Kalamazoo College - Boiling Pot Yearbook (Kalamazoo, MI)

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Qaefdumn Bukelddl L-R: Roger Winter, Alan Clark, Jack Bergan, James Stefoft, Robert Neeser, Lloyd Grow, coach, John Stommen, Dick Enslen Phillip Dillman, Darrell lhrig, and Vic Braden. The freshman cagers had a highly successful year, winning ten of eleven games. They defeated the Hope and Hillsdale frosh each twice, won five games from city league teams, and split two games with Calvin's freshmen. John Stommen led the team in scoring with 158 points for a 14.4 point per game average. Phillip Dillman was second in scoring with 106 points. The frosh outscored their opposition, 536 to 425. With the addition of Vic Braden after the first semester, the team became a junior varsity group. Team members were Stommen, Dillman, Braden, Robert Neeser, James Stetoff, Dick Enslen, Jack Bergan, Alan Clark and Darrell Ihrig.

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Basiketddl 1949-50 MIAA Basketball Champions. L-R: Jack Wendt, Frank Walters, Captain Charlie Stanski, Bob Simanton, Tom Willson, John Sentz, Coach Lloyd Grow, Bill Bos, Lee Van Haaften, Bill Sayers, Dick Cain, Don Culp and Jack Davis. Kalamazoo College's basketball team won the MIAA cage title this year for the first time since 1939, and completed one of Kazoo's most successful basketball campaigns by playing in the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball tournament at Kansas City, Mo., in March. Coach Lloyd lDobl Grow's Hornets won the MIAA title with an 8-2 record, won thirteen of twenty games during the season, and in the NAIB tourney lost to Baldwin-Wallace of Ohio, 78-84. Nine new records were set by the cagers, highest-scoring team in Hornet bas- ketball history. Frank lBuckyl Walters scored 305 points for a new single-season total, and increased his four-year total to another high mark of 816. His 89 free throws in one season also set a new high. Bill Bos scored 286 points to rank second in one year's total, and his 116 field goals set a new all time-high for one season. As a team, the cagers scored 1252 points, averaging 59.6, and they made 473 field goals and 306 free throws, all new marks. The 87 points and 34 field goals against Olivet are both new single-game standards. Baldwin-Wallace's 84 points were the most ever scored against a Hornet team, and the combined 162 point total in that game also set a new high mark. Best home games were 60-43 over Wooster, a iinx-breaking 65-53 triumph over Albion, and the 87-54 scoring-spree over Olivet. On the road, the 55-50 victory at Alma that clinched the MIAA title stood out. Five graduating seniors this year are Stanski, Walters, Bos, Bill Sayers and Don Culp. All except Bos have been on Hornet cage teams since 1946. Sophomore Tom Willson placed sixth in MIAA scoring with 111 points, and his 28 points against Hillsdale were a conference and team season high markl 111

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WJ The 1950 golf team should prove to be Kazoo's best since the war, with six let- termen back from last year. Last spring the golfers won three matches, tied one and lost five, finishing fourth in the MIAA. This year's schedule calls for matches with Calvin and Olivet in addition to the MIAA opponents. Each match with a league school counts toward the confer- ence title. The MIAA golf tourney was held in Kalamazoo May 18 and 19. Personnel of the team includes lettermen Don Hassberger, Robert Taylor, Rex Holloway, John Gospill, James Corfield, and Howard Southworth. Others are Rob- ert Gibson, Glen Bourgeois, John Bungert, Richard McCIaren, Vernon Bolling, Ray- mond Nahikian, James Nawrot, and Wesley Schultz. In their first six matches this spring, the golfers defeated AIma's defending MIAA champs, 10'!z-8'!z, and Adrian, 18-1, tied Olivet 9Vz-9Vz, and Calvin 7Vz-7Vzp and lost to Hope 8-11, and Hillsdale 7-12. Left row, top to bottom: James Corfield, Robert Taylor, John Bungert, Don Hassberger, John Gospill, Vernon Bolling, Robert Gibson. Right row: Wesley Schultz, Raymond Nahikian, Rex Holloway, James Nawrot, Glen Bourgeois, Dick McCIaren. ':1u1Lnrlu'x':v - -- :Nm G .' yr'