Georgia Southern University - Reflector Yearbook (Statesboro, GA)

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Boys ' Basket-Ball Team Left to right, lop row- ' Chai n [!. ].. Smith. Thompson, CiAKiUTT. Second row: Camerson, J. W. Powell, A. Powell, Yeomans, Jim Wrinkle, W. Smith. Bottom nw: Spears, Amerson, Pakford, Hagins, Williams. Joi Wrinkle, J. Smith. Girls ' Basket-Bail Team -(■ In right, top row- ' II endekson, coach . M. Krxest, A. McG atley, M. Underwood, M. X. Cone, A. Clietox, Simms. New, manager. Bottom row ' - Wall, Rewis, Barnhill, L. Rosier, [!. Salter, V. Cone, R. Lindsey, E. Jackson.

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ATHLETICS ATHLETICS at the South Georgia Teachers College have had much to do with growth of the school. In keeping with the change of the school from a two- year Normal School into a four-year Teachers College the athletic teams have scheduled stronger, older, and larger colleges of the South. During 1932-1933 the college has been successful in the athletic world. From January 1, 1932 through March of 1933 the college won four consecutive cham- pionships in the major sports. The basket-ball team of 1932 won the Georgia State Conference Tournament which was held in the college gymnasium here. That same spring the KJ32 baseball team playing in the Georgia State Conference League finished on top. In the fall of 1932 the Blue Tide swept over all oppo- sition and won the Georgia State Conference football championship. This vear, 1933, for the second consecutive year the basket-ball team won another champion- ship, and as this book goes to press the 1933 baseball team seems headed towards another second consecutive year championship. Under the tutorage of Coach B. L. (Crook) Smith athletics have been placed on a high plane, and winning teams have been put on the field for the past three years. In the realm of girls ' athletics, there is only one sport in which there is inter- collegiate competition. The 1932 girls ' basket-ball team won all their games, and the 1933 team finished above the fifty per cent. line. Xot only are there inter-collegiate sports but the intra-mural athletics include boxing, tennis, basket-ball, baseball, soccer, volley-ball, and other forms of whole- some recreation in which practically every student in the college has some part.

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THE FIRST DISTRICT A. M. SCHOOL Its Beginning Till . Iiill to incorporate and organize an Agricultural and Mechanical High School in each congressional district in Georgia was passed in moo under the recommendation of ( lOvernor Joseph M. Terrell, who looked to these schools to be his monument. The trustees of the first district, one from each county, met in due time and elected an old Bulloch county boy, J. W alter Hendricks, then head of the schools at Douglas, Georgia, as principal. They decided in order to give time and labor for thorough preparation that the School should not open for pupils until the fall term in MjoX. Upon the recommendation of the principal, a professor of agricul- ture was elected, and these two began to lay out plans for the general organization of the school. The buildings, three large and commodious ones, had been erected under the general plan for all of these schools, the money having been furnished by general subscription from citizens of Statesboro and Bulloch county, some sixty thousand dollars or more. W hile the work of the first year, preliminary in character, was going on, a clamor went up from the people to know why sixty thousand dollars should be tied up in magnificent buildings and then stand there idle. The trustees were moved by this clamor and ordered the principal to secure faculty help and open the school for pupils in February, [908. I ' lease try to imagine just what this meant. With all other schools in full operation for more than half the term, with no sources from which to draw students, this school opened its doors for the en- rollment of pupils. An idea had gotten abroad that this school would be able to handle and disci- pline the boys and girls who had been incorrigible in the public schools, because of the mere fact that it had industrial features, farm work, shop work, and such like, for the boys and work for the girls in the kitchen and dormitories. Under this idea the school received some pupils that were not angelic at all. But be it known also that some came to the school that were as fine as ( iod ever blessed with mortal life. With these very discordant and sometimes belligerent elements the faculty set to work to follow the fundamental law creating these schools and give to the students such training as would fit them for a very practical and successful life on the farm. The question of discipline was a very serious and difficult one. Just for in- stance : ( ne boy wanted to go home for the week-end. I le was told that he could go only when his father had written a request to the principal, which was the rule. He left the office very sullenly. He came back the next day and repeated his re- quest with the same result, his father not having made any request. Then he lost his temper and paid his respects to his father in a burst of indignation. He prom- ised me he would write and now he has not done it. That ' s all right. He wants to run for congress and 1 know enough on him to ruin him and I ' ll tell it too. ' ' With this he strode out of the office, and when the time came, he slipped off and went home. When he returned, he took his demerits and atterward dug stumps to remove them. Another hoy, brother to the one mentioned above, went to town on Saturday afternoon, as was the privilege of all, and had his head shaved as if he were very bald. He was compelled to keep bis cap on at all times when in public, in classes, and at meals until his hair grew out. We suppose that he might have prayed for his hair to grow in a hurry. The principal resided in the girls ' dormitory with his family. ( )ne night about eight o ' clock a small boy, now quite prominent in Statesboro and Bulloch county,