Stockton College - El Recuerdo Yearbook (Stockton, CA)

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Intro Murol Sports ConTinuing To dominaTe The PaciTic inTerclass sporTs scene, The men oT '38 march- ed To anoTher subsTanTial vicTory in Their Tinal year. The Seniors lecl The Tield by a wide margin, by virTue oT Their Triumphs in pingpong, volleyball, Track, baseball and oTher sporTs, including horseshoes, boxing and archery. Runners-up in The inTramural grab-TesT were The Sophomores, who copped in Ten- nis, golf and boxing. The Class oT '40 was The only class To seriously challenge The su- premacy oT The Seniors, coming wiTh a rush on Class Day To give The TourTh-year men a lasT-minuTe scare. The Juniors showed up Third, wiTh a baskeTball championship, archery, swimming and boxing honors giving Them mosT oT Their poinTs. Down in The ruck were The Freshmen, who did well in golT, swimming and baseball. l-lighlighT oT The inTramural schedule was The inTerclass Track meeT, where compeTi- Tion reached high ebb and several new school marks were seT. 0Ther hoTly-conTesTed sporTs were baskeTball ancl baseball, The laTTer seeing Jerry KeiThley's Senior sluggers breezing in behind The sTerling leTTy's TasT-ball chucking. Annual Class Day, lvlay 20, broughT The inTramural program To a bang-up close wiTh boxing TeaTuring The olay's acTiviTy, swimming and All-College Tennis also vying Tor specTaTors' aTTenTion. Under The guidance oT Chris Kieldsen, and The assisTance oT Coach Jackson, The l937-38 inTerclass program saw The greaTesT acTive TurnouT in The hisTory oT C. O. P. Junior Basketball Champs: McDonnell, Finney, Nelson, l-loTlman, MaTTh Senior Volleyball Champs P P g Pong Banchio, Tennis WhiTe Wilson Parsons BarTleTT Challis KniveTon

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l 2 Jacobsen, Joenes, l-lunT, MorTon, Looney Faosi-1 SWIMMING The sTory OT Frosh swimming Tor l938 is The sTory OT one Fred Van Dyce. This l3O-Ib. beauTy was noT The whole Frosh Team, buT almosT. BrieTly, This is whaT Van Dyke did during The season: ln every one OT The nine Frosh meeTs, he won boTh The lO0-yard back-sTroke and The 220-yard Tree-sTyle, generally Tinishing abouT a Tank-lengTh or Two ahead oT his nearesT opponenT. l-le seT pool records in Three evenTs, namely, l:06.5 in The l00- yard back-sTrokeg I:43.3 in The l50-yard back-sTroke and 2:22.4 in The 220 Tree-sTyle. In addiTion To These regular perTormances, The STockTon wizard oT The waTers appeared in record-shaTTering exhibiTions up and down The CoasT, esTablishing him- sell: as an ouTsTanding WesT CoasT prospecT Tor The l940 Olympic swimming Team. l-lis perTormances were unparalleled in The WesT This year. DespiTe The classy churning oT Van Dyke and Team-maTes Wayne Bird and Les Jacobsen. The Frosh were able To win only Three oT Their nine meeTs. STockTon l-li was deTeaTed, 29-283 Lodi l-li Tell by The same slim margin, and Oakdale was drubbed 43-I4. DeTeaTs came because oT lack oT poinT-geTTers To sup-porT The sTars. STockTon l-li sunk The Freshman naTaTors Twice, 35-22 and 39-I8, while Lodi did iT Thrice, 34-23, 3 I-26, and 30-27. The oTher seTback,came Trom Berkeley, 42-23. Aside Trom pace-seTTer Van Dyke's eTTorTs, sTandouT perTormances were Bird's mark oT :26.3 in The 50-yard Tree-sTyle and breasT-sTroker Jacobsen's Time oT l:l7.7 in The I00-yard version oT his specialTy. These Two men were consisTenT winners in al- mosT every meeT. OTher members oT The squad were Jack FiTTing, Tom Lee, Dan Looney, Murray l-ITTTTT, Joenes, and Charles MorTon. Nurnerals wenT To Van Dyke, Bird, Jacobsen, and Looney. ll8ll

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