Manchester High School - Anchor Yearbook (Manchester, MA)

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FIRST ROW: T. Manning, B. Nelson, W. Melvin, C. Torrey, D. Cammett, L. Gates, R. Wetter low, R. Lysiak. SECOND ROW: Mr. Field, F. James, W. Laskowski, D. Cammett, P. Radack, P. Tilton, C. Clapp, A. McCoy, D. Tdi e, Mr. Nelson. THIRD ROW: J. Carroll, K. Billings, D. Curran, R. Doane, D. George, B. Woods.

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Manchester Harbor

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SMASHING STORY SEXTET Co-Champions of Eastern Massachusetts Story opened its 1956-57 season on September 22 against Lancaster. Bill Laskowski and Lee Gates each scored two touchdowns, and Story was off to a flying start with a 40-20 win. Traveling 53 miles on the 29th, Story played Bromfield High of Harvard on the hottest day of the football season. Wayne Floyd, Don Cammett, and Cush Clapp were unable to play because of injuries. The inexperi- enced reserves put up a good fight but came out on the tail end of a 31-0 score. A good Essex Aggie team journeyed to Manchester on October 6 to lose a close game 27-21. Bill Melvin made a 70-yard run in the second quarter, and Lee Gates plowed over for the first Story touchdown. Story bowled over the visiting Perley High team from Georgetown on Friday, October 12. Bill Nelson, playing quarterback, alternated with Lee Gates and Bill Melvin on drives down the field and through the line. Rick Wetterlow scored twice on neat passes from Bill Melvin, and Curt Torrey streaked through for a touchdown in the second half. Bill Laskowski thrilled the crowd with a 62-yard run and touchdown making Story the victor, 32-6. Storv played a visiting Cambridge High team from Weston on October 20. The opponents didn ' t score against the Green Hornets until halfway through the third quarter. Melvin, Nelson, Wetterlow, and Captain Cammett moved the ball down the field again and again ending with three touchdowns by Bill Melvin, and one each for Rick Wetterlow, Lee Gates, and Artie McCoy. Final score--39-16. At Topsfield on October 27, Story met a favored Topsfield team in the most thrilling game of the season. Don Cammett and Lee Gates brought the ball down the field and Rick Wetterlow scored on a good pass from Bill Nelson. Lee Gates charged over for the point that won the game. None of the 200-oddStory fans were dis- appointed with this action-packed game that ended in Story ' s favor, 7-6. Story went to Hamilton on a bitterly cold November 10 to close their football season. The highly-publicized game featured a favored Story squad and a relatively inexperienced Hamilton team. In the first quarter Bill Melvin scored two touchdowns and an extra point, followed by another in the second quarter. With a short time remaining, Lee Gates scored a touchdown and closed this final game with the winning score of 26-18. Coach Ed Field and his capable assistant, Arthur Nelson, built this football club into one of the biggest in recent years, and certainly the best since the New England championship club of 1949. Tom Mercer, the big- gest man on the squad, was out of action all season because of a leg injury, and Wayne Floyd, a starring regular, was out with a broken bone in his foot and a dislocated shoulder. Cush Clapp missed a game, and Captain Cam- mett was out of service the day of the Harvard disaster because of a strained tendon. Dispite all these injuries, Story ended a very successful 1956 football season with a record of six wins and one loss as the Co-Champions of the Eastern Massachusetts Six-Man Football League. Z ' M