Holderness School - Dial Yearbook (Holderness, NH)

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SOCCER The Fall of 1954 marked by far the best season yet for the Soccer team. Victories were seen over Orford High 3-2, and New Hampton 3-0 and 2-1, while ties were held with Brewster Academy 3-3 and Tilton 1-1. Probably the game that will be remembered most in the season was the encounter of mud polo on a rainy day in which St. Paul's emerged victorious with a score of 3-O. Considering both offensive and defensive play, the material was the best Soccer has seen in the three years of existence at Hold- erness. No alibis intended, it can be sad that tl1e forward line did have its up and downs in scoring. The record which the team showed for its efforts resulted in 3 wins, 2 ties, and 5 defeats. Co-Captains Fiore and Bieling could always be found inspiring the team in some way during a game or in practice. That is why it can be said that everyone put all his efforts into every encounter. Some scores, such as that against K. U. A. 0-1, were very depressing, but a strong determination kept the team lighting till the very end. Mr. Fauvcr and Mr. Stark are making soccer by far the most popular sport during the Fall term. Consequently excellent prospects are climbing from the Jayvee field. Fast improve- ment has been shown on the Varsity in the last few years. Next year we will lose, through graduation, a good section of this fine team, but it is expected that with the strong Jayvee material, the Grey will experience another good season. TRAIL CREW The fall trail crew this year started by picking up after the' bulldozer at Cartwright's Slope. The trail crew certainly did its share in the moving of rocks, cutting and hauling trees, and generally putting the scl1ool's ski area in top condition. Lcd by the vigorous Mr. Henderson, the crew even covered the slope with hay in places to prevent washouts. Since the old ski

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porto FOO TBALL This year's team was coached by a familiar but new head coach, Mr. Chase. Coach Hin- man, who was previously the head coach, took control primarily of the Jayvcc squad. The aches and pains of the highly-promising squad having subsided during the second week practice, it encountered its first battle of the season with Brewster Academy. The squad, due to some rather humorous, unplanned, and unusual cir- cumtances, managed a 7-6 victory. The team was rather unorganized at that early date, and somehow the plays got mixed in such a manner that a new and quite successful play resulted. It was also in that game that the Holderness team lost four of its starting eleven. In spite of this loss, the squad managed a 0-0 tie the following week against the New Hampton J. V. During the open house weekend with St. Marys School, the Big Blue Machine faced the power- ful Phillips Andover J. V. HA team. As fiercely as the team fought, they were unable to defend themselves successfully. The final tally was a score of 12-7 in favor of Andover. This, however, failed to discourage the team. The following week the Holderness tcam scored a glorious 31-0 victory against- the Hebron J. Vfs. Their moral boosted by this victory, the team went to Kents Hill in an overnight journey hoping to clinch another victory. The Big Blue played on an extremely muddy and hilly field and fought with all they had, but they were unable to score. The final count was a llCIl1'1l- breaking 0-6. Co-Captains Dick Kruger and Fletcher Adams along with the rest of the team were determined to capture a victory over the rival Proctor on the following week. The fact that it was houscparty weekend and a home game furthered the iight in the Holderness team. The Proctor team, which was favored to win, was a bit too confident on the day of the game and was consequently smothered in a 19-0 victory for Holderness. The unexpected win completely overwhelmed the entire team with joy. In spite of the loss of several varsity men at the start, the team had a rather success- ful season.

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liitil V trail and ski jump could no longer be used, plans were quickly made for replacing these close to Cartwright's. A thousand-foot down- hill trail was hacked out of the woods in a surprisingly short time, and a space was cleared beside Cartwright's for a bulldozer to come in and make a new jump. HOCKEY The hockey team enjoyed one of its best seasons this year, particularly weather-wise. We were able to skate nearly every day for Coach Rip Richards. The starting six consist- ed of Bob Weiss, goalie, Dick Kruger and Co- Captain Pete Fiore, on the defense, Co-Captain Don Hinman, who as center teamed up with the two wings, Sandy Gibson and Captain-elect Ted Beauregard. We won the first two games of the season, beating Kimball Union Academy 5-4 and New Hampton 2-1, before we lost to Tilton Varsity 4-3. Proctor fell before the blue, but our winning pace was stopped as we lost three games in a row to Northwood, Hanover High, and Kimball Union Academy. We beat New Hampton again 9-0 but lost two days later to Saint Paul's 8-1. We then beat Proctor 8-0, but lost our last games to Hanover High School on the Dartmouth College Rink. BASKETBALL Had Coach Chase known after the two weeks of preliminary practice what he knows now about the 1955 basketball team, he might either have spent the season in Florida or tried to work up interest in a winter volleyball team. It's a consistent club indeed that can trounce a team by ten points in its first game, lose to the same group by the same amount in its eighth, practice so hard that its shooting becomes stale, rest two whole days and find its shooting still stale, and, in spite of it all, present a won and lost column of 7-6.