Fordham University School of Business - Aries Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Little Don Haig. As a result of its late season batting woes, Ford- ham wound up with a lO-7 record and no tourney bid. Despite the poor batting, however fireballer Jack McQuade managed to attain a 5-3 record with an amazing L89 Earned Run Average and win the Most Valuable Player Award. A big part of Fordham's batting failure was at- tributed to the injury of Don Haig, the Rams' sparkling centerfielder. As a sophomore in i955 Don gained mention on the N.C.A.A. District All-Star team and was counted on to be the leading batter in l956. With the coming of the 1957 season, and the healing of his leg injury, it is expected that Haig will regain his batting prowess and, along with workhorse pitcher Jack McQuade, lead the Rams on to success on the diamond, ,, - rf, i. H ., gy' Q' .Q 3 X, jr if Q: T' fy ' '45 ' , ' -3, fifv Q ' V: se Wx if 'A ily V 1 -'-' f -V , f 4 if ' . f X, f ' if .,.-2 Hunter gets the signal 231

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230 M.V.P. Jack McQuade. Holland singles to right. aseball Fordham Baseball coach Jack Coffey started the i956 season with confidence that he was fielding a winning team. He felt that he had a seasoned combi- nation of veterans plus a sprinkling of sophomores with which to carry the Rams to the N.C.A.A. tourna- ment at the end of the year. lt appeared as though he was right as the Rams started the season with victories over Kings Point and C.C.N.Y. ln the City game the red-head from Dealy Hall, Jack McQuade, made head- lines in the local dailies by striking out l7 men, one less than the existing Fordham record set by former Bushwick star Gene Bowe. The Rams hit their stride as they reeled off two more victories before being beaten by high-ranking Lafayette, 4-3. Coffey's boys quickly rebounded as they knocked off Navy and Georgetown on the annual Southern swing, with McQuade posting his third win against Navy. The Columbia Lions handed the Rams their sec- ond setback of the campaign, but Fordham took two easy ones from Queens and Brooklyn Colleges. At this point the record stood 8 wins and 2 losses and the chances of receiving an N.C.A.A. bid looked very good for Fordham. But the N.Y.U. game gave some indication of what was to come. The Rams won 5-2, but in doing so only managed to gather 4 hits. Following this a real-hit famine set in and Fordham lost to Manhattan 3-l, and was held to three hits in a doubleheader against Rut- gers, losing 2-O, 4-3. St. John's and Colgate followed by beating the hitless wonders before the Rams won their last game over Princeton, 3-O. Thus, over the last six games of the year, the Maroon scored only nine runs.

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Front Row: E. Kilkelly, W. Bryant, N. Holden, Captain E. McGuirk, A. Cunningham, T. Brennan Back Row: P. Bopko, B. Wetjen, J. MacNeil, Coach A. O'Connor, R. Kraus, E. Winrow, R. Mackin, B. Condon. Track Team The longest and most demanding of all the inter- collegiate sports on Rose Hill is track and field. The season is divided into the indoor lDecember to Marchi and outdoor lApril to Junei campaigns. The Rams thinclads train for the board races on a portable eleven lap banked track which is located on Jack Coffey field. The Spring meets are prepared for on the cinder oval adjacent to the Gymnasium. Arthur W. lArtiel O'Connor, who has been Ford- ham's track mentor for the past decade, is considered one of the finest coaches in' the country. Primarily a middle distance and relay coach, Mr. O'Connor has had Met champions, l.C..-4A, and National record- holders and even an Olympic Gold Medal winner in the person of Tom Courtney. The Captain of the l956-57 varsity is a former Brooklyn Prep and C.H.S.A.A. schoolboy star, Ed Mc- 232 Guirk. Easy Ed is a smooth-striding half miler with enough speed to make many of the relays. For the past three seasons the all important anchor leg on the two mile relay was the big assignment for this twenty- one year old, versatile Senior. Other graduating tracksters include: quarter milers John Tarsney and Grant Bernard, distance men J. D. Curran, Ed Kilkelly, l. B. Holden and Stan Fitzgerald: and one of the few weight men on the squad, George Monk Horrigan. The track and field team had more School of Business students on the roster than any other inter- collegiate sport in the University. Junior Bill Krebs-, the best sprinter on the team, and St. Ann's Ed Zeman form the nucleus of the mile relay. The other veteran returnees were Leo Rivera and Jack Mullane. A sophomore quartet from Dealy Hall shows great