Nokomis High School - Old Nokomis Yearbook (Nokomis, IL)

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1920 T R A NSC E N D ENT A L1 ST 1920 PETER CIOCHETTI Guard “Pete” Pete immediately took his place with the Red and Black gang and although only a Freshman he knew “your old hall game” well enough to make the second all-star team of Montgomery County. Anyone that thinks he can “rough ’em up” and get away with it, never had Ciochetti for a guard. GILBERT ICETTLEKAMP “Gib” This was “Gib’s” first year with us and he came out of his shell in a hurry as soon as he got used to the bunch. He played only the latter part of the season, but proved himself a consistent point winner. Although lie is listed as a center, he played forward in two of his five games. CARL BROWN “Broon” “Broon” was another Freshman who decided that the first thing he would get ac-quainted with would be a basket-ball, and to this end he worked during the entire season. “Broonie” is a regular walking brick wall and has played everything on the floor some time during the season. ENNO HENKEL “Henkel” Enno was unfortunate enough to have the mumps when he should have had his picture taken for the annual. However, we must mention him with the first team players. Henkel always shows a sportsmanlike spirit and plays the game for all that’s in him. 26

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1920 'I' R A N SC END E N T A LI ST 1920 JOE PENDLETON Forward “Little Joe” Joe struck the first team this year and struck it hard enough to jolt out a captaincy for himself. He has the coolness and clearness of head which keep a team from going to pieces in a pinch and oftentimes did some big “rustic” hunt around among his arms and legs for the ball while “Little Joe” took the old leather sphere down the floor. LLOYD DAVIS Forward “Davie” This was Lloyd’s fourth year in the game and to say the least he used his former experience to advantage. He was always in the game and was not put out by a few hard knocks. We regret to lose you, Davie, but if we can’t keep you we’ll try to keep your spirit. HOWARD CASE Guard “Fat” So quiet and unassuming was he that we often lost track of him in the excitement and confusion preceding a game, but when the whistle blew “Fat” was always in his place. When he shuffled up to his forward, with hand extended, his opponent often sized him up as “pickins” only to have the ball taken away from him by Case’s left hand dribble. STANLEY WILLIS Center “Tang” Although only a Sophomore, “Tang” came out wonderfully the first part of the season and when he once got started he was ---- hard to stop. But what one always remembered about “Tang” was his look of surprise whenever he made a basket. 25

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1920 T RANSC EN DENTALIST 1920 Basket-ball The season of ’19-’20 has been a stormy one indeed for Nokomis and although the boys worked hard they simply played tough luck, if there is such a thing as luck. At the first part of the season the boys got busy and as long as the weather permitted them to use the outside court they were undefeated, but when winter came on in earnest the boys were forced to abandon practice altogether and at the same time they scheduled games indiscriminately with strong and weak alike. The first defeat that Nokomis experienced was when we went to Morrisonville and played the “rugby kings” of that city. This bent the horse-shoe and Nokomis never recovered from that awful score of 33-23. From that time on we played everyone, from Mt. Olive to Irving and although our new gymnasium was still unfinished and we were without any practice whatever we managed to gain 7 victories while losing 5 games. Then came the District Tournament at Shelbyville and although our line-up was broken at this time we played according to schedule and were eliminated in the first game against Moweaqua. No more games were played then before the County Tournament and the boys settled down to work in the new gym in an effort to maintain the record of winning every game played in the new building. Ye had a nice little start towards a record, as we had defeated Irving 24-20, returned Raymond’s compliment 26-14, and defeated Witt 16-15. Then came the County Tournament which was held in the new gym on March 11th and 12th. Our first game was with Irving and we easily beat them 24-8. Our next game did not come until Friday and as it was with Raymond we felt sure of being one of the two contestants in the finals, but our boys could not get started and we were shamefully beaten 29-13. This threw us against Coffeen and several of the second team fellows had to go in. This game was tight until the last few minutes, but during this time Coffeen walked away from us and we finished the game 27-18. That night Hillsboro and Raymond played for first place and Hillsboro took it with a “walk-away” of 53-5. Then Raymond and Coffeen played for second and third places and Raymond was again defeated 28-6, giving Coffeen second place and Raymond third. A first and second all-star team were picked from among all the players of the 1 our-nament and Davis and Ciochetti both hit the second all-star team, Davis as captain and forward and Ciochetti as guard. Following are the first and second all-star teams: 27