Prophetstown High School - Prophet Yearbook (Prophetstown, IL)

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THE PROPHET nor the coach was aware that Tampico was ahead until the last quarter of the game. Sherman of Tampico refereed the last half. They really beat us, fourteen to eight. Yes, the Tampico team fed our team after the game and they tried so hard to be pleasant to us, and we tried so hard to smile and be pleased. It's really very funny now. But it was a good lesson to us all. Our next game was played with Fulton on February 2. This was our first game at home, and the team was anxious to make a good showing.So everybody wore clean white sweaters. The Fulton girls gave us a creepy feeling by making two baskets in the first five minutes of the game, but this didn't last long, as our team played much better team work than Fulton. The score at the end of the game was twenty-eight to twelve for Prophetstown. Dorothy Brown played her first game at jumping Center. Eva Dell Johnson and Florence Wirth each played a half in her place as guard. The Fulton girls were good sports and we enjoyed playing them. Floy gave the team a party that night, and we ate enough to make up for lost time. We also stayed late enough to break a rule. All efforts were spent toward practice for Tampico's return game. No, Tampico was not to beat us on our own floor. The team worked up new signals, more time was spent on long basket shooting and team work. The Tampico game was to be the biggest game of the year as it was our home coming game, and the Tampico boys were also to play up here. All six of our players were up on their toes to play. On February 9th, we were all ready for Tampico, all we lacked was a referee. Miss Hardin of Clinton was to referee but she changed her mind, about two o'clock in the afternoon. After trying many other towns without success, Mrs. Bruce Cole came to the rescue. Mrs. Cole had never refereed a game but Tampico didn't know that. We dressed her up in a refereeing outfit, and she not only looked the part but refereed the last half in a fair and square manner. We cannot thank Mrs. Cole enough for helping us out of a tight place like that. Our team played to the largest crowd they have ever played to in Prophetstown. Tho' the team went on the floor with a long face, they came out smiling at the endg because Prophetstown had won, 24 to IO. Had we won from Tampico? Well, slightly! It isn't a fib to say that the Prophetstown Girl's out-played Tampico in every position. To the amazement of everybody and the horror of some, we arranged a game with Augustana College at Rock Island. The team knew they were up against a tough proposition, but they were ready to fight. We went down to Rock Island on February 23d. It was rather nice to have such a gang see us off at the station, and we were ready to put our fighting togs on while we were still on the train. We did this in order to be ready to go on the gymnasium floor in time, as the game was called at six o'clock.Thiswas decidedly the most famous and exciting game of the year, and all the people that went along will remember it for a long time. Augustana College has the largest gymnasium in the tri-cities. The Augustana Girls played boys rules, running all over the floor. Our girls were used to playing strictly girls' rules. But the girls from Prophetstown were game to the core. All of the Augustana girls were larger than the Prophetstown girls, and they were not a bit bashful about dusting the floor with the Prophetstown girls. But the Prophetstown girls put up a dandy fight, with all the odds against them, and Augustana's beauties were puffing and blowing when the game was over. The kids that accompanied the team,and the coach,were never so proud of the Prophets- town team as that night. We didn't care if we lost, it wasn't a bad score, IS to 1923 F zlfty-ihrrr

