Canastota High School - Toot Yearbook (Canastota, NY)

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THK TOOT 35 BOYS’ BASKETBALL Canastota High School’s basketball team had cne of its worst seasons i i the history of school. Out of sixteen games, we won three, those being from Clinton, Waterville and Cazen- ovia. We were entered in the seven team league of the Upper Mohawk Valiey while we played a home and heme game with our old rival, Onei- da. Those winning block letters will include. Lou Cretaro, Babe” Galavor.- ti, Ted Schirmer, Sam Ezzo, Ed Cro- taro, Frank Morano, Tony Guiffre, A1 New, “Beak” Lawson, Albert Dep- politti and Phil Hamlin with James Digaspari as manager. The scores of the game were as follows: C. H. S. 20............... Hamilton 22 C. H. S. 21......... New Hartford 29 C. H. S. 12................ Oneida 30 c. H. S. 23 Clinton 20 c. H. S. 11 Whitesboro 56 c. H. s. 19 Waterville 38 c. H. s. 20 Cazenovia 23 c. H. s. 19 Sherrill 36 c. H. s. 8 Hamilton 32 c. H. s. 33 New Hartford 51 c. H. s. 24 Clinton 34 c. H. s. 25 Whitesboro 67 c. H. s. 40 Waterville 38 c. H. s. 24 Cazenovia 22 c. H. s. 12 Sherrill 27 c. H. s. 23 • Oneida 24 Total 334 555 We collected a total of 334 points and our opponents 555 witii our col- lecting the most from Waterville (40 points) and the least from Hamilton — AL” NEW WRESTLING (Continued from Page 33) 115 lb. L. Bruno won 1, lost 4. Mike Buda lost 2. 125 lb. G. LeBlanc won 5, lost 2. Sutton lost 2. 135 lb. Marion Buda won 5, lost 3 145 lb. D. Phipps won 2, lost 3. tied V Holliday won 2, tied 1. lost 3. 155 lb. Charles Moore won 7 lost 1. 165 Steve Cimino lost 2. Ackerman won 1. Results with the schools were: Rich- field Springs, we lost oy scores of 21M- to 4Vj and 18 to 14; Norwich, we lost by scores of 21 to 10 and 18 to 13; Sidney, we won by scores of 23 to 5 and tied 15-15; Camden, we lost 20 to 17 and won by 13-11. —GERARD Le BLANC

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84 THE TOOT FOOTBALL Lack of material and inexperienced men for the backfield positions caus- ed C. H. S.’s football record to reach its lowest ebb in our history. Last September, Coach Schmidt met with the distressing problem of build- ing a team out of boys who were no- ticably lacking in weight and strength. A squad of about 25 candidates, of which 10 were veterans, spent the first three weeks under the direction of head coach “Pinky” Schmidt and Wallace Ostrynski, line coach, prepar- ing for their first game. Our team failed to click for various reasons, but as the season went along many of our faults were corrected. After meeting three defeats at Caz- encvia Central, Clinton and Oneida, we had our first home game with Lcwville. Misfortune overtook us in the closing minutes of the conflict to snatch the game away from us and give it to our opponents with a 14-13 score. Although we lost the next two games to Onondaga Valley and Fulton the boys kept on trying and taking it on the chin with the determination to do better in the next game. Our last game played here on an ideal Friday afternoon with Proctor of Utica, was a display of the old fighting spirit C. H. S. has been known for. Behind, at the half, the boys came back in the second frame to score the winning touchdown on a sustained drive from mid-field. Letter men are: Rudy Albanese, cap- tain; Jarvis Dew, Almon New, Vin- cent Setticase, James Rinando, Le- land Whipple, Herbert Wilde, William Tanner, Vernon Hall, Gerard LeBlanc, Charles Mcore, Clifford Osgooa, Tony Guifre, Donald Phipps, Ivan Walters, Reuben Halliday, Steven Cimino, Ben- ny Sgroi, and managers Ted Mero and Frank Morano. —HERBERT WILD 1 Virginia Allen: “You inherited your I Dominick Gatto: “No, I didn’t; he’s laziness from your father.” j got his yet. ”

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36 THE TOOT TRACK The 1939 track team of Canastota High School under the direction of Coach Sherry Wood started its season with a third place at Norwich, com- peting against Norwich and Cazeno- via. Due to the lack of experienced men and insufficient material, the team did not compare with those of previous years. The following week a dual track meet was held at Canastota with Cazencvia providing the opposition, and winning out by a close score of 47 to 42. Canastota showed up well in this meet and encouraged the boys as well as the coach that we had a winning team. Proving to the townspeople that Canastota had a tine tracK team on the previous Saturday, hundreds turn- ed out for the quadrangle meet held on the Roberts Street Field on Satur- day, May 20. Tne teams competing were Whitesboro, Canastota, Camden and Verona. Whitesboro took first honors with Canastota and Camden tying for second honors and Verona finishing in fourth place. On Monday, May 22, a meeting was held of all track members and elect- ed Vincent Setticase as tneir cap- tain of the year. Canastota’s only veterans from 1938 were: Vincent Setticase, Dick Cronk, Malcolm Sterling, Bill Tanner, Ger- ard LeBlanc, Robert Wilde, Dom Gat- to and Babe Galavotti. New mem- bers to the squad who also did fine work were: Dominick Russitano, Ed- die LeBlanc. Hamilton Mero, William Maloney, Bud Hall, Dick Wilkinson, Philip Hamlin, Sam Ezzo, John Ezzo, Bob Gatto, Tommy Kolar, John Dor- ris and Charles Gulliman, Sam Cos- tanzo was our manager. Other meets were neld with Low- ville, Chittenango, Hamilton ana Boonviile. The track Team wishes to thank all who helped judge the meets, and also the people who turned out and took an interest in our team. - VINCENT SETTICASE GIRLS1 i The girls field hockey team enjoy- ed cne of its most successful seasons this past fall. Games were played with New Hartford, Sherrill and Cazenovia. At the close of the season, two all- star teams were picked, four members frem each of the following schools: New Hartford, Cazenovia, Clinton, Sherrill and Canastota. Mary Jane Al- banese, Virginia Rhodes, Mary Mal- vaso and Virginia Cox represented Canastota. The final score of the all- star game was 4-3. Both Virginia Rhodes and Mary Malvaso scored for their respective teams. Scores of games played are as foil- lows: New Hartford 1 .........Canastota 6 Sherrill 1 .............Canastota 3 Cazenovia 3 ............Canastota 1 New Hartford 0 .........Canastota 9 Sherrill 2 .............Canastota 4 Cazenovia 5 ............Canastota 2 The intramural volleyball league | SPORT5 started with two teams from the third period gym class and one team from each of the fourth, fifth and seventh periods. Captains were chosen and the teams were named “Red Raiders”, F. Buttino; “Corn Huskers”, Clara Maj Harle; “Sharpshooters” Rose Peretta; “Lone Rangers” Virginia Rhodes; “Jitterbugs”, Bonnie Cunningham. The softball team got off to a good start. We played Morrisville there, and beat them 1 to 4. The softball schedule has not been completed but it looks like a very successful season. There are some archery meets sched- uled in the future for our excellent archers. The girls of C. H. S. deserve much credit for their fine sportsmanship but most of the credit belongs to our dili- gent and patient instructor, Miss Hel- ler. —MARTHA CALDWELL and —PATRICIA CLARKE