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HE football squad met the latter part of September for the purpose of organizing. Although we had no “beef” we had plenty of good material, and fine prospects for a team that would be able to cope with any of our opponents. Under Coach Jones, the team made a good showing, but owing to the disabilities of several players, the team was forced to disband before taking real form. However, we succeeded in defeating the Plainfield High School eleven by a score of 6 to 0. Our game with Greenwood was a complete “walk away”, as we carried the “pig skin” across the goal line almost at will, with a resulting score of 41 to 0. When we “clashed” with our old enemy, Gosport, we met our “Waterloo,” being defeated 18 to 0. The members of the team were: Arthur Cook, Claude, RecordClaude Record [sic], Claud [sic] Utterback, George Cook Fred KellerGeorge Cook, Fred Keller [sic], Chester Stayton, Chester McPherson, Ralph Cook, Halstead Jessup, Don Fields, Paul Stokesberry, Charlie Wilson and Arthur Miller.

The close of the season was marked by a field-day celebration, participated in by the entire school. In the contests of the day, honors were divided among the classes as follows: the Freshmen won from the Sophomores in the basket ball game. Immediately after the basket ball game, the school accompanied by the Mooresville Cornet Band, marched to the foot ball field. Here the Sophomores took their revenge upon the “Freshies” by winning from them in the tug of war. In the girls foot-race, the Sophs took the lead, while the faculty race went to Mr. Arnold, teacher of the eights. The main feature of the day was the football game, in which the classes banded against each other, and battled through two twenty-five minute halves without a score. The day’s pleasures closed with an entertainment, given in the High School building at 7:30 p.m. The program consisted of music, recitations and short talks on athletics. The day was a grand success, and one long to be remembered by the M. H. S.