West Salem High School - Neshonoc Yearbook (West Salem, WI)

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Galesville VS Salem Friday night Salem defeated Galesville in a return game, played at Galesville.With the score at the half 15-4 in our favor,Coach Nelson substituted frequently. Final score was 26-12. Onalaska VS Salem In our first conference game the Salem quintet was victorious over Onalaska hy a score of 26-19. The first man to go out on fouls was Bony Olson, who went out in the fourth quarter. Normy and Don led for Salem with 10 and 8 points respectively. Galesville VS Salem Our second conference game was played at Salem with Galesville. We were again victorious, the score being 23-12. Art Kengelt led for Salem with 8 points. The game was slow and draggy with Salem in the lead all the time. Galesville was held to 4 field goals. Alumni VS Salem In one of the fastest and cleanest games ever played in this gym the Orange and Black five edged out a 26-17 victory over the Alumni.Normy and Con led for the High School with 8 and 7 points respectively, while Klos lead the Alumni with 8. Bangor VS Salem Bangor High gave Salem its first conference defeat in a game played at Salem.lt was a hard fought game with the winners never far ahead and with the final 3Core 16-22. Art and Normy led for Salem with 6 points. Holmen VS Salem With Holmen came the second conference defeat for the Salem five,the score being 21-15 in favor of Holmen.This defeat put Salem in third place in the Coulee Conference. Normy led for Salem with six points.while Knut-sen connected for 14 points to pace the winners. Norwalk VS Salem Norwalk having won its game was paired against Salem in the second game. Getting off to a fast start Salem led at the end of the first period, 14-4. Durirjg the later part of the game Norwalk shortened this lead, and with only 15 seconds of play left, Kannel, Norwalk's center, sank the winning basket. Nelson had 9 points to lead the Salem scorers. The final score was 29-27. This defeat eliminated Salem from the tournament .

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Top Row: Manager A1 Blackburn, Norbert Boemecke, Lawrence Miller, Henry Paustian, Coach George Nelson. Front Row: Ralph Miller, Harley Olson, Millman Mengelt.Don Miller, Norman Nelson. Basketball Games Non-Conference Games Conference Games Salem 33; Westby 19 Salem 15; La Crosse W.B.U. 13 Salem 16; La Crosse Vocational 26 Salem 26; Alumni 34-35 17 Tournament Games Salem 24; Soldiers Grove 18 Salem 27; Norwalk 29 Salem 15; Holmen 21 Salem 26; Onalaska 19 Salem 23; Galesville 12 Salem 16; Bangor 22 Salem 21; Mindoro 26 Salem 16; Holmen 23 Salem 31; Onalaska 14 Salem 26; Galesville 12 Salem 10; Bangor 21 Salem 26; Mindoro 17 Bangor VS Salem Though trying to avenge a 22-16 defeat suffered earlier in the season, Salem was defeated again, 21-10. Boney led Salem with four points. Mindoro VS Salem A much improved Salem team took an early lead over Mindoro and kept it for the rest of the game. The Mindoro boys fought very bravely but could not accomplish anything. Captain Mengelt led for Salem with 12 points. This was the final conference game and left us in the 3rd place. Soldiers Grove VS Salem West Salem entered the Class C District Basketball Tournament at Reedsburg on March 5 and played the first game against Soldiers Grove. The game was even until the closing minutes, when Nelson gave Salem a safe lead until the end. Nelson led with 12 points. This win put us in the champion-ship bracket.

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Onalaska VS Salem Returning to the hardwood floor here at Salem, Coach Nelson and the Orange and Black swamped Onalaska 31 to 14. Don connected for six field goals and a pair of gift shots. The hous really played a good brand of basketball. Holmen VS Salem In order to share in the Coulee Conference title Sslem had to defeat Holmen. But the task proved too great and Salem went down to defeat. Anderson and Olson of Holmen broke through our defense repeatedly to score. Bony led the locals with 5 points. Final score Salem 16 - Holmen 23. Mindoro VS Salem In a game which resembled more a football game the Salemites were victorious over Mindoro 21-16. The referee called the boys of each team in a huddle twice and told them to take it easy. Don led for the victors with 11 points. Trip to Reedsburg It was on Thursday, March 5, when the basketball team left for Reedsburg to compete in the District Tournament held there. Though the boys went to their studies, their minds were on bigger and better things soon to come. At approximately 11:55 the train pulled out of Salem, pulling Coach Nelson, Higgy Weingarten.Mgr. A1 Blackburn, and nine players. Though the train bumped like a lumber wagon, we arrived at Reedsburg safely, after changing onto a different track at Elroy, where some of the boys lunched. We had expected to change cars, but different arrangements had been made.In the Cafe the boys told Bony Olson that he'd better rush into the car and get his baggage, for the train was just going down the line. He used his elongated legs to good advantage,and soon caught the car, where a kind conductor told him that the car was only being switched to another track. We got to Reedsburg a little after two, and immediately went to Hotel Huntely, where the rooms were dished out. Normy, Don, and Norbert Boemeke got room 38; Coach Nelson, Art, Al, and Inky got No. 43 and Bony, Rudy, Lorny, and I got 41. There was one lemon among the three rooms, and the last four got that one.There was one small window, and faced to the inside. The mattresses in the beds were lined with slabs of granite, and the gold bars fell out of the rails of the bed at every move. Queerly enough some of these same bars disappeared during our stay there. The rugs in the hotel were very thick, and every time you touched a bed, water faucet, water, or someone else you'd get a big shock. It was a common sight to see boys running down the halls, and then touching a water-pipe, making sparks several inches long. The only time the sparks failed to work was one afternoon, we wore out the rugs, our shoes but ne'er a shock did he get. We played our first game at four in the afternoon with Soldiers Grove an we won, 24-18. We celebrated at supper, eating a swell steak dinner .though the meal was spoiled for some when prunes were brought in for dessert. We went to bed early that night. Bony Olson slept with Lorny, and had quite a time, for Lorny seemed to think he was climbing a tree, said tree being Bony. The rest slept fine, though Nuts got a glass of water in his ear from some unknown source. The next morning we went through the Appleton Woolen Mills, which proved very interesting. In some departments girls were working,and we had quite a time keeping Higgy moving. At one place I heard everybody yelling at me but before I knew what was up, a big package of wool hit me on the head. I had been standing under a chute. That night we had a small supper, beoause of our game at eight. Vfe lost to Norwalk in a thriller, 27-29 in the last 15 seconds.Vfe probably would have won if we had had an assistant Coach like Bangor had. -24-