New Troy High School - Trojans Yearbook (New Troy, MI)

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VARSITY BASKETBALL The turnout of candidates for the 1948-49 basketball team nurnbered only twenty players. . . Faced a seventeen game schedule, a Christmas Tournament, and the State Tournament ..... immediately realized backbone of team---three years vets---Boyd, Harfert, and Schaffer. . . Opening game Gaels of Galien. . . Trojans grab lead, never to relinquish it. . . Harfert and Schaffer gets thirty between them. . . Sophomore Spark's impressive on backboard work. . . NEW TROY 49, GALIEN 38 ....... Gusemen travel to New Buffalo. . . Troy's big lead crumbles to 35-35 tie score---Peterson's two successful attempts at free throw line and Harferts two pointer puts game on ice. . . NEW TROY 39, NEW BUFFALO 35 ..... Non-conference foe Baroda next---E. Arend of the Bulldogs---mean---scores eighteen points on eight field goals and two charity tosses. . . Trojans never started---BARODA 35, NEW TROY 30 ..... Berrien Springs brings height and fight to Troy---Total forty four fouls called --- Schaffer and Boyd played remarkable ball-hawking game along with scoring nineteen points between them---Peterson's defensive play worth remembering-- -New TROY 39, BERRIEN SPRINGS 37 ........ Christmas vacation? ? ? No, Christmas Tourney held at Saint Joseph---first game with Berrien Springs. . . Trojans fourteen point lead lost when Boyd and Schaffer forced from the game. . . BERRIEN SPRINGS 39, NEW TROY 37 fovertirnej .... Next evening---still shaky ---meet Bee's of Bridgman---Bee's Heyn releases a honey from center of court to break tie---BRIDGMAN 38, NEW TROY 36 ..... Back to schedule play ---travel Eau Claire---Beavers found blind---Troy led Z3-Z at half---Harfert and Boyd's set-shots count for twenty nine points between them. . . NEW TROY 47, EAU CLAIRE 19 ..... Trojans remain on road--next foe Cardinals of Stevensville . . . Pace set by Gusemen and sixteen, thirteen, eleven, and eighteen points by Peterson, Harfert, Schaffer and Boyd are too muchfor the birds . . . NEW TROY 60 39