Colby College - Oracle Yearbook (Waterville, ME)

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Slale efzanffzfi '43 Firxt Row, lvl: In right: R. Jacobs, Leaf, St. Pierre, White, Silherstein, Spinner, Goulet. Srrnnd Row, left to right: Coach Roundy. Narduzzi, Eldridge, Pierce, Toomey, Wash- Jurn, Fields, Clark, Keefe, Mgr. 0 '48 CAPTAIN ELECT '49 CLARK Coach Eddie Roundy's Colby Mule Pastimers - edition 1948 - enjoyed one of the best sea- sons in the history of Colby baseball last spring as they won the State Series, going undefeated in the regular sea- son of the Maine Conference and carding wins over such schools as Boston College, Uni- versity of Maine, Bates, and Bowdoin. After a bad start in the early part of the season when they dropped five straight games, two of them exhibitions with Maine and Bowdoin, the Mules came back to rack up five con- secutive wins out of six, to wind up the year with a 5-6 record. Two factors helped bring about the poor Colby record at the start of the year. One was the bad weather which plagued Maine athletics in the early spring and forced post- ponements of both games and practice sessions. The other was the fact that Coach Ed Roundy had not yet devised a way to beat his apparent loss of experienced hurlers. Good weather finally prevail- ed and the pitching problem was ultimately solved. After a disastrous Massachusetts trip which saw them lose to Har- vard 4-3, Northeastern 6-5, and Boston University 17-15, the Mules returned to Maine to wind up the season in a blaze of glory and cop the coveted State Series diadem. The games in Beantown were all heartbreakers. In the first one with the laddies from Cam- bridge, Colby battled on even terms through nine long innings only to lose out in the home half of the tenth. 4-3. Pitching wildness set the stage for Col- by's second defeat the follow- ing day. After tallying five quick runs at the start, Mule pitchers went haywire and started handing out free passes like politicians in late October. The net result was that the Huskies capitalized and nicked the plate for a half dozen runs to sew it up, 6-5. The Boston University game was a real donneybrook. Both nines used every pitcher on their roster and by game's end, the mound was busier than Central Park, but to no avail. The Mules collected all the ex- tra base hits except three. Those three were all home runs by Boston University. - B. U. 17, Colby 15. Things settled down to a dog trot when Colby returned from their toils in the Hub. Roy Leaf, up from the iunior varsity of the previous year, and George Clark, tireballing third baseman from the previous year's var- sity, who has since signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers, along with a couple of other capable twirlers, appeared to have it. Leaf was selected to toss the official State Series opener with Bates at Lewiston and the di- minutive hockey captain threw a four-hitter at the Cats. It was all the Roundymen needed to cop 6-1.

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During the outdoor season of 1948. the prospects of track at Colby took a turn for the better. The team won its first meet since 1941. by defeating Fort Devens 70-65. The thing which makes this so spectacu- lar is that it was done with only thirteen men. all of whom were lettermen. This resulted in the fact that every man had to participate in at least two events. Added to the shortage of men was the loss of Captain O'Halloran for most of the sea- son. l Outstanding during the whole season was Aaron Sandler. In the meet with Fort Devens he scored 18 points by winning the 100. 220, and 440 yard dashes and placing 'second in the broad jump. In this meet Colby swept the 100. with Mar- den second and Dowe third. Other firsts were Gates in the high hurdles. Dowe in the low hurdles. and Woods and Law- son tying for first in the pole vault. In the meet with Vermont. Sandler again starred by win- ning the 100 and 440 yard Wai? dashes and placing a close sec- ond to Marden in the 220. Al Gates made an excellent show- ing in the high jump. despite a pulled muscle. Iohn Harriman came through with a surprise win in the broad jump and also took second in the 880 yard run. Harry Marden was Colby's star in the state meet. Winning the 220 and placing third in the 100. Sandler was lost to the team in the finals of the 100. when he pulled a muscle. RICHARD PULLEN First Row, left to right: Jor- dan, Dowe, Sandler, O'Hallo- ran, Marden, Gates, Lawson. Second Row, left lo right: Coach Anderson, Smith, Pul- len, Manaco, Mazynski, Rob- inson, Silberman. The results of the meet were: Colby 70Fort Devens 65 Vermont 80Colby 55 Bates 88Colby 44 The roster of the team was: Captain O'I-Ialloran, Sandler, Monaco, Gates, Marden, Woods, Smith, Harriman, Jordan, Dowe, Lawson, Pullen, Marzinski. Sam Monaco was elected captain for the 1948-49 season. Unfortunately, he graduated at mid-years.

