Basketball - Girls played to another tie game. Collins 31, Colo 31. Lineup: Pritchard (f) - 9 pts; Fertig (f) - 12 pts; Smith (f) - 10 pts; Crabb (g); Atkinson (g); Luing (g); Coughenour (g); Caulkins (g); Beavers (g); Maxwell (g). Rhodes defeated Collins girls 54 - 35.
December 21, 1944 Ag News: A lot of good workmanship has been shown in our farm shop class the last few weeks. Some of the nearly completed projects are: Hayrack, livestock loading chute, two feed bunks, and other smaller projects.
Basketball - Collins boys defeated Baxter 41-10. The girls' team played to their third tie game of this season, Collins 36, Baxter 36.
January 4, 1945 Basketball - Melbourne defeats Collins boys 25-17. Collins girls defeat Melbourne 35-18. Lineup: Pritchard - 17 pts; Fertig - 0 pts; Smith - 0 pts; Crabb - 14 pts; Atkinson - 4 pts; Luing - 0 pts; Maxwell - 0 pts; Coughenour - 0 pts.
January 11, 1945 Collins boys rolled to an easy victory over Rhodes for their 8th victory of the season - 37-17. Collins girls were defeated by Rhodes 32-20.The half-time score was 17-16 in favor of Collins, but they scored only 3 points in the last half.
Who's Who of Students: Name - Carol Kimberley; Age - 17; Birth date - October 24; Ambition - to get out of school. Favorites: Subject - Typing; Color - Red; Food - Chicken and Noodles; Drink - Coke; Book - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Actor - Dennis Morgan; Actress - Rita Hayward; Type of Music - Swing; Song - Swinging on a Star.
Basketball - Collins boys defeated by Zearing 41-35. Lineup: Miller (f) - 10 pts; Oswalt (f) - 0 pts; Renfeldt (c) - 5 pts; Marsh (g) - 6 pts; Titus (g) - 9 pt; Pritchard (f) - 1 pt; Holland (g) - 4 pts. Girls had one-point loss to Zearing, 28-27.Leading scorers were Crabb - 15 points and Pritchard - 11 points.
January 25, 1945 School Annual: We are planning to have a school annual. It will be sold at $1.50 per copy and will contain pictures of all students. One hundred copies must be sold before we can go ahead with the project. Your help is needed.
Honor Roll: Ninth Grade: Gene Atwood, Dolores Gardener, Darlene Haley, Anna Van Pilsum. Tenth Grade: Wanda Anderson, Dorothy Buck, Kathryn Carroll, Donald Huntrods, Joyce Maxwell, Harold Mullihan, Margie Shearer. Eleventh Grade: Patty Fertig, Bernice Hofer, Frank Miller, Donald Snyder, Bob Titus. Twelfth Grade: Jenalva Elliott, Wanda Huntrods, Carol Kimberley, Curtis Marsh, Russ Oswalt.
Boys Basketball - Collins boys got back into their winning column by defeating their old rival, Maxwell, for the second time this season 47-18. Collins won their tenth game of the season by defeating a strong McCallsburg five 32-27. Lineup: Miller (f) - 13 pts; Renfeldt (c) - 8 pts; Marsh (g) - 9 pts; Titus (g) - 2 pt; Pritchard (f) - 0 pts. The Collins boys' reserves lost to McCallsburg 32-29. Oswalt led the scoring with 12 points.