Abraham Lincoln High School - Landmark Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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iT was a long wallc baclc To The dressing room. lincoln had losT. There was noThing anyone could do abouT iT. despiTe anTon muehlbauer's I9 poinTs, 5Tu singer's I3 and Tine play by The oTher baslceTeers, clinTon had deTeaTed The honesT abes 65-54. all The boys were Tired. The game was longer Than any oTher game They had played. The season was over, iT was all over. you have heard iT menTioned ThaT Lincoln's riTie Team has losT only one maTch This year. you may also have heard ThaT This maTch was The ciTy championship. one can imagine how we all TelT as The scores were read. we all had done well and were expecTing a vicTory when broolclyn Tech suddenly came Through and snaTched Trophy Trom our hands. riflery requires abouT Ten per cenT physical Training and nineTy per cenT menTal Training. The abiliTy To conTrol perTecTly every moTion oT one's body in a siTuaTion where each minuTe brings addiTional Tension is absoluTely neces- sary. a Tlinch oT a quarTer oT an inch iusT before The bulleT leaves The barrel puTs iT Tive inches oTT TargeT. so when we losT The championship, each oT us TelT The same empTinesS: all The monThs oT pracTice had gone To wasTe. iT was Too laTe To correcT The misTal4e . . . The irreTrievable shoT. .k,x - sw- X Q' ff ii X 2 X. sq' A ix Ji' T lip'-. 5'Xl .ff 'S . - B is K K- . X X gf 1' ' ' 'I I, T .ff f ,I 9. if l, 5.1

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some OT us sTood There shaking, oThers mopping Their brows and s+ill oThers iusT TidgiTing. all were silenT. we had losT . .. all The monThs oT pracTice, drills, pracTice, drills, more pracTice and more drills. geT To bed early. do This! don'T do ThaTl ThaT's beTTerl . . . goodl eaTl sTudyl . . . we had worked hard and now we had To be silenT. we were confused. i guiT. iT's Too hard. iT's iusT noT worTh iT-we were all Thinking The same Thing buT none dared To say iT. a voice cracked The silence. iT was The coach. he was Telling us whaT had gone wrong. his voice seemed disTanT and Tar removed. we hardly heard him. as we leTT The school The boosTers gave ouT wiTh a l-i-n-c-o-l-n. iT seemed To say, don'T quiT, keep Try- ing, keep Trying. The l956 TooTball season was a dis- mal' one Tor lincoln. The Team man- aged To win Two ouT of eighT, Tying Two and losing Tour. aTTer a deTeaT aT The hands oT brooklyn Tech in The iniTial encounTer The Team iusT ran ouT of sTeam. i956 became a year oT disappoinTmenT- a year of building Tor The TuTure. The lincoln squad was To build a sTrucTure ThaT would see compleTion one year laTer, on a snow swepT Tield, againsT The same Team which had sTarTed iTs downTall. coach mccaTlrey looked aT The sTaTisTics while The boys saT on The dress- ing room benches. The coach was The only person To speak. The TirsT halT was over and lincoln was losing To The bronx bombers Trom clinTon high. a manager handed ouT some oranges: everyone grabbed Tor Them anxiously. iT was someThing To do: They weren'T doing much againsT clinTon. beTore The Team reTurned To The Tloor everyone puT Their heads in The cenTer oT The roomy There was a hearTy cheer and The cagers ran ouT . . .

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i baskeTball our Tour years aT lincoln have seen Tour Top-noTch baskeTball Teams repre- senT us. Three OT These have gained play-OTT berThs in The ciTy championships. in our Treshman year I954-I955 we saw The baskeTball Team, under mr. b. kirsner's TuTelage, bring home TirsT place in brooklyn division wiTh a Tine I4-4 record. led by capTains sTockTedder, villamina and lassman, The l955-l956 ediTion wound up iTs season wiTh a I3-6 mark and a Third place in iTs divisions. in our junior year I956-T957 a new coach, mr. william maccaTTrey and capTain mark reiner led The hoopsTers To a second place Tinish. reiner's back- courT maTe was danny liebowiTz. chuck TeinsTein, lou desillas and anTon muehl- bauer operaTed up TronT. in The play-oTTs an inspired porT richmond upseT The Tavored lincoln Tive 5l-50. as seniors we saw our cagers run up a Thrilling I3-7 record. in The backcourT, along wiTh marTy schulTz, was capTain and all-ciTy sTar, anTon muehlbauer. aT The Torwards were dave sinclair and ieTT kirsch. dav and ieTT coupled wiTh sTu singer aT cenTer provided lincoln wiTh a very Tormidable Torward wall. milT klein, anoTher senior, was singer's replacemenT and probably would have sTarTed on a weaker Team. lincoln sTarTed The season wiTh a win over erasmus, 70-68. The Team Then proceeded To rip Through laTayeTTe, TorT hamilTon, new uTrechT, and madison, losing only To manual. some Tough breaks in The Tinal porTion oT The season pushed lincoln down inTo a Three-way Tie Tor second. lincoln's I2 poinT vicTory over uTrechT puT Them in madison square garden: They were going againsT clinTon. iT was a rough game Tor The cagers who couldn'T come up wiTh Tor. clinTon won, 65-54. This was a good year Tor The baske- Teers. coach mccaTTrey made Them inTo a uniTed Team, a Team To which every game was a vicTory, win or lose. any oT The scoring They were known baske+balI Team