Horace Mann Lincoln High School - Lincolnian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Jim 1933 Qfomce 'VARSITY BASKETBALL REVIEW T-IE chieT evenT in The I932-1933 baslceTball season was The beginning oT The EasTern PrivaTe School BaskeTball League. An erraTic squad, someTimes playing excellenT baslceTball, and someTimes displaying a very mediocre brand, came Through a diTTiculT schedule wiTh a record oT Ten vicTories and six deTeaTs. The TirsT league season was a pronounced suc- cess, boTh Trom The specTaTors' and players' sTand- poinT. Poly Prep won wiTh a record oT Tive vicTories and no deTeaTs. T-l. M. Tied Tor TourTh, wiTh Two vicTories and Three seTbaclcs. The 'VarsiTy sTarTed iTs season inconspicuously by Talling beTore a TighTing squad oT alumni, 23-I7, led by The sTar Trio oT ErnsT, ComTorT, and Grady. Birch-WaThen was an easy vicTim, losing by The score oT 66-6. ln spiTe oT The overwhelming mar- gin oT vicTory, The Team did noT show good Torm. Traveling To Lawrenceville Tor The nexT encounTer, The Maroon and WhiTe Taced much sTerner op- posiTion, and was easily repulsed, 32-23. The Team showed vasT improvemenT againsT Kingsley, winning 30-27. Fordham Frosh crushed The 'VarsiTy by a Sl-27 margin. Two vicTories were gained Trom MonTclair and The Columbia Freshmen, 3l-I6 and 26-22, respecTively. A Thrilling baTTle wiTh Pawling resulTed in a 29-28 win Tor The Maroon and WhiTe, when Vollmer neTTed a baslceT in The Tinal minuTe oT play. The Team's sevenTh vicTory was challced up aT Lincoln's expense: Vollrner's TwenTy-Two poinTs led The aT- Tack: The losers were compleTely vanquished on Their own courT. ln a reTurn game wiTh MonTclair The low scor- ing record oT The season was seT, wiTh l-l. M. end- ing up ahead in a nip-and-Tuclc sTruggle by one poinT. The score was I3-l2. The Tinal game re- sulTed in a 27-I4 vicTory over McBurney. The individual sTar oT The Team was Joe Voll- l mer. T-le scored in every game excepT The Mc- A Burney conTesT, in which an eligibiliTy rule lcepT him on The sidelines. Vollmer was The high scorer in The Birch-WaThen, Poly Prep, Lawrence- ville, Kingsley, Pawling, Blair, Lincoln, PrinceTon Prep, and TirsT MonTclair .fl42T

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Qlfdntwv 1933 'VARSITY BASKETBALL TEAM Back row-Edwards, Orsenigo, Harriso Fronf row-Fuld. Vollmer, Henry, Mr. William F. Tewhiil Cameron Silber? ..A............. Rodger Harrison ........... Roberf Weiskopf ......,. Joseph Vollmer ......,.... Edward Orsenigo ............. James Fuld ......................... Horace Henry SUBSTITUTES Tom Edwards if I4I 3. We ......U.,....Coach ..,.,.,.Manager ....,.......Lef1' Forward ..............Righ+ Forward ...........................Cen1'er ........,.......Lef'f Guard .............Rigl'11' Guard Louis Jacobson

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Qflfdniwn 1933 games. He scored I58 poinTs during The season, and Trom his cenTer posiTion direcTed The Team's aTTacIc. Rodger Harrison and Bob WeisIcopT played regularly aT The Torward posiTions. Harrison's besT perTormance was in The TriniTy game, when he Tallied I8 poinTs. WeiskopT did especially well in The Fordham Frosh conTesT. AT The guard posiTions Ed Orsenigo, James Fuld, and Horace Henry saw a greaT deal oT ac- Tion. Fuld and Henry improved greaTly as The season progressed: Orsenigo played a sTeady, re- liable game during The whole season. To Ump Tewhill, Tounder and TirsT PresidenT of The League, should go a greaT deal oT crediT Tor The success oT his Team. Following is a shorT resume of each league game: Horace Mann 24, Poly Prep 32 The league winners-To-be missed many shoTs during The TirsT halT, and H. M. managed To geT a 9-8 lead . . . Poly broke Through The Maroon and WhiTe deTense in The second session, scoring Tour sTraighT basIceTs. Horace Mann 32, TriniTy 26 H. M.'s TirsT league vicTory . . . lasT quarTer aTTaclc by losers almosT upseT 'VarsiTy in rough game . . . Harrison scored I8 poinTs. Horace Mann 3 I, Blair 39 The small Blair courT handicapped H. M .... Vollmer's accuraTe passing game was ouTsTanding ... cenTer scored I6 poinTs . . . H. M. pulled up To wiThin one poinT oT leaders in Third guarTer, aTTer Trailing aT halT-Time, I9-I4. Horace Mann 24, Irving 28 WesTchesTer Team upseT Tavored home Team . . . H. M. played in spiriTless Tashion . . . Rally puT H. M. ahead aT sTarT oT lasT period . . . Irving again Took lead, and sTopped Tinal H. M. spurT. Horace Mann 2I, PrinceTon Prep I8 Score was I8-I8 aT end oT regular Time . . . only one Tield goal in TirsT haIT, wiTh' H. M. leading, 3-2 . . . resulT was one oT The season's biggesT surprises . . . Fuld high scorer . . . baslceT by Orsenigo in Three-minuTe pIayoTT decided The sTruggIe. 41433