Concordia College - White and Blue Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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. 0 ONE DRM A THE VARSITY Basketball As soon as the baseball season had run its course, Coach Spaeth issued a call for basketeers. His call was answered by some twenty-iive or thirty aspirants. After weeks of strenuous practice, the following men were chosen to represent Concordia on the varsity: Keiper, Thalacker, Krause, and Barth, forwards; Wenz and Boelter, centers; Spaeth, Jehn, Oldsen, and Wuerffel, guards. Since the team consisted mostly of veterans, a banner season was looked forward to. But, sad to relate, our hopes were not realized. The result of the season's games showed three victories against nine defeats. l693

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MR. WILLIAM ACKMAN Supervisor of Athletic Activities Some hopes and heretofore vain dreams of thinking students and patrons of the College were suddenly realized in the acquisition of an athletic director. HBi-ll, as he is fondly called, came to us rather late, arriving towards the end of the basketball season. But already in the few weeks that the boys became acquainted with him the attitude of the student body to sports underwent a radical change for the better. The students feel very much relieved, for now there is someone who can apply all his time to making athletics appealing and interesting to the individual, and who can spend all his energy in de- veloping and improving representative sports. Billls energetic actions, fiery personality, and Winsome character have endeared him to the heart of every Concordian. There is no task too rough and hard for him; none too delicate or intricate. One minute you see him with a pick and shovel working like a beaver at some prospective horseshoe and volleyball courts, and another minute you find him in his otIice coolly solving some great problems for his teams. His motto is: HEvery Concordian a man, a student, a real sport; that is, a Christian sport? E681

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Resume of the Season Backed by a throng of cheering students, the White and Blue opened its season on Dec. 3 with a victory over the husky Milwaukee School of Engineer- ing quintette. The final score was 41 to 12. Our Blues outclassed the En- gineers in every department of the game. They sank baskets from all angles of the floor, and though the losers fought back gamely, they were unable to stem our rushing attack. Because of the stellar guarding of HJam Jehn and Doug Spaeth, the Engineers were able to garner only five baskets throughout the entire game. ttLen Thalacker was easily the outstanding star of the evening, sinking nine baskets and a free throw. The following Saturday, Dec. 10, found the Blues pitted against the strong Y. M. C. A. Red Triangles at the Y. gymnasium. The first half proved to be a nip and tuck affair, neither team being ahead at any time by more than two baskets. The game was under way about four minutes before any scoring was done on either side. HSandyi' Wenz finally broke the ice by sinking a free throw. The Triangles then came to life and scored three baskets in rapid order. But our battlers came right back, dropping two short ones through the hoop. At the intermission the Blues were trailing by four points, the score being 14 to 10. In the second half, however, our defense went to pieces. The Triangles broke through and scored almost at will, and when the final gun sounded, the Blues found themselves on the short end of a 33 to 15 score. On Dec. 16 the Blues lost one of the most exciting games of the season to the fast Mission House College five of Plymouth, Wis. The game was so close that it required an overtime period to determine the victor. The game was barely under way when ttDougt1 Spaeth sank one from HNo Manis Land. Wenz followed up with a short one. But the '1Upstaters could not be shoved into the background so easily. Sherry, their rangy forward, sank two shots in succession from the middle of the Iioor. The score then see-sawed. When the half ended, Mission House was leading 12 to 8. The second half found both teams fighting fiercely for the lead. As the game was drawing to a close the Blues were clinging desperately to a two-point lead. Only a few seconds now remained. The referee tossed up the ball, Sherry grabbed it, shot, and made the basket. In the overtime period the Blues were unable to find the hoop for a single counter and were therefore obliged to content themselves with a 34 to 32 defeat. On Jan. 7 our squad received a severe lacing at the hands of the Mil- waukee Normal quint. The HTeachersH ran our defense ragged, piling up a 25 to 8 lead in the first half. The Blues tightened up in the third quarter, scoring eight points to the HTeachers' thirteen. But the final period saw Coach Murray's tossers again on the rampage. They sank five baskets in a row. Final score: 52 to 21. On Jan. 14 the White and Blue tossers again took the School of En- gineering into camp, this time handing them a 39 to 18 trimming. The following Saturday, Jan. 21, the Blues, together with a bunch of loyal rooters, traveled to Watertown, Wis., there to take on the fast North- western College quint. The game was barely under way when Wenz dropped one through the netting from the center of the tioor. On the next play he E701