1939 Cedrus Yearbook

IHSHILItt 11 EA MIMS H MIS Putting on a driving finish, Cedarville College basketball team won the last five games to take the Northwest Ohio Conference title and end the season with thirteen victories out of an eighteen game schedule. The boys amassed a grand total of 722 points during the season to earn the nickname of a 'point a minute" team. Their opponents collected 631 points for an average of 35 points a game. There are several reasons for this exceedingly satisfactory record. In the first place, the boys on the team demonstrated a fine spirit throughout the whole season, both toward the members of the opposing team and toward their own team mates. Furthermore, the hard work and undying patience of Coach Miller was a factor without which the team could never have accomplished what they did this year. Kavanagh was the team's leading scorer with 213 points. Kenneth Mc- Neal, the only senior on the squad at the end of the season, played the outstanding game of his career against Wilberforce, scoring 27 points, when the Yellow Jackets avenged an earlier defeat by Wilberforce and ran up a score of 69-38. On Homecoming day, Cedarville checked a desperate Bluff- ton rally and emerged victor by a 39-38 score. In the final game of the season, the Yellow Jackets took the conference title by trouncing Wilmington, traditional rivals, 41-30. Cedarville played two Ohio Conference teams, winning at Otterbein and losing at Ashland. FIRST ROW—LaVerne Whipp, Norman Linton, Coach neth McNeal, Russell Roberts, Eugene Kavanagh. SECOND ROW—Fred Lott, Mgr., Clyde Walker, Harold Thomas, Sam Stein, Jack Cromwell, Eldon Gillespie, Coach Miller. FRED LOTT. FIRST ROW—LaVerne Whipp, Norman Linton, Coach Wiley, William Lott, Justin Northup. SECOND ROW—Neil Hartman, Richard Macknight, John Reinhard, John Brill, Layden Wilson. Page Forty-Six