Northampton Area High School - Amptennian Yearbook (Northampton, PA)

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Q. Sli! , - x XXX ll B I 4 WWF ! Tl-TLETICS opened up this season with a noise like some-A tning worth while. In former years High School could not boast of very much in the line of Athletics, but this year there was a base-hall team and a basket-bal-l team that were worth the space they take up in this Book. The floor in the George VVolf Building which was not completed until late in February, was the cause of a great deal of delay, so that the team only played five games this year. And those with very little practice. The first game with the Allentown Commercial School in which our boys appeared in hrand new suits, was represented by the follow- ing line-up, which played all of the regular gZ1l'I'lCS. Shafer F Deily F Farber C lCapt.j Schissler G Hess G These men played like veterans winning the fracas to the tune of I7-13. f'Our first victoryl. The Alumni thought they could take us into camp, so on the 22nd ,31-

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BOYS' BASKET BALL TEAM

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of February they trled to do so before 1 crowded house B 22 I IQ nuff S2llCl to tell the tale of woe wluch they handed out to the sur prlsed and helpless Z1l1fllC1'lCL CX1ctorx Number '15 Then came the buneh fIOlTl Qlatmgton It took them an extra Ii.I'1OCl and plenty of rough house play to take our boys scalp home xx 1th them Our boys enrued the sympathy of the crowd when they suv how hard they played and xgamst what odds they were pmtted Thls wx as our fnst defeat but to many lt xx as consxdered a y1ctory as lt stood 00 I8 at the end of an extra flve mmutes of play The Boy Scouts ot Pen Arggl xx cle the next ones to g1V6 us a bump The bump d1d not hurt so much as they sure d1d play l1ke 1ea1 sports and although we lost IQ 8 we neyer regretted havmg played them as they showed us that there can be clean plavmg even an a bts ket ball Game It yeas a declded contrast to the qlZ1l1l1lg'fOI1 game In tlus game Shafer spramed lns ankle 111 the first fue mmutes of plav and Hess who never had play ed forward was taken from guard and put 111 hxs place This accounts for otu yery lou score although completely out classed fought tooth and na1l untll the last wlnstle blew and although the score sounds xx eak the game ltself was full of thr1lls The Nloravxan team was anothe1 buneh of real boys who knew how to play hlee men Tlns game ended m a 34 I2 score our worst score of the season We must not forget the glrls xx ho played then first frame of the season the same mffht The glflb too were completely out classed and lackmg experience they lost to the score of 40 I Thexr l1ne up was Hattle Becker I Olne Kunt7 IT lTIs1e Nlewhard C llannah Ddhard C lffaptl l llhan Bell G Ruth Qemmel CT Credlt must be g1VCIl to the skillful way lfl uhxch Prof qhafer handled the team lle was ably assxsted by lohn Gdlespme who also refereed the games It lS hard to p1ck out any staxs on the team as they all played a steady game but Captaln Fxrber seemed to have had a shade on the rest, wx hlle Delly and Hess were ued for first place for recexvmg the most nnmbe1 of IIIJUTICQ l-TDNVIA X Hess STfv0rz' Edztor 32 '4 7 If ' 1 .s 1 x I I- . - -MT, W 2 ' J - - . . 'X C , ' M - .' as-is Y' sl f' , if 8 A , .C It ' ' K T . K 1 if C , A C - v ' C r' 1 I -,E V , I f f gg t C ' Y- .I Z I ' J I c V s Y . s ' . ' A ,. fe. 1 C , ' f' : :' ' , ., ' - C 4' ' T , C' 1 l f Q T ' T f' f ' . J : ' I 1 s V . - , Y . c T ' , .' . C H' ' ' z.- ' - 6' .' f 5 ' C- e ' C . L, A k . .L C . L I . N if c , . , q if , . ' ' . . ' 5 ' ' f 5 Then came the worst bump of all, the Moravian game. Our boys. L A ' r 1 - C 7, , ' T 1 1 . T- c - .T . 7 , ' ' Y T T . -, e Tc c c c T T 'V Y? , , W , ' , . . 'L l K ' C x I, - k . W . I . L A A T .T '7 ' T T T Cc . ' ' 1 Tb . T T ' I c .T c . - ' P ' a - . ' ' - 'iz . E: . . T A T .L T. ' c T c T Tc T . , s. T ' c . T lf e r' - T - I . -a T c T c i .T c T. : 1 v c . 6 r y 1 c T 2 T T' A c , Kc ., 7 I AT . T '-.. TT T D - ' ' ' 1. f 2. . f . 4 ' .