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

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Coach Lee Mitchell retires from basketball: Coach Mitchell has been with Monroe since 1946-7 and in ’47-8 he took over the head position where he has compiled an overwhelming 386 victory and 218 loss record for a percentage of .640. Since the 1952 formation of the Badger Conference he has totaled a 210-96 record (.687) with seven Conference Championships. He has taken 4 teams to the state tourney: 1948, 1954, 1955 and climaxing a 26-0 season in 1965 with a Championship. In 1955 he took a third place finish. Mr. Mitchell will continue as our athletic director and will be remembered as the Coach and friend of everyone here at MHS. Four MHS football players have received the honor of being named to the Prep All-American football team. These national nominees are Bill Rufenacht, Steve Sutter, Bob Silvis and Bob Stormont. - % CO AC A leanican team can lut in a sense real sense never loses. For the job of a coac! is over and finished once thestartir blows. He knows he's won or lost before play starts. For a coach has two tasks, The minor one is to teach skills: to teach a hoy how to run faster hit harder block better kick farther Attention Students: The State Cross Country Meet will be held this Saturday, Oct. 27th, at Milwaukee. Do You realize that this is the first time Monroe has ever sent a Cross Country team to a state meet? Do you realize that we are rated at the top in our division? Do you realize that when we win, we will have obtained TWO State Championships in the last few months? Do you want to be there to see it happen? Sign up for the bus to the meet before or after school this week, starting today. And now for a brief word of thanks: to Mr. Tom Mitchell of the MONROE EVENING T1MKS for excellent pictures and a professional helping hand. The second task the major task is to make men out of boys. It’s to teach an attitude Of mind. It's to implant character and not simply to impart Skills. It’s to teach boys to play fair. This goes without saving. It's to teach them to be humble in victory and proud in defeat. This goes without saying. Attention coaches of all sports, your help and perseverance have made this section possible. Thank you very much. And so to the right is our special tribute.

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COACHES NEVER LOSE (II) But more importantly it’s to tearh them to live up to their potential no matter what this potential is. It’s to teach them to do their best and never be satisfied with what they are but to strive to be as good as they can be if they tried harder. A coach can never make a great player out of a boy who isn’t potentially great. But he can make a great competitor out of any child. And miraculously he can make a man out of a bov. For a coach the final scftre i’t read so many points for my team, so many points for theirs. Instead it reads: many boys. And this is a score that isnever published. And this is the score that he reads to himself and in which he finds h.s real joy { ; when the last game is ove: (Thanks to Mr. doe Newton of York HS for permission to use 2 poems from his THE LONG GREEN Mr. Mitchell and other coaches of MHS are truly the coaches of this poem, well deserved recognition. SPORTS