Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.
10 Past Bismarck High School Elevens Have Made Enviable Records Out of the Past Come These Two Demon Elevens DEMONS WON TWO N.D, TITLES UNDER MLEOD IN °23, °29 Complete Records Show 65 Wins, 29 Losses and Three Ties Since 1922 Bismarck's Maroon and White grid- iron mahcines have compiled an im- prossive record of 65 wins, 29 losses and three ties in the 13 years that complete season records have been kept at the high school. First season records were started by Supt. H. O. Saxvik when he came here in 1922 to take charge of the Bismarck school system. During the 18-year period, exclusive of 1935, the Demons ran up a total of 1,963 points to 746 for their opponents. Coaches during those years were Edward “Dutch” Houser in 1922-23, Jim Morrison in 1924, Harold Collins in 1925-26 and Roy D. McLeod in 1927-34. Houser made a great hit with the Capital City fans in the two years he piloted the Bismarck high school football destinies by winning 12 games, while losing only two. The team started off in 1922 with a 13-6 victory over the State Training School at Mandan, and went on from there to conquer Mandan 9-0 and 25-12, Dickinson, 39-0, Minot, 12-0 and Williston, 13-0, before losing the only encounter of the season to Fargo by a 19-6 margin. ‘The next year was practically a rep- itition of the first, with 6 teams fall- ing before the Demons before Fargo again put an end to the win streak. ‘That year, the State Training school eleven was humbled 27-0 followed by beatings administered to Mandan, 13-7, Dickinson, 27-0, Valley City, 7-6, Valley City Normal, 14-0, and Man- dan 14-0. Fargo snowed the Demons under a 30-0 count to end the sea- son, Morrison Takes Helm Morrison took over the coaching helm in 1924 and the team that year won 5 games and dropped 3. The De- mons got off to a successful start when they swamped Linton, 70-0, but the next week, they fell before Valley City, 30-0. Returning to their winning ways, they defeated Jamestown 18-0, Jost the next week to Minot, 20-0. Three straight wins, two of them} over Mandan by scores of 6-0 and! 14-6 and a third over Dickinson 19-0 were rung up before the Demons again | Jost to Valley City 34-9. Collins succeeded Morrison as De- mon mentor, and his record of 5 wins and 3 defeats was the same as that of his predecessor. Bismarck de- feated New Salem, 54-0, ran rough shod over Linton to win 26-0, but dropped the third game of the sea- son to Mandan 20-13. After swamp- ing Jamestown 34-0, they lost to Dickinson, 12-0. Revenge for their early season defeat by Mandan was accomplished in a 33-0 victory, but the Demons lost to Minot the next week, 12-7. They closed the season with a 32-0 victory over Ashley. The second year of Collins’ regime was not quite so successful, the De- mons winning three, losing three, and tying one. Victories were scored over | Harry E. Asselstine. high school to glory on the gridiron. 1922 TEAM Halloran and Bruce Murphy. We New | SCORES OF STARS Pictured above are two of the teams which in past years have carried the Maroon and White of Bismarck The top picture is of the 1920 team. Reading from left to right are: Top row, C. F. Bolt, principal, Lee Scroggin, Norman Livdahl, Kenneth Taylor, Jack Burke, Eddie Scott, and Second row, Edward Alfson, Terrance Halloran, Phillip Boise, Lloyd Flow and Robert George. Bottom row, Emmanuel Brown, Tyler Kludt, Gabriel Brown, Charles Moses and Riggler. In the low- er picture is the 1922 aggregation. Reading from left to right are: Top row, Paul Goddard, Earl Benzer, Jack Burke, Richard Middaugh, G. Hahn, Douglas Lane and Coach “Dutch” Houser. son, Emil Klein, Reed, Eddie Scoit, Lee Scroggin, Herbert O'Hare and Hanlon Ruud. Bottom row, Terrance Second row, Edward Alf- Sen pe te PIRST HOMECOMING {2 RECALLS FOOTBALL HISTORY OF SCHOOL Autumn Sport Made Formal De- but Here in 1916, Reach- ed Peak in 1929 Bismarck High School Song Words and music of the Bismarck high school song were written by Leon Sorlein, director of music in the local schools, in 1925, ' Sorlein is