Holderness School - Dial Yearbook (Holderness, NH)

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Front Row: Barrows, Bright, Codman, Jenkle, Wallwork lCaptainb, Jose, Bradner, Tewksbury, Coulter. Back Row: Mr. Carey ffloachj, Grant, Luce, Stephani, Beattie, Hammond, F., McKinstry, Hammond, W., Nichols, Mullavey QManagerJ. jaskefdaff In a limited space, it is difhcult to evaluate the success of a season such as the 1947-48 Holderness basketball team had. The record of six wins and seven defeats is not impres- sive but there were various highlights dur- ing the season, which made it definitely worth while. After only one week of practice, Mr, Carey had molded five players who had never played together before into a co-ordinated unit. These five-Captain and back guard Don Wallwork, high scorer John Codman, six foot five-inch Ted Jenkel, Ted Jose and Bob Bradner-held their starting positions all year, although Lee Bright also saw a great deal of action. But on December tenth, against Belmont, no one knew how this squad would perform. They soon found out, however, for they saw a good scoring com- bination, a successfully executed zone defense and a well-balance, aggressive team. Belmont fell 30-14. A week later Holder- ness defeated Plymouth for the first time in four years. Against New Hampton the quintet cli- maxed a fourth period scoring spree by winning in overtime 32-28. Later they swamped Kimball Union 43-24-a direct re- sult of the year's best shooting performance. However, after building a six won and three lost record the team fell out of fortune's good graces. Their two great weaknesses, passing and backboard control, caught up with them and although the players staged some brilliant rallies in these games, they couldn't play sound basketball for the full thirty-two minutes. Despite these late season failures, the team was a strong club. Everyone was valuable, no one was indispensable. The subs were capable and offer good possibilities for next year. Throughout a tough schedule, under the more than satisfactory direction of Mr. Carey, they gave nearly every op- ponent a very tough battle, there is nothing for this team to be ashamed of.

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Front Row: Chase fCaptainJ, Weld, C., Pierson, Dunn, P., Hanson, Jones. Back Row: Mr. Stephenson fCoachD, Lind, Baskin, Miller, J., Spalding, Kitchen., Clark, Rennie, Whitney. Skiing The Holderness Ski Team of 1948, stand- ing in the shadow of the previous year's exceptional team, started practically from scratch with a group of untried and rather inexperienced hopefuls. Under the instruc- tion of coach Wendy Stephenson, this group developed into a team of skiers who enjoyed skiing together immensely, and who were exceptional in no one event, but re- spectable in every type of racing. Most of the positions on the squad were wide open at the beginning of the season, and several converts from other sports stepped into vacancies along with the usual crop of new material. Peter Lind, Jake Pierson, Chris Weld, and Bart Chase made up the nucleus of the team throughout the winter, and proved their ability to ski well consistently beyond a doubt. The season itself was not exceptional. The Holderness men emerged from their schedule with a record of four victories and seven defeats. Few of the losses were unwarranted as the team, never at its strength during the season, skied near its capacity most of the time. Some schools, such as Hanover High and our traditional rival, Proctor, proved too tough this year. About the meets with these teams, little can be said except, N ext year .... The wins on the record were put there by hard work and were fought for every inch of the way. The week end ski trips provided their share of the excitement and fun for this year's season. Besides the trip to Bishops College, Canada, a new trip to Northwood School, Lake Placid, appeared on the schedule this year. Although neither of these trips was successful as far as victory is concerned, they were thoroughly enjoyed by everyone along, and will be looked forward to eagerly in coming years. The most outstanding single feats of the winter were accomplished in cross-country racing. After a sharp awakening in the first meet, when the Holderness skiers were vir- tually swamped in this event, the team buckled down to work and come up with a perfect cross-country race against St. Paul's School and Brewster Academy three weeks later. By capturing the first four fastest times, the Holderness langlaufers gained the ultimate in racing, a 10074. Beyond this, Peter Lind broke the school cross-country record twice during the season and reduced the time to a figure which will be hard to beat. The succeeding years will, no doubt, bring ski teams with better records to Holderness, but these teams will have difiiculty in de- riving more pleasure out of a ski season than the ski team of 1948.

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