Groton High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Groton, NY)

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AUTUMN ACTION Left: Lansing downs Groton player in game that saw In- dians go scoreless in only loss of season. AT G. C. S. Right: Where's the ball? wonders Walpole as Indians, Bobcats deadlock. Left: Fierce fighting was futile as Lans- ing overpowered the Groton eleven 34-0. Below: A wall of power which shut out all but Lansing in 1957 season. Backfield: Malley, Blazick, Harrington, Ryan. Line: Walpole, Leet, Clark, Devlen, Moore, Tvaroha, Brown. ,l? f ' was-A - W- .mf:-- '--1 'Wi MUST? M 'M-ef.'1T'.,A,? 'i 3'W'E 'i'Ti... ., ff if-49W'T vw '

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R ig bt: Manager Seligman takes over doctoring duties on practice casualty Jones. R ig h t: Ryan ram- pages passed Lansing tackle for touchdown try. Left: Hey, not so fast! n cries Manager Walpole. INDIVIDUAL SCORING MALLEY RYAN HARRINGTON WALPOLE BLAZICK COURT REGAN CONVERSIONS 2 1 1 I TOTAL 20 7 1 3 6 6 6 6 70 INDIANS POST 3-1 GRID RECOR This season G. C. S. fielded its fir eleven rnan football team in 25 years. Pre iously Groton played six and eight ma football. The return of big time football w' welcomed by three straight Indian Wins, i cluding, a smashing victory over tradition rival Dryden. This fine record was marred, however in the season finale by the powerful Lansin Lakers. The well balanced Indians attack ou scored their opponents 65 to 0 until the fin game when the flu-ridden team collapse under the explosive Lansing eleven and w defeated 24 to O. Groton opened on the gridiron wi identical 13-O victories over St. Mary's of Co land and Lafayette. In both of these gam Groton's scores came in the first half and th team had to rely on a strong defense to insur the victories. The Dryden game proved to be the ou standing effort of the season for the Indian Superior line-play and dazzling backfield pe formances piled up a 39-0 victory over t Lions. Because of the flu-epidemic which close area schools two games on Grotons schedul had to be canceled. Above: shocks? Who says the dummy absorbs all, the

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Above: All right, let's go get some runs! says Coach Ash to Groton batman. In Dugout: Upclike, Harrington, Blazick, Stamm, Webster, Moore, Cole, Manager Court, Ryan, Regan. Front: Mr. Ash, Manager Stockton, Dillon, Manager D. Heffron, Tvaroha, Smith. B TME BOAST 7-2 SEASO THE RECORD lst Groton 19 King Ferry 4 W. P. L. P. 2nd Groton 13 Sherwood 5 W. P. H. R. Heffron CGrotonD L. P. 5rd Groton 12 Lansing 9 W. P. H. R. Heffron CGrotonD L. P. Smith Stone Harrington Babcock Smith Sherman 4th 5 th 6th 7th Sth 9th Groton Groton Groton Groton Groton Groton 9 Newark Valley 16 5 Dryden 6 ll Lansing 1 8 Newark Valley 6 8 Dryden 0 19 Sherwood 3 H. R. Smith Howland Harrington Fundis Smith Harrington Philip Smith Zimmer Harrington Robinson Smith Simkin