Hedding College - Orange Yearbook (Abingdon, IL)

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ii fl ww W rr I l if r 'W ML 4 e ra il TW ff M l .Q W! i l Wi wr, M rm 'YH 'l W l 1 l el sr W W s l ,V .W lfr 'TW 1 J il + 'Ml 1 V rf W it 4 1 M ts IJ, 411-if-ggiiaefimffie My Ofqngg a.,4i1:2.sgfae1.zgzg15-Q12 A To be a successful director of the physical development of college men to-day requires no little skill and training. One must be an athlete who knows howg and he must be a man with a conviction and a purpose. Hedding has high ideals in athletics. She is proud of the year's record. Under the direction of Coach Kirby our men have acquitted themselves with honor and Hedding is justly proud of her worthy sons. Not a great while ago it was a serious question whether athletics really had a place in College life. We heard occasionally from alumni of the nineties of the davs when foot ball was forever banished from the colleges. But the Pig Skinn seems to have the proverbial nine lives of the cat, and came back, together with all other forms of amateur sport, and remained a recognized part of College activities. 1, Wliy athletics in College? Youth demands action. Youthful minds and Youth- ful bodies seek development. The game of skill affords exercise for both, and gives to the student a needed chance to measure up to one of the Creator's laws, namely, VVhat it is possible for me to become I am morally obligated to become. The game develops body and soul. There is on the athletic field challenge to muscle, brain and will. I may be a better physical man if I train my body sensibly. It is a joy to be possessed of a good body and. too. I shall need a good body. One day I shall be carrying a heavy load in the world's work and I shall say at the dayls end, How thankful I am that I can do a man's part. VVhen I have come to the meridian of my life I shall look with pity upon the poorly formed, physically unfit neighbor and say. IVhat a shame that man will so neglect the masterpiece of the Creator. When I come to preside over my own home, I will view with just pride my boys. better physi- cal types than myself, and because I know how to play shall be able to introduce them to some of life's best games. I will seem to them to be a real man. My boyis pal will respect me and will be ready to respect my better counsels when he sees what a suc- cess I have made at living well. I shall be more useful in the community if I keep young with the youth in spite of advancing years. Play keeps one young,-it is the youthful mode of expressing life. Therefore, one's education consists -partly in learn- ing how to play well so as to be better able to perpetuate this quality so loved in youth. All honor then to the man who knows how to play just enough. and who has learned how to play honorably and skillfully. Hedding rejoices when one of her sons, having met these conditions, wears the monogram of honor, guarding it carefully as he would his own reputation. The thoughtful man of the business world looks upon the sturdy youth and says, He has shown himself determined and capable. There is room for such as he. if-1 Sixty-seven 471- fla-322533 5?5I5i?i if Qfffsielf? f 2

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' I 4ifv?Cfi1fj21,iQESZZQEEiQ?'iii.Ee! ME' Qfgfg 9 1-3FE3TfQ Flinnt Ball Swann With the opening of the school year about twenty-five men answered Coach Kirby's call for foot ball candidates. The squad got down to business from the start and the fight for positions on the varsity was keen indeed. As the Lombard game approached the machine began to work fairly well and most of the men were in reasonably good condition for the game. Lombard came to Abingdon highly touted and since we were looking for a real battle we were not disappointed. Sufhce it to say that Lombard emerged from the fray on the long end of the score by a margin of some forty-eight points. The game was by no means as one-sided as the score would indicate, and the spectators pro- nounced it a real exhibition. Our men worked with redoubled effort to get in shape for Monmouth who was next in line. This game was played in Monmouth and from the number of injuries received it would seem that this was the hardest game of the season. Keithley, Mey- thaler, Thompson and Torreyson were injured in the general slaughter. VVith the score standing 48 to 0 against them at the end of the third quarter, our men came back fast and furious in the final session and ran up a total of 17 points, while the best Monmouth could do was to hold on to what she already had. It was a hard game to lose, but our men carried the proper spirit throughout the game and kept up the fight until the final whistle. With several regulars out of the lineup, the team went grimly to work preparing for the Augustana invasion. The Rock Island aggregation had probably the best team seen on the local gridiron this season. VVitl1 Augustana, our team met a heavy bunch of men who had plenty of speed and some artists at the open style of play. We hate to lose a game naturally enough, but when we do lose we are glad to see a team of good sportsmen like the Augie fellows win. After having lost the first three games of the season things began to look as though we were going to have a hard time winning a satisfactory number of games, but the squad did not falter in its work. By and by our team left for Canton, Mo., to do battle with the 'iWildcats of Culver-Stockton College. After spending the first quarter of the game in finding out what made these Wildcats wild, our fellows proceeded to score a pair of touchdowns. Captain Hartman was the offender. Cul- ver-Stockton came back strong in the last half and after scoring one touchdown, threatened to tie the count, but Hedding refused to yield and the day was won for the Orange and the Blue. Score, Hedding 1-L, Culver-Stockton 7. Our joy was short lived, however, for Bradley came next and we lost to them 48 to 0. The field was wet andthe element of luck entered largely into the deciding factors of the game. Then came the ill-starred trip to Eureka. The M. and St. L. was still later and the team arrived in Peoria about one hour too late to catch the train to Eureka. Y FSCQZSSEAQCQLPFT i'f?f3f'7Qg'Qlmi EZ f 2 - 12 1 'i xfffgifi 'Tff?1nf? Sixty-nine