Binghamton University - Colonist Yearbook (Vestal, NY)

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ATHLETIC The second annual Awards Dinner was held on the evening of May 31, 1948, at the Hotel Frederick. The purpose of this gathering was to show recog- nition of the feats performed by the athletes of Triple Cities College. Major and minor letters were awarded to fifty- one athletes representing five intercollegiate sports. AWARDS Letters were presented to members of the basketball and baseball squads by Coach Gene Welborn. Coach George Spud Forbes gave out the letters to the members of the Green and White track team and Coach john Budd did the honors for the Colonial golfers. Welborn also presented the letters to the members of the tennis team since Coach joe Berry was unable to attend the festivities. Another highlight of the evening was the trophy awarded to Richard Powell, captain of the 1947-48 basketball squad. A similar trophy is to be given each year to the basketball team captain. Benjamin Hopkins-Moses, T. C. C. registrar, did an excellent job as master of ceremonies. The guest speaker for the dinner was Lew Andreas, director of athletics and basketball coach at Syracuse University. Citing the won-lost record of T. C. C., Andreas said, There is one characteristic of the American sports public which could stand revision-more tolerance for a team that loses. There is a very narrow margin oftentimes between a win and a loss.

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The season's second meet saw the Colonial cin- dermen bow to a stronger R. P. I. aggregation, 69-39, at Troy, New York. Art Rybak, squad captain, captured first in both the polevault and javelin throw, and second in the discus, to spark the losers. Utica College, another extension of Syracuse Uni- versity, played host to T. C. C. in its next meet. The Green and White returned home on the long end of a 70V2-40V2 score, thus gaining its first victory of the season. Art Rybak again took individual honors. In the next meet, at Hartwick, T. C. C. dropped a 72-50 decision to a more evenly balanced Hart- wick track and field squad. Coach Forbes' men gar- nered four first places, three of them in the field events. Klinko scored the only track first in the 220 yard hurdles, while Wilson in the high jump, Rybak in the pole-vault and Callahan in the broad jump gave the green and white its other f1rsts. In the first home contest, against Cortland State Teachers College Frosh, the locals dropped a close one, 59V2-53V2. Hobert Mohney captured two firsts -the 100 and the 220-while Clark broke the tape in the mile and tied for first with Rybak in the pole-vault. In the return meet with Utica College, the T. C. C. run-and-jump boys ran roughshod over their Brethren from upstate by a 69-44 score. George Horkott of T. C. C. was the only athlete to gain a double win. He won the shot-put and the discus throw. The squad finished the season with a won 2, lost 3 record for dual meets. Lack of depth in the run- ning events prevented the tracksters from compiling a better record.

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FIRST ROW: Owen Crumb, Dick McCallum, Bill Bartow, Sid Smith, Art Manso, George Mercer, joe Man- ning, Russ Lisson. SECOND Row: john Foremen, Wally Oates, jim Carey, Ed Esserman, Bob Isban, Steve Zinn, Hyle Richmond, Burt Lauder, Bob Clark. INTRAMURAL SOFTBALL FINAL STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE Won Lost Baccacia ..r..... 4 1 Goliard A ..,. 3 2 Goliard B ...... 2 3 Gamecocks ..r.. 2 3 Wolverines ,.,..,,. 2 3 Copp House ,,i,.. I 4 NATIONAL LEAGUE Won Lost Ramrods ...... 4 1 Saiens ..,,..,I.,,,. 3 2 Married Vets Y,,..,, 2 2 Adelphi ......... l 3 Faculty ..... 1 3 Spring came, and with it the addition of intra- mural softball to the ever-increasing sports program at Triple Cities College. In all, there were eleven teams vieing for the title and trophies in games play- ed at South Field Qdown by the Waterworks., All games were seven inning contests with special ground rules adhered to. Two leagues were formed, the American and the National. Since such a large number of men turned out for the sport, team rosters were limited to no more than fifteen men per team. After some weeks of spirited competition during which each team played five games Qexcept those that were rained outj, the Baccacians of the American League and the Ramrods of the National League, each taking individual league honors and sporting 4-1 records, met in a playoff to decide the champion- ship. A close game saw the Sons of Bacchus come out on top and be crowned as intramural softball champions for 1948.