Christian Brothers Academy - Cadet Yearbook (Albany, NY)

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'ls Cleaning rifles and scoring targets the lYilliam Randolph Hearst Nfatches. National Rifle Association competition. the fiflth Regiment Armory Gold Cup Tournament and many other matches. Following the retirement of Col. Paddock as the rifle coach. Sgt. Thomas NY. Hurley. USA. Ret.. took the situation in hand and promptly cap- tured the Gold Cup and Hearst Rlatch. as well as the National Intercollegiate Bfatch. and the First Artny Division National Intercollegiate Blatch. lluring the lfllf-48 season the C.l5.A. marks- men won the Hearst Blatch for the second straight year. took the National Intercollegiate match and the N.R.A, sectional match. They also completed 3. very successful season in the Hudson Valley Rifle League. which is composed of men from various Legion Pwsts, Forbes Rifle and Pistol Cluh. Siena College and New York Central, along with other teams from Schenectady. Amsterdam and Glovers- ville. But it is without douht that the prize win of the season was the Hearst Bfatch in which the C.B.:X. first team of five men filed the highest score for the Hearst competition in the history of the school. a sparkling 972 out of a possible l.00U. 'Illlis score surpassed not only all military high schools and prep schools. hut also the winning score in the college division fired hy the University of Illinois. Besides this outstanding feat. the second team placed third in the nation. with a score of 951. At the end of the season. C.B.A. was without doubt the hest outfit in the nation. When the 19-l8-1949 season rolled around. there were a few new faces around the range. including our moderator's. who had to take over other duties concerning the school. Succeeding him was Brother -loseph. F.S.C.. moderator. and Arthur F. Herold. coach. Art graduated fiom CB..-X. in 1947 and was one of the hest riflemen in the history of the team. having won the marksmanship medal in his junior and senior year at the academy. 'l'he majority of the first team was lost hy graduation. NO that the task of rebuilding the team hecame a trying one. 'lihe team entered the Hudson Valley League and deserves a lot of credit for the excel- lent showing they made. The experience they gained enalmled the mem- hers to go into the Hearst competition fully con- vinced that they could gain the third and final leg PLEBE RIFLE TEAM: First Row, left to 1ight+D. Walsh V Burial, VV. Wands, L. Loerzel. Secorzzl R0:efA. Rudd, E. Updike, F. Leary, F. Savoie Daley. Third Rau'--G. Curran, YV. Chesterfield, R. Keeler Dougherty, H. Shover.

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W' NATIONAI. CHAMPS Ifneeling, left lo rightv-J. Joyce, T. Barber, R. Thombs CCapt,J, H. Woolhouse, R. Gundlach. Slandingvaw. Dempsey, W. Chesterfield, J. Hannan, J. Leary, T. Flanagan, J. Fleitl. FIRING PRACTICE--Offhand, kneeling and sitting positions on the trophy, The first team. comprised of Capt. Dick Thombs, Tom Barber, jim Hannan, Harry W'oolhousc, and Dick Gundlach. fired an excellent score of 960. The team was led to victory by Harry Woolhouse, with a score of 194 out of 200, followed by Tom Barber, ,lim Hannan, Dick Thornbs and Dick Gundlach with scores all above 190. The second team, comprised of joe Joyce, Tom Flanagan, Jack Leary, Bill Chesterfield and Bob Kasper, captured fourth place in the nation with a score of 945. The William Randolph Hearst Trophy and medals were awarded publicly before 20,000 citi- zens on May I5 in a ceremony at Lincoln Park Bowl, with the C.B.A. Regiment and competing area bands in attendance. Jack Dempsey, former W'orld's Heavyweight Champion, and Harold Rus- sell, handless veteran and Motion Picture Academy Award winner in i'The Best Years of Our Lives , made the presentations all the more impressive. The Hearst Newspapers throughout the country appropriately recorded the event. giving C.B.A. national acclaim for the prominence of its cham- pionship riflc teams. Needless to say, the C.B.A. rifle team has ac- quired quite a standing for itself and in the years to come we have hopes that this reputation and tradition will continue to be maintained. It is without doubt that C.B.A. could not possibly have attained the goals which it reached, if it hadnit been for the help and inspiration which it received from its moderators and coaches. and from such prominent pcrsonages as Messrs. Edward Urschel, W'alter Bowers, john Wfeiss. W'illiam Gundlach, Anthony Haas. W'inston Chesterfield and Harry W'oolhouse, to name a few.