NOTES & CLIPPINGS FROM CLYDE'S VINTON SCRAPBOOK
1924
Lamb vs Lamb When Vinton High Plays Nashua Quintet
The Vinton high school basketball team plays the Nashua high team here tomorrow (Saturday) night. But that’s not all there is to it –not by a long shot.
It happens that Coach Ray D. Lamb, of the Vinton team, has a battle all his own on his hands. It’s with his brother Clyde, who coaches the Nashua five.
But there’s more to it even than that. The Coaches Lamb have twin brothers at Coe College. Harris and Willis are their names. They play on the freshman baskeytball team. They also played on the Coe yearling football squad. They’re coming to Vinton to see—not Vinton and Nashua—but Ray “play” Clyde. Willis has announced that he’s going to root for Ray’s team, while Harris will support Clyde’s outfit from Nashaua
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Juniors win interclass field meet
Clyde Lamb individual star of the afternoon. Responsible for many of the Junior points.
Seniors Took Second Honors With Sophomores third—Large Turnout of Students watches The Boys Perform.
The junior class, with a a total of 54 points to its credit won the inter-class field meet held on the athletic field of the high school Tuesday afternoon. The seniors with 45 points were in second place, with the sophomores with 29, third. The freshmen athletes amassed only one point, taking fourth place in the mile relay.
Clyde Lamb of the junion class was individual point winner of the day and collected 18 points in the various events. Lamb took both jumps, the pole vault, a third place in the hundred yard dash and helped win the half mile relay and gave an all-around exhibition of clean athletics.
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There was a large turnout of students to cheer the athletes.
Pole Vault: C. Lamb, Junior, 9’ 3 ”
Hundred Yard Dash: C. Lamb, Junior, (winning time 11:00)
Half Mile, Time 2:19.3: 3. R. Lamb, Sophomore
Broad Jump: C. Lamb, Junior, 17’ 8 ”
High Jump: C. Lamb, Junior, 5’ 2”
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BOONE HOLDS HOME MEET
Juniors Win in Competition of Good Records.
Boone, Ia., May 6.—Special: The Juniors won the annual home track meet here today with 52 points. The Seniors scored 36, Sophomores 16 and Freshmen 3. Ashby with 21 and Brown with 13 points were the individual stars.
Ashby ran the 100 yard and 220 dashes in 10 1/5 and 23 2/5: respectively. Banghorn made 5 feet 4 inches in the high jump, and Ashby 19 feet 1 inch in the broad jump, Clyde Lamb ran the half mile in 2 minutes and 10:, and Brown negotiated the 440 in 56:.
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Note: Clyde played left half in football for Boone High School.
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BOONE TOSSERS TO TOURNAMENT; HOPES ARE HIGH
MEREDITH DROPPED FROM THE SQUAD REMAINS AT HOME
JOHNSTONE HAS BEEN ILL WITH THE GRIP
Coach Metcalf Received a Telegram Yesterday Definitely Placing the Boone Team in the Des Moines Tournament
The high school basketball squad goes to Des Moines early tomorrow morning to participate in the basketball tournament whch is to be featured at Drake University Friday and Saturday, the play commence Friday afternoon. Drawings are to be made at 10:30 a.m. Friday. The local squad is composed of the following:
Clyde Lamb, guard
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Coach Fred Metcalf will accompany the boys and have charge of them during their stay there. It will be noticed from the above list that one of the Boone mainstays, Meredith, does not accompany the squad. “Peg” forgot the training rules somewhat and when he fractured them the high school authorities fractured his hopes and plans for participating in the district and state tournaments by dropping him.
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DRAMATIC ARTS RECITAL
The following interesting program was given by the pupils of Miss Caryl Cook, at the Eastern Star Home, on Tuesday evening, Dec. 22nd. A number of friends from the city also attended:
“The Crowning Indignity” – Miss Mary Frances Means.
“Little Orphan Annie” – Miss Charlotte Whitehill.
“The One Legged Goose: -- Paul McCrea.
“Bill Smith” – Miss Esthena Randolph.
“Sonny” – Miss Margaret Means.
“Our Hired Girl” – Miss Louise Moffatt.
“The Shepherd and the Angels” – Miss Isabel Douglass.
“The Old Banjo” – Clyde Lamb.
“Short selected reading – Miss Caryl Cook.
After the program Miss Cook entertained those taking part at her home. Music and various games were indulged in, and at the close of a very pleasant evening dainty refreshments were served.
