Prophetstown High School - Prophet Yearbook (Prophetstown, IL)

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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

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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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,Nuo THE PROPHET score stood I4 to 14. They then played for the first basket. Leona made the basket and the score stood I6 to I4 for the Senior-Freshman team. The finals were played OH on Friday evening. The Seniors lacked two people to make their team, and in the course bf the game they substituted four freshmen. The Sophomores lacked one person and they substituted one Junior. The game ended in a score of 9 to 9. The teams playing for the tie, Elnora made the basket, thus winning for the Senior-Freshman team, the class banner, which was oiiiered for the winning team in the tournament. It is hoped that another vaudeville show may be given by the P. G. A. C. on April I9th,so that we may make enough money to buy the first squad of nine, a sweater and a monogram, and the second squad a monogram. In case we have any money left, we will buy some track equipment and have an interclass girls' track meet, some time in the spring. The following is a summary of the games, fouls and individual scores of the team representing the P. G. A. C. for the season of 1923. ' The Prophetstown Girls, Athletic Club played nine games. They won seven and lost two. TOTAL SCORE P.G.A.C.... I68 Opponents . . . . . . 97 TOTAL No. FoULs P. G. A. C. .... ...... 4 8 Opponents . . . . 54 There were thirty-six quarters played by the team representing P. G. A. C., during the season. SCORES P. G. A. C.. .. .. I0 Alumnae ... . 6 P. G. A. C.. .. .. 27 Lyndon .. . I2 P. G. A. C.... .. I6 Cordova . I3 P. G. A. C.. .. .. 8 Tampico ... . I4 P. G. A. C.. .. .. 28 Fulton ... . I2 P. G. A. C.. .. .. 24 Tampico ... . IO P. G. A. C.. .. .. 7 Augustana .. . I5 P. G. A. C .... . . 22 Sterling . . . I3 P. G. A. C.. .. . . 28 Lyndon . . . 2 1 9 2 3 F ifty-jim: