Northern Arizona State Teachers College - La Cuesta Yearbook (Flagstaff, AZ)

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Basketball The basketball season this year was one of buth triumph and defeat. The boys were a little later in beginning- practice than were the girls, as the football season was not over until late in November and it took a few weeks to get things in or- der for basketball. There was some practice and training be- fore the Christmas holidays, but not until the beginning of the winter quarter, did the teams get into earnest practice. The girls elected Anona Wells of Mayer as their captain, while the boys elected Hoddy Stevens of Douglas to lead them during the season. The first game of the season for both boys and girls was with VVinslow on the Normal floor. The Normal Sextet out- classed the visitors with a score of 61 to 1-5. Bessie Benson and Anona Wells did excellent work in this opening game, at forward positions. The boys failed to keep together and were defeated by two points. The score was 23 to 21. The next phase of the season was a trip into the Navajo and Apache counties. The boys left Tuesday morning for Eagar where they played the Round Valley High School that evening. The two-hundred-mile trip had exhausted them, and they lost with a b .avy score of 39 to 10. On Wednesday they retumed to St. ns, where they met the high school team January 22. Fc ,he first time in history the Normal five de- feated the country lads. The game was one of the best during the whole season and was made more interesting by the fact that both Jarvis and Naegle were playing for the Normal against their former team-mates. The score read 25 to 22. The boys returned to Holbrook Thursday and stayed over a day resting for the game with Holbrook on Friday. The Nor- mal girls had the advantage of being larger, although the small girls were fast. The score of the girls ' game was 26 to 7 in the favor of the Normal girls. The boys ' game was rather fast but one-sided. The first half was close but during the last two ijeriods the larger boys outplayed the high school lads and won 33 to 17. On Saturday both teams went to Mnslow and played the last games of the trip. The girls ' game was a hard-fought battle, and not the one-sided affair that the first game of the season was. It was any one ' s game until the last minute of play when Winslow made a free throw taking the lead by one point. The score was 11 to 10. The boys ' game was faster and more exciting, at the end of the four quarters the score stood 17 to 17. Five minutes of play told the story, however, and the railroad city boys came out vic- tors with a score of 21 to 19. The next game of the season for boys and girls was with Jerome on the Normal court on January 28. During the trip eastward the floor was changed from the small cross court () ,1 ,■ llundi-.il One