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

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turned from Jersey on the short end of a 13-6 count. The home team took advantage of penalties and a timely pass interception to roll up a two-touchdown lead at the end of the half. Horace Mann came hack and marched -L5 yards to score. Eddie Beckman circling right end for the last seven yards. The final quarter saw the battered Maroon and White eleven stage a brilliant 67-yard drive before the exhausted Tewhillmen hroke down on the five-yard line. Tony Pope. rangy tackle. exhibited the fiery hrand of playing that was destined to earn him all-city honors at the end of the season. S Assislanr 1.'tIlIl'l1 Dari.: came to Horace Mann lhis year to liclp limp willz the line. A Penn Slam man, lic lias coavlietl at Manual Training anrl St. Pctefx. Snappccl :luring tlie lrring game, llmp Tcwlzill describes to Nick Pagano, zlisalzled by a trick knee, lzaw Rickey flumpezl his man on lhe last play. The following week saw Horace Mann tackling first-class opposition again. as one of the best Montclair Academy teams in recent years fought the Maroon and White to a scoreless deadlock. A fumble on the eight-yard line lost a fine oppor- tunity for H. M. early in the game. and only a succession of amazing goal line stands prevented Montclair from chalking up a winning touchdown. Pope again played the major role in halting the Red and Black's devastating offensives. It was the Hrst time in the eleven-year rivalry that Horace Mann failed to score, and the enthusiastic Montclair rooters were envisioning the school's first triumph over the New Yorkers in the long series. Another traditional rival, St. John's Prep, invaded Horace Mann Field and put on a spine-tingling thriller. In a game By its 77-0 swamping of Fanwoocl's deaf-anrl-rlumlz learn. Harare Mann gave notice of a brilliant season. The score. linwener. was an unfair fudge of tlie leanfx rnerils. Here Pat Nash, in his first game of football, elurles a tackler on one of his gaalwaril flashes. 143 '

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JUHND l'Kl'.l' blUl b 1 K ' 'Alzsmr commaicx, 1-6 .KNZYZSRQI ' 1 To Bla 1 4' L.. rfn X mWsfGe0: la , 61 he roon 1 '72 1' 1' 9- G1 '25 f Q90 A Q. 'five Q95 was en gdb ,f ma by 0,1 a last Sr 519, M455 fs Prep termir Y' 2 'riffs t se ,gs GAQQQQQ '6 0, fegokittgrgg :faqaia xg., Q e li? '03 ere? .AW 142 FOOTBALL REVIEW NCE more Ump Tewhill gave Horace Mann a scrappy little varsity football squad. Although the team lost three of its six games. it will be remember as a most coura- geous giridiron aggregation. Six lettermen returned from the fine 1936 eleven: Duesing. Hollis, Horton. Kubie. Pope, and Ricketson. With these six as a nucleus. Coach Tewhill began an arduous task of whip- ping a closely knit combination into shape. For weeks he sought to develop a satisfactory kicker and passer. finally entrusting these duties to Pat Nash. a Long Island boy who had never played football before. A dearth of ex- perienced ends also plagued the veteran Horace Mann mentor. and he was forced to use Howie Wennerhalm. a lineman. and Don Kubie. last year's center. at the wings. Later in the year. when injuries forced Ump to shift the line-up. Buff Crozier. who commuted every day over the Hudson. and Dave Gratz took over the ends. The injury jinx hit the team three days before the first game of the season when Lou Duesing. versatile quarterback. ripped open his left hand in a scrimmage against Leake and Watts. Nevertheless. H. M. swamped Fanwood. 77-0. as Nash handled Duesing's assignments and led the team by scoring five touchdowns. Eddie Beckman. his running mate at halfback. also had a field day and crossed the visitors' goal line four times. Clyde Arnspiger recov- ered a punt blocked by E. V. Hollis in the end zone for one of Horace Mann's tallies, Al Horton sprinted 18 yards for another, and Al Heins dove over center from the one-yard line on the final play. However, after this auspicious start. the team ran into the Blair powerhouse, and re-

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almost parallel to the Blair struggle. the Redmen repulsed a determined H. M. onslaught to salvage a 7-6 decision. A long pass gave St. ,lohn's a one- touchdown advantage at the intermission, and the Brooklynites held that margin until Pat Nash fought his way over seventeen yards of hotly contested turf to tally for Horace Mann. Only a successful place- ment kick separated the two teams as the last quarter began. St. John's fumbled at midfield. and Duesing. Nash and Co. reached the 13-yard line with seconds to go. Nash heaved a long pass to Duesing, apparently clear in the end zone. but a St. John's secondary popped up out of nowhere to bat the ball down. crushing Horace Mamfs hopes. The team took it out on Irving. 20-0, in its annual encounter against the Tarrytown Tor- nadoes. Bottling the Westchesterites, attack to a mere zephyr. the Maroon and White started slowly and ended the first half with a rush. Pat Nash turned in the most sensational play of the year when he shook off tackler after tackler and followed his make-shift interference perfectly on a twisting 55- yard run. Nash's trick knee was hurt as he was brought down over the goal line. and after Al Horton added a second touchdown on his famous Statue of Liberty play. Nash went out for the after- noon. Tony Pope ran 13-yards. after blocking a punt. for a third Horace Mann score. Milford's powerful eleven was the varsity's next opponent. and in what was in many ways the Badly oufweiglleil and younger than their visiting oppon- nents. llle Maroon nncl While' played une of llieir greulest games against Milfurzl. On this play Hunan has wrigglvzl loose on an cml run and is cutting away from llie sizle- lines as two larlflers close in. most thrilling of a series of breath-taking gridiron battles, the New Englanders followed a familiar formula in repelling Horace Mann, 7-0. Unce more the Maroon and White gave up a touchdown in the first half and saw a sensational counter rally fall short of victory. The husky Milford aggregation uncovered a deceptive attack, and a 33-yard for- ward-lateral made it first down on the H. M. five- yard line. Here the courageous little forward wall put on its finest goal-line stand of the year. and Milford failed to gain an inch in four plays. Pat Nash then booted a magnificent seventy-yard quick kick. and Milford's poor return punt placed H. M. in scoring positiong but Ray Pulaski. giant Milford tackle. blocked one of Nash's passes. snatched it out of the air. and scampered to the Maroon and Wfhite seven-yard line. Two plays pushed the ball across and Milford led, 7-0. Taking the ball near midfield in the final moments of the game. Horace Mann. with three of its starting backs carried off the field. staged a fifty-yard sustained drive before losing the ball on the three-yard line. Lou Duesing was the only regular back left. but with the linemen opening huge holes, he and Kubie alternated in carrying the mail through the strong Milford defense on straight power plays. Acclaimed as the shining stars of the team were Nash, Duesing, and Pope, although the Milford game drove home the fact that every man on the