Viroqua High School - Pipe of Peace Yearbook (Viroqua, WI)

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Basketball I 926 About sixty boys reported to Coach Mattison for basketball this year, but when the squad was chosen the number was decreased to twenty. Only one man, Clarence Roberg, was back from among last years regulars, and it was necessary to develop an entirely new combination. The first game was the Westby game, considered one of the hardest of the season, to be played on the home floor. The team seemed unable to get into the fighting spirit, and, after losing the first game, reverse after reverse was suffered. Injuries and ineligibility took their toll, causing a general upset in the functions of the team. In the next two games we were defeated in turn by Prairie du Chien and Richland Center, both veteran teams. Then came the return game with Westby. Filled with determination, the team and several rooters went to Westby and, although somewhat hampered by the size of the playing floor, succeeded in winning. The game was hard fought, with Kinserdahl and Roberg starring for Viroqua. , The team made the trip to Sparta and came home at the short end of the score, having played a very slow game. The Bangor game, on the home floor, proved to be one of the fastest and best played contests ever seen in Viroqua. The teams were almost evenly matched, and the lead was held alternately during the first three quarters. In the final minute, with Bangor leading, Richmond broke loose for a shot which tied the score. In the overtime period Roberg made a basket, followed immediately by one for Bangor, and, with only a few seconds to play, Richmond netted the winning basket. Roberg, competing in his last game for Viroqua, did the wonderful work which has been characteristic of him throughout. At this time the loss of two regulars because of the age limit made it necessary to match a team composed almost entirely of green players against the more veteran teams of our district, with disastrous results. After losing the remaining five games on the schedule, the team was called into an elimination contest at La Crosse, the games played to decide upon a team to compete in the district tournament. They were eliminated in their first game, but the experience gained will be beneficial to them in the future. The members of the team who will not compete in basketball for Vi- roqua again are: Captain Sherry, Lawrence Kinserdahl, Clarence Roberg, Sydney Wheelock, Kenneth Tuhus, Olaf Gald, and Torger Espe. The work of Kinserdahl, Roberg and Wheelock has been commendable all season. Espe was kept out of the regular lineup becau se of 1nj uries at the beginning of the season. Our team was feared by every team which they played, ranking high in the esteem of their opponents, and rece1v1ng the respect due every Viroqua team.

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Top Row-C. Hulsether tManageri, K. Burkhardt, T. Espe, P. Tryggestad, R. Felix, V. Welch, L. Tryggestad, L. Enerson, Mr. Mattison tCoachi Second Row-R. Nelson, J. Richmond, S. Wheelock, K. Tuhus, T. Sherry, C. Roberg, O. Gald, K. Kellicutt. BASKETBALL CAPTAIN i SCORE LIST In our basketball competi- Westby 19 tion this season our team was P . . d Ch' 18 led by Captain Thorwald Sher- ?alrle u M ry. Tolly is a Senior, and also Rlchland Center 19 represents Viroqua in track Westby 7 and football. 'i Sparta 22 Tolly has worked his way Bangor 15 upward in athletics, starting R' hl d C t 1 with the class teams in his . m an en er 3 Freshman and Sophomore ' Bangor 16 years. He has made wonder- . Sparta 30 iul progreis Cfoghat this year ; ' Mauston 14 e triump e y winning a W ' - - place on both the football and V Erilrle du Chen :3 basketball teams, being en- omen trusted with the basketball captaincy. 212

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R. Favor OCaptaini, C. McKibbin, O. Felland, P. Engler, L. Rabbitt. The first boys, interclass basket-ball games were played February eleventh. The Senior team met the J uniors and had no serious trouble in defeating them 7-2. The Freshmen held the Sophomores to a lone basket in their contest and won 11-2. This left the championship game to be play- ed by the Freshmen and Seniors. The Freshmen had a strong team and had beaten the Senior team in a previous game, which was played as a pre- liminary to the Sparta game. In the final game the Seniors were Victorious by a score of 3-1, giving them the interclass championship. Since no boy who played on the first squad was eligible to compete in the interclass games, the chances of winning were about equally divided between the classes. The Senior and Freshman teams had a slight advan- tage in that they had played together several times preceding the tour- nament. The Senior team consisted of Ray Favor tCaptain, Alwin Anderson, Kenneth Peterson, Lawrence Larson, Pearl Engler, Lawrence Rabbitt, and Carlyle McKibbin. In the championship game Anderson starred for the Seniors, making three points which won the game. Bud Morrison and Joe Grimsrud played good basket-ball for the Freshmen in every game and dis- tinguished themselves by their floor work and shooting ability. The whole Freshman team in fact deserve honorable mention, for, although diminu- tive in size, they displayed very promising basket-ball ability against their larger and more experienced opponents. h5gh