Boys Club team pictures.This year marks the 38th anniversary for the Boys Clubs of America. Boys Clubs of America Chairman, Herbert Hoover will be proclaiming April 10-16, 1944 Boy's Club Week. Acting Mayor Val C. Fawcett of Tacoma is preparing to do the same. Basketball team wearing Cammarano Bros. uniforms and coach.

Basketball--Tacoma; Boys--Societies & Clubs--Tacoma; Tacoma Boys' Club (Tacoma);

January of 1944 saw the basketball team from Nalley's pose proudly in a local gym. The players all wore sweatshirts that declared "If It's Nalley's, It's Good, " the company's well-known motto. Nalley's produced a variety of foods including potato chips, syrup, mayonaise, pickles and salad dressing.

Basketball players--Tacoma--1940-1950; Nalley's, Inc. (Tacoma);

Bremerton High School basketball team, winner of State Tournament at the University of Washington in Seattle. Player and coaches receiving trophies in a photograph from March of 1941. (Bremerton Sun) [Also dated 04-05-1941]

Basketball--Bremerton; Awards; Coaches (Athletics);

National Guard Basketball team, Company E., 116th Medical Regiment. The team was competing in the military basketball playoffs at the Armory.

Basketball--1940-1950; Washington National Guard, Company E, 116th Medics (Tacoma);

Fife High Basketball Team, 1941 League Champions. Back, L to R: ?, Frank Spear, Yahachi Sagami, Willard Ogden, Bill Haminshi, Frank Evancich, ?. Front: Mel Rowe, Frank Dreyer, Bob Vinson, Roy Herting, Dave Wilcox, Coach Bill Vinson.

Fife High School (Fife); Basketball players--Fife; Vinson, Bill; Spear, Frank;

Coach Bill Vinson led the Fife High School basketball team to an 11 and 1 record in 1941. That was good enough for the League Championship. The team included: (back, l to r) Willard Ogden, Bill Haminshi, Frank Spear, Mel Rowe, Frank Evancich. (front) Yahachi Sagami, Bob Vinson, Roy Herting, Frank Dreyer, Dave Wilcox, Coach Bill Vinson. (T. Times 3/3/1941, pg. 11)

Fife High School (Fife); Basketball players--Fife; Vinson, Bill; Spear, Frank;

Fife High Basketball Team, 1941 League Champion. L to R. Back: Yahachi Sagami, Bill Haminshi, Frank Spear, Mel Rowe, Frank Evancich. Front: Willard Ogden, Bob Vinson, Roy Herting, Frank Dreyer, Dave Wilcox, and Coach Bill Vinson, marking game strategy on the floor. (T.Times, 3/3/1941, p. 11)

Fife High School (Fife); Basketball players--Fife; Vinson, Bill; Spear, Frank;

Pacific Lutheran College basketball coach Cliff Olson, left, shows team members one sure way to make a basket. Players are, top to bottom, Harry Lang, Marty North, Earl Platt, Sig Sigurdson and Marv Harshman. Mr. Harshman later had a distinguished 40 year career as a basketball coach; coaching winning teams at Pacific Lutheran, Washington State and the University of Washington. This picture ran in the Tacoma Times with overlays so that the goal became the 1941 Winko Hoop Crown and the players passed the ball up a timeline indicating games that needed to be won. (T. Times 2/12/1941, pg. 14)

Basketball players--Tacoma; Basketball--Tacoma; Universities & colleges--Tacoma; College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Olson, Cliff; Lang, Harry; North, Marty; Platt, Earl; Sigurdson, Sig; Harshman, Marv;

St. Leo's basketball team were the 1940 parochial champions and also winners of the Knights of Columbus trophy. They had a 8-1 record in the six-team league with Holy Rosary coming in second at 7-2. The boys are standing in a room with photographs and banners denoting championships awarded to Bellarmine High School. From left to right are: George Strobel, Ted Garritone (captain), Jack Hersmsen, Jack Kellly, James Nordi, Grant Carbone, Bill Cassedy and Rocky Minnitti. (T.Times 3-21-1940, p. 19)

Basketball--Tacoma--1940-1950; Basketball players--Tacoma--1940-1950; Students--Tacoma--1940-1950; Awards; St. Leo's Parochial School (Tacoma);

Bellarmine basketball stars. Group portrait of five team members holding basketballs. The player in the second row, to the right, is reported to be Robert A. O'Connell. The player at the top is believed to be team captain Richard "Dick" Smith. Wearing uniform #4 is Clare Normile, center for the team. In 1940 there were only three teams that vied for the City championship--Stadium, Lincoln and Bellarmine. That March the season ended in a three-way tie with all teams sporting a 4-4 record. Bellarmine, once thought out of the race, had beaten Stadium 30-28 in two overtimes to force a two-game playoffs. On March 11th Bellarmine defeated Lincoln on Lincoln's home court 25-23. The following evening saw Stadium thump Bellarmine 31-20 to send the Tigers to the state championships. (T. Times; TNT- various articles on team incl. 3-9-40, p. 10; 3-10-40, p. 13-A; 3-12-40, p. 12; 3-13-40, p. 18)

Basketball players--Tacoma--1940-1950; Students--Tacoma--1940-1950; Bellarmine High School (Tacoma); Private schools--Tacoma--1940-1950; Normile, Clare;

College of Puget Sound Basketball team. Referee going over rules of game with team members. (T. Times)

Basketball players--Tacoma; Basketball--Tacoma; Sports & recreation facilities--Tacoma; Students--Tacoma; Universities & colleges--Tacoma; College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940;

Cammarano Bros. Bottling Co. sponsored this basketball team in 1938. Photograph of eight players and their coach.

Basketball players--Tacoma; Basketball--Tacoma; Cammarano Bros. (Tacoma);

ca. 1936. Eatonville basketball team, City champions 1936. Five boys are in basketball uniforms with the name "ELCO" on the front, two are in team jackets and one is in a letterman's sweater. Bill Smith, of a pioneer Eatonville area family, is wearing the letterman's sweater. The "ELCO" on the jerseys stands for the Eatonville Lumber Co. Two coaches sit on either side of the front row. (WSHS) (Additional identification provided by a reader)

Basketball players--Eatonville; Basketball--Eatonville; Uniforms--1930-1940; Smith, Bill;

ca. 1928. A copy of this photograph was ordered in October of 1958 by the Cheney Lumber Co. In the photograph, the members of the "Decimo Club" posed in their basketball uniforms. It appears to date from around 1928; the "Decimo" Club participated in the City League basketball league that year. The player holding the basketball in the front row is believed to be Ben Cheney. In 1924, Mr. Cheney arrived in Tacoma from South Bend at the age of 19. He loved sports and participated in several, including basketball. He drew a cartoon for his 1920 South Bend High School yearbook of himself dreaming of basketball glory, but at 5'8" tall he did not play varsity basketball. His true skill was in business. In 1936, he bought his first lumber mill and began building the empire that became the internationally known Cheney Lumber Co. He donated generously to allow local children to have the opportunity to participate in sports. Ben Cheney died in 1971. (The Ben Cheney Story by Med Nicholson, The Sou'wester, Fall 2000)

Basketball players--Tacoma;

The Dash Point Owls defeated the Valley Forge Mechanics (of the Fife area) to win the Pierce County Independent Basketball League championship in 1928. The deciding game was played at the Puyallup High School. The Sumner Athletic Club and Kimball's Sporting Goods teams had lost in the semi-final round. Dash Point players included (order unknown): Hendry, A. Dayton, McDougall, B. Dayton, Dow and McVittie.

Basketball players;