The Exponent, 1917-12-15

              A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL
THE EXPONENT NORTHERN NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
Vol. XVI
ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, DECEMBER 15, 1917
No. 12
Season of 1917 Brings Normal Championship
Review of Normal
Football Season
In reviewing the season of 1917, it is
well to "begin at the beginning." School
opened late, and the men were slow about
responding to the opening call. Only four
men of last year's team were in school.
The new material was far from promising,
and gloom was pretty fairly prevalent in
every quarter. The first ray of hope came
with the unexpected return of Lippert,
some two weeks late. Then Wertman, of
last year's high school team, suddenly
dropped into school. Richards, Wolter and
Morrow arrived just in time to be eligible
for the conference games.
Columbus College appeared on October
6th. They brought a heavy and experienced
team. Minus the services of Captain
Anderson, Richards, Wolter, Morrow, Williams
and Carey, things did not look any
too bright for a Maroon and Gold victory.
The brilliant fight of a green and inexperienced
line helped greatly in bringing
home a 19-0 victory.
Huron succumbed to the sensational playing
of the Normal backfield. Runs of thirty
and forty yards were too much for the
Presbyterians, and our southern rivals
found themselves subjected to the stinging
defeat measured by a 26-0 score.
Dakota Wesleyan University had a very
creditable record until they met the local
eleven. The Methodists could gain only by
one method, namely, through the air. But
the Hun attack was not productive of any
scoring. N. N. I. S. did not play up to
standard on the offense. What they did
gain was often offset by the many, heavy
penalties which were inflicted. The final
count was 13-0 in our favor.
Spearfish Normal brought down a green
team, but they sure were fighters. The
Normal men anticipated a walkaway, and
played the poorest game of the season, but
won out by a 37-0 count.
We went up to Ellendale to meet the
North Dakota scrappers. The Ellendale lads
had made rather optimistic predictions
concerning their own prowess, and were
at a loss to explain the 26-0 count regis-tered
against them in the first half. The
second period saw all the Normal subs bat-tling
against the Northmen. With the aid
of innumerable penalties the Ellendalites
managed to dropkick. We won 33-3. For
the first time this year we were scored
upon, and that despite the fact that the
enemy made only one first down during
the entire scrap.
On November 10th we did not play Yank-ton.
Yankton is still explaining why, but
their arguments are so confusing that we
have not been able to follow their line of
reasoning.
The last game of the season was with
Jamestown College. Jamestown came here
with a clear title to the intercollegiate
championship of North Dakota, but was
helpless before the terrific charging of the
line and backs. To show the superiority
of the home team it is only necessary to
point to the fact that they piled up forty-two
points. Jamestown made their downs
only once, but through an intercepted for-ward
pass they were able to score in the
last minute of play.
The success of the season is found in
the fact that N. N. I. S. scored 190 points
while their opponents were gathering in
9. There was not a college team in either
of the Dakotas that was anywhere near
as consistent as the eleven which repre-sented
Northern Normal. Many football
critics, who saw the University team in
action, state as their opinion that the Nor-mal
would have had more than an even
break in the event of a meeting.
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Aberdeen, as the home of the
greatest factory for the manufacture
of school teachers in the Dakotas, is
always especially interested in the
educational affairs of the state, and
the large attendance at the Sioux
Falls meeting is almost as gratifying
to Aberdeen as it is to the hostess
city—especially as several Aberdo-nians
have a conspicuous place on
the convention program.—News.
PAST WEEKS SHOW MANY
ENLISTMENTS FROM NORMAL
The past few weeks have seen a
great many more young men from
the Normal join the colors, includ-ing
several former faculty members
as well as present and former stu-dents.
Two weeks ago Roy Wahl and
Keneth Hoover, both popular mem-bers
of last year's student body,
joined the navy as apprentice sea-men.
Soon afterward the second Snell-ing
camp closed, with the news that
L. J. Gillis, Lloyd Brown and R. O.
Baker, all former faculty members,
and Castle Farish, for several years
a summer school student, had been
granted first lieutenancies.
Last week Dayton Williams and
Laurence Lippert, both members of
the 1917 football team, enlisted,
Williams in the aviation corps, and
Lippert, who is probably the best
all around student and athlete who
ever attended the N. N. I. S., in the
aviation corps.
Bert Hannicker, a former Normal
student and football player, has
joined the artillery, and the names
of several former students are corn-ing
in every day for the Normal's
service flag, which, according to
Registrar Crawford, has at present
more than eighty stars.
CAN'T DECIDE WOMEN'S
BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
Fourth Years, Juniors and Seniors
Arguing as to What Team is
Champion
With the question of who is cham-pion
sifted to the three upper class
teams, the young women's basket-ball
tournament is at a standstill,
owing to the fact that the captains
of the three teams cannot come to
an agreement as to the arrangement
of the rest of the games. The sen-iors
and juniors are anxious to fin-ish
according to schedule, but the
fourth years contend that they are
champions, having beaten the jun-iors,
who won from the seniors, and
refuse to play the seniors for the
gold basketballs. Since it is not an
elminiation tournament, but one to
be decided by percentages, the
other two captains cannot agree
with the fourth year captain, and
things are at a dead-lock.
Last Friday the fourth year team
won from the third year team in
the first game of the tournament.
The fourth years ran up 35 points,
23 of which were made by Julia
Danielson, while the third years
were only able to grab five points.
Saturday the second years squeezed
ahead of the first years by the score
of 8 to 7. In the second game of
the evening the sixth years were
left in the dust by the fifth years to
the tune of 16-6.
Monday the losers played the los-ers,
and the third years won by the
score of 9-8. The winners then
played the winners, and the fourth
years defeated the second years,
17-5. Wednesday the sixth years
trimmed the third years 16-6, and
the fourth years in the closest game
of the season beat the fifth years by
one point, the score being 14-13.
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WATAHWASO CHARMS IN
INDIAN SONG AND LORE
A novel, unique and extremely in-teresting
number of the lecture
course was presented Thursday
evening, when the Princess Watah-waso
and her company gave a pro-gram
of Indian music and folk-lore.
The princess is from the Penobscot
tribe in northern Maine, and with
wonderful voice and charming man-ner
she told the lore of her tribe
and sang the songs of her people.
Mr. Thurlow Lieurance, the pian-ist
and composer who prepared and
harmonized the Indian music sung
by Watahwaso, and attuned it "to
the civilized ear," told of the de-velopment
of Indian music and
showed the ways in which the In-dian
sense of harmony expressed it-self.
The flutist, Charles Westman,
showed remarkable talent in play-ing
Indian music on the flute, the
Indians' own musical instrument.
Altogether the evening was one
well spent, and to practically every
member of the audience the pro-gram
was absolutely new and ex-tremely
captivating.