West Fairmont High School - Maple Leaves Yearbook (Fairmont, WV)

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lliifp ijl l 65-PLGLEAUES kill ggaskeilazxll fbantea F. H. S. 22-WEST UNION 7 New Year's evening saw the Polar Bears growling in West Union in one of the holiday games. The lcemen ran roughshod over the West Union Bas- keteers, and won a one-sided game by the score of 22-7. The game was featured by the shooting of Captain Satterfield. of the local school. The Blue and Whites showed their superiority over the other courtmen in practically all parts of the game. F. H. S. 24-ALUMNI 10 The Polar Bears opened the 1926 season on the basketball court December '50, with a decisive victory over the old grads. The game was a closely con- tested affair in the first quarters. At the end of the half the score being 14-8 in the High School Tossers' favor. The last half, however. was where the youngsters showed their superiority, out-scoring the Alumni 5 to 1. The final score was 24 to 10. Captain Satterfield was high point man. with four field baskets to his credit. FAIRMONT 30-MONONGAH 11 Displaying a fast passing game. the Fairmont Polar Bears completely out- classed the Miners from Monongah. Led by Satterfield and Fisher, the Polar Bears whipped Monongah to an eighteen to nothing score in the first half. Al- though the passing in the first half was brilliant, the boys showed need of improvement in shooting. In the second half the reserves were sent into the fray, and not until then did the Miners break through the solid defense set by the Fairmont team. Not until they had looped two or three in from the charity line did they get confidence enough to score a field goal. They were outscored by the reserves to a 12-ll count. The fans were very much pleased with the showing made by the Bears. F. H. S. 28-BUCKHANNON 9 Fairmont High School renewed her athletic relations with Buckhannon on January 9. 1926. It was the first game since the football season of 1923. Fairmont showed her friends in the fair city of Buckhannon that she had not forgotten the game of basketball. At half time the warriors from F. H. S. led by a score of 22-2. Coach Frank lce then gave the reserves a chance to demon- strate their ability before the rival crowd. They did this in a way which can be seen by the results of the final score. They scored 6 while Bullman's men collected 7. The final score ended with the Bears leading 28-9. F. H. S. 29-FAIRVIEW 18 The beginning of the game on January ll saw the reserves in the regulars' places against Carr Ferguson's Fairview Basketball Tossers. The reserves did more than good and held the strong Fairview High to a 9 to 5 count for the first half. Not willing to let the game get beyond our grasp, Ice substituted the first team for the second and they ran roughshod. scoring 24 points. while Fairview did well to duplicate their scoring over the first half. The game ended with the Polor Bears leading and victorious by a 29-18 count. F. H. S. 20-UNIONTOWN 37 The Blue and White Court Warriors were stopped at last-20-37 was the result of the game played at Uniontown on January l2. Although the Polar Bears came out on the short end of the score, they had by far the better and Page 104 -. 9 ni: lui -4 A 4 .J

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Q .Y JU' H - ' -LW' ll ll6jPL6LGllUE3i 1 g 'Kill smoother floor work. The Icemen were flawless in their passwork, but were away below par in shooting. Hyatt, All-American substitute and Captain of the Keystone Champions, did all in his power to contribute to the local's downfall. He made eleven field baskets and two in five fouls. This was the first defeat for the Fairmont High team in six starts and the first for 1926. F. H. S. 28-WASHINGTON-IRVING 13 The Hrst quarter ended, Washington-Irving, 7: F. H. S., 7, the half ended 11-ll, the third quarter, 19-12 in Fairmont's favor, and at the final whistle the Polar Bears led by a 28 to 13 count. By the facts stated you may have an imaginary vision of the mighty Bears piling up the score in the second half while Washington-Irving had to be content with two free points, one in each of the last two quarters. Tork was high point man in this floor battle, caging five Held goals and making good three free throws in as many chances. On the evening of January 15, many Fairmont fans were in the gym at Washing- ton-Irving and everyone was well pleased with the showing made by the lcemen. F. H. S. 15-SHINNSTON 18 The Hrst defeat of the year!! It hurt a little, but some unpleasant things must be endured with the joyful. January 16 saw Shinnston's lanky, orange colored warriors emerge victorious from a hard fought battle by a score of 18 to 15. Was Fairmont over confident? Were they outplayed? Weren't they as good as the Shinnston team? None of the questions deal with the real rea- son, which is: Fairmont's schedule beat them, They were over conditioned and were unable to hold their supremacy over such a hard battling team. We offer no alibies. We were defeated by a good team. F. H. S. 37-BUCKHANNON 15 After a rest of two days, on January 19 the Icemen were back in the game with as much fight as ever, Although they were still weak in making the ball go through the rim, they completely outplayed the Upsur County Basketball Tossers and were leading when the game ended by a rather one-sided score of. 37-15. The Polar Bears were leading at the half by a 16 to 5 score. Satter- field and Tork did the bulk of scoring before they were removed from the game by Coach Ice, who replaced them with two substitutes. The foul shooting of the Icemen was better than in any previous game, making good seven shots out of eleven chances. The little Polar Bears did considerable growling also as they replaced the old heads. FAIRMONT 24-HUNDRED 12 Holding the strong Hundred Basketball Tribe to two field baskets in three quarters of an exciting game seems impossible, but we did this on January 22, At the beginning of the last quarter, the second Varsity was substituted, and Hundred, taking advantage, scored five points on the Little Bears. Coach Ice used twelve men, and they all did their bit in helping to aid in the downfall of their rivals, the 1925 district champions. Hundred High School brought a large body of followers to see their team defeat the Polar Bears, but they were very much disappointed, for when the last Whistle blew the Blue and White warriors were leading by a 24-12 score. FAIRMONT 25-UNIONTOWN 27 The greatest exhibition of basketball ever seen in Fairmont. This was what could be heard after the great basketball game on January 26, 1926, in Page 105