Kent Nine Wins 10 Games For Best Year
Kent State's 1940 baseball team posted its best year by finishing with eight victories in ten games. Dan Gulgin led as a three win pitcher, Joe Mileski had four no losses and threw the only shutout, a three hitter versus Ashland. Kent defeated Toledo and Ashland twice each and split with Wooster, plus beat Muskingum and Bowling Green while Heidelberg game was rained out.
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Capital University
Flashes
Ohio
Heidelberg
Ashland
Kent
Wooster
Findlay
Muskingum
Bowling Green
Kent Golf Team Cruises Through Strong Midseason Stretch
Dominic Vitangeli starred as Kent’s golf squad, coached by Cliff Thompson, winning six of nine matches. The team defeated Wooster Akron Hiram and Washington and Jefferson, but fell to Kenyon and Slippery Rock in Pennsylvania.
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Dominic Vitangeli
Kent
Cliff Thompson
Twin Lakes
Wooster
Akron
Hiram
Washington and Jefferson
Kenyon
Slippery Rock
Kent State football season caps eight victories one defeat
The Golden Flashes posted eight wins and one loss in a standout grid year. Highlights include a 37 0 win over Bluffton and a 26 0 triumph over Mount Union with Mituga scoring thrice, plus a thrilling 14 7 last second win over Baldwin Wallace and all conference honors for Mituga Jones and Porowski.
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Ories
Golden Flashes
Rcords
Bluffton
Mick Mituga
Golden Flash
Kent
Assumption
Ken
Hiram
Mount Union
Purple Raiders
Rockwell Field
Findlay
Oilers
Mituga
Fedoniak
Bowling Green
Akron
Baldwin- Wallace
Ohio
Mituiga
Jones
Porowski
Golden Flash Track Team Finishes Season Undefeated
The Kent State Golden Flash track squad led by Leslie Netten went 6-0 in dual meets against Akron Findlay Hiram and Fenn and posted the season's only perfect record by a Kent team. Netten averaged 25.75 points per meet over three years while Fred Crawford added 10 points per meet. Netzen placed second in discus and fifth in shot put at the Ohio conference meet.
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Leslie
Netten
Golden Flash
Kent
Flashes
Akron
Findlay
Hiram
Fenn
Fred Crawford
Netzen
Ohio
Kent Wrestlers Keep Kent Tradition as Champions
The 1940 Kent wrestlers went 11 wins and 1 loss to Kansas State, retaining the state title. In Cleveland’s interstate meet they dominated with five first places and three seconds, scoring a record 43 points. The standout clash against Kansas State drew over 3,000 fans at Wills Gym in a famed Battle of Champions.
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Kent
Joe Begala
Kansas State
Cleveland
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Kansas State College Wildcats
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Pennsylvania
Wills Gym
Kent State Mermen Top Season With 10 Wins
The 1940 Kent State swimming team under Coach Ray Novotny posted 10 victories and 2 defeats. Don Johnson Dale Stewart and Roman Woyno led wins against Akron Wittenberg Fenn Slippery Rock Westminster Oberlin Bowling Green Wooster and a close loss to Kenyon in the Ohio Conference meet.
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Don Johnson
Dale Stewart
Roman Woyno
Ray Novotny
Kent
Bowling Green
Wooster
Kenyon
Ohio
Tennis Netters Take 7 In 9 From Coach Ray Novotny
Tennis team coached by Ray Novotny posted seven wins and two losses. Victories came against Mount Union John Carroll Hiram and Akron with defeats to Kenyon and Worcester. They finished fourth in the Ohio conference meet where Mark Treat and Harold Andreas reached the doubles semi finals. Kenyon dominated the meet as Don McNeil of Kenyon won the conference singles and later the national title in September.
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Mount Union
John Carroll
Hiram
Ak«ron
Kenyon and
Wooster
Netters
Ohio
Mark Treat
Harold Andreas
Kenyon College
Don McNeil
Kenyon Ace
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Joe Mileski
Toledo
Vitangeli
George Campbell
Milton Bonar
Harry Brubaker
Vernon Heichel
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Scott Wheeler
Bill Swallow
Leonard Luck
Bob eLeese
Jim Dedinsky
Aileen Milligan
Robert Zimmerman
Morton Perry
George Mollica
Bob
Marianna Ledbetter
Matmen
Wittenberg
Westminster
Oberlin
You
Merry Christmas
G. F. Elgin Jeweler and Optometrist
Rockwell
Kent, Ohio
Dan
North Water
Sebastian’s
S. Water St
Lincoln and
E. Main
Portage Country Club
Ruth Stoneman
Dick’s Diner
Willard
Bundy
Keni
Gamma Chi Sigma Sor
Peggy Laumer
Betty
Beauty Shoppe
Bowling Headquarters
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