Greenville High School
Greenville
High
Basketball
Team
1917-18
1917-18 Basketball Team-
Front row, seated with ball, Elmer Stanton, captain; Second row, left,
Norman Raub;
center, Mr.
Krall; Back row, far right,
James Kamerer
Click to enlarge photo
Others
basketball players in the photograph are Floyd Christman, David Seiple, and Albert
Jennings.
Boys
Basketball
Captain
Elmer
Stanton
Manager Mr. [H. A.]Krall
The Basketball Season was a crowning success. To the appreciators of
this sport the team furnished the grace and style imperative for both
interest and excitement. The
victories were not single handed victories of a brilliant giant start
such as is oftimes the case in this line of sport, but the winning
qualities and success of the team and the season must be attributed to
the artistic execution of well planned maneuvering and the speed with
which the boys played the ball as well as the floor.
Everybody
scored; there were few occasions not credit must be given for shots
from the most difficult angles under close and cautious defense that
the leathery sphere was shot with such skill and accuracy that it
dropped through the iron hoop without a scratch.
Mention
should also be made of the opposing teams.
They, too, deserved credit for the games they
played. The county
has in all of the High Schools very excellent teams, yet not
boastfully, but with pride, we can rank ourselves among the very best
of them.
The tournament games revealed what the team
could on foreign territory, and the games in which it participated it
made a record that was truly good. It was only the sportsman’s courtesy
by which the Greenville team permitted Farrell to take and own the cup
for a year, in order that they, too, might enjoy the possession of it
before it comes to us, whence it shall depart no more.
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