Midland University - Warrior Yearbook (Fremont, NE)

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SEASON SUMMARY OF “THE REPEATERS After a long trip into South Dakota, the Warriors dropped a close game to Sioux Falls college. The score changed often, hut the Warriors were un- able to overcome the lead that the Dakotans piled up in the first quarter. Only two veterans, Davis and Wilson, were in the line-up. However, the team showed spurts of that machine-like precision of later games. The second day of the tour also proved disastrous to the Warriors. The Wayne Teachers used a slow opening, fast breaking offense to keep the Mid- landers on the defensive most of the time. Sioux Falls then came to Fremont and spoiled a Lawrence record. No team had defeated Midland twice in the same season during his four years in the Warrior camp. Using the same style of game they had presented in the first encounter, the Dakotans dropped enough goals to win, although the fighting Warriors were close on their heels during the whole tilt. Then Wayne returned the Warriors’ visit, but three defeats were enough. All of that pent-up Midland fight was not to be denied. With Little Joe, Davis and Wilson in leading roles, the Warriors out-smarted and out-sped their larger and slower opponents to win handily. In their initial N. C. A. C. game, the Warriors looked like the champions they arc. Hastings played them about even for the first ten minutes, but with Kounovsky and Wilson hitting regularly, the Warriors soon drew to a comfortable lead. Midland was too fast, too smooth and too well coached for the Doane cagers. The Warriors were away to a six-point lead in the first two minutes of play, and were never headed. Davis racked up counters almost at will, making 14 points. A much heralded Diamond Oiler team received their worst score in the local camp. Midland tore into the Oilers and gained a 15 to 12 lead at the half, and only the efforts of Tall Tom Picked, All-American, saved the team from defeat with a last minute basket. The largest score of the season was piled against York on the Fremont maples. During the last half, subs coasted to victory. THE WARRIOR Pone 73

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 II THE WARRIOR Top row: Anderson, Hook, Thomsen, Fuhrmeistcr, Christensen, Lewis, Nelson, Coach Lawrence. Front row: Gardner, lkckcnhaucr, Wilson, Davis, Sokcr, Kounovsky. BASKETBALL IN 1933-1934 N. C. A. C. STANDING Midland 34 W. L. Pet. PU. Opi . Midland 37 Midland 7 1 -875 273 lC7 Midland 21 Doanc -6 2 .750 245 212 Midland 46 1 tastings - 4 4 -5«« 227 225 Midland 44 Wesleyan 3 5 -375 253 238 Midland '9 York 0 8 .000 175 33' Midland 25 Midland JO GAME RESULTS Midland 22 2 Sioux Falls ...28 Midland 10 Wavnc 33 Sioux Falls .. 28 Midland IQ Midland 29 Wayne ■ '7 Midland 30 Hastings 16 Doanc ..........15 Diamond Oilers 23 York ...........20 Peru ...........27 Hastings 21 Doanc 23 Wesleyan 28 Peru 15 York ...........21 Wesleyan 23 Federal Tires 33 Sholl’s Cafe 49 Midland college collected its fourth straight Nebraska College Athletic conference championship by romping over Wesleyan, 41 to 23, in a near- perfect exhibition of basketball on the home floor. By winning this contest, Midland dropped the curtain on its N. C. A. C. season with a record of seven victories in eight games and 273 points to their opponents’ 167. This championship also gave to Coach Karl Lawrence, Center Garnie Davis and Forward Rickey Wilson a perfect championship record for their four years at Midland. During that time the Warriors have won 36 of 40 conference contests. No less than six of this year’s N. C. A. C. records dropped into the Warriors’ medicine bag in their championship run. Davis was responsible for three of the records, his 32 field goals and 22 free throws for an 86-point total sweeping individual scoring records. Midland also took first place in team scoring with 273 points and in team field goal making with 112. She was the only league team holding its opponents to less than 200 points. Pane 72

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THE WARRIOR THE REPEATERS Displaying the classiest basketball of the season, the Warriors trimmed the rangy Peru team at Peru. The Bobcats were accurate in their opening long shots, but soon the smooth ball handling of the Warriors had them running in circles. Kounovsky, Wilson and Davis gave the fans the thrills. Hastings came to Fremont with revenge in their hearts. No Midlander will ever forget that Homecoming when their team was nosed out by a two- point margin. Hastings used a stalling attack, a type of play not suited to the fast Indians. The thriller of the year took place at Doane when the Warriors met the Tigers. Apparently hopelessly behind at the half, the fighting Warriors came back to give the fans thrills galore before edging out the Tigers with a basket in the last fifteen seconds of play. Kounovsky scored the winning goal, and Davis tallied eleven points. Nelson and Beckenbauer guarded perfectly. After the Doane thriller, Wesleyan’s competition proved to be almost repetition. With Shuman and Bailey, the Methodists were very much in the ball game throughout. The lead shifted fast and furious, but again Koun- ovsky dropped in a neat goal in the last minute of play. Home again, the Warriors met Peru with a mighty defense, and kept the command during the entire evening. Whenever the score was close, Davis or Kounovsky would drop in a fielder and preserve the lead. York, in a desperate effort, attempted a man-to-man game, but Davis, Wilson, Kounovsky and Gardner broke away fast and often to pile up a big majority. In what fans termed a near-perfect exhibition of basketball, the Warriors cinched the N. C. A. C. championship for the fourth consecutive year by winning from Wesleyan. Davis, Wilson and Gardner climaxed their college conference careers. Davis contributed eighteen points to his total to salt away league high scoring honors for the third straight year. In an exhibition game which helped H defray the expenses to the A. A. U tournament at Kansas City, the Mid- landers lost to the Nebraska All-Stars. The more experienced stars got an early lead, and played a sure game throughout. Drawing the Shrolls, a Washington, D. C. team, in the second round of the Na- tional A. A. U. tourney, they played a midnight game. The Shrolls were a rangy, fast passing crew, but Midland re- tained the lead until early in the third quarter when Shrolls’ tall center began hitting. With the loss of Wilson on fouls, Midland’s defense weakened, and the Shrolls soon gained a comfortable margin. ’ '£ • 74