Kalamazoo College - Boiling Pot Yearbook (Kalamazoo, MI)

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41416512 Sports at Kalamazoo College maintained an overall high level during the 1949-50 seasons with the year in athletics high- lighted by several outstanding events. ln football, the team won two of eight games and finished fifth in the MIAA in a season iinxed by iniuries. The gridders started off with a 13-7 defeat of DePauw, and lost a 20-26 thriller to Wooster in the next game. Key players were on the side- lines, however, and the Hornets never did function at full strength the rest of the sea- son. Albion was defeated, 21-7, spoiling the Briton's Homecoming, for Kazoo's only con- ference triumph. Fourteen members of this fall's team graduate, presenting coach Lloyd Grow with a rebuilding task for next year. Post-season honors went to Milton Chris- ten, named honorary captain, Howard South- worth, the first recipient of the Clark W. MacKenzie trophy for the most outstanding lineman, and named a second time as All- MIAA center, Earl King, voted to an all-con- ference tackle's berth, and James Nawrot selected as the team's most valuable player. The cross country team finished a surpris- ing second in the conference in its first year under coach Samuel Brown. The Hornets were edged by defending champion Albion, 56-59, in the conference meet, after defeat- ing all but the Britons in dual tests. Captain Fred Winkler led the team, placing fourth in the conference race. Kalamazoo's triumph in basketball was the year's outstanding achievement. The Hornets won the MIAA title with an 8-2 record, and won thirteen of twenty games during the regular season. They also finished second in a January conference tourney. i0 4 Climaxing the cage season was the team's appearance in the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball tournament at Kansas City, Mo. K College lost, 78-84, to Baldwin-Wallace, but stamped itself as one of the nation's outstanding small-college teams. Nine new team and individual scoring records were set by the Hornets during the year. Frank Walters, Charlie Stanski and Bill Bos were named to the All-MIAA team, Wal- ters and Stanski for the second time. Walters also won the MlAA's coveted most valuable award for the second straight year. Bos received the Harold S. Garrison Memorial trophy, and Stanski was elected captain for the season. The freshman basketball team had a suc- cessful year, winning ten of eleven games. .lohn Stommen and Phillip Dillman led the yearlings. Spring sports all started off with winning records, with the Hornet tennis team heavily favored to retain its MIAA tennis title. Jack Sunderland, Marvin Mantin, Dick Cain, Tom Willson, Gordon Dolbee, Bradley Allen and Frank Walters are leading coach Allen B. Stowe's squad. The track team is headed for its best post- war season. Coach Ernest Kirkman's stars Walter McConner, Melvin Reed, Dan Gwyn, and the mile relay team of Stanley Chalmers, Don Van Horn, Reed and McConner all set new records in their specialties. Baseball, in its second year under coach Henry Lasch, and golf both began their sea- sons auspiciously, with the teams set to bet- ter last year's records.

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'74-e 1950 fnauguaal .ni if? ffm' if ,N- an ln keeping with the economic, social, and political changes seen and experienced in the nations of the world today, change and innovation have also made their impression this year on the life of our college campus. Coincident with the turn of the century, the colorful, autumnal inauguration of Dr. John Scott Everton as the eleventh president of Kalamazoo College marked a turn in ad- ministrative policy and ushered in an era of greater understanding and cooperation among the various campus groups. We have been fortunate this year in having an admin- istration that not only has seen the necessity of real integration, but also has made great strides in meeting the need of drawing the many threads of practical experience and theoretical, textual information into a com- mon unity that will carry meaning into the exigencies of life. Students and faculty have advanced to- ward the realization of their common aims and have been inspired to work together with the administration for the well-being and the richer experience of the college fam- ily. Evidence for this has been in the greater student representation on administrative lev- els. Through teas, dinners, and Faculty-Stu- dent Council meetings, a concerted and determined effort has been made to bring the administration, students, and faculty to a greater appreciation of each other's views and to the fuller realization of the keynote of our administrative policy- a fellowship in learning.