Clifton High School - Rotunda Yearbook (Clifton, NJ)

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THE REFLECTOR CLIFTON HIGH SCHOOL FEBRUARY 1524 FOOTBALL—1923 A decidedly heavy schedule confronted the grid representatives of C. H. S., for the season of 1923. Starting off with Rutherford High, State champs for the two previous years, and ending with Norwood High School of Massa- chsetts, with such formidable opponents as Passaic, Paterson, Chattle and Union Hill sandwiched in between, all indications pointed to pretty heavy sailing for Coach Hurlburt’s proteges. However, our eleven came through in fine shape, winning six of their eight scheduled con- tests, and losing only to Rutherford and Nor- wood after the hardest sort of a battle. The season will long be remembered. For one thing our eleven’s remarkable record of no defeats in two seasons of football went bv the boards when Rutherford was victorious in the first game of the season. Then never before had C. H. S. played such a notable array of grid combinations, while history was made by our eleven when they made the trip to Norwood, Massachusetts, to play the football team of that town in a return game. The Record—Football, 1923 Clifton......... (3— Rutherford ...... 1(3 “ ......... 7 —Chattle ............ 0 ........ 2(3 — Princeton ...... 0 ......... 25 — Alumni ......... 7 ......... 12 — Passaic ........ 7 ......... 20 — Paterson ....... 0 ......... 12 — Union Hill ..... 0 .......... 3 — Norwood, Mass .... 14 Clifton 111 Opponents 44 PAGE TWENTY-FOUR

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THE REFLECTOR CLIFTON HIGH SCHOOL FEBRUARY 1924 Our first and only meeting with Dame Mis- fortune came when M. Jupiter Pluvius let fall his wrath on our heads, and incidentally into our shoes on the evening of our arrival at the City of Wide Avenues. Since the shower came after we had seen the wonders of the Library of Congress, we did not lament the fact that our clothes were ready for the wringer. The next day, however, atoned for the naugh- ty behavior of the Gentlemen of the Showers and a tour of the Capitol and visits to the vari- ous public buildings left us in just the right mood to enjoy the sleeping quarters apportion- ed to us at the Cairo Hotel. (We said sleeping quarters, hut as a famous cartoonist has it, “that doesn’t mean anything”). Certain members of our class are very hard to repress, as was illustarted by the following incident, which oceured at the Pan-American Union Building. The guide, a Captain White- hall. was explaining the habits of a certain pro- fusely colored parrot. “Yes,” said the Captain, this particular parrot, though a male, always has the last word.” “A rare bird, indeed,” chimed in Jimmy Austin, and they shook hands on it. The visit to the Museum, old and new, and to the buildings comprising the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, completed the morning tour. The place where money was being made, literally speaking, was extremely interesting. Especially hard to witness, though, was the non- chalant manner with which the employers counted stacks of thousands of real dollars. After enjoying our luncheon at the hotel, we piled into our bus and were off for the Arling- ton National Cemetery and Amphitheatre, and the Lineoln Memorial. We cannot say which of these beautiful memorials impressed us the most. The Greek beauty of the Amphitheatre, truly symbolic of the sacred memories to which it is dedicated, and whose walls last echoed the voice of the late President Warren G. Harding, made us feel queer and more or less awed. Going to the front of the Amphitheatre we paid silent homage to the Grave of the unknown Soldier. The next morning we again climbed a faith- ful bus which was to transport us to the home of the first President of our land. Mount Ver- non was reached very soon. The beauty of Washington’s home in the spring or summer, with the flowers in bloom and trees in 'eaf, could he imagined very easily. Seeing the very room in which George Washington said his last words, and the Tomb in which his remains rest at present, made us realize more keenly the meaning of the word shrine, a word which Mount Vernon typifies exactly. Back to the hotel to rest before the long trip home for some; but for others Washington still held one more thrill, the aseent of the Wash- ington Monument. But first we must relate the incident of the taxi. The weather was rather snappish so we decided we would trust ourselves (and our pocketbooks) to the tender mercies of a modern land pirate. We ensconced ourselves lithesomely on the finely upholstered seat of a Black and White cab and were ready for the short trip. Click! went the meter, and around went everyone’s head- “Oh, only thirty-five,” that from Boh Clough. Click! and this time forty-five. Another click! and it was fifty-five. One more, and now sixty-five. But here we were at last, and as everyone wiped the perspiration from his brow , he heard the chauffeur tack on thirty more because there wTere nine in the car. Well, we were there, anyway, and five of us blithely began the ascent of the monument through the stairway route. There are eight hundred and ninety-eight steps according to the guidebook,—but don’t you believe it, there are fully five thousand. “Just a couple more,” was the encouraging word given to us by a youngster making the descent, and luckily for us he was right. Phew! but it was worth it. Wonderful barely describes the beauty of the City of Washington as seen from the height of a sixty- storv building. But all things must end sometime, and sad as it is to tell you, we had to leave at last, There were no more reluctant departing guests of the Capital on that Saturday afternoon than twenty seniors of C. H. S. The train soon brought us back to our start- ing point, good old Clifton. We bore no grudge against the town for the rude awakening we received in Delawanna, when the bus “bumped the bumped,” for were we not Seniors, and hadn’t we just returned from the fulfillment of our dreams? ALLAN TUMARKIN February, ’24 Casey—“Did Maloney give ye the black eye?” Murphy—“No; only the black. Oi had the eye all the time.” —Exchange. PAGE TWENTY-THREE

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THE LINE-UPS The Line-ups during the season were many and varied, though toward the end of the se son some of the fellows showed such except onal ability that they came to he regarded as regu Jarsthat is, they were pretty sure o g g into-a contest. The following received their letters at th termination of the season: Half-backs: Joseph Puzio. Alpheus De- I.uca, Maurice Karp. Full-backs: Captain Arthur Argauer. Quarter-backs: Vincent Chimenti. Ends: James Nicoll, Ernest Kcid. John Mikulick, Joseph McFerran. Tackles: Captain-elect Phil Dc Lorenzo, George Barna, Charles F inkle. Guards: Arthur Plog, Ambrose Wasdyke. Louis De I.orenzo. Centers: Geroge Young. Joseph Kuzmick. Following is a short summary of each game of the past football campaign: CLIFTON, 6—RUTHERFORD, l Clifton startled the five thousand or more present at the Rutherford Field Club grounds by scoring a touchdown in the very urst quarter. However, Rutherford came right back in the second period and scored a six- pointer themselves. Here the turning point of the game occurred when the Blue and W lute was awarded the extra point after touchdown be- cause of an offside penalty on Clifton. Hu- Maroon combination was not the same fighting machine in the final two periods, and when -Bob” Lightfoot kicked a goal from field in the third period and followed it up with tw more in the final quarter, our boys had to acknowledge bitter defeat, the first in two pace twenty-five