Alma College - Scotsman Yearbook (Alma, MI)

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WOMEN'S SPORTS Physical fitness is especially a requirement for participation in the war effort. Due to this fact, women's sports have taken on added significance. Field hockey was the first of the sports played in the freshman gym classes under the direction of Miss Jean Smith and Miss Marguerite Hale, the two women's athletic instructors. Each Monday and Wednesday at four o'clock a game was organized between the sophomores and the freshmen. Toward the end of the season the boys, including a large representation from the football squad, competed with the girls in a hectic game. On October ll, a group went to Albion for the annual fall playday of the schools in the MIAA. Teams were made up of the representatives of all the schools present. Throughout the morning and after lunch the girls played basketball, softball, hockey, and soccer baseball. The annual fall picnic sponsored by the W.A.A. was a hike to Turck's Park. All the college women participated. Vic prepared an outdoor lunch which was eaten around the camp-fire. After a meeting at which the offiers were introdued, the gathering broke up. The upperclassmen then treated their little sister to the movies. Two roller skating parties, on December 6 and February 5, furnished variety in campus entertainment. Buses furnished the necessary transportation to the Crystal Lake Roller Rink. Volley Ball

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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

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Bowling y Included among the college festivities honoring Christmas was the caroling done by various groups of students. They visited many homes and hospitals. The carolers arrived at the Masonic Home to find a fine reception had been prepared for them. They were shown through the Home and treated with refreshments. The Yuletide spirit couldn't have been more beautifully expressed than through the harmonious singing of the students. After vacation, volleyball and basketball became the popular gym games. Thursday nights basketball practice was open to all the girls. Several times the Riverdale high school team, under the direction of Miss Betty Dougherty, competed with the college women in practice games. Particularly outstanding among the freshmen was Beverly Smith. Bowling was one of the most popular pastimes this year. Monday and Thursday afternoons at the Alma Recreation Bowling Center, special rates were given to students of the college. Carol Paterson, with her score of 185, was high among the girls, while Rea Rae Smith also consistently bowled a high score. Winter sports, in general consisted of hikes, sledding, skating, while badminton held first place among the indoor sports. When Alma won the MIAA championship in basketball, a holiday from classes was declared for the day. In the morning the gym was open for recreation, including basketball, volleyball, and badminton. ln the afternoon, a dance was held in the chapel recreation room. Ralph Brown led those present in cheering and singing, while Andy Edgerton made some records of the affair. Refreshments were also served. The day was climaxed by a basketball game with Central State in the gym that night. 67