Cazenovia Central High School - Owahgena Yearbook (Cazenovia, NY)

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Football Boasting an enviable record of six victories out of seven games, Caz- enovia Central School's 1933 football team was easily the best of any during the short history of the school. In compiling this winning record Cazenovia met and defeated the best teams in Central New York, and played them with a spirit of fair play and clean sportsmanship that was second to none. No chain is stronger than its weakest link. The same adage may apply to a football team. The 1933 team was a team with no weakness at any position, a team which did not depend on individual brilliance but rather a team possessing eleven players coordinating with each other like the smoothness of a delicate watch, doing what was asked of them and doing it well. Of course any organization, no matter how well it works together, is no good unless it has a leader in whom that organization has confidence to di- rect its efforts. The 1933 squad was fortunate to have such a man as Captain Charlie Gregg at the helm. Charlie was a mainstay of the team in every game at the quarterback position. Besides being a fine player himself, he served as assistant coach during the week, instructing others in the arts of blocking, tackling and other things. In any group there must always be some who stand out, men who come through when the going gets tough and who really can be depended upon to do the right thing at the right time. This team literally seemed to be made up of such men. Captain-elect Eddie Baker, one of the finest scholastic guards in Cen- tral New York, was the defensive star of the line as well as the deadliest blocker on the squad. At the other guard Don Callahan was always in the thick of the fight and it was seldom that opponents gained through his section of the line. At center, Dud Hart, the toughest player on the team, always presented a stone wall to the opposition.

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Athletics

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Howard Lieurance and Cliff Means, the heaviest men on the team, played the entire season together at tackle and either would have been very difficult to displace. Dan Kennedy and Warnie Gardner both performed sensationally at ends throughout the season. The triple threat ace of the baekfield was Merritt Means who did the punting and passing as well as bucking the line. Joe Otvos at left half was the defensive ace of the baekfield besides reeling off his share of yard- age on off tackle plays. At the other halfback positions Eddie Clarke and Rill Feidt alternated throughout the season, both being deadly tacklers as well as fast, shifty, swivel-hipped runners. Men who will be lost to the team through graduation include Capt. Gregg. Bill Feidt, Don Callahan, Cliff Means, Warnie Gardner and Phil Thomas. Though these men will be difficult to replace, the remainder of the squad, together with last year’s reserves, should form a strong nucleus for another season. How decisive this victorious season was for the local team is shown by the fact that they made 58 first downs to their opponents’ 26. Few passes were thrown but the record in this department shows 10 completions out of 17 attempts, while opponents were able to complete only 10 passes out of 51 attempts. The season’s record: Cazenovia 0 away Cortland 25 Cazenovia 6 home W. Winfield 0 Cazenovia 2 away Oxford 0 Cazenovia 12 home Greene 0 Cazenovia 7 away Moravia 0 Cazenovia 30 home Sherburne 0 Cazenovia 18 home Skaneateles 0 75 25