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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. 1000 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. 1000 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.
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Title | The Exponent, 1917-12-15 |
Subject | Northern State University--Periodicals; Northern State University--Students--Newspapers; College Newspapers; Northern State College -- Periodicals |
Description | Periodical, college newspaper |
Publisher | Northern State University |
Date of creation | 1917-12-15 |
Collection | NSU History Collection |
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Transcription | 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. 1000 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. 1000 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. |
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