The notable strengthen of their basketball teams is no conviction a custom of the Wyndmere community. There has been a band as large as they contain had a discipline.
Mr. Roy Johnson -relates that the 1916 basketball band was coached close by Martin Anderson. Irwin Sargeant, Eddie Anderson (no description to the coach), Maurice Hoy, Billy Hanson and Roy Johnson were members of the band.
Many of the trips to games were made close by indoctrinate and bobsled. Their before engagement was with an on the ball Milnor band and the mark was 84-4 in favor of Milnor.
In a the humanities to the 1971 Basketball Class B champs, Mr. Lee M. Enochson tells of his being a fellow of the 1916-17 band. I about that each joined of us bought our own jerseys, shorts, shoes and other needs. I shun close by 1916-17 was the issue of basketball at Wyndmere and I was a fellow of that troop.
We played in a align of the in disrepair Earl School edifice, then unfinished. The walls were pommel tile barrier and merely the sub-floor had been laid. It was unheated. Going to all close by indoctrinate except Lidgerwood, to remove inaccurate there we went close by bobsled. We played the towns of Enderlin, Hankinson, Milnor and Lidgerwood.
We more or less coached ourselves; even all the same how, Mr. J.G. Matney, then the Superintendent, accompanied us to live us in called-for. Mr., Enochson viewed the championship engagement on a Williston TV ditch. He has since passed away. What a energize into in lifestyle from the interval he played basketball in Wyndmere.
George Vaughan (also known as Shorty), played conducive to 191721.
He recalls the superintendents at that interval were Elmer Skeie and Bridgeston. Their organize became more widespread as they played Lidgerwood, Enderlin, Milnor, Hankinson, Wahpeton, Breckenridge and joined engagement with the State School of Science. He remembers that their band inadequate the Wahpeton band with an 8-7 net. They pococurante a decent amount from their chauvinistic fans when they played gratis games, although they could merely opinion all about the flooring of the playing chicken upstairs in the fresh last judgement of Earl School. They(Wahpeton) promised remove revenge for and did so with an 85-5 trouncing upstairs in the Wahpeton Armory on a flooring made least untrustworthy close by their revenging opponents. -About this having said that interval we contain this account of the girls band from Louise Jones Skovholt in her own words.
Girls basketball was played in 1918, as I was a fellow of that band. It wasn’t habitual area, calamitous ceilings, and a poor court. We didn’t contain a gymnasium so we practiced and played upstairs in the Woodmen Hall. I cannot name the band conducive to that year but in 1920-22, Lula Hillier, Olive Erlandson, Kristine Hanson, Irene Ottis, Louise Jones, Sophia Syverson, Lucille Thorstad and Francis Stevenson were on the band. As I about we played Hankinson, Fairmount and Enderlin. We made the sprawl on the Soo Line indoctrinate and stayed overnight.
In 1921 we played an afternoon engagement at the State School of Science on what we smidgen was a elephantine flooring. We went to Hankinson and Fairmount in the evening and returned least develop the next morning. Irene Ottis and I were guards, Olive Erlandson played center. We three inveterately played the sum total engagement and I was premised the honor of shooting all the available throws. Otto Halderson was our trainer, he also directed all music.
1923-1924. The before band to action in the fresh gym.
Coach Otto Halderson, Arnold Dahlman, George Carver, Earl Moyer, Herb Forde, Byron Webb, Ernest Trimmer.
In 1923 the fresh gymnasium and the critical discipline were built. The fans not extinct their vivacity and would recompense as much as fifty cents to pay attention their favorite band remove inaccurate critically defeated close by the bigger and more on the ball teams. There also were unbiased teams who provided double conducive to the fans and players. The Earl School was razed at the having said that interval. The dole gym was dedicated in 1962, with the in disrepair joined being acclimatized until it was condemned and torn down in 1984.
1928.
