Four articles about the 1934 basketball game between the Packers and the Maroons
[from the January 12, 1934 Door County Advocate]
PACKERS COMING
The annual engagement between the Green Bay Packers basketball team and the Sturgeon Bay Maroons, local city team, has been booked to take place at the Sturgeon Bay High School gymnasium Thursday night, January 25, it is announced this week. A large crowd is expected to attend.
[from the January 18, 1934 Door County News]
Maroon Quintet to Clash With Packers
The announcement was made this week that the Maroons, local basketball club, booked a game with the strong Green Bay Packer quintet for next Thursday evening, January 25, to be played at the Sturgeon Bay High school gymnasium. Both quintets have had much success this season and an excellent game is anticipated.
The Packer quint is composed of former university grid and cage stars, including Wuert Englemann, Arne Herber, Roger Grove, Hank Bruder, M. Rose, Milt. Gantenbein and big Mike Michalske. The local quintet consists of W. Perry, C. Sorenson, H. Hembel, H. Rose, R. Koehn and L. Spude, former Sturgeon Bay High school stars, and W. Lycan Miller, Sturgeon Bay High school coach, and former scoring ace at the University of Wisconsin.
A preliminary tilt between the Sturgeon Bay Aces and Kewaunee Aces will commence at 7:30.
An advance sale of tickets will get under way the latter part of this week. Moderate admission charges will prevail which should insure a large attendance at the contest.
[from the January 19, 1934 Door County Advocate]
PACKER FIVE WILL PLAY HERE JAN. 25
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Fans Recall Thriller Played Here Last Season
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The crack Green Bay Packer basketball team has been booked to play the Sturgeon Bay Maroons local city team, at the Sturgeon Bay High school gym next week Thursday, January, 25, and the usual big crowd is expected to be on hand. The Packers have the same stellar outfit that beat the Maroons in a thrilling game here last year 43 to 36, except that they have the addition of Milt Gantenbein as a guard. Gantenbein, according to those who have seen the Packers in action this year, is a show in himself, out-clowning even Hank Bruder.
The Maroons, which have won a majority of their games against tough teams so far this season, also have practically the same team, so that a good game is expected. In addition to the main game, which will begin at 8:30, the Sturgeon Bay Aces will play the Kewaunee Aces for the preliminary contest.
The record of Packer games played here the past three years shows nothing but close competition:
Past Records
1933—Packers 43, Maroons 36.
1932—Packers 27, Kew.-Doors 26.
1931—Packers 42, Maroons 36.
The line-ups of the two squads will be as follows:
The Line-Ups
Packers
Rose, f.
Bruder, f.
Herber, f.
Englemann, c.
Grove, g.
Gantenbein, g.
Michalske, g.
Maroons
f., Sorenson
f., Koehn
f., Miller
c., Hembel
c., Spude
g., Rose
g., Perry
Good Preliminary
The preliminary game promises to be a good battle in itself. The two Aces clashed as a prelim to the Packer tilt at Kewaunee Tuesday night, and the local outfit, which consisted of G. Jackson, J. Weber and “Porky” Moore as forwards, “Birdie” Starr as center, and Lavassor and Spude as guards, won in an overtime period 16 to 13. At the half, Kewaunee lead 9 to 7. Moore made all three of the points in the extra period, making a basket while being fouled and then adding the free throw.
The Kewaunee Aces have a pair of former high school stars, Wilmet and Lunde, forwards, who are constant threats. Among others on the squad are Fuller center, and Kozak and Wochos, guards.
In the game here next week, Spude, who plays with the Sturgeon Bay Aces, will join the Maroons, and his place in the preliminary game will be taken by “Speck” Writt. Lougee Stedman will also be on the Aces’ line-up.
[from the February 2, 1934 Door County Advocate]
PACKERS RALLY TO WIN 28 TO 24 OVER MAROONS
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After trailing by six points in the latter part of the third quarter the Green Bay Packers called a “council of war” and came out of it with a drive that held the Sturgeon Bay Maroons to only a free throw during the balance of the tilt and netted the visitors enough additional points to win 28 to 24. It was a thrilling finish, just as other games with the Packers have had in the past here, and provided more than money’s worth to a big crowd of over 400 fans.
The football stars finished the first period 12 to 7 in the lead, but by the half, aided by the stellar shooting of three beautiful baskets by Lycan Miller, the Maroons crawled up to trail at the half by only two points, 15 to 13. Koehn’s three baskets in the third period and two more by Hembel and Spude are what put the locals out in front, while Rose and Grove, the same as in the game last year, were the ones who pulled the battle out of the fire for the Packers.
The score by periods:
Sturgeon Bay . . 7 6 10 1—24
Packers . . . . . . 12 3 6 7—28
Free Throws Misses—Koehn 1, Spude 1, Rose (Packers) 1, Englemann 3, Grove 1, Bruder 1.
Referee — Jess Lyons (La Crosse)
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S. B. ACES WIN
In the preliminary game, the Sturgeon Bay Aces beat the Kewaunee Aces 18 to 11. Birdie Starr and Jackson each made three baskets for the winners and Writt and Weber, one apiece. Others on the local team were Lavassor, Stedman and Moore.
Scoring was divided, among five Kewaunee men, one basket, each being made by Stika, Wilmet, Lunde, Leannah and Voeks.
Courtesy of the Door County Library Newspaper Archive
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