Indiana State University - Sycamore Yearbook (Terre Haute, IN)

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Football and basketball were initiated at Normal in 1894. The first football game ever played in Parke County was scheduled on Thanksgiving Day between college players from Rockville, Indiana home on va- cations and the Normal. The game was witnessed by a large crowd. most of whom had never seen such a contest. Students organized the Athletic Association in the hope that regular contests would be established. How- ever, the Association had to be reorganized several times and it was many years before Normal School teams were formalized and a schedule of games played each season. From 1908 to 1920 the football program was banned by the faculty. In the first recorded basketball game Normal started off on the winning side with a 20-17 victory over the Terre Haute YMCA. The Normal Athletic Association became a mem- ber ofthe Indiana Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association in 1895. This state organization soon started an annual track and field meet which was held at the various state institutions. In addition to the standard track and field events. the meets included bicycle races. the running hop-step-and-jump, the mile walk, and the high kick. Normal School, as a member of the state organization, was able to enter a number of track and field men in the various. The late 1890's brought football to the Stare Normal School. The basement of Normal Hall was a gymnasia However the ground floor was supported by sturdy posts Even when well padded, these posts proved to be awkward obstacles to basketball players. gf nf 'X' Thirteen 5 5

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.r .....a.15?' .SMU Birch Bayh, Sr. coached the 1923 basketball team. Between 1920 and 1950, inter-collegiate athletic contests became a regular feature of the school pro- gram. In 1923 Arthur L. Strum succeeded Birch Bayh, Sr.. who had become the head of physical training for men in 1915, as head of the department of physical education. I-lis job was to train football, basketball and baseball teams, direct the work of the department, and teach classes. I-le was told to produce a football team at once, which he succeeded in doing. This team of 1925 was the second in recent years. the only other having been that of 1921. Six games were played in the fall of 1923. Basketball had been popular for a number of years, and it was possible to develop an outstanding team for the season of 1925-1924. The schedule was comprised of twenty-two games, only six of which were lost. The baseball team of 1924 played a schedule of fourteen games. Following the year 1925-1924 the coaching staff was enlarged. It was then possible to have a division of labor in regard to coaching with one coach assigned to each sport. The physical education building, completed in 1928. was divided into sections for men and women and contained three large rooms for the practice of gym- nastic exercises and for holding indoor athletic con- tests. Beginning in 1929 the Terre Haute Municipal Stadium was used by Indiana State for track and field events, football games, and baseball contests. h. writ, 1 if 'lt p a int, .. am N .L , 11 5,14 5, U t..9,glvq ,vp ,-- , ,muulnmfy gr it . wi- . A 5. --f 4-eq mfs-f I 'lN 1 T W Na -' -gpg!! fan? if as 1 wa. 'T 1 :I 1 1 gr' 1.2 P15114 gf p,w,i,zsa,, - Z 11- V '! gQl.,D,irMi,r1'Jlt2,1hC'yL --e 1 . E 'l.,r,1 , i75.i I. w.,:gL' ,gl 2qTx,k',.,5i. -ai'? ga X glNl N . LN .Nf N-l Nfisngll iN! -N . 'Mt' a1ilFil' 'T We 1 ' i g 1 ,J ' J -, 3 gg Q ' ,J .,,. 44 'L 4'wr.':.g. A jump ball is attempted in front of a full house at the Purdue- lndiana State game in 1926. The 1928 track team was coached by David Glascock flop-leftj. Fifteen