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     A play was worked out in which Hobson, running forward, dribbled the ball, and Boyer and Dinwiddie, looking back at Hobson, ran interference.   The two of them cleared a path for Hobson, who dribbled and passed to Hugh Braden and he sunk the ball in the basket.   According to Tacy, during this year of the "Championship", Hugh Braden got into the enemy's territory, beyond the center line, but three times, and Henry left his "post" guard position but once.   Henry tried for a basket but three times in the two years and made but one.  It was Tacy's idea that Braden should always be available at his basket and that Henry should always threaten the enemy's goal.

                                                                   GLEE CLUBS

     In 1922 and 19233 Miss Luella Dye gave the Girl's Glee Club their training.  She was Principal of the high school and tried in many ways to make the girls enjoy their work.  They had several parties during the year.  In order to buy their music they had candy sales at school.  This year they did not give an operetta, but sang several numbers at Commencement.
     Miss Dye was not with us the next year (1923-1924) so Mrs. H. K. Dye was asked to help the Glee Club twice a week.  This year we gave an operetta, "The Feast of the Red Corn".   The main characters were:- Marguerite Besore Smith, Esther Braden Harms and Evelyn Lewis.
     Last year the School Board hired a regular music teacher two days a week.  Mrs. H. J. Fitzgerald has been supervisor of music the past two years and in her work has included work with both Boy's and Girl's Glee Clubs and Music in all the grades.  The operetta in 1925 was "Love Pirates of Hawaii."
Walter Besore, Norris Pilling, Velma Plumb and Frances Parker Hobson were the soloists and the members of both glee clubs were Hawaiians and Pirates.   In this operetta and in the songs used at Commencement the combined clubs sang three part music instead of boys and girls all singing the air. 
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players got their own rosin, put it in their pockets,  and during the practice, did all their own rosining.
     One of the hardest fought battles of the year was that against Tabor high school.  Ellis, a forward, had an amazing overhand flip at the board that almost defied guarding, and he had a trick of tripping that added to the agony.  The game ended 15 to 15, and extra play was allowed.   The rules then provided that there should be play until one side made two more points.  Play was resumed and the referee evidently went blind.  No fouls were called, and a football game would have seemed like a sewing circle.  The affray lasted nearly ten minutes before a basket was made, and then Boyer, never a very good basket thrower, on his knees, south of the center's circle, with a Tabor man between his legs (Miles was intentionally sitting on him) threw a goal in the North basket that didn't touch the rim!  But the mess!  Hugh Braden's nose was bleeding a stream, Boyer's head had been cut by a slide across the floor, Hobson had a black eye, Dinwiddie was sitting across a chair with his arm folded across his stomach.  Someone had used a knee on his wind.  Henry had been tossed bodily into the stage, and from there, seeing Ellis trying for a goal, reached out with a foot and kicked the ball out of his hands, and with the other kicked Ellis in the face.  He then got back into the game and sprained both ankles.  Ellis lost a lot of blood from his nose and mouth;  Mann, the center, had his shirt and one shoe torn off by Boyer and one forward, I forget his name, was pitched over the front row of spectators onto the back row by Dinwiddie.   When it was all over the Tabor boys locked arms in the center of the floor, spit blood and cheered for Macedonia.
     The style of play of those first two teams differed from that of today.  The forwards, short men each year, passed the ball on the floor, or within a few inches of it; while the guards and center, all tall, and jumpers, played the ball in the air.  This proved rather confusing to their opponents.   Too, there was no rule against blocking a player, or running into another man if the runner was proceeding backwards, or in such a way as not to be able to see the man into whom he ran.
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     The first game was with Carson, coached by E. E. Coe,  now of Mondamin.  Before a basket had been made a dispute arose over a decision by Coe, who was refereeing, and the two schools have disagreed in basketball ever since.  On this team, Miller played standing or "post" guard, a term invented because the baskets and backstops had been fastened to posts.  Hugh Braden threw most of the baskets, everyone feeding the ball to him.  Then methods then used would appear crude today.  Braden threw baskets from between his knees, giving the ball a backward twirl,  and could hardly throw any other way.  The result was that he had to maneuver into his between-the-knees position, and often lost what could have been made into points had he known other methods of shooting baksets.
     During the winter of 1911 Miller became ill and Henry replaced him and played out the season at "post" guard.  But two games were lost during the season, one to Carson high school and one to the Woodbine Normal school.
     The next year the team consisted of Hugh Braden, f;  Adrian Hobson, f;  Miles Boyer, c;  Henry Dinwiddie, g;  James Henry, g;  Naason Young and Wilbur Plumb, subs.  This year they won unofficial Southwestern Iowa Championship and lost no games.  There was no official method of determining the honors, but Malvern beat all the larger schools in this corner of the State, including Council Bluffs, Red Oak and Glenwood and publicly claimed the Championship.  Macedonia challenged, and on Malvern's floor, won, 24 to 14.
     In this contest, the Macedonians overcame the disadvantage by a trick.  The Macedonia boys played with ordinary tennis shoes, and on a slick floor were helpless.  (They used tennis shoes because they were lighter than suction soles and Macedonia was so heavy, averaging 156 pounds and needing all the speed possible.)  Malvern played on a dance floor and with suction soled shoes.  When Macedonia started practicing the boys slipped and fell.  An attempt was made to get the suction shoes, but it was fruitless.  Then Tacy tried to get Malvern to resin the floor.   They wouldn't do that, so the 'Donia
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BOY'S BASKETBALL SEASON 1925-1926

