Cowley College - Tiger Daze Yearbook (Arkansas City, KS)

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Tigers Win Conference Vjctorjes OACH Harry Skornia, of Michigan State, brought the Tigers fiom the underbrush in the 1935 football season. Conference victor- ies crowned its efforts for the first time since 1931. The team defeated two conference oppon- ents. The football squad was large and looked like conference champions until many of the men quit school, leaving the squad weak. The remainder who stayed out had what it takes, and were deter- mined to cariy the Orange and Black to victory. The Tigers began the season by journeying to Independence. They ran up against a large and fast team, and here they were handed their first defeat. A bad break came in the last minutes of play when the Bengals punted from their 6- yard line to the Independence 37-yard line, and the Pirate quarterback carried the ball back around the entire Juco team for a touchdown. The game ended 7-0. El Dorado entertained next. Here the Tigers were unorganized. They met a good team and were defeated again, this time by a 23-0 count. The following week, in the first home game of the season, the Tigers met a large team from Coffeyville. The Jucoys offense couldn't penetrate the Red Ravens' defense and the team went down again on the short end of a 14-O score. The boys put up a hard fight and showed that Ark City did have a football team. During the fourth week the team seemed to have the fighting spirit that they had lacked the preceding weeks of practice. Friday rolled around and as they went into the dressing room to get their final instructions from Skornia, they were all talking about winning from Parsons. The coach gave them an inspiring talk, and when they came out on the field they had blood in their eyes. One could tell from the start that the team had more fight than they ever had before. The Tigers carried the ball over for their first touch- down in the second quarter and missed another by a few inches. The team again carried the ball over for the final counter in the third quarter, I lllli 1 5 ll lllli HM' flu I pg W 4 PAGE 26 making the score 12-6, where it 1'emained for the rest of the game. This marked the first con- ference win in four years. The next week was vacant.'7 It looked as though no one cared the following week because of a non-conference game. The Tigers journeyed to Tonkawa, where they suffered their worst de- feat of the season, 33-6. In the next tilt the Tigers played the confer- ence champions from Fort Scott. The team put up a stiff fight at the start of the game, and it looked as though there would be an upset. Al- though Fort Scott sent in several substitutes, it didnt seem to weaken their team. Coach Skornia didn't have many substitutes, and Fort Scott soon wore the local gridmen down, and defeated them 111-O. The season's final game came November 19, with Hutchinson. Two weeks before, the Hutch- inson Leam had held the Fort Scott team to an 8-6 count. The two teams marched out on the field, and f1'o1n the starting whistle it was a fight all the way. One team got a break, then the other. Arkansas City's big break came in the third quarter when Gann intercepted a pass, and ran 90 yards for a touchdown. So the game ended 6-O-the Tigers' second win of the season. The boys who dese1've credit are: John Gann, right end, Ralph Waldeck, right tackle, Herbert Glasgow, left guard, Dan Marks, left tackle, Vic- tor Gillespie, left end, Donald Evans, quarter- back, Troy Quinton, half back, Paul Wifineinger, tackle, Dale Davis, end, Karl Perry, guard, Robert Randall, end, Richard Teehee, half back, Jeriy Wees, guard, Selby Funk, guard, Gail Rutter, center, Curtis McLaughlin, back, Harold Schwartzendruber, end and back, George Miller, quarterback, Cail Utt, back, George LeUnes, back, Hampton Barton, guard, Carroll Adams, back, Howard Frambers, center, Garth Snodgrass, quarterback, Millard White, tackle, and Lyndon Symes, center. At the end of the season the boys convened in a post-mortem council and selected Herbert Glasgow, regular guard and two letter man, as honorary captain of the 1935 team. Graduation will be lenient on the roll of men taken from the ranks of the Orange and Black this year. Only th1'ee players will have to go by this route. although all of them drew regular starting berths. They are Captain Herbert Glas- gow, Gail Rutter, and Selby Funk. At least nine lettermen from this season's squad and possibly three more from last years team a1'e slated to re- turn for action next year, which should form the nucleus for fairly good prospects.

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YW.C.A. Studios Book b jones HRIST'S Alternative to- Communism, by E. Stanley Jones was the book used by the Y. W. C. A. for their study and discussion this year. Parts of the book were reviewed at general meetings, and the reviews were followed by dis- cussion by the group. In the chapel program presented by the Y. W. C. A., some of the girls reviewed a portion of the book in order to show the student body the type of study work being done by the organization. Those who reviewed chapters were Doris Buss, Ellen Kittrell, Anna Ruth Maus, and Fern War- ren. At the beginning of the year a tea was held in the club room to which all the college girls we1'e invited. About 20 girls responded to make up the membership for the year. The first meeting ex- clusively for members was an induction service held in the Methodist Church. The general meetings we1'e especially interest- ing this year. Although the study and discussion of the book, Christ's Alternative to Communism. formed the main part of the meetings, several other worthwhile and interesting things were taken up. Miss Pauline B. Sleeth, the head sponsor of the club, read selections from Kagawa's poems at several meetings, and his work in Japan was discussed. Activity was not limited to their own group, however. The girls were of service not only to the school and community, but, through the leadership of Miss Sleeth, they contributed to Oriental miss- ions. These contributions were given in the form of small paper lanterns, which the girls filled with pennies, nickels, and dimes. At Thanksgiving time the group sponsored a drive for food donations, which were given to the Red Cross for distribution to the needy. The week before Christmas about 25 needy children were guests of the organization at a Christmas party. The children enjoyed games and stories until Santa Claus himself came to give each child a gift. As usual, the Y. W. C. A. finance committee sponsored the college book exchange this year to help students find books they needed and buyers for their old ones. The girls also decorated the club room for the Christmas season. At the beginning of the second semester a new membership drive was begun. A covered-dish sup- per, to which all members and girls interested in the club were invited, was held at the home of lireda Wilson, president. Another outstanding event of the year was a vesper tea, held at the Presbyterian Church, Feb- ruary 9. This affair was planned by the community Y. W. C. A. for the junior and senior high Girl Reserves, the junior college Y. W. C. A., and their mothers. All those present enjoyed the affair, and it is hoped that the event may be repeated every year. The officers of the college Y. W. C. A. for this year were Freda Wilson, presidentg Kathleen Adams, vice presidentg Rachel Foltz, secretary: Ellen Kittrell, treasurerg Dorothy Ewing, music chairman: Helen Belt, program chairmang Ruth Walker, service chairman, and Doris Buss, finance chairman. Miss Pauline B. Sleeth and Miss Thglma Hall are sponsors of the organization. Mendy Having lived to a ripe old age, I find pleasu1'e in remembering the joys of my childhood. One of my dearest memories is of the tiny old woman who kept the candy shop on Main Street. All the children in my home town bought their candy at Mrs. Mendenhall's. We never dignified her with so formal a nameg to young and old she was merely Mendy . It was in her tiny store that we spent the pennies and nickels begged from indulgent fathers, and there the older women gathered around the coal stove for a Saturday afternoon chat. A low scarred bench stood before the glass counter that held the tempting sweets. Grayhaired men often watched us climb up on the bench and told us they, too, had stood on that bench while deciding such momentous questions as to whether to buy licorice or lemon drops. It was hard to go past Mendy's without buying something. On Sunday she kept careful watch lest some of us spend our Sunday School collection in the wrong place. Mendy was always there, for she lived in a room behind the shop and never went farther away than across the sidewalk. When she became too ill to wait on customers we lost our taste for candy. After her death the shop remained unchanged for a time. The peppermint jar still stood in the center of the show window, flanked by the jars of red-hots and peanuts. Recently a fruit and vegetable store has begun business in Mendy's old building, and sweet potat- oes replace the chocolate and gum. It makes me wonder if the children of today enjoy the candy they buy at the grocery store as much as we enjoyed that we bought at Mendy's. -Frances Gordon PAGE 25

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gg! 1.4 w TOP ROW, Left to right: Carl Utt, Gail Rutter, Daniel C. Stark, Georgie Miller, Owen Thomas. SECOND ROW, Left to right: Willie Gilliland, Kirby Barnes, Jack Axley, Ralph NValileck. Karl Perry. THIRD ROW, Left to right: Howard King, Victor Gillespie, Arthur Alexander, Chester Steifens, Hank Clark. C g S I 7' ' h I M h BANGING shot! The cords sing! And the ball is brought back, only to go again. A simple process, so simple in fact that the Arkansas City basketball team employed it as the potent weapon in dealing out defeat to every team in the conference, placing them as a leading contender in the run for championship honors. The season started successfully, for after an exciting game, the local squad nosed out a 36-28 victory over St. Johns. The following week the St. Johns quintet played a return engagement, and a much improved college ball club easily defeated them 50-31. The Tigers went to Tonkawa with a revised line-up and defeated the Mavericks 51-28. Coach Daniel C. Stark had built up a strong offensive five, and when Friend's University came down to Ark City for the next practice game, they wcnt home the losers. The score was 48-26. The first conference game was with the El Dor- ado five. After trailing most of the way, the Tigers forged ahead in the last few minutes of play and finished with a 44-42 victory. The team then traveled to Independence, where they easily won their second conference encounter by a 44-26 score. The local quintet stepped out of the league competition to play the Tonkawa iive on the local court and again won by a 50-26 count. Seven straight wins were now recorded for the Arkan- sas City team. The next Week the Tigers went to Hutchinson for their third conference tilt. There in a hard- fought game in two overtime periods, they were handed their first defeat of the season. The final score was 45-48. Coffeyville was the next opponent. So far it was undefeated, but the Bengal cagesters turned the Ravens back with a sco1'e of 26-23. On the follow- ing night the Tigers barely nosed out a 52-47 victory over a strong Iola team. The next game for the Arkansas City quintet was played on the home court. Here they again left Independence on the short end of the score with a count of 47-32. On the following week-end the college team journeyed to Western Kansas for two conference games. They emerged with a 34-26 victory over the Dodge City quintet, and on the following night they easily defeated Garden City, 42-23. Facing one of the hardest tests of the season, the Tigers went to El Dorado February 4. After QCO-ntinued on Page 287 PAGE 27