Greenwich High School - Compass Yearbook (Greenwich, CT)

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Fast, rough, tiring 1 that was Soccer IT.even replaced football in many high schools, but it was still trying out its legs at Greenwich High. There was a group of ready and willing fellows to try their skill at it, and though they lost their two games with the experienced Norwalk squad they attracted fans and showed enough improvement to suggest that the game would some day become one of the big sports at G.H.S. On the squad were Fleckenstein, Finney, Archibald, Tipke, Fessenden, Noe, Engborg, Moore, Bell, Hallen- beck, Worn, Mullin, Eilertson, Dobson, Mead, Martin, Finch, Nichols, and Davis. Mr. Gustafson took time out from his cross-country coaching to guide the squad. In Norwalk territory Don stops another Our Gus Grove takes it down 23

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White and Red! WERE the team that's got the fight! We're the people, Red and White! we're the stuff! We're from Greenwich - rhat's enough! This cheer and many others could be heard echoing from the girls' gym after school. Long hours have been spent by Miss Boles and our cheerleaders. They chose their new members and introduced new cheersg they attended in force all the football games, With Mr. Harrington and the Band they made outdoor cheer rallies popular. But, above all, by indi- vidual personality and an enormous amount of good will and energy they have added a welcome touch to our life at school. Heads up, Bob CHEERLEADERS - Firrt row, left to right-E. Wilson, A. Bell, M. Paulson, H. McKeen, M. Jones, B. Hassan. Second row, left to right-B. Gamble, S. Weaver, P. Gasparrini, M. Aylward, P. Rob- ling, V. Wilson. Third row, left to right-J. Clifford, B. Bernhardt, F. Henderson, R. Wikstrom, K. Briggs. Hank and ,lonesie put on the finishing touch

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CROSS COUNTRY SQUAD-Firrt muy left to right-D. Cassidy, H. Groh, R. Marron, J, Margenot, K. Kimball. Second row, left to right-Coach Gustafson, J. Smoleski, W. Rogers, E. Hendriltson, J. Kovac, P. Rogers, D. Worn, N. Davis, manager. Henry Groh on the last lap We See them when we happen THEY appear in two's and three's, wearing their red sweat suits. They play touch foot- to . . . 'til all l'12lVe assefnbled, and fhefl they begin their arduous ritual. First the cadence of essential calisthenics, and then the dogged grind around and around the track 'til it seems they should drop. But they go on-getting in condition and building endurance for the meets to come. Some days they are absent from the track, for they are jaunting over hills, and speeding across broad fields at the Bruce Park course, or they have journeyed to another school to test their strength. The last of the few meets comes-they're off!-and just as suddenly the grueling pace is finished. It is the thing to which all the weeks of training have led, and now it is gone. The team spirit, the fun, the work-all the phases of this Fellowship of Perspirationu are past. This year the team, under the skilled direction of Mr. Gustafson, lost its opening meet to Mamaroneck, 21 to 54, on October 1. They continued to work hard and slowly developed a group that could f1nish close enough together to capture most of the first ten places, and thus they completely over- whelmed a lesser Darien team twice by ThCY'fC OH! the perfect score, 15 to 40. In an Octo- ber 18 meet with Stamford and Fair- field, Bob Marron set a new mark for the Stamford course, but a cluster of Orange and Black men followed him in and the Lock City won on a point basis, with Fairfield placing third. Later, with their leader Marron in the hospital with an injury, the Cards went all out to defeat Stamford in the return meet. They failed to bring the bacon home to their injured teammate by the slim mar- gin of one point, 27 to 28, but how hard they tried was indicated by the fact that nearly all the Cards outdid their previous best times. Other mainstays of the team included Groh, Margenot, Hendrickson, Kimball, Smolewski, and Cassidy.