Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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PROGRESS OF WOMEN'S ATHLETICS RoM the reorganizing of Antioch College until the fall of IQZS, athletics for women were supervised by men coaches and consisted entirely of intercollegi- ate basket ball. The co-eds who could not play this game were left to do their physical education in any way they saw lit. In the fall of 1925 Miss Rowe was engaged to instruct the girls and began by organizing hockey teams and marking oh' the first field. There were only three games played during the first season but since then the game has become the favor- ite of all womenls sports. Volley ball was attempted but failed. In the winter intercollegiate basket ball was voted out and Miss Rowe immediately started intramural basket ball. This was quite successful, six teams being organized and a tourna- ment played. That spring the girls played baseball and had track for the first time. In I926 the W. A. A. was organized and took charge of planning the intramural program. The Day House hockey team played a practice game with the Moraine Park tearn of Dayton, the first inter-school hockey game to be attempted. Volley ball was again started and this year proved to be a suc- cess. Basket ball was even more popular, and in the spring, be- sides baseball games and track meets, there was the Hrst tennis tournament for girls. At the end of the school year the W. A. A. held a dinner in the tea room and awarded honors. Miss Mayes arrived in 1927 and immediately reorganized the hockey schedule so that sixteen games were played under the same system as the men's intramurals. The next year was a diliicult one due to the fact that there was no adequate gym space. A second hockey tournament was held and folk dancing inaugurated, which, together with the field day held in the spring, kept the girls well occupied. This last year has been the most successful of all. With the new gymnasium there has been space or deck tennis and handball, as well as for apparatus work, all of which are new. Basket ball and volley ball have been played on an enlarged scale and the W. A. A. is already looking forward to bigger and better things in the future. 201

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MINOR INTRAMURALS F ALL the minor sports that exist at Antioch, hiking is perhaps the oldest and, if one is to believe the physical education reports which are turned in, it M -J i3: T 'l is also the most popular. At least, it is the last resort of a vast-although unknown-percentage who need another hour to complete their required five for gym credit. Aside from this, there are many who like to tramp all day in the open with perhaps an open Ere and a few steaks for rc- freshment. The glen and the gorge, as well as the many coun- try roads offer excellent facilities for those who like to hike to stretch their legs and rest their minds from study. Next to hiking comes the urge that sends us down to the ole swimmin' hole at Grinne11's as soon as the weather grows the least bit encouraging. That the sport is popular is attested by the numbers that dress in the least possible and head millwards for a swim and a sunbath later. The water carnival held every year is the high point of the season and there is much rivalry both for individual and for hall honors. Intramural track is a new addition to the athletic pro- gram and if the popularity it experienced last year is repeated this season, it will probably be here to stay. All the events of the regular college meet were held with the exception of the longer runs which call for too much training. Handball is another one of the newcomers among intra- mural sports, but with the completing of the new gym its new devotees can be encountered at almost any hour of the day or night chasing industriously an elusive black ball. While it is doubtful if handball will be very popular during the last two school periods when Old Sol gets in some real beaming, for a cold, rainy, or otherwise disagreeable day it affords an easy and pleasant method for getting a good workout in a short time. 200

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8, 5 Z NTIOCH co-eds are versatile! Nowhere does this state- lfftdghiln -li ment hold so true as it does in the varied athletic ass, l WM if program which they have worked out. Despite the limited number of halls in the Girls' Dorm they have their intramural tournaments in all the major sports and manage to make more noise at the games than the men do. During the hockey season especially does excitement run rife and even on moon light walks the conversation between Antioch Ioe and Iosephine usually resolves itself into a mono- logue on-hockey. These co-eds play their games for all that there is in them, too, as many a minor clinic case proves, but there is no stopping them and they always return to Miss Mayes ready for participation in whatever game the weather calls for-hockey, basket ball, baseball, volley ball, tumbling, fencing, track, lacrosse, archery, or any of a dozen others. 202