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

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Gunnery Gunnery Gunnery Gunnery Gunnery Gunnery Gunnery Gunnery Gunnery Gunnery Gunnery Gunnery Gunnery Gunnery Gunnery Gunnery VARSITY BASKETBALL Scoreboard Trlnrty Pawlxng Kent Hotchkrss Westmrnster Canterbury Berkshire Ta t Hopkrns Hotchkrss Kent Canterbury Mrllbrook Trrnrry Pawlrng Choate Ta t Berkshrre 30510 Nba A ulmfny NR ,utr N iii hh - SQUAD Front row, left to rrghr Hall, G , Herzrg, Ball, Braman CCapta1nJ, Sheiiield, Lackey Back row Mr Beebe, Shaughnessy, Fxelds, Hrllman, Smlth, P , Protage CManagerD

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'JV UNIOR VARSITY SOCCER Scoreboard Gunnery Trrntty PlVlllf1fD Gunnery MlllbflXDlx Gunnery Canterbury Gunnery Canterbury Berkshtre Millbrook Gunnery Gunnery 431 gullflr Gu-urn, :umm an 99153, um' will f-.-...N JUNIOR VARSITY SOCCER Front row, left to tlght Mrlton, Edgar, French, Snyder, Crawford, C Krrmsky, Gorelrk, jams, Colman, CCapta1nJ OConnell, Scovxlle, Obervxerser, Allyn, R, johnson Meyer, Bnstol, H, Crowell Back row, left to rrght Mr Whnttall, Smrth, R, Hughes, G, Lrpetz Raddmg, Chubb, Upson, Sentner, Lloyd, Zersel, Norton, Manager Povs ell 65

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REVIEW The 1956 Varsrty Basketball Team frnrshed a suc cessful season by capturrng second place rn the Trr State League wrth a record of twelve wrns and four de eats Wrth hrgh hopes rrdrng on therr returnrng lettermen Captarn Tom Braman jack Brown and Pete Sheffield Gunnery traveled to Trrnrty Pawlrng for the first game of the season However Gunnerys herght drd not as sert rtself and the Red and Gray was defeated 62 31 wrth Braman hrttrng for eleven pornts as the games hrgh scorer In the second league game of the year Gunnery be hrnd seven pornts at the half outscored Kent by nrne teen pornts rn the second half to wrn 43 31 jerry Ball and Braman led the scorrng wrth thrrteen and eleven pomts respectrvely followed by Brown Lackey and Herzrg wrth srx pornts aprece Playrng therr best game to date the Red and Gray were edged out by a strong Hotchkrss frve 54 44 on the vrctors court jerry Ball wrth seventeen pornts and Tom Braman wrth frfteen pomts led the losers rn the scorrng column Insprred by Dennrs Shaughnessy playrng rn hrs frrst Vatsrty game after berng called up from the jayvees Gunnery trounced Westmrnster rn a non league en wrth nrneteen pornts followed by Braman wrth seven teen pornts and Shaughnessy wrth erght pornts The Red and Gray traveled to Canterbury to wrn therr second leage game by smotherrng the home team 67 35 Jerry Ball led the scores wrth twenty four pornts Tom Braman jack Brown and John Herzr had four teen ten and erght pomts respectrvely Gunnery dropped a hard fought game to Berkshrre 52 50 rn what proved to be a very rmportant loss at the end of the season Berkshrre s twelve pornt lead at half trme was just too large to overcome For the losers Ball had nrneteen pornts Braman twelve and Lackey seven As jerry Ball scored the last of hrs twelve pornts wrth five seconds left rn the game Gunnery won rts thrrd league game from Taft 56 55 jack Brown besrdes scorrng eleven pomts sparked the Red and Gray to a well deserved vrctory wrth hrs excellent reboundrng Wrthout the servrces of the hrgh scorrng center erry Ball Gunnery dropped a 49 36 decrsron to Hop kms Grammar Hrgh scorer Dennrs Shaughnessy who sunk fifteen pornts was the only brrght spot rn an oth erwrse dull game An rnsprred Gunnery five avenged therr earlrer loss to Hotchkrss by defeatrng them 61 59 thrs trme on Gunnery s court The Beebemen drsplayed fine all around team play that was to characterrze them rn the latter part of the season Braman was hrgh scorer wrth twenty two pornts followed by Ball wrth fifteen Braman Ball and Lackey sunk twenty five thrrteen and nrne pornts respectrvely rn Gunnerys 61 41 con quest over Kent The Red and Gray led from the open rng buzzer as they chalked up therr easrest wrn of the year Sparked by Captarn Braman who scored twenty srx pornts Gunnery won therr srxth league game from Canterbury 55 49 The Beebemens brg center jerry Ball was runner up rn the scorrng wrth fourteen pomts Unable to cope wrth the grant lrke herght of the home team Gunnery was easrly defeated by Mrllbrook 51 33 rn a non league encounter Once agarn Tom Braman was the games top scorer wrth srxteen pomts Meetrng fifteen game wrnner Trrnrty Pawlrng the Red and Gray played rts best game all season and won 58 46 Guards Herzrg and Lackey made set shot after set shot as they kept the mrddle open for the games hrgh scorer Braman Agarn Gunnery demonstrated fine all around team play rn defeatrng one of the finest teams rn the League the Beebemen were vrctorrous by 66 53 Tom Braman had hrs hrghest pornt total of the year when he scored twenty erght pornts whrle Ball hrt for srxteen ln therr second encounter wrth Taft the Brg Red put on a final two mrnute rally to wrn by srx pornts 5145 Even though therr reboundrng was poor the Gunnery live managed to wrn therr erghth league game berng sparked by Sophomore jack Brown In a contest whrch the Beebemen had to wrn rn order to garn a second place tre wrth Hotchkrss rn the Trr State League Gunnery defeated a stubborn Berkshrre contrngent 71 66 Although they were twenty pomts behrnd rn the thrrd perrod the Brg Red rallred to wrn Captarn Tom Braman wound up hrs promrnent bas ketball career at the Gunnery by scorrng twenty three pornts thus rnsurrng hrs first place rn the scorrng table Jerry Ball had seventeen pomts to make hrm the second hrghest scorer for the season jack Brown whose re boundrng was rnvaluable to the team had twelve pomts The team showed much sprrrt and rmprovement thrs year and wrth most of the team returnrng the pros pects for a Trr State League Champronshrp next year look good f . - ' , ' . 1 a ' 9 ' 9 a a 9 y ' ' - , - . . . . , ' 4 , - . 7 ' 1 ' ' y s a ' 1 ' . 7 . 5 7 I 7 5 l 9 . ' , ' . 1 ' a ' ' ' J . . , , 3 5 7 - ' . A , . 3 . . . ' . 1 . counter 61-33. Ball agarn held hrgh-scorrng honors The last non-league game was at Choate, rn whrch 3 - I - ' Y y 9 - - ' 7 7 9 ' Y , . - ,, . . . . . . , , I 1 - - . 7 1 ' ' r ' 9 ! ' . . . I . , . . , i J 1 ' 5 2 . 7 ' . 1 , ' , , - , . . I 67