Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-03-15
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CONVENTION
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the preliminaries Waldorf College of
Forest City had eliminated Canton
Normal and Jewell College winning
place in the finals. Gale college had
eliminated Red Wing Seminary and
the Luther College Preparatory, and
was thus entitled to meet Waldorf
for the conference honors. Waldorf
College was represented by Lauren
titus Xavier of Thompson, Iowa,
Theo. Klemmesrud of Nora Springs,
Iowa, and Chester Hanson of Bel
mond, Iowa, Gales team was made
up by Miss Ruth Thrune of Coon
Valley, Wis, Miss Nellie Hoyeln of
Mt. Sterling, Wis, and Archie Baard-
seth of Ettrick, Wis. The judges
were Rev. Willett, Atty. Houck.
Atty. Hook, and Atty. Nelson, all of
DEBORAH, and Prof. Jensen of Albert
Lea, MINI. Four of the judges gave
Gale.
Waldorf College was awarded the
silver plaque for the championship
in debate and the men representing
Waldorf were each awarded a gold
medal The Gale college debaters
were awarded silver medals.
The question for debate in the
whole series has been: Resolved,
that the federal government should
own and operate the railroads of the
United States, constitutionality
waived
! DEBORAH again has the distinction
of being the birth place of an organ
ization which will undoubtedly WELD
a great influence among the schools
of the Norwegian Lutheran church
of America.
On the last day Of the tournament
/ held last week at the college the
schools competing perfected perman-
| ent organization under which their
contests will be conducted in the
future. A constitution was adopted
and the name IN. l.. c. A. Academy
Conferece" formally recognized. The
object of the new organization is to
foster athletic and forensic relations
between the schools owned or con-
trolled by the Norwegian Lutheran
church of America. Annual tourna-
ments will be conducted with COM
petition in defamation, debate, and
basket ball at the invitation of a
member school.
President H. E. Jorgenson, of Red
Wing Seminary, Red Wing, Mimi,
was elected President; Prof. p. Ras-
mussen of Canton Normal School,
Canton, So. Oak, vice7president;
Prof. David T. Nelson of Luther
! College, Secretary-Treasurer; and
Prof. A. ]. Natvig of Park Region,
L. c., Fergus Falls, Mimi, and Prof.
L. G. Refsell of Waldorf College,
Forest City, Iowa, members of the
executive committee.
Pip's Props played primed with
pep and put across the final game of
the N. L. c.. A. tournament by a
score of 26 to last Thursday even
ing, at the same time winning the
right to the Luther College Cup for a
The tournament sJarueu out on
Tuesday with eight teams competing.
ARRANGEMENTS had been made to play
both a winners and losers series,
the winners in the first round play
ling off in succession to determine the
final championship, which the losers
PLAYED each other for the consolation.
The scores in the two rounds were
as follows. 20
First Round
Park Region-24.-.........~. Waldorf-l0
Luther Preps-21 Luther Academy
,Ciifton-21 ..-..-.....~.-...-..-...--..- Gale-lo
Red Wing Seminary-25--..-.....
........... Canton Normal--9
Second ROund-Winners Series
Luther Preps-19 Park Region
lClifton-l7 .............. Red Wing-l6
Second Round-LOsers' Series
Waldorf-9 Gale-o
Red Wing-10 .-.-.... Park Regions
Third Round Losers Series
Red Wing-30 ........-.-....-...~ Waldorf-'
: Finals
Luther Preps-26 ~,-..........-..-Cllfton.--S
All of the contests were marked
bv a most excellent spirit. Not one
; Objectionable incident on the floor IN
, anv one of the IL games played mar
red the perfect harmony which eX'
listed between the players. A mum
Der of the games were particularly
hard fought, as for example the ParF
, Region Clifton game, the Red WING
, Clifton game. and the Red wing
Park Region game, but the best kline
of SportSmanShlp was eNhlplVeu IL
( every instance in the play.
/ The final play was not so exciting
, as had been predicted. However, TIT
crowd which packed the Luther gym
= was given a satisfactory program II
n the Luther Alumni game which ser
{ we'd as a curtain raiser and the turn
= ing exhibition which preceded TIL
game of the evening. The Clifton
team had ben worn out by their lon,
e trip of 1900 miles from the scutl
: and by two hard games on the hrs
= two days of the meet. The. Prep
q were in first class condition for TN
first time in the season. Up to thu
II time sickness, infection, and accld
o ent had played havoc with Coac
r Qualleys charges, but in their ma
game all men were in shape an
gave their best so that their victory
= though worked for was comparative
w easily won. Coach Qualley de
serves a great deal of credit. for III
achievement in building up the tear
which played Clifton last Thursda
night, considering the fact that n
started the season with very med
core assortment of material.
The score for the final contest 10
lows:
Luther Preps Clifton Collee
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