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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INTRAMURAL FOOTBALL aj' g,,,,,gEJ LEVEN teams were entered in the first A division football league by intramural representatives. The games were to prove far more interesting this ' 'Ai' year due to new rules allowing cleated shoes. Three weeks and a half, fair weather or foul, sulhced to play the entire number of games on the two fields which are now available for this sport. The Hnal game for the cham- pionship was played between Baker House and Hanchett Hall on October 8 and will long be remembered. The two teams battled up and down the field in the closest game of touch football ever seen around here. The only scores were made by Roosa of Hanchett Hall and Wilcox of Baker House, both of whom made one long, difiicult field goal apiece to end the game in a 3-3 tie. In Division B, when the faculty decided to enter a team, it became necessary to form two leagues of seven teams apiece, since every hall entered a iirst team and some a second. The intramural committee balanced the two leagues as to strength as far as was possible from the figures from previous years. The Baker House Seconds were the outstanding group and copped the medals by defeating Nash. In rainy weather fields were usually in such poor condition that trick plays were im- possible, so it may be said that straight football of the short pass type won the title. About one hundred and eighty men partici- pated in this division and there were only two accidents. 193