Buckingham Browne and Nichols School - Torch Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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9 The year did have its bright side. We succeeded in getting good experience and in seeing the development of several very good wrestlers on our team, such as Steve Caplan and Mike Holden, who have been elected co-captains for next year. Steve had the best record of anyone on the team, losing only one match during the season hy a very close score. He also provided one of the most exciting matches of the year hy tying Belmont Hill's New England Champion, Watkins, two-to-two. Mike should do an excellent job next year, for his daily efforts in calesthentics should give the team fine preparation for matches. Art Schoepfer had the most surprising season of the year. Starting out with no varsity experience, he quickly developed a solid style of wrestling which exf asperated all of his opponents and defeated most. Am- hrose Spencer is another sophomore who has shown that in future years, he will he quite good. In one of the darkest moments of the season, in our match against Governor Dummer, he came up with a sur- prise pin which saved our score from being completely ignominous. lim Mazzanovitch, along with Willis Iohnson and Bill Collins, made a valiant effort to hold up the heavier weight classes. Arthur Shurcliffe also helped out during the year, and came up with a couple of pins. Ioe llutera and Charles Taylor, both from the Middle School, helped us out in doing well a very difhcult ioh. We feel that the 1958 team leaves plenty in store for the future, after having spent a difficult year gaining the needed experience. Grrrrr. 51 Let Frrrdanz Ring Cizppir' and Charlie tangle

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Frou! Row: left to right: Sehurcliff, Butera, Taylor. Mifldlf Row: left to right: Schopfcr, Holden, Co-Capt, Emery, Cu-Capt. Moskow, Kaplan. Buck Row: left to rightg Mignone, Collins, Mazzanovich, Spencer, Iohn- son, W., Van Llc Graaff, XNooclard, Goodman, finissingl Coach Graves. RESTLI Uhhh. Going down. The Wrestling Team, over the past four years, has had a record which, on paper, reminds one of the development of the hero in a Greek tragedy. During the first two years, we had an excellent team, composed of experienced wrestlers who lost only one match. However, all but a few of the veterans graduated leav- ing a team which, in the last two years, has won but one match. This change was rather discouraging, yet, as one could easily see while watching our matches this year, our spirit bears no resemblance to the tragic hero's spirit or position. Our season, this year, started off on an optimistic note. We beat Perkins and Needham in informal meets. In this type of meet, an effort is made to match wrestlers of equal experience, weight, and ability, with each other. We did not fare so well in regular season competi- tion as we did in these preliminary matches. The primary reasons for this downfall were the small num- ber of experienced men on the Varsity, and early season injuries to the co-captains Ierry Moskow and Don Emery, which prevented them from wrestling in many matches. Thus we went into the season with the main objec- tive of gaining experience, as well as winning matches. We accomplished both ends to some degree, although our only win of the year was a close match, forty to thirty-six, over Wellesley High School. We had another close meet with Brooks, but unfortunately lost. The rest of the season's scores were disparaging.

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BAS Capt. Heineman and Coach Elliott Tucker on the mound. Front Row: left to right, Donovan, Slocum, Cunningham, Capt. Heine- man, Pierson, Schoepfer, Conway. Back Row: left to rightg Coach Etter, Anderson, Tucker, Coon, Coyne, Kap- lan, Altman, Keavy, Smith, Coach Elliott. BALL Last year, the baseball team, led by Captain Iim Fitzgerald, compiled a record of seven wins and six losses. This was the third consecutive year that the Browne and Nichols baseball team had had a winning season. Last year's team consisted of Larry Norton, Steve Heineman, Burtt Ehrlich, and Dick Gibbs in the in- field. Kevin Barbera, Ted Freeman, and Whig Pier- son were in the outfield. Bill Snelling and Art Cunningham took over pitching duties, while Captain Fitzgerald lead the team in the catching position. This team managed to play pretty steady ball throughout the season, reaching its peak when it beat a very strong Middlesex team. Dick Gibbs led the team in hitting and Bill Snelling developed into a top-notch pitcher. This year's team can be described, in part, by the fact that there are only two seniors on the squad. There are only three returning lettermen who are Whig Pierson, Art Cunningham and Captain Steve Heineman. This means that the team is young and inexperienced, and will need time to develop into a good steady ball club. The team played its first game on April tenth, and, although it lost to Belmont Hill, the last half of the game proved that it could develop into a steady ball club. April sixteenth the team met with Noble and Green- ough. We played well defensively throughout the game, but because of a lack of hits, lost. We showed a definite improvement over the previous game. The starting lineup for this game consisted of Coon at third base, Heineman at shortstop, Kaplan at second