Holderness School - Dial Yearbook (Holderness, NH)

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FOCDTBALI. The team started tts season wtth a record behtnd tt of three undefeated seasons Thts mar velous record couldn t last forever but wtth the help of stx of last year s lettermen back tn swtng agatn we were able to keep thts record at least for the ftrst three games After a number of practtce days and scrtmmages wtth Plymouth the team oflictally opened the season wtth Ktmball Unton Academy Durtng the rally the ntght before Roger Foss was elected Captatn and Ctus Mattersdorf the manager Those who composed the starttng ltneup whtch rematned nearly constant throughout the season except for Pete Kuehner who recetved a head tnjury durtng the Ttlton game that put htm out for the rest of the football season were Bob Emmons rtght end Al Nlerrtll rtght tackle Roger Foss rtght guard John Chtlds cen ter Btll Bradner left guard John Manley left tackle Brad Wagoner left end Homer Sewall quarter back Bud Ctrtmes full back Don Campbell left half back Francts Grant rtght half back The team started the lirst quarter wtth a march to the opponent s goal ltne Thts un htndered march gave us our only score of the game 6 potnts Ktmball Unton tn return patd tts respects by advanctng through the ltne for a twenty five yard run that tted the score 6 6 On the followtng Saturday the team determtned to prove tts greatness for tts own sake and for the sake of the alumnt as tt was alumnt week end at Holderness trtmmed New Hampton by a 21 0 vtctory Ttlton was our next opponent and wtth a week of sttff practtce to get tn shape for a pow erful black and yellow eleven we drove down to Ttlton Ttlton out wetghed us and used as thetr most effecttve weapon stratght power plays through the ltne In the first quarter two first downs on beauttful runs by Homer Sewall Don Campbell and Erancts Grant provtded the set ttng for a touchdown Don Campbell received the ball on the ten yard ltne and on a wtde end sweep gave us a touchdown John Chtlds ktcked the extra potnt Durtng the last quar tIerlTtltcgn on an end run carrted the ball to our goal ltne The game ended wtth I-lolderness 7 t ton After a day of rest we agatn started to practtce for a harder team Kennett Holderness showed a good deal of fight but Kennett carrted away the laurels by a vtctory of thtrty one potnts to our zero The followtng week we met Exeter who seemed just as hard as Kennett Agatn we met defeat 26 O Determtned to do or dte after sustatntng two defeats tn a row we tnvaded Proctor Academy and left wtth a vtctory of 7 6 ln the ftrst half Proctor gatned three lirst downs and completed thetr parade wtth a touchdown Bob Emmons saved the day by spotltng the at tempt made for the extra potnt At the begtnntng of the second half Grtmes and Chtlds showed thetr presence by powerful tackles and once more wtth our hands on the ball we gatned yardage The very next play Don Campbell sltpped out of the ltne unnottced and caught a touchdown pass from Sewall John Chtlds ktcked the extra potnt to make the score 7 6 There were many reasons for wtnntng thts last game wtth Brewster One was the pres ence of our houseparty guests another was that thts game meant the dtfference between a good and bad season But no one had reason to be dtsappotnted after the game for tt achteved all ts purposes The score was 14 6 The year thus ended wtth a tte four wtns and two losses The tnjurtes were many but none too sertous lwo of the tnjurtes came before the iirst game Harvey Scranton s and Bob Lovett s collar bones were broken Pete Kuehner s head tn jury also put htm out for the enttre season All season our teamwork because of expert coachtng from Messrs Judge and Htnman was good and Ca tatn Ro e F p g r oss was a truly tnsptrtng leader tn every game Don Campbell con stttuted our matn offenstve threat wtth hts remarkable offtackle runntng whtle Squeak Sewall earned much applause for hts passtng speed and broken fteld runntng Desptte the fact that our four year strtng of vtctortes was broken the team was 1 good one and at the ban uet Coach q Htnman remarked that tt had the best ftghttng sptrtt he had seen tn ten years of coachtng 1 1 11 1 1 . , 1 , . 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 .1 1 1 1.- 1 ' 1 , ' 1 1 ' 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 ' 1 1 ' 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 ' , . r 1 1 ' 1 1 . 1 1 ' . ' , ' 1 . . ' ' . 1 , 1 r ' . 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 4 , ! - 1 1 1 1 1 . , , . 1 1 1 1 f , 1 1 1 , 1 ' 1 1 .. .. 1 1 1 1 1 . ' e . 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' - 1 1 1 , 1. e 1 - 1 -11 1

