Holderness School - Dial Yearbook (Holderness, NH)

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SKIING The record of the team this year although not quite up to par with that of last year is quite impressive In the New Hampton Interscholastlc Meet the first meet of the year the team did not do very well as far as team scoring is concerned ma1nly because of a lack of entries in jumping and cross country In spite of this we did manage to come in sixth as a team out of the thirteen schools entered At the Ossipee Carnival the following Saturday the team came back with all the prizes The three teams entered were Holderness Lacoma and Brewster There were only two events in this meet and Captain Knowlton captured first place in both In the open races in the afternoon the members of the team did very well individually The next meet with New Hampton was held on I-Iuckms H111 Both the downhill and slalom scores were very close but in the Hnal reckoning Holderness came out on top The Laconia Invitation Meet was held at The Belknap Recreational Center at Gilford N I-I As a team we placed first in the slalom and did well m the downhill but again our lack of Jumpers made us end up in third place for the whole meet The first Proctor Dual Meet was our only unsuccessful dual meet of the year Even without two of our best skier we started out with high hopes We lost the jumping won the slalom nearly tied the downh1ll and lost the Cross Country by a small margin The total score was close but Proctor won The team won a dual meet with Brewster by a large margin capturing both the slalom and the downhill by about ten per cent each,g1v1ng us about a twenty per cent margin for the final score In the second Proctor Dual Meet Holderness was more successful winning the down hill and slalom The margin of victory was about four per cent ment not because of our sknng for we all did well but because we came so close to winning but did not There were about ninety six competitors in both Class A and Class B In the Class A slalom Knowlton was second McKee tied for seventh and Fraser took tenth In the Class B slalom Childs was fourth Clark ninth and Leland twelfth In the Class A down hill Knowlton took second McKee sixth I-Ioismgton ninth and Young sixteenth In the Class B downhill Clark and Childs tied for eighth Leland was in a tie for ninth and Lander was in a tie for tenth We won both the Class A and the Class B downhill but lost the Class A slalom by ten per cent and the Class B slalom by five per cent so in the final scoring we lost to Lebanon High by a score of 390 78 to 389 14 falling to get another leg on the cup which we won last year This meet was followed by a dual meet with Tilton School which we won by a large margin Our last meet of the season was held in Plymouth under the auspices of the Plymouth Swiss Ski School There were Hve other schools entered in this competition Plymouth High School was our strongest opponent in this meet but we managed to win the slalom by a few points We lost the downhill to Plymouth but won the whole meet by a very close margin This gn es us two legs on the cup which we also won last year As a whole the season was a great success We won four dual meets out of five two mvitatlon meets out of five and it must be taken into consideration that We placed second in one of these 1nv1tat1on meets third and slxth in the others. Q 9 . , , . Y ' l . . . , . Y l ' , . , . 1 , 4 a 3 Y ' , . Y . . , . . J, . . . . . y 7 Q ' , . Y 1 3 ' The next meet of the year, the Dow Academy Interscholastics, was a great disappoint- , 7 . ! l 9 Y Q I 7 ' r 9 1 ' ' , P 5 P 1 , Q Y ' 3 3 Y ' a Y I . . , Y 3 v , I y - 5 S 3

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ment however 1n not scormg on thus lnghter squad was enough to get every body ready for the Proctor battle On home ground the Blue and Sxlver eleven renewed nts annual rxvalry wnth Proctor and crushed them under a 25 to O vlctory wlth every substltute on the bench takmg part In the first quarter McKee very eas 1ly brought 1n the first SIX pomts Early nn the second half Knowlton usnng one of the new plays passed to Davls to brmg the score to a 12 O lead Shortly after wards Knowlton shot an alley pass to McKee who was wantmg on the better slde of the goal hne Earl Damon gettmg hrs Hrst chance of the season carrxed the ball over for the extra ponnt The cllmax of the game came m the last quarter when a Green and White pass was mtercepted by Gordon Kuehner who dodged a swarm of tacklers and then streaked K 'N-. wnth the and of McKee whose block cleared one man completely off the Held a hundred yards to a touchdown as the Holderness sndelmes reached thunderous proportlons due to the help from the Kendall Hall g1rls The final game of the season soon afterwards ended nn a 25 O vlctory The season taken as a whole was not too remarkable but every player had a good txme mcludmg a large number of substltutes who showed themselves to be future stars for Holder ness such as Gordon Kuehner a hard runnmg back Dick Hoxsmgton an efhclent end and johnme Chllds who proved hnmself to be a rugged player durmg the Plymouth High scrxm mages and the Phys Ed games There were few ll'1jUI'lCS thls year even though the team had tougher trammg than usual Every Wednesday afternoon durmg the season Holderness had a full afternoon s scrxmmage wnth the Plymouth Hugh team The most unfortunate lnjury of the season was johnny Armstrongs fracture of collar bone and then of course there were Slg Nlnmgers rubber knees The coachmg staff consisted of Coach Hmman head coach Joe Judge backfleld coach and Jack Smlth noted for hls low charg1ng exercnses and blockmg tactlcs as llne coach also very helpful was the setting up exercxse man jock Lynch To all of these men the rec ord of the season IS due but ll could not have been the record xt was wnthou the coopera tlon of a good splrlted team A...-1-v'W m 1 1 1 ' Q. W 7 by A.- N. . , ' ,, . , ,Km md n n - 1 ,A 1 A-7 ' W, - . ,V ,, Q 3, 1a.v3t,g-7:,qt,.,:L - .,., i , 'ffm-.ge Y s . . - - M v A 'WW' ZW ' A ,I -. ' vp rf 1 .nlff 1 1 . . , t A . . L' ' V Q L-, U 1 1 ' 1 ' 1 1 1 1 . ' . 1 1 1 1 1 1 , - . , . 1 3 ' ' ' l KC 1 1 1 ,I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 IK ' ' ii . , . 1 - , . '4 , .. .- . - V , - -1 5. v'- ' ,.,a,--41 , V , , ' h ,, ' ' Y A

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