Willow Springs High School - Willamizzou Yearbook (Willow Springs, MO)

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n e The 1939 Willamizzou e e BASKETBALL TED MUNFORD, Coach Swift 0n the heels of the closing of football season came the gala opening of the basketball season. The opening of the season found the W535. luminaries. at practice early in anticipation of a busy season. On December 13, the Bears opened the season by winning over the Norwood five by a score of 43-33. Thesecond game of the season was lost to the Mountain View cagers here by a score of 36-23. The Bears next met and defeated the West ;Plains Zizzers here by a score of 39-25. On January 6 the Mountain Grove Pan- 'thers defeated the Bears by a score of 21-16. The week-end of January 12 and 13 found the Bears in a tournament at Birch Tree. The Bears won their first game from Winona by a score of 28-15. The second game, however, was lost to the Birch Tree team by a score of 20-25, thus eliminating the Bears. On January 20 the Bears lost another thriller to Thayer by a score of 21-24. The Bears were unsuccessful in winning any games in the S.C.A. tournament held at Mountain Grove the following week. The first game was lost to Mountain Grove by a score of 15-18 and the second was lost to Summersville by a score of 22-36. The Bears lost their second game with Mountain View by a score of 29-35 on January 31. A game played here with Licking resulted in a decisive Victory for the Bears, winning by a score of 47-15. A closely contested game was played on February 7 and won by the Bears by a score of 40-38 overithe Seymour five. On February 10 the Bears were defeated by the Cabool Bulldogs by a' score of 31-39. Summers- Ville won a decisive Victory over the Bears when they defeated them by a score of 30 to 57. The Bears suffered another defeat, this time by the West Plains Zizzers, by a score of 25-38. The next two games were played with and won by the Houston Tigers. The scores were 24-37 and 17-45. The Bears won their second victory over Norwood by a score of-39-36. Seymour defeated the Bears at Seymour by a score. of 34-18. The Bears wound up the season in the Sub-Division tournament held at Cabool the week of March 2-4. The Bears were nosed out of consolation by the Norwood five, after having made a gallant fight through three close games. tContinued on next pagei , 1. . 7'.

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,, n The 1939 Willamizmu t a R FOOTBALL TED MUNFORD, Coach' RUSSELL STRINGER, Assistant Coach The 1938 football season was a very successful one with the Bears winding up in second place, having been defeated only by the Mountain Grove Champions. The team opened the season here September 23 by losing to the Mountain Grove Panthers by a score of 14-33. The Bears proved themselves a good team when they defeated the Cabool Bulldogs on their own field by a score of 13-6. One week later, October 14, the Bears defeated the Thayer team by a score of 26-0. On October 21, the Bears met and defeated the West Plains Zizzers by a score of 34-7. Another decisive victory was chalked up when the Bears defeated the Cabool Bulldogs for the second time with a score of 36-0. On November 4 the Bears made their second loss of the season to Mountain Grove. by a score of 0-21. They scored their second victory over the Thayer team on November 11, when they won by a score of 33-6. The Thanksgiving Day game found the Bears winding up the season with a win over West Plains 39-7. The Bears scored a total of 195 points during the season while their oppon- ents scored only 80. Those who will be lost by graduation are Junior Barker, Eugene Graves, Bill Holland, Joyce Murrell, Euford Sigman, and Harvey Summers. - Those who will be back for next years season are Otis Rakestraw, Clifford Stringer, Russell Mitchell, Elliott Nelson, Hugh Frommell, Woodrow Bradford, Clair Corman, and John Wages, who are all juniors; Claude Ferguson, Willard Wagner, Nelson Murray, Weldon Goodman, Grover Hodges, Jack Abbey, Troy Wallin, Basil Hedrick, Jewell Thompson and Eugene Clingan, who are all soph- omores; Rufus Allen, Ralph Swecker, and Finis Cox, who are Freshmen. Clifford Stringer and Ira VVilbanksiwere chosen for the All Star Football Team while Russell Mitchell and Junior Barker were selected on the second All Star Team. Those receiving Honorable Mention were Eugene Clingan, Elliott Nelson, and Harvey Summers. ,

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p 3? ., The 1939H-Willamizzou e Hy BASKETBALL Mitchell was high point man for the season having scored 232 points. The total points are as follows: Mitchell, 232 ....... Junior FiSher, 24 ............................. Junior gtringer, 1;: -- $111301 Shryock, 12 ., .......... Sophomore erguson, . emor , . R. Smith, 87 .. Senior Clmgan, 2 -------------------------------- SOPh0m9re B. Smith, 33 .................................... Junior Barker, 1 -------------------------------------------- Semor Stringer was chosen for the All Star Team at the Sub-Division tourney. TRACK The largest track squad in the history of the school turned out in defense of our 1938 track championship; over thirty boys worked hard to fill the gaps made by graduation. Willow Springs sponsored two track meets. The first, a warm-up invitation- al meet in which five schools participated, was held April 1. Willow placed fourth. The second, the annual invitation meet qualifying winners for the state meet, was held under the floodlights April 14. Eleven schools competed; Willow placed second. The S.C.A. was held in West Plains and won by them; Willow won fourth place. Outstanding in track this year were Madden in the mile, best time 4'. 59 ; Stringer, discus, best distance 126 8 ; Nelson in the half and quarter; and Mit- chell, broad jump, 20' 8Vz . Those lettering were Madden, Stringer, Mitchell, Nel- son, Bradford, Swecker, Clingan, and Hodges.