Christian Brothers Academy - Cadet Yearbook (Albany, NY)

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'UR if eel, v 'V' . ,MW TRACK SQUAD First Row, left to 1ightfJ. Conway, D. Maloney, J. Noonan, D. Lutey, R. Tommaney, D. Hart, R. Daum, Pelgrin, G. Fisher, R. Goulty, Ravella, P. Kane, F. Lasch. Second Rott'-fJ. Brennan, F. Mulderry, R. Burke, Kavanaugh, A. Loring, H. Schafer, H. Shannon, H. Nolan, W. Kavanaugh, Miller, J. Ferraro, H. Fronk. Third R0w7A. Kilmartin fMgr, 1, D. Williams, D. Gavin, J. Powers, J. Murtagh, E. Angell, E. Carty, R. Zangrando, R. Raum, T. Paffenback, T. Brown, C. Doukas CMgr.l. Fourth Rott -J. Gagnon, W. Toomey, WV. Cashin, H. McGuigan, T. Harrold 1Capt.j, M. Ryan, J. Bottleberger, J. Joyce, G. Deyo, G. Murphy, McGarrahan, R. Burns, J. McEvoy. Fifth Row-N. Fiscarelli, Donohue, R. McNamara, R. LaLonde, R. DeStefano, J. Kavanaugh, J. Okonski, W. Glavin, D. Fitzgerald, W. Massad, W. Burt, T. Grifiin, R. Filkins, J. Reed. TRACK The 1949 edition of the varsity track team has a big job on its hands if it intends to equal the record of the thinclads of last year. But with Brother George, successful cross-country moderator, at the helm, it is very possible that he and the varsity will again retain the City Track Championship which C.B.A. has held for the past four years. Our lone loss in dual competition last season was to the highly touted Mont Pleasant squad. which won its twenty-first consecutive dual meet in a three year period. Records for both schools were broken as Ed Barber. Pleasant's National scholastic champ, tossed the twelve pound shot 54 feet 5 inches for a new school record. It was so good Rt v. Brother A. George talks with track men Nb that C.B.A.'s Joe Bietka had to top his schoolls mark with a 47 feet 8 inch heave to take second place. Tom Scherer. C.B.A., set a new school mark in the broad jump with a leap of 22 feet 3 inches. Our wins in the 100. 440. mile. broad and high jumps were not sufficient to offset the points gar- nered by Pleasant in the 220, 880. hurdles, relay. and the remaining field events. Mason was victori- ous for C.B.A. in the 100, while McGill took the 440. and Harrold the mile run. Tommy Scherer, winner of the broad jump. also outclassed the field in the high jump. The hnal tally: Mont Pleasant 61. Christian Brothers .Academy 43. Following the Mont Pleasant meet. C.B.A. ran a dual meet against Albany Academy and really made a field day of it. The Purple and Gold made a clean sweep of the 100. 220, 440, discus. and the high jump. In winning the shot put, Bietka tied the record he had made the week before. and a sag in the cross bar was the only thing preventing the 6 foot 4 inch record set by Tommy Scherer in the high jump from becoming official. Clark, Levitto and Hinkel were 1. 2, 3, for the Brothers in the 100 yard dash, Levitto and Hinkel teamed up with McGill to sweep the 220, the 440 sweep was made by Mason. Roche and Bfurphy. It was in this event that Mason ran the 440 in 53.2, his record for the season. In the discus, Batkiewicz, Zan- grando. and Bietka were triumphant. while Scherer. Mason, and Boice took the high jump. Ed Harvey, Dennis Murnane. Tom Scherer and Ed Angell were victorious in the mile. 220 low hurdles, broad jump. and pole vault respectively. When the final score had been tabulated C.B.A. had 83 1,3 points to 201.8 for the Cadets of Albany Academy.

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Cnoss COUNTRY Firsl Row, left to righ1+T. Myers, G. Mat timore, D. Maloney, R. Davis, F. Lloons J. Nlcllarthy, W. Gould. Second Row-E. Burns, M. Harte, W Toomey, T. Harrold fllaptainj, E. Carty, J. Gagnon, W. Evans, A. Kilmartin lMan- agerb. Third Row-Rev. Brother George Clloachj, D. Hickey, T. Ryan, M. Ryan, J. McGar- rahan, R. Konis, T. Harrison. Jlflixsing from Piflure---T. Brown, D. Lutey A. Loring. CROSS COUNTRY The Hill and Dalers of C-.B.A., who were coached by Brother A. George, had a very success- ful season. Besides compet-ing in a duel meet against Mount Pleasant in which G.B.A. lost by a 25-30 margin, the team ran in several open meets and fared well in all of them. Six men formed the nucleus of the team and three of them will return next season. The six men included Tom Harrold, Captain of the '48 tcamg Ed Garty, a junior who was number one man for C.B.A. in all open meets this year, Tom Brown, who pressed Carty all season and therefore finished well in every meet, Don Gavin was his usual dependable self. while Dave Lutey and Don Harte were consistent. G.B.A. placed eleventh at Utica in an open meet and followed this with nineteenth place in the Manhattan Open. third in the Whileshoro Meet and fourth place in the Grout Memorial. Then, to add to a successful season, the harriers captured third place in the Prep School division of the National Finals at South Orange, New Jersey. In this meet, the Purple and Gold encountered the toughest competition of the season. The boys came through with flying colors as Garty was sixth, Brown seventh, Gavin eleventh, Harrold thirteenth. Harte fourteenth and Lutey fifteenth. Some of the other boys who were up there were Bill Toomey, Jim Gagnon, Mike Ryan. Dick Davis, John NIcGarrahan and Dick Konis. Lfff I0 Right-fD. Lutey, D. Gavin, li. Ciarty, T. Harrold lllaptw, T. Brown, D. Hart.

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We were hosts to four other schools in the Second Annual C.B.A. Relays, in which our well-balanced track squad did the expected by easily winning the meet. Our Held men took first place in every field event and our speedsters on the cinders took first place in the 440 relay and second places in the 880 relay, mile and two mile relays and the medley. Final tally: C.B.A. 39, Vincentian 26, Albany High 17, Bethlehem Central High 15, and Ravena Coey- mans 2. Our thinclads took over the schoolboy sport spotlight during the first week of June on the occa- sion of the annual interscholastic track and field championships. Brother .Iohn's athletes spread- eagled the field at Bleecker Stadium, annexing nine of the eleven events. Dick Mason scored for C.B.A. in the 100 yard dash and the 220, McGill won the 4405 Harrold the mile, Bietka took the shot put and teammate Ciesielski won the discus event with a heave of 134 feet 2 inches. Ed Angell won the vaulting event and Scherer again had twin vic- tories in the high jump and broad jump. Midgley' of Albany Academy set a city record in the 880 when he negotiated the oval in the record breaking time of 2.04 2f5. The record for this event was previously held by Bill Cooney, a star on the '47 C.B.A. squad. The team this year was built around several capable veterans from the championship squad of last season. In uniform and performing again were such standouts as Harrold in the distance events, Ed Angell in the pole vault, and those burly per- formers, Batkiewicz and Zangrando, in the weight events. Capable performances by Brown, Carty, Gavin, Powers, Murtagh, and Glavin, plus support from Jim Pelgrin, Hal Shannon, Hank Apple, and Howie Schafer, stars from last yearls Plebe squad, combined to bring about a successful season. T. Harrold and E. Carry in practice E. Angell vaults high T. Harrold and D. Gavin race it out J. Powers clears the bar with ease P. Clark breaks the tape in city meet .rr s