The Black and Gold . asville at Thomasville, 16-5. It seems with this splendid record that we had a chance at theChampionship; but as luck would have it, we lost the Reidsvillechampionship game, 15-7, thereby forfeiting our chance. However,with the bright prospects that we have for next year, we are hopingthat the team of 23 will win the cup. The members of the team for this year were: Center, CaptainAlpha Shaner; Forwards, Lache Lentz and Elizabeth Wilson; Sub-stitutes, Elizabeth Brookes and Lucy Chilton; Guards, Adela Shep-pard and Ruth Enrd; Substitutes, Lillian Cromer and MoselleStevenson;
The Black and Gold . asville at Thomasville, 16-5. It seems with this splendid record that we had a chance at theChampionship; but as luck would have it, we lost the Reidsvillechampionship game, 15-7, thereby forfeiting our chance. However,with the bright prospects that we have for next year, we are hopingthat the team of 23 will win the cup. The members of the team for this year were: Center, CaptainAlpha Shaner; Forwards, Lache Lentz and Elizabeth Wilson; Sub-stitutes, Elizabeth Brookes and Lucy Chilton; Guards, Adela Shep-pard and Ruth Enrd; Substitutes, Lillian Cromer and MoselleStevenson; Substitute Center, Julia Marshall. —E. H. BOYS ATHLETICS Football started with a whiz this school year, and kept on goingat a rapid gait until the final whistle blew at Chapel Hill. ChapelHill? Sure! You know the whole story. The Guilford Scrubs were the first victims of the Black andGold football squad—score 7-0. Oak Ridge was the next to fall,and so on down the line—until Greensboro called on the High School. BLACK AND GOLD 61 111 it r 111111111111 ? i ? 11 one afternoon and—yeh, won to the discord of 7-0. But the oldGate City surely had a ruffing up—you know if you were there! However, our defeat at Greensboros hands did not stop theW. S. H. S. team. They improved—and continued to improve, tillone afternoon, after a 7-7 tie at Greensboro, the Black and Gold mettheir old rivals again, this time at High Point, and rolled Greensboroin the dust for a 23-7 score. It was a real game and Greensborowas eliminated from the championship. Finally, after winning all games played so far in the eliminationseries, the W. S. H. S. defeated Shelby for the Western Champion-ship—14-0, thus enabling our team to go on to Chapel Hill. Therewe found Feyetteville to contend with, and after a wonderful gameour opponents came from under the dust with the large end of a7-0 score. They worked for it, too, and well deserved state honorsas our team would have had we come out victors. That
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