St Pauls School - Crusader Yearbook (Brooklandville, MD)

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The Little Crusaders was composed of a fine group this year. They all had the fight and the spirit that is necessary to win. The team improved constantly from game to game and ended the season with a winning record. Despite early setbacks by Edmondson and Boy's Latin, they never quit. The Edmondson team was rough, but the Crusies, upon meeting Boy's Latin for the second time defeated them. The team, coached by lVlr. Rentko, had a schedule of twelve games. Included were Edmondson, Boyis Latin, Talmudical, Park, and Loyola. The team kept fourteen boys, the first unit was Cary Lewis, F. Donaldson, D. Patterson, Pete Toy, and Dave Macool. These boys were ably backed up by a group of spirited contenders who constantly vied for the top-berth positions. Mr. Rentko was justifiably proud of his well-coached, hard-fighting team. Little Crusie Basketball . . . t.. sf' 1 til QT FHSM ES -r Kneeling, left to right:-Couch, Tompkins, Patterson, Turner, Lewis, Donaldson, Macool. Stand- ing, left to right:-Mr. Rentko, Ellrich, Toy, Dobson, Flickinger, Beers, O'C0nnell, Schultheis, Lake.

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nLlt. VN xi 9' xx! A' l Front row, left to right:-Merryman, Campbell, Darrell, Betz, Heron, Schaeffer, Bossert. Standing, left to right:-Riley, Barney, McCulloh, Roberts, Fochios, White, Mr. Mitchell. Junior Varsity Basketball . . . The St. Paul's J. V. basketball team had a disappointing season this .year with a five win-nine loss record. One of the outstanding features of Coach Mitchell's boys was the spirit and hustle with which they played. None of the games were lost by a great margin, the average difference in scores being four points. The losses can mostly be attributed to the fact that the foul-shooting average was only 3675. Betz was high scorer with eighty-five accumulated points. The J. V. started out with a bang by pushing over Edgewood and Bel Air, but they then lost four consecutive games to Forest Park, Gilman, McDonogh, and Mt. St. Joe. After these close losses, St. Paul's whipped Edgewood and won the second Gilman game. Losing again to Towson Catholic and Friends, Mitchell's boys overcame McDonogh on their return game. The season sadly closed with three defeats at the hands of Calvert Hall, Loyola, and Friends. 80

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First row, le!! lo right:-Kommalan. Hill, Bowles, Lang, Coach llcllcr. Second row, lefl Io righl.'- Cain, Korschgcn, Lev:-ring, Johnson. Walking Team. Coach Bill Helleris heel-and-toe race walkers unlimbered their leg muscles early enough this spring to garner a fine fifteen inch trophy for the third place team showing in their inaugural appearance in the Penn A. C.'s second annual twelve-mile walk at Phila- delphia on March 29. Pacing the swivel-hipsters in l7th place against the powerful New York Pioneer and veteran Penn A.C. outfits was Tucky Johnson, followed by Levering, Cain, Lang, and Kommalan in 19th, 20th, 21st and 22nd places, respectively. Locally, the Blue and Cold walkers next competed in the National 20-Kilometer Championship test on April 27 in Baltimore,s Patterson Park where they kicked to a fourth place tie in the crack six-team competition and field of 50 starters. Once again Johnson led his teammates with a fine 32nd place finish, but an improved performance by Lang in 33rd and Brigstocke's last lap comeback to 35th place gained the Crusaders a tie with the speedy North lVledford fliflassachusettsj Club and a clear-cut victory over the newly-organized Berwick tPennsylvanial Athletic Club. In this one, the threesome of Levering, Kommalan, and Cain also swept 38th to 40th places, but Korschgen failed to finish because of a recurrent football', ankle injury. , As the feature event of St. Paul's Eighth Annual Field activities on May 3rd, National Walking Chairman Phil Jachelski, his South Atlantic representative, Mrs. Jachelski, and Coach Heller then scheduled a 5-mile Novice Olympic Development Race with the Pitts- burgh fPennsylvaniaj Knights of Columbus 4'Saints and the Berwick A.C. competing against the Crusaders for team honors over the Brooklandwood course. Hill, Merryman, and Richardson bolstered Blue and Gold team chances with their initial appearance. A probable rematch with the HK. of C. Saintsn in Pittsburgh late in May and a definite return jaunt to Toronto, Canada, for the long distance aspirants C33 mileslj on June 8, following school,s dismissal, completed an ambitious schedule for the nation's first prep school race-walking team.