Episcopal Academy - Tabula Yearbook (Newtown Square, PA)

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The Blue and WhiTe gridders conTinued in a Tie for firsT place wiTh l-laverford as They ground ouT a decisive 27-I3 vicTory over a small buT scrappy and deTermined Bryn AThyn eleven. George Swan was The prominenT player of The day, scoring Twice and sparking The Team wiTh his greaT all-around play. Mike Shouvlin and Ken Smifh scored The oTher Two E. A. Touchdowns. The line play oT Roland SmiTh and Ben Franklin was noTable as was Shouvlin's passing. On Thursday, November IOTh, The soccermen suffered Their only shuT-ouT defeaT oT The campaign aT The hands of a sTrong Team Trom Lower Merion High School. The score was 2-O. ln The final and deciding game of The season, The Churchmen won The lnTer-Ac championship for The Third year in a row, winning ouT over a rugged Haverford Team by The narrow margin of 6-O. The Blue and WhiTe Team rose To greaT heighTs and played Their besT game of The season To win a well-deserved Triumph. Mike Shouvlin Took The ball over for The game's only Touchdown midway Through The lasT period as a climax To his mosT brillianT performance. Shouvlin played an inspired game as did The resT of The backfield. KisTler ran as he never had before and ground ouT greaT chunks of yardage Through The Haverford line. SmiTh played a greaT game boTh offensively and defensively and Swan's brillianT caTch of a pass undoubfedly was The game's deciding play as iT seT up The Touchdown. The line played a greaT parT in The vicTory. Throwing back every Maroon and Gold ThreaT. The work of Ben Franklin, Ed Palmer, and Roger PiTkin was especially noTiceable. The Blue and WhiTe soccer Team closed The season wiTh a 3-I vicTory over Ger- manTown Academy. The Churchmen, deTermined To end The season on a vicTorious noTe, fielded a hard-TighTing and defermined eleven. Buddy Addis scored Twice and Joel Jepson Twice To pace Episcopal To a well-earned Triumph. Chuck Bazemore and Freddy James were again prominenT. The vicTory gave The Churchmen a Tie for TourTh place in The league sTandings. The soccer Team encounTered The warriors of The gridiron in The annual mud bowl game on Friday, November I7, and emerged vicTorious in a game ThaT provided many laughs for'The players and specTaTors alike. The soccermen were in conTrol ThroughouT The game and from The ensuing mayhem There emerged The baTTered remnanTs of The once-proud lnTer-Ac champs on The very shorT end ofa 6-O score. All in all, The TooTbalI season was one of The mosT successful in many years and was marred only by The loss To BarTram in The season's opener. The Team play improved

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defensive play of The Episcopal line. The Team seemed To hiT iTs peak in This game and funcfioned perfecfly as a smooThly working machine. The Churchmen scored once in every period wiTh Ken SmiTh, Jack KisTler, George Swan, and John Haines accounf- ing for The Touchdowns on a mixTure of accuraTe passing and smashing ground ThrusTs. Ken Smifh received The Maxwell Award as The high school player of The week as a resulT of his performance in This game. The soccer Team losT anofher hearT-breaker To a sTrong Haverford School eleven six days laTer. Haverford scored early in The firsT guarfer and held This I-O advanfage unTil The final minuTes of The second period, when Bud Addis found The range from The penalTy line To deadlock The score. The second half found The Teams baTTling furiously wiTh The defensive work of Bill Pugh, Harold STarr, and Dick Jeary being excellenT. Lady Luck inTervened and a penalTy called againsf Fred James resulTed in The winning goal for Haverford. The nexT day found The Orsimen confinuing Their winning ways as They swamped an inexperienced and nondescripf junior varsiTy Team from Haverford College by The score of 42-7. Before The dazed visiTors realized whaT was happening, Episcopal's Kenny Smifh had refurned Two punTs for Touchdowns and E. A. added Two more scores before The coaches could geT The reserves warmed up. This was The firsf real chance for The subsTiTuTes To play, and They proved ThaT Their abilify was noT far below' ThaT of The regulars as They scored Two more Touchdowns largely on The efforTs of Joe Pifkin, Jack Buchanan and John Haines. A somewhaT demoralized Blue and Whife soccer Team Took The field againsf an excellenT GermanTown Friends' eleven and losT by The score of 4-2. Harold O'Brian and Bud Addis accounfed for The Two Episcopal Tallies. The defensive weakness of The backs was The deciding facfor in The loss, as The vicTors conTrolled The ball on Episcopal's end of The Tield for The greaTer parT of The game. Among The backs The work of Fred James was ouTsTanding.

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sTeadiIy ThroughouT The season, hiTTing iTs peak Torm in The game wiTh Penn CharTer and conTinuing in greaT Torm Tor The remainder of The season. UnquesTionabIy The Blue and WhiTe TooTbaIl Team was one oT The besT Teams, if noT The besT Team, in The area. All oT The Ten senior members of The TirsT Team received recogniTion on The coaches' All-InTer-Ac Team. SmiTh, Shouvlin, KisTler, and Franklin were named To The TirsT Team: Ed Palmer, George Swan, Roger PiTkin, and Chuck Chadwick were second Team selecTions and John ReTTew and Roland SmiTh received honorable menTion. In addiTion, Ken SrniTh was chosen as The ouTsTanding player in The Philadelphia area, winning The Wilmer G. Crowell Award. SmiTh was also an all-schoIasTic back and Tom Franklin was a second-Team all-schoIasTic choice. AI SchaeTer's I9 poinTs aTTer Touchdown seT a new school record, eclipsing Newbold SmiTh's record. seT ih I943. ArT Largey was elecTed nexT year's capTain. A greaT amounT of crediT musT go To The superb coaching of Messrs. Orsi, Brennan, Keegan, and Soleau To whom The members oT The TooTbaII Team owe so much and whose coaching was mainly responsible Tor The Team's success. The soccer Team was plagued by injuries and bad luck all Through The season and The comparaTive inexperience of mosT oT The Team members was apparenT in iTs games. The season as a whole was characTerized by spoTTy and inconsisTenT per- formances, buT in several .games The Team played an inspired brand oT ball which, if iT had been shown in all The games. would have given a much beTTer record. The coaching oT Mr. Jarvis IeTT liTTle To be desired and was every biT as good as ThaT of Mr. Mills, his predecessor. Buddy Addis and Fred James were easily The ouTsTanding members of The Team and were selecTed members oT The coaches's All-lnTer-Ac Team. SOCCER FOOTBALL E. A. opp. E- A- OPP Bqrffam IIIIA , I , I 0 BBl'fI'lITl ........ .... 7 Haverford High .... .... I 2 Peddie .................... I3 7 Moo,-,gh-,yn Ffimds I H M I I 3 Germanfown Academy .... . . 4I I4 Friends' Seleci ...... I 3 Penn Cherhr ....... . ....... 27 0 Pgnn Chu-f,r .A., ,,4, 0 0 Haverford College J. V. .... 42 7 Cgnf,-,I High IAII. H. I 3 Bryn Afhyn . . .. .......... .. 27 I3 Friends' CenTraI ....... I 0 I'IGV9l'f0rd School .... -- 6 0 Haverford School ,... .... I 2 Garmanfown Friends' . . . . . 2 4 Lower Marion ............. 0 2 GermanTown Academy ...... 3 I