Glen Cove High School - Profile Yearbook (Glen Cove, NY)

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Page Eighteen THE RED AND GREEN FOOTBALL With the opening of school began the football season. What a sensation it was that first afternoon to see so many out on the field. Everyone wanted to throw the ball. How funny it seemed to try to throw the spiral pass! Captain Petroccit was seen talking over many of the problems with our coach. The first few days were spent in doing light work, but when the football material for the team had arrived, hard scrimmage began. Our coach, Mr. Gribbin had a hard time to pick a suitable back field. He wanted to keep Kabachnik on the end because of his good work there the year before. fter practicing for about a month, we received a challenge to play at Oyster Bay on October 2nd. Due to the presence of Dr. Mace of Port Washington, we were told to play only our first formation, but even this was too much for the Oyster Bay boys. With Wheeler, Kabachnik, Petroccia and Sheehan, in the back field, it seemed as if we were going to score one hundred to nothing. When Powers, Oyster Bay’s star halfback, carried the ball only once, and was heavily downed by Cohen on left end for a big loss, he immediately refused to carry the ball again. After forty minutes of one-sided playing, Glen Cove won by a score of thirty-seven to nothing. Now that we had won out first game of the season, we were determined to win the championship of Nassau County. The next Monday at 3:15 found us all on our field ready for practice, and the formation of new plays. Our next victim was Adelphi Academy of Brooklyn, to be played the coming Saturday. Because of the hard game they had played against us the year before, we were determined to defeat them. The day on which we motored to Adelphi was very warm. When the Brown and Gold eleven came upon the field, we were almost dumbfounded. What a husky bunch of men! We looked like midgets in comparison with them, but with a little encouragement from Mr. Gribbin, we were ready to begin our fierce battle. In the first eight minutes of play, Sheehan made two touchdowns. The old saying, “The heavier they are, the harder they fall” was certainly true. As soon as Kabachnik got his hand on the pigskin, they did not know where to run. Making gains of forty and fifty yards, four times did he carry the ball safely across for a touchdown. Dione, the right end of the Red and Green, was ripping the Adelphians out of the air right and left. In the last minute of the game, the forward pass was thrown by Sheehan to Cohen, which resulted in a touchdown. Thus we returned victoriously to Glen Cove with a score of forty-four to nothing. This overwhelming victory put such courage into our men that we were determined to defeat all the other teams. The next game, with Lynbrook on October 16th, was at Glen Cove. This was our first home game, and turned out to be a very easy one for the Red and Green. Lynbrook was stunned by Glen Cove’s line plunging and their stonewall line while on the defensive. The play was not very spectacular, except for the brilliant fake forward-pass of Kabachnik. This game resulted in another easy victory for Glen Cove, thirty-four to nothing. As we were to go to Port Washington next, we were taught new plays, that we might baffle our oU and bitterest enemy. The field was covered with cindeis, but this did not stop us. We had Port Washington always on the defensive. The game was another real walkav»«.v. j.'or every tackle the Glen Cove boys made, you could t ertr a Port man getting up groaning from his unexpected collision with the field. Port could not hold back our tackle plays. We marched from one side of the field to the other, smashing their line to pieces. The game finally resulted in another victory for us with the one-sided score of thirty-four to noth-

