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

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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

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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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VARSITY SOCCER TEAM - back row: Mr, Darabi, Brookins, lacobs, D. Zaloorn, Lester, Greff, A. Zaloom, Lofas, Muller Robert Raines, Speyer, Bross, Mr. Tobolsky, middle row: Marchant, L. Siskind, Glickman, lon Levy, Parkinson, Hedges, Ben-Ami, luly, Vogelstein, Boyce, front row: C. Leong, A. Papazoglou, R. DeVido, D. Landis, R. Margolis M. Seplow, Fischer, P. Papazoglou, P. Margolis, absent: Sheehan the game, the Unicorns triumphed on a great angle shot by forward Lars Lofas early in the game. From then on A-S contained St. Bernard's to win 1-O. The next day saw the squad repeat a 1-O victory, this time over cross-town rival Collegiate. Sheehan scored the winning marker, assisted by Landis. De- fense continued as the Unicorn watchword as the team shut out its next opponent, too - only this time the offense could not score and the Dwight- Englewood game ended in an 0-0 tie. The next contest saw the Unicorns dump Browing in an eighth grade game, highlighted by the un- precedented feat of seeing a fullback tally three times! Former Browningite jimmy lacobs came back to haunt his former schoolmates as he put on a true all-star performance. The big game of the year - against Buckley - proved to be a big disappointment, as the Unicorns lost 1-0 on a fluke. Late in the second half, with the score knotted at 0-0, a Buckley kick smacked lan Fischer in the head. instinctively, lan raised his ha.nds to his face, and the referee, thinking he had thus touched the ball, awarded a penalty kick to Buckley, which they converted. The final League game was an eighth grade affair against Trinity which ended in an O-0 tie, followed by a disappointing 1-1 tie with Town School in a game A-S should have won handily. The last two matches were away against Harvey and Rippowam, where the Unicorns succumbed to bigger and more skilled foes 5-0 and 4-0, Nevertheless it was a fine season, and the team was greatly indebted to Mr. Tobolsky for his fine coaching. 53