Odebolt High School - Trojan Yearbook (Odebolt, IA)

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MARLENE ALBRECHT-Guard. For Marlene's first year of varsity competition she certainly showed drive and that love to win. She has a lot of guarding ability and know how. We are expecting a lot of basketball from Marlene next year. NANCY WITT-Forward. A girl who really loves to play basketball. She's a junior and if she learns how to score from under that basket as well as from out she will be a top threat next year to any team. MARILYN OLBERDING-Guard. Captain in the back court. Ding was a key-cog in the Odebolt defense. lt was she who held Lytton's tall pivot forward to two free throws in the finals of the County Tournament. We will cer- tainly miss her under that defensive basket. DOROTHY BENGFORD-Forward. Captain in the forward court. Dorothy certainly showed what determination can do. She started slow at the beginning of the season but kept fight- ing until she made that first string. Then she played harder still which shows a good basket- ball spirit. MARGARET BENGFORD-Guard. Margaret proved that players do not have to be tall. You need only to fight and do lots of it. Margie could always be counted upon to do top notch jobs when she went into that line JANET ODGEN-Forward. A girl who never gives up. She has pulled many games out of the fire by her ability to fake her guard out of position, and shoot. Janet with two years of competition left should prove to be trouble for many opposing teams. This winter she was even shoveling the snow from the walks to be able to practice on the court at home. LOIS ROHLF Guard. A worker who took her work very seriously. One could tell Lois what to do and she knew exactly how to do it. Her outstanding game this year was against Lytton in the County Championship game when she constantly out-maneuvered her forward, hold- ing the team to 4 free throws the last half. JANE TEAQUIST-Forward-Guard. Jane, at the beginning of the year, played mostly in the forward court. Later she proved she could play equally well in either court. She was constant- ly, at the end of the year, pushing those girls for first team position. She's an all-around good basketball player. page forty-five

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BACK ROW-Joan Kies, manager, Janet Ogden, Lois Rohlf, Marlene Albrecht, Marilyn Olberding, Jane Teaquist, Mary Lou Auen, Priscilla, Frances, Coach Hamann. FRONT ROW--Miss Cathmar Shaw. chaperone, Lois Schaefer, Ruth Treman, Dorothy Bengford, Margaret Bengford, Verna Mae Tiefenthaler, Marjorie Dinges. COACH-WALLACE HAMANN GIRLS' BASKETBALL BASKETBALL SCHEDULE O.l-l.S. OPPONENT 38 Lytton l7 35 Wall Lake 27 24 Arthur 2l 46 Lake View l5 34 Auburn 28 37 Nemaha 24 44 Battle Creek 27 42 Arthur 28 4l Sulphur Springs 32 38 Holstein 57 46 iSac Early 2l 34 County Wall Lake 9 44 Tourney? Lytton 23 26 iSectional Tourneyl-Wall Lake 27 54 Early 23 27 Galva 36 28 Schaller 2l 44 Wall Lake 26 lt was a great season for Coach Wally Hamann and the Trojanettes of l95Ol For the first time in a period of years the Odebolt girls team has made a re- cord which indicates outstanding ability. Out of L8 scheduled games, the Trojanettes came through with l5 wins and 3 losses. The girls started out with nine straight victories over Lytton, Wall Lake, Arthur, Lake View, Auburn, Nemaha, Battle Creek, Arthur, and Sulphur Springs. ln the early part of the season Coach Hamann was uncertain as to whom he should use for forward. ln the usual line up were Janet Ogden, Jo Bye, Mary Lou Auen, Nancy Witt, and Dorothy Bengford. Jane Teaquist was moved from forward to guard in the i950 season. Later on in the season, three of these girls developed into a set of forwards unequaled in ability in the entire county-sharp shooting Nancy Witt, who scored 2l6 points during her season of l8 games and averaged page forty-four l2.0 points per game, Dorothy Bengford, shifty and fast on her feet, who tallied l44 points for an average of 8.4 points per game, and Janet Ogden, coolest play- er on the floor, only a sophomore but playing like a veteran. Her ability to fake her opponents out was a definite factor in her scoring of 233 points, averaging l3.3 points per game. Not enough praise can be given to the Trojanettes guards. Their skill in handling their opponents contri- buted more to the spectacular season than the average sport fan could detect. The guards were led by Senior Marilyn Olberding, tall and tough. Her position as pivot guard prevented many points from being scored against the Trojanettes. Others were Senior Margaret Bengford, who had more power behind a pass than anyone on the court, Marlene Albrecht, who never gave up regardless of how hard things looked, and Lois Rohlf, scrappy and not afraid to hit the floor once in a while. lt was this combination of guards and forwards that pulled Odebolt through with the Sac County Championship trophy which they took from Lytton in the final round, 44-23. lt was a proud group of girls who walked up to the desk to receive the trophy award that they had worked so hard for. But it was a heart- broken group who walked off the floor of the Schaller gym, defeated in the first round of the Sectional Tourna- ment by Wall Lake 27-26, whom the Trojanettes had previously mauled 35-27. The girls missed the offensive work of Janet Ogden who was ill that night. The girls breezed through the rest of the season with a loss of only three games for the entire season- Holstein, Wall Lake, and Galva. Ogden, Witt and Bengford developed a one-two punch that every Tro- janette opponent feared. These girls will be together again next year. Marilyn and Margaret will step out of the guard spot but will be replaced by others. The girls should have an exceptionally good record again next year. Congratulations to a fine team and Coach.

