Emporia State University - Sunflower Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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if X Hornets went to Hastings, Nebraska. He stayed home, and when the team returned, he passed out cigars on behalf of his bounc- ing son. The trip by bus is always a feature, to the team at least, of every out-of-town game. Only one who has made the trips can imagine the things that a bus load of energetic Emporia State athletes can think up. Usually the time is occupied by that good old barber shop melody, the songs ranging from Clementine to Swing Low Sweet Chariot, and the harmony rises above and falls below the hum of the motor and the intermittent laughter and boos of the non-singing occupants. But as the team comes home from a game, they can be heard singing over and over again their college song, Emporia, as the bus pulls into town. On every football team there is a star performer, sometimes several. This year tribute must be payed to the fine kicking of Captain Gordon Babe Hoyt, who kicked the Hornets out of many a tight spot. He punted the ball more than a mile and a half this season, and often his coffin- corner kicks put the ball out of bounds and put the opponents in a dangerous position. Everett Gus Fish Paul Kutnink Freshman Coach Line Coach To football players, there is something sad about ending one's college competition, as nine seniors have recently done. They are Keith Caywood, Gordon Hoyt, Wayne Goldsmith, Bob McGinness, Ralph Wedd, Tommy Johnson, Dale Hanson, Marvin Bayless and Roy Schnellbacher. After the season closed, three men were selected to play on the Kansas All-Star team against the Centaurs from Fort Riley, A pass intended for Hays of Wichita is intercepted by Hoyt, No. 11. 17

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A.. 4 .nk . -- Back row: W, Short, Breuer, Cory, Gautier, B. Short, Robinson, Bayless, Delp, Baranoski, Hanson Foster, Sawyer, Kurtz, Calvert, Cameron Front row: Johnson, Depew, Fischer, Caywood, Mc- Middle row: Peters, Knox, Graber, Martin, Sloan, Ginness, Thompson, Hoyt, Taylor, Gladfelter lfi '1- The interesting story behind the boys from New Jersey is that they were all sent to Emporia State by their high school coach, Jim Fraley. He is the same f'Big Jim who captained the Hornets in 1936, and played a stellar game at fullback. Jim played pro football in New York after graduation, but continued his education and now coaches in one of the better high schools in New Jersey. Just an example of Emporia State boy makes good. Coach Welch and other Hornet boosters around the campus wish that they could find many more alumni who have the loyalty and de- votion to their old Alma Mater that Big Jim has. One of the high lights of the season which really had little to do with the grid- iron or the stadium was the interference run by the Stork from VVayne Pop Gold- smith. He and his wife, Peg, and the whole team scanned the skies for Storky, and Wayne didn't go with the team when the We won two more games than I thought we would at the beginning of the seasonf' Coach F. G. Fran Welch told his players when the ,season ended. An Emporia State grad of 1918, Coach Welch has been head football coach since 1929.

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the same eleven which opposed the Hornets in the Emporia State stadium earlier in the season. The three, Goldsmith, Hoyt and Caywood, are a combination which will not soon be forgotten in Kansas football his- tory. An even greater honor Was the selection of Keith Caywood as a halfback on the first team of the Little All American team. The selection of the players for this team is made annually by Collyer's Eye, a sport news syndicate. No other Kansas player was on the first team this year. Then there is the other side of football- the spectator's angle. This year the Empo- ria State band out-did its performances of past years by having a new and original formation or program for each home game. For the final game they formed a red cross, in keeping with the Red Cross drive which was being made at the time. For one game they formed an American flag, and Benny Course, dressed as Uncle Sam, stood, hat in hand, as the band played and a b0y's chorus sang America the Beautiful. At another game the band formed a large bell, and Donald Gant dashed back and forth inside the formation in keeping with his role of clapper as the band played The Victory Bell. Drum Major Charles Byers was in charge of planning formations. The Emporia High School band attended the same game, having marched in the pa- rade dovvn Commercial Street. Their at- tractive uniforms, their Well-drilled major- ettes, all under the direction of ex-Emporia Stater Ormond Parker, aroused consider- able attention. Hot dogs, coffee, and soda pop were dis- pensed on each side of the stadium by the American Legion, holders of the concession to sell merchandise at football games. They also sold the football programs which were provided by the Publicity Department un- der the editorship of Bernard Taylor, him- self one of the stellar performers on the field. He was assisted by Bob Stauffer and Max Baird, who sold the advertising. The national defense and the arsenal for democracy movement have demanded all of the country's output of explosives, and eliminated from college football games this year one of the devices which in past 18 BELOW, top to bottom: Hoyt throws a pass to Gold- smith in the Army game. Next, Caywood, with nose guard, goes around the Army end for a good gain. The Army quarterback, Sheridan, is at extreme left of second picture. Third, Comp, St. Benedict's back. makes a short gain on a cut-back play. Fourth, in a play exactly the same as shown in the top picture, Goldsmith took a pass from Hoyt on the five-yard line and went across for a touchdown against Army, but the play was called back because of an offside on Emporia. 4 .. . 4 A . . ,:Y.l, .. f 1 5... 1- A.. . . - .Nia . -