, Iladden, Holcomb, Pat Bruni, Aescldimann, Win. Stauffer, Burke, Swan, McGuire, Feldt, Zilmer, and John Bruni remained on it at the close of the season. The other four, Gnagi, Drake, Kundert, and Chambers dropped the squad, two because of standings, and the other two because they wanted to play with other teams. An exceptional find of the season was Pat Bruni, little in stature, but speedy, quick, and a “Dead-eye-Dick” in his shooting ability. Pat up to this year, had never played on the first five, but had always been a high point man on his class team. Win. Stauffer, opposite Pat in stature, and only a Sophomore, was developed into an unusually good guard. The other men composing the first eight at the close of the season were, Ilolcomb, Hadden, Aescldimann, Burke, McGuire, and Swan. The combinations that Stoneman placed on the floor were as good as any team ever turned out by Monroe, but at times they lacked in one thing, shooting abil-ity. ( Page Twenty-six J