The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-08
COLLEGE MEN WIN
BrSokings Boys Are Fast at Basket
" Ball

The agricultural geniuses from the
university at Breokings showed the
result of their skill and training in
the basketball game last evening in
Goss hall, and trimmed the sails OF
the w. j. P. boys OF Watertown to a
cut OF something like % to Z. 1t was
an easy job for the aggies, too, as
they had things their own way from
the start and continued to hold a long
lead throughout the contest.
1t was but a few minutes after the
game started when the Brookings
boys started firing the sphere across
the hall with a rapidity that looked
dangerous, and within two minutes
they dumped the first basket. The
second one came a few seconds later,
and it was apparent that the score
was going to be a one sided one.
While ain anxious crowd OF enthusi-
astic WATERFOWL rooters around the
hall encouraged the home boys with
the full force of their lung power, the
college men continued to make bas-
kets at frequent intervals during the
first half.-Public Opinion.
The Aberdeen News says, 1.-The
basket ball team of the Northern Nor
NAL and Industrial School OF this city
defeated the strong Brookings Agri-
cultural College, five in a fast game
at the Normal school gymnasium last
evening by a score Of % to s in a game
that was replete with brilliant plays
and good consistent team work. The
Brookings boys were a fine appearing
lot of athletes, nearly every man being
a strapping six footer, towering with
one exception above their opponents.
The game started off some what in
favor of Bookings, the normal boys
seeming to stand in awe of the reputa-
ton of their opponents and went into
the game with the idea of not winning
the game but keeping the score down
as low as possible. But after they be-
came warmed up to their work they
rapidly took the lead and were never
afterward headed, the game becoming
more one sided as it progressed. The
defeat of the Brookings boys at basket
ball was the first one ever experienced
in the history of the college. The
team has been playing with excellent
success all the year and has been
winning all its games by large scores.
The normal school guards, Park
hurst and Gilman and O'Donnell, did
very clever work in keeping down the
score Of their large opponents, who
stood head and shoulders above them
Deits distinguished himself by throw
ing six field baskets and three from
fouls. Bennett scored four field bask-
cts and Noigt one. Both of them how
ever threw goals that did not count,
Bennett being deprived of n and
Voigt of two. For Brookings Elliott
threw one field basket and one from'a
foul. Kirk made the same record and
Alton threw one field basket. The
lineup was as follows:
y. y, & |, :. BROOKINGS |
Voigt, Capt. ...R. F..........E Elliott
Bennett ....... l.. F. Alton, Burkhardt
Deits Kirk
Ottman..,.......R II. G....C Collier, Capt.
O'DOnnell
Parkhurst .......L. Briggs
Mr.. Coughlin of Brookings was re-
fierce and Mr.. Stafford of this city act
ed as umpire. The game was a clean
one in every respect, there being no
bad feeling or rough play.
After the game was over the Brook
ings visitors, which consisted Of ten
men, the manager of the team and
nine players, were entertained by the
normal school students at the girls
dormitOry.