Keystone College - Nokomian Yearbook (La Plume, PA)

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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

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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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his teammate, Pied Wallace, managed to score on a good percentage of his long shots. The day after the Bucknell game, the cage squad took to the road for a return game with Wyomissing. Despite the early lead enjoyed by the Keystone club, it was de- feated by a score of 51-53, the winning goal being shot in the last five seconds of play. The next game was on February 16, a return game with Venard, played on the op- ponent's court. The game was a rough and tumble affair from start to finish, but the final whistle found Keystone leading by the score of 40-30. The following Saturday night, Key- stone met the Bucknell lunior College team in a return game on the home court. The game was an N.E.P.l. game, and two records were shattered in the evening. Keystone won by the largest score ever recorded for a league game, and Red Wallace set a new scoring record. The final score was 80-41, and Red accounted for 40 of the points tallied by Keystone. The next night, Saturday, February l9, the Keystone team jour- neyed to New York state for a game with the Alfred Frosh. This was the only out of the State invasion of the year, and the Little Giants won by a score of 40-29. Cazenovia Iunior College was the next opponent to be met on the home court, and they were defeated by a score of 74-39. The League standing had been a tie all season with Keystone and the Saint Thomas I. V.'s each having one loss against them.: However, in their next to the last game of the season, the Tommies were defeated by Keystone in a return game played on Keystone's court. The score was 53-43. This placed Keystone in the lead, and the championship was assured when the Tommies were also defeated by the Bucknell Frosh a week later. The last game of the season was the third loss of the season for the Little Giants. The team playedt Seminary on the Kingston court, and lost after a hard struggle by a score of 46-60. However, the Keystone team had a far larger winning percentage than its nearest rival, and so the League title was ours. THE NOKOMIAN OF