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ii `~»_ 14 · THE KENTUCKY ALU MNUS. 1 
ii ` ij The season was a success financially. Besides paying off the last of the debt   upon
  left over from `o6, (even as late as August, 1907, old claims against the Associa—   a stu
  tion kept coming in, of which the former management apparently knew nothing),   the e
i g the Association put more than $I,OOO in improvements on the grounds, part of   lz
,   _ which was a new fence.   Of T
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` Basket ball was growing in popularity. The men's team of this year, though,   this 1
is not winning the championship, was an unusually strong one. It consisted of   the \_
  . Barbee, `captain; \\Iilson, Fox, Post, Downing and Stone.   CMH
i The fact that football men were taking to basketball augured well for both  T COMM
` sports, for it is admitted that each is a splendid training for the other.   at th
i It won a majority of the college games, but lost to tl`e Lexington Y. M. C.  z` thm
~ ` A. and once to the Louisville Coliseum.  1 ,]
  The girls’ team was also an unusually strong one, consisting of Christine  N- {
i Pence, Bessie Hayden Esther Vaughn, Ruby Fleming, Nell \\·’allis, (captain),   be Or
. Margaret V\/anless, Mary Belle Peace, and Minnie Frost. Professor Leaphart   spew
. was the coach. It won all its games   Dubin
ii i About this time the name of the institution by act of the legislature was  .- { I
j changed from A. and M. College, though it had long been called "State College,"  ii me-
l` to State University. Kentucky University in this same year took the name   Colle;
` 1   “Transylvania Uuiversity."  Q Perm
I The baseball team of 1008 consisted of; First base, Capt. \\f, O. Alden; ? iu-l“lV
il, catcher, X. E. Stone; second base, I. S. (`rosthwaite; third base, \\V. \\f. Hillen-   the ll
  meyer; short stop, ]. B. Giltner; left held, C. E. Ellis; center field, Holton Cook;  , them
E right Field, H. R. Creal, pitcher, S Ii`. Caudill; coach, Professor Leaphart.   il
I This was a strong team. It played a schedule of 18 games, winning 1; out  `· credi
l of the IS, Six of these games were played on a trip to Indiana. It lost only  Q realiy
  ~ I ` one game on this trip-—one of the three played with l.)el’auw. In the Kentucky T diinii
t p   series, it won three out of the four games with Transylvania, two out of the ,  nionc
· Q. three with Georgetown, the single game with Berea, and split even in the two   from
A _ 7 i games with Central.  . »]
   '_ In track athletics there were no intercollegiate meets,  VQ. B H
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_; The Faculty Committee on Athletics for this year wert t\. M. Miller, (`hair-  i. {mn;
if man, Commandant Corbusier, A. M. \\'ilson, l)r. _l. \\f. l’iyor, and l·l. E. Curtis,   Bnsk
{ Treasurer.  Q TWC,
, ·3 This Committee held almost daily meetings at noon in conjunction with thc Y
it student committee, consisting of one member from each class, as was also the  ~` \
I   custom two years previous.  _` Hcuf
  The strict accounting system, established when the new management uudt·r— ‘ and
  took to pay off the indebtedness of the Association, was still maintained. No  ii buck;
ig expenditures were authorized except upon requisition voted in meeting by the IY 
’   joint committee, and no moneys would be paid out by the 'l`re·.tsurer, except   not Y
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