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

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4, il- N.: il rtnk all Wtnter The rce was poor but both teams were aggresstve Wrth three mrnutes left to go Stedman dented the tvune to gtve Gunnery tts Hrst hockey vtc tory of the year Immedtately followtng the score, Gun nery recetved a double penalty, but the team managed to keep the Canterbury attack throttled long enough to w1n the game The next day Gunnery tangled wtth powerful Kent tt Kent and lost 4 O Wtth the best tce condtttons of the season the game was a fast one Gunnery showed deflntte tmprovement tn thts encounter and the team s Hghtrng Splflf and team work helped to keep the score as low as rt vxas Gunnery s second vrctory of the season C l OJ came IH the gtme vxrth tn aggresstve Salisbury s1x rn whtch Stedmans lone score was the wtnntng margrn tn a closely contested match on the old rxnk at Fanntngs Pond The next day the Gunnery pucksters agatn took to home tce, but suffered defeat at the hands of Taft, 4 l Agarn Stedman made the only tally for Gunnery, I when he spltt the defense 1n the last pertod Taft had a dtsttnctly supertor team but Gunnery conttnued to show fight throughout the contest and made tt a fast and lnteresttng game to watch The followtng afternoon Gunnery traveled to Mtll brook where the Red and Gray had a dxfficult txme httttng tts strtde Although Gunnery fought hard lf was not able to end the season wxth a vtctory and lost by a score of 5 I Captatn Stedman, htgh scorer, mrght have been d1s appotnted by such an trregular season but 1f he was he seldom showed tt Hts aggressive and nghtxng sptrtt never dtmtntshed and set a shtntng example whrch con ttnually tnsptred hrs team mates to play the best game they Could The fact that the team loses three out of tts stx mam stays wtth the graduatton of Courtney, Stedman and Well should not affect next years prospects too ser1 ously, as there are a number of underelassmen whose expertence thls year wtll prove valuable to next year s hockey team . ., 1 , we ,,,. as s - V 7 ,. , G ,H K I ' ey., V V , rf. 0 . ,,L, - av ' . 'L , 1 . 1 . , 1 , ' . A - ' 7 1 1 1 1 . 1 - . . K K 1 L L - 1 1 1 1 1 - - 1 1 2 1 ' . ' 1 S ' . Y . . . . - , 1 1 . 1 H K K 7 7 C Y . L K I K - ' S A S ' Q 1 ' - 1 1 1 1 l 1 1 1 ' . A , k I . . . . . . . - t . , t 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 , 1 . 4 - L C L N 1 K T K