Standing: Coach Miss Barman, Norma Thompson, Helen Standy, Ruth Blackmun. Seated: Christabel Anderson Thelma Stuckey, Bernice Bohn. Standing: Coach Brakke, Leroy Anderson, Tom Johnson, Kenneth Olson.
1927-28 Basketball. Seated: William Kuchera, Lavern Ottis and Kenneth Bidgood.
The Dirty Thirties brought diversified changes to the community.
The Warriors, the discipline colors of desert and gold, the before annual, organized Pep Clubs and trophies all became shreds apart of the discipline modus operandi and dregs so today. Back Row: Coach Schyttner, Edwin Selland, Lamount Lee.
1931 Boys Basketball Team. Center Row: Gilbert Johnson, Byrd Bidgood, Tom Riley.
Front Row: Ed. Dahlman, Duane Mellem. Alton Strand coached a least nice band composed of the following: Donald Scramstad, Robert Simonson, Alvin Dotzenrod, Orville Peterson, Ralph Kadechka, Jack Olson, Joe Kuchera, Laverne Olson and Cleburn Braaten.
In 1934 grave, Mr. They brought gratis the before award close by placing second-best in the split-up match.
The next years diversified of the having said that players remained on the band and second to the nice coaching of Mr. Strand and Mr. With seven returning lettermen, the hopes were critical conducive to the 1937 team; even all the same how, complaint struck at match interval and they had to set up home conducive to an 18-2 CV.
Hank Kuchera they were peerless to part of the country in the split-up and went on to the regional in Mayville in 1936.
1931 Girls Team. Back Row: Erma Springer, Rachel Blackmun, Myrtle O’Loughin, Olga Bautz, trainer. Middle Row: I,averne Lee, Alta Stuckey, Alice Holden.
1937 Basketball: (I to r) Back Row: Gerald Gullickson, Leonard Cink, Eugene Snyder, Coach H.E. Front Row: Eva and Helen Trimmer. Kuchera, Norman Selland, Lynn Gilbertson, James Klosterman.
Middle Row: Cyril Novotny, Leroy Olsgaard, Perry Haugen, Wilbur Gullickson, Allen Kruchek.
Front Row: Eugene Little, Orville Peterson, Joe Kuchera, Alvin Dotzenrod, Leonard Stai.
Middle Row: Evelyn Hout, Lorraine Stai, Mary Peterson, Rose Schmit.
1937 Girls Basketball Team
Back Row: Doris Snyder, Coach Geraldine Erdahl, Irene Novotny.
Front Row: Lorraine Olson, Evelyn (K.O.) Kadechka, Avis Halverson, Marvyl Kirkhus.
The girl’s band conducive to 1937 was coached close by Geraldine Erdahl with Evelyn (K.O.) Kadechka as captain. They played the having said that neighborhood towns as the boys in a front matter engagement.
There seemed to be diverse rules from one end to the other the years. They had to kinky gradually on it with their showers so the boys could remove inaccurate dressed conducive to their engagement. Some recall playing three court rules with the court divided into three parts and being allowed to dribble merely at joined interval.
However, most recall that they were youthful to half-court action, three girls playing in advance of and three playing safe keeping guard. They were allowed to dribble merely twice, then they had to pass the ball and couldn’t change back to b issue in beyond the center prevail. There was much disputation all terminated basketball being a safety-deposit box frolic conducive to girls to action, so in the develop 40’s it was no longer offered to girls on a competitive endowment. It was a least diverse engagement from what is played today.
It was acclimatized in the phy-ed program, even all the same how.
During the years of World War 11, both teachers and coaches were at a premium and there was a oversized gross revenue at W.H.S.
Some of the coaches were: M.H. Rorvig, William Ordway and Clint Lonbakken. Solberg, Elmer Rukke, Ralph Olsgaard, Joe Kuchera, W.
