Cranford High School - Golden C Yearbook (Cranford, NJ)

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The Spntliglgi Page Sixty-Three - 'U Bugs Basketball Umm Manager CHRIS SORENSEN Captam-JOE KLEIN Coach J S WEEKLEY HE Basketball team of 1931 was the only undefeated Class B team ln the State of New 5 LA X2 Wlth only a few Jersey It won every game on the schedule whlch conslsted of fourteen hard foufht matches The openmg game was played at Chatham Roslch showed h1s abxllty by s ormg elght po nts and Capt Klem scored slx On January 30 the team played Roselle It was a laard fought game untll the very end The score stood 25 17 at the close of the game Westfield was another vlctxm of defeat havlng lost by the score of 23 16 The most excltmg game of the season was the return game at Roselle Roselle had the lead at the end of the half the score be ng 12 11 In the last quarter the score was 21 21 seconds to play GF1mthS sank a basket g1v1ng Cranford the vlctory The last game o the season was play ed at Westfield Llke the one wlth Roselle this game was very 6XC1f1I1g At the end of the half Westfield had the lead by four pomts After the half Cranford began to smk baskets and the game ended wxth the score of 17 10 ln our favor The schedule and The s hedule and results follow Jan Jan Jan Jan Jan Jan Jan Chatham Umon Scotch Plalns Mlllburn Metuchen Chatham R selle Aw ay Aw a5 Home Aw ay Home Hcme Home Feb Feb Feb Feb Feb Feb results follow Umon Westfield Metucla en Rc elle M111bUl n Scotch Plalns Westfield Home Home Away Away Home Aw ay Aw ay H S pp :Inu Einulllnl O stir' -r QT, - ' ' ls . ,I , 1 . . . if ' I I I ' ' I ' - ' ' ' , ' A ., ' . f C. . . O . C. . . O . . 6 ' L' 18 8 . 3 ' 23 20 . 9 ' ' ' 18 15 . 6 23 16 ,13 ' 28 12 .10 . 32 22 .16 ' ' ' 19 14 .13 S 23 21 .20 39 16 .17 ' ' 47 10 .23 23 9 ' ' .20 ' . ' ' 31 22 .30 C 25 17 F611 27 ' ' 17 10 I' . 1 ' BI 1' H Fr'- Ill'

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M 'ff lg e 5 p nt I i 1. Page Sixty-'l'w Bugs 1lTnnthall Gram Manager EXVING WAGNER Captam-Woonnow POWELL Coach J S W1-:I-:Ku-:Y 1' HIS season 1n football has been one cf the most successful Cranford has w1tnessed The team had the advantage of retalnxng n1ne lettermen from the prevlous year The season opened w1th Woodrow Wllson H1gh Schools belng defeated on our grldlron by the score of 13 0 Bud Smeltzer mterceptmg a pass accounted for one touchdown and Capt Powell scored the other We took our second vlctory from Glen Rld e by the score of 14 0 One of the most exc1t1ng games was played at Cranford wlth Scotch Pla1ns Both teams took to DBSSIDP' throughout the game Scotch Pla1ns scored when then' quarterback ran forty tive yards for a touchdown Our s1x po1nts was attalned when mfg Wlkander caught a pa s thrown by Ros1ch The game ended 1n a 6 6 t1e A scoreless t1e resulted when we played Un1on Thms game offered a good example of how well our team cculd play on a muddy Held Cn November 15 we defeated M1llburn by the score of 13 0 Both touch downs were scored by Capt Powell The last game of the season found us at Westfield Although Cranford played 1tS best game of tlse season the score stood 12 6 1n favor of Westfield at the end of th ame J Kleln scored after rece1v1ng a pass from Gr1fTiths The schedule and results were as follows H S Opp C H S Opp Sept 27 O 3 OC 10 OC 18 iiihl Woodrow W1lson Home G1 n Rld e Away Scotch Plams Home Boonton Away Oct Oc Nov Nov Nox Alumm Un1on Metuchen M1llburn W estfield Home Aw ay Aw ay Home Aw ay I . . ' ' ' g . ' ' s 13 0 . 25 ' 12 2 D . U , t. 31 ' ' 0 0 ct. , D, 14 0 ,I 8 , Y 19 0 '24 ' 6 6 n 15 ' 13 0 , t. ' ' 12 7 '. 22 ' ' ' 6 12 L I f Q . - 1' U Sw. I J' -mln um gilt

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I un Uh: Spotlight Page Slxty-Four Uhr Urark Gleam Manager W TALBOT Captamf-C SMeL'rzl:n Coach,-J S W1-:EKLEY HE Track Team opened the season wlth a bang by defeatxng Somervllle on thexr home ,N track by a score of 70 to 16 on Apr th1s was m the broad Jump Smeltzer took first place 1n the 100 yard dash quarter mlle 11 21 Somervllle captured only one fxrst place and and ran as anchor man on the relay team p and captured the half mlle relay m whxch they were entered The four men who ran N!! were Del Gandlo McGrath Frederxckson and Smeltzer On the 29th of Aprll Pmgry was defeated at Cranford to the tune of '74 to 12 Agam only one first was allowed the vxsxtors Flrst places for Cranford were taken by Towers Smeltzer Olofson Kramer Reed and Sorensen May 6 the team agam allowed only one flrst even thls as a tle to go to Roselle when Roselle was defeated on thelr home field by the score of 76 16 Bob Kramer took first place 1h the dlscus and shotput and tled for flrst m the hlgh Jump On May 16 Cranford won the State Relays at Kearny by takmg first ln the half mlle relay and MY second ln the mlle relay Then came the County Meet on May 22 Cran or pe whlle Uruon came second wlth about half th1s score Among the outstandmg stars of the meet was Towers who captured first place m the llghtwewht 100 yard dash the 220 and the runnmg broad Jump Kramer took another tr1o of gold medals by wmnmg the dlscus 12 pound shotput and the heavy welght runmng hxgh Jump Smeltzer won the heavywelght quarter m1le Not satlsfled w1th wlnnmg the County Meet the team took off the honors at the Plainfield Rotary Meet The txtle of thxs meet has been held for the last elght years by Plamfleld Donnelly smashed the d Bob Kramer took two second places and Towers took three first places f d rom d off wxth th s meet totalmg 639 po1nts 8 pound shotput meet recor Rourke took second place ln the pole vault WL . . . . 559525: . ,ai 51S,,, . 1 ' ' ' . A r1l 25, the team went down to Phxladelphxa J - . . . u 2 , , , - , . . ' A Y V 1 D I ' 1 I P . . V A 4 'null