11/1/18
Memo at U. S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois
To: Lamb, C.A.
- Your request for transfer has been disapproved by the Officer in Charge Radio School.
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“All Right But A Little Wet” S.O.S. Message
The Four Lambs and Bob Fisk Have Camp in The Lower Ledges Valley
“We are alright but a little wet.” This was a phone message which came to the E. H. Lamb residence, No. 1122 First street this morning from a group of young men camping in the Lower Ledges Valley. Clyde, Ray, Harris and Willis Lamb and Bob Fisk have pitched their tents in the Lower Ledges and had just gotten nicely located when the rains started. Thursday night was particularly disastrous as regards bedding, clothing and food stuffs and the boys are busy today trying to get dried out.
The Lambs are just back from Towanda, Pa., where they visited with relatives. They left Towanda Monday morning at 6:00 o’clock and reported at the Lamb home in Boone for a steaming hot dinner at 5:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon.
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Vinton High Track Team Visits Boone
Director of Athletics Clyde Lamb and His Men Guests at Lamb Home Here.
The track team of Vinton, Ia., High school and Clyde Lamb, director of athletics there, were guests Thursday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Lamb of No. 1122 First street, the parents of the former. The track men were on their way to Des Moines to take part in the Drake Relays.
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Autographs on Track Numeral 15
Ft. Dodge Meet
His Ford got stuck. We slept in barn. Swiped some eggs, etc.
Juniors, 1918
Hi Brown, E. Brown, Lamb, Menzies, Homes, Cox, Ballard, me.
Backed up Ogden Hill.
gal gas
1918
Boy Scout patch.
Scout Emblem with Eagle and two stars under the wings, bugle with red tassels underneath. Inscribed in pen “ISSIE ‘18”
1918
COUNCIL BLUFFS MEETS DEFEAT BY BOONE HI
Entire team – Patterson, Meredith, Johnstone, Nelson, Lamb and Schroerder, Puts up the Real Article. Score 17 – 13.
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CLYDE LAMB’S TEAM TO GET NEW AWARDS
Incentives for Clean Hard Playing, Clean Speech and Clean Living Will Be Offered
Vinton, Ia., Oct 23—Offered as incentives for clean, hard playing, clean speech and clean living, two miniature gold footballs will be given two members of the Vinton High school football squad at the close of the current season, Coach Clyde Lamb announced today.
Members of the Vinton squad themselves will vote on the matter and decide which two of their gridiron pals are deseerving of the prizes.
The awards willl be given to the two players who—
- Play football the hardest, that is, play a clean hard game consistently.
- Use profanity the lowest.
- Train the best.
Monday, Sept 27, 1926
HARRIS LAMB PRESIDENT OF COE SENIORS
Boone Student is Honored By The Members of Graduating Class at Cedar Rapids College
Harris Lamb of Boone, a football and basketball star at Coe College has been elected president of the senior class.
1919
RIBBON
Boone High School
Interclass Track Meet
member of Mile Relay Team
SECOND 1919
1920
Note:
“June 3 of 20
Lamb:-- Enclosing check herewith. Your pay for next month will be at $120. per month. Your work is ok except watch us for signals. U.S. Geol. mark at Bald Mt. is same as our mark. I found out later. Eichelburg”
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COE SMOTHERS BELOIT ELEVEN BY 39-0 COUNT
Kohawks Outclass Opponents From Start
Cedar Rapids, Nov 20 Coe swamped Beloit, 39-0, in the final game of the season for both teams, here this afternoon on a slippery field, from which loads of snow had just been scraped. Playing in their old machine life form, the Kohawks had the Beloit eleven outclassed almost from the start.
Starting the scoring in the second quarter when Harris Lamb sprinted twenty yards, Eby’s men kept a steady offensive which netted six touchdowns and three kicks for points. It was Harris Lamb who concluded the battle by taking Darling’s last kickoff on his own 20 yard line and racing eighty yards for a touchdown.
Coe had the distinction in the last quarter of a backfield madeup of two sets of twins, Harris and Willis Lamb and Dick and Ed Barrows.
Beloit suffered a serious loss when Laurence, quarterback was carried from the field in the second quarter with a fracture of his right leg.
Beloit never threatened the Coe goal, though they held the Kohawk’s on fairly even terms in the first quarter. Coe made a total of eighteen first downs and Beloit only one.
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Kohawk Basketeers Triumph over Cornell
Crimson Machine Runs Over Purple First Time 5 Years
Score 29-17
Willis Lamb played right forward and Harris Lamb played center.
