February 27, 2022 and the last Sunday in the month

 TERRY

As I write it is about 11:30.  Terry has read the Sunday paper and now has been sleeping for about an hour.  I would say she is same same.  Another day in the adventures of life!!!

I am kind of making today, Sunday, a picture day so here goes.

Here is our basketball team when I was in 7th grade and the year was 1960.  The trophy is for 2nd place as we got killed when we played Cogswell.  This was my first year of playing ball.  Up to that time my gym was the light pole by the barn that had a wooden slab of wood with a basket attached to it.  It was difficult to dribble on the grassy court!!!  The first couple of practices I had to learn things like over and back, double dribble, in the lane etc.  I was in 7th grade.  We had NO locker to change in!  Usually when we arrived at the gym which was about a 10 minute walk from school as we opened the door we knew coach Murray was there because we could smell cigar smoke!!! Of the players #8, #55, #77, #7, #9, #44 and no# have all passed away.  When I think of it that is a lot of guys who died in their late 60s or early 70s.  My friend Larry who is #4, Jack who is holding the trophy and myself went on to play HS ball

Here we are as freshmen at Sargent Central.  We went undefeated as freshman.  Of all the guys Larry, John and I went on to play varsity.  Several quit basketball and joined the wrestling team.

As 10th graders John #31 and I #35 moved up to varsity.  John and I got to play some but were not starters.  

Here we are in 1964, our junior year.  John # 30 is now one of the starting guards and I #34 am the first off the bench.  I get to play a lot even though coach Wohler loves to have his starters play a lot.  We took first in the district, first in the region and 5th in the state.  Now as juniors we have #20 Larry, #50 David, #42 Dan, #34 me and #30 John on the varsity.

Here we are as seniors.  We still have from our class from left to right John #31, me #35, David #43, Dan #45 Larry #33 and we added Joel #13 and Ronnie #15.  I would say we had an OK season.  Our regular season record was 11-9 but two of the loses were to large schools as we were in a holiday tournament in Fargo.  Our conference record was 11-3. Dan, our center got hurt towards the end of the season and that hurt big time.  Taking 5th in our district tournament was not a highlight as we lost in the opening game. I still hold our loss to Britton to coach Wohler!!!  I forgot my knee high socks and he was ticked!  So he sat me down for much of the first quarter.  I did end up with 22 points but we came up 2 points short in a 49-51 game.  Of course today it is a distant memory of which I seldom think about but at the time I was not a happy camper so to speak.  I am not even sure I enjoyed the bus ride home with JoEllen sitting beside me!!!

I think that does it for today.  I had my FP this morning and now it is PM so life is good.