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Three days later it was Clark's turn to show how a converted infielder can pick up mound savvy in a fortnight. Clark kept the Bowdoin Polar Bears at bay with a fast sink- ing curve ball to win 6-4. The Mules met Bowdoin again the following week at chummy Seaverns Field and Clark was given the assign- ment of muzzling the Bears for a second time. This time the likeable veteran who was first scouted at Fort Dix, N. I., by Coach Cthen Captainl Eddie Boundy, came through with a three hit shutout as Captain Norm White and crew unleash- ed a 10-hit attack to capture the decision going away, 6-0. Only the University of Maine stood between Colby and its first State Series title on the afternoon of May 24th. George Clark, rapidly becoming a pitching mainstay, took over the pitching chores for the third straight time and gave up only five hits to muzzle the Black Bears as easily as he had the Polar variety, 6-1. Thus it was that Colby scored exactly a half dozen runs in every official series game of the year to grab the hunting. Two other games - one with Boston College and the other with American International - represented the climax and anti-climax of the year. In the first, the Mules, behind the slants of right-hander Roy CBingoJ Leaf, nipped the B. C. Eagles, 5-1, handing the Boston club its second defeat of the season after five straight vic- tories. In the finale, everything went a very dark shade of black for the Mules' when the un- heralded A.I.C. nine up and knocked Colby pitching to a fare-thee-well to snap the Col- by string at five in a row, ll-2. I Vi l f 5. fp ,ggi f QQQ frr ,., i -:U LVJEKIL lix .5 W 3 .'w L'-.sw 35? , li, 1. . 7 12 tif' . , ff, T- O TK . , Click 1. ' . I I-in if -.1-' 1 I-.-4 U M. W I L K. , .v kg. ..-.f': .i ,- it-1 I viii 5-If ' . ..:.g.. fi' :L 4- wif , ff ' x J f j ig . 4- ,.., . ' .1 ,'7li.a.- ' '. '-f i 'E E. X Y'flijij'l.'.1f.'9!A.flf.,.. f.'! girly 5, ith :sf A1 T +1 ,D 1 ' 355 ... I N 53 4? v W Y i 1 ' 5 .- 'ai 2 i i 1 as R u N i -. it UNH -4.1Ar.1 .-.i-if-in-.gg z-.,. ,. :gzqar fx. x w . xv. f r ,V3::Q,Y xyf UQ H I' x- ... - .ggi .1-ill-1.-N .,-lg! .- J' 1 -n-125-1 --L3f-.A.1g'2gf.f-f.'...,- v. ELDRIDGE Prospects for a good season in 1949 look bright. Back for action from last year's club will be catcher Norm White, first baseman Iohn Spinner, second baseman Bob Nardozzi, shortstop Tom Pierce, third baseman Nel Goulet, and out- fielders Wils Eldridge, Dick Grant and Russ Washburn, and pitchers Roy Leaf and Burt Silberstein. Up from last year's once- beaten freshman club are such performers as twirlers Frank Gavel and Iim Keefe, infielders Chet Harrington, Teddy Shiro. and Gene Billings, backstop George Wales, and outfielders Marv Aarseth, Red Deering, and Cap Lowery. SID MCKEEN , .431 1 --pf - Q 5 3 'F .YJ i 1 Q . .. ls.-P , rr, s H A ...gi , , , , . ix, , , fitgamfgf, fall ' 'f -'xw,,'1.'5u.' L -h'ff.Pf':ff,'!..Witt: . 5:3 .?ag,,zx'-l.Z-'fre !iif' 4,-1 1 -wwf 5 Z, I K, L1 Y. 0 .f p W kg. ' t ' J ,. S . '-'9 .15 3' ,L ff!-2'-' ci E -P-Sifffifi. if A L 21 r , X I ' f . 1,-A' 3' -4xiv,, t 4.1. ,Ayr !,,1. vvuw -. , Whig 1 1-is-.-wsFi::,r1f-gfnz,-re .14 fn.--' wv4swy.if.-fi g,zi,3f,.w.-. ' if .1 1 ff PIERCE NARDOZZI Hi: G' ia A I if s MM! 1 K, E- I A i n 3 ' Q- L jQ i H Q fl s9wfr.,c gs:slfsw iff? E52 zezbigg I ? 3'-fr is f gigs' .. l. .4 E:--I .-.. ,.l' hh., v Q . X' ,J!.Md?f , 11 if :': Q 1.53.-,: ,V h , 1: ,. 1 SPINNER WHITE Scason's Results: Colby 1 Bowdoin 5 CExhib.J Colby 5 U. of M. 6 fExhib.j Colby 3 Harvard 4 Colby 5 Northeastern 6 Colby 15 Boston University 17 Colby 6 Bates 1 Colby 6 Bowdoin fl- Colby 6 Bowdoin O Colby 6 U. of M. 1 Colby 5 Boston College l Colby 2 A. I. C. 11