Palo Alto High School - Madrono Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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The Year’s Athletics F()()T HALL—1918-1919 The influenza epidemic put a serious crimp in Paly’s football prepara- tions. The team was just getting into shape when school was closed, and after a five weeks’ sojourn the team took the field again and most of the former work was lost. San lose was Palo Alto's first victim. For the fifteenth time we took San Jose into camp with a 3 to o score. Paly was not so successful in the game with San Mateo. The two teams were about evenly matched and for over an hour neither side had the advantage. With five minutes to go San Mateo made good use of a dribbling rush and succeeded in crossing for the only try of the game. The loss of CarndtrfF, who was kicked in a scrum formation, greatly weakened the forward positions. Two regular members of the team seemed to have forgotten the fact that a player must be doing satisfac- tory academic work. Their loss also helped to weaken the offensive work of the team. In the two games Franklin and “Tub Hays were the stars of the team. Their offensive and defensive game gave Paly many an advance and saved our line from being crossed b the opposing team. Taking everything into consideration, one might say that our football season was a failure. MASKETBALL The basketball team had probably more hard luck than any of the other high school teams. We lost every game we played with the various high schools of the peninsula. Two of the games were lost by one point. Campbell succeeded in winning by the score of 20 to 19. San Mateo, our ancient rival, took us into camp by the score of 13 to 12. This game was probably the hardest fought on the San Mateo court for several yea's. First one team would forge ahead and then the other. The whistle came in the wrong time, because it was Paly's turn to score. Some good material showed up for practice and Coach Dougan is confident that with more practice the team will make a better showing ♦ against San Mateo and San Jose, who heat us 49 to 18. Hays was one of the hardest playing guards that represented any high school in the state. He has been elected captain of the 1919 team and is capable of making the Paly team deliver the goods. BASEBALL Paly was not very successful in her league encounters. In the practice 3i

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However this may be. the difference is there. One part of life is past, the training period is completed, and work begins. It is not quite a normal world that we go into. Classes before this of 1919 have passed into the great days and tasks of the war. We pass into the period of reconstruction, which is perhaps more trying, and surely less inspiring. The saddest chapter in our history, the chapter that we are ashamed of and that made for bitterness lasting almost to the present day. is the division in our history books entitled “Reconstruction” after the Civil War. 1 low many of us have really thrilled over the war days, and then have been glad we did not live in the days following. How many have said during the past year. “This is the time of all time to he living!” Can we say that of the years to come? Reconstruction is a wearisome business, and it often becomes a sordid 1 business. The world lias had a bright, too bright a dream of millenium after the war. It is now waking up to the fact that humanity seems as quarrelsome, as greedy as before. The natural result is a swing of the pendulum to utter dejection, a pessimism and lack of faith built on the shattered visions of the glory that never came. This is one of the things we must guard against. The world will never recover if it loses faith. Hope sustained 11s through the war: we must not lose it. To turn from the future to the past, we may look back upon our senior year and feel that it has been one of the best years of our lives. We have had a measure of responsibility toward school activities that we never felt in our under-class days, and there is a jov in that responsibility. We have had hard work, hut there has been a certain satisfaction that Comes from finishing—and a feeling that we knew how. And the class of 1919 is the first to hold a June graduation in the new high school. We have had only a few months in the new building, hut vve have appreciated them after three and a half years in the crowded old building. We will not conceal the fact that we leave even this beautiful building with joy. It has been a wonderful year, and the future is uncertain, hut we cannot help but be exceedingly glad to have completed these four years. Filled with memories of the greatest year in high school; and with a deep regret to leave the teachers who have guided us these four years, and to lose some of the friendships made, we turn our faces to the future and say FAREWELL. 30

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