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Not one of the athletic squads came, throng! with a state title—the track and golf chain pionships will be decided Saturday—but evenone of them won the conference title, the fir-1 time since the Central Iowa conference wmformed that a school had made a clean sweetfof athletic honors.I To Coach Kenneth Wells and AssistantCoach Ray Smalling go top honors for produo ing champions in football, basketball and track, while Tennis ( oaeh Bernard Swedelland Golf Coach John Harms, in sports that drew fewer aspiring candidates, were equally as efficient in their only efforts.The victories were glorious, but there was a spirit back of mam of those wins that was more spectacular and just as pleasing to the fans. Defeat was turned into victory on morethan one occasion, as any follower of the Arneshigh athletes can recallJust as Ames high had no state champions unless the track or golf teams come through Saturday, and they arc g*«od bets - -it had no first team all-state men in the various sports. What it had. though, wa better. On each team there was a collection of better thanaverage athletes who were willing to give the individual glory to someone else, if so doing would bring victory to his team.That is n circumstance that is not merelvone of fortune. It is the result of coachingtechnique in which, the local start excels. It does not call for browbeating of the boys, or cursing them in public. Rather it entails patience with their mistakes, the abilitv to correct their faults instead of making the boys feel ridiculous for their commissions or omi.sWhat more could one school ask than whatAmes has had the past year! Many of the athletes are going to be missing next fall whenthe new sports program opens, but the coaching staff will be back. On its shoulders will fall a tougher job than the one just concludedbecause the fans alvvavg like more victoriesthan the past year produced-t_t-
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Ames Daily Tribune
Ames, Iowa, US
Wed, May 20, 1942
Page 4
Full Page
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