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SOPHS WILL BOLSTER TEAM
Three or possibly four berths on the first team may be occupied by Sophomores this year, among whose numbers are some likely looking varsity timber. Spooner, crack basket shooter and forward, is not in evidence this fall, the former Luverne star, having entered school elsewhere.
But Carrithers has a number of others who looked good in Freshman competition. Merle Makeever of Davenport, all-state prep forward in 1918 is a man who should come through the season wth a creditable record. The Lamb brothers, Ray and Clyde, make a dependable brace of guards, while the latter can also perform on the offense. Ray was captain of the ’24 yearlings, and all-state high school guard two years ago.
Loran Thompson, who plays forward or center with equal facility, and Roy Alborg, guard, complete the quartet of men that Boone furnished the 1924 yearling crew..
Some other equally good ex-freshmen are Ralph Gunnison and Paul Daniels, Springville; Wayne Norton, Marshalltown; Elgan Strong, Sigourney; Clayton Sutherland, Nashua; Daniel Kerr, Grundy Center, and Harold Burk, Milford. Gunnison was an all-tournament guard form his high school days, and Sutherland…….
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Clylone Dribblers Defeat Coe Five
Ames Wins Impressive Victory, 35-12
Ray played right guard and Clyde played left guard.
1927
Tournament Notes
When Vallett, “miracle” Muscatine guard shot five times at the basket from the center of the big Iowa floor and made good on four of the attempts, he established a state’s tournament record for all time and insured Vinton’s defeat by a margin of two points. In order to shoot the distance—the shots were 47 feet by actual measurement—Vallett had to bend clear down to the floor and heave with all his might.
Hank Gordon (Vinton) found it difficult to adjust himself to the big university court. Many of Hank’s shots, though perfect arches and headed straight for the netting, fell several feet short.
Vinton’s fighting spitit—a spirit that never sagged for a single moment—was the subject of much discussion in Iowa City sports circles. It is easy for a team to continue going at full speed when leading, but quite another matter to continue fighting their hearts out when behind up to the very last second of play.
There were hundreds of basketball enthusiasts—and scores of them were not from Vinton—who maintained the local boys had the best team at Iowa City in spite of their defeat.
One thing is reasonably certain—had the state tournament been played on a smaller floor—Vinton would be champions of Iowa today. Muscatine, it was learned, had the advantage of practicing on the Iowa floor a number of times before the tournament. It was understood that no teams were to be allowed on the floor before the tournament, but somehow Muscatine got around that ruling thus gaining a decided advantage.
The good sportsmanship of the Vinton coach and players received high praises at the hands of both North and Mendenhall, the two officials. “When I called a foul on Vinton the boys took it with good grace.” declared North. “They’d say, ‘Yes, that was a foul.’ They were a splendid bunch of boys to work with and one of the best high school teams I ever saw.” Mendenhall expressed similar sentiments.
Vinton held Muscatine scoreless the last quarter. At the conclusion of the third period the score was eight to twelve in favor of the Muskies. At the end of the game the count was ten to twelve. Playing in whirlwind style Vinton might have won had there been an extra minute to go. The game ended with the ball in Vinton’s possession under the Vinton basket.
Coach Markels of Oskaloosa suggested to Coach Lamb and his boys that they forfeit the final consolation contest because Vinton “was to tired.” As a result the Vinton athletes overran the Oskies in the semi-windup of the tournament. Markels is just a poor sport.
Ida Grove furnished plenty of opposition for the boys in the Saturday afternoon encounter, but the Purple and Gold triumphed in a close contest. When Vinton won from the Grove youngsters it marked their second defeat of the season.
Saturday Vinton was forced to play two games within three hours. The first contest in the afternoon with the powerful Ida Grove quintet resulted in a cleancut 19 to 12 victory for the locals. That game was played at four o’clock, the boys returning to their dressing rooms for a rest at about 5:15. Two hours later they were called on to face the strong Oskaloosa team that had easily disposed of Missouri Valley in a game during the early afternoon. How the boys fought to win from Oskaloosa is vivid history to the thousands of persons who witnessed the combat.
Oskaloosa held the tired Vinton athletes almost all through the contest. At the end of the fourth quarter the gun boomed with the count 14-14. In the three minutes overtime that followed Good sank a pretty archer. A moment later Faris got behind the Oskie defense and netted an easy setup; and not more than twenty seconds later Faris repeated with a second setup.
