Pittsburg State University - Kanza Yearbook (Pittsburg, KS)

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The 1947 season for the Gorilla football team wound up with a final record of two wins, six losses, and one tie, and a hold on fifth place in the Central Intercollegiate Conference. As far as wins go, this season could not be termed a success for the Gorillas, but taking some other things into consideration, the boys in Crimson and Gold didn't do badly at all. First there is the matter of team spirit, which the Gorillas never lost from the opening kickoff in the Kirksville game to the final gun in the Emporia fray. Even though they were outclassed many times on the field they never gave up, and the remarkable thing is that they could keep that spirit even though they were losing ball games. Another highlight in an otherwise drab sea- son was the outstanding defensive play of the Pittsburg ball club. With the Gorilla eleven trickily shifting their defensive formations with By JIM BROWN the opponent's different offensive threats, they usually held the scoring fairly low. If the schools in the CIC were rated defensively the Gorillas would be very near the top. Fine coaching was another bright spot in the Gorilla grid picture. Charley Morgan substituted wisely, used good strategy, and took advantage of all opportunities in engineering the ball club. Injuries plagued his team all season and Lady Luck turned her back, but Charley kept his team hustling. Prentice Gudgeon was there to help at all times, and the addition of fiery little Lee Bourn- onville and wise Carl Killion proved to be a good move. On the night of Sept. 19, the Pittsburg Gorillas opened the football season at home against the Kirksville Bulldogs and dropped the ballgame 12 to 6. Kirksvi1le's Serwatka and Asperger scored behind the huge Bulldog line, and Don German Page 16

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By JACK SIMION Dance Halls There will be rooms for social purposes. These will include dance halls, lounges, smoking rooms, and game rooms. Sections used for cultural and artistic purposes, which will include art exhibit rooms, record rooms Cphonograph records that isj and a broadcasting studio. Rooms used for inspirational purposes will include a chapel and meditation room. There will also be rooms for food service. Of necessity these will be comprised of dining room, cafeteria, kitchenette, soda bar, and banquet room. Meeting places and offices will consist of meet- ing places and offices. And there will be rooms for maintenance and operation of the building which will include ele- vators, storage rooms, and employee's shower rooms. The SUB committee also urges me to add that there will be rest rooms for both men and women. As Soon As.. . And so we see that soon as there is sufficient funds fsome fund eh kidj, a place to build, lower costs of building materials, and our grandsons attending the College, there will be a SUB. But don't get worried about it. There will be a tem- porary student lounge in several of the buildings on the campus very soon, the SUB committee keeps telling me as they point a .45 at my head. Dedication From a remote portion of the office in which I am working a faint cry arose as to whom shall the SUB be dedicated fthe reason the cry was faint was because the interrogator had just faintedj. Now I have many ideas as to what person or what lofty sentiment our non-existent building will be dedicated, and I shall expound this dearth of ideas in the following paragraphs. The logical group that the building should be dedicated to is of course the student body. The teeming millions who have passed through the Page 15 hallowed halls of Pittsburg State college Qour halls are hallowed because when walking through them our footsteps give forth a hallow soundj have done their bit for our venerable SUB, and perhaps it would be fitting to give those who have gone before some recompense in the form of dedication. But we're naming it Student Union Building aren't we? That should be enough. It gets the student's names before the public. To the Kanza? We thought about making a recommendation of our own to the special committee looking into the possibilities of the SUB. We thought it would be only fitting and proper to dedicate the student union to this year's Kanza staff. We changed our minds later. We knew that people would only think we were conceited. To Faculty? And another thing that occured to me is that we might dedicate it to the faculty, but again I philosophized that the faculty get blamed for enough--no use dragging them in any further. Perhaps we might dedicate our SUB to Good Fellowship. There are many possibilities I find after searching through lexicons and Roget's The- saurus. We might consecrate our dignified, stately, solemn, splendid, majestic sublime, noble edifice of the future to faith, hope and chairty, or better yet to liberty, equality, and fraternity. To Money . . . But that's enough of these inanities. The best idea I've had today is that we should dedicate our SUB to money. That's what put up the build- ing or will put it up. So it's good-bye now folks, as we leave the infant conception of the SUB struggling for exist- ence in the future. Will the building finally be erected, will it be worth going to Pitt State College another twenty years for, will it have a roof on it? Who knows? Read the Kanza of 1958 and find out.

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countered on a line plunge for the home eleven. Pittsburg's offensive threats were held to a mini- mum by the Kirksville line, but their defensive work was somewhat better. Big Jim Gumfory was easily the most outstanding Pittsburg lineman. The Locals entertained the College of Em- poria Presbyterians on the night of Sept. 26, and after a slow first half defeated them 21 to 0. C. of E., operating from a short punt formation, looked smooth in the first half and the Gorillas couldn't get moving. The half ended in a score- less deadlock. Don German, playing his fourth year for Pitts- burg, opened the scoring for the locals as he smashed over from the ten. A combination of good blocking and brilliant ball-carrying netted the next touchdown as Dale Morrow scampered over from the 22-yard line. Speedy Glen Tolle, who had his best season since he starred for the Pitt team in 1942, slipped around end and went in from the ten-yard line. Passes from Hogue to Dutch Nogel netted many gains and the Pittsburg line, led by Don and Dud Stegge played excellent football. Jack Grim played good ball both defensively and offensively. Page 17 Little Leon Foster, playing his second year for the Crimson and Gold, kicked three extra points, one from the 25 after a penalty, and did a nice job in the quarterback spot. The powerful Springfield Bears came to town on Oct. 3, and humbled the Gorillas 21 to 0. The Pittsburg offensive was stopped cold by the Bears and the locals had a difficult time in holding the Springfield aggregation to three touchdowns. Playing before a homecoming crowd of 7,000 fans on Saturday, Oct. 11, the Pittsburg gridsters and the Hays Tigers battled to a scoreless tie. The Tigers came to town highly favored, but the Goril- las out-played them by far and did everything but win the ball game. Shifty Glen Tolle scored on a nice 20-yard run in the early part of the game, but the play was called back because of a Gorilla penalty, so the Morganmen had to be satis- fied with a moral victory. Big Tom Lester and Dutch Nogel were excellent in slowing down the Hays end runs and in snatching passes on the Pitt offensive. John Hottenstein played a good defensive ball game for the Gorillas as did Firman Mall and Joe Gray. J ack Wallace, who has more hustle than