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Fifty-two THE PROPHET to Jumping Center, after the first Tampico game. Lucile Swanson played standing guard. Genevieve Meyer was taken off the second team on account of appendicitis. Evangeline McGrady and Justine Mathis were put on the second team as guards. The Association elected Irma Morrill as captain of the team and president for a second year. Leona Hudson, Cecile Lundell, Genevieve Meyer and Justine Mathis were elected captains of the class teams. A committee composed of Darlene Johnson, Irma Morrill, Cecile Lundell and Clara Lancaster was appointed to draw up a constitution for the Girlls Athletic Club. The constitution was made mainly to separate us as a distinct organiza- tion from the P. H. S. Athletic Association. It also stated that all members of the first and second teams must be passing in all their subjects. This constitution was signed by all the members of the Girl's Athletic Club. The members of the first and second teams decided to keep training rules during the basketball season. Leona Hudson, Darlene Johnson, Barbara Mathis and Irma Morrill made out the training rules, which the members of the teams accepted. These rules made it necessary for all the members of the teams to have enough regular sleep. Only plain food could be eaten, and nothing could be eaten between meals, excepting milk or fruit. It was really sacrificing a good many things, for the girls to keep these rules, and they are certainly to be commended on the way they kept them. The rules lasted for ten weeks, from January 8th to March 19th. Eighteen girls kept the training rules. The members of the Girl's Athletic Club were asked to handle the Sale of Red Cross Christmas Seals for Prophetstown. We only had a week to sell seals, but the town was canvassed and even the movies were visited. Everyone enjoyed selling the seals and we were glad the Red Cross asked us to do it. During Christmas vacation, a game was played between P. H. S. alumnae and the P. G. A. C. won IO to 6. The first out of town game was played at Lyndon on January 12th. The fioor was smaller than we were accustomed to, and we played with five on a team, playing not Spaulding rules, but Lyndon rules. Altho' the Lyndon girls were larger, we seemed to make the baskets. The game ended with a score of twenty- seven to twelve in favor of Prophetstown. On Saturday, January 20th, we journeyed to Cordova. None of us had ever been to Cordova and we were a bit wary, as Leona, Clara and Ruth didn't go along. We found that there wasn't much in Cordova excepting a schoolhouse and one or two pleasant boys. Cordova had a dandy gymnasium. VVe couldn't say the same for their team. The Cordova girls were large, strong, clumsy and rough. They didn't know much about basketball but they did know how to knock the Prophets- town girls down. But you can bet the Prophetstown girls got up again, and we left Cordova with a score of sixteen to thirteen in our favor. Despite the many bruises and bumps, everyone was feeling rather-jubilant when we reached Prophets- town. So we went into Lundell's and sang and ate and sang. Monday morning the girls that went to Cordova favored the high school with a few choice selections, such as Oh! Cordova, she whiffed at our team. January 26th was our unlucky night. The team and a big gang of rooters went through the snow to Tampico. All our old friends including CHurd Jacobsen? Montafae, Sherman and Mable were awaiting us. Somehow, neither the team 1923

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F iffy-four THE PROPHET 7 for Augustana. All twenty-one of us stayed over until Saturday night and we had a giddy time in Davenport the next day. We are all glad Mrs. Sherman Warner went with us as a chaperone. She was a dandy chaperone, and We fear that without her we might have had to sleep in the street, as our coach didnlt seem to get by with the dame at the Y. VV. C. A. VVe did our best to get August- ana to come to Prophetstown, but My Goshf' they couldnit think of it. February 27th, the girls had a class game, a combination of the freshman and juniors playing against the sophomores and seniors. The score was I6 to 7 in favor of the sophomores-seniors. After the Augustana trip, people began to realize that Prophetstown really had a girls' basketball team. Livona, Floy and Genevieve painted scme large signs and we placed them at conspicious places about town. On Friday afternoon before the Sterling game, we had a big pep meeting in high school. Mr. Bates told us that we were putting Prophetstown on the map. Irma, Darlene, Ruth, Cecile, Lucile, Livona, and Clara all gave peppy speeches and convinced us that the game with Sterling was Worth looking at. We all sang,all the serenades to the individual players and we ended up with Prophetstown, forward, march to victory. It was Prophetstown, forward march to victory, as we defeated Sterling, 20 to 13. The game was not a hard one and the Prophetstown girls were in the lead all during the game. Sterling had a dandy bunch of girls, they were clean players and We are sorry we could not play them a return game. We had hoped to have a game on March 2nd with the Kilkenny Athletic Club of Moline and on March 9th with Clinton Y. W. C. A. We had scheduled games with these two teams but it started to snow and we had one blizzard after another, until the roads were impassable. So it was impossible for either of these teams to get here. But We didn't give up hope of having a game, we drove over to Lyndon one day and arranged a return game with Lyndon for March 2nd. The Lyndon team wanted to come but the coach didn't. We promised them a dance and she finally consented to come. The Lyndon game was full of thrills for the spectators. Several backward sommersaults were taken during the game. Irma and Dorothy were put in the game in the last quarter. The score ended 28 to 2 in favor of Prophets- town. All of the team played a fast and accurate game. The next week we had to give up the idea of playing the Moline or Clinton teams, as the roads were still impassable. On March 6th, all the girls in the Club entertained their mothers by giving them their regular exercises, practice and signals. Then they were all asked to come down and enjoy a picnic supper with us. We hope that they enjoyed it as much as we did. The next evening the Womenls team played the P. G. A. C. second team. The second team used Cecile Lundell and Florence Wirth for a quarter. The Women's team used Clara Lancaster so things were about evened up. It was a fast and furious game, the score was 20 to 16 for the Women. The season ended with a series of class games. On Friday March 16th, the Juniors played the Sophomores. A few of the,Freshmen were run ing the Junior side won. March 21st, we began our regular class tournament, the Sophomores played the Freshmen. The score was Sophomores 25, Freshmen, I9. The fastest game of the tournament was played on Thursday evening. The Junior team played a combination Senior-Freshman team. As time was up the 1923