Macalester College - Quid Nunc Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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Q XVI-IERE XVE ARE AT. The past year has noted a wonderful growth in athletics at Macalester. First of all, athletics were placed upon a business-like basis through the acquisition of a general athletic coach, who has made it his chief work to promote and encourage a clean brand of all athletics common to college life. Later, the student body showed its interest and desire to support in a tangible way by voting 356.00 per year individually, which fund has been reserved exclusively for a wholesome system of athletics. Just to keep thc good movement going and to show results, the base ball team won the state championship without losing a college game. Today, Macalester students are enjoying the beneficial results of training in all college sports. Football, baseball, track, basketball, hockey, handball, skating and walk- ing, all have their devotees here at school and the change has been much appreciated. Our enlarged athletic policy has made this possible and Shaw Field has come to make it a reality. Has this new policy paid? Watch the half hundred or more men who are daily taking their workouts in baseball, track and spring football on Shaw Field, and then compare this new situation with the one of a few years past, when the only men who could get any athletic training were the men who could make the teams. Consider the wonderful showing of the 1909 football team, which though not winning a game, won state-wide approbation for its pluck and sturdy iight for clean college football. We cannot refrain from reminding our readers at this point, how- ever, that the football team came within twenty yards of a triple tie for the state championship, for if Schiek had gotten past Stevenson in the Carleton game, such would have been the result. Furthermore, that it has paid, let us recall this significant sentence found in the 1909 football review as printed in the Pioneer Press: The feature of the 1909 football season was the phenomenal spirit shown by the supporters of the Macs. It was the biggest brace the team had. The old Macalester spirit has never been shown to better advantage than during the past year. Today, Macalester enjoys an enviable position in Northwestern athle- tics. Her teams are popular and are invited to meet the best teams of this section. Their successes are attracting young men as never before. They like Macalester because of its obvious advantages of situation, because of its spirit and its ideals. Can Macalester, with its present equipment, meet the reasonable demands of these young men, who demand and need a wholesomeathletic training quite as much today as they need a mental training in the sciences and the classics? Without adequate gymnasium facilities, can we hope to compete with our state rivals, who have so re- cently added splendid new gymnasiums? And if, because of a lack of proper training and equipment, Macalester teams must inevitably become trailers after state honors, will this not seriously reflect against our col- 1ege's iniiuence in every respect? We need that gym nextf' Every one conversant with the problem admits of this logic of the situation. We Want and we need a gymnasium. -E. J. C., '10. 140

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TENNIS. That tennis is coming to its own as one of the important college games at Macalester is shown by its development during the past few years. At the present time nearly every student who is not in baseball, football or track work is an active member of some tennis association. The Highland Tennis Association has this year made large improve- ments on its well-kept court just south of Shaw Field. The Chewambees, who are located on Grand Avenue, have a strong organization of racket- wielders. Near these courts are the grounds of the Waukan, a new asso- ciation that is rapidly developing to the front ranks. The game has as many devotees among the girls as with the boys. The present courts that they occupy on Summit Avenue are inadequate to meet the needs of the co-eds, and it is very likely that two more will be given them in the near future. Several inter-association tournaments will be held this spring, which will not only serve to arouse local interest in the game, but will also be a long step towards the adoption of Inter-collegiate contests. F, .W , I l 139

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THE ALL-MACALESTER BASEBALL TEAM. First base. . . . . . .....Irvin, Second base. . . . . .Jacobson Third base . . . . . .Johnson Short stop. . . .Achard, Left field. . . . .Palmer, Center field . . .Metcalf Right field. .... Edson, Catchers. . . ............ . . . . S. M. Kirkwood, Nutt, Pitchers. . . .......... . . , . W. P. Kirkwood, Erickson Utility. . ...................... ..... . Ed. Carson .Fred Carson r During Macalester's twenty-five years of existence, baseball has been unquestionably its greatest game. From the time of the great pioneer team of the eighties up to the present day championship contenders, many great teams have striven for the orange and blue. From these members, the above All-Macalester has been selected as the strongest all-around aggregation of ball players. This team has not been picked from a dis- tance, but is the result of the opinions of competent persons who have watched Macalester's baseball from its infancy. As is readily noticed, the make-up of the team is restricted to the Alumni and players of the present day. The reason for this is evident to all who are conversant with athletic conditions here during the darker days. The team as represented above has all the qualifications necessary for a great baseball team. The individuals are certain fielders, and are remarkably strong with the bat, their average in this department exceeding 300. The pitching staff is an unusually strong one, and is better, no doubt, than any that can be selected from any other Minnesota college. As it is next to impossible to estimate the value of the pitchers as compared with each other, they are ranked in the line-up according to the years in which they played. 141