The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-01-07
SPORTS

The basket ball game Thursday
evening of last week between the
Robert Swift American Legion Post
team and an aggregation represent
ing Staples, three of the fastest OF
who came from Wadena, was
very interesting contest in spite of
the fact that Sank Centre was on
the short end of II to % score.
Herb Lembke referred the game and
kept both teams on their toes. AS
the teams lined up Thursday evening
the best team won because they were
in better condition than were the 10
cal quint. However, there are no
alibis, as the game was fast and hard.
This Thursday evening the Sartel
Legion team, headed by Capt. Glas-
ser of the St. Cloud Independents
will be taken on on the Junior High
School gym floor. Chaser is one of
the fastest men in the state and he
will be hard man to stop. Before
the game there will be preliminary
contest between Troups Nos. 1 and
2, Of the Boy Scouts. =. ~ i 80
Manager Arthur Weisner of The
Robert Swift team is completing his
seasons bookings as rapidly as pos
sible. The Morris quint comes Tues
day evening Jan. 10Th. 10
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,Alexandria's most noted exponent
of the increasingly popular game, of
football, John j. McEwan, accom-
panied by his wife and two sons, is
expected to arrive this week to visit
with relatives and old home friends
before resuming his journy to Ore
gon University with which institu-
ton he has a fve-year contractlto
serve as head football coach. seac
John McEwan won a reputation
while in the Alexandria High School
as one of the greatest, if not the
greatest gridiron warrior that ever
attended the local. school. He made
name for himself here in the posi-
ton of center. ~
After graduating from the
Sank Centre High School and
attending for about a year
the University of Minnesota where
he also gained notice as a football
player, he left the university, and
secured an appointment to the Unit
ed States Military Academy at West
Point. Here his fame as an athlete
became nation wide. In his last year
at the academy he captained the foot
ball eleven, and two years he was
picked for Walter Camps All-Amer-
lean football team at the center po-
sition.
Following his graduation from
West Point he rose to the rank of
major in the U. S. Army during the
World War.
Fer the past three years he has
been head football coach at West
Point, and previous to that he was
an assistant coach at the academy.
After the conclusion this year of
the football season, marked by a vic
tory over the Annapolis eleven, Coach
McEwan returned to an army post
at San Juan, Porto Rico. While on
his way there he received on board
ship wireless from the Oregon Uni
versity authorities, offering him the
position there as coach. He reache 4
San Juan Dec. IA, and left there ON
the following Wednesday, arriving
back in New York last Thursday.
On Saturday he stali led for tie
West. His resignation ifcm the army
was excepted last week at Washing
ton, d. C.
The Oregon coach is a son Of the
late DR.. S. w. McEwan, a physician
and surgeon here of an earlier day
whose reputation and name have en-
Cured years and years after his pass
ing. John McEwan has two sisters
here, Mrs. Virgil Arrowood, and Mrs.
G. o.. Chase.
Mrs. McEwan will be remembered
as Eioietta Peterson, daughter of T..