Green Mountain College - Peaks Yearbook (Poultney, VT)

Page 66 text:

Heiicrn mn Iiaurcnzo 'Barnard Robinson Benjamin Hill Clements O Brien Norvcll Scoville Maher Pulver Bulkelev Wells XV1lSOI'l Anderson Phillips Prentiss Kana. Hoey l BASKETBALL Garnerin the most brilliant basketball record in Green Mountain court history, Coach Jack Heffernan's powerful Green Galaxy closed its 1936-37 campaign with a seasonal record of eleven victories and two lone defeats. Under HCECFHBIIYS adroit tutelage, one of the most sparkling Green lN'lountain squads of all time emerged from the rank and file of the thirty-odd candidates who checked in at the gymnasium at the beginning of the season. From the substantial dimensions of six-foot five Floridian Shorty Phillips to the diminutive propor- tions of Rabbit Hoey, they comprised a flashing array of hoopsters. YVell versed in every department of basketball legerdemain, in cutting and passing, on offense and defense, in angling the ball off the backboard into the twines from every conceivable position, they formed a veritable galaxy of court luminaries. As the bulwarks of the squad, Capt. Rube Kana, Capt.-elect Dick Prentiss, Rabbit Hoey, Freddie Wilson, Shorty Phillips, Dingle VVells, all contributed to a dazzling brand of basketball. Paced in the scoring column by Phillips' 182 points, the Green and Gold five notched a total of 4479 units as against the 319 chalked up by their adversaries. For three of the first five who donned Green and Gold jerseys, the season's play was their basketball swan song at Green Mountain. The ultra-successful campaign rang out a crashing finale on the efforts of steady, consistent Capt. Rube Kana, flashy, meteor-like Rabbit Hoey, and the blond and brilliant Fred VVilson, as well as a number of their satellites on the A and B squads. Not to he forgotten in the sharing of the victory laurels are the names of Clements, Bulkely, Pulver, Laurenzo, Smithers, Norvell, and the Freshman Squad Maher, O'Brian, Anderson, Kidder, who formed a powerful reserve strength. Only one cloud arose to dim the lustre of the record, and that cloud appeared in the form of a smoothly-powerful Vermont Junior College quintet, which twice fought its way through to victory over the Mountaineers to contribute their two lone defeats. In their other frays the Golden Gladiators were omnipotent as far as victories were concerned. Both contests against their traditional Vermont state rivals, the University of Vermont Freshman squad, ended in lopsided wins for the Green and

Page 65 text:

Red Parry blocked the punt into the end zone where Nichols backfieldman, Shaw, recovered for a safety. SENNETT SCORES LONE COUNTER The lone touchdown of the contest came in a hectic final stanza when the Greenies recovered a fumble on the Nichols thirty-six and slashed their way through to the end zone. Sennctt carted the leather across the last stripe on a plunge from the three. The Mountaineer's most potent rival, the proverbially husky University of Ver- mont Frosh grid machine, was the next to fall as the Greenies handed out one of their most decisive defeats of the season, 12-0. VE RM ON T ATTACK' IM POTENT Preventing the Frosh from gaining even one first down in a fracas far more one-sided than the score would make it appear, the galloping Golden Horde en- countered no difficulty in forging to another victory. Against the impressive drive of the Mountaineers and the equally impressive aerial tactics to which they cannily resorted at the right moments, U. V. M. had little to offer in defense while their offensive thrusts proved a negligible factor against a stubborn Green and Gold for- ward wall that refused to give up a first down. Although the Heffernanmen threatened often during the remaining minutes of play, the Vermont defense was most powerful with its back to the wall, and only once more did the Greenies counter. Late in thc third session, diminutive Rabbit', Hoey surged off tackle for a fifteen-yard touchdown romp. WILSON LEADS MANLIUS VICTORY lVith Freddy lVilson playing perhaps the outstanding football of his career here, the Green and Gold added another scalp to its belt by trodding all over Manlius to the tune of a 32-0 tally. There was no time during the fray when the overwhelming superiority of the Mountaineers was not firmly established and every one of the local reserves was utilized to a great extent before the game had ended. Tilton Junior College, a newcomer on the Greenies' schedule, proved to be the most deadly foe that the Heffernanmen were called upon to face this year. Although outclasscd in the final analysis, Tilton scored more points against the Green defense than any other aggregation, finally losing 25-lff. Tilton offered its only dangerous opposition in the second quarter when their attack through the air ended in a touchdown, Pigskins filled the skies all during this period, but the booting ability of Novak stifled their offensive to a great extent. YVells and Trop contributed two more touchdowns to the Green Mountain side of the ledger in the late periods to clinch the contest. G. M. C. XVALLOPS VERMONT J. C. Although Chornyak was lost to the Mountaineers for the concluding game of the schedule as thc result of an injury suffered in the first period against Tilton, his loss was not seriously felt. The Green VVave instead rose to new heights by com- pletely submerging a bewildered Vermont Junior College crew under a 40-7 count. VVith the victory, Green Mountain .lunior College completed one of its most impressive football seasons-a season replete with thrills and heady football-one that was second only to the undefeated year marked up in the annals of the school by the classic 1935 aggregation. QSM page 66 for football xeuxurznl racorrlj