now at Fargo. B-I-S-M-A-R-C-K Bismarck, Bismarck High We're with you, for you, Shouting always Bismarck! The warriors cry, Rah! Rah! Rah! ‘ Bismarck, Bismarck, Maroon and White, Fight for victory. Fight een pecs Team! Fight all your mig! And crown all Bismarck with glory. at Ambrose, Crosby, Noonan, Colum~ bus, Lignite, Portal, Flaxton and Bowbells. Newly-elected officers of the league are: A .M. Spall, beter ee i. “Members of the league were unan-|tendent, president re-elected; B. imous in their disapproval of the pro-| Boyd, Crosby; coach, oS eae posed amendment,” Stephenson said, |@nd Stephenson, secretary-treasurer. “in the event the 18-year limitation is| During the school year, the league vored will again sponsor a program of bas=< ae Ee ne a ores cons [ketball, track and Kittenball contests, and musical and decation events, Won Two Titles } Football made its debut at Bis- marck high school back in 1914 or 1915 but if there were any regulation games played in those two years there are no records of them. C. F. Bolt was principal of schools at that time and old-timers re- call that the team practiced at the baseball diamond at the north end of Seventh St., near the capitol grounds. That was back in the days when gridiron fans were still singing the praises of Pat O'Dea, Walter Eckersall and Jim Thorpe and even then they sc were nominating all-time players in} Roy D. McLeod (above) in his the conferences of drugstore quar-| seven-year reign as director of the Pressed at the annual meeting of the Stephenson, secretary and superintendent of the Bowbells public schools, explained. the average communique be living up to at least the of its name. Sioux Coach Can See Many Places Where His Charges terbacks. Bismarck high school athletic First games officially on record at} destinies won two unofficial North far, after W. J. Fried, commercial teach- championships and a seems to ser, took over the coaching duties. track title, last. part Bolt was by mo meamns out Of the) oo ES struction from the school head. In that year a team of Bismarck jout of three games to Mandan by scores of 13-6, 12-0 and 6-12. Rule changes of that year required that yards behind the line of scrimmage if carrying the ball. ry ood impression of how football Could Have Won - ten from the rule that a team not re- porting for play at the beginning of the second half when summoned by lose 25 the high school were played in 1916] Dakota football titles, two state basketball athletic picture that year for every- All-Stars defeated the high school, 19-7, and Fried’s eleven also lost two backfield men stand at least five was played in those early days is got-' the referee would yards but would also forfeit its right | agricultural college here Saturday, to choice of goals. Often the teams| Coach C. A. West" of the Sioux said were in no Naa onthe report for the | Monday: second half. Penalties were the ex-| “Tt is really too bad these two teams ception rather than the rule, but only| could not play another football game because the rules were lenient. this fall to really find out which is the Players Are Recalled better. I have been in favor of two Playing for the All-stars that year|games ever since I have been at the were Fogerty, H. Taylor, Baldwin,|university, one early in September Patten, Andrews, Register, Burman,| and another late in October. Couch, Berndt, Ross, and Allen, while] “We would like to play the game the high school first string lineup in-| again because we can see many places cluded F. Richholt, Cashman, Liv-]| where we could have won. Also we dahl, G. Richholt, Wachter, Smith,| are improving with every game.” Christy, Humphries, Gill, Junner,| “Those players who did not get into Flow and Treacy. ; the Saturday battle will scrimmage The World War put a temporary| the Freshmen Monday afternoon as damper on the gridiron activities al-| the Nodaks start preparation for their though Fried kept the boys practic-| third conference game against Morn- ing in the fall of 1917 and Bolt help-|ingside at Sioux City. fe st" ne dem | Pho Deaeeue Opposes known if any regulation games were played in those two years but the probability exists that Several were] Officers of the North Dekota.border although no official records of the|league of schools Monday were on results can be found either at the high/record as opposed to the proposed school or in the files of The Tribune.