Midland University - Warrior Yearbook (Fremont, NE)

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Front row (loft to right): Coach Pfitsch, Hawley, Rankin, Parsons, Provorse, Young, Kruse, Tabor, Larsen, Deubler. Second row: Dr. Zeiders, Schnobol, R. Hill, S. Gross, Tenhaaf, Rangeler, Hunter, Buckley, Manzel, Lusche. ft. Gross, Seiffort. Third row: Orshok, Norvell. Richards, C. Holler, Juglcr. Hess, Payne. Youngman. Nisscn, Crumley. Johnson. Watchom, Bernard. til Club This year found the M Club, Midland's honorary organization for varsity lettermen, increased in membership over the previous season and as busy as ever with their cus- tomary activities in the athletic phase of campus life. Bill Schnebel served as president, and Joe Chrisman held the vice-presidency. Richard Orshek was secretary-treasurer. Sponsors included Coach John A. Pfitsch, director of athletics, and Dr. H. L. Zeiders, faculty busi- ness manager of athletics. Initiation of new members—one of the M Club's most noticeable projects in any year —took place on three occasions in 1947-48. In the fall, a group of spring sports letter- men and others not previously initiated were inducted into the society. The football season netted a large group of initiates, and others were taken into the organization at the close of the basketball season. Midland's Grid Queen coronation last fall was a traditional function performed by the M Club, and Bill Schnebel had charge of the 1947 ceremonies. On December 2, the M Club's interests were directed toward the football award dinner, at which Dr. Forrest C. Phog Allen, head basketball coach at the Univer- sity of Kansas, was the speaker. Following the dinner at Hotel Pathfinder, Dr. Allen conducted a basketball clinic in the Gym- nasium. Coach Pfitsch was formerly Dr. Allen's assistant in basketball at K.U. Once again this winter, the M Club men assisted at the Class C district high school basketball tournament in the Midland Gym- nasium. The tourney took place late in February. During the football and basketball sea- sons, the Warrior lettermen had charge of refreshment concessions. The club's “juke box,'' frequently employed at college par- ties, was in use in the Student Union throughout the year. Page 105

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Spring Aperts Capture of the team championship and doubles title in the Nebraska College Conference meet climaxed Midland's busy tennis, track and golf season of 1947. The Warrior tennis team, defeated in only one meet out of six before the state tourney, notched 13 points to take the state team title May 16-17 at Kearney. Meanwhile, Bob Hahn and Duane Kruse won the state doubles in their ninth doubles victory of the season, marking the first undefeated doubles season in Midland history. Blue Ribbon Twins — Howard Mickel (left) and Charlie Hess. Midland's 1947 N.C.C. tennis champions —Front row (left to right). Schnebel, Kruse. Back row, Hahn, Chrisman, Manzel. Joe Chrisman, whose brilliant playing against Paul Worthington of York made their quarter-finals match the outstanding contest of the state meet, reached the singles semi-finals. Others on the top-ranking Midland tennis team were Ham Manzel, 1946 singles champion, and Bill Schnebel. Prior to the state meet, the Midland netmen de- feated Nebraska Wesleyan twice, Doane, Wayne and Omaha U. Their only loss was to Omaha. Despite a mediocre track season. Midland's Blue Ribbon Twins, Charlie Hess and Howard Mickel, and the mile relay quartet set three new Warrior track records in 1947. Only once before, in 1932, were as many marks broken in one season. Mickel set a new record of 52 seconds in the 440, while Hess ran the 880 in 2:06.7. The mile relay team, composed of Gene Vosseler, George Tenhaaf. Hess and Mickel, performed in 3:41.3. In five 1947 meets, Mickel won four 440 races and one 880, amassing 34% points for the season. Hess, who earned 31 points, won four 880 contests and lost only one, that being to Mickel at Doane. Midland cindermen in 1947 won a dual meet from Dana, lost to Doane. placed third in a Wayne quadrangular and an Omaha triangular, fourth in a Peru quintangular and last in the state meet. Midland's sprint medley relay team, including Hess, Vosseler, Dave Getzendaner and Mickel, were third in that event at the Kansas Relays. Other trackmen were Rich Clough, Edgar Menzies, Dean Marshall, Hank Nissen, Wes Shepard and Stan Gross. Midland golfers came in third in the state tour- ney, after a season of three victories and six losses. They defeated Wesleyan twice and Norfolk J.C., while losing to Creighton twice, Omaha U. twice, Doane and Norfolk. The golfers included John Schwartz, George Brown, Rodney Ball, Ralph Stout and Collie Matson. Page 104

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Bud Parsons, shown posting a sports schodule on the bulletin board, was manager of the mons intramural program this year. Ifleh J J)h ttatnuraL Charlie Hess of the Wynns tackles Sigma Rho Ham Manzel in a touch football fracas. John Rump (loft) and Chris Chaney tallied five firsts and 28 points to lead the Wynns in captur- ing the fraternity's second straight aquatic championship. A highly successful year was recorded in Mid- land's intramural athletic program for men, with approximately two hundred men participating dur- ing the year. Bud Parsons was intramural man- ager, and the program was under the over-all supervision of Coach John Pfitsch and the athletic department. Wynn fraternity took championship honors among the four fraternities, with a total of 980 points for the year. Kappa Phi had 765, Sigma Rho 610 and Kal 490. Ted Youngerman, a Wynn, made the best indi- vidual showing with 90 points, while Howard Mickel of the Kappa Phis had 74. Other men in the top 16 included Charlie Hess, Paul Kuenning, Paul Rybarczyk, Edgar Menzies, Floyd Sturtevant, Jim Youngquist, Stan Gross. Chris Chaney, Art Phillips, Glen DeBower, John Rump, Walt Haberle, Jack Kraemer and Paul Henkel.