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TOWNJACKS HONOR FLAGSTAFF GRID MEN IN ANNUAL BANQUETLumberjacks Meet Olson’s Swedes NextTraveling Cfikmpions Come Here Jan. 6 to Meet Local Varsity January 6 and 7 the student* at A. S. T. C. will have the opportunity of seeing one of the best traveling basketball teams in the country in action. Olson's Terrible Swedes will stop over for two days on their way to the Pacific coast and will play the Lumberjack var-. sity squad during that time.Starting the thirteenth consecutive season with an all-time record of winning over 1000 games, having performed in practically every state in the union, with offers being turned down from promoters of South American und Cuba for appearances there, this wonderful quintet gives the spectators the best, most thrilling and fastest basketball that can be seen anywhere. Colleges over the entire country extend invitations to this club to perform before their students and fans.The 1932-33 official lineup in eludes the highest type players that can be secured from California to Missouri, every player being more than six feet in height, and a known star.100,000 Spec tat oraOne hundred eighteen managers of western teams and 200 sports writers acclaimed the Swedes as being more thun advertised. Almost 100,000 spectators witnessed the Swedes* games in 1931-32.Last year the Swedes won 110 of their 118 games throughout the south and west. Two of the games lost last year were to^ the strong Brigham Young university quintet, one of the leading college teams in the nation.All members of this squad are strictly amateurs who carry their own amateur cards and are eligible to perform against any collegiate club.The two week layoff will not help the Axemen and unless the Swedes are attacked with a siege of gout our casabe artists are in for a drubbing.Coach McCreary will undoubtedly start his rangiest pair of for-wards in this contest which are (love Allen and Harry Cox. Both have shown considerable form at times and should work best against the Swedes. Kenny Hurlburt or “Dutch** Schwanbeck will be found in the pivot position, with Ed Evans and L. A. Cox in the guard positions. “Swede** Bendixon and Chet Fuller would look well against Olson and his boys.Last night the Townjacks held their annual banquet in honor of the Lumberjacks and the Flugstaff high Eagles in the dining room of the Monte Vista hotel. Sixty football men were present, including members of both teams, their coaches and 70 of those ever-present Townjacks.Hay Howrell acted as toastmaster and provided an evening of merri raent. On the program he was very ably assisted by Messrs James Babbitt, Frank Gold, Judge Pulliam and Theo. Spencer, who debated the question, “Resolved, That a football player should have equa-librium.** The. way the men shunned the question was* remarkable. Judge advocated cellophane footballs and Mr. Babbitt was in favor of the boys using pop bottles in wearing down the opposition.Coach Lavik introduced the members of the squad and latex ! gave a talk on “Swedes as the Norwegians See Them.** Coach Wheeler also introduced his team and disclosed a few of his secrets.;Knox and Evans ElectedDuring the cuuihe of .the evening Walter Knox and Ed Evans were elected co-captains to lead the Lumberjacks for the 19.33 foot-, ball season.Jim Wright, the honorable chief of police, broke up the affair*when he entered the hall and arrested “Dinty** Moore, Wid Raudebaugh and Jack Fuss for carrying concealed weapons. Wid had four revolvers and Jack was carrying a butcherknife as long as your leg. The toastmaster, being a man of great resources and probably of wide first-hand experience, told the rest of the “boys** to “beat it, because the city jail isn*t too hot.**Allen, an end and bnckfteldman, was the winner of the Clyde Stauffer awafd for the best man on the team; Frank Brickey received the prize for the best lineman, and Jackson and Earl Insley of Gallup, N. M., won awards for scoring the largest number of points for the Lumberjacks in Arizona collegiate games.Jack Miller was awarded u spe cial prize by Coach Lavik for his promptness in reporting for practice.
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The Pine
Flagstaff, Arizona, US
Tue, Dec 20, 1932
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