Pittsburg State University - Kanza Yearbook (Pittsburg, KS)

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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.

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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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Pitt Court The 1937-38 chapter of Pittsburg Teachers’ basketball dynasty wound up in the cellar. And any time Coach John F. Lance’s hoop- hitters hit the bottom in the standings that is news with a great big “N.” Talequah, Weatherford, and Ada of the Oklahoma teachers conference afforded the Gorillas little competition in their warm-ups, but in the fourth contest of the year Tom Scott, one of Lance’s star pupils back in the “good ole days,” brought his Concordia College Cobbers to town and before the evening was over John Q. Fan et al were truly agreed that Mr. Scott was entitled to his A. B. degree in basketball science. His was a clever team of ball handlers and accu- rate shooters that had the Lancemen baffled from the outset. IjNext on the local slate came these three Missouri rivals—Maryville, Kirks- ville, and Springfield—all to be met on Missouri soil. Maryville was first and they rallied to take the Gorillas, 36 to 28, after Pitt had held a commanding 15 to 8 margin at the intermission. Kirksville bowed to the locals, 40 to 29, but those always-tough Springfield Bears downed the Crimson and Gold clad basket-shooters, 25-23. Back on the home rectangle those clever Cats from Maryville again polished off the local boys. This time it was 27 to 20 and the game set the stage for the Centeral conference debut for Pittsburg. A seasoned team would have trembled to face the task confronting the James Adams Guard Harold Meadows Center Max Maletx Forward Bill Ravenscroft Forward Bill Forbes Guard