1919 Cedrus Yearbook

19 19 BASKET BALL 1918-19 E HAVE indeed closed a very successful year is basketball. Early in the fall, Mr.Roger Collins was chosen manager and J. L. Ches- nut captain. The boys were soon called out to practice and g iven to understand that each man was to have a fair trial f or the first team. The following men were selected for the team: William Bussey, center; R. Collins, left forward; M. Creswell, ri ght forward; W. Collins, right guard; J. Chesnut, left guard; the two other men selected were H. Wright,forward; E. Huey, and later in the year N. Tho rne was added to the team. We are very proud of our record ; we did not lose a game on our own floor and only lost three abroad. We won seven game s and lost three. We opened the season at Wilmington, which was probably the b est game Cedar- ville put up all season. Chesnut opened the scoring by throwing a field goal from the side line, and after that the whole team seemed to have the spirit of "Now let's go," and we surely did. Th e game ended 53-27. It was the largest score that Wilmington ever lost t o Cedarville. The other game that attracted special attention was the Muskingum game. The boys gave Muskingum a great run,only to b e nosed out at the finish. However, we left Muskingum with the record of pla ying the fastest and cleanest game played on their floor in the last two years. The leading man in scoring was Manager R. Collins, and he had a good running-mate in Creswell. William Bussey was always on hand wit h some fancy plays, and the other boys were usually found do ing their part in breaking up passes and making a few goals. With the material on hand for next year, Cedarville College should again make a creditable showing. We are su re Cedarville College will always be a good booster for athletics and her men will go out stronger physically and mentally. Time and space will not allow us to go into detail on the games and players, but we believe by our reco rd we have had good team work and every man had a chance to play in severa l games. The games were as follows: Cedarville won from Lost to Xcnia (Forfeited) 0 Wilmington 2 0 Miami Conservancy 1 1 Sabina 2 0 Dayton Miamis 1 0 Otterbein 0 1 Muskingum 0 1 Osborn 1 0 58