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Boys' Basketball-Coach Glenn Forsythe. BACK ROW-Coach Forsythe, Dick Swanson, George Hummel, Kenneth Fertig, Jim Brower, Eldon Oldnettle, Tom Reynolds Ronald Rex, Don Gunderson, Manager-Stanley Vernia. FRONT ROW-Jerry Reynolds, Gordon Friday, Bill Teaquist, Joe Kipp, Howard Hoefling, John Rex, Vern Ogden, LaVern BOYS' BASKETBALL Haradon. BOYS' BASKETBALL SCORES ODEBOLT OPPONENT 45 Lytton 27 45 Wall Lake l6 43 Arthur 4l 3l Danbury 39 5l Lake View 30 49 Auburn 30 42 Nemaha 34 38 Battle Creek 35 50 Arthur 40 45 Sulphur Springs 20 38 Sac City 52 43 Holstein 37 Sac County Tourney 50 Auburn 35 33 Lytton 35 53 Wall Lake 24 50 Alta 5l 57 Early 36 56 Galva 37 67 Schaller 36 7l Wall Lake 24 Sectional Tourney 44 Lake View 35 38 Sac City 39 The Odebolt Trojans turned in one of the best seasons since Coach Glenn Forsythe has been head of the athletic department. Odebolt had a total of 22 wins against 5 loses. This was one of the most out- standing records in Northwest Iowa. The Trojans started out with three consecutive wins over Lytton, Wall Lake, and Arthur before they hit the powerful Danbury five to whom they lost, 39-3l. Odebolt broke into the fifty point scoring bracket when they trounced Lake View 5l-30. After breezing page forty-six through Auburn, Nemaha, Battle Creek, Arthur, and Sulphur Springs, the Trojan five clashed with the Sac City lndians, one of the toughest teams on the Tro- jans' schedule. The Indians defeated Odebolt 52-38. The boys had a heart-breaker in the Sac County Tourn- ey. After defeating Auburn 50-35 in the first round the Trojans suffered an extremely cold night and lost to Lytton 35-33. Odebolt had, in the first game of the season, defeated Lytton 45-27. Odebolt played one of its best games of the sea- son against the powerful Alta five. Alta favored by several points over the Trojans but defeated them by only a one point margin 5l-50. The rest of the regu- larly scheduled games were easy. The Trojans built up their highest score against Wall Lake, 7l-24. The sectional tourney proved to be the most excit- ing game of the season. ln the first round Odebolt handed Lake View a 44-35 defeat. The Trojans were then slated to meet, for the second time, the Sac City Indians. The Odebolt five lost this game, yet the hearts of every fan there wanted the under-dog team, who were putting up such a fight and out-playing the high- ly favcred Indians, to pull through with a victory. The result: Sac City 39, Odebolt 38 fOvertime.7 Odebolt, led by the offensive work of Jim Brower who averaged l5.9 per game, scored a total of lO39 points against their opponents 752. Sophomore John Rex pulled through to be one of the most valuable players on the squad with an average of 8.4 points per game. With Rex were George Hummel and shifty Tom Reynolds, both of whom did work which was always a valuable asset to the team. The cool work of ace Jim Brower inspired the Trojans in every game. Eldon Oldnettle, first year man, and Dick Swanson shared the center. Howard Hoefling, Vern Ogden, Don Gunderson, Kenny Fertig, and Ronald Rex proved their ability in both first and second team games. Congratulations to Coach Glenn Forsythe and the squad of i949-l95O.