Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-04-15
Wildcats Enjoy Successful
Year Athletic Competition

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will compete in the annual Big Four
track and field meet at Culbertson
May ! in the last major competitive
event which will climax a year OF
outstanding athletic achievement or
local high school athletic teams. The
athletic real to be completed next
month Is believed to be the 0
successful In the history OF the To-
cal high school.
The year also saw the develop
ment of an intramural program AZ
the local school that was one OF the
most extensive In the state. Under
Intramural Director Herman Gruhn.
high school instructor, Students
we're enabled to participate In ath-
letic games on q scale unsurpassed
In any Montana prep school.
Mr.. Gruhn vas assisted In the in
tramural program by Mrs. Kostka,
Misses Early and Wood, and Messrs.
Richardson and Sicily, all local
school instructors.
Coach Of the varsity squads was
Lloyd Skor. graduate Of Northern
Teachers college Of Aberdeen. S. D.,
Who next month completes his
fourth year as the Wildcats mentor.
Is Report for Football
The first practice preparatory to
the football season was called for
Wednesday, Sept. 2, 1896. Twenty
I'VE candidates reported. among
them Newton, Hegland and Ewing,
ends; Collins. Medders and Marsh.
tackles; Boulds, Black, Zeitner and
Beigler at guards; Markuson, CEN
ter; Hopkins, Lund, Kjelstrup, Fis-
Ike, Backer and Marsh In the back
field. Other candidates were Smith.
Strubeck, Stenehjem, Osborne, AJAX
nus, N. Lund and Taylor.
Intensive practices owe a three
weeks period were required to con
dition the men for the first game.
Dummy drills and scrimmages in-
ally rounded the squad into a for
midable grid machine which tackled
the powerful Coyotes of Williston
high school in the first contest, at
Williston September 25.
Tie Williston
For the first few minutes of the
game it looked like the Coyotes were
going to walk over the Wildcats
with little difficulty. Williston
scored soon after the opening kick
off, on a tricky triple-pass play. but
the attempted conversion was
smothered. In the second quarter
Williston lost the ball on their FIVE
yard line and the wildcats punched
it over in one play to tie the score
The attempted conversion failed and
both teams battled throughout the
second half with neither producing
q score, although the Wildcats had
the better of the engagement in
yardage. The game ended 6 to s.
Inspired by their showing against
Williston the Wildcats were hosts
the following week to the tough and
scrappy Sidney eleven. This contest
proved t be a thriller from tht
opening whistle. Three times the
Wildcats were forced to make goal
line stands against the red-shirteC
Sugarbeeters after Whited, shifty
Sidney back, had led his mates or
drives to the Wildcat goal. Once
Sidney back fumbled as he crossed
the pay-stripe, Plentywood recover.
ing for a touchback. Sidney scored
first, in the second period, after the
ball had been placed on the wildcat
AtC-ydI0 llllC 4 a loA W
Whited. The Wildcats smothered the
attempted conversion. Plentywood's
score came on a 55-yard run by
Backer after receiving a lateral pass
from Hopkins. Newton, Plentywood
end, provided the margin of victory
when he calmly kicked the extra
point from placement. The game
ended 7 to 6 for Plentywood. The
Sidney boys protested the Wildca'
touchdown, c%ontending the ball wa'
dead before Hopkins lateralled tt
Backer. Because the whistle had no
stopped play, the officials allowed
the touchdown, but only after mucl
extemporaneous dissertation b,
players and coaches of both teams
Travel to Crosby
The following week Plentywood'
gridders %journeyed to Crosby, N. D.
where they defeated the Nodaks
to s. They decisively outplayed thei
opponents, far more than the scor
would indicate. and had one touch
down disallowed by the officials
Quarterback Lund made the Wildca
touchdown on a sneak through cen
ter on the first play of the secon
peTlOu dHu NcWlOH, Tie pcSilCo
placekicker, added the extra point
Crosby's touchdown came in the sec
ond quarter after a penalty had sc
the locals back within their five
yard line. Crosby was a UNI
form, hard-hitting aggregation. TIL
P~lentywood line had the Crosb
attack smothered most of the after
noon. On one play, the umpire ble'
his whistle as a Crosby player wa
getting underway after catching
punt. The Plentywood players stoI
ped, and the Crosby saftey lope
deep into Wildcat territory befor
he was spilled. The Wildcats pre-
tested the run and a near riot Ell
sued, but the gain was allowed
Following the officials "boner" tn
the Wildcats stopped only whe
their adversaries had both shoulder
to the turf.
Trip ScObey, z to 0
Scobey was the next victim of tn
snarling Wildcats. The locals wer
host to their old rivals on Frida.
October 16. The only touchdown
the game was made by Backel
Wildcat backheld ace, on a 45-yar