The basketball team of 1923-24 enjoyed a most successful season. In fact, no H. H. S. team of recent years has won so much glory. This team ranks with the great team of '17-'18 which was composed of Malcolm, Feldman, Donahue, Merriman and McGuigan. The team won twenty-one out of twenty-two starts, and brought home to Coach John P. (Dotty) Whalen his first Valley League Pennant.

The team won nineteen straight games before it received its first setback of the season at the hands of Westfield High School. This defeat tied the team for the Valley Title. The team received its second defeat of the season when it was defeated by the New Haven Commercial High School five, Champions of New England. The following week, however, Holyoke, displaying its early season form, defeated Westfield High School for the Valley League Championship on the Springfield College floor.

Holyoke was well represented on the All-Valley Team, Captain Bob Carroll, Bob Allison, and Willie Walkov winning positions on the five.

The lineups and lettermen follow: