Historical Association #3

[Wayne23]

1/1/1914: 2-0 start. We beat two good teams, one away, one at home.

Galilee was great. We get a couple of week there in the summer. I wish it was more.

1/15: 16-1, 6-0, #13, RPI #11. 1 up on 2nd, 2 up on three other teams.

Henry Ford is a good, progressive man. Workers in most factories work 9 hour days for $2.40 a day (In New England’s textile mills it’s MUCH worse, 55 hours a week for $11 is the norm.). He just instituted an 8 hour day for $5 a day. Hope that spreads. Josephus does, too. He believes that if we pay higher wages our workers will be able to purchase more of our products.

1/29: 19-2, 9-1. #13, RPI #8. +12.0 PPG, +11.4 RBs, +1.8 TOs. 2 game lead in the A10. We lost to Dayton on a night when the shots wouldn’t fall.

2/12: 23-2, 13-1, #10, RPI #10. Jobe is back starting, Gloe is first big man off the bench, and for now it’s working really well. 3 game lead in conf.

2/26: We end the regular season 27-2, 17-1. #8, RPI #5. +14.4 PPG, +13.0 RBs, +2.4 TOs. We win the A10 by 4. Tev Jett leads us with 15.7 PPG, 4.9 assists. Ty Jenk gets 13.5. PF Kyle Smey gets 12.0. Seth Hixx leads in RBs with 7.2.

[Wayne23]

3/7: #9 seed Lasalle, 10-18, 7-11, in the quarter finals. Beat them by 25 at home.

3/8: 80-67. 49-24 at the half and the final was as close as they got in the 2nd. 22, 6, 3 for Jett, 19, 8 for Jenk. +20 RBs.

#4 seed Sid Bona, 21-8, 12-6, in the semifinals. We won by 11 at home. Their strength is inside.

3/9: 69-72. Dang! It was close for 30 minutes. At that point they went on a 12-0 run to take an 11 point lead. We got it to three and had the last possession, but Tev Jett’s three missed. He had 25, 9, 5. 15, 7 for Smey. +12 RBs but poor shooting and fouls hurt us.

This will hurt our seed in the tournament.

28-3, 17-1. #9, RPI #9. We’re hoping for a #2, but a #3 is more likely.

3/12: #4 South. I’m disgusted. No doubt losing in the semifinals was a factor. We play Seattle, 21-9.

3/17: 72-41. It was never a game. 27, 6, 5 for Jett, 18, 5, 4 for Jenk. +12 RBs, +7 TOs.

#5 seed, #22 ranked Florida, 23-7, in the 2nd round. Is this the year we get to the round of 16?

3/19: 84-70. We scored 50 in the 2nd half. 28 for Jobe, 12, 14, 5 for Jenk, 15, 6, 5 for Jett, 13, 5 for Hixx. +10 RBs, 11 TOs.

This is a wonderful thing! My and our first trip to the Sweet Sixteen.

#8 seed Texas, 22-11, upset the #1 seed. We play them to earn a trip to the round of 8. They’re a better team than their record. We’ll need to play well.

3/24: 61-71. 23 TOs, season high. That was it. It led to us taking only 42 shots. We got to the round of 16 anyway.

4/3: #1 Syracuse wins it all.

4/4: Awards: Soph PG Tey Jett is A10 POY, Def. POY, and 1st team. Junior guard Ty Jenk\, senior C Seth Hixx, and junior PF Kyle Smey make 2nd team.

4/16: I need to replace all 3 assistants. Not good.

I get a decent #1 and #3, and a lousy #2.

4/23: I ask for another budget increase. Got $13,000!.

30-4, 17-1. First round of 16, first 30 win season. Overall, I’m 175-54, .764.

24 striking miners killed by National Guard troops in Colorado. Terrible.

[Wayne23]

5/1: We are now in the American Athletic Conference.

6/5: We see a PF we really like.

6/12: Didn’t get him, and there’s no one else.

6/26: 4 scholarships. We want 3 bigs.

6/29: An Austrian Archduke and his wife were assassinated yesterday. The reaction is huge. Josephus called and said he feels this will be the trigger that starts the war he has been expecting. He will move our money aro9und some to both protect it and to take advantage of the situation.

July 3: It’s another boy! Lawrence is our 6th son.

7/15: Tensions sly high throughout Europe, and almost to the same degree in the rest of the world.

7/30: The war in Europe has begun. President Wilson immediately announced that the U. S. will stay out of it.

8/21: We offer to a PG, 2PFs, and a C.

The Panama Canal finally opened.

