Grand Island College - Islander Yearbook (Grand Island, NE)

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Track, 1926 The Grand Island College track season this year was one of the best in the history of the college. The team was headed by Captain Charlie Foster. Several other letter men of ability were back. The first meet held during the spring of '26 was with Kearney Nor- mal, April the 9th, The Grand Island College track men took the long end of the score, Winning 35 points more than their opponents. The score stood SOM!-50113 in favor of the Orange and Blue. The next meet was held with Central City, the 23d of April. Grand Island won in practically all of the events and added another victory to the season. The points stood 79-57. On the 28th of April, a match was held on the home field with Kear- ney. For the second time Grand Island defeated the Antelopes. The re- sults Were: 88 points for Grand Island and 48 points for Kearney. Central City College invaded the third city for a return meet with the Baptists. The strong team of the Orange and Blue completely mastered them and they returned home defeated by many points. The last meet was held with Cotner College, at Grand Island, the 9th of May. This meet was not Won as easily as some of the others but the Cotner team was sent home defeated by 13 points. Thus We see that five meets were Won by Grand Island during the sea- son of 1926. Those awarded letters in track were as follows: C. Foster: 100-yd.-220-yd.-Relays-Pole-Vault-Discus. Graham: Hurdles-440 yd.-Relays. Wells: Mile-One-half mile-Relay. Haynes: High J ump-Broad Jump--Pole-Vault. Hayman: 100-yd.--220-yd.-440-yd.-Relays-Javelin. Panzer: Mile-One-half mile-Two mile. Ray: Shot-Discus-High Jump. Root: 100-yd.-220-yd.-Hurdles-Relays-Broad J ump-Shot. Rush: 100-yd.-220-yd.-Relays. Dickerman: Mile-Two mile-Relay. Kruse : J avelin-High-J ump. Kleinkauf: Broad J ump-Javelin-Discus-Relay. Tracy : Pole-Vault-Shot. Rusk: Relay-220 yd.

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Q I 1 ' 1 ,,-- . is .. A :sbu Q. .. ' MK Nw I - .. t v., 'I J Resume of Tennis, 1925-Z6 During the year '25 tennis was more significant at Grand Island Col- lege than ever before in the history of the school. Wayland Rice and Fred Lape, then Juniors, Won the state championship in the doubles and Fred Lape played in the finals of the single match. The honor brought to the school by these two boys is very great. The large silver cup which they Won is admired by everyone on the campus. The time spent in practicing and in the study of technic is worthy of the attention of all who aspire to become champions. Professor Rice is to be given much credit for his val- uable coaching. It was necessary to find all new material for a tennis team this year. This was accomplished by means of a tournament in which Edward Panzer and Arnold Johanson Were the winning team. The runners-up were John Rusk and Wm. McGrath. Panzer won the singleslby beating Joe. These four composed the tennis team for the year. The first meet was with Hastings. Grand Island was defeated in both the singles and doubles. We won a singles game in which a popular though disgruntled Hastings star went down to defeat before Johnny Rusk. Grand Island won the singles and Kearney the doubles in a match held on our courts. A meet with Cotner and one with Kearney were cancelled on account of the weather. Grand Island College will enter three men in the state meet: A. Johan- son, E. Panzer, and J. Rusk. '

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Track, 1925 The track team this year was headed by Captain Mutt Niess. Many other capable men assisted him in the very successful season. The first meet was with Kearney. G. I. C. won by a few points. In the return meet at Kearney the G. I. C. track men were again successful and won with little difficulty by a good many more points than the Ante- lopes. There were two more track meets, both with Central City College. These were Won by G. I. C. very easily. With a record of this kind we were able to send the team to the state meet which was staged at Lincoln. Graham placed 5th in the low hurdles. All five of the men broke the previous state record. Wayland Rice tied fo1' first in the high jump. The relay team which was composed of Charlie Foster, Douglass Hayman, Laurin Graham and Homer Fredericks, finished second in their heat but the time was not fast enough to place them. The following men made letters and entered the meets in the events as listed. Mutt Niess. Javelin. Discus. Edward Panzer. 2 mile. Eldie Dickerman. 2 mile. Ben Hites. Shot. Discus. John Chord. High Jump. Broad Jump. Charlie Foster. Discus. Pole Vault. Relay. 100-yd. 220-yd. Edward Smith. Hammer. Bob Krall. Discus. Pole Vault. Wayland Rice. Broad Jump. High Jump. Homer Fredericks. 100-yd. 220-yd. Broad Jump. 440-yd. Relay. Laurin Graham. . Low Hurdles. High Hurdles. 440-yd. Relay. Douglass Hayman. 100-yd. 220-yd. 440-yd. Javelin. Relay.