1905-06 Volume 30 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

304 THE SCROLL.points than the combined scores of the four other big nine teams played.Bro. Cayan, famous in Illinois athletic history, coached the team and to himis due in large measure the credit for our remarkably successful season infootball. Indiana Beta was proud of its representatives on the team. Bro.Miller generalled the team to success at quarterback and Bro. Gipe was astone wall at right tackle.Basketball now holds the boards. Wabash is out to defend her statechampionship title with a vengeance. The season had a very auspiciousbeginning when on January 3 the Wabash five defeated the Yale five by thedecisive score of 24-11. Wabash had the distinction of being the first collegeteam in the west to defeat the easterners. In speaking of the contestan editorial writer in the Indianapolis News said: "The nerve of theWabash men was all that could be asked. Never for a moment did theyshow any symptoms of stage fright, as, considering the reputation of theirantagonists, might have been expected. They played the game for all therewas in it, conducted themselves as gentlemen, and won a victory, whichredounds greatly to their honor. . . A little college, with an enrollmentof less than 300, was pitted against the pick of a university numbering 3,000,and the little college was the victor. From every point of view thereforethe triumph was remarkable." Indiana Beta is represented on the team byBros. Freeman and Gipe.Oratory and debate have been boomed in Wabash the last year. Twoprizes, one of Sioo and another of $50 have been established, to go to themen winning first and second places in the primary oratorical contest, whichis held to pick the college representative at the state contest. Bro. R. S.Edwards won the primary contest last fall and will be the Wabash orator atthe state contest February 2. TJie subject of Bro. Edwards' oration is"The New Industrial South." Bro. Fleming is a member of the collegedebating team.Bros. Smith and Leaming represented Indiana Beta at the province conventionin Lafayette December 8 and 9. They reported royal entertainmentby Indiana Theta and came back full of fraternity spirit and a wealthof suggestions for the chapter.On January 10 we had the pleasure of entertaining Bros. Bohnstahdt,Christian and Biddle of Butler.E. EDGAR FLEMING.Crawfordsville, January 29, 1906.INDIANA GAMMA, UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS.At the beginning of our present term eight of our number were presentat roll-call. The other two members of this year's original chapter, Bro.Cotton and Christian did not return to college. Bro. Cotton is attendingcollege at Deland, Florida, and Bro. Christian has retired only temporarily.James Murray, our pledge, will be initiatated before long. Everythingconsidered, Indiana Gamma is in excellent condition and although ourchapteris not large it is of good working size.The faculty has recently taken action permitting no athletic team torepresent Butler in an intercollegiate contest, until such rules and regulationsmay be adopted by the colleges and universities of the state as willmake athletics in general of a less professional nature. The ruling is a goodone and we believe that, in standing up for clean athletics, Butler hastaken the initial step in a reform which is bound to occur in the amateurathletic world. The faculty wishes to encourage athletics in the college itself,and has organized a basket-ball league composed of teams representingthe three fraternities, * A 0, ATA and S X and the barbs. There will