Richmond High School - Shield Yearbook (Richmond, CA)

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BASKET BALL Francis MacLaughlin, Captain Basket ball this year had to be organized upon an entirely new basis. Few men were left who had played on last year’s team, so the men who were to compose our team were largely lacking in experience. Picking a team froi inexperienced men was thus the task put to our coach, but he managed to pluek a good share of victories from defeat. As in Football, the season opened with the defeat of the Alumni. When the season was in full swing several of our players, through accidents, were ‘Danheoseseeerte LOVING cuP unable to play. This unfortunate oecurrence made it necessary to break in new men, but nevertheless the team kept on with many triumphs. Schools which had not been defeated by our last year’s team, were now the losers, and on the whole, the entire season was a success. As we look into the future of Basket Ball in Richmond [High we see teams which will excel all others put on the court by our school. This is not idle talk, because the present unusual work of the lower classmen means the ready experience and ability of future teams. BASEBALL Curtis Smith, Captain For many years baseball has been a grave question in the Richmond Union Ihgh Sehool. Lack of backing, lack of funds to purchase baseball ma- terial, and heated discussion against baseball kept the American pastime in the baek-ground in Richmond High. This season the live baseball element rallied its forces and a baseball team aor a

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-— op ACTIVITIES 3. 4 2 ey La FOOTBALL Arthur Fischer, Captain At the beginning of each year there are many difficultieS$to face-in the athletic programs. The coach must pick the teams according to the abilityand experience of the players. Ability is not so important as experience, btit on¢ directly follows the other. The experience of an athlete makes the expert player. This year we have met lack of experience in several of our games but in each ease we have eome out on top because of ability. The first experience of this sort was in football. American football was introduced into our school as an entirely new game, for very few fellows had ever played or even witnessed an American game. Rugby was well known, but this made it still harder to grasp the fine points of the American game. With the opening of the season many showed up for practice, and after several weeks of hard coaching by Major Hill, difficulty after difficulty was overcome. The opening game, following tradition, was played with the Alumni. The outcome was a victory for the school which proved the ability, but not the experience, of the team. The two following games spelled defeat for our team, but this only made the boys buck the line harder, and the result proved their grit and spirit. Each game found an improvement in the team, and when the season ended, the games won outnumbered those lost. The success of this year’s team is due to the keen coaching of Major Hill. Next season the team will be captained by Clyde Cassidy, and because the fellows are more accustomed to the game, we look forward to a very suc- cessful year. ef, aa

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was fitted out in every detail; suits, baseballs, gloves, and players started the season off with a ‘‘Bang.’’ Practice was started and in short order Major Hill had a team going which equalled any other team in its class. Although the first few games did not turn out victories for the Richmond team, the score board did not reveal the op- posing teams leading by a very large margin. The first game, which was played against the fast Hitcheock Military Academy nine, end- ed with Hitcheock leading by a single run. The next couple of games were duplicates of the first game, with the op- posing nines winning out in the latter chapters by one or two runs. Considering everything, baseball has been a great success. It has given some the chance to prove their ability in the athletie fields of our school. Those who do not qualify in basketball, football, and traek should have a chance to show what chey are made of by making a berth on the baseball team. This year’s team has discovered many good athletes and with the coming year we look forward to their showing up finely in other athletic events. 1921 TRACK SEASON Hale Stoddard, Captain Track at Richmond was revived last year under the captaincy of Norman Woodford, and with the guiding hand of our able Major Hill. Our track team developed finely, and in a track meet with the up-country schools, under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A., Richmond’s track team brought home the vic- tory, which gained for us two handsome silver cups. Altho a number of our.most important track stars had left us we still had the framework of a good track team. We filled up the weak places with the new stars with the result that we had a track team able to represent Richmond Hi on any oval. The interclass mect, held on April 1, was a great suecess—lots of fun for everybody. The Juniors had definitely figured out how the meet was to go, but as an April joke the Seniors slightly changed the figures. After a neck to neck run, the Seniors came out in the lead by three points. The final results stood as follows: Seniors, 52; Juniors, 49. Richmond’s 1921 track team tried its wings for the first time in a meet With Cogswell High of San Francisco, and found them in excellent con- dition. Richmond took the lead in the initiai events and kept it to the end. The score was 80-42. The last meet of the season was with Concord, Crockett, and Mission High, | ee