W. Tippery
L. Moore
H. Hunsen
H. Morris
I. Schlegal
E. Hout
W Gault
W. Snyder
L. Lemon
(left) W. Snyder, Captain
(right) W. Gault, Captain Elect
The 1921 track season was a preparation for future teams. Only two dual meets were scheduled, and the team did not compete in the Columbia meet, so not much state-wide glory was gained.
The first meet was with Lebanon on Lebanon's track. The fellows were inexperienced and were very weak in the field events, which gave Lebanon the meet by a score of 75 to 33.
The team had learned a few things at Lebanon, and when they went up against Albany on Albany's track, they were able to bring home the bacon by a decisive 72-39 score, practically the same as Lebanon had won from us two weeks before.
Coach Shagren is due a great deal of commendation
for turning out a team as good as the one he did, and for
gleaning the school for new material which could be whipped into
shape for a championship team the following year.
The men and the events they captured
Orville Ortell 1st place 440 yard dash 5 points
Orville Ortell 1st place 220 yard dash 5 points
Dick Lewis 1st place 880 yard run 5 points
Wellington Gault 2nd place mile run 3 points
Dick Lewis 1st place mile run 5 points
Carl Daniel 1st place 50 yard dash 5 points
Herman Belt 2nd place 50 yard dash 3 points
Herman Belt 2nd place 220 yard dash 3 points
Carl Daniel 2nd place 50 yard hurdles 3 points
Orvill Ortell, Earl Hout, Herman Belt, and Carl Daniel-
1st place half mile relay 5 points
total - 42 points
Our nearest competitor was Columbia with 26 points, the greater
part of which she won in field events. We had no men entered in
field events, which makes our victory all the more glorious.
Columbia meet 1922
On April 15, CHS won the first indoor track and field
meet participated in jointly by the Oregon and Washing-
ton high school athletic associations.
This is something that would not have happened
had
there been no track team last year. The experience that
the fellows got then, and the training and development
of new men was one of the principal causes of winning the meet
in Portland this year. A determination to win and a fight to the
finish was another big reason. Each of the fellows was de-
termined to come out on top, or lose fighting so hard that the
other fellow would realize that they were there anyhow. the
other reason was Coach Grant Swan, a coach that knows track
from Z to A, and that knows how to train a bunch of fellows to
win. His training rules and drastic enforcement of them, to-
gether with a few wise pointers picked up here and there over
the country, enabled the team to outwit and outrun the other
athletes in the state and come in on a walk. Too much praise can-
not be given him.
Orville Ortell was high point man of the meet and
received a
large silver cup as a reward. Dick Lewis was second high point
man, and had Ortell not run in the relay, the two would have
tied. Carl Daniel was third high pintman.
The team took all the cups offered at the meet
(three in num-
ber) and nine medals, five gold and four silver.