Iowa Wesleyan College - Croaker Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, IA)

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1 }t Jfresljman ®eam With Iowa Wesleyan’s entrance into the Iowa Conference, Freshmen were barred from varsity football and basketball. Many fans were of the opinion that it would be impossible to create among the first-year men a vital interest in these two branches of sport. After the first two weeks of football practice last fall, however, it was clearly demonstrated that the Freshmen athletes were taking as much interest in football as were the varsity men, and the team developed from the twenty or so yearling warriors who reported for positions was one of which the college was justly proud. Some of the best high school athletes from this corner of the state were among the number of men who had chosen Iowa Wesleyan as alma mater, and with such men as Snider, Davidson, Kepler and Davis a nucleus for a winning team was at hand. The team was very fortunate in its choice of a captain. Frank Snider, of Kalona, who had played during the season of 1913 upon the Freshman team at the State University, was selected early in the season for that position. He is the type of football player who plays with his head as well as with his brawn, and was an ideal choice for the captain of Iowa Wesleyan’s first Freshman football team. During the football season three games were played, and although only one out of the thiee resulted in victory for the Freshman eleven, it was evident that a wonderful football machine had been built out of the mixture of experienced and green material that was available. The first game was with the fast Ottumwa High bunch, and although the men from the metropolis carried away a 6-to-0 decision the locals played an offensive game during three quarters of the matinee, and should have been on the big end of the score. The second game was played with the eleven representing Oskaloosa High, and the Purple and White carriers were seriously handicapped by injuries to Davidson and Snider. For the first half of the contest they played their opponents even, but in the last half with no substitutes of any experience twenty scores were registered against them. After a three weeks’ rest Captain Snider’s men took the field against the much tooted Mt. Pleasant High and with the odds two to one against them played a wonderful game and whipped the high school aggregation 20 to 6. The defeat was so complete that the high school eleven abandoned the remainder of their schedule The first-year men were able to play the varsity even, and from their number there will be several strong varsity men for the season of 1916. CAPTAIN SNIDER

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FRESHMAN LINEUP Left End...... Left Tackle ... Left Guard ... Center ....... Right Guard ... Right Tackle ... Right End .... Quarterback ..... Left Halfback . Fullback ..... Right Halfback ............Williams ............... Dean ....Blakeslee, Payne ............ Mathews .............. Hasty ..Baumgarten, Moats ........Morris, Ross .............. Davis ..............Kepler .............'. Snider Messenger, Davidson SEASON’S RECORD Freshmen 0 Ottumwa High 6 Freshmen 6 Oskaloosa High 22 Freshmen 20 Mt. Pleasant High 6