Roosevelt High School - Ranger Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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BOYS' ATHLETICS SOCCER Although Fred Gosnell, student coach, began the season with only two lettermen, he has developed a team which fully lives up to the Fighting Teddy spirit. Two veterans, Pruitt and Diclcey, along with Pieper, are the mainstays of this year's team. At this writing the team has played several games, losing to Jetierson, Commerce, and Grant. The squad displayed somewhat mediocre ball against Jefferson, but it improved rapidly, losing to Commerce and Grant only by very narrow margins. As there is a number of games remaining on the schedule, the team can still boost itself to a high position in the Final standings. The First eleven is as follows: Reese, goalie, Pruitt and Diclcey, lullbaclcs, Zach, Dutro, and Brougher, halfbaclcs, Kenney, Pieper, Buclc, Childs, and Clarlce, forwards. 0 O 0 ROOSEVELT GROWTH A few years ago, when Roosevelt High School was younger, we wondered when all the room would be talcen and new facilities required. This has come upon us quite rapidly. First we outgrew our auditorium, and our new, spacious auditorium was added. This gave us more room for physical training worlc in the gymnasium, and manual training had to have additional room. Meanwhile enrollment has steadily increased and linds us with more than seven hundred students. A class ol lorty-eight is being graduated at this time, but a freshman class ol about one hundred comes lor the opening of the next term, malcing a natural increase ol more than Fifty. The class rooms and registration rooms are full to capacity, crowded, in lact, and the new term- Spring, 1934-will call for several portable rooms. These will be used until condi- tions warrant the addition of a new gymnasium which will malte possible the construc- tion ol class rooms out ol the present gymnasium wing. l-low to get along pending the change of conditions which will malce these improvements possible is a problem which already worries the management. However, this state of affairs is not the worst that could happen. The school is growing and will grow even more rapidly than before. These changes and additions will be required, and now, when material and construc- tion cost are at a minimum is the time to act. Page 'fuienly-nm

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FOOTBALL ln spite of the fact that our Teddies won but two of their games, the season as a whole was a great success. ln fact this season helped cure our financial difficulties as they have never been cured before. Too much praise cannot be given to every man on the squad, from the captain to the last sub. Although the latter had not much chance to win fame on the field, they were the lads who made the first team possible, and are the ones to whom we look for victory next year. While on the subject of praise, we must save plenty for Coaches York and Garber. Coach York is to be commended for the results he secured from green material. Coach Garber is the gentleman who took what was left, called them the fighting thirds, and walked off with the unofficial city championship of the junior division. The Rough Riders received a tough break at the first of the season when Stanley Second Story Anderson, who showed promise of becoming an all-star, met with an accident that crippled him for the remainder of the football year. The team was built entirely around our triple-threat artist, Joe Gray. As Joe per- formed, so did the team perform. Proof of this is the fact that Joe was awarded the Zell Bros. trophy for being the most valuable man to his team in the city and the fact that he also landed a berth on each of the city all-star teams in the capacity of quarter- back and captain. ' The highlights of the Teddy season were: first, our brilliant 13 to O victory over Benson, second, our 65-yard last-minute touchdown march to give us a 7 to O victory against Franklin, and third, our game with Commerce, in which we went down to a glorious defeat by a score of TO to 7. This game is said to have been one of the toughest, hardest-fought, high school battles ever to be played on the Stadium field. Following is a list of the games played and the seasons scores: Roosevelt Vancouver. Roosevelt St. Helens. Roosevelt Lincoln. . . Roosevelt Benson. . . Roosevelt, .. . Grant. . .. Roosevelt Franklin. . . Roosevelt Commerce. Roosevelt Jefferson. . Roosevelt Washington l'ii,i1i' 'l'1i'mly-uiglit

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GIRLS' ATHLETICS GIRLS' BASKETBALL . Girls' baslcetball, under the coaching of Miss Van Groos, was more successful this season than ever before. The success was mainly due to the enthusiastic response to the call for players. Nine teams turned out: two third-term teams, one special squad, and one team for each other term except the eighth. The principal contenders for the championship were the fourth, fifth, and seventh termers. The final game, played by the fourth and fifth termers, was the most outstanding game of the season. The score was 'IQ to 7 in favor of the fourth termers. This game was the deciding one for the championship, leaving the fourth termers the undefeated victors. The members of the championship team are: Forwards: Helen Forsythe, Kathryn Emery, Alona Loomis. Centers: l'lazel Glass, Carol Glennon. Guards: Elsie McGinnis, Allee Wilson. Twelve girls qualified for the all-star team this year, so it was necessary to choose two teams. All all-star teams are chosen on the basis of 5092, sportsmanship, and 50175. ability. First team: Forwards: Velma Lemming, Vera Berger. Centers: l-lazel Glass, Judy Tharp. Guards: Betty McDonald, Elsie McGinnis. Second team: Forwards: Mildred Bachman, Grace Learned. Centers: Dorothy Chaney, Carol Glennon. Guards: Alma White, Marguerite Zinlc. Volleyball, indoor, and speeclball will be the sports offered to the girls next semester in order to help them earn points for their athletic letter. A girl, if she wishes, can worlt for an athletic letter all eight terms, however, she can secure a letter in two years if she participates and earns at least 750 points in the following athletic enterprises: girls' gym leader, 'TOO points, gymnasium, 50 points, basketball, Q5 points, indoor, Q5 points, volleyball, Q5 points, speedball, Q5 points. If a girl is on a championship team, or on the all-star team, she is awarded another 'IO points. The girls receiving athletic letters this semester are: l-lelen Aclclen, Grace Learned, Naida May, Maxine Merrill, and Marguerite Zinlc, Page Thirty