Braintree High School - Wampatuck Yearbook (Braintree, MA)

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Field Hockey year! new team! new girls! and ( ' ven some new sticks! This year. al)ove all years, mai’ked a grand display of talent and beauty from the fairer sex of dear old B. II. 8. i ' are pleased to say that many of these girls were fiom the senior class which helped to create enthusiasm. Well! why shoiddn’t we have a good team with such a keen coach, Alice Daughraty, perfect captain, Dot Johnson, and smooth manager. Dotty Beere. The hockey season, which opcaied October 6 at Scituate consisted of a ten game schedule, two games each with Scituate, Ilingham, C’anton and Stoughton and one each with Walpole and our own football boys. The girls emerged from their last battle November 17 having won three, lost five, and tied two. This is what you might call nice going and 1 thitde we all should take our hats off to these girls as they march by. Mention is due Dot Johnson first who pla 3 ' ed (this a ' ar as well as other vears) such a swell game. Then Kempie Morrison, the petite cannon ball, who makes the best kiiul of a goalie. Then we might men- tion the others just briefly Bennie Jean Young, Chickie Wheeler, Marv C ' ampbell, Lulla, and manj ' others whose names are too numerous to mention here. Braintree High .salutes all the girls who turned out for hockev and helped B. H. S. to climb to fame. Probabh ' the game which inter- ested eveiyone most was the tilt be- tween the hocke.v girls and the foot- ball team. Let me say that although the girls were trimmed the v didn’t give in without a fight! With all the good matei ' ial in the second team there is no doubt but that we ' ll be going places in the future. Thus comes to a close another brilliant, if not altogether succe.ssful, 3 ’ear with a bright lookout for the 3 ' ears to come. B. H. S. Girls in Action PAGE 15

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Football OACH Walter “Sugar” Kane and Assistant Coach Bud” Hawkes are loud in their praise of the 1939 Football Team. Linemen largely responsible foi- the fine showing of the team were: ends, Charlie Brown, Bol) Currie, and Bud Robinson; tackles. Blackie Williams, and Bud Pollock; guards, Russ Oliver, .Jim Jenkins and Joe Taylor; and George, Erwin at center. Brown and Currie were i)laying their first season as regulars but performed like veterans. Robinson, a newcomer to Braintree High, was a standout on the defense, and be- cause of his speed was frequently shifted to the backfield on the of- fense. The only veteran linemen were Williams and Oliver. These two boys finished their third year of varsity football in grand style, and the large holes they ripped in enemy lines were an important factor in the team’s scoring. Bud Pollock was the outstand- ing defensive lineman, while Jen- kins and Taylor contributed no small part to the team’s success. George Erwin’s middle name ought to be “dependable.” Playing nearly every minute of every game, George never made a bad center. Backfieldmen who saw most ac- tion were Capt. Jim Bewley, Mur- ray Smith, Gerard Clougherty, Tommy Huleatt, Tony Avitabile, and Knobby Aumen. I3ewley was the signal-caller and best blocking back, while Smith was the kicker, passer, and leading scorer. Both are candidates for the All South Shore Eleven. . Clougherty was the shiftiest back Braintree has seen in many a moon, and along with Tommy Huleatt, will be available again next season. Avitabile and Aumen were a couple of hard crashing backs. The former is only a sophomore and should make quite a name for him- self in the next two years.

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Cross Country J ACK of veteran mateiial failed to prevent Coach Aldo Chiesa from prodnciii” ' another winning cross country team as his harriers came out on top in five of their eight meets. The win and loss record, however, does not tell the whole stoiy. Two of the thrt ' e losses were by small margins, while the team was the first in the history (d ' the school to defeat both Quincy and North (Quincy in the same year. ( ' aptain Diz Davis was the outstanding runner on the scpiad, as h( lomiK ' d home first in seven of the eight meets. Against Rockland, Diz finished second when he was stricken with cramps and forced to reliiupush his lead. Diz won most of his races by good margins and in near record time. The suiprise ):)ackage of the year was Bill Lavery. Bill, who still has anotlu ' r year, iinjiroved with each meet, and ended the season in a blaze of glory as he tied with Davis for first place in the season’s finale against Quincy. Another junior and first year cross country man who was among the first to cro.ss the finish line in each meet was Stevie Stevenson. He and Lavery will be a hard pair to beat next year. Other lettermen were: Herb Nickerson, Don IMcKeever, Johnny .Smith, Joe ’alle, Loiing Britton, Tom Pitt.sley, Robert Harlow, Jobie Jackson, and Bill Sargent. Of these, the first foiu ' will be lost b}’ graduation. This still leaves a wealth of material when you consider that it onl}’ takes five men to make a cross country team. Other boys who were out there all year giving their best for Braintree High were: A1 DelPico, Pats} ' Leo, Leon Harris, Wessie Bean, Malcolm Phillips, and Fred Trapp. Over the Hills and Far Away PAGE 16