Lincoln University - Lion Yearbook (Lincoln University, PA)

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18 LINCOLN NEWS THE YEAR'S ATHLETIC8 By Walter E. Longshore H scents Unit along will) llic call for fool-hall candidales, issued laic in the summer hy Coach Morrison, came also I lie call from old man Jinx, for lie remained with us the entire season. He seemed lo hang lighter to “Doe's shoulders than the old man of the sea did lo Sin had the Sailor. Under the tutelage of Morrison, Myers andWalls.the hoys trained hard and showed a groat «leal of pep and enthusiasm. From all indications we were going to have a hang-up season and hopes were running high. Captain Julie Martin looked like a sure hot. running the hall with the snap and vigor of the old Julie of the '20 season when he ran through Tuskogec’s team without any interfer- ence. Several new men showed up very well. To give our hopes that linal skyward boost we hold the mighty A T team, last year's champions, a lormidalde aggregation of corn-lmskies ami farmers, lo a scoreless tie. Having slopped the horrible Horse Lane and his cohorts surely the other teams, including Howard, would he no trouble at all. Then things began lo happen. Julie’s knee went had on him again uud we lost to Union. Shaw, usually no «ipposition at all. put up a battle that worried the hoys no little hit; however, we took them into camp for our only win of the season. in rapiil succession we succumbed to Seminary, Hampton and Morgan. Fate and lmr«l-luck were rilling us hard and making us like it. Senator Hill came in for his share of tough breaks hy gel- ling his leg smashed in the Virginia State game which we managed lo lose also. About this-lime Coach Morrison was badly misunderstood anil was dismissed, while Myers was promoted as head-coach. He knew football and in my estimation could have turned out a good team, luit he lacked one characteristic—the ability to handle men. The entire fault was not to he placed on him. for had the men co-operated and pulled for one as much as the other, there would have been a different story to tell. The dissenlion and lack of interest in the team's playing was flagrantly ob- vious. The Thanksgiving day classic went to Howard for the third time in as many years. The line-men fought like demons and in that one game really gave their all. The Bisons advance through our van- guard was negligible. We out-gained them in that branch of attack, hut they came hy air and our de- fence against this form of attack was crude to the extent of being ludicrous. .So the poorest season in loot-hall Lincoln has known came to a close. As the sombre shades of night foil, the lengthening shadows gathered around that group of Lincoln men as they stood in the centre of the Howard Sta- dium, their tear-stained faces turned heavenward, defeated and broken in body, hut not in spirit, and as they sang the last solemn note oT the Alma Mater the sighing breeze that wailed around us, in the stillness I hat followed, the very silence that had descended like a mantle, was broken hy an ironical, mocking laugh, I hat floated to us on the breast of the Zephyr—“The Fates were mocking us in our misery. BA8KET-BALL In direct contrast to the grid schedule season. Lincoln enjoyed a successful schedule on the court. Coached hy Ted Walls, the quintette look every team into camp except Morgan and Hampton. Games were dropped lo Virginia State and Howard, hut the hoys white-washed them at later stages in the season. Avery was the wonderman of the Orange and Blue Five. The tall lad from Nyack gave .scorers the heehic-jcehies chalking up points as he made basket after basket. He was high scorer and our all-American selection. Syilnor had a good time taking I he hall away from theo (her guy just as he fell sure that he had Iwo points sewe«l-up. Stretch ran Avery a close race for the high point honors. A little ankle I rouble forced him out for a part of I lie season. Captain Whittington, Mac Weatlierlcss, Anderson, and Hawkins were contestants and in rare form. In the C. I. A. A. we finished in third place, being separated from the winner hy a scant margin. BA8EBALL Followers of I lie national pastime can see Ted Walls drilling his candidates into shape as the lime for opening games fast approaches. A stiff tentative schedule is expected to lie played. Cap I. Dick Temple’s services were certainly missed while he was undergoing an operation early in Hie Spring. However, with the consistent veterans of last year and the injection of men like Smith, Jackson, and Young, our team looks like a good bet in the C. I. A. A. pennant race. Jerry Harmon, Hall, Mosel.v and Young compose a formidable array of pitchers, and such catchers as LaMar, Johnson and Charleston, our batteries are of no mean note. The intleld is just alioul air-tight and as long as the opponents hit them there everything is juke. The garden tenders are good on flu defence hut rather weak on the willow. To completely lolsler up our team's stock, we need some slick-men. TRACK Coach Joe llainy made his second pilgrimage to Lincoln to look over his prospects for another championship team this year. The training season started ollicially on April 2. About forty men reported, among whom were a few veterans, a few stars, and a few willing hearts. By graduation, we lost a tentative twelve or fifteen points via Paniky Bryant’s exodus. However, Lee should hold up the hammer in the javelin throw, hut flu shot-pul and discuss thrower is uncertain. Joe’s big aim now is to regain the Penn Itelay title that we allowed lo slip from us. There is a promising group of quarter milers with, Derry properly the most out-standing. 8ohedulo: April 2ii-27—Penn. Belays at Philadelphia. May h—Howard Meet. May II—C. I. A. A. Championships. Hampton. May 18— Lincoln Meel. Lincoln.

