Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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BASKET BALL 194

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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

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It NTRAMURAL basket ball again proved that it is the I QW! most popular of sports at Antioch by drawing fif- teen teams in Division A. Nash Hall entered three ,, ll H ' ef teams, the lineup for the first team being prac- tically the same as that of the year before. Although there was plenty of competition Nash Firsts and Seconds walked away with the titles in both circuits. This gave them the cup without any of the doubt and careful figuring which usually attends the awarding of the trophy. In Division B sixteen teams participated, every hall being represented in the first league and live in the second. Nash again entered three teams. The issue was never in doubt from the first game when West Hall entered the identical team with which it had won the medals the previous year. Hanchett Hall was the main contender for the honors. They did not draw a game with West Hall during the season and so finished their schedule with a percentage of 1.ooo. In the playoff West Hall easily defeated them in a 20-5 game which showed a capacity crowd some of the benefits which a group of fellows may ob- tain from participating in the intramural program. In the second league the Baker House Seconds won the title by defeating Morgan Hall in a perliminary game to the West Hall-Hanchett bout. This game provided plenty of thrills although good basket ball was conspicuous by its ab- sence. The men from the far side of the New Dormitory won 15-14, the ball being in the air when the timer's whistle ended the game. The cup went to West Hall because of participation and the second team winning third place. All in all the 1929-30 basket ball season was the most suc- cessful intramural period that Antioch has had. 195