Bronxville High School - Bronco Yearbook (Bronxville, NY)

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the Hudson Valley squad put on a furious drive for a touchdown. It was of no availg the boys in the Blue and Gray displayed some of the best football they showed all year and held them off. Bronxville then took the ball on the same spot it had been four downs previous. Mustering every bit of its strength, the line broke Rees clear for a sixty yard dash to put the Indians in scoring position. Witli eighteen seconds left, Iired Brown stepped back, and behind perfect blocking passed a long one to Andy Crichton running free in the end zone, to pull the game Attached to Each Other .4155-K W'asn't lt Swell? Bonne d'enfant out of the fire. It was a happy moment for Bronxville. Wl1.1t had seemed like defeat two min- utes before had been changed into victory. The band marched, and we cheered. For us, the season slowed up thereafter. Except for an elec- trifying tie of Rye, touted the best in the country, the locals were stopped from then on. The Blue and Gray dropped succes- sive tilts to Fordham and strong North Tarrytown. Following Rye it slumped before a weak Edison Teck Squad and then lost a heartbreaker to Scarsdale, 16-0. The game was in actuality a hard fight all the way, the heaviest part of the scoring coming in the final minutes when it was too late for a Bronxville victory. Later at the dance, the Maroon players swore they had never played a harder game. Coach Matthaei's sentiments at the emblem assembly struck home as we realized the plight of our team. This year we suffered from a lack of material. Matthaei pointed out that only half of the boys physically and mentally capable of going out for the team did so. To him the Scars- dale score remains 7-0, and the team the most loyal he has ever coached. Interspaeed with the football season we had our annual Hallowe'en Dance. It was a grand, 25 as xv as xr 2:

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as xx as xx as 24 curricular activities so great that she finally usuggestedy' that a Penney study hall be estab- lished for those of us who couldn't play on the football team, sing on tune in chorus, play in the band, serve incidental committees, and car- ry five majors. It worked in a vile sort of way that last week, but we were just a little too late. Our real problem was to get into college. Dusty Dodds kept sending around circulars ask- ing us where we were going. On the first ones we had the sagacity to put down COLLEGES, but, as the year progressed and the goal books came back, we came to our senses and told the truth: Miss Winklebaum's Finishing School for Young Backward Girls and Spearfish Normal for 'Brilliant' Boysf, Jack Moore, Marie Mason, Ma Bertha Green and Herr Helmuth Joel helped Dusty. Alas, it was of no avail, and all came to naught. We calmly sat by as our books went to rack and ruin. The girls knitted, gabbed, listened to Shaw, Miller and Dorsey, and vamped boys. The opposite sex listened to blaring ra- dios, went out for football, talked politics, chased sophomore girls, and got vamped! With our goal books through we were changed people. We dropped our heads, kept clear of school and home, sneaked to and fro, and vowed never again. The leaves began to fall and the air became crisp and clear. We dug our winter clothes out of the moth balls and settled down for a long, cold winter. Still not sufficiently recovered from the last week's cramming, we uttered a few spas- modic, hapless innuendos about our work, went back to remedial advisories and settled down to the more serious business of football. Having won the first encounter against Saun- ders, we looked forward to the ensuing fight with Leake and Watts. The team, suffering un- der the same conditions as its predecessors, the ,39 club, namely a lack of reserve strength and veterans, didnit anticipate letting down. It went after the Yonkers outfit with as much gusto as it had the Trade School. The results were, but for the good graces of Old Chief Gramatan, al- most a reverse of the week before. After three scoreless periods, Leake and Watts succeeded in breaking through the Indians' defense, and pushed them back to their own two. Here, for the first down with two yards to victory and little more than two minutes playing time left, It's All In The Game 'ea

