Mount Pleasant High School - Tattler Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, IA)

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Basketball Review Mt. Pleasant High School hasbeen strong in basketball for a great many years. In 1917 and in 1918 she was favored with the all-state championship. By coming back again with a sectional championship in 1922 it shows that she has real basketball material. Our development this year was slow at the beginning but consis- tant as the games in the Little Six league. This is accounted for by the fact that a new system of basketball was introduced this year, which was quite different, if not antagonistic to the system which was always used here. The short pass, short shot system was introduced at the be- ginning of the season and strictly adhered to throughout all of it. As is the history of every team schooled in this system, so it was with us, the dex elopment was slow but sure. It looked for a time that the system was bad for us since our floor is small: but, at that, we held our own in the Little Six very well. We played our best games on the larger floors away from home. We won from Muscatine and Gttumwa on the home floor, how- ever. It was a great pleasure indeed to defeat Ottumwa again on her own floor, giving us full revenge for the defeat we were handed in foot- ball. Out Little Six season was nothing brilliant. We just held our own winning and losing with about equal regularity. We were never able to hit our stride as a winning team until we hit the new gymnasium floor of Iowa Wesleyan College at the sectional tournament held there March 8, 9 and IO. It was just the right size for our system to fit in well. We were fortunate in the draw to get a team we could easily win from, which gave the team confidence. Then they were off like a whirlwind. As time went on the games of the tournaament grew stronger and the team went smoother and faster. The team hit the peak of their stride against the fast Letts team. All who saw it expressed the satis- faction that it was a real basket ball game for high school teams to stage. From then on the crowds began to grow and multiply until on the night of the final game between Mt. Pleasant and Albia the gym was filled to capacity two hours before the final game. The final game was interesting, but never in doubt, as Mt. Pleasant was in the lead from the beginning to the endg the margin between the scores growing all the time until when the final whistle was blown, the score was 20-IO in favor of Mt. Pleasant, making them the undisputed champions of Iowa Wes- leyan College Tournament over thirty of the best teams in South Eastern Iowa.

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