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

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we had them on the run. The offense was churning perfectly. Within a few minutes of the second period, our attack moved the ball down to the three-yard line. We were halted by a strong forward wall, however, and were unable to score. Monson, at the time was ahead 6-0 and went on to score once again, bringing a close to the first half with the score 12-0. Up until the last four minutes of the second half there was a seesaw contest without any further scoring on either side. Avon was desperate, it had to score. Al Pettingill took to the air with his main target being Kirk Michaux. Kirk man- aged to get down-Held, but was quickly covered by Monson defenders and Pettingill's pass resulted in an interception by Monson men. During these closing minutes, Monson managed to increase their lead, through similar breaks, to 32-0. On Parents' Week End, Wilbraham came down as a possible New England champion. With such a strong opponent, the boys quickly recovered from the Mon- son defeat and fired again for the king As most of us will long remember this game turned out to be one of the most exciting and hard fought games we had ever had the privilege of playing or watching During the entire game a pelting rain soaked the field making the going rough for the fleet backs When the first half came to a close Avon had constantly pounded upon the door of Wilbraham but was unable to score, leaving the tally at 0-0. The second half was sensational. Avon linemen, Chuck Davis and Langdon Brown, continually pounded Wilbraham's big tackles. Bill Welch did a splendid job of manipulating the ball between his three backs, Pettingill, Tracy and Cun- ningham. One of the surprise stars of the game was Mike Fawcett, a lineman who turned in a brilliant performance. Avon just missed the scoring column when Al Pettingill managed to get around his left end, only to be confronted by the last three opposing tack- lers between him and the goal. Michaux and Brown moved from downfield quickly but were just a moment too late, and their blocks were to no availg Pettingill was brought down. Avon just missed, but Wilbraham succeeded in scoring twice, defeating a hardened Avon team, 12-0. Cranwell was our closing game. We were riddled by injuries and the spirit was not at its best. Al Pet- tingill and Chuck Davis were out with injuries suf- fered during the last game and were unable to render their services This game was a disappointing closing for us and we lost 30 14 but no matter how our record turned out the team will always be proud of that one game with Wilbraham which we fought for Coach Herb Cochrane i-0.1 if Q hw. .1 14 127 I - s ' Q 3 , . , . . N - I ,I t -A Y' I If . r, 3. g I 'fi ' ' 2 1' , - i . - A ' . if 'sr A ' 3 ,Y I ' A-ix' 4 , V , . p t ., . Q ' 2' -- . , 1 q . . . 4- 1 zr . is v K A W, Q ,-..rl,,.t-ag, , Y, tyaujfwv p at 4. 2-Q-V. H, s W ,311-.4 1 2 V ,x , gel 1 . M. ,-,,,,,,, 5 am -A Nm , . 'I 4 .f ' , -1 .ff-.wa 5 fy ' ' ' 'V J - , J- , at ,,..:. ,. - , ,Q . , 1 , fix. Q' t.,,lv -E - if Gfm, x-, 4, , -f ,. A ' s 4 , t 1, -- tin- U'-ls -

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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

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