Stockton College - El Recuerdo Yearbook (Stockton, CA)

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in The annual season opener, 63-35, To bear ouT pre-campaign predicTions. They conTinued The pre-conTerence play by drubbing a sTurdy Auburn Town Team. Win number Three was acquired aT The expense oT a barnsTorming l-lasTings College Tive Trom Nebraska. 47-36. The IQ37-38 PaciTic VarsiTy sTopped and looked around aT This poinT, Tor They were becoming world beaTers. BuT They looked The wrong way Too long, iT seems, Tor a big, black ThunderbolT came ouT oT The EasT and bowled over C. O. P.'s hereToTore crack CaT crew. The Traveling Broadway Clowns, a consisTenT negro baskeTbaIl aggregaTion. applied a sweeT sober-up iob To The varsiTy when They slipped Them Their TirsT loss oT The year, 39-35. This apparenTly shocked The Bengal hardwooders To such an exTenT ThaT They knew noT whaT They did . Given a Tair chance To Tinish higher in The NorThern CaliTornia circuiT Than They had The previous season lPaciTic losT eighT successive games and wound up in lasT place in l937l, The C. O. P. varsiTy prompTly duplicaTed Their lasT ill perTormance in This league. FighTing Their hearTs ouT in all The games, and minus Their sTar guard, l-lal KniveTon, in Two games, The Tigers dropped all eighT conTesTs in The home and home N.C.l.B.C. schedule. SanTa Clara, San Jose, ST. Mary's, and U. S. F. each deTeaTed The clawless Tigers Twice. SanTa Clara opened The season in Tiger Town wiTh a 35-24 vicTory over The Ben- gals led by Mick Parsons, corking CaT veTeran, who made eighT poinTs, and Paul Rippon, Tlashy San Francisco J. C. TransTer To The PaciTic varsiTy, who hooped seven digiTs. 5.13 ii l. TF ,,, , l - s 'e i.7,,...- . . - silk l T l l . l-1' ,'.. - H , 'iff E . I '.' - lQf'f ,f'!' M. Parsons 'gi l-l TT i o man McWilliams M W lliams and Rippon mix in mad Aggie melee PaT Dunlap smears an Ag. aTTempT ,i ,il T- fe y -Ziyi 7 I ' -, .1 'f' 4, . -

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B I HAL KNIVETON Co-CapTain 4 MICK PARSONS Co-CapTain A ' ,-if 'A W ,,,f1f53'fL-I A ,fz 'j: , A M i RALPH FRANCIS VARSITY BASKETBALL Flooring one oT his besT l3aslceTbal quinTeTs in seasons, The besT Ralph Francis, PaciTic: varsiTy coach, could qeT was a deTiciT on The I937-38 season play, winding up wi+h a sTandinq oT 9 won and II losT. From The very sTarT oT The campaign, The Tiger lads looked as Though They would conquer anyThing in casaba duds. They had everyjrhing,-heighT, abiliTy. and speed,-Tor The True virTues oT baslceTball. They ran roughshod over a horde of alumni Top row-Hench, McWilliams, Adamlna, Avery. Dahl, Hoffman, Francis BoTTom row-Parsons, KniveTon. Dunlap, Koehler, Rippon Qwlhc I3 lpn s. . i , A i,.,?,,mf4 :Wi sg . I Y , - r . . , 3 J! I, r A A so L L o o so A

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