BASKETBALL

BASKETBALL: Basketball is once again in full swing for our Subiaco Academy teams. As a result, we thought it might be nice to dig into our archives and share some of the earliest history of the sport at our Academy. From February 1921-January 1923, our “Periscope” editions noted how basketball had moved from a hobby, to a loosely organized team but without a coach, to a more organized team playing nearby cities in Logan county (cities such as Blaine, Ratcliff, Prairie View, Charleston, Branch, and Tokalon). Subiaco fielded two teams in those early years: the Varsity “Collegiate Five” (also called the “College Quintet") and the “Seconds” (also called the “College Seconds”) with just a student captain leading the efforts of each. We have two photos from the 1922-1923 team—one of the team and one of the starting five. We then have a photo and names for our more organized 1924 team (note the tall O.D. Rust, for whom our present Oskar Rust gymnasium is named). In November 1924 we then saw the building of a new clay basketball court for juniors and all new beginners to the sport. Subiaco would then field a total of eight internal teams that were known as the “Minor League.” They would go by the names: Workers, Slocums, Scholastics, Dare-do’s, Flashes, Comers, Uppies, and Subs.