Washington County High School - Sejusof Yearbook (Hagerstown, MD)

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Review of Football Season iVith an unusually light and inexperienced team the XV. C. H. S. came thru the football season with a successful record. Incidentally, we secured second place in the C. V. Athletic League, winning 3 of the 4 games played in the league and 4 out of 7 the entire season. VV ith only six letter men returning to School, Foach l'otlinberger tlll'11CLl out a first class team. However it takes more than a. few days to de- velop a. football player and the proper tea111 play was l10t obtained until the middle of the season. l The only game in which the High School was outclassed was the first game of the season with Gettysburg, being badly defeated at that place. Our other games which we lost, our opponents did their scoring mostly in the first half. T A Everyone will agree that, the season was a success in more than one way, and it showed to the students that football was still gaining prominence at our school. Wfith at least twenty players reporting for practice each day Coach Poffenberger had ample material from which to choose tl1e team. Our backiield was among the best ever turned out in the high school. Hutzell, Yeakle, Gordon, Martin proved a backiield that was hard to stop. For- tunately, all these H1611 will be with the team next year. Our line, like most lines, had its ups and downs, but generally it was very steady and helped the back field in many a tight play. D The entire line will be lost this year thru graduation. Those being among the missing next year will be, Schindler, Steele, Middlekaulf, Shupp, Horine, and Schindel. Scliindel who was ill the entire season was a great loss to the team as he was especially good on the defense. Probably, our best game of the season and also the hardest fought game, was staged with Martinsburg. ln this contest Martinsburg used 18 players, during the game the score see-sawed from one side to the other. XV. C. H. S. came thru the game victorious after a brilliant stand the last few minutes, with a 12-18 score. Our last game of the season was with Charles Town, the team was a bit over-confident and Wo11 the game by a small ma.rgin of 0116 touchdown. lVe can never repay our worthy Coach Mr. Poflilnberger for the services he has renderd in turning out such a splendid team and can only hope his ef- forts will be rewarded by a Championship team next year. ' SCORES Gettysburg High . . . 45 WV S Gettysburg Academy 26 XV S Xvlllfflll-3Sf61' High .. 25 XV S Chambersburg High 0 YV S VVa.ynesboro High . 0 XV S Martinsburgh High 13 WV S Charles Town High G NV S Sixty-sfiar

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oocer Season , l Not so good, yet 11ot so bad, considering the confused practices during the month of September. ' The reason for such a. predicament, was the lack of a Soccer Coach. Mr. Hurley, the coach of former years, was unable to render his services during the season, which left tl1e sport in a sta.te of confusion until Mr. Plum- mer, the former coach of Wfillialnsport came to Surrey as a teacher. Mr. Plum- mer then put the team back to old form again. But old form was llflt enough to stand tl1e strain of the playing of our neighboring teams. 1 To interfere with our procedure, Fair week came and practice fell off during tl1at time, Zllld the following week. Clearspring, now the County Ullillll- pions, met our brave warriors on the side of a rocky field and won to the tune of 3 to 0. This of course set our eyes open, but experience at times is a dear teacher. ' Our next game was to be played at home, against the Boonsboro teamg our boys felt confident of winning this game but at the end of the first half the score was but 1 to 0 in our favor and a hard fight. The second half opened with a score for Boonsboro. Team work was called for and our team booted the ball through the Boonsboro Goal for three more poi11ts winning by 4 to 1. 1 ' The Hancock eleven wo11 by the same 'score that Clearspring had beaten us, only the lll6tll0tl of scoring was diderent, two of the points were penalty kicks. One fine evening a man short but heavily built bythe name of Mr. Steward silently watched ns at practice, then introduced himself as a Once professional Soccer Player, voluntarily gave up a little of his time each day in showing us the fi11e Il0l1ltS of tl1e game. lVe had the next game with Smithsburg and with Mr. Steward's in- structions scored 4 points 011 a muddy field, while our goal keeper had the ball within his reach but a very few times. The hVllil2I1llSl'l01't game without a doubt will go down as the hardest fought game ill the county's history. Both teams were about equal, both tie in tl1e League standing and to be played on the lVilliamsport field. At the end of th first half it was 1. to 0 i11 tl1e lVilliamsport team's favor. During this half two players were tilkfill off the field on account of injuries received. ' ' The second half was a case of 'tget through regardless of the conse- quences. Players bei11g knocked down right a11d left and about four or tive minutes before tl1e final, the lvilliamsport players in tl1e confusion of a corner kick scored against themselves. ' At the end of the period the score stood 1 to 1.. , An extra fifteen minutes was played, before a score which was to our favor, winning the game 2 to 1, and placing Hagerstown third place in the league, one point behind. Hancock. This ended the county Soccer season, but Mr. Steward continued to train the team and the next season's prospect. Games were played with'Han' cock, during this time and it was ill these games that Hagerstown scored on Hancock for the first time since the year 1921. If Mr. Steward is to be found during the 1924-25 sea.son theother county teams will have to work mighty hard to .win the St2li'GS-Cl1211IlplO1lSi1lll. Sfiarty-eight