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 Only within the past three years--yet now in every case-have the old records been superseded.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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F OOTBALL. . The record of the Tarkio eleven for T905 is gratifying. Six games were 'played and only two of these were lost, one to Missouri State University and the other to William Jewell. However, Vifilliam Jewell, two weeks after the game with Tarkio defeated Missouri State Normal I8 to O and Tarkio in turn de- feated the same team on Thanksgiving 23 to 0. Thus by comparative score Tarkio could have beaten William Jewell in the later part of the season. At the beginning of practice six old players nnd plenty of green material appeared. Captain Ferrier soon had the men hard at work tack- ling, bucking and running signals. In three weeks time he had developed a comparatively good team which defeated the Nebraska State , Normal I3 to 0. Both teams were in poor physical condition. This accounts for the slow,i tedious game that was played, and especially for the small score, but it showed that Tarkio had the material for a winning team. The fol- lowing week Frank Capell, of Omaha, who was right end on the famous 'OI team of Iowa State and an old player on the Dodge Light Guards, also formerly coach of Tarkio in l903, came and work was begun in earnest. On October IZ the Varsity met William Jewell at Liberty. As there was such a short time intervening be- tween the Nebraska State Normal game and this one, Mr. Capell was not able to get the team in best form and as the day was very hot Tarkio was beaten I2 to 0. l-lowever, this seemed to be just the stimulus Tarkio needed and throughout the rest of the season the record of the team was pleasing in every respect. It held Missouri State University down to a score of I7 to 0 and once during the game the ball was within ten yards of the University goal line. Our football season was a successful one. The team did not equal the winning team of P. A. FERRIER 1904, which is considered the best in the his- , tory of the college, but it was a good one. The Captain Football Team men played a hard schedule and came out with flying colors. A great deal of the suc- cess was due to the hard, persistent work and playing of Captain Ferrier. Every fol- lower of the game knows how many discouragements he encountered, but those only made him play the harder. I-le has played on the team for the last four years and is perhaps the greatest fullback Tarkio ever produced. l-le hit the line hard and was always good for three or four yards. Mr. Ferrier also holds the broad jump record. The work of every individual on the team is creditable. The men played in harmony and with their might. We lose by graduation two of this year,s team and one who does not expect to return.