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

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PLAYING on the Wahpeton Science school floor the following week the Vikings fell victim to the Wildcats by a 53-38 score and again the next week when they journeyed to Minot and met a hot-shooting band of Beavers to lose 52-30. The next two games played on successive nights with the Ellendale Normal Dusties decided little, as each team took one game. In the first game played on the local Hoor the Vikings showed good form in running up a 37-23 margin of victory, but fell before the accurate shooting of the Dusties on their own Hoor the following night. NON-CONFERENCE GAMES THE 1936 basketball season was officially opened when the strong Huron College quint invaded the Viking camp and went home with a 37-24 victory. The following week Coach Bill Carberry's Aberdeen Normal school Wolves presented a strong, fast breaking offensive which caught the Vikings off guard and netted them a 45-33 win. Showing surprising improvement over their previous performances the Vikings gave a good exhibition of what they were capable of doing when they routed a well recom- mended team from the Bottineau School of Forestry by the overwhelming score of 52-33. After the two weeks vacation at Christmas the Vikings continued to show steady improvement as proved in their second game with the Aberdeen Wolves. Displaying a complete reversal of form from their Hrst meeting they outplayed the Wolves throughout and although winning by the narrow margin of one basket, 38-36, played a superior brand of ball throughout. The only other non-conference game played this year was with the rangy St. Cloud Teachers College quint. The great height and wealth of reserve material available on the St. Cloud team proved too much for the Vikings in the last quarter of the game when St. Cloud ran up their substantial lead. Until the last quarter the game was played on even terms. IAMESTOWN GAME - BASKETBALL -- - ......lll78

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BASKETBALL RESERVE l3.XSKE'll5Al,L TEAM an Back Row: A. Young, M, Nelson, N. Iohnson, Coach Brndner, W. Knurlson, I. Burchill, G. Kingston Front Row: E. Pietz CONFERENCE GAMES ,THROUGHOUT THE SEASON the Vikings played every team in the conference at least once. The first conference game was played here with Iamestown on Ianuary 24. The smooth conference champions from Iamestown college took advantage of the inexperienced Vikings to the tune of a 57-30 score. From then on a series of seven straight conference games was played. ln the First of these, the Vikings asserted their superiority over the Mayville Comets by outplaying them with a substantial 35-26 margin. The following week the Vikings played host to the well-balanced contingent from Minot Teachers college. Although outplayed during the greater part of the game the Beavers came back in the closing minutes with a victory at 27-25. A In the second meeting of the Vikings and the Iimmies Coach McLeod,s charges turned in a noticeably more effective performance than in the first meeting but the hot streak of Erik Peterson, Iamestown center, who rung up a total of eleven held goals, again put the Vikings on the short end of a 57-35 score. A much improved Mayville quint furnished the opposition for the next game. Lewy Lee's well trained five put on a good exhibition of what can be accomplished by sheer fight and aggressiveness when they put on an end of the game rally which put them out in front 34-31 at the final gun. When Coach Harry Weinbergen of Dickinson Normal brought his Savages here the following week the Vikings showed a complete reversal of form. The Savages invaded the Valley City camp as heavy favorites as a result of the surprising upset of the Iimmies. With Sathe leading the scoring the Vikings put on their best performance of the year and came off with a 39-33 victory. 3 BASKETBALL - 77ll - ' --- - - - -

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INT RAMURALS INTRAMURALS INTRAMURAL COMPETITION this year was unusually keen and caused considerable campus comment. Until the Final game no accurate predictions could be made as the results were not consistent. The hnal title holder was not determined until the last day of the tournament when the Hesperians defeated the favored Tau Sigs by a score of 22-ll to win the title. The lead was never securely owned by any team throughout the tournament. At Hrst the Tau Sigs seemed the outstanding possibility but fell before the onslaught of the strong E. B. C. team. With the E. B. C.'s in the lead it seemed that they would capture the title but they in turn were taken by the Hesperians who had not been conceded much of a chance up to that time. The intramurals were under the direction of Professor Spalding with the assistance of a board consisting of one member from each society. RESERVES UNDER THE TUTELAGE of student coach Ralph Bradner, the reserve basketball squad fur- nished keen competition for the varsity quint this year. Although they played only two games during the season the squad members appeared regularly for practice. Several were promoted to the varsity before the season closed. The reserve squad was composed chiefly of promising freshman and sophomore athletes and from all evidences many of them will be making strong bids for varsity berths next year. Games played included one with the College High but no Final decision was reached as the game ended in a tie, and there was no overtime period. The other game was with the strong Iamestown reserves. The Viking reserves had the same fate as the varsity and fell before the smooth working Iimmies by a large score. Other games were cancelled because of road conditions which made travel impossible. BASKETBALL 79l .. ....