Kalamazoo College - Boiling Pot Yearbook (Kalamazoo, MI)

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, , ,eq ,. ,- .. 1.1, A., , Cofxcii -I. INl.vivx.'xai1 Sikl-if'i 'liwo years ago Kalamazoo College suffered a seemingly irreparable blow. After a decade of athletic supremacy among the small colleges, the oldest college in the state was forced to accept overwhelming and humiliating defeats. The loss, by gradu- ation, of the great majority of letter men in the school: the lack of an influx of new material and the change in management and system of coaching proved to be a succes- sion of blows too great to be withstood. lnstead of a series of victories, followers of College athletics witnessed the most disasterous football season ever held, the loss of the first KI. l. A. A. basketball championship in eleven yearsg the loss of the first dual and state track meets in a decadeg and, an exceedingly poor baseball season. XViseacres, outside the College. saw destruction impending and, throwing up their hands in horror, they mournfully proclaimed the death of Kalamazoo College. But in their haste to judge an institution on the basis of athletic prowess alone, they left several factors out of consideration. 'lihey forgot that Kalamazoo College har- bored ninety-two years of proud t1'aditions and. they neglected to take into considera- tion the indominitable spirit prevading the Old College on the Hills. For a time the suddenness and the shock of overwhelming defeats so staggered the College that it appeared that the bold, clean aggressiveness of past years had given way to complacent acceptance of defeat as inevitable. Then came the Spirit of Kala- mazoo College! Refusing to live on past glories, giving no alibi, accepting defeat only after the bitterest struggle, playing hard, determined and clean athletics, Kalama- zoo College is once more on the upwa1'd road. NVith the incoming class have come men who, combining scholarship with athletic ability. are worthily upholding our traditions and ideals. Nine men receiving football letters were new men at Kalamazoo and all but two members of the basketball squad were new comers to our campus. XVith a school spirit that cannot be broken by the most terrific setbacks and, with a new current of athletic life in our midst it is evident that lXlichigan's f lldest College cannot be denied her former place in the athletic world. Payr Um' Ilizlzdrmf Failrlrrlz

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P11 5 . ,I I fl ' I Jr fa A Q l'np-'llrainer Osborn, Davis, Menlenberg, Hackney, tllezen, XVieks, Reetly, Trainer Lutlwig. enter-I-Iquipment Clerk llinga, Spencer, liridgman, Eltlretl, Brenner, Berry, A. Ludwig, Schrier. ottoin-Coaeli Street, Stone, Ilarseh, Spronl, Captain Black, XVinne, Garrett, Skeen, l.af'rone. but were victorious oyer the locals merely because they excelletl in one tlepartment of the gameq that is the staging of effective aerial attacks which at times baffled the Orange antl lilack players. The inability of the secondary offense to break up such passing combinations as Dorsh to Ciettings of Hillsdale, XVilliams to iVeayer of Ypsilanti, :intl Catherinan to Bowman of Alma was responsible for the tlefeats. :Xt present it looks as though the i025 squatl, with a lflll per cent squad of veterans to form a nucleus, will not be forcetl to accept the undisputed cellar position of the NI. l. IX. A. lzyery player has intimatecl his intention to return to college next tall. Several men are cleserying of special recommenilation clue to their stellar playing. Captain Bob lilack, because of his triple threat ability as a kicker, thrower, and line plunger. was one of the most valuable players on the team. Black was the most yersatile player on the squatl being capable ol playing three positions: halfback, tull- back, or entig anal filling one just as well as the other. Pop Skeen was an all-M. I. A. .-X. mention whose stellar playing contributed to the spectacular element of every game in which he participatetl. No team in the assor- tiation succeetletl in Pl 'eyenting Skeen from making heatiuay on line plunges. Pop ilso ilisplayesl great tiefensiye ability. s lins Cilezen was another big man on the sqnzul, He started out as a sub- titute but earnetl a permanent position after the lieloit game when he tlrew praise lrom the coach of that school, who saiil illezen was the best center seen on the Beloit gritliron in years. His work was of an All-lil. 1. A. A. calibre. yn Um' Iluuilrrii Nixlwrfl