Moberly Area Community College - Mojuco Yearbook (Moberly, MO)

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i '-f- C nneuy' Aute111'1etl1Q lklcpuiiiiici., AU-. i e R --Coach Pierceg o , Top OW Second ROW-Patisoii1 Keeng Laimbg Gutekunst ,..O,- Review ofthe Basketball Season l ntirino' team was the l9Z7- An almost scoreless but optimistic ant u D . fc 1928 Buccaneers Basketball aggregation. Not to games won but to spirit shown and to the placing of a firm foundation for basketball pros' ' ' - - l' ia f be its due. perity does the team place its claim to whatever ci ec it n 5 ' f th fact that Games played and games lost are nearly the In spite o e g - same number, the team maintained an excellent rating with the student body and even with its opponents, who outclassed the locals in 21111109 - ouO'l1 W'th cant student body and few more than en D every instance. 1 a s C ' luildino 'I for a team in the squad, Coach Austin Pierce succeeded in J D f

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Marion Lamb ..............., ,,., F orward Chief,' was one of the smallest men in the team, but he was fast. He played: his best gaume of the season against the Central College Eagles. Capt. F. L. McCormick ....,, ,, Guard Doc never missed a game all season. He was the most consist- ent man on the team, and could turn away the enemy's attack. Leo Patison ,,,.........,......,... Guard Bud could shift from the de- fense and take the ball up the floor, and could sink them from the cen- ter. He never got rattled even in the games when the score was tiecl.

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n K 17- IO O: the ent Ort gh 21 fairly strong quintet and prospects for next year are consderably bright- er than it was thought possible a year ago. The junior College team lost its first game of the season in a hard- fought battle with alumni of the high school here and then bowed to the Jefferson' City group to a 37-14 tune. Kemper Military Academy at Boonville gave the Bucs their most decided trouncing when they piled up 76 points to 14. The game was played at Boonville and the extreme- ly large court at Kemper helped to add to the humiliation of the local team. Moberly junior College scored a victory over the Kirksville School of Osteopathy second team on the home court, scoring 15 to the op- ponents' 13. One of the best games of the year was that of the Bucs and the Kirksville Teachers! second team. In this game the Moberly boys held the teachers to 13 to 11 in the first half but the Kirksville lads were able to run up to 38 in the last half. The final score was 38-24. The Bucs lost to the Kirlcsville Teachers' second in a second en- counter here. That game was the nrst in which -lack Alexander, former high school star, made an appearance. The Bucs suffered a decisive de- feat at the hands of the second team at Central College, Fayette, to the second Osteopatlfs team and to Fayette on the home court later in the year. jefferson City defeated the Bucs in the last game at home. The written account seems to be nothing but a record of defeats, nothing is told of the hours of. practice, of the attempt of the team to show good sportsmanship and to develop a first-class team. -Nothing of those things can be written, probably, but in the minds and hearts of Moberly Junior College people the season was anything but a failure. Vi .