Canton Williams High School - Algonquin Yearbook (Canton, NY)

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The Algonquin Canton High School Football Soon after school began, Coach Oliver issued the call for football men to report. The largest squad in several years reported, and they looked very impressive. However, as the season progressed, the Golden Bears, hampered by injuries, were victims of nu- merous defeats. Dame Fortune had failed again to smile upon the Golden Bears. Coach Oliver, after several days of prac- tice, selected his first team to represent Canton High School on the gridiron for the 1937 season. His first selection for the var- sity was: Half-backs, C. Sims and C. Clark: Full-back, H. Stiles: Quarterback, PPatten: Ends, W. Woods and L. Kelly: Tackles, NV. Nash and F. Besawg Guards, D. Nash and L. Robinsong and Center, F. Stone. ln the first league game, injuries took their toll of the Golden Bears. Leo. Kelly, a pro- mising end. received a dislocated elbow early in the first quarter. Muscle Robin- son and Charlie Clark also received injuries. Don Dean and Jim Nash filled Kelly's shoes very well. As the season continued. other injuries occurred and severely crippled the Golden Bears. When the season closed, only two players out of the original eleven .selected as the starting team remained un- injured. A new backileld, John Coakley and Jack Dunham, replaced the injured Paul Patten and Charlie Clark. Charlie Sims, having been forced from the team. left his backfield position to John Cunning- ham. These players, with Tony Stiles, finished the remaining league games. The early season second team became the first team as the season came to a close. This year the Golden Bears, led by Cap- tain Francis Stone, won one league game and lost six. The Bears, although defeated many times, never lost their fighting spirit. The most impressive game of the season was with Ogdensburg. The Burg had a winning team and were heavily favored to defeat the crippled Bears. The Golden Bears stunned the fans by holding an ad- vantage over this team of 7 to 6 for three and a half quarters. However. by a quick break, the Bruins were defeated in the closing minutes, 12 to 7. Here is this year's record of league games. Canton Opponents 0 ....... , . . Massena ..,... .,...,., 3 0 6 ..... . .. Gouverneur . . .. . . .. 0 0... ...Potsdam .... , ....38 7... ...Ogdensburgu ....12 6 .. ...Saranac ...,.. 0... ...TupperLake.., 0 .... Malone ........ 20

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The Algonquin Canton High School r 1 FIRST RUXV Qleft to rightj: Seelye. Patterson, Patten. Clark, Coaklf-y, SECOND RUWV: Coach Oliver, Murray, J. Nash. Sellis. Basketball As soon as the final game of football was played. Coach Oliver ealled for those inter- ested in basketball to report. The squad was picked, and Coach Oliver fared the task of making an aggressive team. He eentered his point of attaf-k around Captain Paul Patten, his only veteran. As the season progressed, the Golden Bears progressed. Captain Patten held a group of cagey players together throughout the season. To aid him. he had Charles Clark and Walter Patterson. both good defensive men: Taleott Seelye. tall centerg and John Coakley, an aggressive guard. The most impressive early season game was the one in which the Bears defeated the fast Aggie quintet, 37 to 32. The league season opened with Canton defeating Norwood, and for six straight games the Bears remained unde- feated. Potsdam, however. defeated the Bears to end the first half of the league srhedule. ln the seeond half. the Golden Bears suffered defeat at the hands of Massena. Malone, Gouverneur. and Potsdam. The most exciting game of this period was Can- ton's win over Tupper Lake. 35 to 34, after being behind 20 to 7 at the half. The league season ended with Potsdam defeating the Bears 26 to 21. Potsdam finished in first place with 15 wins and one loss. Canton finished second with 11 wins and 5 losses. In the play-offs, Canton drew Potsdam and outclassed their rivals, 32 to 28. In'the ehampionship. Canton lost a hard fought game to Tupper Lake, 23 to 27. A few statistics about the team show that t'Tal0 Seelye scored the most points in any single game, 14 points against Malone. Cap- tain Paul Patten was a. unanimous choice for a position on the all-star league first team. In league games Canton seored 409 points to their opponents 368 for an average of 25.6 points per game as against the opponents' 23 points. The results of the league games were: Canton Opponents 21 ..,,...... Norwood .,..........,. 11 79 .. ... Massena .,........ . . . .. 16 32 Saranac Lake 23 25... ...Malone....... ....24 28 . . .. . Gouverneur . . . .... 26 28 ... ... Ogdensburg ... .... 20 21 . . . . . Tupper Lake .... , . . . 17 24 . . . .. . Potsdam ..... . . . 30 26 .. ... Massena ,.,,.., ,... 28 16 . .. . .. Norwood ......, . .... 15 30 .. ... Saranac' Lake ... ..,. 21 20 ... ... Ogdensburg ... .... 15 20 ... ... Gouverneur ... .... 24 33 .. ... Malone ,....... ..,. 38 35 . . . . . Tupper Lake .,.. . . . . 34 21... ...Potsdam .,... , ....26

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The Algonquin Canton High School FIllS'I' RUXV tleft to rightl: llradley. liesaw. Northrnp. Clark, l':utersnn, Cozlliley. Keough. Seelye. Bell. BACK IUJNV tleft to rightl: NValsh. King. Stiles. Sn-llis. Murray. Oliver. Baseball Baseball got under way after Easter vaeation. and the prospeets of a winning team were very good. Six men were lost hy graduation last year, but those who did not play regularly last season iilled their plaees. Veteran 'Pony Stiles headed the pitehing department, with Mark Sellis as seeond ehoiee. Behind the hat were Paul Patten and liiehard Murray. Stiles also eaught in some of the games. The infield was comprised of Ollie Northrup on Iirst base: John Coakley. seeond haseg Paul Patten. shortstop: and Walter Patterson, third base. Different arrangements in the infield were made as oeeasion demanded. 'l'he outfield was managed hy Charles Clark, Bill Keough and Mark Sellis. VVhen Sellis pilehed. Allan King and XValter Bradley alternated in his position. Other players who saw serviee in games this year were Bill Bell. lloh MeCartney, 'l'aleott Seelye. and Fred liesaw. Varsity HC' ' Club 'l'he Varsity Cluh. with the same high membership of the past two years. held its initial meeting on April ll of this year, in the Grammar Sehool Gym. 'l'he ofiieers for the year were eleeted as follows: Paul Patten. President: Charles Clark. Yiee- President: and James Nash. Seeretary- Treasurer. 'Phe annual Varsity HC dance was held in the sehool gymnasium with a. large attendenee. Beeause of our lateness in getting under way. our soeial aetivities were not as extensive as we had hoped, but our increasing lllCIIllD0l'SlllIl. as the years roll on. will help us to fulfill our desires. .lames Nash.