The Gunnery School - Red and Gray Yearbook (Washington, CT)

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VARSITY HOCKEY REVIEW The 1949 Hockey season will be remembered best for its scarcity of ice, for its quick succession of games when ice was available and for Coach Sturges' valiant but unavailing attempts to establish a permanent land rink on Barnes Memorial Field. The cause of all the trouble, of course, was the weather. While waiting for freezing weather early in the season the team practiced with tennis balls and sticks on the football field Returning lettermen Blumenthal Courtney Murdoch Offut Captain Stedman and Weil indicated at this stage that they would form the nuc leus of any team that would take to the ice wherever and whenever it could be found The weather ,mx plagued the team through the creation and dissolution of many land rinks before it was discovered that the South Kent Lake had ice on it Gunnery lost no time in taking advantage of this opportunity which resulted in the teams playing its opening game with South Kent on anuary 12 without the benefit of any organized practice on ice With Blumenthal in the goal Weil at left wing Captain Stedman at right wing Offutt and Treadway sharing the center positiong and Courtney and Tayntor making up the defense, Gunnery fought a scrappy game against the Cardinal and Black but lost 4-0 to a faster, more experienced sextet. The season came to an abrupt halt shortly after the South Kent game however when several weeks of warm weather made further ice skating impossible By February 1 conditions became favorable again and Gunnery journeyed to Berkshire where the best team in the League left Gunnery on the short end of a 1 l score Captain Stedman made the single Red and Gray tally when he split the defense in a lone sortie Although Gunnery was out classed Stedman Offutt and Courney led the team in a spirited battle which held down the Berkshire attack for two periods but which succumbed in the final period to a five goal b ast Three days later Gunnery christened its land rink with the season s first victory a l 0 decision over Can terbury It was the only game to be played on the land d 'ix