9/18: We got the PG, #71. Lost 2 inside players.

Coaches Classic vs. #6 Indiana. Strong schedule.

Ernest Shackelford and his party are the first to make it to the South Pole.

9/25: Got a PF, #112, lost the other two.

10/2: Lost another one.

First day of practice. If we stay healthy we’ll do very well, but we’re not deep.

We’re tabbed to finish 2nd in our new Conf., behind #11 Memphis and ahead of UConn.

10/9: We got a PF, #150. Lost the other one. One more to go!

Trench warfare in Europe, particularly in France, is horrible.

11/6: 9 man rotation to start:

Junior Tev Jett is back at PG, and senior Ty Jenk is back at SG, subbing at PG. 3 players are sharing the subbing at SG, soph Lin Card, junior Paul Hask,
and soph Raul Angi, who will also sub at SF.

Starting at SF is junior Jim Gloe. Also subbing there is juco junior Matt Cape.

Frosh Sid Maye starts at PF and subs at C.

Soph Kyle Smey starts at C.

Senior Ron Jobe is academically ineligible. We hope to get him back for spring semester.

The war is bloody in Europe. No way to tell which side is stronger.

On a brighter note I just saw something called a “moving picture” with a man named Chaplin playing a little tramp. Very amusing!

[Wayne23]

11/13: Our first game, in the Coaches Classic vs. #3 seed, #6 ranked Indiana, ended 79-92. We clearly need to work on our defense, but this was, after all, the #6 team in the country.

A woman has invented, and is selling, something called a “brassiere.” Flora is laughing at how embarrassed I am about this.

12/4: 3-2, RPI #20. Tough schedule. We need to tighten the D. Jenk, Jett, and Smey are leading us on O, as expected.

12/25: 6-3, RPI #17. +4.8 PPG, +4.2 RBs, +1.9 TOs. Interestingly, no one man is getting many RBs, but as a team we’re doing great in that area.

Ron Jobe remains ineligible, so his college career is over.

[Wayne23]

1/1/1915: 0-1 start to AA Conf. play, but we played #20 Cincy there, and they may be our toughest conf. opponent.

1/29: 14-5, 8-2, RPI #15. +7.2 PPG, +5.9 RBs, +1.5 TOs. 1st in conf. 1 up on #18 Memphis and #20 Cincy.

Alexander Graham Bell conducts a telephone call that reaches across the whole country.

2/12: 18-6, 12-3, #20, RPI #16. Finally ranked! Up ½ game on #19 Memphis with 3 to play (They have 4).

2/26: We end the regular season 21-6, 15-3, #20, RPI #11. Alone in 1st by 1 game. +7.9 PPG, +6.3 RBs, +2.0 TOs.

The U. S. Coast Guard is established.

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Semper Paratus

[Wayne23]

3/9: #9 South Florida, 12-16, 6-12, wins the play in.

3/10: 73-54. 20, 11 for Smey, 17 for Maye, 10, 12, 7 for Jenk, 12, 4, 5 for Jett. 5 TOs.

#5 seed Houston, 16-12, 10-8, in the semifinal round. Beat them by 4 and 10.

3/11: 83-59. 21, 6, 4 for Jett, 17, 5, 4 for Smey, 14, 4, 4 for Maye. 8 TOs.

#2 seed, #17 ranked Memphis, 24-6, for the title. We beat them by 20 at our place, but they are a very good team.

3/12: 64-66. We fell way, way behind early, as many as 21. It was too much of a deficit. We got it to 2, but that was it. 19 for Smey, 7, 12 for Gloe. A season
high 23 TOs, 17 of them in the 1st half.

23-7, 15-3, #20, RPI #13.

#5 South. We deserved better. We play 16-14 Illinois.

3/17: 65-50. 22, 7, 5 for Jett. 14 for sub Raul Angi.

#4 seed, #15 ranked Duke, 22-10, in the 2nd round. This should be a battle.

3/19: 57-72. Poor bench play and poor shooting did us in.

4/3: #3 Kansas wins the title.

4/4: Awards: Tev Jett is AA Conf. Def. POY. Senior Ty Jenk made 1st team. Junior Tev Jett and soph Kyle Smey made 2nd team. I was named Conf. COY.

4/23: I’d still like more budget dollars. We got $13,500. One more increase and we’ll be able to buy the national gold!

24-8, 15-3, topped out new conference. Overall, I’m 199-62, .762.

[Wayne23]

5/1: We buy the East Gold, national and international basic.

5/8: The Germans sink the Lusitania. 128 Americans die.

