Castle Heights Military Academy - Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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BASEBALL TEAM

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Win or lose, Castle Heights teams are taught to play the game fairly and squarely. RIFLE TEAM Of all the competitions entered into by the Corps of Cadets none arouses more interest than the various gallery rifle matches that take place almost continuously through the year under the supervision of Major Steel, the Professor of Military Science and Tactics. Having won the Fourth Corps Area competition from twenty- three other contesting institutions, not only winning each of its in- dividual matches, but also piling up the greatest aggregate score. Castle Heights has obtained the first leg on the Area championship cup, and has the distinction of having out-shot every other Junior Unit R. O. T. C. team in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama. Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. The personnel of the team is Cadet Welborne fCaptainD, Cadets Donovan, Helms, Pace L., Hamilton F., Hatch, Rominger, Neely. Seagraves D., Hain, Howell L., Meschendorf, Barker E., Cockrill, and Kirtley. Every cadet takes part in the rifie work, and each has full oppor- tunity. to qualify as a member of the Academy first team. A FOOTBALL Football, the sport glorious!-for, certainly, most red-blooded boys feel that way about it. First call for football is always a great day at Castle Heights, when new men and old men alike come streaming down on the big athletic field at the coaches' first announcement. Castle Heights is different from a good many schools in its football work-every man has his chance, and plenty of it. Frequently, as the season pro- gresses, there are six or even seven teams at work, thus affording the coaches the finest opportunity for advancing promising players from one squad to another. Most of the games are played on the home field, but the team goes away on several trips, sometimes as far as Memphis one way or Atlanta the other. One thing is true of Academy football, however, as it is of all the other sports at Castle Heights: a cadet must do passing work in all his classes before he can take any very active part. As every boy will see at once, this requirementkeeps off the teams all except the 101

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, ,vw '. very best sort of material-men not only of the necessary aptitude and physical prowess, but also of the mental capacity to receive the finer points of skilled and careful coaching. It is a point of pride with the Corps that the class of athletes ordinarily known as Hringersn has no place on the teams, or, for that matter, in the Academy. The varsity football team for last season was as follows: Left End-THOMAS. ,I . Right End-RADFORD. Left Tackle-Sci-HLDER. Right Tackle-HELMS fCaplainJ. Left Guard-THOMAS, W. Right Guard-HAMILTON, F. CCNl6f MAASSEN. QUdffGfbdCk-COCKRILL. , Left HOU'-LILLY. Right HaU-HANCOCK Fullback-MURRAY. BASKETBALL It would be hard to find a more inspiring scene than that pre- sented on many a Friday evening during the basketball season in the Castle Heights gymnasium. It may be that the rafters are still draped in the Maroon and Gold that were placed there as decorations for the last dance, but the floor looks different as one takes his place in the circular gallery, perhaps near the Band, which is roaring out songs of victory or else the inspiring strains of the Alma Mater, while the building fairly shakes with the Academy yell as an accurately aimed shot goes to the right spot, and perhaps gives the Corps another hard-earned victory. The Academy quint for last season was: CCUfBf'ANDERSON, C. FOYWGYJSQHANCOCK, Lsscums, Monnis, W. fCaptainJ Guards--LILLY, PACE, F., Booman. BASEBALL It is in the Spring, however, that the baseball enthusiast comes in- to his own, when the big trees on the Hilltop begin to bud out, and a different sort of feeling breathes in the air. Gray flannel uniforms and maroon jerseys make their appearance along the avenue, and the crack of the horsehide against the willow or its soft thud as it shoots into the Pitcher's glove sounds on every side. Then, when the games come, no less than in football season do the cadets fill the bleachers, cheer-leaders out in front, and a host of well-wishers from Lebanon encouraging the team to win and yelling wildly for a three-base drive. 103 '- L