Avon Old Farms School - Winged Beaver Yearbook (Avon, CT)

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Back Row Cleft to right? Mr Tongue Holmes Schravettt Wire OBrien Rovettr Weiss Stlllge bauer Grossman Mr Cochrane Center Row Cleft to nghtj Wardrop Wood Scovrll Crawford V Vrerrng Bogmo Henschel Morrow Burney Durphey Lapham J Wells First Row Cleft to rrghtj T Pettrngrll Daniel G Vrerrng Cunningham Welch D Davls C Davis Tracy A Pettmgrll Brown Mtchaux Street VARSITY FOOTBALL RECORD Avon Monson Avon W1lbraham Avon 4 Cranwell THE 1958 FOOTBALL SEAS N The 1958 Avon football season was marked by experiences whrch many of us will long remember From a spectator s pornt of vrew the team faced only utter defeat but as most of us know although we fell to the depths of defeat each game was a hard fought uphrll battle and contalned a strong element of moral satisfaction rn that on many occasrons the team very nearly defeated so called overpowerrng opponents The team arrrved back at Avon th1s September only to d1scover that the first game would not be played untrl October as two of our most serrous rivals had dropped from the schedule The dtsapporntment lasted but a few days for the three teams which we would encounter were of hrgh potentral We realrzed that rt was t1me to start cracking helmets and concen trate on the earnmg of these three most tmportant wms Durlng the three week perrod prlor to the en gagement with our flrst challenger the practtce field echoed to spnrnted shouts of confidence A coach s con ceptlon of the boys would probably state that the team had a better than even chance of producing success since rt did have some expertence B111 Welch Nlte Tracy and Al Pettrngrll had all been starting backfi ld members on last years football team Such a ba k field had the potential to release an extremely danger ous offensrve attack Our weakness was tn the line Chuck Davis and Terry Bradley were the only return mg upsprouts from a year ago but such smcere foot ball mmded boys as Langdon Brown Porter Danlel Dave Davrs George Vrerrng and two new boys Tom Pettrngrll and Kirk Mrchaux worked hard together to produce a real fighting machine Monson was to be our first opponent A year ago Avon went up to Monson Massachusetts wtth an ex cellent eleven only to bow to a heavy team by the un decisive margtn of two touchdowns after exhrbrtrng a spectacular show of football strength Thrs year s team went into the game with an almost spiritual desrre to avenge thns loss in fact many of them had burned with this revengeful attrtude throughout the entire summer We gave Monson a great fight During the first half - - . f , A . 41. 4 ' ' 7 I 9 Y I l ! - v 1 - 3 - y , , - , y , y y v y - 3 - y 1 - , , y - t - . y - , 1 1 . ' 3 ' , . r . . . R a , 5 , I. ' ! 5 . , ' , . . . 1 a ' ' , . 3 . . ' 1 1 , 1 1 x 7 . . , a 1 ' . . . , 7 l 3 ' ' 9 . - Q ' 1