North High School - Northern Lights Yearbook (Akron, OH)

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Basketball in 1923-24 The 1923-24 season of basketball was the most successful that North High ever had. Led by their fighting captain, Mike Limric, the Black and Gold quintet completed the season with an| average of 750 in the city series — an average higher than that of any other city varsity team. They battled their way to victory through three city series games, only to drop the fourth game to Cen¬ tral, which m.eant that North had to divide the city honors with South High. In the tournament held at Goodyear Gym on February 28 and 29, the Eskimos won from East and the highly touted Canton Mc¬ Kinley crew, but were defeated in the finals by Barberton, who won from them earlier in the season also. Incidentally Barberton and Central were the only teams to defeat North during the season. Among the high class teams which North met and defeated were: Lorain, who won the title of the “Little Big Seven,” Akron East, who beat Akron Central in the city series; Cleveh nd Heights, who forfeited their game to North when it was found that one of their players was ineligible. Wadsworth, Shaker Heights and Hudson all fell easy victims to the Northern warriors. The Northerners received the lion’s share of personal honors among the teams. Nelson was named all-city guard; Limric was placed on the same mythical team as forward, be¬ sides being high scorer of the city; Vernotzy received the center position; Limric’srunning- mate, Barnes, was accredited with being the best floor man in the city, but, a.-- a forwards job is primarily to make points, he was not mentioned on the all-city team. The only letter man who will be back for all of next season is Barnes, captain-elect, a three year veteran. There are several subs however who have shown their wares in some of the games and seem to be promising mate- lial Limric will be eligible until next Janu¬ ary, but it is doubtful whether he will take much part in basketball. The following is a summary of the season’s games and scores: North 26 Akron East 14 North 32 Shaker Heights 7 North 2 Cleveland Heights 0 North 29 Lorain 27 North 22 Barberton 25 North 24 Wadswor h 16 North 25 West 22 North 30 South 29 North 39 Cuyahoga Falls 24 North 30 Central 32 North 13 Fast 11 North 20 Ca ton McKinleyl5 North 16 Barberton 23 No th 24 Obernn 16 North 26 Hudson 25 On next year’s schedule several new teams may appear. Among these are Alliance,Wood- ward Tech of Toledo, Canton McKinley and Lakewood. These together with Cleveland Heights, Loiain, Barberton, the city teams, the tournament and possibly two other teams, ought to make an interesting schedule. —Joseph Zisscn,’25 Read your oven North Star Fifty-seven