Alma College - Scotsman Yearbook (Alma, MI)

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FRCDSI-I BASKETBALL Top row, lefT To righfp Coach Macdonald, Salvadore Cicinelli, l-lerberT Spendlove, Louis Friederick, John True, George Judd, GilberT Runlcle. ' BoTTom row: Malcolm Adams, Gordon Olson, Fred l-lill, James Emms, Walford Wrege, Roberf FulTon, Richard Krall, Gerald Sfanelc, Richard Ginfher, Casper Merris. - - A squad of Thirfy candidafes, The largesT in recenf years, reporfed for The firsT pracfice sessions To Coach Macdonald To baffle for posifions on This year's freshman baskefball Team. Affer swinging The axe a few Times, Coach kepf sevenfeen players. The squad was divided inTo Two Teams: one averaging over six feef, played a slow, decepfive brand of ball, while The ofher Was a much smaller and speedier five. The Taller Team usually sfarfed every game, and was made up of Capf. Sfanelc and Merris, guards, Fulfon, cenfer, Krall, Ginfher, and Collins, forwards. The small five included Emms and l-lill, guards, Adams, cenfer, and Wrege and Olson forwards. Ofhers who saw acfion during The season were True, Runkle, Judd, Friederick, Cicinelli, and Spend- love. The Team won Tour games and dropped Two. The yearlings opened Their season by defeafing The Michigan STaTe Prison Team aT lonia 52-33. Alma led all The way wiTh Krall Topping The scorers wiTh IO poinTs. Bay Cify Junior College came To Alma for The nexf game which found The Frosh way off Their sfride and running info difficulfy before pulling away To win 28-20. Cen- Tral STaTe's frosh led Throughouf The game unTil Alma beaf Them ouf in The final minufe of play To win 25-23. Emms looped Two long shofs To puf Alma ouT in fronf, affer Adams coIlecTed six poinfs iusf prior To This scoring spurf. Fred l-lill was The besf defensive player on The floor. On January 27, The Frosh beaT Bay Cify Junior College for The second Time, 45-27. The half ended wiTh Alma leading I9-17. Ginfher on offense, and Sfanelc and I-Till on defense, played Their besT games of The season. Ginfher led The scoring wiTh I5 poinTs. As a preliminary game for The Albion-Alma varsify game, The Frosh were Trounced by The Saginaw Fire Chiefs 52-29. The Chiefs ran away To a 20-8 lead aT The half. George Collins wiTh IO poinfs and Sfanelc WiTh 8 led Alma's scoring. Smarfing from Their defeaT earlier in The season by The Scoffies, The Cenfral Sfafe Bearkiffens handed Alma a 42-36 defeaT aT MT. Pleasanf To end Alma's I938 season.

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up Ten poinTs beTore The ScoTs sTarTed scor- ing To pull up even wiTh Ferris. WiTh The score Tied and 30 seconds leTT To play, MaThews scored a Tield goal and Don SmiTh Tollowed wiTh Two chariTy Tossers To Take The game Trom Ferris. Elder and Don SmiTh coIIecTed I3 poinTs apiece. Follow- ing The Ferris win, Alma Took To The road and in Their TirsT game, The ScoTs were swamped 54 To 30 by Kalamazoo. During The TirsT Ten minuTes oT The game, The ScoTs ThreaTened The I-IorneTs as They erased a Ten poinT lead and pulled up wiThin Three poinTs oT Tying Kazoo. I-lowever, The vic- Tors wenT inTo a baske-T barrage, and wenT inTo a 24 To I4 lead aT halTTime. ArT SmiTh wiTh 9, and Adams wiTh 7 Topped The Alma scoring. Alma ended Their home season by ouT- classing OIiveT 37 To 24 in an uninTeresTing game. Alma led I9 To 7 aT The halT. OliveT came back in The lasT halT in a vain eTIorT To Tie The score. Alma, however, maTched poinTs wiTh The ComeTs and never relin- quished The margin oT Their lead. CapTain ArT SmiTh played his lasT game on The home courT, and coIIecTed I3 poinTs To lead The scoring. The Maroon and Cream invaded The home courTs oT Albion and Adrian on successive nighTs, February 8 and March I, To end Their basIceTball campaign, and dropped boTh games. Albion beaT The ScoTs 40 To 25, and Adrian beaT Them 42 To 37. In This lasT game, Bob Adams ran up I5 poinTs, and ArT SmiTh ended his Three years oT acTive varsiTy play wiTh I2 poinTs, CapTain ArT SmiTh, Bob Adams, and John IvIaThews received special recogniTion Tor Their Tine playing in The conTerence as SmiTh was placed aT guard on The All- MIAA second Team, while Adams and Iv1aThews were accorded honorable men-- Tion. FRAKER DEAN A. SIVIITI-I ICI OTIS PLOWMAN ELDER

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VARSITY TRACK TOP POW. lSl:T To righT: John MaThews, Millard l-lulTman, ATlee GilberT, RoberT Devaney. Middle row: Coach Macdonald, Angus MacGarvah, Gordon NeTzorg, Richard Cresswell, Jack Cresswell, RoberT Adams. BoTTom row: l-larold Dean, PeTer Cicinelli, Donald SmiTh, ArThur SmiTh, Carl Elder. The varsiTy Track squad, under The waTchTul eye oT Coach Gordon Macdonald, has had several indoor meeTs and pracTice conTesTs so Tar This season, and show excellenT promise OT rounding inTo a sTrong conTender Tor The MlAA championship crown This year. Eour valuable poinT winners were losT Trom lasT year's Team. Doc Ling, capTain oT lasT year'fs squad, and Clyde Dawe graduaTed lasT June. l.ing's absence in The 440- yard dash, and Dawe in The sprinTs and hurdles was keenly TelT and leT+ gaping holes in The Alma Team. Dud Taber, who excelled in The dashes Tailed To reTurn To school This year, and Angus MacGarvah, weighT man, Was unable To reporT. l-lowever, CapTain T-larold Dean, in his specialTy, The middle disTances, will aTTempT To lead his Team To a successTul season in spiTe OT These handicaps. ln The pole vaulT, Bob Adams and Mel l-lulTman, will hold sway. Don SmiTh, John MaThews, and Gor- don NeTzorg will run The hurdles. Carl Elder, Gordon NeTzorg, and BuTch GilberT will be vieing Tor honors in The broad and high jumps. ln The sprinTs, Alma is ex- cepTionally sTrong, WiTh PeTe Cicinelli and Don SmiTh pacing The Tield. Bob Devaney and Elder hurl The iavelin, and Elder, GilberT, and Cicinelli are Tops in The discus. The Cresswell's, Dick and Jack, have aided Alma considerably in poinTs, as boTh boys are Tine runners wiTh much experience. Dick picks The mile, and Jack The Two mile To help The ScoTs in piling up poinTs. For The TirsT Time in many year's indoor meeTs are coming inTo prominence aT Alma. On March l7, The MIAA lndoor meeT was held aT l-lillsdale. GTher meeTs have been wiTh DeTroiT Tech, Abion, OliveT, and Grand Rapids Junior College. ln The laTTer parT oT May, The annual MIAA ouTdoor meeT will be held aT Kalamazoo.