Kent State University - Chestnut Burr Yearbook (Kent, OH)

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Golf Places in MAC More gloom. The linksmen won only three of their 17 matches and tied one. But they had a good time playing a lot of golf. Highlights of the season came as coach Jay Fischer ' s team placed 15th out of 23 competing in the All Ohio Match played at Columbus mid- way through the schedule and tied with Toledo in a triangular meet including Western Michigan. The team placed seventh in the MAC standings. Newcomers to the team showed their mettle and promised to lead the squad to an improved record in 1962. Low medal score for the year was accomplished by Jim Whitledge and Bill Croskey scored the most points, 35 V4, of any player throughout the season. GOLF RECORD Kent Opponent ! 2 Marshall 32 2 Vl Ohio University 32 2 2P 2 Hiram College II 2 26 Vi Baldwin-Wallace 6 2 8 2 Toledo 16 2 2 Bowling Green 21 2 10 Pittsburgh 11 3 2 Youngstown 20 2 2 ♦Western Michigan 16 4 2 ♦Miami 13 2 10 2 Bowling Green I6 2 12 ♦Toledo 12 7 2 ♦Western Michigan I6 2 18 Marshall 15 2 ♦Bowling Green 23 2 91 4 ♦Marshall 14 2 16 Youngstown 17 ♦Triangular Match 1961 Golf, Front row 1-r: Loomis, Whitlege, Alexander, Lequyea. Row 2: Coach Fischer, Kroskey, Kull, Norton, captain; Plummer. SS«fc Ki? 2£ :

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SPORTS 1961 Varsity Tennis, Front row 1-r: Miller, Chapon, Vens, Hood. Row 2: Coach Chesnutt, Tenwick, Walker, Hutchings, Smith. Tennis, Watered Down TENNIS SCORES Kent Opponent Randolph-Macon 9 4 Marshall College 5 6 Ohio University 3 8 Fenn College 1 1 Pittsburgh 8 7 Youngstown 2 1 Oberlin 8 5 Bowling Green 4 Western Michigan 9 7 John Carroll 2 6 Hiram College 3 4 Kenyon College 5 4 Toledo University 5 Weather, the plague of all sports in the 1961 spring season, played a large part in the fortunes of the Kent tennis team also. Coach Karl Ches- nutt hoped to outwit the elements by taking his team on an early season jaunt to the southland but the overcast weather there cancelled two of his three meets, those with Lynchburg and Roa- noke Colleges. Thus handicapped and inexperienced, the squad moved ahead with their schedule and rolled up a creditable 6-7 record. This was good enough to place dark horse Kent in fourth place in the MAC standings as they surprised powerful Bowling Green and Ohio universities. Lead spots on the team shifted all season long but saw Paul Walker and graduating Joe Chapon carrying most of the load. Adding an unexpected assist were newcomers David Miller and Ray Vens who will return, along with Walker, to pace the 1962 season team. 28

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Varsity Swimming Team, Front row, I. to r.: O ' Donnell, Montgomery, Weber, Abbott, McMillin, Smith. Row 2: Coach Hoover, Turbaczewski, Oakum, Brown, Hurler, Babiak, Schiller, Nece, Bristol, manager. SPORTS Tankers Break Records SEASON ' S RECORD Kent Opponent 43 Grove City 52 57 Wittenberg 38 42 Ohio University 53 45 Western Michigan 50 61 Albion 34 64 Carnegie Tech 29 51 Miami 37 47 Bowling Green 48 64 Slippery Rock 31 Bill Hoover, in his 14th season as Kent swim- ming coach, had one of his best teams. The swimmers finished with a 6-4 record and set numerous new marks during the campaign. This year ' s squad had broken every Kent swim mark that was on the books. In the last two years, the team has reset every record at least once. One of the highlights of the year was the win over Miami, 51-37. This was the first time in the school ' s history that Kent has been able to beat a Redskin tanker team. Joe Weber and Lowell Nece led the swimmers in the many new records that were set this year. Weber broke two marks this year, but he reset the record in the 100-yard freestyle three times during the season. The other record he set was in the 50-yard freestyle. Weber was also a member of the record-breaking 400-yard freestyle relay team. Nece, a sophomore diver from Cleveland, twice set new diving marks. He did this on consecutive days, Feb. 9-10 against Carnegie Tech and Miami. 30