Tome High School - Trail Yearbook (North East, MD)

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-fi 7 if Soccer HE TOME SOCCER TEAM emerged from the 1928-29 season, which was the most difficult and interesting ever endured in the school's history, with the good record of eight victories in the thirteen games played. The return of seven of last year's letter men and the ability early demonstrated by several new boys indicated excellent prospects at the outset. The obstacles which so often, as in this case, lie in the path of a success- ful season, sickness and ineligibility, were surmounted by the wise and spirited direction of Coach Pete Garrett and the untiring efforts of the twenty-five to thirty boys who comprised the squad. The strength of the second team was largely responsible for the polishing up of the regulars. The quality of individual playing was heightened to the extent of having several complimentary notices published in the Baltimore papers, accom- panied by pictures, and when the All-State selections were announced, it was found that three Tome players, Captain Ted Law, Harold Koppe, and Norman Hasson were alloted positions on the first and second teams. After only two days of practice the Tome men opened the season with a 3-1 victory over Havre de Grace High School. The work of Clagett and Earl, the latter scoring two goals, was outstanding. The Wolverines from Perryville High were next to be con- quered, but Tome's 1-0 victory came after inferior playing. A superior team from Beacom's Business College then dealt the Blue and White a crushing 3-0 defeat. Next followed a series of three games with overwhelming scores. The first was with Maryland State Normal, which had been tied the year before, the resulting score being 6 to 0. The Tomesters blanked Forest Park next and scored one less point than in the preceding game. Donaldson School's eleven met with a terrific defeat by the score of 9-Og then an acknowledged superior team, the Baltimore Soccer Club, lost out 3 to 1. The first major game of the season to be lost was probably the hardest, that with One Hundred and Nineteen

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The 1929 TRAIL wee- ee e -1 - - Q bog Baltimore City College, which the visitors took over 3 to 1. The clever footwork and fine coordination of the Collegians proved too much for the rather slumped Blue and White. The next Tuesday Severn was beaten 1 to 0 in a fast game. On the very next day another game was played, this time with the Aberdeen booters, and the outcome was 1 to 0, again in favor of the Tomesters. The traditional Gilman foes were next met twice within two weeks, in the most important games of the year. In the first of these, a fast, well-played game, featured by exceptional performances on both sides, Tome's soccer warriors well earned their 2-1 victory. The second Gilman game, the only one of the season played away from the home pitch, was contested in a drizzling downpour and dense fog. Gilman's two pointers, made by Purnell in the first quarter shortly after the game had started, proved to be the only goals made. Gene Hire was the mainspring in Tome's playing. Booters from the Rockville Athletic Club dealt the Tome men a 1-0 defeat in the final game of the season. ' Those men who so well deserved their minor T's were Captain Law, Captain-elect Pease, Earl, Hasson, Koppe, Bailey, McCord, Sansbury, Meyer, Hire, Barr, Rodgers, Warburton, Harrell, Clagett, and Manager Sherburne. Since the reserve material on hand has been admirably developed it is hoped and thought that next year will see an equally successful season. Captain Ted One Hundred and Twenly-one