Midland University - Warrior Yearbook (Fremont, NE)

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was a great game and ended with the visitors ahead 21 to 16. The game was possibly the best basket ball exhibition ever given on the local floor. Now came the big finale. Doane, after being defeated by 't ork, and thus cheated out of the championship, came here for blood. The Warriors had not for- gotten the early season defeat at the hands of these? Doane cagers. flic game was a sort of rough affair and the ability of the Warriors to count from the free throw line won it for them, 'flic score was 23 to 17, and furnished a fitting climax to Midland’s conference schedule. After the season was over Coach ('at I in entered his proteges in the Midwest A. A. I . tournament at Omaha. In its first round, Midland was defeated in a listless game by the Lincoln Sporting Goods Co., of Lincoln, 39 to 3.3. A record of 1 Coach Gatlin's Warriors’ basket ball scores for the season follows: Midland 57 Simpson 20 Midland 45 23 •Midland 15 25 •Midland 23 Hastings 21 •Midland . 21 22 •Midland 14 Wesleyan 16 Midland 30 23 •Midland 32 Cotner .... 20 Midland -11 13 •Midland 36 37 •Midland 104 17 •Midland .. 46 Cottier 27 •Midland 42 Wesleyan 23 Midland 42 19 Midland .. 16 Omaha A. C 21 •Midland 23 17 Midland 35 Lincoln Spts 39 •Conference games. In the ten conference games played, the Warriors scored 361 points to their opponents 223. In the 17 games played Midland scored 627 points, while tin op- posing quintets chalked up 388. Page One llumlretf One

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SEASON RESUME The opening game of the season was played on the local floor against Simpson college of Indianola, la. The Warriors were leading 27 to 20. when in a lit of anger the Simpson coach, claiming that the referee was “throwing the game for Midland, ordered his men to sit down and quit playing. The team obeyed orders, and the last four minutes the score went up to 57 to 20. The first part of the game was a great game, but the little “I'll lake my marbles, etc.. was thoroughly disgusting. Omaha University was next and it was defeated 15 to 23. It was rather an uninteresting game with the Warriors looking a hundred per cent better than in the previous game. The first defeat of the season was encountered the next week, this being the outcome of a short visit to Doane college, where the team came out just ten points shy. The score was 25 to 15. and this was about right. The defense put up by I)oa lie’s all-conference guards was the stillest met so far, and the Warrior offense was held to the lowest score of the season. The next game which was played on the local court was one of the high spots of the season. The Hastings team came here with as long a string of wins over Midland teams as it could have. The Warriors were ready for them, and suc- ceeded in trimming the Bronchos 23 to 21. It was a speedy game and thrilling all the way through. Of course “Lex had to get on the sick list, and while he was home in bed. the team dropped two hard luck games. The first to York by one point. 22 to 21. and the next to Wesleyan by two points, 16 to 11. Don’t forget though, that “Pete played a mighty sweet game at center in “Lex’s place. These were two losses which were hard to take because they meant that the hope for the championship was gone. Seemingly angered by these two losses, the Warriors went on the warpath and added a couple of scalps to their belts. In fact, they won three games, without being hard pressed in am of them. Wayne 30 to 23. Coiner 32 to 20. and then another win over Wayne II to 13. After this little spree Midland again met the one point jinx team, York this time the score being 37 to 36 in favor of the Panthers in an extra period game. Another heartbreaker making three games being lost by only four points. Fate seemed against the Orange and Black players, but they did not give up. This was shown in the next game when the Midland Warriors were victorious in a game with Nebraska Central which rivaled the Dana football game, the score being 101 to 17. This game established a new high point game record for the conference. Coiner was again easily defeated 16 to 27. Then “Kevcngc is sweet,’’ so it is said, and so Midland trounced the Wesleyan Coyotes 12 to 23. and this victory sort of washed the bad taste of the 16 to 1 1 defeat away. The Warriors next won from Omaha I Diversity, 12 to 19, in what might be classed as just another game. A very interesting non-conference game was next on the schedule. The Omaha Athletic Club, with Al Brown, former all-North Central forward, and Gcrelick, former Nebraska guard, not to mention the others, came up to show the Warriors a thing or two about the game. Midland was shown, but not so badly either. It

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TENNIS TEAM To say that the tennis team of 1927 was the best that ever represented Midland would most likel he correct. I rider the tutelage of Coach Catlin, the team, composed of Robert Waterhouse. Harold Pack wood. Luther Patterson, and Fritz Krueger, rounded into good shape and completed a fairly successful season. The team won three out of five of the inter-school meets, being defeated twice by the state champion Wesleyan team. In the first meet of the season the Warrior team defeated Omaha Lniversity four matches to two. Wesleyan then handed the team a six to nothing defeat, and this was followed by six to nothing victory over Dana. Midland, then, again de- feated Omaha, four to two, and later lost to Wesleyan six to nothing. In the State Tournament, Patterson was defeated in the first round of the singles competition. The doubles team of Waterhouse and Pack wood reached the semi- finals where they were defeated by the Wesleyan team which later won the championship. Letter» in tennis were awarded to Robert Waterhouse, Harold Pack wood, and Luther Patterson.