COACHES
AND
ATHLETIC BOARD
O'Connor, Starcevich, Mullins, Deutsch
The general supervision of athletics at St.
Ambrose College rests in the hands of the
Faculty Board of Control, headed by the Rev.
John O. McAuliffe, director of athletics.
For the third straight year Reverend Bernard Kamerick directed the golf team through
a rugged schedule of dual and tournament
play. It was not unexpected that his men
would turn in a championship performance
nearly as often as they went onto…
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,…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
