Port Byron High School - Echo Yearbook (Port Byron, IL)

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ing t Reili The t nerio devil The s Vinso it wa kins embe , -V-null--v--n...,,...Y.. ,-.-..,mvn-w-v-- fw---a-m..-.... e game, Walt gg in charge Bull, Carl Orr, Nancy Skelton, and Mildred of music, Blair Thornbloom. ird Peo Club November l8. Emblems of,our basketball team, red felt , were bought by the members to be worn on sweaters. ng HBuckle Down, Port Byronu to the tune of UBuckle Down kin, comnosed as a new school song, was practiced and decided to sing it the next night at the game with At- , Plans were completed for an after-game dance on Nov- l9 following the High School-Alumni game, meeting was held in the English room, sixth Buckle Down, Port Byron ou can win Port Byron, you can win ou can win Red Devils, if you knuckle in ou can shoot that goal ut them in the hole, eaven help their soulL o come on fight, Cfight, fight, fightl ome on yell, Port Byron, come on yell ou can win Red Devils, if you give them ---- f you don't give in ake it on the chin on are bound to win f you will only knuckle in, f you fight, fight, fight ou'll not get beat f you fight, fight, fight our luck will keep. CTe repeat? ou can win Bart Byron, you can win ou can win Red Devils, if you knuckle in f you now them down ou can go to town Cheering all around f you only buckle down.---FOB--- P-o P-o P-o-r-t -y B-y B-y-r-o-n P-o-r-t B-y-r-o-n D Nov umn' the mer by ort Byron, Bort Byron, Port Byron, Rah. Elmer Day mber 19, the date of the traditional hanging of Elmer Al- , dawned clear and cool. An air of expectancy hung over .igh school. It filled the halls and classrooms, for El- Alumni had, by this time C9 a.m.J, been stuffed and hung is neck on the telephone nole on the campus as a grim

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Alumnus who dared boast of the prowess of for- war ing to any mer 'ort Byron graduates. Elmer swung in the varying breezes fro, the Vississipoi until 1:36 p,m, when the watchful eye of some Port Byron Red Devil saw the Zieglers leave their car and ut the rone by which the effigy was attached to the pole At a nrearranqeo signal, the whole school rushed out to re- tri, e their dummy. The chase led to Rapids City, to East Ko line, then bac the ilumni and ineiitable and ditq where he to -chool, In u.e evening to the Hillsdale road, where the car bearing, Elmer was surrounded and cut off, Defeat was poor Elmer was uncermoniously Hdumnedu into a was retrieved by his pursuers and brought back the annual hotly-contested Alumni-High School gem: was olayed in the gym, the Red Devils winning by a score of 5 to 15. Varsity players were Warren, Atkinson, Earhart, Lun , Johnson, and Sullivan, King Iorford, Steffen, Fritch- niteh, Ernst, and Ziegler scored for the Alumni team. During the third quarter of the game, Woody Ernst was unable to fontinue olaying, and the new oulmotor was rushed to the schlol from the fire station. After effective first aid, Ern t, with help of other Alumni, was able to make his way s1o'ly out of the gym, But he had aged rapidly and bore the mar.s of Hti'e.H He was clothed in a long black robe and car rie a scythe, Yes, Utime'marched onln The beginning of the fow th quarter found Ernst back in the game, however, appar- ent y comoletely rejuvenated. Fort Byron H,S. i255 FG FT PF Warren 1 2 1 Atkinson 1 1 2 Earhart 1 O O Lund 2 2 3 Johnson , 1 2 4 Sullivan 2 2 1 8 9 11 H.S, Alumni 1155 C. King 1 1 4 Yorford l 1 1 Steffen 1 O O Fritchnitch fO 1 O Ernst l 2 1 H, Ziegler 1 Q 2 3 5 13 Betwe: halves Elmer was brought into court and tried for siip- ping s haul in the comnany of qnaatisnamia characters. Marvin