The Bulletin (vol. 15, no. 10), October 1941

The Bulletin (vol. 15, no. 10), October 1941

This page from The Bulletin, Springfield College's magazine, which has since been renamed to The Triangle, focuses on the celebration of the 50th anniversary of basketball. The article highlights several members of the first basketball team: Thomas Patton '92, William Chase '93, and Lyman Archibald '93, and their involvement in the celebration. It also mentions Raymond Kaighn 93', who participated in the first game as well, but suffered an injury in one of the first games, and was introduced as the "first man to be injured in a basketball game" at the ceremony.

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Basketball Golden Jubilee
Celebration
'THE Golden Jubilee of Basketball started
officially on October 14, with a press
luncheon at the Waldorf,Astoria Hotel in
New York. Mayor Roger 1. Putnam of
Springfield, chairman of the Naismith Memo'
rial committee which is pr'omoting the golden
jubilee, announced at the meeting that during
the next six months the fiftieth anniversary of
the invention of basketball would be observed
"in one of the most far'reaching and com'
prehensive sports celebrations ever conducted
in the United States."
Three members of the world's first basketball
team at Springfield College in 1891 were
guests at the luncheon. They were T. Dun'
can Patton '92, captain of the first team; Wil,
liam R. Chase '93, Lyman W. Archibald '93,
and Raymond P. Kaighn '93, who went out
for the team of '91 but was prevented from
playing by an accident that kept him out of
the games. Mr. Kaighn was introduced at the
luncheon as the "first man to be injured in
a basketball game."
The anniversary was launched in a nation'
wide blaze of publicity, with newspapers
throughout the country carrying the story
released at the luncheon. That evening Mr.
Patton appeared on Bill Stern's program ,
over NBC. Both the AA.U. "Basketball Guiae" ' anl-the" '-'offi~ial - B;~k~tbali'Guide;'
of colleges and high schools have devoted
many of their publi-cations to publicizing the
anniversary.
The actual -celebration of the Golden J u'
bilee will be inaugurated in Madison Square
Garden with a "Golden Jubilee Tournament"
of the AA.U., on November 19. Following
this, the Middle West will take up the spirit
of the occasion and launch the celebration
there with the Chicago American All,Star
game in the Chicago Stadium on the night
of November 29.
Thereafter, a network of thousands of col,
lege, high school, prep school, A.A.U.,
Y.M.C.A, church, and institutional games
across the nation will be played as "Golden
Ball" games, the net proceeds of which will
be turned over to the fund being raised to
build the Naismith Memorial and Basketball
Hall of Fame at Springfield College.
Alumni of the College are co'operating in
raising the funds to build the memorial and
have pledged $50,000 to be raised in the
next two years to be contributed to the fund.
The Alumni Fund Committee will meet on
Homecoming Day in the Trustee Room at
the College to report on its progress and to
lay future plans.
Announcements of "Golden Ball" games are
pouring into the College office of Dr. A.
Lester Crapser, executive secretary of the com'
mittee. Colleges, schools, and Y,M.C.A.'s in
40 states, the District of Columbia, and
Underway
Alaska, have signified their intentions of play'
ing "Golden Ball" games and contributing
to the building of the memorial. Requests
have also come from Central and South
America for the scheduling of "Golden Ball"
games.
Maroons To Play Long
Island, Manhattan and Syracuse
The College basketball team will play an
ambitious schedule this season which marks the
fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the
game. The Springfield "Golden Ball" game,
from which the proceeds will be contributed to
the memorial fund, will be the game with Long
Island Univer.sity on March 9. The Syracuse
game at Cortland, N. Y., will be a "Golden
Ball" game for Syracuse. This schedule is:
Vacation Games
Dec. 13 St. Anselm Springfield
Dec. 15 U. of Conn. Away
Dec. 17 Hofstra Away
Dec. 18 Manhattan Away
Dec. 20 C. C. N. Y. Away
Regular Schedule
**Dec. 6 Syracuse Cortland
Jan. 7 Mass. State Away
Jan. '13 Providence Away
*Jan. 17 Tufts Away
Jan. 21 New Hampshire Springfield
Jan. 28 Northeastern Springfield
Feb. 5 Middlebury Away
Feb. 6 St. Michael's Away ,
Feb. 7 : Vermont Away
*Feb. 12 Worcester Tech Springfield
Feb. 19 R. 1. State Away
Feb. 21 Providence Springfield
Feb. 23 A I. C. Springfield
Feb. 25 Amherst Springfield
**Mar. 9 1. I. U. Springfield
Mar. 14 R. P. I. Away
** Golden Ball Game, Naismith Memorial.
* Varsity and Junior Varsity Games.
"Loyal Alumnus"
To my mind, the loyal alumnus is one who
stands by his college in time of trouble as
steadfastly as in time of triumph. His atti'
tude is a sublimated form of campus spirit.
He prote,cts the fair name of his college as
zealously as he would that of a member of his
own family. Her adversity, come when and
however it may, is his own; and her splendor
shines upon his face. A friend in word and
deed, be the deed humble or the word evan'
escent. Such is the valued alumnus.-Harold
O. Voorhis, Secretary of New York Univer'
sity, in an address before a district conference
of the American Alumni Coun-cil on Decem'
ber 2.
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Campus Visitors
Dr. Percy M. Dawson,
formerly professor of
physiology at Johns Hop'
kins University and the
University of Wisconsin,
was an O-ctober visitor to
the campus. He was the
guest of Dr. Peter V.
Karpovich, professor of
physiology, and ad,
dressed the class in phys,
Dr. Dawson iology of exercise. Known
widely for his book, "The Physiology of Physi,
cal Ed ucation," Dr. Dawson is now retired
and makes his home in Austin, Tex.
He is keenly interested in the problem of
"what to do with old men." "It is a pity,
when they have nothing to do," he declared
in an interview during his visit to the College,
"but with increased life expectancy it is bad
for them to keep jobs and opportunity from
young men." Dr. Daws~ri's solution is to re,
tire men at 65 or 70 and to provide them with
opportunities to work and play. He is living
that type of life himself, for he stopped in
Springfield on his way from his summer in
the White Mountains to the University of
Wisconsin, where <he will work in the labora'
tory on research before returning to his home
in Texas. -... ~ .... . ~ ...... _ ..... . .. ~ .. ' "
A visitor to the campus during the summer
was Walter A. Zimmerman, general secretary
of the Bangkok, Thailand, Y.M.e.A., and the
only American secretary in Thailand. He
was on furlough and with Mrs. Zimmerman
and their two children was visiting in Pitts'
field, Mass. Mr. Zimmerman was general sec'
retary of the Van Wert, 0., Y.M.e.A. before
going to Thailand when the Y.M.C.A. was
organized there in 1930.
E. V. Painter '15, trainer for the past 12
years of the pennant,winning N ew York Yan'
kees, was a visitor to the campus immediately
after the World Series. While visiting the
College he discussed the possibilities in the
field of physiotherapy with College officials.
Raymond P.Kaighn '93, chairman. of the
instruction committee of the trustees, has spent
the past month on the campus. He is assisting
in the study of the curriculum of the College
and is also completing his book on retirement.
SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE BULLETIN
Volume XV OCTOBER, 1941 Number 10
Published monthly, except June, July" August and
January, by the International Young Men's Christian
Association College, Sprin\!field, Mass. Entered as Second
Class Matter at Springfield, Mass., under the Act of
August 24, 1912.

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