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

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• mi imi 11111111111111 ............................................ mi i mu ii mil M Hill I III lllllll Ml 111111111111IIIII lllll•lllllll•lllll•HIIIIII■llllllll•lllllllll•lllllllll•llltllll Athletic A wards TIIE desire for the coveted “M”, emblematic of excel'ency in sports, lost its prestige this year through the indisposition of tin school’s athletes. Never before, in the history of the school, has this occurred. Few cared if they won an “M” or not, after the shakedown of tin star athletes. The “M” must be taken seriously. It is a symbol which you can keep long after your school days are over, and have a reminder of the best days in your life. If you win an “M”, be proud; you have a right to be. Let them know the significance of it, the hard work, and the plugging away to receive it. Despite the fact that sports suffered somewhat, some fellows worked hard enough to win letters. Those winning letters in football were: Alfred Stauffer, Capt. Evan Chambers Roy Burke Chester Dillon Cleve Stair Peter Gnagi Lester Witt Delbert Zilmer James Moe Chester Stauffacher Milton Zurtluh Those in basketball were: I)ar.vl Swan William Stauffer Richard McGuire In track, only three men who placed in the one meet held this year, won letters: Delbert Zilmer Henry Dettweiler Milton Feldt SOME FOOTBALL HISTORY FOOTBALL was started ill Monroe in 1899; the school did not have a regular coach but the team was coached by Doctor Randall and “Jones” White. Louis Kohli, of Monroe, played left end and lie says that the rules were almost the same as they are now, only the players did a lot of fighting on the side. The players were told to tackle and hang on ; this caused hard feelings and after each play a wrestling match was staged. Instead of nice new football suits, the players wore padded sweaters, and the better equipped ones wore baseball suits. Some of the teams played by Monroe were Darlington, Brodhead, and Monticello. Brod-liead had a coach from Janesville who played fullback; Monticello had “Steve” Summers as fullback. Summers was the principal at Monticello. The players went to games in a three seated hack pulled by a team of horses. When they played at Monroe they played at the fair grounds. After White and Randall quit coaching the team was coached by Rev. Bethel and Doctor Ma Herman. The pictures in the upper hall of former M. II. S. teams give an excellent idea of the evolution of football and the changes in equipment. PROSPEROUS YEAR FOR A. A. WITH the end of the school year the Monroe Athletic Association closes its season with several hundred dollars in its treasury. On the financial side it had a very prosperous year, the expenses for the year amounting to $2,500 in round figures while our income counted a surplus above this. We cleared at the district tournament about $450. Creditable mention was given the officers of the association for their work during the past year, especially Herbert Spaeni and his staff of managers. The officers of the association for tlie 1925-26 school year were: President, Bradford Drake; Business Manager, Herbert Spaeni; and Secretary, Elizabeth Hermann. The plan for running the association will be somewhat different for next year. No election will be held, but a student business manager has been appointed and also a faculty manager to take charge of the financial end of it. Elmer Stauffer will be the student business manager for next year, while Ivan Coplien will be his football assistant. J. C. Calder will be the faculty manager of the Athletic Association for the coming year, while X. J. Stoneman will be back as football, basketball, and track coach. I Page Twenty-seven ]

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III III Hill IIII III I lllllll IIIII mini (Hill 1111 Mil III HI III I lllllim I HI III III IIIIIII III 1111 inn 11 iihhihhhhhhihhhhhhhhhhhhiihiihiiihihiiiiiihihiiihhiiiiihiiiiiiihiiihih The District Tournament TIIK Monroe District Basketball Tournament, held March 11. 12, and 13, at the Monroe Armory, has passed into history a being the second best tournament, financially, held in the State. This achievement is a worthy one, for we are the second smallest city holding a tournament. Whitewater carried off the honors as being the l ed. Much of the success of the tourney must be attribute I to Manager T. U. Holyoke. By persistant labor, he was able to run the tourney off like a well oiled machine. It was his task to take care of the decoration, publicity, seating arrangement, picking of teams, officials, and ushers, and to handle the financial end of the tournament. lie, too, had to seat the largest crowd ever assembled in the Armory. Of the eight teams entered, seven were here last year. Prairie du Sac was the newcomer. The entrants were Prairie du Sac, Argyle, Monroe, Wisconsin High of Madison, Oregon, Belleville, and Monticello. Monticello carried off the silver trophy, emblematic of the championship, only after a tough struggle with Wisconsin High. New Glarus showed a strong comeback and defeated Belleville for third place. Monroe lost in the semi-finals as did Argyle. The first day of the tourney proved to he the busiest, mainly because everyone wanted to got a lino on the teams. The attendance was 191.0, with a record breaking crowd to watch the Monroe-Oregon and Monticello-New Glarus battles. Wisconsin High opened the tournament with an easy win over Argyle, 23 to 9. Belleville defeated Prairie du Sac in a slow game, 13 to 4. Monroe, showing a reversal of form, beat Oregon 20 to 10. What was slated for a thriller, turned into a runaway when Monticello downed New Glarus 22 to 12. Excitement lulled in the second day somewhat, except at night. The attendance was 1650, many being turned away. New Glarus beat Oregon 25 to 5, while Argyle won from a much improved Prairie du Sac team 22 to 13. At night a fighting Cardinal team battled flu fast Monticello aggregation to a frazzle in the first half, then slumped in the last under five of Babler s half freakish shots, lost 27 to 17. Wisconsin High downed Belleville easily 21 to 5. In the Saturday morning games, Monroe lost a heartbreaker to Belleville 19 to 15. The Cardinal men were completely off form after a hard fight the preceding night. New Glarus won from Argyle 26 to 12. At night, with everybody on edge, New Glarus swept the Belleville team off its feet, 32 to 2, and won third place. Monticello won the championship by beating Wisconsin High 19 to 17. Monticello outstalled the Madison boys, but their great Babler was nearly stopped. After the awards were given to the Monticello, Wisconsin High, and New Glarus teams, the All-Tournament team was picked by the officials. The first team was composed of: Forwards, Sarbacker, New Glarus, and Babler, Monticello; (’enter, McCaffery, Wisconsin High; Guards, Briggs, Wisconsin High, and Blum, Monticello. The Monroe Tournament’s receipts were $2,005. Expenses amounted to $1,078.11, leaving the not receipts $926.89. Of this amount the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association received one-half or $463.44, M. II. S. is allowed the other half. This is about a $50 increase over last year’s total. They amounted to $1,078. The increase is due to increase in cost of things like the awards, fees, and salaries of officials. THE INTERCLASS TOURNAMENT INTERCLASS games are important to high school sports because: first, they uncover promising material for the high school teams, and second, they give future high school players a chance to learn tin fundamentals of the games. Class teams in basketball are especially important because they have played an important part in finding new players. The basketball season for this year was finished with an inter- class tournament. The games were good and showed up some players that might make the first team next year. The Seniors won the tournament by defeating the Juniors in the last game. The Seniors also got two men on the all-tournament team. Bradford Drake Herbert Tschudy James Wuetrich Evan Chambers William Stauffer (Senior) (Senior) (Junior) (Sophomore) (Sophomore) Center Forward Forward Guard Guard [ Page Twenty-eight ]