Montana Tech University of Montana - Magma Yearbook (Butte, MT)

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BASKFTBA11 JOHN HBRICKH BREEDEN The boys who were responsible for this two- time conference championship entered Mon- tana State in 1934 and after two years of de- velopment, climaxed their careers with a return to the form of their famous forerunners in Mon- tana State's basketball history, the Golden Bobcats. Thus, this year Coach Breeden loses those men who have formed the nucleus of his team. A new cycle is starting in which Coach Iohn Breeden will have to rebuild a new era of Bobcat supremacy. We feel sure that he will be as successful in the future as he has been in the past. Good luck, John! 158 Montana State College has always main- tained a high standard in basketball. Periodi- cally, we have produced truly great teams, this being first evidenced by the Golden Bob- cats of 1927, 1928, and 1929, who were widely acclaimed by the sports world. After a period during which no great records were made, we have again approached that same supremacy in the basketball world. In 1937 the Bobcats assumed command of the Rocky Mountain Conference by defeating Denver University in the play-off. This year they retained that dis- tinction by duplicating their conference victory. The Bobcats can boast of a very successful season's record, losing only five games out of twenty-seven, two of which were lost to the Wor1d's Champions of 1937, the Denver Safe- ways. MANAGERS HUFFMAN SCHENCK

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FRESHMAIXI FOGTBALL BOWMAN, Bucks, BRADFORD, WHITNEY, TINDER, SLIPCEVlCH. OLSON, DULEY, CARPENTER, MATTHEWS, STEBBINS. ASSISTANT COACH: BREEDEN. COACH MOORE, COOPER, MARTIN, HUTTON, HoRsT, B1LDEN, FARRELL, KUKA, MAY, EATON ADAMS,TRAlNER BRICKLEY, SCHARMOTA, MCGEEGER. MIZNER. BL1ssENsAcH, ARRIVEE. DAEMS DACHS, STARK. CLUZEN On the opening of the fall quarter a small but eager band of freshmen re- ported to Iohn Breeden, to begin their college football careers. The boys worked hard all fall as night after night they played martyr to the battering charges of the varsity squad. To these men should go a great deal of the credit for the development of a successful Bobcat team. The 1938 Montanan wishes to ex- tend a great deal of praise to these courageous and persistent warriors. The opening game of the abbreviated season was against the Polytechnic. On Gatton Field under the newly installed floodlights, the current edition of the Bobkittens showed great potentialities, as they defeated the Poly l9 to 6 with May, Murphy, and McGeever outstanding. On the following weekend they entertained the Cubs from Montana U in the little Big Garne of the year. After the first two plays the game turned out to be a closely fought struggle but in those first two plays the Cubs made the only score of the game on a recovered fumble to win 6-O. The Kittens closed their season with a return game with the Billings Poly in which they repeated their former victory in a more decisive manner by winning 25-U.

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VARSITY SOUAD BREEDEN GUSTAFSEN WILLS BERG Knevlc ROTH ADAMS L C E M OGLE CORBIN ITTLE OSNER XU SHOEMAKER JOHNSON FELDMAN STRONG THE 1938 BASKETBALL RECORD Opponents Opponents Score Denver Safeway Nat'l. A. A. U. Champs .....,..... ............. ...... . . 48 ......,.. Ricks College .....,..... ....,. . .32 CPtexhurq, Idahol 27 ......Great Falls Iaycees CInd.D....,.....,.22 ...,,.Bearded Aces CTuckersl...,...,....26 .....,......Colorado College................,.39 11 ll llliilililllii-W9SiGIH siQi5'f.'fffffff fffffff 34 39 ,.........Gonzaqa University..,......... ...33 34 Bobcat opponent Score Opponents Score 74 ......, ...,..... W estern State ....... ......... 4 1 59 ....... ......v ' ' .....,... ,,...... . 55 65 ,.,.... .,...,,.... G reeley State ...,.................. 38 69 .....,.A,..,...,..,,.. .........,..,........ .38 47 .....,.... Montana State University ,......... 55 45 .......,.,., ......... ...55 64 .,.,.....,.......... Colorado Mines ...,,............... 35 76 ,,........,.,......... ......,.......,..... ..37 65 .,......,. Montana State University .,.....,.. 49 64 ........,... ,...,,... ...ESO 63 .... Big Horn Canners, Cowley, Wyo ....i 40 60 .... 59. 54 .... 25 .... 1539 A. A. U. Champs ..Greybull, Wyo. Independents ...., . ........,.....Arkansas Colleqe.,,..,........,.,, ..........,.New Mexico Norma1...,....,....... ,...Warrensburq Teachers CMo.J....,... 1094 33 46 45 43 159