Racine High School - Kipikawi Yearbook (Racine, WI)

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clenched teeth and his line plunges. Somehow he managed to get away with playing fullback. Graduation claims him, also. Christianson. Chuck, sub end, proved his metal when given a chance. He is also of the class of 1920. 18815126 wall 191911920 Racine High School Basket Ball Team won the sectional tournament at Xfil- waukee, and, if our best players had not been injured in the first game of the state tournament, we might have captured the Championship. Every man on the team fought hard in every minute of every game. The most admirable thing about our team was the remarkable way in which the boys played together. The fel- lows greatly appreciated the support and encouragement that they received from the splendid crowds of rooters. Not one player fell below in any of his subjects during the whole season. BURLINGTON On January Sth the Racine High School Basket Ball Team won its first victory from the Burlington five with a score of 4545. Racine outplayed its opponents by using the pivot and short snappy passes. Unavitch, having a keen eye for the basket, made twenty-two points of the total score. SoUT1i KfII,VVAUKEE The next game, at South Kfilwaukee, was again an overwhelming victory for our men. They were accompanied by about a hundred rooters. Our players were altogether too fast for their oppon- ents. Grover and Olson were the basket- makers for Racine, while the others kept our opponent's score down. The final reckoning was 6141. The second squad also had an easy time winning with a score of 31-5. A KENOSIIAX Racine High School played Kenosha, its time-honored rival, at the NY gym. As Grover outjumped his man, and as our fellows completely confused their adversaries with that renowned Divot, which was a unique characteristic of our team, the game was ours from the very start. Kenosha was unable to force its way through the strong defense of Racine. The final score was 2542 in our favor. The second team won its game with a score of 19-10. Hilker helped the Kenosha team to feel their inferiority. LANE TECH Our fourth victory was won from Lane TechnicalHigh School,which is said to have one of the best teams in the hfiddle-VVestg however, our fellows were a bit too fast for them. They had tied with Hyde Park High School for the first place in Chicago. Lane's defense was unable to stop the short, snappy passwork of Racine. Their individual playing contrasted sharply with our teamwork. Unavitch, Olson and Grover were the basket-makers for Racine, while Harris and Gebhardt guard- ed our territory with admirable skill. The five-man defense of Racine made our competitors take many long shots. The score was 2948. VVAUWA UTosA Both the first and second teams of Viiauwautosa were annihilated by our men, the first with a score of 74f9, the second 5243. All the men on both teams were used by Mr. Cox, our coach. A huge crowd of zealous rooters led by our eminent cheerleader, Jimmy Von Ger- meten, made the Stephen Bull School tremble on its foundations. 7 VVATERTOWN Friday, February the thirteenth, was a lucky day for the Racine High School players as they revenged themselves for their defeat by Watertown in the tourna- ment of last year. Both teams used the

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five-man defenseg but Racine with its passes broke down the foe's guard. Wie led at the end of the first half 12 fO. The final score was 4042. VVHITEWATER The following day our fellows played Vivhitewater in the latteris gym. and won by the close score of Z3f2l. The team made a wild attempt to get some sleep in Klilwaukee the previous night and rode several hours on Saturday in order to reach iivhitewater in time for the game. These things of course tired the fellows out, and they couldn,t display their best ability. As our forwards were carefully guarded during the entire game, Grover was necessarily the point getter. The score at the end of the first half was 11f9 with Racine on the short end. VVhen the second half started, the fellows showed that they had made up their minds be- tween halves as to just what was going to happen. Davies took Harrisis place in the second half and quite unconsciously dropped two neat baskets from the middle of the fioor. The final play left the score in our favor. TQENOSHA The next game was played in Kenosha. For a while it looked as if Kenosha had done considerable practicing since its defeat by Racine some weeks previous. Racine, however, used all it had for a few minutes just to make things lively. They rolled up a nice-sized score, thereby win- ning the game. Something should be said of the crowd that turned out for the Kenosha game. It certainly was a whopper and part of it tried to suffocate on the special cars. EAST CHICAGO The following day Racine played ljast Chicago at Racine. This was tooted to be one of the best of the season since the ou t-of-town fellows had a reputation down in Indiana. The fellows had saved their pep for this game instead of using it all Q at Kenosha and the score certainly showed it. The final score was 37e9 with R. H. S. in the lead. XV ATE RTOWN The next week Watertown came to Racine with the general idea of giving us a drubbing. They were forced to think again. The game looked good for the first few minutes but the Racine quintet started things humming. Harris's eye was in working order and he dropped H points for Racine. Watertown took home the small end of a 40-12 score, while Racine had a good count with which to end the season. Basins wins Jfirst Blaze in bentinnal Zlliuurnannznt Our fellows went to the tournament with a great deal of confidence and back- ing. However, the first game we played was booked with Sheboygan who also had a clean slate. Sheboygan started things by dropping the first basket. The first quarter ended 4f2 and it looked like a hard game. The team got to going after this and rolled up a score of 26 against Sheboygan's 5. This was the highest score of the first round of games played at the tournament. In the second game of the tournament in which Racine participated, 'Whitewater was the opposing team. Since we had beaten them by only two points in the previous game at Vkhitewater everyone looked forward to a hard fought game. This time, however, the teams were play- ing on a neutral Hoof and, 'tho the game was not a walk-away, the quintet from R. H. S. made YVhitewater feel rather foolish when the final score showed 298 in favor of our fellows. By winning the first two games Racine earned the oppor- tunity to play in the finals. This meant that we couldn't get anything lower than second place. lt was on a Saturday night that about