Valley City State University - Viking Yearbook (Valley City, ND)

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REVIEW OF TI-IE BASKETBALL SEASON If the football season gave promise of fine things in athletics for the year, the basketball season saw that promise richly fulfilled. Practice began in December with a large squad in training. That the beautiful new gymnasium was ready for use no doubt added to the interest, but the fact that only two men who seemed reasonably sure of berths were on hand encouraged competition for places and drew to the floor most of the men of the school having any basketball experience whatsoever. Not a great deal could be done before the holiday recess. Early in January, however, the team began to take form. Larson, l923 football captain, was again chosen to lead the team. , When Dickinson Normal appeared on January Sth for the opening game of the season, the team to represent S. T. C. was composed of Walter Larson, center: Carl Hanson and Adolf Soroos, forwardsg Allan Kernkamp and Glenn Hanna, guards. This combination proved a winning one and to them with the addition of William O'Neil, forward, and Herman Burchill, center, was entrusted the undertaking of bringing to State Teachers College a conference championship. How they responded and how equal they were to the task is now a matter of history. Their achievement has passed into one of the pleasant memories of the year. Their success is an outstanding one, even at Valley City, where so many strong teams have been fostered. Their feat of winning l-4 straight games appears remarkable indeed when one remembers that Jamestown and Wahpeton had been rated before the contests began as by far the strongest teams in the conference. The season started in tamely enough, but with the defeat of Dickinson, Park River, and Wahpeton by wide margins, interest, which was good from the first, grew keen. When the trip to the home of last year's champions was made, local supporters were not sur- prised to hear that Wahpeton had been defeated on its own floor. The big test came however, in the Jamestown series and here the fight and spirit of the red and blue again prevailed. The trip to Jamestown 'was undertaken as a project four hundred loyal rooters accompanying the squad. This trip in particular and the season in general did much to arouse school spirit, and to unify the student body. Not in years have the attendance and the rooting been so good. The training in co-operation gained this winter in supporting this school undertaking, can hardly fail to carry over into other College activities. The last game of the season was lost by a close score to Moorhead. If the season brought to light no stars who stood clearly above their fellows, it did show unmistakably enough an entire squad capable of playing smart basketball, strong as a unit on the defense and on the offense. HS

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