Pittsburg State University - Kanza Yearbook (Pittsburg, KS)

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Sportshots At top: They're off at the annual Central Conference meet held in Emporia last year, A section of I he crowd at the game with Emporia on Thanksgiving Day show disapproval of the way the score is going (or maybe it's the weather) In center, Pitt renews the clash with Marysville, the team that stopped her record string of victories not so many years ago. Bottom: This picture at the Central Conference meet doesn’t tell the whole story; Pitt ran away with the pennanl. Mahan has the ball in a tense moment uf the Marysville game.

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Steve Walker End Edward Mackender Center Mas Pennington Halfback Glen Way man Halfback Arthur n3enz.ee Quarterback Harry McDonald Quarterback Leonard Swearingen Guard If In a razzle-dazzle affair that had the fans yelling for more, Empo- ria’s speedy Hornets clowned Pittsburg, 33 to 14, in their annual Turkey Day clash here. If the score-keeper had forgotten about the first quarter it would have been fine and dandy. The Yellowjackets chalked up 20 points in the opening chukker, hut for the rest of the way it was 14-13, Pittsburg. Lindell Petty was the fair-haired hoy of Lhe day. He was just like the ginger-bread man, for he ran and he ran and he ran. Twenty points were credited to this worthy and once he hustled a kick-off back 95 yards for a touchdown. The Gorillas were using the air for their two touchdowns. Gibson passed to McDonald for the first counter and McDonald pitched Pennington a high hard one for the other six-pointer. T| Yea verily, it was a gloomy season, but this hustling bunch of freshmen and sophomores look like they should go places next fall under the guiding hand of Charley Morgan, who was elected to the head football post when Edward “Blue” Howell took an assistant job at Louisiana State University. Morgan’s first lieutenant will he Prentice Gudgen, former Gorilla quarterback and successful mentor at the Pittsburg high school for five yr rs. Gorilla Gridiron

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The Mentors Dr. G. W. Weede is the director of ath- letics and head track coach. Besides this Weede is a valuable aid in organizing the football team and basketball squad. Weede has completely dominated the Central Conference track picture by win- ning every track title, ten in all, since the conference was formed. € Edward “Blue Howell, the former Nebraska Cornhusker lugging star, had a bad year, winning only two games this season. Blue has taken an assistant job at Louisiana State Univer- sity. In 1936 Blue led the Gorillas to a tie for first place, the first time since 1924 that they had been on the top rung in the Central Conference. If John F. Lance, rated as one of the smartest cage mentors in the country, also had a dismal year, winding up in the cellar of the con- ference. Lance was formerly a star foot- ball, basketball, and track man here, and returned after coaching four years at Weatherford Teachers College, to make a name for himself in the cage world. ] Charley Morgan, who takes the place of Blue Howell in football coaching next year, has proved his worth in four branches of athletics. Since coming here in 1931 he has been assistant football coach, head cage mentor for one year (when he tied for first in the conference) assistant track coach, tennis coach. Pren- tice Gudgeon, successful high school coach, will be Morgan’s first lieutenant.