Midland University - Warrior Yearbook (Fremont, NE)

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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

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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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Top row: Nelson, Lurulstrom, Bcckcnhauer, Wilson, Lyman. Hippie, McGillis. Front row: Ortgicscn, Sokcr, Biffar, Koutlclc, Flora. TRACK IN 1933 In spite of the deadly toll that spring fever takes on athletes, twenty-one men responded to Coach Lawrence’s first call for track practice in the spring of 1933. Four of the group were lettermen. Biffar, Midland shotput veteran, placed third in the seventh annual Hast- ings Relays with a heave of 42 feet, 3 inches. Midland and Hastings were the only N. C. A. C. schools to place in the relays. Hippie’s fourth in his heat failed to qualify him in the 120 high hurdles. Lundstrom in the broad jump, Nelson in the polevault and Lyman in the discus showed to advantage in their respective events, but failed to qualify. With one of the outstanding class teams of recent years, the freshmen cut away the lion's share of the honors in the interclass meet by running up a score of 66 tallies to more than double their nearest rival’s score of 32. The seniors, defending champions, collected the 32 points, leaving the juniors to place third with 26 tallies, and the sophomores to bring up the rear with 25. Nelson and Hippie, individual high scorers, won 21 and 16 points respectively. Other high scorers were: Fuhrmeister 12, Biffar n, and Garnie Davis and Dale Flora with 10 each. Mainly by excellence in the field events, Midland's track team rung up 22 points to place third in the N. C. A. C. track and field carnival at Crete. Eleven tracksters carried Midland's colors during the meet. Biffar wound up his inter-collegiate competition with a shot put throw of 43 feet, 7 inches, to win the shot by more than two feet. He also placed fourth in the discus. Fuhrmeister and Nelson tied with three others for first in the pole vault at a height of twelve feet. Fuhrmeister also placed second in the high jump at a height of 5 feet, 8 inches. Third places were won by Lyman in the discus, Wilson in the javelin and Flora in the 88o-yard dash. Fourth places were cap- tured by Nelson and Hippie. THE WARRIOR Page 75