Queens College - Silhouette Yearbook (Queens, NY)

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Over' she goes! Our soccer team in action during a practice session. MN, INDING a theme for a sports resume at Queens is at least difficult. It would be easy to write Off losses and say that was all-but that's not the way it goes. We win some, we lose others. But is that important? Success in sports at Queens has never been meag- ured by the number of games won. If it were, the report would be unfair to the participants and neg- lectful of the true situation. We cannot expect Win- ning teams as long as players must work against facts like long class hours with little time to praq- tice, the necessity of traveling to points of practice, often as much as an hour in each direction, inade- quate equipmentg and competition with schools which provide athletic scholarships. And so, winning is not the most important thing. It is rather the occasional win over athletic colleges, the spirit involved in a close contest, the comradery and communal mourning of another loss: in these things we find the real character of sports at QC. We've learned our lesson while in college, and it is a lesson worth remembering as we enter the big arena. Were never beaten until we quit-some thing that doesn't happen at Queens. Those long years ago when first we entered the college-some from local high schools and some from the services-we found basketball being rein- stituted after a brief respite caused by the war. It had an abortive schedule to be sure, and ended with a 9-2 record. This was the year some of us got to see Harry Evans in action on the court for the first time, and the year that saw a fine 60-50 win over our traditional rival, Hofstra. Baseball was inactive then, but an attempt to re- organize the soccer team was made. This proved unsuccessful, for men were scarce at the time. Two wins over Hofstra marked the basketball sea- son that year. This made three in a row over the Hempstead school-the best record we have ever chalked up. Games were played in the bandbox gym of the Jamaica Y , and Queens was a threat to anyone who walked onto the tiny floor. The year, 1946, marked the full return of sports to Queens. The war was won and male students and instructors were returning to their college purS11ifS, sports of course being one of them. Spring saw base- ball come back after a three year halt, and the tennis team re-forming. The college received some solid pub- licity because we had the best college iniield in the city. Efforts to resuscitate the soccer team were success- ful in the fall as Gene Pelles went all out on the job. Not many victories were recorded, but a founda- tion was laid for the coming seasons as many of the fellows got their first taste of the sport. Basketball moved to the Flushing Armory that sea- son as the team, under the direction of Mr. Pechar, played a rough schedule. Bruce Hurley and 101111 Needham made their cage debuts and handled most l to I P 3 jf? I .air f 1 I . ' L-F . fy a . ' 5 ., 4 1 ' ,uffisai Qi' ,519 11, ,ggi ggi ,155 .iid fri-T25 fist 1' 111:15 ht LJ., ml .gllli :rich .gi .1 G t . .ii :jr 'T'-FF 'Q1512-Q r at N'f N. wan iivklil .klxa .N- .,-' 5 'X-if--. ul Q33 A SU V' , r- W .Ju , 344 E fl SM 'X l . .Ha .iv ZX. Ng 'ii xx? Pb, al Lefl-Two Queens men warming up during spring training-H