Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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GROWTH OF MEN'S INTRAMURALS HE intramural system of athletics was not born Q plan Its development has been chiefly haphazard rye ' rl Until 1926, five years after their inception, intra murals did not achieve the dignity of an organization under the auspices of the physical education department. Explaining where intramurals at Antioch came from can best be done by stating that, like Topsy, they just Ugrowedf' The Hrst intramural teams were organized during the school year 1921-22. Varsity letter men picked and coached the teams, a series of basket ball games was played and the championship of the school decided. Selections for the teams were made from the campus at large and not limited to a single hall. Later in the same year an attempt to organize an outdoor baseball league failed, due to a famine of pitching and catching talent. The following year, however, an indoor league was started and has been active ever since. In 1924 there was no varsity football team. Up until this time no intramural football had been played, the varsity util- izing the only available place on the campus. Students took advantage of the passing of varsity to play intramural football for the first time and it has proved very popular. The first all-hall teams were put on the field by Hanchett and Baker House. With the growth of organized halls, intra- murals developed rapidly. Hanchett and Baker House, having been the first two in the field, gained and maintained reputa- tions for athletic supremacy which they have been able to maintain until the introduction of rotation this year. With the coming of rotation Nash has precipitated itself into the front intramurally. Since 1927 a cup for each of the major intramural sports, touch football, basket ball, volley ball, and indoor baseball, has been awarded to the hall who shows the best record for games won and also for percentage participation during the season. Although it is true that organized halls have played a major part in development of intramurals, interest has never been as strong as it has been this year. in a carefully considered and well thought out 191

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' INTRAMURALS N THE fall it is football, speedball, and tennis. In the K W winter the student's interest is held by basket ball, 5, , f a I va handball, and fencing. Even volley ball occupies, in its season, an important position in the Antioch sport world. When spring comes, the indoor baseballs are brought out onto the diamonds and the tennis courts are again crowded and track meets play their attractive part in the sea- son. The swimming carnival, too, makes a gala day out of an ordinary one. Students will even be observed playing at the comfortable game of quoits. Is all this activity spontaneous? Hardly! We are not seden- tary, but nevertheless all this enthusiasm, this organization, comes from the outside. It is the result of a carefully planned intramural program and the following pages will be devoted to these widely enjoyed sports. 190

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