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LINCOLN NEWS 17 II ' f CLASS OK '30 CLASS HISTORY 1 C.ASl Al, observer mi .Maple Ay« iin« in Hip Kail nT ll»:. :6 nn Hip IwpiiIv-llrsl ami IwpiiIv-sppnml of .'sepleuilier would luive seen a steady, almost unlinikpii slriiifi of f«■ il■ n r. sweating. limnili;iIi‘«l. X JL Inil jfitHanl yniiiif; iiipii. Nip I'.lass of '.‘III. On IIip.v sirujffiled. pauliiifs ami dishevelled slopping now ami IIipii In draw a lirralli. only In lip lashed ami maided mi liv I In I lii'pali'iiiiifr ih-pspiipp nf Hip tcrrihle puds. Hip Sophomores. Our lirsl a| |U'ppialinn nf Hip minims was iiiiuiPilialPly scrunched liy Hip aina inply warm rpppplimi mven us liy Hip Snplis. II wasn't ImiK before wp attempted In orpaiil pili nrdpr In overthrow Hip vnki of npprpssinn llial so piiiislaully IipspI us. I.pd liy Sunwdpii. wp inuiifjuntled a rplipllinn llial wpiiI down in Hip annals nf history. Tin wlinlr lliiilir was iuslimilcd liv .lamps Oreen. wlmm al Hip pi'isis was niuiiii nuiinu: m a lipd. Tilings Ilnally frnl spHIpiI ami wp hold a class medium decline DwijtKins prpsidpnl and SiiuwiIpii. Sludenl I'.nuiicilmau. Spvpral iiipii wpiiI «ml Tor rmdhall and madp jiuml; aninnn IIipiii wpic: TpiiiiiIc, Walprs, Itrnnks. Dwmjrlns. l''r:i .ii‘r. Longshore. r.arlpr. Trny. I’ursons, I’reslnii, Sewell, ami .lil Tay- lor. In I 1m annual l''rpshmun-Suphnmnre football classic wp found Hip miKhlv finds nn Irniildc al all. winnintr ti-n. Kxams. luiiud us a rallied hill ImpcHil class. After I lie whirlwind nf I'rnf. Wright's inalli. swepl over us. (In slnrm of Orim's llinlnfiv had suhsided. and llnolhhv's KiifHish avalanche passed, we Iniiml «mi ranks depleted hy only four iiipii. A larjre percentum made Hip linimr mil. Thai Spriilji. 10 made hislnry hy deTealiiiK Hie Hheyney dehalillj: Ipuiii and Hip Suphumure leant in rapid succession. Hesides placing seven iiipii nil I lie 'Varsity hasehall leam I In remniuiiiK hase- hall men won I lie Inlra-uiural cup. aUlmnsfli we never frnl il. Derry. Oenrfie I........ and Lniifislmre represenled Hip class on Hip I rack Ipuiii. Wp concluded a successful lirsl year hy lliiishiu second In I lie ('.lass nf '2K in liilra-mural I rack and pulliiifr Skinny l.awson and Lank Yotnifr on (lie lenuis leant. I'lii' followinfi Kail our arrival was «mill dilYerenl from llial of Ihe precediiifi year. So i niim-- iaslic and IhorniiKh was our hazing llial a liosl nf fellows (iiicliidiiiK vours Iruly) was Kiven a lw«» week vacalmii In coid nur ardor. XolwilhslumliiiK llial. we relurued In cul Ihe preps' hair, ami sirailKcly enuiiKh. linlhiiiK happened. A «dean slide was maiillaiued hy Ihe defeat nf Ihe l»reps in Ihe Knmpus Klassic. ITrny, .lil. I'ayior and Temple were made 'Varsity l s. In Kchruary. I'lcmmiiiK joined nur ranks. inufeiim a tidal of lour new iellows: Ihe oilier iliree heiiifi I leak Silvers!. Itsilph linker and Jackson Thai Spruifi Ihe I rack learn won Ihe I. A. A. championship with Derry, Silvern, and linker heimr Inreelv respnusihle. Jiver Jackson. Ole Oul Mali. Jil Tsiylnr and Dick Temple were Ihe main springs of Ihe hnsehnll learn. Incideulally. Mohy Dick was elected Haplaiu for I In next year. We ndiirn in IU28 to lind our ranks somewhal depleled: now numheriiifi only sovenly-sevpii as compared with nur refrislralion of one hundred and sixteen in our I'rcp year. As upper-classmen, we proceeded lo annex I lie difiiiily Dial is synonymous with Juniors. I'oiilaiue look over Ihe duties of iiislruclor hi Klemenlsiry Lai in. Loiipshore in lliolofiv ami Aualomv. Differs in (’aessir, and Tale in I’h.vsics. Xow. we an Ihe l»i liainina l sj. ihe mifihly class of I1LI0. Kmilaine was presidi ul of Ihe class Iasi year ami I Ins. W. K. L.

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