Daycroft School - Milestone Yearbook (Greenwich, CT)

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fth- Jf! M 'ww' M0 l.Ctvw'f'7a ii..- - FOOTBALL Daycroft gave all her football effort during the 1941 season to produce a winning team! ' The A team was composed of the following: Casanave, captain and quarterbackg Law- rence, left halfbackp Mendoza, right halfbacky Stebbins, center: Lang, right endg and Bly, left end. The B squad included Carpenter, C. Vollmer, V. Vollmer, Arthur, Maclntosh and Guilbert. The season opened with a practice game with Edgewood defeated by a score of 21-U. Another victory over Edgewood was rung up the following week, the score this time be- ing 33-13. The first league opponent was Milford which was trounced 26-12. ln this game Don Casanave and Wallace Lawrence were outstanding in their broken-field running and line playing. Fairfield was next encountered and they were flattened to the tune of 26-6. The boys' team now really began to apply the pressure and Childrens Center and Umquoa both were soundly beaten by the score of 37-U. The last game of the season was indeed a test. Out-weighed by a considerable margin Daycroft showed its fighting spirit and outplayed Hamden Hall through most of the game. ln the third period, Don Casanave intercepted a Hamden Hall pass and was off down the field for a score. The at- tempt at conversion failed. With a minute and a half left to play, Hamden Hall after three attempts to crash Daycroft's defense, finally broke through and scored. Their attempt at conversion was blocked and the game ended in a deadlock score of 6-6. Because of the fine record the team achieved, they were awarded a trophy signifying the cham- pionship of the Connecticut Private School League. Two players were voted to the all-league team, Don Casanave as quarterback and Karl Lang as end. 29

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HOCKEY The Daycroft hockey team started their season on October seventeenth with a most ex- citing and satisfactory game against Edgewood played on the home field. The score at the end was a tie, one to one. A social hour with tea followed. The line up for this game carried through almost the entire season with only a few substitutions: this included the following. Goaly, Elinor Warren: Left Full, Betsy Lang: Right Full, Marion Handy: Left Half, Iune Urquehart-Laing: Center Half, Virginia Forbes: Right Half, Iackie Wootton: Left Wing, Betsy Graf: Right Wing, Elizabeth Sheridan: Left Inner, Sylvia Forbes: Bight Inner, Fran Sheri- dan: Center, Iackie Mangels. Fran Sheridan was the only one to score a goal. Cherry Lawn was the next opponent: and with a successful final score of two to noth- ing, we looked forward to a bright season. Iackie Mangels and Fran Sheridan :both proved themselves good material by scoring at this time. Pat Elmer, a new-comer to our hockey group, had a chance to show her merit when she replaced Sylvia Forbes. A close game on November thirteenth with Hamden Hall proved to be our first defeat. The score was one to nothing when the final whistle blew. We hoped to have a game on their field but were unable to make it. The following week we had our first game away, this one on the Thomas School field. A well sustained first period defense collapsed into a three to nothing defeat. Betty Garber and Pat Elmer had a few minutes in this game. On November eighteenth, New Canaan came to meet us on our field with a very superior team. The young girls of our school were given a chance to play: but they were no match for the New Canaan girls. A final score of four to one found New Canaan well in the lead. Thomas School came to our field for a return game on December third. At this time the Daycrofters proved a good match for them and were able to maintain a tie score. This bolstered their spirits and kept them in line for another tie score against Cherry Lawn just one week later when the girls ended their season with a three to three score. Elinor Warren was the captain, Iackie Mangels the manager and Fran Sheridan, chair- man of the entertainment committee. 28

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Be-Tl, 0:53-4.4 . '+C MMG 'Q fA+fgg,,A SENIOR TEAM IUNIOR TEAM GIRLS' BASKETBALL The Daycroft girls' basketball season was considerably delayed in its opening due to poor weather conditions. February l9 was the day of the first game. Graycourt came to play on our floor, bringing with them a team vastly superior to that of last year. They were able after an excit- ing game to win by a score of 28-21. Cherry Lawn brought over two teams the following week. The juniors played first. On the Daycroft side Betsy Graf served as captain, and Elizabeth Sheridan, Betty Garber, Iune Urguhart-Laing, Klara Lang, and Sylvia Forbes completed the line-up. Many of these younger girls showed themselves to be good material in this their first game even though the final score found Cherry Lawn leading 22-10. The Seniors were a bit more successful in hold- ing back their opponents. The final score, however, was 18-ll. Edgewood was the next team to down the Daycroft seniors. A very fast game ended with the score for Daycroft resting at twenty-three points and that of the apponent double the amount. Both the juniors and the seniors were scheduled to meet new Canaan Country Day, but due to the present emergency only one game could be played. The final whistle blew ending the game with a score of 22-9 in favor of New Canaan. Return games are scheduled with Gray Court and Cherry Lawn and both junior and senior teams are looking forward with renewed vigor to these encounters. Frances Sheridan, an able forward, led the senior team with Iackie Wootton and Iackie Mangels serving as forwards, and Elinor Warren, Virginia Forbes, Marion Handy, and lean Matters as guards. 30