South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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----Ex-Pres. Stover holds a strenuous meeting----- Oh Ernest, dear, yon need not fear This picture looks like you— The artist queer, who drew it, dear, Had nothing else to do. ----President Rossman makes a speech------ Now I declare, it isn’t fair To make you look so funny— But then my pearl, it’s only Earle, So don’t feel bad “ma honey.

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---Ex-Pres. Hang calls to order- Ob SwennyBang, you’ll never hang While “Gilligan” makes “a hit”— For it’s a frost, that he is lost; “He’ll do as ho sees fit.” ----Ex-Pres. Bars© “In the chair”-- Oh dear Ray Barse, this awful farce Of “Tonic Nourishment” Is just a josh, an awful bosh— To help your “flourishment.”

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THE SCHOOL IN ATHLETICS HE South High School Athletic Association, an organization controlling athletics at that insti tution, has been represented in every athletic contest between the high schools since it has been in existence. Even when there were but two hundred students in the South High and among these only a small number of boys, we had our baseball and our football teams. In 1891 when track athletics were first introduced in the high schools, South High came out with a team and an open challenge. The only other high school at the time having a track team was our old rival, Central High. A dual track meet was arranged and the following year saw the organization of the Northwestern Interscholastic Athletic Association which has since governed the track athletics of the highs of St. Paul, Minneapolis and Stillwater. We have since lost and won several games and meets. In 1900 our prospects were excellent for a winning baseball team and nothing but the pennant could be expected with such men as Garvey, Ellis, Za-lusky, Kersten and Hoover were in the game. So when the baseball season ended, South High was proclaimed the winner of the baseball championship of the season of 1900. In the spring of 1901, South High made a great showing at the spring track meet. Although the Orange and Black did not win the meet they won the distinction of having made thirty-four points against the twenty-six made by the other three Minneapolis high schools combined. In the fall of 1901 two new teams were introduced into South High, they were the Boys’ and Girls’ Basket Ball teams. The credit of introducing these teams into South High must be given to Mr. John Wood, captain, and Mr. Stover, manager, of the first basket ball team. Great interest was aroused in this new game and considering the difficulties which the boys 12