Newberry College - Newberrian Yearbook (Newberry, SC)

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Birt Davis, Dick Mosrs, Managers BoypE ALLEN C. A. Norton GrorGE BryYAN LEONARD KARDELIS 6|

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eh The 1945 Football Season at Newberry College was not a success judging from the standpoint of games won or lost. If the crit- ical reader looks at the schedule closely, he will soon know that the season was a poor one in respect to wins—for there were none. But if he will stop to consider just what effort and courage was expended to accept these defeats, the situation will be made quite clear and different. Coach Bill Laval, long-standing football and baseball mentor in the South, began with a perfectly “green” squad composed mostly of men of good high school calibre and whipped these recruits into shape enough to put up a surprisingly good fight! There is really no use in “padding” the poor season with a lot of flowery talk about the great showings or otherwise, for there were very few, but there is quite good reason for con- gratulating the team, their coaches, and all concerned for a representative showing under the prevailing circumstances. These men de- serve all of our praise for long, hard hours of work on the practice field after the day’s 62 INDIANS labors had been completed, and for a never- dying sense of spirit even in the face of utter defeat. The “alibi” clinic could take this circum- stance and make it sound wonderful, show- ing all of the excuses for this and reasons for that. But that is not a good policy to follow. We know that our team was defeated at every engagement but we cannot fail to realize their sorrow in losing time and time again. Reserves were not plentiful. There were a limited number of candidates ready for warfare at all times and when these were expended there was but one fate—to make the best of it all. The men of the 1945 football club saw no. glory, no lavish write-ups or honors be- ing heaped upon them; instead they tasted the bitter cup of defeat. We who watched them train, work out, and practice know that the spirit was there but no means of develop- ing it; we know that they tried and that is all that is really necessary. We of the Sports Department of the 1945 Newserrian salute “our boys” carrying the scarlet and grey for their great effort in such a cause.