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

Page 64 text:

VARSITY BASKETBALL REVIEW An inexperienced Gunnery quintet dropped the first game of the season to Trinity-Pawling, 56-43. Captain Jim Conley, the only returning letterman, led the losers with 18 points. ln the second game of the year Kent bowed to Gun- nery 57-39. Behind 12-11 at the end of the first quar- ter, the Red and Gray scored 21 points to Kent's 9 in the second quarter to pull ahead 32-21 at the close of the half. Tom Braman dropped in 25 points, followed by Conley with 13. Despite the eftorts of Captain Conley who was high scorer for both teams with 13 points, Gunnery lost its first away game to Hotchkiss, 61-36. The domination of both backboards by the tall opposing players was a maior factor in their victory. Westminster, leading by only one point at the half, scored 26 points in the second half to triumph over Gunnery, 50-38, in the first non-league game. For- ward Tom Braman, with 18 points, was high scorer for the visiting quintet. ln its second victory of the season Gunnery defeated Canterbury 52-41. Mike MacCarthy scoring 13 points, led the Beebemen, while three other players each hit for double figures. With fine teamwork and 32 points made by its high scoring forward, Schreder, Berkshire beat Gunnery 71-57. Braman tallied 17 points for the Red and Gray, followed by Conley and MacCarthy with 14 and 8 points respectively. Avenging last year's defeat by Gunnery, a superior Taft quintet overwhelmed the Beebemen 87-49. Mor- ris of Taft was the game's top scorer piling up 25 points, Gunnery's Conley was second with 14. The Red and Gray suffered a defeat of 71-53 at the hands of its second non-league opponent, Hopkins Grammar. Chalking up 22 points, Conley was the leading scorer of the game. Hotchkiss, in its second game of the season, beat Gunnery 56-47. Four of the opposition's starting men hit double figures, but Conley was top scorer of the game. In one of the most exciting games of the season, Kent subdued a fourth period surge by Gunnery and went on to win 63-59. Tom Braman led the scorers with 27 points, followed by Conley with 12 and Sheffield with 8. Gaining revenge for a previous 52 to 41 defeat at the hands of the Beebemen, Canterbury nipped Gun- nery, 63-62. Behind at the close of the half, Canter- bury, led by Captain Chuck Wentworth scored 30 VARSITY BASKETBALL SQUAD-Front row, left to right: Beach, MacCarthy, Braman, Conley fCaptainj, Shef- field, Merrill, Lehrman. Back row, left to right: Mr, Beebe, Lindsay lManagerJ, Stein, Brown, G., Davis E., Brown, J., Hall, Smith, P., Protage CManagerl. NNER A oullllfgi t jill iuuarg ,uttgt Q ,' X., gwg 5 is tsl litllfl L its-Y 11 27 'Q 5X-4 w.: N..

Page 63 text:

E3 553' it 3, , me f ff 3 -Lpflni Y , x Q-g,..,.f-4-J k 'f 5 r,v '.-HA, jwf, ...-lil'-,H ff :iw Y .xl f JH ., ...A K '1' Y K . Q,-'. E X ff N51 A . rl 4, - , A3,,,,.,5, f Am,,,w, A , x?,,,g1:V yvbm, Q.. P WHPA , EL ' Q. 1 gg 1 J! , .4 , .01 1 A w , 5 , ,Y 5'-L. W L yn .f .. , , 'ismkiziv 1. ,f A gp 5 X, F5 1 gp - g ' ' f M -Lf .91 1 -, 1 4, A A-. gb, .sh - - 'V My 1 iff .5 3 A f ' ' 5' as 5 E 'Q 5:2 A in yn 5 W nfl gif 4 . gy, A 5,51 ,A f,.::?f, ' f W ' Q, is 'I' Q 5 X 1 ' s 9' Wx , ali' ' V 1 L 451' 1 I ' W 3-N M wtf. 5 f X 'F f' ff K 'ws I, 25 24 . f if if L c' 'Q ff .5 wi. A-1 w .w Am Q' 'Q ei - f 25,11 I

Page 65 text:

Don't give up, Mike! points in the second half to eke out a one point victory margin. Blair Beach led Gunnery with 18 points, close- ly followed by Braman with 16, Conley with 13, and Sheffield with 10. Beach, MocCarthy, and Conley made 16, 11, and 10 points respectively in a vain effort to defeat the Suffield Academy five. But Gunnery, after leading 31 to 19 at the half was beaten by Suffield 58-50. Unaccustomed to the small Trinity-Pawling court, Gunnery was trounced by a strong Trinity-Pawling quintet, 74-39. Captain Conley ran into double figures again as did several of his teammates. Only after a strong fight by a spirited Gunnery quintet, was Choate able to defeat the home team, 67-62. Braman notched 18 points, Beach 14, and Con- ley 13, for the Beebemen. The Taft five, under the leadership of high-scoring McLeod, 22, and Norris, 23, triumphed over Gunnery, 81-66. Tom Brcman's 26 points made him the game's leading scorer. Conley and Beach also hit for double figures with 17 and 10 points respectively. The Gunnery team, after losing to Berkshire, 64-53, ended the season with a record of two wins and fourteen losses. Conley and Braman averaged 14 points each, freshman Jack Brown followed up with 10 points. Although the team lost many games, they never lost their spirit. ln the games such as those with Taft and Hopkins Grammar, in which the action became very evident early in the game, the Beebemen did not slack off: instead they fought all the harder. With tall underclassmen such as Sheffield, Braman, and Jack Brown, the prospects for a successful season next year look bright. SCOREBOARD Gunnery ..... ....... 4 3 Trinity-Pawling .... Gunnery ...... ....... 5 7 Kent .................... Gunnery ...... ....... 3 6 Hotchkiss ..... Gunnery ...... ....... 3 8 Westminster .... Gunnery ...... ....... 5 2 Canterbury .... Gunnery ...... ....... 5 7 Berkshire ..... Gunnery ...... ....... 4 9 Taft ....... Gunnery ...... ....... 4 7 Hotchkiss ............. Gunnery ...... ....... 5 3 Hopkins Grammar Gunnery ...... ....... 5 9 Kent .................... Gunnery ...... ....... 6 2 Canterbury ......... Gunnery ...... ....... 5 0 Suffield Academy Gunnery ...... ....... 3 9 Trinity-Pawling .... Gunnery ..... ....... ' 62 Choate ............ Gunnery ...... ....... 6 6 Taft ....... Gunnery ...,.......,.... 53 Berkshire ..... The tall men