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

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Back Row Cleft to rrghtj Mt Efinget Marvrn Bohmer Frsher Proctor Rosenthal Wrcart Greene Front Row fleft to rrghtj Berry Place Gallo Garces Olson Emrrch Powers Wernstern CROSS COUNTRY RECORD Avon Avon Avon Loomrs Cheshrre Academy Avon Avon Choate Trrnrty Avon Yale Freshmen Avon Glastonbury Conard Deerfield Mt Hermon CROSS COUNTRY TEAM In rts thrrd year at Avon Old Farms the cross country term contrnued to rmprove When the first meet came rgrrnst Choate only ten days after school opened members of the team found themselves rn poor condrtron for lack of practrce Desprte the handrcap they ran exceedrngly well losmg only by the close score of 29 28 In thrs race Brll Powers showed prom use of the vrctorres whrch were to occur rn the meets to come as he broke Avons 76 mrle cross country record by three tenths of rr second After thrs rndecr srve defe rt the runners were more determrned than ever to get rnto top form In Avons second meet 1 trrfrnbular frffarr wrth Glastonbury and Conard Avon aparn suffered a heart breakrng defeat losrng by 1 pornt to Glastonbury al though easrly defeatrng, Conard Thrs was an extremely rnterestrng race as three of the finest preparatory school runners were competrng rn rt one from each school From the begrnnrng of the race Brll Powers led the pack and eventually won by 15 seconds over the second place runner thereby breakrng hrs school record by O 7 seconds Three Avon runners placed rn the frrst seven Searchrng for revenge Avon next took on Loomrs and soundly defeated rt 16 43 In thrs race there was a magnrfrcent three way tre for first place as three of Avon s runners crossed the finrsh lrne holdrng hands The team now hrttrng rts vrctory strrde beat the Trrnrty College freshmen rn rts next meet 18 45 wrth Powers wrnnrng hrs fourth race In thrs meet as rn the precedrng one Emrrch Garces Olson Place and Berry placed rn the scorrng For therr next contest the cross country team your neyed down to New Haven to face Yale freshman and Yale V. .................... 49 Avon ........ 45 Cornell ........................ 18 ' ........ 103 ..,..... 36 . ................ 22 134

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juntor varsrty teams as well as Cheshire Academy B111 Powers again dominated the field by fifty yards Emrrch placed fifth Olson srxth Garces eleventh and tn thrr teenth and fourteenth came Place and Berry Despite this fine display of running talent Avon lost by the close score of 56 39 to the Yale freshmen but whipped Cheshtre and the Yale juntor vars1ty by a margln of 62 and 10 points respectively In Bill Powers s1xth and one of his most xmpor tant races he broke his own course record by 13 2 seconds whrle leading Avon to a 27 29 upset victory over Deerfield In thrs race Emrtch and Olson were the decisive runners as they placed third and fourth knocking Deerfield s top runners out of the low scor ing positions Avons last two meets were the hardest of all as the team faced two of the best cross country clubs rn the country one of these the freshmen of Cornell Unr versity The date was October 1 and the place was Ithaca New York To COHCCIVC the strength of the Cornell freshman team rn this meet one must understand that the1r first s1x men had all run the mile under 4 30 in high school Another consideration was that therr course was three mules long instead of the usual prep school Zh mrle course Desprte these handrcaps Avon did extremely well losrng only 18 45 Powers placing a splendrd third defeated several of the best freshman cross country runners in the east Bill Emrrch also ran well placing tenth Other Avon runners placed elev enth fourteenth and fifteenth The Cornell freshmen later went on to wrn the rntercollege champtonshrp In the last race of the year the Avon team travelled to Mount Hermon to run rn the New England prep aratory school championships In this race Avon show ed that rt definitely was a school to be dealt with seriously rn cross country Brll Powers ran hrs best race of the year breaking the Mount Hermon cross country record by 10 7 seconds Incrdentally Mr Efxnger set the same record over the same course in his own running days twelve years ago It was good to have the record back ln the family showrng that Avon had a really fine prep school runner leadrng its team Not only did Powers run a good race but Olson Emrrch Garces Place Berry and Proctor all ran very impressively Mt Hermon won 22 36 but it was evident that Avon had the toughest school team that Mt Hermon had met all year Thus the cross country season came to an end with a half won half lost record Avon had tackled the toughest cross country competition rt could find rn the east and was never easily beaten . , . , ' x . , . . . . . Q 1 s ' - ' 1 ' 9 ' ' a 1 y ' 1 1 - ' 9 ' , . ' 1 s ' , ... . , . . , . , . . . a . ' . , v ' a x 1 1 . , . . a v ' n , . . , ' . ' , ' . . , .