Park City High School - Kalendar Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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---aa-. ,. , school would be benefited immensely by having a iirst-class basket ball court, and the pupils would be oenented physically as a result of proper instruction under 'a teacher of physical culture. P. C. H. S. is the largest public school in the state and one of the largest in the South. P. U. H. S. is on the fully accredited list of as many large universities as any other high school in the state of Tennessee, and is even on the fully accredited list of the academic depart- ment of the University of Pennsylvania, an honor and recog- nition of merit which is not shared by any other high school in Knoxville or East Tennessee. We arc all justly proud of our school, but think how much prouder we could be if we were as far advanced in the athletic side of school life as we are in the educational. Ath- letics is the leaven of all school spirit. A school is dead with- out athletics. Nothing else so promotes the wonderful and val- uable spirit of unity in purpose, friendliness, team-work, and the desire for fair play, among thc pupils as the participation in athletics and the production of good, fast teams. There is but one Way to obtain these very much desired results, viz., to provide an adequate place, Can up-to-date gymj for the deveolpment of these teams. Therefore, I urge that the question of installing a first-class gymnasium and basket ball court be seriously considered by every one. Citizens, patrons of the largest ,public school in the South, a school which is enjoying such a rapid growth that it will be necessary to build, within the next two years, an addition capable of accommodating about three hundred pupils, why not invest a few hundred dollars at that time in the installa- tion of that necessary, A No. 1 gynmasium? C. P. W., '15. It's A Promise .-0.1 There are reports of battles many of the Park City High, Though we have not been successful we never will say die, We have fought so many fights that we couldn't win them all, fBut to give slight encouragementj We Will Win 'em all next fall. Team of '14-'15, 64 'WF

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ParK City High School Needs A New Gym .-....O . S SOME of you may remember, when the first addition to the old Armstrong school, making what is now known over all of East Tennessee as the Park City High School, was built, the pupils and faculty were elated over the report that a well equipped gynmasium was to be in- stalled in the new building-but the gym, for some unknown reason, was not installed. The report was merely an air-castle. Students! Patrons of the school! Y our school!! Can you permit affairs to drift in such a way? Must all these, literally, hundreds and hundreds of children, who at this time comprise the Primary and Graminar School Departments, complete their course in the High School Department without tasting the benefits which are to be derived from the proper use of an up-to-date gymnasium? That there is a room on the third floor which is used dur- ing school hours in connection with class Work, and after school as a basket ball court, I will admit. And that as a basket ball court it is equal to the court in the gym at the U. T., and better than any other court in or around Knoxville except the one at the Central Y. M. C. A., can not be denied: but even then, it lacks about five hundred square feet of being the regulation size, as prescribed in the official rule book of the Spaulding Company, which is an authority on all athletics. Therefore, Park City High School needs a new gym, one of which We need not be ashamed, but may be justly proud. The fact that P. C. H. S. basket ball teams have always been at a disadvantage when playing in prep. league games, which are always played on the Y. M. C. A. court Cwhieh is a regulation sized courtb need cause no surprise, since the change in courts is so great as to break up nearly all of the effective team-Work that may have been gained by faithful practice on our court. And team-work is what counts. Since these things are true, it is a self-evident fact that the 63

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Girls Schedule and Results. November 23-P. C. H. S., 13, Central High School, 11. December 5-P. C. H. S., 16, Jellico City High School, 11. January 8-P. C. H. S., 18, Murphy College, 28. January 22-P. C. H. S., 12, Central High School, 13. January 25-P. C. H. S., 23, Young High School, 2. February 5-P. C. H. S., 8, Maryville College, 22. February 25-P. C. H. S., 8, Maryville College, 9. O Boys Schedule and Results. November 23-P. C. H. S., 31, Boyd, 6. December 3-P. C. H. S., 42, Lonsdale, 11. December 8-P. C. H. S., 26, Jellico County, 16. December 11-P. C. H. S., 24, Lonsdale, 14. December 22-P. C. H. S., 54, Young High School, 21. January 9-P. C. H. S., 27, Alumni, 21. January 16-P. C. H. S., 29, Jellico City High, 35. January.22-P. C. H. S., 10, Maryville Plytech., 38. January 29-P. C. H. S., 15, Jellico County, 26. January 30-P. C. H. S., 10, Jellico City High, 41. March 12-P. S. H. S., 2, Maryville Polytech., 0. Inter-Scholastic League. ' February 12-P. C. H. S., 6, Knoxville High School, 32 February 19-P. C. H. S., 18, Central High School, 27. February 26-P. C. H. S., 14, Y. M. C. A., 15. March 5-P. C. H. S., 16, Knoxville Business College, 47 March 8-P. C. H. S.. 12, Deaf and Dumb School, 48. M. C., '17. 65