Greenwich Country Day School - Spire Yearbook (Greenwich, CT)

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Varsity ROW 1: Gregg, Clark, Plowden, Stevenson. ROW 2: Bartlett, Holland, Hartwell, Kitendaugh Basketball Barron. ROW 3: Mr. French, Hinton, Rogers, Ley, Willers. Willers whams a winner. SEASON'S RECORD GCDS Opponents 13 Harvey 25 17 Brunswick 46 28 Rye 48 28 King 35 20 Harvey 30 33 Choate 50 18 Fairfield 33 14 Fairfield 24 17 Brunswick 31 19 Rye 47

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ROW 1: Willers, Moore, Geer, A. Stevens, Whiting. ROW 2: Wilson, P. Stevens, Muller, Scherman, Burke. ROW 3: Mr. Boynton, Pistor, Leech, Frasche, Milhaupt, Mr. Efinger. Absent: Lawrence Brains and brawn boost wrestlers along A first year sport at GCDS, wrestling proved to be both fun and challenging for all the boys who joined the squad. In the first few weeks be- fore Christmas the mat for the wrestling room had not arrived. The wrestlers had to be content with laps around the school roadway and calis- thenics in the wrestling room for their daily exer- cise. The room itself located in the new boys' gym provided ample space and facility for the new sport. When everyone returned from Christmas vaca- tion, the mat had arrived. The team then began to work in earnest. With the aid of the two coach- es, Mr. Boynton and Mr. Efinger, the team learned holds of all types and variations. The team worked hard during these weeks and found out that to wrestle one needed brains as Well as brawn. The team's first two meets were with Harvey, 105 which has had wrestling as a sport a few years longer than GCDS. Country Day lost both meets, but by wrestling with Harvey, the boys learned a lot and had a good time as well. A final meet of Connecticut State Schools took place at Cheshire Academy and Country Day came in third out of all the schools participating. Now that wrestling has gotten started at GCDS, it will become a sport enjoyed by many boys and many masters in the years to come. SEASON'S RECORD GCDS Opponents 1 0 Harvey 44 42 Harvey 43 Cheshire J. S. Tournament - 3rd place, 41 pts.

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Varsity Basketball builds character If the old adage that to be defeated is to build character may be taken as truth, this year's var- sity basketball team is loaded with character. We lost all our games. The exact reason for our losses is difficult to explain. We would run like clock- work in practice, but in a game we would con- tract a severe case of the clutches , We would pass up shots, we wouldn't handle the ball well, numerous things went wrong. To worry, Mr. French told us, was his job, not ours. We were only a school ball club out to have fun. However, we didn't seem to be having much fun because We were afraid of doing something wrong. Our problem was not that we didn't care whether we won or lost, but that we cared too much. Conse- quently, although the individual level of ability was high, we failed to work well as a unit. We entered our practice game with Rye on Varsity shows its better side in Fairfield game. 107 December 18 with high hopes, but when the last signal sounded, the score stood at 46 - 19. Rye had won. Although we fought our hearts out in our first game with Brunswick, our traditional rival, they managed to beat us 17 - 46. We im- proved considerably between that time and the next Brunswick game, of which the score was 17 - 31. King was a club we should have trounced, although we lost this game, too, by the closest margin of all. Choate's terrific team beat us 33 - 50. However, as if by a sudden inspiration, we scored our highest number of points in this game. Despite all our troubles, there is general hope of a bright future for the team. The now seventh and eighth grades hold in their ranks quite a few potential basketball stars. With Mr. French's ex- pert coaching, this new material may most cer- tainly be molded into a victorious team. Hansel waves at his fan club.