Ozark Wesleyan College - Ashlar Yearbook (Carthage, MO)

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s? . I The flS H L A li, tsl lug yi Q51 .N 'E 44513 A ,jg ll ll Nl In lil N 1 r , . 1 N1 .va W Ml .Pi ll! is all l, gf .fi Ii is ,Il ul if l lu I I The Lions Athletics In both football and basketball this year the Lions had an infandfout season, in football it was mostly out. In neither sport did they flash the kind of play they were capable of. In football Coach Collard was tremendously handicapped by a decided decline in both quantity and quality of players. At no time did he have enough men working together to really mould a winning team. Believing that the primary purpose of college was an education and not football teams, he refused to hunt football players for the mere sake of football players. In spite of the fact that the Lions won only one game, lost five, and played one tie, we wish to express our opinion to the effect that we believe Coach Collard is a coach of A-I calibre, and that with proper support, and a few more players to work with, he will in 1928 put a winning team into the field for Ozark Wesleyan. Of the seven games played, the Lions should have won three. They had abso. lutely no business losing to Drury or being held to a tie by the Bacone Indians. But the past is past, and there's another day comin' by'm'by. The basketball season started in a blaze of glory, and for a time it seemed that the Lions would be the best team in the district. They flashed tremendous power in their first three games, and in the game with Arkansas U. Frosh, showed more stuff than in any other game of the season. Then sickness hit the squad and a Hne scoring machine was wrecked. They lost three games in a row, and after that played 5of5o basketball. Only in the last game of the season did they show anything like the out' Ht which beat Arkansas Frosh. Their record of games won and lost shows better than any Lion team since Ozark Wesleyan came to Carthage. They won nine and lost seven. At the time of writing, interest in tennis has grown to such a point that it may be necessary to build some more tennis courts. There are some excellent tennis players in school and they probably will get a chance to show their stuff. At this time also, practice for track has started in earnest. The school has fine material except as regards dash men. We should have a good track team. The track is being cindered and fixed up, and plans are being made for some track meets, and for the second annual invitation track and field meet for high schools. Athletics in Ozark Wesleyan are progressing slowly but surely. Before long the colleges of the state will be forced to sit up and take notice. Let's go, Lions!

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Tlzae Lions Marvel Al. Collard MERREL A. COLLARD, Coach of Athletics and Director of Physical Education was born in Carmi, Illinois, and graduated from the High School there in 1914. He played three years on the football and basketball teams there. He then attended McKendree College at Lebanon, Illinois for three years, winning his letter in the four major sports, football, basketball, baseball, and track. In football he played end and backfield, and was chosen the most valuable man to his team. He played both guard and forward in basketball, and was chosen allfstar forward of the I. I. A. A., or the Little Nineteen Conference of Illinois. He was captain of the McKendree Track team one year, and in 1916, at the field meet held at Washington University, at St. Louis, he broke the record for the Javelin throw. His record also shattered the Olympic record which has stood since 1904. The record stood till 1920, when it was bested by the famous Brutus Hamilton of Missouri, world's decathlon champion. That same year, 1916, Collard won second place in the Illinois state track meet. He also played on the baseball team at McKendree. Coach Collard served in the army for two years during the world war, being over seas a year. Sergeant Collard possesses a citation for gallantry in action at Epinonville, France, October 1, 1918, presented him by MajorfGeneral, George Bell, Jr., commanding the 33rd Division. He Hnished his college education at Missouri Wesleyan of Cameron, Missouri, graduating with an A. B. in 1921. That year he played on the football team, champion of the Missouri College Union. During the school year of 1921f22, he coached the Fairfield, Illinois, high school teams, losing only one football game, while his basketball team was eliminated in the district tournament by the Olney, Illinois team which won the championship, the score was 18f17. His teams were generally Credited as being the best Fairfield High School had ever produced. ' From IQ23'26, Collard was head coach of Central Wesleyan College, at Warren' ton, Missouri. College bulletins regard his team as among the best Central Wesleyan has yet sent into the field. The year, 1926f27, he spent in the automobile business in Carmi, Illinois. Coach Collard has spent two seasons at the University 'of Illinois Coaching School studying football under Robert Zuppke of Illinois, and Gil Dobie of Cornell, basketball under Craig Ruby and track under Harry Gill, both of Illinois. Quite a neat little record we think. C1 l E fl el ll fa I P be ! gi l g Ii li ---ala 1 tv 11 X 4 I I . Tin? Ml I li Q all il, M 1:1 1 ll wr. .urn rr zzz' 1.11, .JA':4',1-1 g, '..i'.y' fi ries ff., 4 'isrL.'ma'wa..'m.'avs.'ur'wf.1JilLEL'!!1!.- X928

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Q. F Ofhg ,113 H L, A Ii, flsl I! ig Tlte Lions N I. N. . lx I5 3 4 . l 1: .Football Schedule ln, TEAM PLAYED WHERE WESLEYAN OPPONENTS Q 'Q la Northeast Oklahoma Junior College Carthage 8 6 M Kemper Military School Booneville o 39 lei Central College Carthage o 21 Drury College Cklomecomingl Carthage o 6 Arkansas U. Freshmen Fayetteville 6 24 l Bacone Indians Carthage o o St. Louis U. Freshmen St. Louis o 44 I4 140 1 f l 5 Basketball Selteolale l if TEAM PLAYED WHERE WESLEYAN OPPONENTS . Carthage American Legion Carthage 41 21 Draughon's Business College Carthage 36 25' Arkansas Freshmen Carthage 46 31 , Ft. Scott Junior College Ft. Scott 38 36 Southwest Baptist College Carthage 29 41 Drury College Springfield I7 31 Drury College Carthage IQ 40 Arkansas Freshmen Fayetteville 35 20 A Bacone Indians Muskogee 25 34 gi K. S. T. C. Reserves Carthage 23 37 ll Southwest Baptist College Bolivar 20 38 Jefferson City Junior College Carthage 41 36 lf K. S. T. C. Reserves Pittsburg 28 33 :, Draughon's Business College Springfield 36 22 Bacone Indians Carthage L8 2 480 472 rr ll lf. 'YW' I '