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Augustana Church Wins National Lutheran Championship
The Augustana Lutheran Church team in Hyde Park clinched the National Lutheran Basketball Championship going undefeated 33–0 after winning the local league and the Chicagoland Lutheran Tournament. Physics student Francis Volert taught Sunday school while studying at the University of Chicago. Coaches include postmen Clifford White and Joel Laws and real estate seller Frank Williams. The church has hosted services at Bond Chapel during building work at 55th and Woodlawn after the 54th and Kimbark facility was destroyed by fire.
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Augustana Lutheran Church
Francis Volert
Greenwood
Augustana
University of Chicago
Lutheran Ath
Letics Association
Clifford White
Joel Laws
Frank Williams
Chicagoland Lutheran
Augustana Church
Bond Chapel
55Th and
Woodlawn
Dwight Henley
Jerome McNeal
Marvell Simmons
Samuel Evans
Drexel
Jerome Dillahunty
Ingleside
Gregory Williams
Joann Glen