Colebrook Academy - Clipper Yearbook (Colebrook, NH)

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C Q MM E N C E M EN 'T AC'TlVl'TlES 19433

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BOYS' BASKETBALL Colebrook Academy played basketball this past winter in spite of all the difficulties. Some of the basketball trips were taken by car and some by bus. At first fifteen boys came out for basketball, but at the end of the season there were only ten. The team played some veg fast and close games during the season. About two weeks before the' first game, Coach Sezak was called into the Navy and the headmaster, Mr. Hounsell, took his place. . Colebrook's first game at Stratford started our Nnot so success- ful as planned basketabll season on December ll. At the end of the first quarter, Colebrook led 15 to 7. During the last quarter Cole- brook could not close the gap, the result of the second and third quarters, and Stratford defeated us 48 to 55. Colebrook downed Groveton in the first home game. In the last quarter our boys played the best ball of the season and held their opponents to one point. The game ended 27-26 in our favor. On January 15, Colebrook, under their third coach, Richmond Stickney, played Gorham. Both teams played defensive ball during the second quarter., The last half of the game was exciting with Gorham trying to close the leadvddeh Colebrook had held from the start. They failed, and the game ended Colebrook 25, Gorham 20. Stratford's game at Colebrook was scheduled to be very close and in the first half this was true. Both teams played good basketball, and at the end of the half the score was 17 to 16 in Stratford's favor Du ing the second half Stratford took the lead and the final score was 57-H5 in their favor. Although the floor at Pittsburg was small, Colebrook, on January 26, was able to overpower its weaker rival, winning 51 points to Pittsburgfs 21. Colebrook lost to Groveton on our second trip away. Groveton took the lead at the beginning of the game. The minutes of the second and third quarters ran by, and we were still losing ground. We could not close the gap in the last quarter and the game ended with Groveton 29, Colebrook 19. The last out-of-town trip was taken by bus to Gorham. The game started out well, but Gorham led at the end of each of the first three quarters. The last eight minutes of play saw Colebrook score eighteen points and held Gorham to fiveg but it was too late to win, and the score ended 40 to 54, a six point defeat. All of the Colebrook team played in our second game with Pitts- burg. Colebrook led all the way through the game which ended with a score of 54-24 in our favor. BASEBALL Due to the lack of transportation Colebrook Academy was not able to have its regular baseball schedule this year. The results of our games are as follows: Colebrook 29 Canaan 123 Colebrook 21 Canaan 73 Colebrook 2 Stratford 183 Colebrook 6 Stratford 15. , -58-

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