Green Mountain College - Peaks Yearbook (Poultney, VT)

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-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

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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

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M-, 1 . G. --,,.l Bouck Ross Eaton Parry Smithers Fish G. Hughes Kana Heffernan Vlfxggms Holman Chornyak Wolinsky MacArthur Wilson Hoey Sweeney Q. Hughes BASEBALL Bingles blasted from the bludgeons of the 1936 Green and Gold baseball edition as it smashed out a seasonal record of 155 runs in its fourteen-game schedule to snare honors in the won and lost columns with ten victories, three defeats, and one lone tie in a fracas that went only four frames. The trio of defeats were well spaced by the conquests chalked up by the Mountaineers, but despite all efforts, the Union College Frosh, Nichols Junior Col- lege and Albany Business College each marked up a win over the valiant Green Horde. With the exception of the U. V. M. Freshmen who had the count knotted at three-all in a fray that was called during the early periods, the remaining outfits to face the Mountaineers were mowed down by the booming bats and airtight defen- sive play of the I-leffernanmen. Wlith Coach Heffernan building an aggregation around the small band of surviv- ing veterans, midaseason found Wilson, Hoey, Ross, Chornyak, and WVilliams vying for the infield postsg Holman, Parry, VVolinskey and 'Wiggins in the outfieldg and MacArthur and Hughes as backstops. Comprising a flashy twirling corps were Eaton, Kana, Fish and Sweeney, who all contributed mightily to Green Mountain's seasonal showing. The Greenies slashed their way to victory in the initial game of the campaign, 9-1, against Albany Pharmacy as Kana and Sweeney alternated on the mound to allow the visitors but two lone base blows. Pacing G. M. Sluggers was diminutive Rabbit Hoey who slapped out a single and tagged one for the circuit in his three trips to the platter. VVith a brace of conquests over Granville Collegiate Center, and with overwhelm- ingly decisive decisions over the University of Vermont Frosh, New York Deisel Institute and the Union College Frosh, the Green Horde had run its string of victories to six before meeting with its first defeat. Three of the more important games during this winning streak were against the U. V. M. Frosh and both battles with Union. lVith their bats cracking out a savage thirteen-hit victory tune, the Green Galaxy handed the Union squad a 9--L T1