Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine - Osteoblast Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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.bv li L' O. S, Basketliall Men ,nc ,- Poitrtait Lorustx , l game with a 3040 scoi'e. At the close of the regular season, Coach Stacy reopened Athletic relations with the Kirks' ville Teachers College. After the due sanction from the ofhcials of hoth schools the series of games was arranged. The two student hodies reacted favorably and a city championship hattle are Taught to Vlin Some Close Games via the WAS Announced. F 'H l ' L. 1 . A - N I mm ml The playing of the Rams in V '-5 -i .Q 'Z Neru Gitfxrtiotixi this series was not quite ex' cellent enough to score a victory. The Doctors were evidently to he outclassed hy the teachers. Some followers said: The Doctors were not clicking or the Teachers were playing over their own heads. Anyway, the Teachers won this year's series, hut look out for the Doctors to even the score next year. After allf who cares which team won this year's series. what we wanted to learn from this series was not which school had the hetter team, hut whether it is again possihle for the two institutions to carry on athletic relations in tl friendly and cooperative manner. THE PLAYERS llntl Myers of the I034 team was a deserving regular for the past season on the Ram squad He easily earned his place asa regular No matter how tough the opposition. Myers can always he depend' ed upon for .i consistent game, a level head and plenty Of points. One of the hest players in the history of K C Q S is the verdict for this year, Bud Cummins, captain of 1934 team. another regular of former years and a mainstay of the 1034 outfit He has had a good reputation as a good player for many years and his score this year places him in the front ranks as a collegiate athlete. Fred Staff. the praneing center. gave a splendid account of himself in every contest. He always entered the game with a dash and kept it up until he had toppled the sphere through the hoop for ahout as many or more points as the hest players on any team Boh Neth is another senior who has completed his K. C. O. S, hasltethall record. And this record was a good one Neth came to K. C. O S after serving several years as a champion on high school teams and the Rams will miss his shooting. K 102 ll

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and played Culver' Stockton. This was per' haps the 'best game of the year so far as per' formance was concerned and K. C. O. S. was victorious by 3-P20. Parsons College from Iowa opened the home schedule for the Rams with a two game series. The Rams won a thriller by a 32430 score and repeated the following night DEFEYSE OR QFFENSEKVJHICH7 by a 31129 score. Our next encounter was away from home, Ottumwa, Iowa, where the Rams met the Ottumwa Y. M. C. A. team on their honte floor. Although the Rams were by far superior after giving every man a chance to play, the game end' ed with a narrow ntargin of victory for K. C. O. S., score 4240. Southwest Baptist College from Bolivar, Missouri, furnished the next tangle. These boys from Southern Missouri seemed to be lost in the large Kirksville gym and the home team won by a score of 44260. Osgood Athletic Club furnished thc next opposition for the Rams. This was another easy victory for our home team and the iinal whistle found a 464-in score. Next on the ticket was the game with the Lacygne Athletic Club of Kansas in which tilt the Rams had little trouble in winning a 6234 verdict. CulverfStockton came to Kirksville for revenge after their defeat suffered at the hands of the Rams. This game was fast and hard fought but the boys from Canton, Missouri, were found the victors 3617, Ottumwa Y. M. C. A. played a return engagment at Kirksville and were de' feated 4785 in a rather uneventful game, Probably the most exciting game of thc season was between Tarkio College and K. C. O. S. at Kirksville, This game was intensely exciting and the Rams lost a heart breaking extra overtime game by a 42'-11 score. Trenton junior College then came to be defeated by the Rams in an uninteresting G-' be TK '17 GiLi.soN Biuscon J -J rw , Ji' f ,. X Jo ' 'i ' i Qi-' N' Q, Q ' ' I, . ' X Q Q. ff , -i 'IE' Q: g LANGE Wtwtin Q 101 H

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L B , x P , Y 'ge 1 'Q ' -sl if mrsfwf:sfwf5f'w Skrpper Gramohm IS another Ram star who has heen A shmmg hght nn hasltethall courts mr several years He hatls from the East where hasltet hall rs haskethall, antl as has lween S-llkl Ins lwunelless energy and hrs ahthty as a race hnrse puts htm all over the entrre court rn less tune than tt takes In tell 1t Bucky Gtllsun. a senrur. t-ltlerl strength tn the forward enel lhck Briscoe, a junxor, l1.lll5 lrnm llhnt-ts, where he was classed as an athlete nl' tllstrnetrwn lwelnre comme to Krrksvrlle Tom Lange. center, shared hrs pust wrth uthers many times tlurmg the season, nnlv tu return tu the game to prove hrs mermt Brll hlanchester rs alwavs a wnrtln' plaver He Joes not know what tt ts tu plat' less than Ins lrest Lots ol' pep, speetl antl et-urage that! lxlanelrestcr Eel Potter servetl as .1 steatlv antl eunsrst-int lwr warel Ed rs nnteel rn tennrs antl nrher athlette sp:-rts as well as lwasltetlwall john Vlooel, forward, eame Irv K K1 U S tlns vear Few freshmen have ever marie a lwetter shnw me as a team mate and pomt getter Btll Lomax, guartl, was a clever wrestler nl the hall lN1eLaughltn. forward, rs a llnnr man ul alnhtx' Les Starke, center. plavetl .1 game wurthv nt notree Humphrev was a gnc-el tletrenstve plaver wlohn Elelrrtlge. tevrwarel, shows much .lll'lllfV The K C O S team doctor lnr the 1033-34 season was Ewmel lvioss Hts Pl'OlYC55lUI1.ll servrees were the means ot' mamtarnlnq the eootl COlhllIlOI1 of the men .mel hrs wrt was a tome to therr sprrtts many rrmes The team manager, Charles VJtlhamsnn .mel Dan Beyer. deserve therr share of ITCDQVIICIOIW lor thse chargmg the pressing dunes of the managers nlhce Ronald Brarl and Wtllranm Goulel led the loyal student hotly rn cheers Untrrmgly and repeatedly they ralhed the followers to the support nf the players and no douht were responsrhle for some nl' the V1-:tor1es, 'Z' -4 X '., all W' 2 Y. s A r Sronere Huxtvnmss t Ermunrzs IVIQLAUUHLIN E101-I