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

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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

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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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Page Twenty THE RED AND GREEN Preparatory School of Brooklyn. This was a very one-sided game. We were entirely too strong for them, and could do anything we wanted with very little resistance. The game was not very exciting and resulted in the score of fifty-two to nothing. We had already disbanded for the rest of the season when we heard that the Corning Team— the champions of Steuben County—had challenged us to play a post-season game. Immediately Glen Cove accepted. The boys arrived on Friday, December 2nd, and were taken to the homes of the boys on the team. The game, which proved to be too fast for them, was the best ever witnessed in Glen Cove, and after forty-eight minutes of excellent playing on both sides, ended with Glen Cove triumphing by a score of thirteen to six. The regulars, who played in almost every game, were as follows: Cohen Shorenstein Matthews Chapman Springman Sanford Doran Wheeler . . . . Quarterback Kabachnik . Right Halfback Hathaway Sheehan Petroccia (Captain 1 . Substitutes: Dione, Papsidero, l'rousdell, Doxey, iMartin, O’Brien, Cofield, Elliott, Cocks, Fyfe, and McCarthy. Much credit is due Manager Johnston, who was always around, rain or shine, to help the team in any possible way. If any one was hurt, he was always handy with first aid. Letters were awarded to fourteen of the squad. Of these fourteen, eight will graduate, but Mr. Gribbin says that he will have enough material for next year’s team, of which Doran was elected Captain. The last event of the season was the football banquet, which has now come to be an annual affair, greatly enjoyed by the football team. Looking back on Glen Cove’s most successful season, let us not be content with the victories gained. Let us work as hard next season to again retain our championship. BASKETBALL It seemed as if we were not to have a basketball team, for we could not find any place to play. When we found out that we could use Pembroke Hall, what a thrill ran through all of us! Mr. Gribbin immediately ordered uniforms, and practice was started. Manager Alger Chapman began scheduling games and soon many challenges were received. Captain Sheehan began with Mr. Gribbin to organize a suitable team. This was not difficult because everyone knew just who would make the team. It seemed impossible to surpass Kabachnik and Hathaway as guards, Sheehan and Cohen as forwards, and Springman as center. Practice was held every afternoon, and the boys soon had an “eye” on the basket. Our first game was held at Great Neck, January 29. It was a rainy night, but this did not discourage us in the least. At the end of the first half, Great Neck was leading us by several points, but we became accustomed to the baskets anil easily surpassed them. We did not play such a good game because we were not yet in shape, but nevertheless we defeated them by a score of 31 to IB. The next practice found us remedying our mistakes, and learning new signals. Our next game was with Rockville Center on our home court. We expected this to be a hard game and so we prepared for such. The score was close throughout the whole game, neither team leading by more than several points. When the final whistle had blown, we learned that we had won by a scant margin of one point, 28 to 27. The next three games were easily won. From Hempstead 57 to 18; Mineola 43 to 16; and from Lynbrook 51 to 15. On February 14, we were to play Rockville Center again, this time on their court. Our fellows practiced hard for this game, and that Saturday night found them in perfect condition and ready to show their opponents how to play hard basketball. We outclassed them in all ways. We played “rings” around them, and lost for them their chance for the championship by a score of 22 to 17. Now that we had defeated a good contender for the Nassau County Championship, we had great confidence of keeping the banner which we had won from Oyster Bay. Our next game was but a scrimmage with Mineola for our game with Oyster Bay. We defeated Mineola 52 to 12, and