St Xavier College - Xaverian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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, EISRITTLE v BASKETBALL It cannot be said that St. Xavier tasted of only a mild success during the 1923-24 season, for this would be untrue. The high average of l750 for the entire season speaks something of the amount of that success And the reason for it can easily be shown to have been team-work, first and last. When the season opened Coach Meyer had a pretty formidable looking squad in hand, the members of which were the following: Richard Weiskittei, Marc Vail, Herb Davis, Walter Bartlett, Richard Marnell, all of last yearls team, and Earl Sullivan, Ed Burke, Tom Mussio, John Bien, Jake Weiner and George Reynolds, these latter six being new men. When Herb Davis, regular forward, was taken down sick, Meyer had a capable man in Jake Weiner to take the starls place. Furthermore it was not long until Earl Sullivan showed an adeptness which earned for him a place in most games. Then there was Eddie Burke and Tom Mussio, who performed nicely in several city contests. In fact, the highly satisfactory manner in which the substitutes filled the vacancies left by the older and more experienced men was indeed phenom- enal and worthy of mention. Miami, the first Conference team to play the Blue Boys, proved easy; the score, 23-11. In a nasty struggle with Ohio U. on the Fenwick Hoot, which the Xaverlans utilized as their home court, another win, 32-31, was recorded. But this close Pagr 0n: Hundrm' Sixty-thret

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ATHLETIC SCHEDULES 1924 FOOTBALL Oct. 4-Transy1vania at Corcoran Field. Oct. 18 -Wittenberg at Springfield. Oct. 25 Marysville at Corcoran Field. Nov. 1 St. Louis at St. Louis. Nov. 8 Kenyon at Corcoran Field. Nov. 22 Otterbein at Corcoran Field. Thanksgiving Day Haskell Indians at Corcoran Field. Wittenberg, Kenyon and Otterbein are Conference games. 1925 BASKETBALL Jan. 3w Miami here hentativrg Jan. 17 AMML Union, here hentativel Jan. 23 - Ohio Northern, at Ada. Ian. 24- - Heidelberg, at Tian. Jan. 30 - Heidelberg, here. Feb. 20 - Muskingum, at New Concord. Feb. 21 Capitol University at Columbus. mapitol is non-Conference schoolj Page One Hundred Sixty-two

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game was later evened up by the Athens aggregation in a rather one-sided con- test7 26-15. This game cost St. Xavier the Conference title, since it was her only Ct'mference loss. The Wittenberg setto proved another tight aifair, but resulted in a 38-37 victory for St. Xavier. A jaunt to Gambier brought satisfactory results when Kenyon succumbed to the TiAvon Fivef, 32-27. Closely followed the 32-29 score over Muskingum. Upsetting the dope entirely, St. Xavier gave the Akron U. five the trimming of their sweet lives, scoring 38 points to Akrorfs 29. A whirlwind finish of Conference Opponents marked the final against Otter- bein; the 44-28 score showing to what a pitch the Sycamore Street lads had risen towards the last of the basketbali season. By this game the Biue team also revenged the 7-6 victory registered by Otterbein in the football season. The total points accumulated by St. Xavier against her Conference foes amounted to 274, while 218 were garnered OH her. Among her non-conference opponents Xavier split a double bill with the Fenwick five, as also with the Central Y. M. C. A. Wildcats. She took two games with Ease from her old friendly enemies, the Covington Y. The surprise of the season, however, was a defeat at the hands of the otherwise unknown Capitol Club of Columbus, Ohio, 20-22. The victory over the Circle A. C. at Circleville, to the tune of 31-13, happened to be the first game of the season for the Meyer charges, and served as a practice game. The total non-Conference swag amounted to 216, with 176 going to the foemen. The individual records of the team members show that Richard Weiskittel led his mates by a considerable margin in the matter of scoring points. Page On: Hundred Sixtyefour