Keystone College - Nokomian Yearbook (La Plume, PA)

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Basketball SQUAD GATHERS L Co-Captains Carpenter and Ham- merman and Coach S. A. Lee. . Sitting: Wallace, Reese, Hammerman, Carp enter, Da- vis, Powell. Second row: Smith, Slocum, Stark, Humph- reys, Sweeney, Samuel A. Lee, coach, Shields. Third row: Tuttle, Cavezza, Gard- ner. The basketball team this year was the championship winner in the Northeastern Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Basketball League. This is the first championship team to be turned out by Scranton-Keystone, and much credit is due to Coach Samuel A. Lee. Besides winning the League title, Captain-elect, Michael Red Wallace was the winner of the League title tor high scorer, while both Wallace and Aria Powell placed on the all-League team. The Co-captains of the team were William Hammerman and lohn Carpenter, and the squad was managed by Henry Shields, lr. In addition to winning the League title, the team also won the majority of its non-League games, and establish- ed an enviable record. Coach Lee was also fortunate in having a nucleus ot seven returning players around whom was formed his championship team. The new im- proved style ot play was also in favor ot the team, which relied more on speed than on superior height. The opening game of the season was with Venard College, from Clarks Summit. Keystone won handily by a score of 45-29. Scoring honors were divided between Bed Wallace and Bill Hammerman. THE NOKOMIAN OF

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Playing in a blinding rain storm on a field well-nigh flooded, Coach Azar's protebes figuratively swam their Way to an easy victory over the forces of Cazenovia Iunior College and Seminary. Five minutes after the start of play both sides Weer indistinguishable as to personalities, but the Keystone team managed to run up four touch- downs. The individual star for this game was Nicholas lap Rodio, star guard for the Little Giants, who not only played his position to perfection, but intercepted a pass, and galloped for a touchdown. In their first and only night game, KGYSTOIIGIS eleven Won from the Saxon yearlings in a game played at Alfred, New York. Despite a slight amount of difficulty in accustoming themselves to the sur- roundings, the Little Giants soon proved that they were head and shoulders above the opposition. The outstanding performer for this game was game-captain Iack Munley. Munley not only made the majority of the points, but proved his capable leadership by inventing and using a new play on the spur of the moment. In this, the last game of the season with Keystone's arch rival, the Little Giants lost in the last two minutes when a desperate attempt to score by a long pass was ruined by an interception and consequent touchdown. The star for this game was William Uncle Bill' Seamans who, with but five minutes left to play, caught a punt and ran 95 yards for a touchdown and then converted to tie the score at 13 all. Despite this magnificent effort, the Little Giants lost in the closing seconds on a series of bad breaks of which an alert Seminary team took quick advantage. Football Keystone 27 Ccxzenovia 0 Keystone 28 Alford Frosh 0 Keystone 13 Wyoming Sem. 20 NINETEEN THIRTY-EIGHT

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THRILLING VICTORIES One week after the opening game the Little Giants took the road for a two-day tour of the Middle States. On Friday night the Leemen met the Susquehanna Varsity at Selinsgrove. The Keystone team won by a score of 50-37. The next night the Keystone quintet met the Bucknell Frosh in the first League game of the year. Keystone was fortunate in winning a close contest by the score of 50-48. Credit for this win goes to Spencer Reese, who did a magnificent job at lefd guard, and also contributed his share towards fattening the scoring column. Following the Christmas vacation, the team met Wyoming Semi- nary and Bucknell Junior College on successive nights. Both games were League games. In the Sem game, which was played on the Keystone court, the home team won by a score of 56-41, while the. Bucknell Iunior game was played at Wilkes-Barre and was also a win by a score of 49-24. The next game was also a home game, in which Keystone defeated its visitors, Wyomissing Polytechnic Insti- tute, by a 52-37 count. The first loss of the season was recorded when the local team was defeated by the St. Thomas I. V.'s in a fast game played in the Scranton Armory on February 2. The final score was 43-38 in the Tommies' favor. The next game was a home game and a league game. The visit- ing team, the Bucknell Freshman, were sent back to Lewisburg on the short end of a 43-35 score. Aria Powell was the leading basketeer in the Keystone line-up. Aria, while not sinking as many tallies as NINETEEN THIRTY-EIGHT