West High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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in the East High game, broken his hand and so was unable to take part in the next three games. We met South on October l'6th and were handed another defeat, the score being 21 to 6. The following week was a discouraging one for us, but we kept at it, determined to hold North down to as low a score as possible for they were looked upon as the champions of the city. As this game was our first victory of the season it deserves notice. Friday, the 23rd of ()ctober, was a wet and dark day, but the rain stopped just before the game started. The team certainly showed what it could do, and at the end of the game we had won by a score of 22 to 11. and this against the team that had not been scored on the year before. From this time on we had work, work, work, to perfect the plays that our coach had already drilled into us, but the next Friday we met defeat at the hands of Central by the score of 17 to 0. On the Friday following, we journeyed to St. Paul and held the fast St. Paul Central down to a score of 10 to 0 in their favor. The next Saturday we met Shattuck in Faribault where we were again defeated 17 to 0, and this ended our games for 1908. Next year, under the captaincy of Bright, the West High team should be one of the strongest in the city, as every man will be back except Webster, our star fullback. The men to earn the first football “W” given by West High are as follows: Joe Mattern....... Carroll Coppage. .. Floyd Langdon Earl Tumy......... Clifford Pollock. . St. Mathew Clark Russell Stair..... Noyes Bright...... Clinton Webster. . Ralph Capron...... Paul Ash.......... Carl Laurit .en ... Philip Lewis..... ......Right End ...Right Tackle ...Right Guard .....Left Tackle .....Left Guard .......Left End .....Quarterback ....Right Half .........Fullback ......Left Half .......Substitute .......Substitute Center, Capt. ’08 Philip Lewis. Twenty-three

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The Foot Ball Season of 1908, ri IIE football season we have just passed through, though we were badly defeated by five out of the six teams we met, on the whole was not altogether unsuccessful for a new team, when you stop to consider that no two men on the team had ever I played together before, and that only two had ever played in high school games before. We started the season on the 19th of September and the rest of the week was spent in passing and punting the ball and trotting around the field. In the week following we tried two different practice fields and finally decided on the first. During the next week the squad grew larger every day until on Friday it numbered fortv men answering to roll call, all of whom were duly equipped by the school. The next two weeks were spent in signal practice and learning the fundamental parts of football. T After this we started on Philip Lewis, Captain . . ,. , 1 scrimmage work, which daily grew longer and harder. The first team was rounded into shape for the first game of the season, which was played with East High on the 9th of October. It was here that we first met defeat by the score of 26 to 11. The next week was a hard one for all of us. Monday we spent in light signal practice and in getting limbered up, and the remainder of the week was devoted to hard, rough scrimmage work, preparing for the South Siders. Bright, one of the promising “backs,” had, 7'wenty-two

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West Hockey Team Bruce Lewis Calloway Overlock Bateman Gainsle Orth (Capt.) Schobbrg Brown Minneapolis High School Champions, 1908-1909 T N POINT of championship laurels in the athletics of the school, West hockey team, through a season of clean victories, must be conceded the palm. The loyal support of the school has done much to interest and further the comparatively new game among the student body. Under an organized league a schedule of games has been played. Through the help of Carl F. Struck, the use of the M. A. H. A. rink was obtained, and some very fine exhibitions of the Canadian sport were pulled off. Central was the first team to fall before West, the score being 12 to 0. South did not fare so well, being defeated by a score of 17 to 1. North was next taken and worsted by a score of 7 to 0. The last game, with East, proved to be an exciting struggle from bell to bell. The final count, however, resulted in a victory for West, with a 5 to 2 score. Twenty-four