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

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1shed first B111 Emr1ch finrshed second and the Avon harrrers trounced the Chesh1re v1s1tors by a 19 55 count The team next met a powerful Choate team at Choate Needless to say B111 Powers ga1ned h1s fifth consecutrve VIC tory and rrght beh1nd h1m f1n1sh1ng a close fourth was B111 Emr1ch The VICIOIY was Choates though as the score was 23 37 1n the1r favor The last home meet of the season found the team facmg the favored Tr1n1ty team Team sp1r1t reached an unprece dented h1gh and 1ts dr1ve coupled w1th fme runnrng resulted 1n another Avon triumph th1s trme by a 25 32 score The season s seventh contest saw Avon battle the Wesleyan freshmen Wmnrng w1th ease Powers w1thout doubt 11ved up to all that was expected of hnm by the VISIEOIS Marvrn Berry and Duff also turned 10 fine performances The col legrates proved to be yust a l1ttle too strong and carried back to M1dd1etown a 20 35 w1n Scheduled next was a return match w1th Tr1n1ty Over confidence proved d1sastrous and the team lost by the 1den t1ca1 score by wh1ch lf had defeated Tr1n1ty 1n the first meet R1ck Duff m1ssed h1s first race of the season as he succumbed to a cold on the day of the race Weather plays a most rmportant part 1n the eventual out come of cross country meets and the team was soon to learn th1s the hard way journeymg to Deerfield the Avon repre sentatrves were greeted by torrents of ram The race was held nonetheless B111 Gordon and Carl Emmons turned 1n their best performances of the season Deerfield won 26 35 wh1ch w1n may be attnbuted to the 1nclement weather and thus unfavorable course Avon IS rndeed fortunate 1n bemg able to consrder 1tself a member of that assoclatxon wh1ch sponsors the New Eng land Preparatory Champ1onsh1ps Thus the team once agarn traveled to Deerfield The trrp was certamly worth whrle as Powers won Emrrch fimshed seventh and Berry placed twenty seventh Avon finished th1rd rn IES class Avon next encountered a squad made up of both Yale varsrty and JV runners B111 Powers sufiered one of the rare setbacks of h1s career as he lost to a Yale sen1or Avon ran well but lost 19 35 The last meet of the season was run agamst Forman B111 Powers found h1s old style and Dan Berry finrshed second The final score showed another Avon tr1umph the score bemg 19 35 So after a tough season an accountrng would show more losses than WIUS but w1ns and losses are but one way to guage the true merit of a team as Coach Efinger Wlll attest Team SPIIIE and sportsmanlrke compet1t1veness are also much to be desrred It would then seem that th1s was what the 1959 harrrer squad was m possession of There IS no doubt a great deal of talent to be developed 1n the l1kes of Dan Berry B111 Gordon Carl Emmons If th1s asp1rat1on IS reached the future looks brnght rndeed 'I29 . , . . . ' , - , , . 1 ' ' 9 9 . . , . . . . , ' ' 1 ' - 1 ' s ' ' 1 a , , - c u 9 ' ' 1 . . . , , . n , ' u , . ' - . 1 s ' . . , U . - . , , 9 ' I ' 9 , . . . . . . . . . ' y 7 - a ' s 1 - . , . . , 1

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11551 T -ode A v ' 'A' T-, ?:4 14 rw , - if A -14' iz gig iw- ' 11-.Q iv faq -v-04' 'Q Frrst Row fleft to rxghth Emrxch Powers Second Row lleft to rxghtb Berry R Duff Thrrd Row fleft to rrghtb Marvm Emmons Mr Etmger CROSS COUNTRY Durmg rts fourth year at Avon, cross country contrnued to flourrsh as a sport The team weakened by the loss of such top runners as Garces and Olson nonetheless worked hard to lxve up to the tradmon of fine cross country teams To krck off the season Avon met near by Loom1s Wrth Dan Berry unable to run because of a last mmute vrrus, the team found rtself hampered consrderably Mrlce McCorm1ck drd a commendable job as a fill ln but even hrs efforts were not enough Powers won by a large margrn and broke the exlstmg course record It was obv1ous from the start how ever that the team was lackrng rn depth Thrs latter factor resulted rn a 19 40 score The next contest was a trrangular affalr Competmg agamst Avon were near by Glastonbury and Conard Once agam B111 Powers fmrshed a strong first, and desprte the fact that he found support rn Berry and Dui? the team once agam floundered In the thlrd race of the year Brll Powers came wrthrn five seconds of bettermg hrs own course record agamst a strong Lenox team Dan Berry ran h1s best race of the season and fimshed fourth The teams hard earned efforts were to no avall as Lenox gaxned a 23 57 v1ct0ry Seekmg a vrctory Avon next met the Cheshrre Academy team By now, second nature to hlm B111 Powers agarn fin ti , . .7 . . - , : , . - ', 1 . . . G 3 . . , , ' a . ' a . , I . , ' , ' . Y ' 3 - A . 3 . 128

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Frrst Row Cleft to nghtj Chapxn Skemp Davld E Brooks Warner Mr Kxlgour Second Row Cleft to rnchtj Snllgebauer Voorhees Otto Kohn Cookrnan Tallaferro Catlm VARSITY HOCKEY In the wxnter or 1958 the 1dea came to a few stu dents avxd hockey players all to promote hockey as a wrnter sport at Avon Meetlng wxth the approval of the powers that be plans were then formulated for the constructlon of a surtable playlng rmk Thus rn the summer of 1959 came the reahzatron of th1s dream as the rmk was burlt Wrth the f1rst slgns of wrnter some twenty odd boys attended a meetmg of hockey prospects held by Coach Krlgour and Coach Saxby Mr Kllgour hlm self a hockey veteran havmg played for some years 10 xarrous Canadlan leagues pamstaknngly went over the basnc fundamentals as many of the candxdates were relatxvely new to the game Unfortunately mclement weather prevented any 1ce from formmg durrng the Chrlstmas recess The team had to begrn at the very bottom and 1ce crews were appoxnted w1th M1ke Fawcett as rcemaster The hockey team and varxous volunteers spent many a late nlght spraymg the r1nk so as to have enough 1ce rn trme for the openmg game The schedule ltself lncluded games mth such teams as Choate Lenox Salusbury South - 1 s y - 1 1 ' . Y ' . . . . . - v 1 1 r s y . ,- . . . . . 1 ' L v x 1 a s s . , . y . , . . . . V - . . , 4 7 s . . , - . L a 1 1