Hamden Hall Country Day School - Perennial Pine Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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Hamden Hall's varsity suffered its first defeat by a score of 38 to 32 at Madison on November 5. Though outweighed 20 to 30 pounds a man, our boys put up a splendid battle. Madison on the first play of the game recovered a Hamden Hall fumble and promptly scored. Although we scored 12 points in the first half, it wasn't enough to equal Madison's 32. Inspired in the second half, Hamden Hall went back and scored 20 points to Madison's 6. In the final moments of the game, with darkness falling and fog covering the field, Furbish threw a pass to Fiskio for a gain of thirty yards, but five yards short of the goal. Thus the game ended-Madison 38, Hamden Hall 32. Outstanding scorers for Hamden Hall were Ray Blakeslee, with 4 touchdowns to his credit, and Fiskio, Cave, Wright, Edwards, Sleeper, and McKinster, who completed the line. At Milford on November 13th, the Hamden Hall varsity defeated Milford Prep 77 to 0. Again our varsity achieved a smashing victory. Paced by Blakeslee, Edwards, and Furbish in the backfield, and Cave, Wright, and Fiskio in the line, touchdown after touch- down was scored. The score at the half was 42-0. During the second half the second string played most of the time, piling up thirty more points. High scorer was Edwards with 3 touchdowns, followed by Fiskio and Furbish with two, and Blakeslee, Cave, and Sleeper each with one. Extra points were scored by Fiskio and Hall, who scored 6 each. BOYS' JUNIOR VARSITY FOOTBALL Front Razr: Marvin Seaman, Ralph Neclerio, Donald Adley, Brian Kirby, Daniel Shine. Second Razr: Morgan Knudsen, George Murray, Humbert Fiskio, jack Ferns, Mr. Jordan. J. V. football this fall proved a valuable experience to all the team. Although the season was not very successful, the boys had opportunity to grow in qualities of teamwork and sportsmanship which should lead to a strong varsity team next year. Among the schools which the V.'s played this year were Fairfield, Unquowa, and Mooreland Hill. forty-one

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BOYS' SPORTS SENIOR VARSITY FOOTBALL SENIOR VARSITY FOOTBALL Front Rout J. Larson, P. Fiskio, J. Cave, G. Furbish, R. Blakeslee, J. McKinster, H. Krause, T. Campbell. Second Rout D. jones, J. Earle, B. Hall, K. Russell, Mr. Powell, H. Edwards, F. Sleeper, A. Wright, J. Doolittle. On Saturday, October 9, at Hamden High field, the Hamden Hall team scored a smashing victory over Milford Prep 72 to 0. The first score was pushed across with just two minutes gone in the first quarter as Glen Furbish swept right end from twenty yards out. Although the Milford team had some good interference on their plays, they could not stop the hard-charging Hamden Hall line of jim Cave, Pete Fiskio, and Alan Wright. At the half the players from Hamden Hall had piled up a score of 31 points to Milford's 0. During the second half, the reserves playing most of the time, Milford could not stop these yet-to-be-denied Hamden Hallers. In the second half Hamden Hall went on to score another 31 points paced by Ray Blakeslee, hard-charging back, and jim McKinster, an able back. At the end of the game the weary Milford team found itself on the short end of a 72 to 0 score. High scorers were Ray Blakeslee with 4 touchdowns, Glen Furbish with 3, and Pete Fiskio with 2. At Guilford, on October I3, the varsity football team took in its stride the powerful, well-drilled, blue and white of Guilford. After a fairly hard-fought first quarter, Ray Blalceslee swept left end from forty yards out to make the score 6 to 0. In the second quar- ter Pete Fiskio scored on a pass from Glen Furbish, giving the green and gold a I2 to 0 lead. The second half was fought mostly on even terms with the exception of a pass from Ray Blakeslee to jim Cave for the third and final Hamden Hall touchdown. Legion Field in Mount Carmel, on October 22, was the scene of the third victory for the green and gold of Hamden Hall against an inexperienced Chester High six. The first score was made early in the first quarter on a run around left end by Ray Blakeslee. Numerous other scores were made: jim Cave 2, Ray Blakeslee 1, Pete Fiskio 2, Freeman Sleeper 1, and Henry Edwards l. Outstanding in the game was jim Cave because of his many splendid blocks and tackles. The final score was Hamden Hall 50, Chester High l2. forly

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BASKETBALL The varsity basketball team during the winter term ventured forth in a ten-game schedule. They played such teams as Guilford, Westminster, Kingswood, and Cheshire. Although the record was not impressive, the reputation which they made for Hamden Hall as good competitors and sportsmen more than made up for the lack of victories. The team will miss such first stringers as Ray Blakeslee, Jack Cronan, Bob David- son, Glen Furbish, and jim Cave, but the improvement of the undergraduate reserves and the showing made by the junior Varsity squad make next years prospects seem much brighter. An uneventful season marked by little scoring did not in the least quell the spirit of the first and second form basketball team. Led by high scorer Humbert Fiskio, the boys who participated were: Daniel Shine, Donald Adley, Ralph Neclerio, Allan Wells, Morgan Knudsen, George Murray, Gary Clark, Jack Ferns, Ronald O'Brien, Roy Lindsay, John Ramsey, Charles Roberts, Van Corey, Robert Mansfield, and Alan Salke. VARSITY BASEBALL Front Rout H. Edwards, J. Cronan, J. Cave, P. Fiskio, A. Wright, J. McKinster. Serond Row: J. Earle, G. Furbish, R. Blakeslee, M. Christoforo, F. Sleeper. The varsity baseball team held practices during the spring vacation, and a very large number of candidates turned out the first day of the new term, April 4th. Some of the prospective players were: Ray Blakeslee, jim Cave, Glen Furbish, jack Cronan, Bob Davidson, Pete Fiskio, Henry Edwards, jim McKinster, Alan Wright, Freeman Sleeper, Ken Russell, Tom Williams, jim Earle, and LeRoy Carpenter. A tough schedule of twelve games has been arranged with such teams as: Cheshire Academy, St. Mary's, Notre Dame, Guilford, Madison, Hopkins, and Choate. If any of our hard work, long practices, and good sportsmanship materialize, this year's team should have a good season. f forty-two