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and still schedule enough games so that the friends of our sport in this
community can enjoy their favorite sport. Some have the conviction that it

adds to the morale to keep things moving mot only on a pre-war basis, but on

a@ war basis,

We are receiving many letters from the boys overseas, and many of them are
asking to be remembered to Earl Falkenstien, the affable financial secretary
in the athletic office. All the athletes were very fond of Earl Palkenstion
beceuse he was highly efficient but always pleasant to the boys when he was

forced to sometimes turn down their requests for extra tickets.

In 1923 the speaker inaugurated a plan at oe to determine the
conference championships in all sports. We called it the pentathlon scoring
sheet. A low score was a high. If a team finished in first place they were
given one point and if they finished in sixth place they were given six. It
was an idea to get teamwork among the coaches so that each coach would be
for the other fellow's sport. In the early days too many people placed too
_ much emphasis on the one sport and lost interest in the other sports. This
method of scoring has been followed by the Missouri Valley Conference and the
Big Six for a great number of yearse

By this reckoning Iowa State would win the Big Six pentethlon

scoring championship for the year 1944, They placed first in both indoor and

outdoor track, they tied for first in basketball, and they were second in