Flushing High School - Gargoyle Yearbook (Flushing, NY)

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The Big Red Devil! ' r Dave Nesbitt tries, but misses the ball at the Holy oss gam Cr C fp FLUSHING HIGH FOOTBALL TEAM In the last few years a rather strange trend has been followed on the part of Flushing High's football and basketball teams. In the 1956-1957 season the basket- ball team proved to be one of the powers of the North Queens P.S.A.L., and were able to gain the city's playoffs. The football team, on the other hand, had a hopeless record of 0-7. During the 1955-1956 season, it was the other way around. The football team won the Queens Championship and wound up with a respectable 5-2 record, while the Red Devil's basketball squad was nothing to rave about. Now with the ushering out of the 1957- 1958 season we see that this peculiar se- quence has again bloomed into being. While the basketball team was absorbing its share of lumps , Coach Ed Berg was directing the Red Devils football team to their finest season in some ten years. The final record of six wins and only one loss tells only half the story. Flushing High regained the Queens Championship which they had relinquished for a year, and ac- complished this feat by defeating the other Queens' teams quite handily. First it was John Adams High School, falling before Flushing by a score of six to nothing. Little did we know that this was a sign of things to come. Before the season had ended two other teams would be shut out by the highly defensive Flushing unit, Curtis six to nothing and Far Rockaway twelve to nothing. The latter game decided the championship. But Flushing wasnit merely defense conscious, on the contrary, we showed our opponents how an offense rolls. Evander Childs was resoundingly beaten by Flushing 30-18, Monroe got theirs 21-20 and our new rival, Holy Cross was steppe on by a score of 18-2.