Alma College - Scotsman Yearbook (Alma, MI)

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dfafiozzaf and gnferfzafionaf 9-Time FROM the sunny shores of California to the rock-bound coasts of Maine, and from Florida's fruit orchards to Oregon's tall timbers, Alma Co1lege's pretty girl football team made headlines and bylines in metropolitan papers. By the airwaves, too, the football talents of Alrna's lassies were discussed. The year 1938 saw the rise of -the first girls' football team when eleven freshmen girls donned helmets and moleskins to show their loyalty to dear old Alma, by issuing a challenge to any team in the country, to do battle in the Beauty Bowl. Sacremento lunior College, which represented itself as having the first V: Left to right: Verna Bernecker, Marion Hass, Carra Iones, Effie Prescott, Muriel Wert, Martha Knowles, Vera Pitcher, Mary Goodwyn, Sally Reed, Dorothy Ziegler, and Ann Wacker. and also the prettiest team, was wired a challenge by the Alma girls, but distance proved an obstacle and satisfactory dates could not be arranged for the Powder Puff battle. The team received both favorable and unfavorable comments. Column- ists in Michigan State's paper seemed more up-set over the incident than any of the others. They wrote -a bunch of slap-happy stunners from Dormitory Six with more beauty than brains suddenly get the brilliant idea of seizing a pink-ribboned pigskin and dying for dear old Alma. l want a girl who looks appealing in an evening dress and not like a female boilermakerf' Pictures and stories recording Alma's bid to beauty were found in papers from nearly every state in the union, and one was traced to ltaly. Alma claimed and still lays claim to the prettiest girls' football team in the nation. 41

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