University of Miami - Ibis Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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Basketball The Hurricane basketeers, under the strategic handling of Head Coach Tommy McCann and Assistant Coach Lloyd Solie, waded through an 18-game schedule with but one defeat for the best cage record ever set up by a University of Miami basketball squad. A clear title to the South Florida A.A.U. championship, with wins over the leading amateur teams in this district, climaxed an eminently successful season. With only two veterans answering McCann's call, Louie Hansen and Luke Crowe, prospects were slow in assuming their brightest hue, but an influx of such stars as Folger, McKimmie, Delaney, Graney, Gordon, and others, rounded out one of the smoothest working teams ever seen on a Miami court. The Hurricanes started off the season with one-sided victories over local Y.M.C.A. and church league teams. With these games under their belts, McCann’s men waded through such teams as the South Florida Athletic Club of Tampa, the Parris Island Marines, St. Petersburg College, Fort Lauderdale Athletic Club, and Xorman Park College of Georgia to effectively demonstrate their court supremacy. Statistics gave the Hurricanes a season point total of 816, while their opponents were held to a 456 score. Folger and McKimmie took high point honors with respective totals of 167 and 160, and the former was chosen together with Hansen for a position on an All-A.A.U. team following the South Florida tournament.

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The Kentucky blues seemed to stay with the Miami eleven even on the home grounds, and the Hurricanes lost their homecoming game to Alabama Reserves in one of the hardest fought games of the season. With the coming of the Erskine squad to the land of palms and sunshine, the University of Miami hit their mid-season stride and sent the South Carolina boys home with a 9 to 0 defeat. This game turned the tide of bad luck that had followed McCann all season, and the Hurricanes finished their season in characteristic fashion by turning in two straight victories, defeating the Parris Island Marines, 12-6, and Alabama Teachers, 14-13. 'The final game was more bad news, but a real thrill for the Hurricane fans, Miami, 9; Norman Park, 19. 'The boys were playing a new system of football that was entirely alien to their previous training, and much credit is due to Tom McCann and his assistants for turning what promised to be an experimental season into a creditable display of Hurricane talent. Good luck, Tommy, old boy! Next season looks good. University of Miami, 7.................Bowdon, 12 University of Miami, 12 ......South Georgia, 13 University of Miami, 7.................Rollins, 0 University of Miami, 20.............Southern, 31 University of Miami, 0........Western Ky., 20 University of Miami, 0.....Murray Teachers, 15 University of Miami, 6.........Tenn. Teachers, 24 University of Miami, 0.....Alabama B Team, 16 University of Miami, 9................ Erskine, 0 University of Miami, 12..........Parris Island, 6 University of Miami, 14.... Alabama Teachers, 13 University of Miami, 9........Norman Park, 19

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Boxing and Wrestling The University of Miami boxing and wrestling teams digressed somewhat from precedence this year by making an extended trip through the east and south. Although the mittmen were not followed by their usual success, an overwhelming victory over the arch-enemy, Florida, more than atoned for other set-backs. The wrestlers, coached by Ernie Brett, displayed their prowess by scoring one-sided wins over the teams encountered on the road trip, but due to several last minute substitutions for disabled varsity men, the all-important meet with the Gators of the University of Florida was lost by a close 16-14 margin. It was the first defeat for a Miami mat team. The boxing squad, headed by coaches Ingersoll and Brett, led off the season by an invasion of the crack Catholic U.’s territory in Washington, I). C., but were turned back with a 5-2 defeat. Several days later the mittmen joined forces with the wrestling squad at Beaufort, South Carolina, to engage the representatives of the famous Parris Island Marines. The boxers were only able to garner three bouts out of the scheduled seven, but the wrestlers hung up a business-like 36-0 decision for their first meet of the year. Manley, bantamweight. Nations, lightweight, and Bates, welterweight, accounted for the boxing victories, while Abras, Reichgott. and Weilbacher were outstanding in the grappler’s win. Additional representatives of Uncle Sam in the person of the soldiers of Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia, were the next Hurricane opponents. The boxers