Salmon P Chase College - Chasonian Yearbook (Highland Heights, KY)

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ATHLETICS , We don' like to mention any names by comparison, but it's a fact that the Chase Crusaders had a better won-lost 500 QW' i 42.y ' basketball record in l95l 52 than either , CMS Q J of the large universities in southwestern Z Ohio. A if ,Q And the question may come to mind, J how did Chase, which has been a Col- ln? lege since before the turn of the cen- tury, ever get started in intercollegiate competition-late in 1949? The answer is simple. After class one day in the Fall of '49 John Pohlman la graduate nowl and Mr. Jen- ings were sitting around down in Room 8. Said John, What we ought to do is play in intercollegiate sports. Said Mr. Jenings, We can and will. The build up-finding players, scheduling games, find- ing a coach, scheduling a home floor, arranging for practice, buying equipment-was not so simple. The first game, in early December of '49, was a con- servative beginning to say the least: the Xavier Frosh beat the Crusaders 53-l8! This year in contrast the Xavier var- sity fought all the way down to the wire to finally beat Jim Beiersdorfer's Crusaders with reserve strength! By now the tough little Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky colleges have a solid respect for the Crusaders. One of the principles that has accompanied the Cru- saders in their rise in intercollegiate sports is best summar- ized by a CHASER editorial: A ioke which is passe even for television comedians is the old one about the well-paid college athlete. Many schools are drawn into the whirl- wind of commercialized sport by the lure of greater at- tendance and increased 'prestigef The small school, con- tent to have athletics in a secondary position, retains its honor at the expense of a small income. True sportsmanship and sincere competition are kept alive by these small schools. The student-participants in these games are, to be sure, good players but they are not the best players that 'money can buy'.

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