Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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C I M ...S Y L L 53 U : ff- RELAY TEAM MCDONALD HINCH SCHWARTZ COLBATI-I Consecutive Northwestern victories in dual meets during the IQ27-1928 season were prevented only by the strong Michigan team, which outpointed the Purple. Iloweven the squad pded up 227 ponus unthen-opponentf II8iD conhxence competition. , Northwestern met the flashy I. A. C. , teanrin a warnnng up nmeg and wasset back by a close 53-40 score. Eddie Lennox, former national interscholastic breast stroke champion, lost on the turns to Peterson of the I. A. C. and had to take a second by a narrow margin. In the forty-yard free style event, Manovitz, former North- western swimming captain, defeated Wally Colbath, and Bullock of Northwestern took the third place. Collopy and Wicks fol- lowed hithe wake ofJohnny'VVdsmnueHer in Iohnnyk favorne eveng the 44oqmud free style. Hinch and Rasmusen took first and third respectively in the 150-yard back stroke. hdanovitz agani beat out Ilardy and Clark of Northwestern in the IOO- yard free style race. Colbath got his first place in the diving, while Miller took third. JohnnyVVdsmnudkrandtheI.A.C.rday l team won for the Chicago club. TOMROBINSON ' . S W I M I N G One Hundred Twenty-sizz:

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-C S Y lf- L-A F iq S gg ROBINSON RASMUSEN Hamm' WICKS NIITCHELL Blum' PIINCH LENNOY SCHXVARTZ Ixnorm COLBATH COLLOPY Water Polo Team The Northwestern water polo team won every game it played during the 1927-1928 season except a game played with Leland Stanford for a mythical national championship. This highly successful season further strengthens Coach Robinsonls claim to have developed more winning water polo teams than any other coach in the Conference. In the first game of the season Captain Krohn starred as Northwestern beat Purdue 6-2. The Purple squad was ahead at all times throughout the game and never was in any danger of losing. V Next Northwestern defeated Wisconsin by a score of II-S. Colbath, playing the center position, and Krohn, playing forward, made most of the points. Although the Michigan swimming team defeated the Purple relay and dash men, Northwestern's polo team easily swamped the opposing poloists by the score of 12-4. The defeat of Indiana marked the winning of the Conference championship and also saw Captain Krohn and McDonald play their last game for Northwestern. The game was an easy win, the score being I3-I. The Northwestern team defeated the strong Leland Stanford aggregation when the game was in Evanston but away from home the Purple was not success- ful. This was the only set-back of the season. The mythical national championship for which this game was played did not, however, seem so close to home as the Conference championship which had already been brought to Evanston. Miniature gold water-polo balls were awarded to the members of the champion- ship team at the banquet which marked the end of the season. Those men who received these awards were Leon Krohn, Captain, Walter Colbath, Albert Schwartz, Paul Collopy, Richard Hinch, Edwin Lennox, and Vaughn Hardy. S W I M M I N G One Hundred Twenty-Jive

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- fi: SYWABUS: .... c McDoN.xLD, Captain Connxru Knox-IN The Central A. A. U. indoor championship Went to the relay team when it was victorious over the C. A. A. four. McDonald, Hinch, Wicks, and Collopy swam the four hundred yards in 3:51. Only one first was allowed Purdue in a 54-14 Northwestern win at West Lafayette. This was the first conference meet and the strong showing made by the squad boded well for future competition. The strong sophomore medley 'relay team composed of Hinch, Lennox, and Schwartz set another conference record of 3:15 3-5. The national mark for this event is 3:10 2-5. The 160-yard relay team composed of Col- bath, Parks, McDonald, and Schwartz also won easily over the Boiler- makers. The hundred-yard free style was a raceibetween two of the Purple men, McDonald and Wicks, and the latter beat out his team- mate. Colbath and Miller garnered first and second places in the fancy diving. A 55-14 score against the Wisconsin team almost duplicated the victory over Purdue, but this time the opposition won no first. Al Schwartz, Purple free style speedster, was the outstanding figure of the evening, taking firsts in the forty and hundred-yard free style events, and then swimming as anchor man on the fast relay team. The third conference win found Indiana as the victim, and the score was 51-I8 for the Purple. Indiana's eighteen points was the most any conference team had scored against the Wildcats to date. Only the fifty-yard free style was taken by a Hoosier. Hinch, back stroke star, broke a pool record by going the 150-yard back stroke in 1:49. Colbath placed first in the diving. S W I M M I N G ' One Hundred Twenty e , - . 3