Vinton started off strong in this game. Captain Donnie Faris covering himself with glory in his last high school basketball game by scoring seven points during the opening period. The best Oskaloosa could do was to get a single goal. That made the count 7 to 2 at the conclusion of the quarter.
In the second period the fast pace set by the fresh Oskaloosa teaam begon to tell on Coach Lamb’s lads and they faltered for a few moments, long enough to permit Oskaloosa to net three field goals and a pair of free throws to forge into the lead with ten points while Vinton was held scoreless. It looked as though Oskaloosa would win, Vinton seemed to have given its best.
But the rest between halves worked wonders with the Purple men. They came back on the floor determined to win. Two free throws and a field goal while Oskaloosa netted a pair of gratis tosses knotted the score at 12 all at the three quarter mark. In the final period both teams fought desperately, attempting to penetrate each other’s defense but neither could net more than one goal and the count was still tied—14 all—when the gun announced the conclusion of the regular playing time.
In the three minute overtime it was all Vinton. Six points were scored by the locals in just one minute of play.
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“Hobo” Party Given by Seniors
The class of ’18 gave another exhibition of its pep and class spirit with a “hobo party, held in the gym Wednesday evening, May 15. A merry crowd assembled in their rags, tatters and patches, with a plentiful amount of rouge and grease paint smeared on their faces. At first, games were played on the lawn in front of the building and a little later much excitement was caused by the attempt of some of the Junior boys to carry off the “grub”. During the course of the evening there was a grand march, led by Miss Mary Frances Means and Miss Charlotte Whitehill. Miss Rolston appeared, wearing a broad-brimmed hat and a costume appearing to be several centuries old, and delighted the crowd by her sweet shy manners. One of the Junior boys made his entrance to the gym through a window, but was soon treated to an unexpected shower bath. At the close of the evening the social committee served dainty (?) refreshments, sandwiches, weiners, baked beans, and …les. When the lights were blinked, the crowd departed, but the hobo party was an event not soon to be forgotten.
1927
LAMB BROTHERS TO COACH PREP TEAMS IN FALL
Harris Goes to Waverly; Willis to Greenfield
With the announcement that Harris and Willis Lamb, the famous twins who have held forth in sports at Coe for the past four years, have secuded coaching positions at Waverly and Greenfield, Ia., respectively, an unusual chain of circumstances come to light.
The Lamb brothers are 23 years of age and when they leave their home at Boone, Ia., for their posts next fall, they wil be parting for the first time in their lives for so long a period. They have been together through grammar and high school and college, with never a separation for more than a few days at the most.
Harris and Willis are the youngest of four brothers in the family,all of whom have attended Coe and taken part in Athletics, and a year from now all four will be coaching in Iowa high schools. Clyde is coaching at Vinton high, his basketball team finishing third in the state tournament, and Ray is engaged in a similar pursuit at Clinton.
Follow Older Brothers
Clyde and Ray graduated from Coe in the spring of 1923, following brilliant athletic careers, and Harris and Willis enrolled at the Twelfth street school that fall, in that manner perpetuating the name in Midwest athletic circles for an additional four years.
Harris’ record at Coe is as follows: Won four basketball letters, playing at forward, center and guard, and captained the 1925-26 cage team; won two letters in football, playing at halfback and fullback.
Willis’ record follows: Won basketball letter in his sophomore year, playing at a forward andwon a major letter in football last season playing at fullback and halfback.
With the graduation of the Lamb brothers in June, the “backfield of twins” made up of Lambs and Barrows, that worked in the Beloit game last fall, will be broken up.
LAMBS’ SENSATIONAL RUN GIVES VICTORY
A brilliant 75 yard run by Harris Lamb after he had intercepted a forward pass on his own 25 yard line tells the story of the Kohawk 6 to 0 victory Saturday over the strong Lawrence eleven at Appleton, Wis.
Lamb’s sensational run happened when there was only three minutes left in the fourth period of play. It was the most dramatic finish that ever happened in a homecoming game and the large crowd who had come out to watch the strong Lawrence team coached by the redoutable Mark Catlin trounce the Crimson eleven were electrified when Lamb charged down the field.
The great play that saved the Kohawks from defeat was an intercepted pass that was sailing into the waiting arms of Briese, captain and left half of the Lawrence eleven, and started by Zussman, quarterback. The intercepted pass was the turning point of the game. For had the crack Lawrence captain caught the ball he had a clear field ahead of him for a touchdown…..