Roanoke High School - Acorns Yearbook (Roanoke, VA)

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112 awrns uf isuauuiae 1917 all they had, to the last second of play. ln the first quarter we had trouble getting started, handling a new ball we fumbled several times, but after the first five minutes we gave l... H. S. a pretty good idea of what our intentions were, and we carried these intentions out. A few minutes after the second quarter started we succeeded in scoring a touchdown through their line after steadily advancing the ball from our territory into theirs. All during the first half the goal was kept in danger, We were as strong in the last half as in the first and on a well-executed forward pass to Yates we scored another touch- down from easy striking distance of their goal, making the score I4 to 0. We really beat them worse than the score shows. They didnlt earn two first clowns throughout the game. All the breaks went against us as we were penalized time after time and lost several good chances to score on account of fumbles. The entire back field starred on the offensive while Meador, lVlcConnell, H. Yates and Rankin were the R. H. S. strength on the defensive. This game put the Hill-toppers out of the race for the state championship and gave us the title for the western part of the State. John Marshall High School. .33 Roanoke High School ...... IO Saturday, December Zd, we went to the fair grounds to battle with John Marshall High School of Richmond for the championship of Virginia, but our battling was in vain. Soon after the starting whistle blew it was plain that we were up against a team superior in weight and speed. Our boys scored first on a place kick by Captain Gettle, but our opponents found little trouble in scoring a touchdown soon after and continued to drive their plays over us almost at will. After recovering a lVl. H. S. fumble on their twenty-yard line we pushed the ball over for a touchdown in the second quarter. When the first half ended the score was 20 to I0 and when the game ended it was 33 to l0, as they made two touchdowns in the last half while we were unable to score again. Hock and lVleador at the ends did stellar work, boxing in all end runs. Rankin played his usual good game while no other player on the team displayed any of their former class. Care for lVl. H. S. was in- vincible at quarterback. Although we ended rather disastrously we had a very successful year, winning live out of seven games and winning the championship of the western part of the State. We defeated, decisively, two old rivals, Lynchburg High and Randolph-Macon Academy. We also trounced Salem, who could hardly be called a football rival of R. H. S., but whom it is always a great pleasure to beat.

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114- Snur11s,nflKnaunke 1917 Girls' Basket-Ball C. H. IVIEISSNER ..... ..... C oacI'i A JEAN FRANKLIN ...... .... IVI anager CAROLYN MEADOWS .. ...., Captain RUTH IVIEISSNER ..,.. .... IVI ascot Team EMMA COOK ..... JEAN FRANKLIN IVIARIAN MOOMAW VIRGINIA BOLLING .... EDNA WELSH ,........ CAROLYN MEADOWS CAPTAIN Mzmaows NELL. ESTES ...,....... Substitutes BAKER - LACY PENN CHILDRESS MUNDY KREBS LEAVELL A LJAVINDER H. PENN . . . . .Right Forward . . . . .Left Forwards ........Cen,ter . . . . .Right Guard ........I..eft Guard . . . .Running Center MANAGER I-'RAN KLIN