Queens College - Silhouette Yearbook (Queens, NY)

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SPORTS espite obstacles of size, youth, com- parative obscurity and academic inclina- tion, Queens College has managed, in its thirteen years and particularly in the last four years, to gain athletically, a position of power among the smaller colleges in the Metropolitan area. Handicapped at its inception by the midget size of its male student body, rarely hovering over the 1500 mark, by the fact that it takes years . . . decades to fashion really powerful intercollegiate squads, by the realization that good high school athletes will not tend ordinarily to gravitate towards a school which does not boast a long and rich ath- letic heritage, and by the general stressing of the academic aspects of college life and the underplaying of the physical education facets of a liberal arts education by the early school officials, Queens embarked nevertheless on a policy of varsity compe- tition and within a few years was not only able to hold its own among local competi- tors, but in many instances miraculously become a ranking power in Met circles. At the start, Queens opened its compe- tition in basketball and baseball against local high school competition. Even in those circles the first Knight athletes were not overwhelmingly successful, bowing in both sports to schools like Flushing and Jamaica High. For years, varsity competition was limited to those sports, while the great stress was placed on intra-mural athletics, a program which has reached vast and comprehensive proportions today, and