North Park University - Cupola Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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basketball record after all, isn ' t the main idea of competitive athletics to develop sportsmanship, a certain degree of adroitness, and most important of all, to learn to lose graciously as we would win humbly? coupled with these is the objective of playing the game for the mere sake of en- joyment and pleasure with winning, undoubt- edly preferrable, not being the only goal, the fellows on this year ' s team tried as hard as any one could be expected to try and even in the face of evident defeat, never stopped scrapping and hustling, thus it would be a grave mis- judgment to term this season a flop, for the deeper goals — goals much more valuable than the field goals scored during the games — have been attained, as the great writer alfred tennyson wrote, and permitting a slight change to fit the occasion, it is better to have played and lost, than never to have played at all. north park 21 Chicago christian 53 north park 23 st. gregory 32 north park 47 luther 46 north park 37 racine luther 51 north park 28 minnehaha 51 north park 29 roosevelt 70 north park 37 harvard 55 north park 32 Chicago christian 55 north park 67 harris 9 north park 46 latin 55 north park 41 francis parker 65 north park 33 todd 38 north park 34 wheaton 67 north park 46 st. gregory 32 north park 29 harvard 46 north park 39 luther 38 north park 36 alumni 40 north park 98 harris 18 north park 34 u high 54 north park 34 harvard (tournament) 41 north park 37 football team 15 north park 32 college 47 ;lson peterson norene

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basketball -- 1951 6 - a failure is often a tool for the carving of some of the finest outlines in the c1t i ictc: of the person; end, even in this life, bitter and crushing failures have often in them the germs of new and quite unimagined happiness. this remark seems especially fitting in this instance for although it is never enjoyable or encourag- ing to be on the losing end of the score, there is often much to be gained from such experi- ences, in this is the essence of this year ' s basketball season at north park, for there is little doubt that our team experienced many discouragemehts and more tharytheir share of the defeats. these setbacks can ' t be attributed to any one single factor, but are a composite of many, including some tough breaks which added a few games to the lost side of the ledger when even a more favorable bounce of the ball would have changed the outcome in our favor, however, there is nothing to be gained by worrying over spilt milk as the expression goes, and there are numerous advantageous factors to consider when reveiwing the hoop season.

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swimming row 1: b. hadel, d. lib- by, j. newton, r. berg, k. mallek. row 2: c. borchardt, a. Stevens, h. hinckley, f. tripp, d. wells. 186