Alma College - Scotsman Yearbook (Alma, MI)

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INTRHMURHLS INTRAMU RAL TEAM A Buck Row: Bill Crimnjins, Andy Horne, Fred Harfi, und Bill LaPcxugh. Fronf Row: Walter Mcnttison, Carl Wickcm, and Paul French. INTRAMURAL TEAM B Leff fo righf: Kaye Palmer, Rockwell Nelson, Bill Hunter, Don Converse, and Homer Fulton 64

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This year's tennis team faced a big task in connection with the MIAA Field Day at Kalamazoo held on May 2I-22, because they, too, had the responsibility of trying to see that the All-Sports Trophy returns to Alma in 1942. .lack Howe and Francis Sherman remained from last year's squad which placed Third at the Field Day in Marshall. This year, the squad will be bolstered by Robert Howe and many candidates for the other berths on The tennis team. I Again this year, the Kalamazoo netters were rated tops in the league, especially after the showing of the Hornets on their spring tour of the south. Alma, however, may be rated a strong dark-horse contender for this year's title, and will give both Kalamazoo and Albion strong competition for the net crown. SPRING SPORTS Owing to the national emergency, competition in spring sports-tennis, golf, and track was somwhat curtailed at Alma this year. Fewer intercollegiate matches were scheduled, and intramural and inter-class competition were used as conditioners for the MIAA Field Day this year at Kalamazoo. In spite of The curtailmenf, however, there was not a decrease in the enthusiasm in these departments, as may be noted by the largest track squad in Alma history. These athletes and Coach Macdonald were all determined to do their utmost to see the return of the All-Sports Trophy to Alma this year. It was necessary to abolish intercollegiate baseball from the ranks of the spring sports for the duration of the present emergency. However, Coach Gordon A. Mac- donald and the Alma Administration both assured that'it would be returned as a spring sport as soon as conditions make its return possible and advisable. In The meantime, an extended intramural softball program was substituted in this department. 63

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The intramural program of men's athletics was greatly expanded this year in order to make up for the curtailment of intercollegiate athletics that has been necessitated by the present national war emergency and in order to meet the college's intention of expanding this department in line with the national program of physical fitness and physical education. Coach William Carr managed the intramural basketball program which saw one hundred and twenty-eight college men participating on the sixteen teams of the Class A and Class B Leagues. In the regular intramural league season, the Class A title was won by the Town Mice, and the Class B title by another town team, the Town Photts. In the intramural tournament at the end of the rgeular season, upsets were many, and the Town Mice succumbed in the early rounds of the tourney to the Phi Fifers, who continued on to win the Class A crown. In Class B Competition, the Town Photts, continued through in their season's style to walk off with the Class B tourney crown. With intercollegiate baseball abandoned for the duration of the national emergency, the intramural softball program was greatly expanded this year into two leagues of Class A and B, as in basketball. In the past, the Campus Day game for the school championship and the Student Council Trophy was played between the defending champions and the top team of the single softball league. This year, however, Judge- Advocate for Spring Intramural Sports, Francis Cap Cappaert and Coach Gordon A. Macdonald devised a new system, evolving from the increased number of teams participating, by which only the top two teams in both Class A and Class B would participate on Campus Day for the Intramural crowns, with the winner of this Class A championship receiving the Student Council trophy. , . . l 2 l l FRANCIS CAPPAERT 65