Pittsburg State University - Kanza Yearbook (Pittsburg, KS)

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declared ineligible and Don Rutherford and Walter “Pete” Atkinson, a pair of lettered forwards, were reinstated. H New faces appeared in the Pitt line-up for the Springfield contest here, but there was noth- ing new about the outcome. The Rears continued to keep the Indian sign on the locals as they walked off with a 28 to 23 triumph. | South- western followed up the Springfield defeat to give the Gorillas a 35 to 33 defeat on the Pittsburg planks, but the local hoop-hitters earned a moral victory. They chalked up a 21 to 14 halftime lead, rode the Builders hard all the way, held the high-geared Lloyd Tucker to one goal from the field, and only in the last fewr minutes did they relin- quish the lead to Southwestern. IjNext the Gorillas went West and were handed defeats by McPherson college and Fort Hays State in a pair of free scoring games that saw the two teams pour 198 points through the hopper. I[j The “hucklety-buck” Wichita Shockers split a two-game series with the Gorillas here as the fans got plenty of thrills during the course of the battles. The next week Pittsburg went Wichita and took another beating at the hands of the Shockers as they made it two out of three for the season. TfThis left the local forces with a pair of two night stands to finish up the season. A double-header at Emporia with the Yellowjackets and two games here with Fort Hays State. The Hornets surprised almost everyone as they took both games from the Gorillas. Tf In the final set Pittsburg and Hays split, with the Tigers taking the final game, it was the first time they had won a game here since ’way back in the twenties.

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Gorillas. Namely, two games in two nights with Southwestern on the Winfield court, and opening league contests besides. The classy Builders, finalists in the Oklahoma City open tournament during the holidays, took both tiffs, the last very decisively as spearhead Lloyd Tucker racked up 29 points. If Coming home Lo engage the Emporia Teachers, Pittsburg downed the Hornets by a single point in one of the wildest cage attractions in a long time and without doubt the wildest of the season, it was a crazy one-hander from away over in the corner tossed in by Fred Crouch with only seconds to go that gave the Gorillas their margin of victory. If So ended the first semester and so ended the Gorillas starting combination. Crouch and Mahan were Russe! Neas LeRoy TJhlenhop Walter Atkinson Arthur Alexander Don Rutherford Forward Guard Forward Center Center

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Track and Field The spring of 1937 saw the Pittsburg Teachers track and field con- tingent chalk up its tenth consecutive Central Conference title, win plenty of honors at the big relay meets, both indoor and outdoor, and produced the best broadjumper in the nation—Kermit King. IjThe Gorilla thin-clads opened the season at the Middlewest intercollegiate track and field meet at Naperville and were nosed out by the host school North Central college by a single point. Had it not been that Ralph Brown was disqualified in the 440 yard dash the Gorillas would have won with plenty to spare. He ran to a new field house record in the quarter mile, but it was all in vain on account of step- ping out of his lane on the first turn. H After working out for a week on the Naperville boards the Weedemen journeyed over to Indianapolis for the fast Butler U. relays. They took first place in the college divi- sion and Kermit King leaped to victory in the broadjump. The Go- rilla runners took first in both the mile and two-mile relays. llNext on Pittsburg’s slate came the dual relay meet with Emporia Teachers on Brandenburg field and the locals won by 15 points. The track events consisted of seven relay races and the six field contests were also fig- ured on a team basis. If Each team won three field contests, but Pitts-