California Maritime Academy - Hawsepipe Yearbook (Vallejo, CA)

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IUK3 seated, left to right: hood, smith, davies, wilson, p. kelly. kneeling: compton, marshall, toscano, w. s. peterson, jones. standing: lt. cdr. averill, gahleman, andrew, alley, coach pierson. not shown: Burrows, Jacobsen. basketball this year for the first time in the annals of the academy a midshipman by the name of malcolm pierson took over the job of coaching the basketball squad. coach pierson's scahorses ended their 1950 season some- what successfully despite the handicap of only four re- turning veterans, rod marshall, marv burrows, dick alley, and jack hood. but despite the fact coach moe with the very capable assistance of the faculty advisor mr. weston averill uncov- ered some fine talent in the 3rd class to fill out the squad. among them were the sharp shooting danny smith, the ever dependable gene toscano, the hard playing and fine backboard work of ru davies and bill andrew, these, coupled with the height of jake jacobsen, the inspiring playing and outstanding backboard control of red bur- rows, the fine ball handling of rod marshall, and the fast-stepping jack hood formed the nucleus for the sea- horses. the middics got the season underway in fine fashion by downing the yuba jr. college with a score of 53 to 37 with burrows and smith taking scoring honors. the next game was a close one but we came out on the short end of a 33 to 32 score to the fairfield merchants, but then we retaliated in our next encounter with a win over the marine barracks. probably the most heartbreaking loss of the year was the hard played nip and tuck battle against vallejo jr. college which we finally dropped by a point margin of 43 to 42 with burrows and marshall taking the honors for the game. our next game was a bad one with a loss to the san quentin lions 50 to 44. after this the sea- horses came back with two wins, a close one over arm- strong college 35 to 34 and the other over the highly touted mare island apprentices 28 to 37 with smith and hood respectively taking the scoring honors. all in all the season turned out much better than ex- pected and next year great things will be expected of the seahorses with the loss of only two veterans, rod marshall and jack hood. next year we are looking forward to some fine performances from such stalwart returnees as smith, toscano, jacobsen, davies, burrows and andrews not to mention such talent as the hard driving paul kelly and the clever ball handling of dapper dick alley both of whom have shown great promise. other capable per- formers who have not been mentioned are bill petersen, bill jones, dick wilson, harry gableman and joe ban. according to the potential talent lined up for next year plus the competent coaching of mr. averill next year's squad should be the strongest ever to represent the academy.