Allen Stevenson School - Unicorn Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Russell Keen Hagen P ludson - his year the l.V. football team had hopes of I, having an undefeated season. The team almost succeeded, 'falling' to Buckley in a heartbreaking tie in the third and final game. The outstanding season was due to hours of hard work, as each day coaches McCleary and Hutchison would lead the team in a series of exercises. Coach McCleary would then begin drilling the offense in assorted running and passing plays, such as, a flanker left sweep, a sure gain, to Peter judson. Simultaneously with the offensive drills, Clay Hut- chison drilled the defensive squad against the ground game and in pass protection. For the re- mainder ofthe day the team would scrimmage. This provided an opportunity for the offense and de- fense to put their skills to work. As a result, the team headed for the buses very tired. In the end, though, it all paid off. When the Unicorn's first game rolled around, they were very well prepared. Quarterback, Colin lBert jonesl Hagen, ran the ball into the end zone for a score to make it 8-O. Later in the game Colin scored again as a result of a beau- tiful block by Peter fSuper Marvinl Judson on the Buckley linebacker, A-S won 16-0. A week later, A-S took on Buckley for a second time, but without stars Misha lowkowsky and Peter ludson. A-S shrugged off the losses and went on to win again, with outstanding performances from Lar- ry Creer and Duke Thrush. In the third fand ques- tionablel final game, A-S tied the Blue and White 8- 8. AII in all, a fine showing by the l.V. football team. Coaches McCleary and Hutchison are looking for- ward to many more undefeated seasons in the near future. 5'l

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The team was sky-high for the Buckley game on November 4th, especially as the boys knew it would decide the League championship. Despite the loss of Hilliard, fullback Lesberg had been doing well, so it was thought a good inside game could com- pliment Robinson's outside speed. Unfortunately things never go as planned, and despite gallant efforts, center Robert Buehler could not handle the gigantic Buckley middle guard, so the Unicorns were stopped cold up the middle - especially with- out Hilliard. ln the second quarter Buckley scored, following a long march, the conversion succeeded, and the Unicorns were trailing 8-0. After several exchanges, Brad Kabbash shocked Buckley with a 68-yard quick kick on third down. In a hole and getting deeper, the Blue 81 White at- tempted to punt from their eight, facing a 4th and 20 situation. The snap sailed over the center's head, deep into the end zone. End Peter Livingston was about to grab the desperate Buckley punter when a referee blew his whistle to signal a safety, thinking the ball had already gone out the back of the end zone. End of play, two points for A-S. Wrong! From off the Buckley bench came Coach Trauth, author of many an altercation and act of gamesmanship in the past. Trauth argued that the field was improperly marked, that the ball had not, in fact, gone out of the end zone. Thus the zebra had whistled prematurely. Faced with this protest, the refs agreed to re-play the play! Zounds! the center passed another sky-ball to the punter, who this time found the handle and was downed on the four. With over a minute left in the first half, A- S scoring chances looked good. Wrong! After two questionable penalty calls, the refs failed to stop the clock, so time ran out with the Unicorns having first and goal. The second half again featured the stalemate of the first until Robinson at last broke away for a 60- yard TD, followed by York's conversion. So ended the championship game, knotted at 8. But we all know who really won, don't we? Following the Buckley disappointment, the eight graders took vengeance on a weak Trinity team, romping 32-0, as Robinson set an A-S record, scor- ing five TDs and running for 310 yards! But Unicorn thoughts were already set on the next and last opponent, mean, rough Poly Prep. In short order the game came to resemble the Late, Late Show. The hitting was truly ferocious, as were the refs ithree Robinson TDs called back by out-of-position ze- braslj. Poly Prep tallied once, and A-S trailed 6-0 at the half. Then in the fourth quarter, as the exhaused Unicorns were about to fold before their bigger opponents, Robinson struck again on a march quar- terbacked by tiny reserve Clinton Johnson, who hit Glenn with a short pass. He legs did the rest, as the Blue 84 Gold salvaged a tie and an undefeated season. Later, Coach Landis would term this Poly Prep team as the toughest opponent any A-S squad had ever faced. Few would argue otherwise. ,gf - B., AXE. - Q .4 Y 'L P, .,',5,9,N,v?,.. Al . 'EL r ' 'Si ' . P vsnif 5 fs .s . '. Q7 Q ti' 'ff ,224 ' 95431. A A ...Q . he X.. P F -- 1 sc. ,.,,,.,, , im, . kr ss ,Lf t in nsgqmv- ,ga T... .. A, . atv - qwlt ,J- , 'E a-Yang. , ' h U... . K, T., f. ,gf , - A S H+: . . w, N '- ,r , .-at VL' 4,31 In g Q, ,Qt Q. kb xx,-t',: ,n.,,:,L,l' gt ka. . .., kung . . 50 1 'V t: rut .. .s.'. V..

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VARSITY SOCCER F OR the first time in A-S history the Varsity Soccer team had a winning season, posting an overall 6-4-4 record against all opponents. Led by a pair of eighth graders, Dean Landis and lames Shee- han, the booters were coached by first year teacher Mr. Tobolsky, former soccer captain at Princeton. The season opener came on the rocky field of the Cathedral School - in the rain, no less! Despite many close calls, only Sheehan's beautiful second quarter corner kick dented the Cathedral nets, as the Unicorns triumphed 'I-0. The second contest was against an unknown op- ponent, the Berkeley Institute of Brooklyn. It proved to be a romp as the foes could hardly ever move the ball out of their own end of the field against the A-S first string. Landis, Sheehan - and then Sheehan again on a beautiful pass from lacobs - scored to allow the seventh grade substitutes to play the entire second half in the 3-0 win. Landis scored the hat trick against the third oppo- nent, Dwight York, ably supported by fine play from Sheehan and halfback Robert Margolis. Goalie Rob- erto DeVido had an easy time of it as the Unicorns recorded their second shutout. Defeat struck for the first time at the hands of Dalton, who had an outstanding, unstoppable play- er who tallied three times. Sheehan's score was not enough, as the Blue 81 Gold lost, 3-1. Overconfident, the eighth grade squad went into the Day School game expecting an easy win. Playing poorly for much of the game, the Unicorns could do no better than a 0-0 tie. Things turned up in the next game against super soccer power St. Bernard's. Completely dominating