Boys Basketball Season Summary: Collins Won - Rhodes 78-30; Cambridge 73-51; Slater 75-41; Rhodes 59-42; Colo 47-43; Baxter 80-36; Maxwell 74-49; Cambridge 85-34; Maxwell 62-37; Baxter 71-38; Shipley 69-38; Eldora Tr. Sch. 51-25; Huxley 64-32; Colo 50-38; Gilbert 73-54; Zearing 60-39. Lost - Farrar 60-50 and 76-70. Story County Tourney: Won - Nevada "B" 62-54; Maxwell 61-45. Lost - Roland 60-49. Won - Consolation game, Shipley 41-40. Sectional Tourney: Lost - Clemons 74-48. Season Record: Won -19; Lost - 4. The offensive season average - 64 points per game and the defensive game average was 44 points per game, 20 point per game margin is very impressive. The Collins reserve team: Won - 2; Lost - 1.
Boys' Basketball Team Members - The starting five members: John Vasey (56) (c) 457 pts.- apg 20.8; Larry Laird (56) (f-g) 222 pts.- apg 10.6; Bill Ballard (56) (f) 219 pts.- apg. 10.4; Jim Dodd (56) (g) 188 pts.- apg. 9.4; Elliott Partridge (57) (f) 166 pts.- apg. 7.5. Primary subs: Rex Morrison (56) (g) 87 pts.- apg. 4; Jerry Nichol (56) (g) 46 pts.- apg. 2.6. Other team members: Ben Clark (57), Gordon Smith (58), Jerry Huffman (57), David Fitzgerald (57), Pat Fitzgerald (58), Jerry Dodd (59). Manager - Don Shultz. Coach - Larry Thompson.
The senior team members are: John Vasey, Larry Laird, Bill Ballard, Jim Dodd, Rex Morrison, and Jerry Nichol. (Insert 2005: John Vasey's career scoring of 1529 points [Fr. - 260, Soph. - 395, Jr. - 417, Sr. - 457] is second high. Philip Holland's (52) 1830 points is the school record.)
March 8, 1956 The annual Future Farmers of America (F.F.A.) Queen's Ball was held Friday night. The gym was beautifully recorded in red, white, and blue crepe paper. The queen's platform was located on the east side of the gym and above it were three large hearts made of tinfoil. Verlie Etnier (sophomore) was crowned queen and was presented a bouquet of roses and an F.F.A. Queen's necklace by Jim Wilson, President. Betty Spooner (senior) and Sandra Carley (junior) were attendants and were presented beautiful roses. One of the largest attendances for a high school dance, 45, was present for this festive occasion. Lunch was served after the dance.
Junior High Honor Roll: Seventh - Karolyn Carley, Rosemary Cory, Celayne Elliott, Linda Horn, Kathie Jones, Pat Kimberley, Charlene Luing, Linda Mullihan. Eighth - Bob Dodd, Margaretha Fitzgerald, Lola Harre, Betty Jane Kearns, Beverly Kelderhouse, Shirley Kern, Gary Smith, Lois Struthers.
The girls' basketball team journeyed to Des Moines last Thursday to see the quarter-final round of the girls' state tournament. The unanimous opinion of the girls was several fine quality teams were in the state tournament.
Grade News: Fifth - In Science, we are studying the solar system. Sixteen in the class are able to name and spell the planets correctly. We have been learning how to write invitations, make introductions, and choose suitable topics for table conversation in English.