Modesto Junior College - Buccaneer Yearbook (Modesto, CA)

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vnu---lln1llll-llll--nu1ulv-nn1-nn--uu-4nu.-nu-:lil-miln-QTlxn1.ul-un--I welter of players go after a rebound ball in the Black Foxe game . . . No. 8 is Rickert another pair of wins. The first night, in a hair-raiser, Gardner's crew eked out a 3 8-3 6 triumph. The second game Modesto Won 41-26. Friday nigl1t's high scorer was Ric- kert with 12, while Ek and Mangiara- cina rang the hoop for 9 each Saturday. February 5 and 6 saw the Pirates at Menlo, where they won handily 38-20 and 36-29, with the reserves seeing much action. Rickert and Triano were high scorers. 193 7 - '73UccANEE11 As a brief interlude from their gruelling conference schedule, the Pir- ates again tangled with the Broadway Clowns, this time swamping the colored boys completely 32-16. Triano, storm- ing up and down the floor, made 9 points. Back in the conference race again, the Bucs traveled to San Mateo, to ad- minister another of their now famed double drubbings. In the first game, little Charlie Mangiaracina found his eye and sank 15 digits to set Modesto out in front, while teammates Rickert and Triano helped with 10 and 9 re- spectively. The second night, Morton with 12 and Rickert with 11 led the Pirates to a 43 -3 8 win over the Mateans, making it a unanimous Beat Mateou year as far as grid and cage laurels were concerned. Back home for their next-to-last series, the local gang took a pair of close ones from San Francisco's Rams 33-29 and 41-38. In the first game, the lead changed hands six times before the Pirates came out on top. In that tilt, Norman and Morton with 7 each tied for high honors. In the Saturday night Charles Mangiaracina Bob Norman 1 W Frank Triano J im Rickert . lil- ' U H H if fam. ,-I W .. ,,,.,,... W, 1 . X mmf- , ,Q ii , ,f , Tl . -.5 i

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72 On thbpdm C ALTHOUGH they wound up third in conference standings, Coach Fred A. Earle's 1937 Pirate track team de- veloped several all-around performers plus a good mile relay team. Modesto,s biggest star was Howard Upton, a freshman, who broke a five- year National Junior College record for the quarter-mile in a dual meet with Sacramento, by running the 440 in 48.4 seconds. Upton's time also shattered the conference record. The blonde star continually won his favorite event, plus doing yeoman work on the relay team and in the broad jump. BUCCANEER - 1937 Other men who stood out on the squad included: Joe McNabb, a dis- tance man 5 Shirley Summers, hurdlerg Bob Lawrence, javelin and pole vaultg Jimmy Hallstone, Legs Lee and Bob Maxwell, sprintersg Jim Rickert and Francis Thornton, weight men, and George Terry, pole vaulter. The Pirates opened the 1937 season at the annual Long Beach relays. A quarter-mile relay team of Hallstone, John Nelson, Lee and Upton ran third to Pasadena and Los Angeles Junior Colleges. The mile quartet finished fourth, being composed of Bill Weber, Summers, Nelson and Upton. Next week on the MJC oval, the high school all-stars were downed by the Pirate thinclads, 79 to 56. Upton won the quarter in 5 2.6 seconds while a half-mile relay team of Hallstone, Maxwell, Lee and Nelson ran through the two-lap distance in 1:32.6. Two defeats at the hands of pow- erful opponents followed. San Mateo came to Modesto, and went home, a 76 to 46 victor. On the following Tuesday, the Pirates met the Califor- nia Freshmen at Berkeley, and finished on the short end of a 76 to 46 score. Howard Upton served notice that he would mow down conference quar- 'The College Track Varsity