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GIRL'S BASKETBALL SEASON  1925-1926

                The girl's team consisted of Mildred Shuck, Guard and Captain;  Nina Carley, Dorothy Bolton and Pearle Metcalfe, Guards;  Velma Plumb and Ruth Boyer, Jumping Centers;  Lucille Borluff and Vola Hendrix,  Running Centers;  Marie Carley, Lola Keast and Lucile Taylor, Forwards and the following girls were much help to the team and all show promise of developing to first class players with more experience:
     Irene Plumb,  Frances Taylor,  Evalyn Keener, Evelyn Stevens and Wilda Miller.   The team will lose Marie Carley and Pearle Metcalfe by graduation bur if you could see the girls at practice and had seen the way they played at the Stanton Tournament you would realize that there is plenty of material for another great team next year.   The Coach this year was Miss Gladys Hooker.

                                                                SCHEDULE
 Macedonia  8 -  Hancock  24                                              Macedonia  11 -  Carson  20
 Macedonia  10 -  Oakland  21                                             Macedonia  17 -  Carson  14
 Macedonia  14 -  Carson  15                                               Macedonia  15 -  Wales  11
 Macedonia  25 -  Henderson  5                                               (Stanton Tournament )
 Macedonia  8 -  Wales  21                                                  Macedonia  21 -  Nodaway  16
 Macedonia  17 -  Hancock  14                                            Macedonia  13 -  Lenox  10
 Macedonia  14 -  Oakland  10                                             Macedonia  11 -  New Market  26


                           HISTORY OF BASKETBALL IN MACEDONIA HIGH SCHOOL
                                                                   BY J. M. HENRY

     The first Macedonia High School basketball team was organized in the fall of 1910, with the Superintendent of School, T. C. Tacy,  now an attorney in Council Bluffs, as coach.  The members
were: -  Hugh Braden, f.;  Howard Braden, f;  Miles Boyer, c ; Ralph Smith, g ;  Clyde Miller, g.

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