Alma College - Scotsman Yearbook (Alma, MI)

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the crucial MIAA battle. In the Field Day Meet at Marshall, the Scot thin-clads won a vital second place. The same day, the tennis team placed third in the Field Day tourna- ment to clinch for the Scots the coveted award-of-the-year. In the current season, the Scots are well on their way for their second-consecutive All-Sports Trophy. The football team rolled through its regular season undefeated and tied but once in seven games, to win the MIAA crown. The Alma cagers, dis- playing the same driving power with which they won the conference the previous year, were again undefeated in conference play, finishing the season with nineteen wins and three losses. With the largest track squad in Alma history, a strong golf team, and a threatening tennis team, the Scots are strong favorites to win the All-Sports Trophy again this year. I'TINKER KIRBY WINS BOSCH TROPHY The annual award made by the Holland Manufacturer, Randall C. Bosch, to the most valuable football player in the conference was voted this year to Robert Tinker Kirby, Alma quarterback. In his four years at Alma, Kirby has been chosen on the All-MIAA first team in football this year, and the second team in 19405 and has been All-MIAA guard in basketball for the past three consecutive seasons. Tinker has also been a mainstay of the track squad in the field events, throwing both the iavelin and the discus. But Kirby's prowess has extended beyond athletic circles. One of the top students in his class, he was awarded the annual University of Michigan graduate scholarship for T942-1943. His other positions inculdez class officer, Student Council vice-president, and student representative of the Independent organization on the Co-operative Council. Truly, Tinker has made a re- markable record during his stay at Alma. COACH MACDONALD, TINKER KIRBY AND MR. BOSCH 47

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ALL-SPORTS TROPHY I I I For the first time in the history of Alma College, its ,athletic teams in the 1940-1941 season won the much-coveted Michi- gan Inter-collegiate Athletic As- sociation's All-Sports Trophy. The trophy was awarded to Coach Gordon A. Macdonald at the MIAA Field Day at Mar- shall on May 23, 1941, and was turned over to the college for its trophy collection at the All-Sports banquet in Wright L , Hall on May 27. The trophy is awarded each year to that school in the MIAA which places highest in aggregate scores in football, basketball, track, golf, and tennis. In each sport, the school placing first receives ten points, second-eight points, third-six points, fourth -four points, and fifth-two points. By virtue of first places in conference standings in basketball and golf, second places in football and track, and a third place in tennis, the Scot athletes piled up a total of forty-two points out of a possible fifty points to walk off with the trophy for the 1940-1941 season. The Scot basketball team won its MIAA title with a clean record of ten wins and no defeats, the cagers finishing their entire season with a record of twenty-three victories as over against five losses and winning twenty-two consecutive games to establish a new record in Alma College sports' history. The best golf squad in many years of Alma ahtletic history won AIma's first MIAA Field Day Championship last spring to further secure the All-Sports trophy. The football team placed second in the conference in 1940, after losing to Albion in 46

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FOOTBALL Back Row: Standing, left to right: Don McKeith, Rex Holmes, Vernon Walters, Keith Carey, Robert Kirby, Robert Ruehl, Robert Higgins, and Charles Doyle, trainer. Third Row: Coach Macdonald, Ed Penner, Fred Hartt, Ed Baklarz, Ray Robertson, Wayne Dorsett, Frank Navarre, Andy Edgerton, and Victor Fox. Second Raw: Bruce Butler, Bill LaPaugh, Durell Emling, Marvin Fenner, Gayle Saxton, Harold Hartt, Jack Tait, Francis Cappaert, and Bill Carr, assistant coach. Bottom Row: Harry Dittmar, Robert Marx, Bill Pink, Bud Wilson, Rocky Walker, Max Tullis, Jack King, Charles Rodgers, and Jack Kelly. ALMA'S ALL - MIAA FOOTBALL SELECTIONS Captain Ed Baklarz, tackle Jim Hicks, guard Keith Carey, end Robert Kirby, quarterback 1941 SEASON Alma ,..,..., l2 U. of Grand Rapids .. 0 Alma ....... 46 Adrian ...... ..... , ,.6 Alma ,.,.,... 7 Hope ................,.....,... 7 Alma ....,.. 13 Kalamazoo ........,....... 0 Alma ...,.... 6 Hillsdale ...,.,.............. 0 Alma. ,..... 26 Lawrence Tech ,,..,,....., 6 Alma ..,... 2- Albion ....,.,,..... .,.... O 48 7