|State High School league constitu- Spencer Boise became the high/tional amendment prohibiting high school’s first real coach in 1919 and/school contestants more than 18 years the team had a highly successful sea-|of age from taking part in athletic son, chalking up wins over Dickin-| events. . son, 13-0, Jamestown, 3-0 and Man-| The opposition was formally ex- dan, 59-0 and several other victor- Grand Forks, N. D., Oct. 28.—(7)— Commenting on the sensational 20-20 tie game between the University of North Dakota and the North Dakota jes, In that year the Demons got their first Maroon and White jerseys AAUUTAUAUEADUEAUUNECUNOEEUOUTEOOUUOOUNOCOREOOEEAOUELYOOULOUOLEUUAUEOUETUOOUEL HOUTEN OC EUU CEU UAE UPA ETN CUU ETE CUE ECU while over at Grand Forks, “Dutch” : Sports Round-Up Houser, who was to the coach the De- (By the Associated Press) mons two years later, was starring HAVE TAKEN PRE en ant was an upset in the Big Ten? ....|year included Kennett Allen, Rex HS Duke is thinking of asking the “G”|Berndt, Phillip Boise, Basil Bower, men to find out what’s wrong with|Walter Brandt, Charles Burke, Jack {ts football team... . It’s supposed | Burke, David Cook, John Danrot, Otto Eobeenope it tne atx bogs inte Oe er . , but consecutive defeats by Geor- Ten Demon Gridiron Warriors and Tech and Auburn have Wallac Have Been Chosen on First {Wade talking in his sleep... . New Jamestown 16-7, Dickinson, 19-0 and Lemmon, S. D., 20-7. Fargo beat the Demons 19-0, Minot won 48-3, and Mandan was victorious 18-7. In the second game between the two teams, the Demons tied Mandan at 14 all. Win Two State Titles In 1927, McLeod began a seven year term and Bismarck was on its way to the top in state football circles. The first year the team broke even in a 8 game schedule, defeating Ashley, 52-0, Washburn, 13-0, Mobridge, 47-0, Valley City 13-0, while losnig to Man- dan 12-0 and 14-6, Minot, 27-0 and Fargo 19-0. Then came two years during which the Demons went with- out a single defeat and captured two successive mythical high school foot- ball championships. In 1928, the Demons scored 232 points to their opponents 19 in an 8 game victory march. Starting off | with a 91-0 triumph over Linton the ‘Demons on successive week-ends de- FOOTBALL S he’ll want a Mum local gazettes spread Auburn’s victory Murray, all over the sports pages .... that’s heap, , what kind of an upset it was .... Where has Elmer Layden been hiding all these backs he trotted out against Navy? Saturday was a great day for the Staggs .... Susquehanna, coached by Alonzo Stagg, Jr., and Moravian, coached by Paul Stagg, played a scoreless tie—just what their daddy asked for—out on the coast the old man’s little Pacific Scores of gridiron stars have soared across Bismarck high school’s foot- ball firmament in the 20 some years since the greatest of all autumn sports was introduced at the Capital City. Many of these luminaries wrote their records in indelible ink across the annals of Demon athletic his- tory and have since emblazoned their In 1920, the year that Joe Cutting, present Williston mentor, piloted the Coyote eleven to the western state title and then defeated Grafton, eastern victors, for the state cham- “Xo feated Mandan, 12-0 and 19-7, Fargo, 7-0, Minot, 13-0, Mobridge, 51-6, Jamestown, 26-0, Valley City 13-6. names on the athletic scrolls of in- stitutions of higher learning. eleven knocked off Nevada 7-0. Hunk Anderson has football at Ten of the Demon gridiron wi The next year scoring 340 points HERES Te OUCTHEC ACHE have been chosen on first all-state Poy caroline Sraie re Lee boos while keeping their own goal line un-| teams since 1928 and many others - crossed, the Demons marched to| TEE IS DANGE? OF THE BALL were placed on the second or third|North Carolina next Saturday .... 