Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2022 20:01:18 GMT -6
Hughes flew an airplane 350 miles per hour and not many people noticed.
The Purple Aces opened the season by beating Oakland City at the Coliseum and at least 1,000 people noticed.
After that, they went to Ohio and we all know how that turned out.
Lost to Ohio State, is what happened. 38-21. Then, curb-slapped Wittenberg 32-15.
All in all for the Sylker-men, a pretty good season, but most it happened in 1936, and we aren't interested in that. But at the end of the season, Slyker was offered the coaching job at Louisville and pondered it awhile, decided he'd ask for more money than U of L had offered -- and they turned it down. Louisville evidently wanted Slyker badly and ended up hiring an assistant coach, Leroy Timm, from Iowa State.
Whatever was afoot, Slick didn't see it as a way out of Evansville, and he was coaching basketball, football, playing golf and being administrative into the early 40s before entering county politics in 1944. He ran for sheriff that year after resigning at EC. Finished second in the Democrat primary.
This clip is from the Boonville paper, which did publish quite a bit of sports, mostly high school. But EC was a pretty big deal in the 1930s.
Sports were generally confined to basketball, horse racing and ring sports -- professional wrestling tended to draw pretty big crowds at the Agoga.
Anyhow, it's snowing, the Caribbean World Series looks like fun if you are in the Caribbean, which I am not.
The Purple Aces opened the season by beating Oakland City at the Coliseum and at least 1,000 people noticed.
After that, they went to Ohio and we all know how that turned out.
Lost to Ohio State, is what happened. 38-21. Then, curb-slapped Wittenberg 32-15.
All in all for the Sylker-men, a pretty good season, but most it happened in 1936, and we aren't interested in that. But at the end of the season, Slyker was offered the coaching job at Louisville and pondered it awhile, decided he'd ask for more money than U of L had offered -- and they turned it down. Louisville evidently wanted Slyker badly and ended up hiring an assistant coach, Leroy Timm, from Iowa State.
Whatever was afoot, Slick didn't see it as a way out of Evansville, and he was coaching basketball, football, playing golf and being administrative into the early 40s before entering county politics in 1944. He ran for sheriff that year after resigning at EC. Finished second in the Democrat primary.
This clip is from the Boonville paper, which did publish quite a bit of sports, mostly high school. But EC was a pretty big deal in the 1930s.
Sports were generally confined to basketball, horse racing and ring sports -- professional wrestling tended to draw pretty big crowds at the Agoga.
Anyhow, it's snowing, the Caribbean World Series looks like fun if you are in the Caribbean, which I am not.