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SKIING After having such a remarkably good team last year sknng thls season was coupled wxth dlfliculties The only letterman left from the previous skiers was Johnme Childs who missed three nmportant meets because of injuries Then various other members were out this year at one time or another Snow first came towards the mxddle of January and the conditions by the beglnnmg of March were already poor Wendy s the slope used the most by the school and Huckms Hull could be used only half this time The snow condltxons thus were not so good as we hoped they would be all the snow seemed to come around Easter when rt was too late Yet tak mg everythmg 1nto consideration the team stall did well The first meet with Brewster was won by a large margin m the second meet wxth Tllton the victory was even more pronounced Then came the first defeat nt was from the representatives of New Hampton a team that later produced a Natlonal Amateur Skung champion We went for a return clash wxth Brewster and this meet we won although only by three tenths of a pornt Then we went to Proctor The team there first showed us their 3b1llflCS on the Jump then they gave us a nice slushy slalom That was followed by a tricky fast and narrow downhill trail and the finale was a good twenty minute cross country That was too ml1Ch We IOSI Yet When PrOCt0r Came for a return vxsxt although we agam were defeated the d1ff2r2r1C6 WAS d6Cld2dly Smaller Although the Trl School Plaque went to Proctor there are hugh hopes that it will be hanging ln our Schoolhouse next year agam Wuth seven other schools we also entered a meet at K U A and came out fourth in downhill and slalom combined Phil See won a prxze for his slalom runmng The results spoke well for the team but we m1ssed Chnlds and Emmons a lot At Northwood CLake Placldj we lost by a very narrow margin agam without Childs and yet we came out better than generally expected Except for a Dartmouth Outmg Club Race on Moosxlaukee where Ted Leland dld very well that was all Now let us look at the individual skiers Johnnie Childs had very tough luck as explained before Yet when he dnd ski he was always one of the best Bob Emmons was a very surprising lndlvldual He never seemed to be satisfied with him self even though he came through with a second place in slalom and a first rn downhlll at Brewster At Lake Placid he almost duplicated that feat The moral IS ? Ede Weld was nn general a real support to the team Although never first he was al ways far from the end of the line Phil See and Ted Leland were two of a kmd Both were very consxstent While others mlght have had an off day they were always good Dxck Knowlton was of course the find of the year He was never actually considered team material until after the Proctor meet Then he became a regular member of the team and dnd exceptlonally well Credit too should go to Bud Grimes Don Campbell and in fact to all those who at one time or another made a contrxbutxon to the team Mr Wernert had quite a job on his hands as coach Some ordeals he had to go through have already been mentioned He was never sure whom he would be able to use for a meet On top of that he chipped a bone ln his shoulder 1n the middle of the season and could there fore not ski after that He deserves much credlt for making as much of the season as he d1d We must say that all those who skled elther privately or on the team had a lot of fun We look for many skiers next year and more and better snow 1 . 1 1 1 - 1 ' . 1 1 1 . 1 1 i 1 - 1 ' , . 1 V Y ' 1 1 . 1 , - . . 1 , . , 1 - - 0 1- . ' 1 1 ' ' 1 1 . . ., 1 . 1 , 1 1 . 1 1 1 1 . 1 ' . - , . 1 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 , . I .. 1 1 ' 1 .