Tarkio College - Tarkiana Yearbook (Tarkio, MO)

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HL. other colleges. Only within the past three years--yet now in every case-have the old records been superseded. ln football 1892 dates the pioneer eleveng H397-l900, the golden age g and l904, perhaps, the strongest team. The baseball nine of 1895 bears the banner reputation. It has been a stormy career. The record runs like that of a South American ,. '15 ,V -,., .fy .,- fa-.-is . ' +- y z e , 4-2.-' , -. JJ. ...,umisQ!S1 :.-... .,........ rSE-':i,r:42's.':EEL .ff da, I l u ui .2 lu I ll 1 4 ll . f I Ji ' ', I , V s . A I N republic. The division for field day regularly created sedition. Some of the revolutions have drawn blood. Presidents abdicated. lnterregnurn and disorganization followed. It has been a debt-ridden career. Membership fees and local canvasses gave football a fair start each fall. Bad weather, slender crowds, and the expense of the sport made it ever a losing game. Track athletics barely paid out. Baseball starved on an empty exchequer. Debts piled. Presidents retired, married, moved away. A successor assumed the burden. Every half dozen years by a supreme effort the slate would be wiped clean. So ran the cycle. Yet it has been a successful career. The storm and stress have made for fair play and clean sport. Deficit has led to the present financial toundation. The old Association has made Tarlgio athletics. as is as The organization sleeps. Her glories are a memory. Under the new management the very status of the old Association is a query. The Board of Control dispenses the moneys. In lack of allies the same body and the several captains and managers have been forced to play the oligarchy. The writer believes the old society under a new constitution a need of the hour. It has been suggested that membership be limited to those that do things for athletics. Term dues, larger or smaller, would provide spending money. No provision has been made otherwise for the nomination of captains and managers and the election of student members to the Board of Control. The Association would prepare athletic programs and afford the most effective committees for detailed management. It would be the body of initiative and might originate policies and suggest budgets. It would be welcomed by the Board as a party of counsel and an instrument of execution. Without its co-operation the present management will be greatly hampered. May this record of the old Athletic Club-as it was first called-prove not its obituary but a fruitful appreciation. J. VALLANCE BROWN. 31 +204 531916 ., - ':- J.i'15 - '- L-A -I -1. 1 -L-B-1-:f' ft Q tgttfff 0 I Q I I I l 1 V T.. - ,89-

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A ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION. OFFICERS! PROF. CHAS. B. MCMULLEN ...... ...President MR. ROBT. DUNCAN ...... .. .Secretary WILL lVl. LYNN ...... ....... T reasurer. PAUL J. SMITH ....... .......... C urator. MR. W. A. STEWART ..... ......... P hysical Director. MR. MORRISON B. GIFFEN ............ Assistant Physical Director. BOARD OF CONTROL. PROF. J. VALLANCE BROWN, President, GEO. I-I. LAMSON, RALPH TIDRICK, JOHN F. MCKIE. An institution of twice seven year's standing in Tarkio College-with never yet a chronicler! Clio grant us a pen of iron and the golden flow wherewith to decorate this scroll. as rf as The history of the college athletics might be roughly divided-like ancient Gaul-- into three parts. There was a traditional age, the era of the Athletic Association, and the day of the Board of Control. I The traditional age commences back of the printed record. The College was founded in l883. In April, 1892, the Athletic Association was organized. About midway between these dates-say 1885-I888-baseball flourished. Few intercollegiate games were scheduled and eligibility regulations were unknown but the team had quite a local reputation and doubtless played good ball. Formidable rivals-the names would hint as much-were the Cow-boysf' the HDutch7' nine, and Amity. Other sports lan- guished, perhaps by the studiousness of the pupils, probably by a dearth of boys, and certainly from lack of organization and funds. Cnce Amity was whipped in an im- promptu field dayg and the College had an Achilles who used to retrieve baseball defeats by outrunning the neighboring cracks So ends the age of tradition. On a thirteenth in the fickle month of the year the College burned, began the era of the Athletic Association. At the suggestion of President Thompson the writer had the privilege of inaugurating four1der's day. Organization was effected in the Presbyterian church, at that time one of the temporary quarters of the College. The pioneer president had the further happiness of pouring oil on various troubled sessions, of going on the bond four field care of the organization when it was in debt, and once of raising a subscription of three or hundred dollars from the merchants of the town for fixing up the then new athletic only to see the amount go by default because of an Association Uscrapf' The first of the new organization was to institute field day and the earliest of these contests was held the following commencement season. For four or live years the interest in track athletics overshadowed both baseball and football. Several creditable meets were early won from T as h a I sn sf ,- f1Q fd .- gl. n :cn . . 1 L., td ' ll? 'fr ' f:V ' r E'i'1 :l:1'. . , , ' . We 'X 0 , . 4, , . ' af. f . 1 3 1 J . E I P H l , . . ., .-2, , av 2 no aff?-.r ,Z iyw: x 5, yy-.hav 4 mr if 4 lg gf .f

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