Berkshire Community College - Falconer Yearbook (Pittsfield, MA)

Page 467 text:

The early season practice under an August sun did much to discourage the listless candidates, and to season the zealous. The booting practice slowly turned to dribbling and passing. Finally, along with chilly blasts on Lawrence Field came the daily menu of scrimmaging for the twenty-six men retained on the varsity squad. Well, what happened now is recorded as history. But the chapter represented by this season will always be prominent in the annals of Navy athletics. The record speaks for itself-a grand coach and twenty NW jolmuie Swank, the dribbling EXIJETL played havoc with enemy team goalies athletes. Oct, Duke .... Oct. Penn. U.. . . Oct. Lehigh .... Nov. Penn State. Nov. Swarthmore. . . . . Nov Nov . Y.: -.f1 f?fft Bucknell . . . Army .... F-54 ,'5 'z Y ': 1' in--f-.7 - -fm rf :- f-'fy -I The fruits Q' 1liCf0Ijl 'Ille 'Ionian- lst ROW -Hall, Calisto, Kern, Drake, Nicklas, Allen, Griffin, Baldwin, Barnes. 2nd HOW- lVIarusek, Bucknell, Stewart, Swank, Coach Taylor, Captain Chaires, Schoeberlein, llloul, Delllayo, Reaves. 3rd ROW- Comdr. Logan, Ojiccr Repre- sentative, Gorsljne, Eaton, Van- tlerwolk, Purkrabek, Burdett, Luesclmer, Polk, Rogers, Lt. Comdr. Geist, Manager Sim- melink. 1

Page 466 text:

Tommy Taj lm the soccer coach qf the year SOCCER ...mont Champions WHEN the whistle blew to end the Army-Navy soccer game on Thanksgiving Day, few people saw the victorious Navy captain, Bill Chaires, grab the game ball, dash among the two thousand spectators, and present it to his proud mother. She wasn't the only person who was proud of this year's great soccer team. Midshipmen, interested alumni, and the ever-loyal folks', of the players, realized that the whistle had completed one of the most successful, and grueling, seasons in the history of Navy Association Football-un- defeated in seven games-with a season of daily scrimmages stretching from August 5th to November 25th. There can never be enough credit given to a certain little Scotsman, Tommy Taylor, for his splendid job of coaching this 1943 soccer team to the National Championship. His help to every player bore fruit. He was voted the outstand- ing soccer coach of the yearn by the National Soccer Coaches' Association. Four of his players won national recognition- Captain Bill Chaires, Art Calisto Qrecently from Peruj, goalie Sam Gorsline, and long kicking fullback George Reaves, were named to the All American soccer team. 35+-M ,F 3-15.31 460 The Captrziu-All Americrm Bill Cbaire: Manager Simvzelink talks things over with the referee 9 Four morzibs of scrimmage on Lawrence Field put our boys on tap

Page 468 text:

CRGSS COUNTRY was Mn and sais HAMPERED all season with injuries, three of which hurt the team badly, the gang from Crabtown travelled to New York where they were led by an inspired Captain Walt Barry to place second in the inter-collegiates. But the boys brought back more than a trophy, for on the grueling slopes of Van Cortland Park, seven midshipmen ran away from the Army cadets and defeated Army decisively for the first time since 1940. The grand finale came on Thanksgiving Day. The harriers really brought back the bacon in the form of the Southern Middle Atlantic Cham- pionship, and the National A. A. U. Championship. Navy ' Opponent Oct. 16 North Carolina 16 44 Oct. 25 Stonewall Z7 32 Oct. 30 Duke-Virginia 20 56-59 ' Nov. 15 Army 22 34 : Low score wins Eigbl laps flll0Il7Ilf ojicers' COIIIINU' and Ibe barriers called it rz clay f mfg EAW? Doc and Tommy I X ' f A -A P 'S' j hx. ft' all w,,, '4 era Nil fl ilu: Ifcinn- Lt. Couulr. Vogeley, Wlilson, Bruin- mer, Dudley, Hunter, Capiain Barry, Dempsey, Gri1nsley,Stcvens, Brown, Mavzagcfr Fallon, Coach Thompson. Over bill-over rlnle-with Brxrrgg Brown, and Wilson ,4'f. ff' - . The Captain- J'0IHlg5f27' Walt Brzrrj