Hope High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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of Newport, was held to a final score of O-0. It may be noticed also that, with the ex- ception of Pawtucket, Hope was the only team to hold the East Providence farmers for downs. The team of 1902, although rather light, was very strong. Weeks, Carroll, and Paddock were a very strong centre trio, While Crawford and Tingley made a pair of aggressive tackles. Grimes, McKenna, and Packard were as speedy and sure ends as could be found in the league. Budlong at quarter-back played a heady and consistent game throughout the season, and, aside from his occasional fumbles, Was a great ad- dition to the team. Seabury, Littlefield, and Kenney completed the squad. Seabury was a fast man and usually made very good runs. Littlefield was steady and could al- ways be depended on for a good gain, While Kenney's line bucking was often very sen- sational. McKenna was unfortunate in being injured in practice at the latter part of the season, and in losing him Hope lost a very good player. Littlefield filled his office of captain as well as he did his position on the squad. He managed the team with good sense and discipline, producing and maintaining a spirited eleven. Patterson was an excellent manager and deserves much credit for the time and trouble given to the school in the fulfilment of his position. The schedule and results were: OCTOBER NOVEMBER Hope. Opponents. Hope. Opponents. 3, Friends School 0 - O 7, E. Providence High 0 - 24 10, Attleboro High 0 - 11 14, Pawtucket High 0 -- 20 16, Classical High 23 - 0 21, Woonsocket High 5 - 6 21, English 0 -- 0 27, Graduates 0 - 5 24, Rogers High 0 - O 31, Manual 11 - Oi lJl:illQE Kl2l?'?m4 a. Bw L 2 'EPB wav! Gin i . , - Grimes., Again Hope Street has shown her superiority on the ice. Ever since the Inter- scholastic League was formed, four years ago, the polo teams sent from our school have held to the top of the list, Twice they have decorated our wall with championship

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pennants. Last year we were tied for the top, but could not play it off on account of the sudden disappearance of the ice. This year the Hockey Team brought honors to the school. L At the beginning of the winter the Intcrscholastic League decided to play hockey instead of polo this season, and, for a week or two before there was any ice, the men spent their afternoons in the gym getting accustomed to their sticks. To the loss of the whole school, and especially of the athletic end, George Patterson, whom the '02 team had elected to be this year's captain, went south in December, and left the cap- tainship open. The Athletic Association showed good judgment in choosing Grimes, a veteran athlete, to fill this vacancy. Snow was made manager, and the team started into its hard work without a drawback. There was a great stir in High School circles when it was announced that Brown University had offered a cup, to be given to the best preparatory school hockey team. Although this meant playing some games in addition to the regular Interscholastic League series, Hope decided to compete. And we were so successful that an East Providence player said the cup was offered simply for us to win it. The schedule was necessarily short, since hard ice is not a permanent feature in our community, and one game with each High School sufficed for both the League and the cup competitions. Even then, the last game had to be left out. But our title to both the League championship and the Brown cup was so clear that, although our schedule was not quite finished when the ice left, all the schools knew that there was to be another pennant in our assembly-hall and one more trophy in our gym. Our excellence in hockey was not shown merely in our winning against the other prep. schools. Hope Street played one game with the Brown 'Varsity team in the rink atthe Park, and three times in that game our team put the puck between their goal-posts. Gf course the college team beat us, but simply to score against them was a triumph. ln that game, as in all others, Kenney at cover point was a tower of strength, and no Brown man looked for a second meeting a.fter once colliding with him. Among the forwards, Jones was especially fast, In fact, throughout the season, all the men showed up well. Weeks was a very speedy man, Budlong was always ready for his share of the work, and in tight places Ross was steady as steel. Twice Ross scored the only goal in the games, both times from scrimmages. The scarcity of goals credited against Hope Street speaks amply for the goal-tenders, Tingley and Hurley. But the greatest and final praise is due to the captain, Grimes. He was a consistent player, sure, steady and alert. Beyond all this was the way he brought his team to victory. Most of the make-up he had to choose from raw material, He managed his men well, and agreeably to them. And he did this without the aid of a coach, although it was the first hockey team ever sent out from the school. Besides being the first hockey team of the school, besides being the winner of the Interscholastic Hockey Championship, the Hope Street High Hockey Team is, in cap- turing the cup offered by Brown University, the champion preparatory school hockey team in Rhode Island. For the Brown cup competition was open to all the state schools. Rhode Island Championship honors have usually gone to private academies,