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

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Illini HOCKEY Standing Cleft to nghtb Lapham Weiss Van DeWater Mr Kilgour Toogood Chew Beatson Plants Fawcett Tracy W N Gordon Walker Tosi Vetterlem Hovud Mr Saxby Kincaid Betley Stewart Seated Cleft to nghtb Schiavettr Warner Skemp Goodrich Bradley Fairchild W Robinson Sumner BASKETBALL Standing Cleft to rightj : Mr. Carney, Shinners, Underwood, Greene, Siegel, Rickard, Basine, Michael- son, Reiss, Lynch, Steinberg, lgo Kneeling Cleft to rightjz Camp, Gibson, Alves, Daniel, Gallo, J. Wells, Rozinsky, Dodd, Carey, K. Tierney

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9 o BQ fm 'n Q Back Row fleft to rrghtl Rowse H Muller Burton Rerss Henderson Gorman Sagal Mr Knlgour Front Row Cleft to rnghtb Guastamachxo Nary R Duff L Turner Dodd Boyce G Wells CLUB FOOTBALL RECORD Avon 6 Choate CLUB FOOTBALL In most cases the mayorlty of Avon s varslty foot ball teams have been made up of older students junrors and senlors who have the advantage over thelr lower form companions rn s1ze 1f not nn anythlng else But who wxll fill the srze twelve cleats of our varslty team after many of 1ts members have graduated? It was rn answer to th1s presslng questxon that Coach James K1l gout organized the club football team a group of eager young lads who reallzlng that they were not as strong or powerful as thelr varslty compatrnots looked to the future when they would assume a pos1t1on on the var stty team when the others had gone Yet these scrappy youngsters were not to be un derestlmated nn thenr potentral, for they showed a dog ged determlnatlon whrch was easlly noticeable in the rough and tumble practlce sessnons whrch they rn dulged nn every weekday afternoon The team was as sxsted rn coachmg at tnmes by Al and Tom Pettrngrll who often stepped out of thenr roles on the varsrty team to help Mr Krlgour Unfortunately the club team s only game wrth a nenghbormg school ended m nts defeat but not wlthout a long and hard battle led by Sagal Duff Gustamachno and Rowse Yet wm or lose lf was all a part of a mayor plan for these young sters to develop thexr potentral mto the stuff of whtch the varsrty team IS made I an kk K ,gzgij , ,t ,A t if .. x X .ap V J l . 24, 1 , - . ln V - , . l ' ' l f f, ' X ' .Vff M R l 1 5 Q li' I 3 y - . a 1 ' Q a n 1 - . 1 I Y Y ' Y ' , 3 I ' y - . . . . - 7 , . s - I I Q , . . , I n , . - , 1 .7 . Y 1 ' . , , - . . D 138

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f a I Q iff? 4 ' , In water Cleft to rrghtj Phxlhps G Vnermg Fmlayson C Davns Hampton Hartxgan Lapndus Seated fleft to rrghtj Henschel Tallaferro Cluxton R Kmkade W N Gordon Merrxll G Brown Choate W Turner Wrllrams Thxrd Row Cleft to rrghtb Mr Gunther G Wells Usrch Lawrence Hoyt Street Marks Antolnm T Browne Law Fourth Row Cleft to rlghtj Draper L Turner Hadden Scovrll Remauer fmgrj Noyes fmgrj VARSITY SWIMMING RECORD Hotchknss Torrrngton Avon Avon Wlllxston Cheshire Avon Avon Wtth the begmnlng of the swrmmrng season Avon once agam began formtng a team In addmon to the returnmg varsrty men led by captam Chuck Davis new names Dave Draper Tom Choate and jrm Tall aferro appeared on the swrmmmg roster Several outstandrng performers shone throughout the season Tom Choate was a frequent wrnner con srstently breakmg school records Pete Antoltm shat tered backstroke records a number of tlmes and also broke the one for the 1nd1v1dual medley Flrst places were also achreved by Davrs Brown and Draper Avon s first opponent of the season was Hotchkrss Although Antol1n1 broke his own backstroke record and Choate set a record IH the 100 freestyle we were defeated rn the last relay Our next meet was agamst a very strong Torrtngton Hxgh School team Choate once agam bettered h1s trme tn hrs specnalty whrle the Avon Avon Hopkms Grammar Deertieldj V Avon Westmrnster freestyle relay team of Davls Draper Henschel and Talraferro set a new school mark but here agaxn we were unable to wm The thlrd meet lrke the succeed mg two was hard fought but was dlsappomtmgly lost Three records were broken m the next contest wnth Wnlltston but that wasn t enough to wm the battle Antol1n1 for the thlrd consecutlve tlme lowered the backstroke record followed by Choate ln the 200 yard freestyle The freestyle relay team of Draper Marks Vlermg and Davls also swam tts way to a new school record After these first dlsappomtxng meets Avon gamed a much coveted vnctory over Cheshrre Academy as Gar vm Brown took first nn the butterfly wlth Btll Gordon followmg for second place Antol1n1 and Wllllams captured the first two places m both the backstroke and the mdrvxdual medley Choate swam hrs frrst 200 yard freestyle settmg a new school mark while second 34 ' 52 50 ' 36 Avon ........ 34 Windham H. S. ............ 42 Avon ........ 36 Canterbury J. V. ........,. 49