Waterford High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Waterford, CT)

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TRACK '63 Team Faces Class Track and field contests are among the oldest forms of athletic competi- tion. The first official track meet was held almost three thousand years ago at the Greek Olympic games. C Track is one of the most popular sports at WHS with regard to the number of boys who participate: 126 boys went out for track in l962, as opposed to T00 each for football and basketball, 50 for baseball, and 30 for cross country. The sport increases in popularity from year to year, also, as is shown by the fact that 100 boys went out for track in 1961 in comparison with last year's 126. 0, One of the reasons for track's popularity, according to Director of Athletics Francis Sweeney, who was track coach here until 19642, is that track is termed an individual sport. A boy has more chance to be a winner in track because of the variety and number of events than he might have in some other sport. O Track places a great responsibility on the individual to excel, and requires much practice. For this reason, Waterford boys who wish to go out for track begin practice early in March and continue throughout the season. U Track and field events include various running contests, low and high hurdles, iavelin throwing, discus throwing, shot putting, high iumping, and pole vaulting. Of all these events, our track team has generally been strongest in the running events. Coach Cipriani attributes this strength to the fact that the team has many outstanding runners, and cites 1963 Co-captain Alexander Orloft and junior class team member Richard Beebe as examples, adding that there are many other strong and fast runners on the team. I This strength in running events was helpful in the new event, the two-mile run which was added to the state meet and which Coach Cipriani anti- cipated adding to Waterford's dual meets this season. if

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ancers Tri T962 BASEBALL SCHEDULE April 15 17 'l9 24 27 28 May l 5 ll 'l5 18 'I9 25 29 June I Fitch here li-9 at Norwich 'Free Academy 4-i Killingly here 4-6 E. O. Smith here 6-2 at St. Bernard's 5-0 at Fitch 9-3 at Westerly 2-2 Valley Regional here 'IO-0 at Stonington 4-3 New London here 5-6 Killingly 6-0 at Valley Regional I4-0 Stonington here ll-3 at E. O. Smith 6-3 St. Bernard's 3-2 umph in Conference The effort put forth by the boys was rewarded in winning the coveted Eastern Connecticut Conference pennant for the first time in their brief four years of ECC competition. ln the conference the Lancers won seven out of eight games, beating Killingly out of the championship by a full game. 0 Varsity player Ronald Bugbee pitched a commendable record of seven victories without a loss. Bugbee with teammates Arnold Holm, Henry Cormier, and William Jerome were lost through graduation. Thus there was a lack of strength and power in the team that had to be filled if they were to have another successful season. 0 However, while the varsity players had been bringing honors to Waterford High, iunior varsity players had been training under the supervision of Howard Christensen. He aided them in developing the skills and gaining the ex- perience they needed to be promoted to varsity ball. Consequently these players provided the strength that had been lost and added new power. O The teams before them have had proficient players, with the desire to perform at their best regardless of whether they win or lose. Serving as an example of this desire was the 1962 CIAC tournament where, even though the Lancers lost to, Rockville, they showed their great fight- ing spirit which was carried through to the finish of the game. Their continuous strong defense resulted in the opposition being able to score only one point. If the Lancers persist with this united effort, their determi- nation will lead them on to repeated success this season. Junior varsity baseball team for 1962 included Mark Kuvalanka, Byron Athenian, John Byrnes, Peter Tal, Eugene Swain, Michael Cleary, Fred Chapman. 0 lawrence Roberts, William Campbell, John Ramistello, Richard Sullivan, Jeffrey Turner, Robert Shepherd, Oluf Olsen, Nathan Coffin, Joseph Longo, Coach Howard Christensen. 1 R s... 1 fs. me . J W

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Track team members for 1962 were Fred Chidsey, Jack Riggar, Alexander Orloff, Woodrow Giordanip Clarence Coogan lll, Norman Briggs, Bruce MacDonald, Willie Heath, Richard Hempstead, John Wiggins, Robert Mara, Arthur Davis, Dennis Singleton, Jean St. Martin, co-captain, Raymond Romeo, co-captain, and Coach Richard Cipriani. Us-gaul Guido, James Whitford, Eric Nelson, Walter Kolzur, John Parcak, ,.,,,....QL,.,. Jackson Atkinson, Wilson Smith, Dennis Raynor, Emmons Welch, Alan Noll, Francis Corrigan, Allan Lewis, Lawrence Roberts, Jack Hayes, and Peter Davichik. 0 William Schoonman, Malcolm Williams, William Simons, Thomas Greene, Samuel Aberle, Kenneth Goodearl, Robert Orris, Ronald Rice, Russell Calasant, Steven Applegate, Edward Lowe, Theodore Riggar, Axel Burgeson, and Patrick Watson. 0 Donald Romeo, Robert Baude, David Cooper, James Cushner, Richard Beebe, Daniel Zaneski, James Hall, John Mara, Peter Marks, Thomas Durivan, Richard Henkle, William Hurschman, and Brian Clendenen. 0 Walter Eccard, Stewart Clark, John Varley, Richard Cash, Steven High, Henry Albert, Robert Zarchek, Charles Luxton, Bruce Shewbraoks, Alan Becker, Thomas Maynard, and Revere Rose. Coach Richard Cnpriani trained the 1963 trackmen to meet and beat Class L teams. 0 Co-captains Alexander Orloff, Eric Nel- son, and Wilson Smith look back on former ECC victories 0 Arunner needs strength and stamina to come out in front at the finish line, here reached by Richard Beebe.0 Cor- rect form, the thing in javelin throwing, is dem- onstrated by Daniel Zan- eski. 0 Top Right: Peter Davichik prepares for the strength-demanding feat of throwing the shotput.