Braintree High School - Wampatuck Yearbook (Braintree, MA)

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Ready, on your mark, get set. BOOM!! They are off with a kick of flashing spikes and flying cinders. As the Braintree boys break the tape across the finish line the officials check their watches and blink their eyes. Such was the remarkable suc- cess of Coach Pop Toolin ' s track team, which had lost many of its stars from the previous year. This team lost only one dual meet and that was to highly touted Weymouth. Bruce Whyte and Ronald Pipes, the two veterans, along with Paul Wood, Fred Martin, Bob Coyer, and Joe Carlozzi contributed greatly to the team ' s success. 1

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All anl J-2) ale Watch Out! A herd of horses? No, it ' s only the Cross Country boys as they run gleefully down Monatiquot Avenue lead- ing all other teams. The runners did their usual good work this year not losing a dual meet and coming in a close second in the South Shore Meet. Leading the boys were Ron Joslin and Cliff Peterson — and of course — Pop Toolin fifty paces a- head in his car — he ' s a great sport. Look- ing into the future we see our Olympic stars of 1960 — Russ Sweezey, John Rad- cliff, and Gene Elliott — running around the hills of Europe, winners as usual.

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to we l l C oo 7 et tc wit Ah, strange things happen! Those are the famous words of Coach Crowell, and they usually did as Braintree ' s big sticks blasted away at opposing pitchers. The outstanding triumphs of the season were double wins over arch rival Weymouth and a supposedly powerful Thayer club. The Wamp ' s big guns at the plate were Ron Abell, Bob Bregoli, Don Mclnnis, and Jim Girouard. Defensive specialists were Fred Williamson, Bob O ' Leary, and Glenn Thompson. The team had a very impres- sive season of twelve wins and only two defeats, one of which was to Milford in the play-offs for a berth in the Eastern Massa- chusetts Tourney. 1