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Spotlight on Former Athlete: 1912 – A Special Year – First L’AcadienThe 1912 L’Acadien was a special edition not only because it was the first edition, but because the L’Acadien staff went all out to assure a publication of the highest quality. With the advent of the first yearbook, many images and information about the athletic program were captured. These not only documented the roster and scores of the teams, but many of the reports also speculated about next season and the reasons for optimism. Also, these yearbook narratives provided information about program upgrades and improvements. A review of the early yearbooks clearly pointed to a pattern for growth and excellence at the university, albeit in the minds of the student editors. Click on http://athleticnetwork.net/picpopup.php?piclibID=4597 and read about the 1911 football season marking the beginning of athletics relations with university teams and no games of football with secondary schools were scheduled. Although games with other colleges and universities had occured earlier, the university offered the statement to show the direction which they planned to move the athletic program. People "told it like it was" in those days and they weren’t concerned about political correctness or people’s feelings when discussing one’s athletic status. Thus, S.L.I.I. had a football team and a "Scrub" team. By clicking the above link, one can view the projections for following years, summarized in this quote, as follows: "Our hopes for next year run high, and with our indomintable Bercegeay leading the team and a good supply of material developed by our Scrubs the past season, we feel sure that the scores of 1912 will be such that any school may feel proud to call theirs." Below are pictures of the Football Team Captain and the Scrub Team Captain.
The Girls’ Basketball team is pictured on link http://athleticnetwork.net/picpopup.php?piclibID=4596 and the roster, and scores are included. Below is a picture of Eppie P. Moss, Girl’s Basketball Captain.
Click here http://athleticnetwork.net/site851.php# for the Boys’ Basketball Team picture, roster, and scores. Ulgere Bourque, Boy’s Basketball Captain is pictured below.
While the 1912 Baseball team played only five games, all were against college teams. Click here for the team picture, roster, coach, manager and captain http://athleticnetwork.net/site849.php# Alfred Hugh Curley was the captain of the 1912 Baseball team.
The 1912 Track Squad and its roster are listed in this link http://athleticnetwork.net/site853.php# Captain Galbert Bourque is pictured below. No results of the track meets for 1912 were included in this issue of the L’Acadien.
The Athletic Network is very interested in locating and communicating with the family members of the athletes included in the team rosters of each yearbook. Any information/pictures which you may provide about these former athletes are appreciated. Thank you. Please review the names on the teams of 1911-12, as well as the Pioneers I and II (links below) and see if you can help us identify some of their family members, so we may communicate with them. Please click on the links below to review the names contained in Our rich athletic traditions were intrusted to the vision, hope, loyalty and dedicated of these pioneers and we will forever owe them a debt of sincere gratitude. May God Bless each of them and their families.
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