North Park University - Cupola Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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tennis the 1951 net squad was composed of fresh- men art edstrom, earl lindgren, and ralph pearson, and sophomore craig nelson, the racqueteers won only one meet, that one win at the expense of morton in the last meet of the season, art edstrom and ralph pearson teamed up and collected one point for a dou- bles win; earl lindgren garnered the other point by winning his singles match. the racqueteers had previously been downed by morton, wilson, wright, and herzl in conference tilts, leading point winner of the season was lindgren, who won four of his matches. the ' 52 net squad was made up of jack boer, lindgren, bob lofgren, John safstrom, ar- mour swanson, dick ahlgren, and pearson. the home meets and the conference tournament were held on the courts at gompers park. backhand return e. lindgren, c. nelson, r. pearson, a. edstrom, r. lofgren.

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c D E c (0 row 1 : m. gotberg, d. lindman, w. sheppley. row 2: r. sager, h. arnquist, k. mallek. the ' 52 swimming squad was an all-fresh- man affair, all eight members being rookies at n. p. the leading point winner for the squad was gordy thorell, breast-stroker and free- styler, who garnered 22 points in conference competition, bruce lake, diver and free-styler, was a close second with a total of 20 points, coming in third with twelve was bill sheppley, back-stroker and free-styler. the mermen lost twice to morton, wilson, and wright. the clos- est they came to victory was in a 34-31 edging at morton. the other tankmen were herb arnquist, marv gotberg, ralph sager, don lindman, don ryding, and marston swanberg. the first three named swam the free-style; the latter two were breast-strokers. the big event of the season came when bruce lake won the conference diving title, coming through when it counted most to edge out two divers who had previously beaten him. other place winners for the vikings were marston swanberg and the four-man and medley relay teams; both relay teams placed fourth. swimming u Q. g. thorell, b. lake.

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the polekats row 1: c. nordengren, a. anderson. row 2: 1. shumaker, d. bengtson, g. lindfelt. row 3: a. Zimmerman, e. dwyer, r. carlson, a. dragelis. intra -mural volleyball interest was high and competition keen as this year ' s all-school volley- ball tournament commenced, the start- ing field consisted of twenty-one teams and 210 players, the teams were di- vided into three divisions; the national, american, and dixie leagues, at the end of the regular season the top four teams of each league gualified for the tourney elimination play-offs, the final games of the tournament held many breathless, as the seniors and polekats fought their way to the finals, the sen- iors jumped off to an early lead by win- ning the initial game, but, despite a slow start, the polekats came from behind to take two straight and win the championship, the debtors won third place medals by defeating the acadalums in the consolation game.