Page 67 text:

-PH Gold while they thoroughly tronneed perhaps their bitterest rival, Nichols Junior College in Massachusetts, in the only fracas. Paced by the mammoth Phillips, the Green Galaxy opened its court season with a leisurely conquest over Castleton Normal, 6-L-24. Behind the redoubtable Phillips, who alone garnered enough points to have won the game, the Mountaineers turned the contest into a shambles with a veritable bombardment of counters. Granville Collegiate Center was the second five to fall before the prowess of the Green and Gold, succumbing by a 417-23 tally to the ravages of an offense too fast and too powerful for them to cope with. Against arch rivals U. V. M. Frosh, whom they had defeated in both hotly- coutested thrillers during the previous season, the Mountaineers keep their record clean by swarming over the upstaters to the tune of 24+-16 to annex a third scalp to their victory string. It was with these three victories beneath their belts that the Heffernanmen met their initial defeat at the hands of Vermont Junior College. In a lethargic contest the Capitol City aggregation broke Green Mountain's three-game streak by running up a nine-point lead. As the final whistle blew, they prevailed 241-15. W'ith its potent offense only momentarily damned, the pent-up power of the Green XVavc unleashed itself on the adversaries next to face it, and submerging all who stood in its path, rolled up a consecutive string of eight victories before defeat again resisted its turbulent onslaughts. Undoubtedly one of the most stiiiiy contested fraeases of the series was the Mountaineers' second collision with U. V. M. Frosh. Determined to avenge the defeat handed them by the Greenies only a few weeks before, the Vermonters gave them the fight of their basketball-playing lives during the early sessions before succumbing 32-25. The biggest upset came with Green Mountain's surprising fl-5-23 victory over a highly-touted Nichols Junior College crew. Setting the pace from the outset, the Green lVave was headed at no time, and forging into the van with a 28-10 lead at midtime, vanquished their bitterest opponent by the widest margin of any battle between the two outfits. As far as the final outcome in regard to scores was concerned, the tightest game of the season was the second meeting between the Golden Gladiators and Plattsburgh Normal, in which the locals eked out a bare 38-36 conquest. The final game of the season brought with it Green Mountain's second loss. As in their first defeat, it was before the driving offense and stone wall defense of Vermont Junior College that they faltcred, dropping the fray by a thirteen-point margin. 28-15, without once having snared the lead or spliced the tally. In spite of the duo of losses to that one aggregation, the past season's edition of a Green and Gold court squad will go down in the annals of the school as the most brilliant thus far of all Coach Heifernan's brilliant hoop teams. FROSH FLASH BRAND OF VICTORY BALL In Green Mountain's initial attempt at sponsoring a Freshman basketball squad, the experiment proved highly successful, with the cubs losing but one contest in their six-game schedule. Among their victims were Poultney High School Post Graduate squad, Poultney High School on two occasions, Fairhaven High School and Troy Conference Academy Alumni. The Italian Boys' Club of lvhitehall dished out the juniors' only defeat of the season by a one-point margin, 15-14-. CSM' page 66 for Iuzxlrzftlmll scmroiml recorrlj