Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1920-11-25
LONG SCHEDULE IS
GIVEN C0LLEGIANS
Basket Ball Card Calls for %
Games With Teams of
Three States.

The Alma College basket bail
schedule for the winter sport is the
longest and the hardest that has ever
been given q Maroon and Cream
bunch of cagers, calling as it does
for % battles with teams of three
states.
The efforts of the management of
the athletic association of the college
to line up strong schedule should
be appreciated by local people, and
the sport should be given better sup
port than ever, in view of the good
trays that are listed for the Alma
court.
This season will be the first one
in the history Of basket ball at the
college, when teams from other
states have been met Toledo Uni
versity is to be played at Toledo.
Defiance College, Ohio, and Bethany
College Of West Virginia, will both
be seen in action on the Alma floor
Both will have exceptionally strong
aggregations this year.
Coach Steele's hopefuls have been
working out 20 some extent during
the past few weeks in the college
gymnasium and Immediately after
the Thanksgiving Holiday, real prac
tice viii be started in the high school
gymn, which will be available three
times each week for the collegians.
Steele has some fine material, j.
is believed, among the new men.
Among the men, who are expected =
show real class as basket ball toss
ers are Kirker Of Detroit Northern
High, forward Of exceptional abil-
ity, who was named on the All De
troit team last year: Cathcart of
Cass City, forward, whose team
won several class r nigh school
tournaments last year; McNaughton
Of Crosswell, center Of good ability
from fast aggregation; Handley of
Alma, and Brewer Of ST. Louis
OF the old men,. Eowe, is the only
one that Alma is certain will be avail
able for the court five, but hopes are
being held that Anderson and Tebo,
the former an All NJ. l. A. A. center,
and the latter an All NJ J. A. A.
guard and Richards, a forward, viii
find it possible to again fight for the
Maroon and Cream
The card OF p games calls for
eleven NJ. l. A. a tits, Adrian hav-
ing failed to accept a date with AL
ma here, leaving the Presbyterians
one short of the number of NJ. |. 4.
A. games that should be played. Two
games are to be played with the Mt
Pleasant Normals. but they have
not yet been settled. One game will
be played in Flint with St. Paul's
club, before the Holidays.
January Grand Rapids Junior
College at Grand Rapids.
January S-Calvin College at
Grand Rapids.
January ll-Olivet College at Al
ma.
January 15-Open.
January 21-Hillsdale College at
Alma.
January Open.
January 26-Defiance, Ohio, Col
lege at Alma.
January 2s-Albion College at Al
ma.
January 29-Open \
February toledo University al
Toledo.
February 5--Detroit College Of
Law at Detroit.
February 11-Olivet at Olivet.
February l2-Kalamazoo at Kald- /
mazoo.
February lS--Adrian College at
Adrian.
February l9--Albion College 1T !
Albion.
February % Kalamazoo College
at Alma.
February 2e--Michigan State Nor
NAL at Alma
March l-Hillsdale College Al
IIillsdale.
March 5--Michigan State Normal
at Ypsilanti
March 9--Bethany College (w. I
va.) at Alma
March il-Hope College at Hol- I
land.
March i2-Grand Rapids Y. at
Grand Rapids.