Henry Ford announces that 1 million Model Ts have rolled off the assembly line. Amazing!

6/5: Some really good looking transfers.

6/12: No luck.

6/26: 5 scholarships. Probably 3 inside players.

Flora tells me child #7 is due at the end of the year. Will we have a seventh son or finally a daughter?

Czar Nicholas of Russia personally takes command of the Russian army.

Josephus says we are making money like we never have before. He finds it deplorable, as do I, but we cannot ignore a business opportunity. If we did, others
would take it up and nothing would be different.

8/21: We offer to 2 PGs, an SF, a PF, and a C.

9/18: Two recruit committed, an SF, #40, and a C, #50. We lost the other three and have offered to others.

No in season tournament this year. A very challenging schedule!

9/25: Got one, lost one. Got a PG, #601, but he’s been much higher every other month. We like him.

10/2: Got a C, #166. Lost another PG. We need a guard.

1st day of practice. We’re going to be really good. We go 7 deep.

10/9: Got the PG, #528. Not good numbers for either guard. They change once more, hopefully for the better.

The Germans are using some sort of a gas which seems to be poisonous. It either kills or horribly injures those affected, and if the wind changes it comes back to their side and hits theirs troops. Horrible weapon.

President Wilson, a widower, remarries in a quiet White House ceremony.

11/6: 8 man rotation to start:

Ty Jett is finally a senior. He’ll be missed. He starts at PG, subs at SG.

SG is wide open. Frosh Jay Brax starts, and subs at PG. Junior Raul Angi subs at both guard spots, and senior Paul Hask subs at SG.

Senior Jim Glose starts at SF, subs at PF and C. Senior Matt Cape subs at SF.

Frosh Ward Joon starts at PF. Junior Kyle Smey starts at C.

We’re pegged to finish 4th in conf. We’ll do better if we stay reasonably healthy.

Lots of bad news. In two related items, the KKK seems to be reviving. I saw a moving picture called, “Birth of a Nation.” It celebrated that horrible organization and all it stands for. My family is very well to do, but we have always treated the people who work for us as well as we can, and have always
let them know that they are as free as we are.

Bloody horrors of war in Europe. So many killed in the 2nd battle of Ypres. The two sides seem very evenly matched, which means the killing and maiming may go on for a very long time. Thankfully, my oldest son is only 8 ½ years old. One of my nephews is 16 and MAD to go to Europe, even though the U. S. is not involved. All of us are trying to talk sense to him, but he is young and foolish.

[Wayne23]

11/20: 2-0 start to the season. All 7 in the rotation looked good in both games.

One of our recruits didn’t sign. That means he won’t hit the Sat score. PG, and our lowest rated recruit.

12/4: 5-1, #22, RPI #15. Kyle Smey is putting up very good numbers, as is Ward Joon. We have three guards, Jett, Brax, and Angi, playing very well. We are using a three guard set at least half of the time.

12/11: 1 game week. We beat California by 16. Smey had 32, 14, and Jett had a triple double, 13, 13, 12, 3, 5.

12/25: 8-2, RPI #. +9.1 PPG, +8.3 RBs, +2.9 TOs. Lost one to Ga. Tech at home on a night when we were just awful. Smey is playing really well, and those three guards are still doing great work. SF Jim Gloe is our leading rebounder. So everyone is playing a part.

12/29: Benjamin was born this morning. 7th son. That’s supposed to be lucky!

[Wayne23]

1/1/1916: 1-0 start to AA Conf. play- 56-32. How in the world did we hold a team to 32?

The war in Europe is involving more and more countries. They’re beginning to call it a “World War,” and that is too accurate. I’m glad we’re staying out of it.

The President regularly speaks of how he will do all we can to keep it that way. Besides, our country is closely divided as to which side we would join if we did enter.

My family is making obscene amounts of money on this war but all of us would be thrilled if it ended this week. Sadly, it won’t.

1/15: 14-2, 6-0, #22, RPI #16. Alone in 1st, 1 up on #15 Cincy, 3 or more up on the rest.

We play Cincy there on the 20th and here on the 22nd, in a scheduling move that makes little sense.

1/29: 17-3, 9-1, #19, RPI #13. +10.6 PPG, +9.2 RBs, +3.6 TOs. 3 game lead in the AA Conf.

That PG did not hit our score. We offer to another PG.

2/12: 20-4, 12-2, 2 game lead. #14, RPI #14. 4 to play but 3 are away.

2/26: We end the regular season 22-6, 14-4, alone in 1st. +10.4 PPG, +9.4 RBs, +3.6 TOs.