Concordia College - Cobber Yearbook (Moorhead, MN)

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BA KETBALL Inconsistency is the word that most aptly describes the 1950-51 Concordia basketball squad. The Cobbers lost to teams that they were expected to beat easily, but they also surprised their followers by whipping some highly rated opponents. But despite their unpredictable play the cagers posted a comparatively successful season. By the standards of previous years, the final 6-6 conference record is high. The mark was good for a fourth place tie in the MIAC standings. Not much was known about the cagers when practice began in November since only eight men returned from the previous years' eighteen man squad. Furthermore, the returnees possessed little real experience in tough competition. This inexperience was obvious in the early season games. The opener with Valley City Teachers' College was an exception, however, as the cagers put on a torrid shooting exhibition to crack the visitors' zone defense and gain an 81-71 victory. The Cobbers did an abrupt about face in their next two encounters as they traveled to Bismark junior College and Mayville Teachers' College to lose 49-52 and 74-75. After the overtime loss to Mayville it was obvious that the sophomore-studded squad had much to learn. In their next appearance the team regained its form of the Valley City game and they soundly trounced a weak Wahpeton School of Science five, 81-5-'i. Coach Christiansen had his team's fast break working effectively and, after building up an early lead, the Cobbers rolled to an easy victory. - -vw 2--nv ' 'qi - iwq' ' 'w r-A W H- , A e H Gal- rf 1 . :' ,-f,- ' A 1 , . h , . ggqw - . :I ' 'l 5' fs 'akjr .3 . -'fa--asa ,as pi 57K Peterson Severud Smestad Redmond 89 s l

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FRG H FOQTBALL l 5 , ' --- H., Back row: Coach Grinaker, Walkin, Solberg, Kerlin, Grubb, Malme, Loftus, Hill, Christianson, Rosenau, P. Johnson Front row: Nornes, Schempp, Dahlstrom, Summers, Pease, Bergren, Hegrenes, Stein, Lingen. In the season's opener for both squads, the baby Sioux scored twice in the fourth quarter to scalp the Cobbers 18-0 in a rain soaked contest on the Concordia field. The Cobber frosh played good football at times, but their repeated fumbles and inability to make their passing attack click proved their downfall. ' In the second game, the Cobbers played the Dragons from MSTC. The Dragon's drew the first scoring blood in the third quarter when Harry Haver of MSTC raced 72 yards with a Concordia fumble to score. The Cobber frosh tied up the game late in the third period. Don Kerlin and Kermit Christianson carried the brunt of the ball carrying, with Christianson finally going over for the score. Neither team was able to convert the extra point and the score remained 6-6. The charges of Coach Finn Grinaker played a 15-13 tie with the Jamestown reserves in a night game at Jamestown. The Jimmies scored first as Bill Beck scampered 40 yards around end to score and then kick the extra point to give Jamestown a 7-0 lead. , ,,-, ,,,.,,-, , , , ,,,,i W ...., ,,-,, -.-,..C.,...T.,- , . . , - ' - -YA Concordia came back to score twice, both times on passes by quarterback Rod Grubb. The first was a 27 yard toss to Clint Hill in the second quarter. In the third quarter he teamed up with Don Kerlin on a 51 yard pass play to score again. The conversion was good and the Cobbers led 13-7. Beck scored again for Jamestown in the final period to tie the game at 13-13. In their final game of the season, the Cobber Frosh were swamped by St. John's, 38-6. The Johnnies scored early and led 12-0 at the end of the first quarter. Concordia scored its lone mark in the second quarter as two long passes by Rod Grubb brought the ball to the four yard line. Don Kerlin plunged into the end zone to score. However, St. John's kept scoring through- out the rest of the game and wound up with a 38-6 victory. 88

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fa Concordia rooters would like to forget the first inter-city game of the season. A towering NDAC squad completely smothered the smaller Maroon and Gold, 67-36, as the latter displayed their worst form of the year. The Cobbers expressed their feelings for this humiliation two nights later by rolling over their cross-town rivals from MSTC, 69-46. The inept Dragons, who had difficulty all season, were no match for the hot-shooting Concordia quint. jake's men picked up another victory and ended their pre-Christmas schedule by defeating Jamestown, 63-57. During the vacation period Concordia participated in a holiday tournament held on the MSTC court. The cobbers eked out a 63-61 victory over a fighting MSTC team in the first round while Bemidji TC easily defeated Mayville. In the championship game the Beavers, who eventually became co-champions of their conference, captured the trophy by overpowering Concordia, 61-48. The Maroon and Gold opened their rugged conference schedule in a very discouraging manner by absorbing a 85-74 beating at the hands of Augsburg in Minneapolis. The Cobbers could do nothing right and the outlook for a good conference record did not seem very promising. ,L - - - - - . - -f - i-- - - ---Y--f -- - - A X . ,,- .Y .. - F - I 90 H. Moe H, Norness D. johnson Groven