University of California Davis - El Rodeo Yearbook (Davis, CA)

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6..th 4h ,.'-. 4 Q,bltllltlllllllllllllll. '4 1.1.10 h - . 7 3. Q l! t ,IaII-gnanll . e 0' o,lllllltllllllllllllll A D STEVENSON COLLEGE OF PACIFIC MIXUPS Second Team Season At the start of the season it was thought advisable to have a Second Team for football men not quite good enough for the V arsity. A good many of the men who turnedeout were inexperienced, and the coaches and manager arranged games with local teams so that these men could get some valuable competition. Some of the teams played were Sacramento High, Woodland High, Chico T cachers, and Preston Reform School. Although the ttSecondsh lost all these games, they were hard fought and exciting, and each game brought out some new star whO Was to be seen the following week in the Varsity Squad. .Thc Second or ttGooftt team of any college never receives half the credit that 18 due it. It is these fellows who toughen and train our Var- smcs and make possible teamwork and co-ordination among their more oxpmyencod hrothers. They go out every day and work hard for the bonehtcof thelr school, and it is among these men that you find the most patriotic and public spirited men in college. the stills? arc a'number of players who played a good game through thoix: tohhl, lilanix of them substltuting on the Varsity and starring fOI' mond J :1 ln tte backfield are Prante, Hunter, Crebbin, Burnett, Rich- and :1 : r0 111111.1e Gllmore. Prante at quarter was a consistent gainer, Widmzm :1 a lalf showed aome flashy playing. For linemen we find F , 9 . 1 le the F10r1n1 Brothers Moffett Braniff Van Renssalaer, trynllFC, ttEl Bielar, Cam bell Ch . ,a , 9 ll blzlyod consistent hall thrg l , rlstlan, Thatcher and Ohrwail, Wh? 3,, in the Varsity lineup. ug lout the season, many Of them subbmg The team was coached by MCCOrkle and ttFattt Wilson, last year,S Varsitv tackle Thro ' - t - Ugh the - those men on next yearts Vais?tl;rlestle::tlilmgs we expect to find many Of t681 9

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I v s Q I e , . I b h 2.4 A .'.h 4 Oh silllllllrtlllll'lll'l. ' o? .I... i h g : :3 i $2.322; e,,lllllrlllllllllll,li 4'0 1'..'-;:: . ,,,a 69 0.5, u u a n, 0.111,, AGGIE VARSITY BASKETBALL SQUAD The 1924 Basketball Season - ' ean' Basketball practice started before Cthtr-nasa quflluf 31:16: gran: anxious to look over his material artliagfltl iigEilgiled Xieived instructions twentv-Hve to thirty men were ou h. in the finer points of the game under the watchftll eye of th; fCrOOanC1 last We all looked forward to a good season; Wlth five me'sin . Cap- vezn'ls squad to start with, the season certamly looked promlll ogut 93er lain Wetmore, Erh, Spilman, Bassford and Brennan were ato show Ull going through their paces. Before long other men beggnk r and Mc- in the nightly scrimmage, among these Moffett, Hltch, a e t be the Donald. lAround these men Coach Driver bu1lt up What Was 0 best basketball team that has ever represented the Cahfornlg Agglff-jm- The mrlv-sulson games were not entirely satisfactory. btaftmklilion nwdiatelv after college opened, before the men were. 1n good Ullltf the and accnstomed to the new coaching system, the Aggms lost f0ur101 011' live gamesxplayed against teams of exceptional cahber. FrOm tlgrom the season was one grand successsjust one victory after another- n 119 l'l'ln'uary 13th until the end of the season the boys lOSt JUSt 011,6 g1! 1v; that to the fast Nevada team at Reno by one point. Often treVEhDQI 9n: distances. and up against tough teams, the ttFighting Ageles amte mmv out on top. It can also be said that all the games lost, except 01 t wore redeemed with substantial Victories. t of hole season the Aggies won eleven ou As a summary of the w 1 sea- smleon games. The men just seemed to get better and better as Me A c son progressed. llillv Drive . r certainly built u smoothest m , nd p one of the fastest, cleverest, a aclnnes that We hav e ever seen. t 70 l l !