{"id":573,"date":"2018-06-27T13:42:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T18:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/?p=573"},"modified":"2021-12-02T20:40:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T02:40:35","slug":"1920-1921-bemidji-normal-school-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/2018\/06\/27\/1920-1921-bemidji-normal-school-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"1920 -1921 Bemidji Normal School Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the sports-minded, the most interesting extracurricular activity begun in the 1921-1922 school year with the organization of the first basketball team by Fremont Wirth, who aside from Manfred Deputy was the only male member of a faculty of 15. One the eve of the school&rsquo;s first game on December 16, 1921, the Bemidji Pioneer wrote that Coach Wirth &ldquo;had developed a formidable squad and indications are that the school will stand on its own against any school in this section of the state.&rdquo; Bemidji won the game 51-11 over Kelliher High School, because according to the Pioneer the next day, &ldquo;they had the advantage of weight and previous basketball experience.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Bemidji played 18 games that first season, mostly against area high schools. However, they traveled as far as St. Cloud for a game against the teachers college, and to the Iron Range where they played Hibbing and Virginia junior colleges. Home games were played in the armory, a distance of about a mile from the school, and the slate included as one opponent the Bemidji Naval Militia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the sports-minded, the most interesting extracurricular activity begun in the 1921-1922 school year with the organization of the first basketball team by Fremont Wirth, who aside from Manfred Deputy was the only male member of a faculty of 15. One the eve of the school&rsquo;s first game on December 16, 1921, the Bemidji Pioneer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-1920s","category-bsu-history","category-photos-video","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2097,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/2097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}