                    The boy's team this year was composed of three veterans, Stanley Dye, center and captain,
          Sam Braden, forward; and Dale Miller,  guard.   Guido Stemple, forward and Harry Braden,
          guard completed the quintet that played nearly all of all the games.  Substitutes who were in
          action in several games when badly needed were,  George Ginger, Royce Parker, Fred Koast and
          Oran Androy.  Under the clever coaching of  their new coach, Ray C. Hall they developed an
          offence that enabled them to pile up top-heavy scores in many of their games.  The team was not             defeated on its home floor and had the pleasure of defeating decisively every team which it lost
          to during the entire season.   Dye and Braden will be lost by graduation and Parker may not    
          return to Macedonia next fall, but the material on hand indicates that there will be another
          whirlwind team representing "Donia" next season.

                                                                       SCHEDULE

                      Macedonia 19  - Hancock 21                      Macedonia 34 -  Hancock 13
                      Macedonia 30 -  Oakland  13                      Macedonia 34 -  Oakland 10
                      Macedonia 43 -  Treynor  23                       Macedonia 24 -  Treynor  10
                      Macedonia 25 - Carson 12                          Macedonia 16 -  Carson  10
                      Macedonia 22 - Henderson  19                   Macedonia  23 -  Henderson  28
                      Macedonia 23 -  Wales  27                          Macedonia  24 - Wales  14
                      Macedonia 23 - Silver City  24                   Macedonia  29 -  Silver City  26
                                       Glenwood Tournament -  Macedonia  15 --  Silver City  18

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BOY'S BASKETBALL TEAM

          George Ginger, Franklin Stemple, Fred Koast, Royce Parker
                             Supt. H. T. Cox                     Coach  R. C. Fall  Oran Androy
           Harry Braden, Guido Stemple                Sam Braden, Dale Miller
                                                     Stanley Dye, Captain-

Henderson basketball team 1930-1931

This photo was in the Malvern Leader issue of March 3, 1931.

Front row:  Reign Byers, Melvin Viner, Lyle Wilkinson, Lloyd (Pat) Patterson (captain); Lee Houser, Chet Hallquist

Back row: Coach Crocker; Bill Phillips; Chester Kirshbaum; Dale Allensworth;  Superintendant Starr

Henderson Basketball team 1925

I always get a kick out of these old photos.
Once again, the information I have on this photo has come from the Henderson Facebook page. 

According to it, Bud Byers is in the middle holding the ball and Suede Byers is on the bottom right.

Henderson basketball team 1930

The boy's basketball team from 1930.   Any information as to the players in this picture is from the Henderson page on Facebook.  I plan on adding names as they become known.

 The bottom row far right is Reign and Dusen Byers.  Cy Brown is in the back row in the middle.


This is the year the Henderson boys went to the state tournament.

The opening round they beat Geneseo 25 to 23.

The quarter-finals they beat LaMoille 23 to 11

In the semi-finals they were beaten by Davenport 34 to 29.

The consolation game they plyed Paton who beat them 32 to 24.

I got this off of Ebay-(I LOVE Ebay). It is a postcard the 1911 Macedonia basketball team with a listing on the back. I don't know if any of them are related and if they are it's probably a third cousin or so but I liked the photo.

The listing on the back is as follows:

John Henry

Miles Boyer

Supt. Tacy or Jacy, I'm not sure but I'm leaning towards it being "Tracy"

Naason Young (I checked the name and it appears that way on the 1910 census--he'd be 14 or 15 in 1911)

Henry Dinwiddie

Hugh Braden

Adrian Hobson