The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-02-03
DENIS0N HIGH
Wins LAURELS
Defeat Perry and Fort Dodge High
School Teams in Fast Games
Friday and Saturday Nights
GAMES AT THE GYMNASIUM
Perry Defeated 10 to 16 Friday Night
and Fort Dodge Lost BY Score of ID;
"a to &c Saturday Night. %,

The DenisOn high school basket ball
team is to be congratulated on the
fine showing they made last week
when they defeated, two of the. strong
est teams in this part OF the state. The
first game was played with Perry on
Friday evening and was won by Deni-
son by a score OF Is to 16. The other
game was played with Fort Dodge and
resulted in another victory. the score
being "a to 2G in Denison's favor.
Both games were played at the gym
rasium and the attendance was very
good, Notwithstanding the weather.
| The local team was particularly an
xious to trim uD the Perry team, it
being coached by Mr.. Oscar Strahan,
q graduate o: the Denison schools. Evi.
IDENTITY Mr.. Stra',an realized that spe
nial effort would lie made to win this
game and he had his boys in perfect
trim for the contest and by the score
one could see that it was nip and tuck
from start to finish. 5a
DeniSQn Waded right in in the first
half and piled up - points without al
loving Strahan's favorites to even, get,
q chance at the basket, although they
managed to rope in three points on
throws from fouls. 1t was in the sec
ond half that the real battle began,
for Strahan in the intermission had
held a council of war.and put new life.
into his braves and they did come back
and in manner that was not entirely
pleasing I'd Denison. While it was,
evident that Perry was making num-
Der of baskets, no one dreamed that
the score was tie until just before
the last half was up, when someone
called out that It was tie score. Den
isOn bristled. up at this and saw that
they had been making a mistake by
playing such a loose game earlier in
the half. They sailed right in and by
some spectacular plays were able to
win the game by the score of IS to 16.
The game with TT. Dodge Saturday
basket ball ever witnessed in Denison
and as Fl. Dodge has the reputation
OF having one of the fastest basket
ball teams in the state there was a
large crowd present to see the contest
The Denis0n college team and high
school second team played curtain
raiser before the big game, which re-
suited in victory for the college, boys
by a score OF IL to 8.
From the side lines it looked as if
Denisor would have considerable diff.
ticulty il they held the visiting team
down to small score for they ,were,]
very successful in making difficult
field baskets and to q novice it seemed
their part. Their team work was real.
ly remarkable and there was very lit, |
tie individual playing on the part of |
the members of their team. The first
half was hard fought and developed |
some fine team work that brought |
hearty cheering from the side lines.
The roOters We're not partial to the |
home team either and when a Fortl
Dodge player made difficult basket |
they were not slow in cheering him. |
When the whistle blew at the close of |
the first half the score stood 90 to 13 |
in favor Of the local team. 1t was evil
dent that Ft. Dodge was chagrined at |
the showing Denison was making |
against them and in the second half |
they play with greater energy and
used all the signals and formations
possible to bring about victory. Den
ison's team did not propose to let them
get away with the game and frightened
up and when the last half ended the
score was "a to rs in Denison's favor.
Denisons team is certainly making
a very creditable showing this, season
and they should receive better support |
i'll the way of attendance than they
have had in the past. On Friday eve
ming of this week they are to play the
Dunlap team here at Denison. Let ev-
eryone turn out and help to win this
game. Dunlap has a very fast team
and has not been defeated thus far this
season