Text Appearing Before Image: 70 THE PRICKLY PEAR Text Appearing After Image: THE BOYS IN ACTION. REVIEW OF THE BASKETBALL SEASON The Basket-ball season of 1916-17 might seem at first a disasterousone. However we are truly converted to the thought that the benefitsof Athletics are not based on victory alone. Basket-ball material wasnot in abundance at the beginning of the year. We had the men butnot experienced ones. Basket-ball of all games requires seasoned menfor effective serving. Wesleyan was not fortunate in this matter andso our calendar for the year records many defeats. Not alone for consolation do we emphasize the virture of loyalty toa school, through the medium of athletics. Many of our boys playedthe game, more for school loyalty, than for love of the game. PROSPECTS FOR FOOTBALL A squad of twenty men are working hard to form a nucleus fora team this fall. Spring football practice is not usually prominent inthe west but it was thought necessary to inaugurate it at Wesleyan,owing to the fact that the school has been without a team for severalyears a
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