Provincial Institute of Technology and Art - Record Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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TECH-ART RECORD Mkm7777fflfo%77Z9T7Vmn Soccer Football Soccer football was introduced to Tech early in the term when Mr. Fowler’s Slippery Solons engaged the Sloppy Senior Students in an exhibition of the grand old sport of shin kicking. The advent of v inter quickly put an end to the game, however, and it was put : nto the limbo of forgotten things, such as mathematical equations, chemical formulae and last year’s girl friend, until early spring, when a group of hardy and enthusias¬ tic youths began kicking the sphere around the lot. At time of writing almost daily practices are being held, much to the annoyance of the baseball fans who also hold dail • practices on the diamond that overlaps the soccer field. First year motors have promised to field a strong eleven, and the electrical gang claims that it numbers some chronic kickers in its ranks, so the organization of a fine inter-class league is in¬ dicated. At any rate the game is providing a large group o. students with a healthy pastime as an antidote to the daily routine of lectures and shop work. Rifle Shooting Rifle shooting at the Institute has enjoyed considerable popularity during the last few years and although during the last term organized competitions have decreased in number, there has been considerable interest shown in the sport, or science. ' Early in the season scores of students flocked down¬ stairs to the ranges, usually on a Wednesday evening, when the Argonauts provided an added magnet to the marksmen. Several students who had received rifle shooting training in cadet corps in the province, provided yeoman service to the novices by assisting Mr. A. C. Wagner, staff godfather to the sport, in getting things started and in giving instruction. A few turkey shoots between members of individual classes were staged with great success and at time of writing there is promise of some good competitions being organized before the year ends. Modern Sport Reaches Tech. The annual struggle for the Marble Shooting Championship of the Institute has been called off this term to make room for the most modern of sports—Yo-Yo. The strenuous ait of making a spool of wood run down one side of a piece of string and back up the other has reached astounding heights at the School and some of the feats performed by aspirants to the Yo-Yo title have been miraculous. The game was given a stait by Bill Keeling, who made his little doo-jigger run down a long string from the thrid floor to a level with the chemistry room windows. The Yo-Yo came back with such startling rapidity, due mainly to the fact that the electrical gang was working in the laboratory with the windows open, that Bill has laid claim to a new speed championship. Jack Bishop followed by upholding the honor of the elec¬ tricals by setting an endurance record of 3.997 Yo-Yo trips without a rest. The reason his Yo-Yo didn’t reach the 4,000 mark was that it got so dizzy it tried to climb the wrong side of the string and was hopelessly tangled. Niven and his aviators then took a hand in the business by doing some high altitude Yo-Yo-ing about 2000 feet up; the drafters have laid claim to success by measuring the stress, strain and mental agony undergone by a Yo-Yo during its reciprocal movements; and the tractor gang started to build the biggest Yo-Yo in captivity, but it got warped, due to the action of hot air when Tommy Lees started an argument in the vicinity. Nothing remains hut to stage a Yo-Yo battle between Tech and Normal to decide the all-round athletic championship of the building. Normal beat Tech at basketball, and the Green and Gold washed out the TrTi-color on the hockey rink, so there is ample excuse for a series of some sort to clean up the problem, and Yo-Yo ought to provide the subject for a really hectic series- Page T l venty-six

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Volleyball Inter-Class Basketball Dog fanciers will emphasize the statement that a thorough¬ bred animal is the only kind worth paying any attention to, but the average youngster will tell you with equal emphasis that his mongrel is the huskiest pup in the block and that nothing can lick it. Which probably accounts for the fact that the basketball team that represented the first year drafting, ma¬ chine shop, steam and tractor classes battled through one of the most hotly-contested house league series that Tech has ever witnessed and emerged triumphant over other squads that were thoroughbred in their make-up. The inter-class hoop league was the only house sport that functioned properly this term. It provided basketball fans at the school with some nice exhibitions of leather tossing before the Intermediate league commenced, and it also made it an easy task to pick players for the school team. After a regular schedule which contained games of un¬ usually high quality, the first year composites and the senior electrical aggregations entered a three-game final series for the house championship. The first encounter was won by the elec¬ tricians with a wide margin, the second went to the composites by a single point, and the last battle was decided after the two teams had fought through forty minutes of hectic basketball to finish with a 25-24 tally in favor of the composites. The Zibrick and Moore pennant, emblematic of the house title, was presented at the banquet by Dr. Carpenter, the re¬ cipient being J. R. Anderson, captain of the team. The players who made up the winning team were: J. R. Anderson, F. A. Love, J. Rees, G. Carr, W. Schoeppe, H. Buck and W. Paterson. In the days of old, when Mr. Young was the baby member of the staff and Mr. Fowler was living a blissful existence as an ordinary science teacher, the game of volleyball was a staid and venerable indoor sport which served the utilitarian purpose of checking the growth of waistlines among members of the teaching staff. Annual conflicts between staff and students (at which the staff invariably appeared as victors) first attracted students’ attention to the game, and after a time it became a popular pastime, not only with the old men on the staff, but with the young men of the student body. Last year the sport migrated from the gymnasium to a court between the main building and shops, and interest promptly increased. This year volleyball was placed before the students by the appearance on the court of “Squeedunk” and “Mildew,” which names, translated into English, appear to mean Electrical 1 A and 1 B. There followed a series of noisy and exciting games which served to give indigestion to the Normal students eating in the nearby Cafeteria. At the present time there is good promise of a house league being formed. Several classes are already in shape for league games, and several others will be ready as soon as their members become sufficiently efficient in the art of. argumenta¬ tion to hold their own in the vocal conflicts that invariably run parallel to the physical battles. Page Twenty-five

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