1923 Yearbook
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1923 Yearbook
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VARSITY FOOTBALL
With the opening of school in September, the student body was agog with excitement, and the air was astir with the comment passed out by the "old timers" and newcomers as they argued over the prospects and possibilities of the Varsity for the 1922
season. The spirit was high, not only among the students, but in the ranks of the
large number of men that turned out to win a position on the team and to win the
right to wear the coveted "A".
Coach Loman, who had been secured to take over the duties of head coach, appeared
on the scene early and with Ted Davenport to assist him, started the long grind of
building up a team that would bring fame and honor for the college. With a new
mentor it meant that the Saints would have to learn a new style of play, which they
immediately started out to do.
Father J. J. Welch had been appointed to succeed Dan Hannon, who had resigned
as Director of Athletics because of pressing business. Father Welch proved to be right
on the job, and daily he could be seen out on the field shouting words of encouragement to veteran and rookie alike.
With Captain-elect Bouquot, Genster, DeCressy, West, and Schoenfelder, letter-
men from the 1921 team, to form a nucleus for the backfield and with Green, Murphy,
Kelly, J. Collins, and Bush, vets of last year, to form the backbone for a line, and
with several of the Juniors' brightest stars and a wealth of promising new material,
the coaches began their task of molding an eleven.
One thing was certain, and that was that the Ambrosians were to be light, but with
plenty of fight and sticking power. Although many of the new men had never played
the game before, they soon began to round into form and to grasp the fundamentals of
the pigskin game. Long before the opening game rolled around, injuries began to
thin the ranks of the light crew, among them being several regulars and two of the two
most promising candidates. *
The Saints blasted open their season away from home against the Wisconsin State
Normal eleven at Platteville, Wisconsin. The heavy and experienced Badger state
crew proved to be too much for the lighter and less experienced Ambrosians, and our
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With the opening of school in September, the student body was agog with excitement, and the air was astir with the comment passed out by the "old timers" and newcomers as they argued over the prospects and possibilities of the Varsity for the 1922
season. The spirit was high, not only among the students, but in the ranks of the
large number of men that turned out to win a position on the team and to win the
right to wear the coveted "A".
Coach Loman, who had been secured to take over the duties of head coach, appeared
on the scene early and with Ted Davenport to assist him, started the long grind of
building up a team that would bring fame and honor for the college. With a new
mentor it meant that the Saints would have to learn a new style of play, which they
immediately started out to do.
Father J. J. Welch had been appointed to succeed Dan Hannon, who had resigned
as Director of Athletics because of pressing business. Father Welch proved to be right
on the job, and daily he could be seen out on the field shouting words of encouragement to veteran and rookie alike.
With Captain-elect Bouquot, Genster, DeCressy, West, and Schoenfelder, letter-
men from the 1921 team, to form a nucleus for the backfield and with Green, Murphy,
Kelly, J. Collins, and Bush, vets of last year, to form the backbone for a line, and
with several of the Juniors' brightest stars and a wealth of promising new material,
the coaches began their task of molding an eleven.
One thing was certain, and that was that the Ambrosians were to be light, but with
plenty of fight and sticking power. Although many of the new men had never played
the game before, they soon began to round into form and to grasp the fundamentals of
the pigskin game. Long before the opening game rolled around, injuries began to
thin the ranks of the light crew, among them being several regulars and two of the two
most promising candidates. *
The Saints blasted open their season away from home against the Wisconsin State
Normal eleven at Platteville, Wisconsin. The heavy and experienced Badger state
crew proved to be too much for the lighter and less experienced Ambrosians, and our
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Date
1923
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St. Ambrose University, 518 W. Locust St., Davenport, IA 52803
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