Augustana College - Rockety I Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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KENNY NYBERG Center GENE SCHRYVER End DICK OLUFS End WAYNE SIMONSON Tackle PERRY ROOS Fullback ART WHALEN Halfback

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N N 1 DON JOHNSON Fullback GLENN MALMQUIST End ERNIE KARLSTROM JACK LOFGREN End Tackle Oaks makes a shoestring tackle in the Lake Forest game.

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2? Jifififg, S '11, Q fe 4 .f-. ' P x bfflila' if at , f 3 N . f-fa I f .if f X ks - gi JI' Ni, V A Augustana rebounds against Ca t age 5:-'QFIEAV Although the Hnal record for the 1947f1948 Augustana basketball season was seven games won and 13 lost, the team- had a fairly successful season. The Vikings ran up a 5Ofplus average per game, and after a slow start, struggled upward to finish in a tie for fifth place in the Little Nine. Augustana also boasted the second highest scorer in conference play-Guard Bob Gildea who averaged 14.3 points. Gildea received honorable mention in the Little Nine allfconference selections. The Vikings lost single games to Grinnell, Wheaton, Western Illinois, Illinois Wesley' an, Illinois College, Lake Forest, and Millikan. They lost both games with St. Ambrose, and took one out of three contests with Monmouth. Knox won in Galesburg, but Augie took the Rock Island contest. Elmhurst followed Knox's path in splitting with Coach Butch Stolfa's cagers, and Carthage dropped both of its games with the Vikings. Augie also won matches with North Central and Cornell. . At the lettermen's banquet at the end of the season Gene Schryver and Clair johnson were elected cofcaptains for the 19484949 season, and Bob Gildea was awarded the most valuable player trophy. Perhaps the most thrilling and morale building game was the Vikings' first victory of the season. Augie came on to its own court with five losses and no victories, and walked off with a '52 to 51 triumph over the Monmouth college Scots. Bill Burgus sank the free throw that clinched the game with one second left on the clock. Four more losses were in the book before the Vikings again tasted victory. The Vikings started to move the way they had been expected to on January 28. With nine losses and one win behind them, they took a thriller from Carthage in the Augie gym, 5 3 to 51. It was the Vikings' Hrst Little Nine victory. Again it was a free toss that asf sured the game for Augie as Captain Bob Riley scored with 15 seconds left on the clock. Augie was on the win road at last, and took Hve of the season's remaining nine games. Cornell fell next, 'i 9 to 5 4, and a pepless Knox squad was downed by the Vikings, 5 7 to 46. The Cornell clash was probably the most rough and tumble affair of the season. The Vik' ings scored 33 points in the second half, 28 of them divided between Schryver, Gildea, and Riley. Thirtyffour fouls were levied against Cornell. Schryver toed the charity line 18