Trivoli Community High School - Memoir Yearbook (Trivoli, IL)

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1 ------- --fra ------- tied at 20-all, Trivoli came to the front with a steady deluge of Held goals. At supper, t'Twenty to Twenty-Eight was the tune to which they ate. We won. A telegram from home fans was received just be- fore the game and stirred that old fighting spirit to its highest pitch. The Normal High School team boasted every player to be a gentle- man, and we found them to be so. Even in defeat they displayed that fine spirit of clean sportsmanship which is everywhere met with cheers. At nine o'clock Saturday evening, Trivoli met Canton in the final game of the tournament. It never been the policy of our high school when defeated, to come home with a liost of excuses. This year's team is no exception. Canton has a wonderful team, made up of fine, clean players, who fought hard and deserved to win. The final gun found Trivoli's ship grounded on a high Canton rock I3-52, but with all ten survivors of the team clinging tragically to a beautiful second place shield. To enter a team of inexperienced players, only one of whom had played on last year's five, in a tournament considered by sport critics as one of the fastest ever held in Central Illinois, would generally be considered foolhardy. But when this same team comes through and by playing the longest schedule in the tournament, pulls down a secon-Ll place, there must be some reason. The one big reason is Coach Peters, the only coach who has ever developed a team in Trivoli good enough to bring home a tournament trophy. The team returned home by way of Farmington Sunday morning, defeated, whipped, down, but never out. Spirits began to revive and the sting of defeat was slightly lessened as the second place shield was hung in our own school. Throughout the tourney the team was cheered on by a body of loyal rooters who braved terrible weather and roads which were said to be impassable, just to see their favorites fight through to the final game. Such backing is always of great aid to a team and in this case, at least, was highly appreciated. C. L. A., Class of '24. Just Dope Throughout the winter it has become the favorite pastime of sport editors and critics to select All-Star teams at the various tournaments. In this department Trivoli athletes have received their full share ol honors and in three years of tournament competition have been awarded eleven of the coveted positions on All-Star teams selected by some of the most prominent critics in central Illinois. The complete record of individual honors is as follows: Macomb Invitation Tournament, 1922 Left Forward .........................................................,....................... Arlo Peters Page Eighty-one

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, n lClllBhlh --HQIHDLZHI Macomb Invitation Tcrurnament, 1923 Right Forward and Captain ,.... .........................,..................... R usselll White Right Guard ..................................................,.........................,... Leslie Kelly Peoria District Tournament, 1922 Right Guard ...,..........................................,..............,.,.............. Russell White Macomb Invitation Tournament, 1923 Center ., .........................,..,.........,...........................,.,................. Russell White Canton District Tournament, 1923 Right Forward ................................,.........................,............... Russell White Right Guard ..........................,........................................... Chester Anderson Canton Holiday Tournament, 1924 Right Guard ...................,.,.........,....................................... Chester Anderson Macomb Invitation Tournament, 1924 Right Guard and Captain ..................................,...,........... Chester Anderson Right Forward ..................................................,................. Lloyd Goodman Peoria District Tournament, 1924 Right Guard ..........................................,...............l.........., Chester Anderson High Point Man Peoria District Tournament, 1922 Canton District Tournament, 1923 Macomb Invitation Tournament, 1922 Winner-Russell White High Point Man Canton Holiday Tournament, 1924 Macomb Invitation Tournament, 1924 Winner-Lloyd Goodman Tea m Honors First Place .......................,.............. Third Place .........,.....,.......,.................. Second Place Second Place Second Place ............... ....... ................. Third Place.. Macomb Invitation Tournament, 19222 ..Peoria District Tournament 1922 in Losers' Schedule..Macomb Invitation Tournamenti 1923 Canton District Tournament, 1923 .Canton Holiday Tournament, 1924 Macomb Invitation Tournament, 1924 Macomb Invitation Tournament 'Twas on Wednesday eve, February 13, 1924, that the Trivoli high basket ball team with Coach Peters, bade a party of friends good-bye, and took their departure for Macomb. The first night was spent in Abingdon, and the next day the journey was completed. The first game was at five o'clock with Table Grove. This team was a dark horse to Trivoli tribe, and it was with cautious steps, that PageEighty-three