Nelsonville High School - Saga Yearbook (Nelsonville, OH)

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The Scarlet and Gray D On Jan. 9, 1920, the high school team, although having had no practice on account of the great deluge and flood played the Alumni in the first basket ball game of the season. Re- sult 32-10 with the Alumni on the long end of the score, the score though doesn’t tell the tale. Stratton playing his first public game did well at center; Lowden and Burnell played nice ball in the for- ward positions, but had tough luck. Patton and Wood held their men down to no baskets showing some close guarding. Smith and Hartley showed up well when sent in the game. N. H. S. 10 ALUMNI 32 Burnell Right Forward D. Lowden Lowden Left Forward J. Lowden Stratton Center Wood Left Guard Patton Right Guard Hickman Substitutions—Hartley for Wood, Smith for Stratton, Raden for Hick- man. Gallipolis Game On Jan. 16, after a dangerous jour- ney our team arrived at Gallipolis via the “Punkin Vine,” and H. V. (Hock- ing Valley Railroad). Gallipolis as everyone who has been there knows, is situated about a mile from the rail- road station. Some of the “guys” were wondering why the station wasn’t built nearer the town, when Strat popped up with “Oh, I know! They wanted to have the station near the railroad.” There is a street car (?) running from the station to the town and we managed to hang on till we got in the town, where we were met by their manager, taken to our hotel and then to their high school. Gallipolis’ large basket ball floor was the thing tnat beat Nelsonville as we were used to a small floor and nev- er played on a large one before. Gall- ipolis walked away with us the first hahlf but we came back too the second half. late in N. H. S. 18 G. H. S. 45 Stratton . Center . Shaw Burnell Right Forward Broyles Lowden Left Forward Ghrist Patton Right Guard Conn Wood Left Guard Switzer Substitutions—Hartley for Wood, Jackson for Lowden, Shaw for Ghrist. McArthur Game The day after the Gallipolis game, McArthur. My, how sad!, came over to our town to try their luck with N. H. S. Well, they had their rabbit”s

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8 The Scarlet and Gray Dec. 8— Rev. Arpee led the devo- tional services in chapel this morning. Mrs. N. Hill and Mrs. D. A. Ferree gave short talks for the purpose of stimulating the sale of Red Cross Seals. Gymnasium floor completely covered with water. Dec. 9.—Athletic Association meet- ing. John Jackson, who has been act- ing manager of the basket ball team was elected unanimously by the as- sociation. Dec. 10.—Meeting of basket ball team after school. Practice on the Armory floor at Athens postponed. Dec. 11.—Tickets go on sale for Christmas Carol. Dec. 13.—Snow and lots of it. Dec. 14.—Water on gym floor has reached the depth of six feet. Dec. 15.—Rev. Mann and Rev. Bums of Columbus gave short talks at chapel. Fourteen of the high school’s great iron warriors received the black let- ter this morning. Dec. 16.—A little meeting to get some pep. Ticket sale lagging for Christmas Carol. Dec. 17.—The supply of coal ran very low today. Probably didn t want to spend their money before the world came to an end. Dec. 18.—“Christmas Carol” pre- sented by the high school this even- ing. Receipts more than enough to bring the Athletic Association out of debt. Dec. 19.—Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. See you in two weeks. Jan. 5.—Robert Smith, an alumnus of N. H. SM now a student at Dela- ware gave a short talk in chapel. There are only about ten broken seats in the auditorium now. She is the same old school, bu gum! That is, without the gum. Offensive on chewing gum started by teachers. Jan. C.—Scarlet and Gray staff meeting. Jan. 7.—Ground covered with ice —and people. Jan. 9.—First basket ball game of year. Alumni slightly defeated the high school. Jan. 10.—School closed today—it generally is. Tan. 12.—Father Byrne gave a fine talk this morning in chapel. Basket ball team made a trip to Athens to practice on the Armory floor. Jan. 14.—Tests starts. Jan. 16.—Tests stop. Roscoe Gilmore Stott gave a lec- ture in the evening. Senior class is to be congratulated on the wonderful lecture course they have this year. Jan. 21.—John Passen received the Croix de Guerre and citation for bravery from the French government. Mr. Passen was presented this medal for extraordinary feats of heroism during the late war. Continued on Page 11

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The Scarlet and Gray Stedem for Lowden, Peoples for Franz, Gilkey for Stark. 10 foot with them and we didn’t so they beat us. The game was a colse one and the score was tied several times but in the last half they ran off with four fields and also the game. Morrison played a strong game for,McArthur until he was put out on pensonal fouls. He shot several fields and made ten out of eleven fouls. N. H. S. 18 M. H. S. 26 Burnell Right Forward . Cherry Moon Left Forward Stratton Center Dales Wood Paffenbarger Right Guard Hartley Left Guard Morrison Substitutions—Patton for Hartley, Jackson for Patton, Contner for Mor- rison. Pomeroy Game On Jan. 23, we hit the rail for Pom- eroy. On the K M. from Athens on down, we heard quite an interesting debate ( ?) between the conductor ami a waitress, and as usual, the woman had the last word and a very em- phatic word it was, too. The game was played in the Arm- ory, which is about the size of our public square, mebbe larger. We’re getting better on a large floor because we tied Pomeroy several times, they beat us on fouls. We passed the ball all around them but couldn’t hit the basket, and because Marietta and Pomeroy tied 7-7 and Marietta took the 0. U. tournament last year and have practically the same team for 1920. N. H. S. 15 P. H. S. 24 Burnell Right Forward Handasher Lowden Stark Left Forward Stratton Center Franz Patton Right Guard Brechtel Wood Left Guard Webster Substitutions—Jackson for Wood, I’ll say the team is improving. Fri- day, Jan. 30, New StraitSville High sent over her delegation of basket ball players. Earlier in the season New Straitsville beat McArthur 20-19. McArthur beat us 26-18, and we beat New Straitsville 51-27. Friday, Feb. 6, both the girls’ and boys’ teams go to Straitsville for a re- turn game. We hope to have the same luck over there that we had here. Stratton came first with nine bas- kets to his credit; Lowden, seven fields, and Burnell four fields and four fouls. Burnell Left Forward Lawson Lowden Right Forward Sherrard Stratton Center Brandt Wood Left Guard Leonard Patton Right Guard . McGrady Substitutions—Jackson for Wood, Hartley Grady. for Patton, Kuler for Me- The girls basket ball team of N. H. S. played their first game Friday eve- ning, January 29, 1920, and were de- feated. The New Straitsville girls have played all year and are used to the game. Although the score was marked 14-7 against N. H. S. it was the best girl’s game ever witnessed in the Y. gym, and if the girls keep up the good work their luck will turn as did the fellows. Mildred Barber, playing her first game, shot three fouls. We’re proud of Mildred. Capt. Rosser shot a clean field basket the first half, Lucille Stal- ter one the second. No use to say the guards played a good game, they’re old stand-bys. Edna Keplar played guard the second half in Muriel Baugh’s place. N. H. S. 7 N. S. H. S. 14 Lucille Stalter Helen Crawford Continued on page 13