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Moppets no1sy suceess Costumes were xequlred for admlttance, makmg lf the gludnest, most colorful plrty of the yelr, exceptmg per haps, our ovsn k1dd1e plrty Blll Umm and h1s band kept the xhythm gomg, whlle jack Burke ofhclated, and Alex Gxlhs ran the clder You may th1nk theres somethxng m a name, but just try to dnstmgulsh a Scotchman 1n Bronxv1lle when theres some thmg free round about Some of us even trled squeezmg the keg and sueklng the spout betvyeen outbursts of b0OglL woogle Hldes yn as revlved for the oc caslon It made a lot of no1se and may be a few headaches and vxet costumes, but all the thr1lls and excntement passed vtlth no fltalltles fxI'I'lWlI1g at school the day of the Scarsdale glme we xx ere stlrtled by the candy stlck goll posts flblng from the Chambers field Through some sly trxekery by a splrlted group of Maroon supporters they xx ere novy alternatlng red and xx hxte strapped posts 1n place of the usual vshlte goals, but all that we could see was red' After takmg oath and offerlng up our servlces to dear old B H S plans for retal1at1on were cancelled under yy 1se councll Instead, Burke and Clay berger got out of Tauby s and painted them vs lute agun Later durmg the rally assembly the hghe hearted fellows who had expressed then' n as as as n n xx 26 Scarsdale loyalty 1n the aforesand manner came before us and expressed thelr desire that we ac cept apolognes and take II 111 IU fun The honest confesslon of our 0 onents not onl mlde us PP Y qulte ready to forgne them but also set us m the fl ht mood to do or due to wm the ame 8 S If we dldn t d1e at the game, we eame even eloser to mortlllty gettmg dressed for the bug soclal event of the year The Searsdale Bronx ulle dance We dashed home, gulped our dm ner, and began that long process of gettmg mto our best go to meetm clothes We fought fur lously wlth bovy ties that vsouldn t bow, studs that wouldn t stud and curls that vsouldn t curl as rf they ey er dnd curlj The Student Coun c1l had prepared weeks 1n advance and xt was golng to be the best one yet Throwmg tr1d1t1on to the wnnd the Counc1l abohshed the old ldea of a receptlon commxttee Too many hands had been wrenched m former years We dashed off our outdoor attlre and entered the gym There was a low cellmg and subdued hghts Atmosphere' We noticed the red, whrte, and blue decoratlons 1nd the paper helmets on the walls Sweet, rhythmlc strams tmkled 1n our ears as we danced to the suave mus1c of B111 Om In s band Duck Fleld had pro cured hlm for tvso dances both were the bug gest successes of the year Clap hands for Dlck' Plastered7 1 f 1 ss 1 1' ' - . 1 e 1 6 1 K 1 1 . 1 1 - 1 1 1 . . 1 11 1 1 e , 5 1 1 1 1 . , . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 r F, ff 1 1 1 v ,1 1 1 . - 1 1 1 1 1 ' - - . v 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 e 1 . , - - .- 3 - . . . , , , 1 1 ' Y 1 V 1 -1 ' 1 1 . Q fs 1 - - 1 , 1 K' . . . 1 -1 1 1 1 y 1 yn 1 1 U - . . , 1 1 I f 1 , 1 1 . , ' 1 1 1 1 1, , 1 ' ' ' I S . . I .. I 1 1 , , . . 1 - H 1 . . , . . 1 11 . . . . Q 1 1 11' ' ' 1 1 1 1 ' . - - 1 1 ,1. . ' 1 - ' 1- . ' r 1.1. 1 1 1 .7- Q.. . 1- 1 v' . . , . , - r 1 1 s 7 , .. K 1 1 1 , , 1 1 1 .1 . . ya 1 V1 71 1 V 1 1 I 1 1 ' 1. I -1 - 1 1 1' V ' I 7 Y . 1 - 1 1, ,1 1 1 1 - 1 f 1 1 , ' . . ., 1 1 1 , . 1 1 1 . 1 , 1 . 1 , . . 1 , K , 1 11 1 1 V x 1 1. e