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THE RED AND GREEN I’age Seventeen 1915 Edith Germaine is with her parents in Florida. Nathan Levin graduated from New York University, and is living in Bridgeport, Conn. Edna Springmann is married to James Gillis, of New York. They have a daughter, Naomi, one year old. Nathan Wolpert is a mechanical engineer. He works in New York. 1916 Julia Dobris is a stenographer in New York City. Rena Ludiam is married to George Schoelles, of Sea Cliff. Florence Perkins is married to iMr. Balton and lives in Sea Cliff. Abraham Kabnick is finishing his course in dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania. Mabel Duryea is specializing in English and Elocution at Syracuse University. Ralph Hedger married Bessie Brisbon. He is in business in Brooklyn, where he lives at 1764-Bed ford Avenue. 1917 Helen Grant is a typist in New York, where she lives. Esther Brause is finishing her course at Cornell University. Percy Cowan is a Junior at Princeton. He is a member of the Princeton Quartette. Ruth Davis is a linotype operator in the Glen Cove Echo Office. Theodore Maliesky is studying chemical engineering at Polytechnic Institute,, New York. Stephen Whearty is completing his course in Chemical Engineering at Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. 1918 The following are away at school: Meyer Cantor—Law—Columbia University. Roderick Hallock—Ministry—Wesleyan University. James Matthews—Dentistrj—University of Pennsylvania, EdwavJ .smith—Swartmore College. ftichard Myers—University of Rochester. Elizabeth Fyfe is employed by the Western Electric Company. 1919 Mary Casey is a stenographer in New York City. Albert Dombrowsky is a cadet at West Point. Luanna Fadrowsky is a stenographer in the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York.. Bertha Hathaway is working at the office of the Gas Company, Glen Cove. Theresa Levin is living in Bridgeport, Conn. The following are continuing their studies further: 1'rancis Coughlin—Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. Arthur Buxenbaum—Columbia University. Josephine Howell—University of Syracuse. George Trespass — Accountancy — University of Syracuse. 1920 Mary Burke is living at Syosset, L. I. Helen Cocks is teaching in the kindergarten of the Glen Cove Public School. Charles Daily has a position in a bank in New' York City. Julia DeVine is a stenographer in the Long Island City Railroad office. Alice Parliman is a stenographer in an Import and Export Office in New York. Estelle Robbins is a stenographer in New York. Clinton Snayd is w'orking in the Oyster Bay Post Office. Edmond Townsend is taking a post-graduate course at Friend’s Academy. Andrew Varga is working in an Insurance Office in New York City. ■ The rest of the class are at school as follows: Katherine Bessell—Oswego Normal School. Dolly Brause—Cornell University. George Breuer—Colby College, Maine. Elizabeth Chapman—Yassar College. Meyer Dobris—St«ic College, Albany. George Doran—Fordham College, New York City. Jean Fyfe—Barnard College. Sophie Greenberg—Pratt’s Institute. Dorothy Hawkins—Brown’s Salon Studios, New York. Ruth Levin—Bridgeport Normal School. Ruth Markle—New Paltz Normal School. Loretta Matthews— Brown’s Business School. Marcella Murtha—Jamaica Training School. Julius Tenke—Engineering—Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. Grenville Vale—Colby College, Maine.

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THE RED AND GREEN Page Nineteen Football Team of 1920 Champions of Nassau County ing. It seemed as if Port were out of our class. The next encounter, with Marquand of Brooklyn at our field, turned out very disastrously for us, although we won the game by twenty to nothing. Sheehan, our line plunging half back, broke his collar bone when he made a flying tackle in one of the kick-offs. The Hanson Place boys were simply outclassed, and the issue was never in doubt from the time that Kabachnik and Petroccia in the first two minutes of play, put over the first touchdown for Glen Cove. Overwhelmed with confidence from our five successive victories, we accepted a challenge from Poly Prep at Brooklyn. This was our first and only defeat of the season. The game began, and when one fumble was made by one of our eleven, it was all over. We just lay down. Much credit must be given to Captain Petroccia for his splendid work in keeping the team together. The game was prolonged to dusk, but Poly outclassed us in every play. Glen Cove’s only touchdown was made by Hathaway when he recovered a fumble and ran forty yards across the goal. e returned to Glen Cove very much disappointed, but we resolved this would be our only-defeat. The next Monday afternoon found us in our classroom enjoying (?) a severe calling down from our coach. He was certainly right. This talk put new life into the team and we were once more out to cover up our defeat. The next game with Freeport at Glen Cove was to decide the championship of Nassau County. By defeating Freeport by another one-sided score, forty-six to seven, we won the championship of Nassau County. This game was played with great skill and vigor. The only touchdown made by-Freeport was from a splendid run by one of their players, who intercepted a forward pass. Near the end of the last quarter, Wheeler made a remarkable forward pass to Cohen, who was over the line, scoring the last touchdown for Glen Cove. On Thanksgiving Day, we played St. Francis