Catholic University of America - Cardinal Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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The CARDINAL I936 FR. IGNATIUS SMITH, 0.13. A Tribute to the Cheering Section Organized cheering is something distinctive in school sports. Professional athletics cannot give it to the spectators. And the spectators have learned to look for it in inter- collegiate games of all kinds. They thrill to it as it rolls into them either through their radios or across the fields or halls where they actually view the sports. They are dis- appointed when they do not find organized cheering. They criticize the campus life and the school that fails to produce it. Organized cheering helps the school. It creates school spirit, hard to define but very essential to the success of educational institutions. It arouses enthusiasm for the development of athletics, a vital factor in all collegiate and university life. It keeps school unity by arousing in each student a sense of responsibility to the common in- terests of the campus. It keeps school unity by mobilizing the boys on the teams, student spectators and the teaching personnel around a cause which all understand and it gives them a language which all can speak and comprehend. It is an important factor for the creation, on the campus, of the democratic spirit which education in this nation must produce. Organized cheering helps the individual student who gives himself heart and soul to this duty. I call it a student duty, an obligation based on honor and humanity. Who, that is honorable and humane can enjoy idleness when others slave and toil. Who, that is honorable and humane can lock up his encouragement, his support and his en- thusiasm when his fellow students are pouring their bodies and souls in an effort for the glory of the school. Organized cheering coordinates the student spectators and professors with the student athletes and merges all in a comman drive for Alma Mater. It disciplines enthusiasm by subjecting it to cheer leaders. It organizes loyalty by focus- ing it on moments of the game when the team needs help most. It suppresses ill will by demanding applause for friend and foe. It teaches the spectator how to lose with grace and to support heroic effort even though it result in defeat. These are valuable lessons which a student at college must learn if college education is worth while. They are lessons which the cheering section is always teaching and which the class room frequently must pass by. This organized cheering can help to send our students out with the happy memory that at least on some occasion, at some games, they gave their all for thevcause. Organized cheering helps the teams. It is more than an extra player on the squad. It is an invisible force, an intangible power, a compelling plea from the roaring and organized fellowmen in the stands imploring the boys on the team to do just a little more, praying that they will rise to heroic effort, assuring them that even in defeat their trying is appreciated and their sorrow is shared. Organized cheering from the fans reacts on each man. Consciously or subconsciously each player is aware of its power. It sharpens his mind to think more quickly and to sense chances for victory more read- ily. It fires his soul with a will to try. It tells him of the expectations and hopes of the stands and he whips himself into real effort. He unleashes the reserve power that makes heroes out of men that seem to be ordinary, and which makes crashing, crunching chariots of victory out of cripples cringing on the verge of defeat. For the man on the squad who has given his all for his school, even in defeat the sting of failure is eased by the realization that his grief is shared by the cheering crowds who stood with him. The modest and honest team knows that in its triumphs it has not only given to but has received power from the organized cheering student body. JA'WiL-Age

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The CARDINAL I936 First Row: Dranginis, Makofske, Carroll, Clements, Lajousky, Karpowich, Yanchulis, Adamaitis, Antonavage, Schmarr, McGann. Second Row: Sochon, Greco, Perron, Orth, Gemlo, Chludenski, Pagano, Rydzewski, Arnold. Third Row: Lentz, Fraatz, Glodeck, Secino, Katalinas, White, Munhall, Cotton, Sweeney. Orange Bowl Champions ARTHUR J. BERGMAN , . , , , , , , ..... , ,,,,,,,, Head Coarh FORREST COTTON . ,,,,,.,.Line Coach VINCENT FRAATZ .. . ....... End Coach THOMAS WHELAN , , , , , , , . , , , , ,,,,,, Auiytant Backjfeld Coach RESULTS Catholic U. 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mississippi U. 19 Catholic U.- 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .North Carolina State Catholic U.-20 . . . . ..... . . . . . . . .Westem Maryland Catholic U. 19 . . . . . . . . . . . .West Virginia Wesleyan-- CatholicU. 6 ..... ...... ..DePaul CatholicU. 7................ ..... ...St.Mary's- CatholicU.-13 ..........................Detroit- CatholicU. 6.................. ........ Duquesne CatholicU. 41 ..........................LaSalle OXOVOQOXGC LETTERMEN Adamaitis Clements Katalinas Secino Antonavage Dranginis Lajousky Rydzewski Arnold F oley Makofske Schmarr Brown Gemlo McGann Sochon Carroll Glodeck Mulligan Walker Chludenski Karpowich Munhall Yanchulis Sweeney ManageQ