Mount Pleasant High School - Derrick Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, MI)

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ff- ll.-al Md S I .iT 4 Email L , J -M - ef - ,il steel 2 as - 5 2 e 1 53-2:2 sg i-Hifi Interclass A thletics BOYS THERE being no interclass tournament held in football, when the basketball season approached, every class was doing its best to whip a team in shape that would beat the Seniors who had taken the championship for three years straight, having the same lineup each consecutive year. The first elimination game was between the Sophomores and the Juniorsg the game was not so interesting as it had been prophesied, but the Sophs won. The next game between the Freshmen and Seniors proved to be very good, because the Freshies were so small that they seemed to dodge the Seniors and shot baskets from any positiong but the Seniors made most of their shots and won by a score of 20-9. The next game was between the Sophomores and Seniors to decide the championship. This was a real game in which the strength of both teams was tested, but the Seniors showed their superiority by winning the game by a score of 15-7. In a consolation game the Juniors easily defeated the Freshmen. GIRLS' BASKETBALL There was no real tournament to decide the championship because the Juniors and Seniors did not have enough girls that played basketball to make up a team, so they combined and played the Sophomores. The Sophs won this game and most of the others that they played, so the Sophomores may be called the champs. FLAG RUSH The iiag rush is held each year to promote clean interclass spirit. The Seniors always defend the flag, while the Juniors try to capture it. The rush this year was not so thrilling because the Seniors outnumbered the Juniors by ten men, and therefore had a big advantage. Eddie Lynch, who was on top of the pole, was the star for the Seniors, because of his excellent generalship, in telling the Seniors whom to take out to prevent the Juniors from getting near the pole. The Seniors won the rush. The friendly encounters the night before the rush were very exciting, especially for the ones who had to walk in ten or fifteen miles in the dark. -Maynard Allyn. Page Seventy-seven

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In jf!-'Q , yi ' 1 'J 11 32 all w- , 9 ' Y Y - 1 -5 E' QE Baseball THE STATUS of baseball, among the high schools of Central Michigan will be materially improved if the plan inaugurated this spring proves efficient. The old Central Michigan Baseball league was discarded and a new organization, the Central Michigan Athletic league, was accepted in its place. This new organization will sponsor not only baseball but basketball, football and track also. With the addition of four new schools, namely, Owosso, Ionia, Howell, and St. Johns, competition will be more keen, interest increased and a general athletic atmos- phere created. The schools mentioned above with two added constitute the Southern Division of the league while Mt. Pleasant, Midland, Shepherd, Ithaca, Alma, and St. Louis comprise the Northern Division. A league championship will be determined at the close of each athletic season in a game between the teams with the highest percentage in each division. The success of this plan is already apparent. The boys out for baseball this spring outnumbered by far the squads of previous years. There was a determined effort to win a position on the team and those who were not in the lineup of the first game were out for daily practice thereafter. Coach Johnson has succeeded admirably in placing on the diamond a team worthy to represent M. P. H. S. Page Seventy-six

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Marshall smith Harold Grinnell Victor Hibbeln Maynard Allyn Dick Hunter Alva Rahl George Day John Duguid Murray Young Letter Men FOOTBALL CCaptain, 19251 4 fCaptain-Elect, 19261 BASKETBALL Jack Pierson QCaptain, 1925-261' ' Earle Webster Gerald Swiudlehurst Paul Munson Harold Stinson BASEBALL fCaptain, 19261 Walter Kennedy Ralph Shumway Harold Grinnell Edward Lynch Reuel Cole Jack Pierson George Day Mr. Ganiard Mr. Wendt Marshall Smith Page Seventy-eight Elmer Chaffee ' Francis Robinson Gerald Swindlehurst Jack Pierson Leonard Pierson Freed Egbert Ralph Shumway Charles Bailey Justin Young 11924, Victor Hibbeln Harold Grinnell Elmer Chaffee Harold Stinson Clifford Stutting Maynard Allyn Earle Webster' Arthur 'Brimer- Gerald Swindlehiirst Franklin Switzer 19251 Justin Young 11924-251 ' ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION Jack Pierson Harold Stinson Walter Kennedy l I