Alma College - Scotsman Yearbook (Alma, MI)

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.2 1 l ll BASKETBALL l VVhen Coach Campbell issued the call for basketball men shortly after the football season had closed, the I924 championship team reported intact with the exception of Van Hee. It is needless to say that great things were expected of this group of court stars. Captain Red Carty was again called upon to lead the Maroon and Cream to another basketball championship, which he did in a creditable manner. Red is the only Alma man to captain a championship team two years in succession. ' ' The season was the most successful that the followers of Alma basketball teams have ever witnessed. Alma went through the entire season without a defeat in the M. I. A. A. Alma scored a total of 414 points to her opponents' 197. Out- scoring their opponents by more than a two to one score is a feat which has never been equalled in the history of Michigan Intercollegiate basketball. Captain Carty also established a new high record for points scored in a game when he shot fourteen baskets and two fouls for a total of thirty points in the Albion game. The victory over Mt. Pleasant on lVIarch 13, marked the last appearance of four Seniors who were members of the teamg Captain Carty, Cuddy Shaver, Russ Catherman and Roger W'right. The famous Four Horsemen have gone through four years of college basketball and each one has won four letters. The Maroon and Cream scarcely let the other colleges of the state have a look-in when the all M. I. A. A. team was chosen. Captain Carty was chosen forward for the third time. He also captained the mythical team. Shaver was again given the guard position which he held last year. Gordon MacDonald was given the center berth. To complete the Alma triumph Captain-elect Dutch Welhoelter and Nate Gealor were given honorable mention for the positions of guard and forward. At the Basketball Banquet held in honor of the Champs at lVright I-lall, the members ofthe team elected Albert Welhoelter captain of the I926 cagers. 'C Dutch has played three years' of basketball at Alma and has been recognized as one of the most dependable guards that Alma has ever had. His success with next year's team seems assured when we consider the material that will be back to make up the new squad. I -I. H. Nrsnisr, ' Athletics Editor. -fx . V fx-N. gg so 4 ALMA COl,LECl?t r sr- gj . . Eighty-four

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On the trip taken during Christmas va- cation the team played six games. They won four of the six encounters played although the team was unable to practice between games. The teams that Alma conquered on the trip were: Hazen Cuyler's crack I. M. AA. team of Flint, the Pontiac Oaklands of Pontiac, the Detroit College of Law and the Flint Y. lvl. C. A. They lost to the People's State Bank team of Detroit and to the Metropolitan M. E. Church team, also of Detroit. The hrst Week after vacation the team again journeyed to Detroit Where they trimmed the speedy De- troit HY team by a 42-23 score. THE SEASON YPSI NORNIAL AT ALMA january 16 The M. 1. A. A. basketball season was op- ened by handing the Ypsi teachers a neat 34- 18 beating. Displaying an offensive attack that had the teachers stopped Alma had little difficulty in winning the Hrst M. I. A. A. tilt of the year. 4 ALBION AT A1.BION JANUARY zo Alma kept up the high scoring habit by tak- ing the Albion cagers into camp 49-20. The Albion coach commenting on the game re- marked that the team that couldstop Red Carty would have to be a mighty clever com- bination. The Methodists were outclassed from the start of the game and never threat- ened the lead that the Campbell men had piled up. , UNIVERSITY or DETROIT AT DETROIT JANUARY 24 Alma took sweet revenge for the football defeat which it received during the football season by winning a hard fought contest from the U. of D. men 20-I7. The small gymnasium handicapped the Work of the Alma cagexs to certain extent but by displaying a brilliant defense during tlIe closing minutes of the fray they were-able to add another victory to the credit of the Maroon and Cream. ' iiRED,, CAILTY ALMA COLLEGE T 9 Eighty-Tix