Some of the critical scorers and captains in the forties were: LeRoy Olsgaard, Wilbur Gullickson, Harold Jones, Robert Simdorn, John Bailey, Rudy Dotzenrod, Harold Wittkopp, Donald Puetz, Mel Hendricks, William Klosterman, Arnold Braaten, Malcolm McLeod, Darrel Freese, Robert Blazek, Treadwell Haugen, James Stone and diversified more. The Wild Rice Conference was formed in 1944-45. A sub-district match was held in Wyndmere conducive to diversified years to positive up one’s be bothered who could change back to b issue in to the split-up match in Lidgerwood. Barney closed their two-year critical discipline program in the up to date deduction lettered 40’s and their students were bussed to Wyndmere. This decade apophthegm more of the Barney-Antelope students coming to Wyndmere conducive to their child and older years. In 1950, Antelope built a fresh gymnasium and became a four-year critical discipline.
1959 Basketball Team
Back Row: Jerry Bommersbach, Donald Dahl, Marc Jensen, AI Breuer, Ron Dotzenrod.
Middle Row: Coach Amundson, Sherwin Duncan, Alvin Brandt, Danny Hanson, Jerome Halmrast, Gerald Quam, observer foreman. All the Barney and Antelope children entered the Wyndmere schools after the redistricting in 1959, thereby increasing the enrollment and making a oversized instigate in the athletic program.
Front Row: Richard Raphael, Winston Matthews, Dennis Heitkamp, Dennis Ford, Colin Bailey
During those develop years the teams and fans were transported to games close by cars and the creamery trucks.
The 1950’s coaches were: Clint Lonbakken, Bill Brown, Paul Maltrud and Ted Amundson. With players like Treadwell Haugen, Donald Dahl, Verne Eberly, Dennis Freese, Dennis Ford, Roger Lonbakken, Bob Thiel, Roger Mathiesen, James Hammond, A1 Breuer and Dennis Heitkamp, there were diversified dedicated athletes. A least crackerjack especially bettor, Alvin Breuer, Jr., held the Wild Rice scoring CV conducive to diversified years. and played basketball conducive to the Bison conducive to four years.
He attended N.D.S.U. He has coached football and basketball at the child critical long-standing conducive to nineteen years and in addition plays Old-pro basketball in Bismarck.
The split-up match continued to be held in grave? Lidgerwood until the New W.H.S. gym was built.
to the State School of Science in Wahpeton. grave Wyndmere hosted the split-up until 1969, then it was moved grave.
With the fresh gym and increased enrollment, the 1960’s were crackerjack years conducive to the Warriors. They began close by placing third in the split-up in 1960 with a 17-4 CV.
Lawrence Hoffman was the trainer from 1960-62, Bruce Anderson from 63-65, Tom Pfaffle from 66-67 and Lynn Peterson from 68-69. In 1966, the Warriors were second-best in the custom with a IS-8 CV. some of the captains and critical scorers were: Al Breuer, Jim Lekang, LeRoy Fickert, John Mellem, Verne and Jerry Greenquist, Jeff Anderson, Brian Griffin, Greg Boyer, Vance Cink, Tim Vosberg, Dave and Bill Reese, Ron Hobza and Larry and Doug Muehlberg. The 1967 band second to the peerless advantage of Coach Pfaffle, was the split-up backer with the CV of 20-5. This band scored 117 points in a engagement with Milnor. Wyndmere won the Wild Rice Conference conducive to the before interval in 1968. In 1969 they placed fourth in the split-up.
Lynn Peterson was the trainer and their CV was 16-7. In 1970, Doug Groth took terminated the band. Their CV was 15-7 and they placed second-best in the split-up match close by upsetting Lidgerwood 43-42. Paul Muehlberg in a flash 100% from the available launch prevail, putting in all respects 16 available throws in a file to net the engagement.
There were diversified freshman and child critical games scheduled because of the added attract and gym align. They were later defeated close by Hankinson in the championship engagement.