Tennessee Military Institute - Radiogram Yearbook (Sweetwater, TN)

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PANEL DISCUSSION AT VESPERS T. I. COLOR GUARD 3 I RECEIVING LINE AT FORMAL DANCE

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THE BAND THE BUGLERS LANGUAGE LAB IN USE

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Aflifzca The athletic program at T. M. I. has developed through carefully consid- ered steps to a present state that we consider to be the best suited to the needs of the modern boys preparatory school. This program, outlined below, is now functioning splendidly. All play is divided into three general heads as follows: First-the varsity teams playing schedules made up of other preparatory schools and large high schools in football, basketball, wrestling, track, baseball, tennis, swimming, and golf. Second-junior varsity and also small boy teams playing games against similar groups from other schools in all the major sports. Third-the intramural program consisting of games between the four com- panies in football, basketball, track, baseball, volleyball, tennis, golf, swimming, and other sports as the demand arises. To conduct the above program neither expense nor energy is spared. The school has superior physical equipment consisting of two gymnasiums which pro- vide adequate facilities for all indoor sports, a good athletic field encircled by a standard quarter-mile cinder track, a second athletic field serving for baseball, softball, and practice field for football, a swimming pool, six paved tennis courts. Expert coaches are provided for all varsity, junior varsity, and small boy teams. The intramural program is under the supervision of a full-time director who is assisted by other faculty members and also by outstanding athletes in the various companies. To show that the program works, we present the following facts: Play at T.M.I. is not compulsory, yet each year ninety per cent of all students play on an organized team of some kind. More than half the boys win our athletic letter which is given for satisfac- tory performance on a team playing against teams of other schools. Over a period of years, strong teams, which have made enviable records, have been developed, yet winning has not been overemphasized, and Our teams have been composed of boys, seventy per cent of whom have had all their athletic experience at this school. T. M. I. has developed many excellent athletes who have been outstand- ing in the colleges and universities, but takes equally as much pride in the hundreds of boys who could not be outstanding athletes but have here first learned to play with other boys and, through this play, have learned the funda- mentals of good citizenship. Page Sixty-five