Parsons College - Peira Yearbook (Fairfield, IA)

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LETTER CLUB WINNERS OF THE LETTER FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN ATHLETICS President ............... Vice President .....,. Secretary-Treasurer ......... Brawner DuBois Wayne Hill joe Norvell Victor Jennings Douglas Lovett Lyle Tincher Ross Westerlund Claude Yount Rhynas Miner OFFICERS Richard Wilcox Jack Blough Bob Heston Sydney Spencer O'Dell Tufyt Langston Parks Bernard Black Frank Mertz .......Victor Jennings ...Douglas Lovett Carroll Steneker Forrest Marquis Bob Hynd Carroll Steneker Dick Finney Delbert Buttery Harold Ewing Bob Long Allen Pence Phil Anderson

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the contest in the bag. Black and Miner were outstanding in the Parsons lineup. Black was among the league's first ten high scorers. COLUMBIA 25, PARSONS 15 This game was Columbia's turn for revenge. However, the victory was well earned as the Parsons defense held their opponents without a field goal from the opening of the game until fourteen minutes had clicked OH the timer's watch. At half-time Columbia held an 11 to 10 advantage in the scoring, Keegan of the Duhawks being largely responsible for his team's counters. Black tallied five points for Parsons and Miner was guilty of four personal fouls. IOXVA WESLEYAN 28, PARSONS 22 In the season's finale at Mt. Pleasant, Parsons last a close tilt to Wesleyan by the score of 28 to 22. The Tigers gained an early lead and struggled desperately to keep it. Late in the second half the Wildcats pulled to within three points of Wesleyan but couldn't quite come out ahead. Bob Hynd and Bernard Black both scored fiveypoints for Parsons. Reese of Wesleyan was high scorer with nine. The game had all the usual characteristics of a Parsons-Wesleyan encounter. It was the last appearance of Captain Marquis and Bob Hynd in Wildcat cage togs, they being the only two seniors on the team. St. Ambrose took the Iowa Conference title with ten victories and no defeats. Columbia College was second while Parsons was down near the bottom when the Stanley-Dean system had shaken the rating up a bit. Wesleyan, defending champion, finished in tenth place and Dubuque was alone in the cellar. Vic Pahl of St. Ambrose won high scoring honors and Bernard Black of Parsons also did very well, placing twelfth. With all but two of the team back next year, along with Coach Franks dependable tutoring the Wildcats should rank well up in the conference if the team shows the spirit and fight of this quintet. TENNIS SPRING or 1954 Parsons net team was composed of two lettermen, Harold Ewing, captain, and Wayne Helsel, and two new men, Robert Long and Allen Pence. They were ranked with Ewing playing number one position and then I-Ielsel, Long and Pence. Phil Anderson, another letterman, was ineligible for Iowa Conference play during most of the season but played all of the non-conference matches. Max Barnes, a transfer student also played the non-conference meets and Boyd Creath took part in one of the conference matches and was a strong contestant for a regular team position. During the season the netsters downed Burlington junior College twice, lost one each to Simpson and Penn and then tied these two colleges in return matches. Parsons also entered players in the women's division with Burlington and these were Christine McDonald, Lois Gorham and Ariel Krieger. Varsity letters were awarded to five men, Ewing, Helsel, Anderson, Long, and Pence. All of these except Helsel are enrolled in the 1934-55 term. Glen Parsons, captain of the 1955 team was coach and manager of the squad.

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