South High School - Pot O Gold Yearbook (Lima, OH)

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FDR 1934 We View Qur Home Basketball Games QASKETBALL found South in about the same predicament as football-lots of scrap, speed and zip, but little size. However with the aid of Hilty, South's Moose Kraus, the squad more than held up their end of the score and proved themselves to be a credit to the school. Mr. Gaskins summarizes the season: Our season was successful up to the tournament and was especially pleasant, as we played some out- standing teams-Springfield, Central, Toledo Woodward, Findlay, and Dayton Roosevelt. The home games only are summarized. ADA-Well, it can't be said that South didn't open the season at home with a flying start. Parlette was high for South with nine points: the score, 30-10. SPRINGFIELD-A real game. Parlette was again hot with five iielders. McKeever, with a dead eye, dumped in five fouls without a single miss. I TOLEDO WOODWARD-Outside of winning the game, the thing that we remember best about the Toledo team is their names. South led throughout the entire game. Toledo made a come-back in the final quarter but the rally was too late. SHAWNEE-Don't kid yourself that Shawnee didn't have a good team this year. A tall. rangy crew, they were plenty good, but not enough to take South. Five buckets for McKeever. CENTRAL-Wow. what a game! Score 18-20 for Central in the last quarter. Then Mully made history by tying the score with that freak shot, and in the over time, Hilty, by reaching about two feet above every- body else, managed to lay in the winning two pointer. Heigh ho, and the best thriller of the season. PIQUA-Another close one. Piqua led every quarter but the last one -and that's the one that counts! South rolled up eleven points in the last period just like that. FINDLAY-A defeat. Hilty shone for South with six points, closely followed by Goodwin with live. ALUMNI- They ain't what they uster be. A picked grad team was beaten decisively. Both teams showed excellent foul line accuracy. CENTRAL-This was Central's game in both senses of the word. Central led all four quarters, and although South made a fine come back in the fourth, it was insuflicient. VAN WERT-South finished the last home game with. as much .zip as in the first one. Parlette accounted for fifteen pointsg Hilty, for nine. McKeever sank three fielders in the last quarter in almost as many seconds.

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PCT CD' GCDLD We Summarlze Qur Football Season HE football season this year found South with one of the most diflicult schedules of the school's history, and a serious lack of experience and weight. Despite these handicaps, South managed to send on the field one of the cleanest and scrappiest teams that have ever represented South High School. FORT WAYNE NORTH-South opened the season at Ft. Wayne North. The Tigers agreeably surprised the school by bringing back a victory over a highly touted team. Hoot Gibson was responsible for the only score. A run around left end followed a long gain by means of a freak pass, Parlette to Gibson. SPRING FIELD-The Waterloo of nearly all Ohio teams- this year proved disastrous to South's light squad. It was a question, as with the balance of their opponents, not of scoring, but of keeping Springiield's score as small as possible. TROY-The Troy game proved to be one of those in which the losing team is the better. South lost but was the stronger with regard to statistics. Troy received and made all of the breaks that account for scores. SHAWNEE-At Shawnee Gibson literally ran wild. Intercepting passes and going through the line on fifty to eighty yard jaunts at a clip, he accounted, alone, for twenty-four of the twenty-five points of South's end of the score. These gains plus the line plunges of Sousz, who, too, seemed impossible to be stopped, enabled South to roll up a total of 414 yards gained from scrimmage. . FOSTORIA-South met a Tarter in Fostoria. Shearer, a beefy full- back, literally ground the light South squad in the dust. S0uth's score, the only safety of the season, was brought about by Harris. CINCINNATI ROGER BACON-In the Roger Bacon game the team proved their Tiger scrappiness and tenaciousness by coming back in the last quarter and almost defeating the champions of Cincinnati. Captain Curry accounted for seven points, Harris and Joe O'Donnell, a touchdown apiece: and Shinabery scored on two perfect placekicks. PIQUA-The South-Piqua affair, no doubt, accounted for a good many of Coach Seitz's gray hairs. From beginning to end the game was nip and tuck with South playing a better game, but losing the ball at critical moments through intercepted passes and blocked punts. NAPOLEON-The Napoleon eleven proved to be as difficult to defeat as their namesake was. A heavy line held South's fleety backfield powerless and the opposing team was stopped in scoring only by the alertness and brilliant playing of the line. CENTRAL-The annual South-Central game was played this year in ankle deep mud on Armistice Day, instead of on the customary Thanks- giving Day. A heavy Central team wore out the valiant Tigers, until finally, in the fourth quarter, when pluck and dogged perseverance gave up to utter weariness, Central scored the only touchdown.

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