Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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47 I VARSITY SPORTS AT ANTIOCH !HoULD varsity be abolished? .lt wasla burnin tion last year and still lurks in Antioch minds. Last yearls vote-which abolished football-left the rest e of the varsity program undisturbed, but it did not settle the question of its value, its success, or its future. The argument for varsity athletics at Antioch is that it presents an object towards which the emotional life of the stu- dent may be directed. The weight of its defense must rest upon the color it lends to Antioch life, the amount of loyalty and sense of unity its fosters-in short, the emotional value to the students, the love of college and esprit dc corps. Antioch aims at all-round experience for its members. Varsity athletics can help supply a phase of it. The fate of varsity athletics, then, rests with the success or failure of varsity teams. There arises the question of whether successful teams can be produced under the cooperative plan and in a college with as high academic standards as Antioch. The records tend to show that men entering such sports as football, baseball, and basket ball, which require long training and strenuous conditioning are relatively unsuccessful, Whereas those expending the more individual effort required in tennis, golf, and fencing, are relatively successful. Football has already been discarded. The remainder of the varsity sports must prove by success that they deserve a place in the athletic program of Antioch. 179

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flf THOSE freshmen who came to Antioch with an 4 inordinate lust for victory, the past basket ball sea- son was undoubtedly a disappointment. Thirteen 'A We games were played in the fifteen weeks of the season with only four of the thirteen victories for Antioch. This was not calculated to raise a great pride in the breasts of varsity loving students. However, to those of us who have been at Antioch long enough to know the general run of basket ball success and can remember to what depths the fate of Antiochians at times has fallen, the past season was heartening. For the first time in years a team-that of Division B-won a majority of its games. Three games won in a row is a veritable winning streak at Antioch and many of the games were close enough to raise hopes of victory! The high points of the past season were the colorful if 'somewhat ludicrous reserve games-Antioch holding Wil- mington to 19415 with only seven minutes to play-the rousing victory over Urbana-two victories over the alumni-the win over Cedarville to end a victorious Division B-Wilmington stalling for the Hrst ten minutes of the last half with a one point lead, terminated by an Antioch basket-and finally, at the close of the season, the valiant up-hill fight against Earl- ham which Antioch lost by one point. The Division A team was captained by Iames Fyfe, the Division B by Iames Earley. 181