St Marys College - Dial Yearbook (St Marys, KS)

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.Athletics at St. MZar ’s niLETICS play a large part in the school life of any college and they come in for their share at St. Mary’s under the Jesuit system of developing a sound mind in a healthy body. U nder this system, athletics are relegated to their proper place. Sports are indulged in not so much for their own sake but with the end in view of developing healthy students. Xo one comes to St. Mary’s for athletics alone. If he does, he soon finds an atmosphere that induces a change of mind. Under the able tutelage of our two coaches. Stephen G. O’Rourke and Joseph I . McGinley. the various varsity teams have made an enviable showing. Football had its disasters, if the records alone are viewed, but they do not tell the whole story. What the students want is to have a team that fights in spite of the odds, and we certainly had such a team during the past year. Due to injuries, the coaches were forced to develop untried material, but the new men always carried on in true St. Mary’s fashion. Basketball started with bright prospects and then a star of three seasons was declared ineligible. And so it went. As for baseball, although old letter-men were scarce, new men rapidly rounded into shape and assured another conference championship. Track had rather tough sledding due to the loss of all last year’s letter-men but it seems a good team was built up for next year. MR. STF.IMIEN G. O’ROURKE Coacli But varsity athletics are only a small cog at St. Mary’s. Due to one of the best systems of leagues in the nation, practically every student engages in one or another sport. Leagues are arranged from the varsity squad down to the lowest league in the Small Yard. These enable everyone to engage in competition with those of equal ability. The opinion is current among the students that the St. Mary’s system of athletics is the best in existence. A new departure was the organization in the Small Yard of a boxing club under the direction of Mr. Fitzgerald. S.J.. and the tutorship of Xick Brungardt. After acquiring a degree of expertness in the “manly art.’’ Xick’s proteges arranged several bouts which were received with applause by an appreciative audience between the halves of some , of the basketball games. MR. JOSEPH P. MoGIXLEY ® Assistant (V.ich One Hundred Twenty-seven