Midland University - Warrior Yearbook (Fremont, NE)

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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.

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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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 Paul Kuonning copped the ping pong singlos title for Sigma Rho. thon wont on to win the city and state Y.M.C.A. table tennis tourneys. Sigma Rho. former defending intramural champions, took the first title of the year by win- ning four games, losing one and tying one in touch football. Ranking next in order were Kappa Phi, Wynns and Kals. The all-intramural touch football team listed Ham Manzel and Kuenning. Sigma Rhos; Hess and Youngerman, Wynns; Sturtevant. Gene Lenser and Mickel, Kappa Phis; and Les Shepard and Bob Eckert, Kals. Volleyball gave the Kappa Phi and Wynn A teams a tie for first honors, with five wins and one loss each. V ynn B and Kal A were second and third. In ping pong, Kuenning defeated Snuffy Smith, a Kappa Phi and twice the title-holder, in singles finals, and Manzel took third place. The Wynn ft and B teams copped first and sec- ond places in basketball, while Kappa Phi, defend- ing champions, monaged to rank third with their A team. The Midland's all-intramural tions were: A” team—Chaney, Wayne Hengl, Virgil Hengl, Wynns; Lyle Plugge, Sigma Rho; Lenser, Kappa Phi. B team—Gene Sucha and Parsons. Kal; Kuenning, Sigma Rho; Youngquist, Kappa Phi; Leo Jugler, Wynn. The intramural track and field meet also turned into an easy triumph for the Wynns, who earned 73 2 points for top honors. Kappa Phi had 33 2. Kals 321 2 and Sigma Rho 6] 2. Three Wynns—Bruce Young with 13 4 points. Hank Nissen with 13 and Hess with 11 —made the best individual showings. Rump and Chaney each earned IP 4 points to lead the Wynns to a 28-point team total for the championship in swimming. Waldo Hansen copped five points for Sigma Rho, second was a team total of 18 points. Kappa Phi managed ten points and the Kals none. The Kals fought their way to the top, however, in softball, outclassing Sigma Rho, Kappa Phi and Wynns in that order. Scenes like the one above were common in the Gymnasium during the men's intramural volleyball tour- nament. Tho Wynns' championship cago team: Front row (left to right), S. Gross, Schuler, Phillips, Haborlo. Back row: Marshall, Youngerman, Jugior. V. Hongl. Rump.