Mynderse Academy - Myndersian Yearbook (Seneca Falls, NY)

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3i a good reputation as crack basket ball players, and did not have much trouble in defeating our team. The work of our team was good, and they rarely missed a basket, but were kept too well guarded to get many shots from the field. BASKET BALL TEAM. Top Row—Edgar Haines, Mgr., Maynard Burbridge, Cap ., Howard Mag ill, I rich Zelnff. Bottom How—Paul Crosby, Prof. F. J. Medden, Claude Butts. Mynderse A. n. Five A’s 33. The next Friday night the team went to Auburn and played the Five A’s, another Y. M. C. A. team with a good record. Our team was greatly out-weighed, looking like pigmies by the side of the big Auburn team. Crosby’s good shooting won all our points, the members of the team having hard work to locate the baskets. The

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Basket Ball. OFFICERS. Edgar L. Haines, Manager. Maynard Burbridge, Captain. Mynderse Academy 12. Sky Scrapers 45. On the fourth of November our team journeyed to Canandaigua for its first game. Here was met the champion Sky Scrapers in a fast and rather rough game Owing to the lack of good team work on the part of our boys and the much greater weight of their opponents, the game was won by the Sky Scrapers, the result at no time being in doubt. Mynderse Academy, 68. C. R. 11. The next game was played on the home court with the C. R. Class of the Methodist church. The C. R. boys were unable to keep up with the fast work of our team and went to defeat to the tune of 68 to 11. Mynderse A. 48. Waterloo II. S. 15. The opening game of the season, at home, was played November the twenty-fifth, with the Waterloo High School five The visitors brought with them a large bunch of rooters, and nearly everv student in the Academy was present, enthused by the large mass meeting held in the afternoon. The largest crowd ever before at one of our basket ball games filled old Union Ha l, and her old timbers shook as cheers and songs rose from the supporters of the two teams. The game was a good one and the Waterloo boys struggled hard for victory, but our team was too fast for them and easily rolled up 48 points to their 14. Mynderse A. 23. Palmyra H. S. 45. December the fifth the team journeyed to Palmyra, and in the afternoon met the High School five in the school gymnasium. Owing to the small court and the number of pipes, etc., which formed a net work in the upper part of the gym., our team was uir able to get in any effective team work or to locate the baskets. The game ended in a victory for the Palmyra boys, which they had to fight hard to get. Mynderse A. 28. Auburn Y. M. C. A. 34. The following game was played at home, December the eleventh, with the Auburn Y. M. C. A. team. The Auburnians had

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32 Five A’s won out by a large score, they having no trouble in putting the ball, in the right place. My nderse A. 20. Geneva II. S. 26. Before a large crowd our team lost to Geneva High School in a hard luck game. Our boys started out in fine form, making several baskets and doing some fine team work. However, they were unable to keep up the pace and at last Geneva caught up with them. Then the battle became very exciting, each team forging ahead and then falling back until at last Geneva won out. The game was a good one and the boys deserved much credit for holding the Geneva team down at all as they were a very fast bunch.