St. Ambrose 55 — Quincy 0
St. Ambrose 28 — Loras 12
Sunday, September 8, Quincy, 111.: The
St. Ambrose Bees opened the '49 season with
a surprising 55-0 victory over a Quincy College
eleven which could not patch up the big holes
in its air defense.…
1949-50
BASKETBALL
SEASON
Jim O'Connor, Coach
The great expectations which a promising
1948-49 basketball team had aroused among its
followers failed to come off. Although the 12-9
record of '48-'49 was not one of tremendous
merit, the fact that…
The Bees started the season out well by
clipping Quincy College 69-41. Jack Donnelly
and Don Morris led the Bees to the easy victory
on the Rock Island Armory court, one of the
three home courts of the St. Ambrose team. St.
Thomas gave the Bees an…
Smiley
Lawlis
Poepsel
Donnelly
Morris
Berg
Czarnecki
Waters
After the Holiday season, the Bees started
out again. Their first effort of the new year
was a cute 60-44 win over Dubuque, a team
which had been notorious at running up big
scores up to…
Senior Lettermen
Coach O'Connor
But the venom of St. Ambrose was shortly
spent. Loras decided once and for all that the
Bees were not to occupy the top position in the
Midlands conference by edging Jim O'Connor's
men 67-66.
With only the Iowa…
IN ACTION
28 and disposed of St. Norbert's 54-51. The last
victory was more important for the Bees' self
esteem than for effect. In the final game of the
regular season the Bees tangled with Loras.
Though it would have no importance in either
of the…
1949-50 WRESTLING
Matt Starcevich, Coach
Wrestling, never an easy sport to sell, was
finding a popular place on the St. Ambrose
athletic calendar, at least as far as student interest was concerned. The record of 2-4 was
not the greatest argument for…
The dismal tales of the luckless 1948 tennis
teams were lost in the flourishing season of
1949. A revivified squad of netsters responded
magically to the guiding hand of Rev. Joseph
Hratz. In dual competition the Bees ran up a
record of 5-3,…