4 thelr second North Dakota title. Wins| CA@ZIE(CTOSSINGA LATERAL» — | teams or received honorable mention, |State would rather be champion of Sonenene Wore Sarn were chalked up over Linton, 30-0, Mandan, 21-0 and 82-0, Williston, 18-0, Minot, 25-0, Jamestown 80-0, Wash- burn 72-0 and Fargo, 12.0. The Demons met only one reverse in 1930, and that a 7-0 setback at the hands of the Fargo Midgets, depriving them of their third state title in a row. That year, the Demons defeat- ed Linton, 30-0, Williston, 46-7, Glen- dive, 39-0, Jamestown, 31-0, Mandan 26-0, Minot, 8-0, Fessenden, 36-7, and Mandan again, 12-6. Again, in 1931 the Demons lost only one game. That year it was Jamestown that came through with # 6-0 victory after Bismarck had beaten Linton, 61-0, Mandan 13-6. and 6-0, Minot, 26-6, Williston, 14-0, Fargo, 19-0 and Dickinson, 65-0. Hits Low Point Football was at a low ebb in 1932 By JIMMY DONAHUE’ (Sketches by Buzz Wetzel) The smother tackle is the defense’s big weapon against the threat of the lateral pass. As has been proved, hitting a ball carrier low when a lateral is ex- pected is folly. He immediately throws @ lateral to a trailing back and the tackler has had all his trouble for nothing. Coaches are training linemen and secondary defensive men to hit a run- ner high if there is the slightest in- dication of a lateral. The tackler grabs the carrier so that his arms encircle the body and arms in a sort of a “smother” grip. By pushing down on the arms as the tackle is made, the defensive man has @ good chance of knocking a Bismarck’s all-state roll call finds the names of Ted Meinhover, Earl Hoffman, Ben Jacobson, Robert Paris and Johnny O'Hare in 1928, Hofiman, O’Hare, Wally Hultberg, and Eddie Spriggs in 1929, Lester Dohn and Johnny Spriggs in 1930, and Dohn and Gus Schlickenmayer in 1931. Many Others Listed Others who placed on all-state teams or received honorable mention included Elmer Klipstein in 1928, Charles Whittey and Harvey Erlen- meyer in 1929, Dale Brown and Hank die Agre and Bobby Stackhouse in 1931. O'Hare, probably the greatest back- field ace ever developed here, went to Dartmouth later but a knee in- jury kept him from carrying on his Potter in 1930, and Wade Green, Ed-- Pinch Hitters Won 30 | Games in 1935 Season North Carolina than champion of the Southern Conference any day .... . the other has to play Ohio - te and can’t sleep, so worries 24 hours a day .... Genial Bill is the for HOMECOMING loosely held ball out of the hands of| football feats. and the pesans nt PND eames the runner, paving the way for recov-| Meinhover, giant tackle, and Paris,|until they're needed—accounted for an eight-game . €s|ery by one of the former's teammates.|center, were North Central All-Con-{|30 victories in the American League (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.)/ference choices during two of the|season of 1935 although they didn’t years they performed on the North CROSBY, KENMARE TIE Dakota university and State college did year. Crosby, N. D., Oct. 28.—()—Scoring | teams, respectively. Official records, made public Mon- ® touchdown in the last minute of| Other football letter-winners at the |day, show Gerald Walker of the world three | play, Crosby high school tied the Ken-| university included Jacobson, Hoff- games, lost Sontag tara a first | Taze football team 6 to 6 here Sat-|man, Klipstein and Woodrow sop over piserey 7-6 dec urday. Kenmare had been unde-|pard, while at the A. C., Dohn, Erlen-|Ralph the ge Bismarck Vs. Minot 2 P. M., Saturday, Nov. 2 HUGHES FIELD HOSKINS-MEYER FLORAL SHOP feated and untied in two seasons of|myeer and Frank Welch made places second and then|piay, The week-end’s play left Cros-| for themselves on the Bison squad. Minot swamped/by, stanley, and Kenmare tied for Demons re-| Northwest Conference leadership with ek-end to beat) two wins, one tie and no defeats, i F Be og Walker made six hits in 13 appear- }ances in the pinch-hit role for a 462 iy FEE ag sf BeBe 200 Fourth Street in Telephone 19 Ler rep Pere enn