Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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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

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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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WOMEN'S ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION HE average Antioch co ed is a far cry from her A dy 534 stiff corsets and indul ed only in the physical activ ' P ' ity of housework, dainty promenades and he mazurka. Night air would bring her disease, the sun would destroy her frail beauty, and calisthenics were imrnodest. Sup- pose she were to peep into the girls' gym at Antioch- She would throw up her hands in horror at the sight of the trim, comfortable and non-restricting gym suits. She would see her granddaughter performing on the parallel bars or the ring. Others would be seen playing handball or deck tennis. Sports, she would find, have a definite place in the everyday routine of her modern ofispring. It was three years ago, when Miss Hilda P. Mayes came to Antioch, that the Women's Athletic Association gained a con- stitution. Since then the W. A. A. has played an increasingly large part in unifying and sponsoring athletic activities for grandmother who lived most of her life inside women. Outstanding in the year was the Old English Christmas Party in costume which was held in the Tea Room. The Lord of the Manor entertained his guests with all the trimmings of an English 'manor at the Yuletide-carol singers, a boar's head, and the Yule log. It is planned to make this an annual event. In addition there were other social affairs given by the Asso- ciation-hockey banquets, a barn dance, and freshman picnics. Representatives of the Association have already gone to Cincinnati and the University of Michigan to compete with similar groups. 203 Q