Blake School - Reflections / Call O Pan Yearbook (Hopkins, MN)

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£ VARSITY HOCKEY Back Row: Mr. Van Santvoord, Morris, Si Iverson, Louden, Homineycr, Raugust. J. Crosby, Van Dusen, Cole, Hollern, Skinner. Front Row: Hyde, Scherer, C. Crosby, Larson. P. McCaull. Geveland, Cargill.

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-All-Conference offensive end: ked 26 extra points in 32 a good defensive halftnck. Hob Lund holm—A hard running left half hack who improved from week to week high scorer for the 1952 team: All-Conference halfhack; Co-captain for 1953. Bottom

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VARSITY HOCKEY Mr. Van Santvoord, who took over the position of Hockey coach this year, thought that the hopes for the season were rather dim. He had one fact in his favor, however: there were more hoys trying out for the team this year than ever l)cfore. Despite the fact that there were only five returning lettennen, the Varsity had a fair season winning eight and losing nine. The Hears took third place in the M.I.S.L. and had a record of six wins and four losses. A disadvantage that the team had to face all season long was had weather. The first game the Varsity played was against Minnehaha in Williams Arena. The team had not had much practice and were beaten 2-0. in a non-conference game. However, in the next game, the Hears beat the overconfident Southwest six 2-1 in a sudden death overtime. Southwest won the Twin City championship and was the only team to l eat St. Paul Johnson, the State Champions. Hlake lost the next two contests with St. Cloud Tech and St. Louis Park lie-tore heating Edina. At St. Cloud it was a close game 2-3. St. Louis Park won 5-0. In the Edina game Hlake nudged by 1-0. Then the Hears traveled down to Shattuck and won the game 4-1. In the next game Hlake was overpowered on Edina’s small rink 2-1. After taking this setback from Edina, the Blake six were up and defeated Concordia 10-1. Tailing this win. Blake played its best game of the season at Breck. The Hill-toppers were tied 1-1 and 2-2 at the end of the first and second periods, but finally lost 3-2 on a last second score by Hreck’s ace Paul Johnson. The next game showed that the Varsity had improved since the first game because they beat Minnehaha 4-1. S.P.A.. who fought with Hlake all season for second place, won the next game 3-0. Hlake came I ack to l eat Concordia 2-0 lieforc losing to Breck 3-1 on HlakcV ice. However, Blake’s most satisfying victory came after this defeat to Breck. The Hears went over to the Minnehaha Indians ice and fought a close Little. Hlake finally won 1-0. Blake then lieat Shattuck for the second time of the season 7-1. In the last game of the regular season Hlake lost a heart breaker to S.P.A. 4-5. This game was finally decided after five overtimes had been played. In the Private School Tournament, Hlake was defeated in the first game by S.P.A. 5-1. At the winter sports dinner, Mr. Van Santvoord awarded thirteen letters and presented Phil I .arson the Dartmouth Hockey Trophy for his fine play during the season. 95