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

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EEPING its winning ways for the third year under Mr. Metcalf's coaching, the Horace Mann Junior Varsity football team enjoyed a fine season. The Thirds won three games, held Poly Prep to a scoreless tie, and lost only to a strong Brooklyn Y. M. C. A. team. Riverdale was the first opponent on the Jay- vees, schedule, and Horace Mann showed its po- tentialities by crushing the neighboring invaders by a 31-6 count. Triple-threat man Ralph Thompson, a Sophomore, provided the spark by tallying twice on long runs. His 35-yard jaunt opened the scor- ing in the second period. Woolner dove over for the next tally, and Johnny Kubie. one of Mr. Met- calf's Fourth Form discoveries, intercepted a pass for another touchdown. Riverdale stopped the Maroon and W'hite scoring by recovering a free ball in the end zone, but Lewis and Thompson retaliated with Horace Mann tallies, the latter covering 72 yards as the game ended. It was a different story when the Thirds faced the Brooklyn Y. M. C. A. gridders the next week and lost by 7-0. The visitors put a fast, heavy team on the field and dominated the play throughout. H. M. played raggedly, warding off defeat through Thompson's long runs until the closing minutes, when the MY team clicked for consecutive long gains and pushed over a touchdown to win. Rising to a supreme effort after a week of driving practice, the Jayvees held Poly Prep to a 0-0 dead- lock, a moral victory after Poly's 56-6 victory of the year before. Coming over from Brooklyn with another powerful squad, the visitors found Horace Mann roused to a lust for victory that carried the team deep into Blue and Gray territory before los- ing the ball on a fumble. The Jayvees seemed to lost their scoring snap after the fine start. but their defense, led by Dave Reeves, who had joined the squad just for the Poly game, was perfect. A previously unbeaten All Hallows team met its Waterloo on the H. M. gridion, 13-0, as the Thirds snapped back into the victory column. Woolner and Thompson chalked up Maroon and White scores, but the offense lost many opportuni- ties for further tallies. With their attack functioning perfectly for the first time, the Metcalfmen submerged a big, inex- perienced Columbia Crammar Varsity, 28-0, on the following Friday. Ralph Thompson scored on three long runs after Lewis had bucked over for an early touchdown. Thompson first crossed the goal line by circling end for 28 yards to make it 14-0. He then repeated with a 72-yard sprint on the first play of the second half and snagged a wayward aerial for a 46-yard run in the closing minutes. At no point through the schedule was there any definite line-up except for Larry Lader and Harry Lasker at the ends, and Al Lewis, Jimmy Woolner and Ralph Thompson in the backfield. Lasker was a steady performer at the right side of the line and did the kicking off, and Lader, a vet- eran of three years, was one of the hardest tacklers on the team. Jim Levy saw some service at left end and also in the backfield. Johnny Perez and Bob Graham, with their valuable bulk, were the usual choice for the tackles, though Bob Miller and Bernie Fleischaker saw plenty of action. Jerry Hyman and Joe Lintz played guard most of the time, with Joe Nagler filling in. Playing a bang-up game at center until he dislocated an elbow in the Poly game, Charley Cole was supplanted by Ed Schwartz. Although he saw a good deal of service in the line, Johnny Kubie did most of his starring in the backfield. Al Lewis was important on the receiving end of aerials. Quarterback Jimmy Woolner and Ralph Thompson were the main ground-gainers. and Herb Bailey was the No. 1 replacement. For a record that shows only two defeats in three years. Mr. Metcalf deserves exceptional praise. His sportsmanship and hard-driving coaching were always an inspiration to his team.

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One of Horace Manrfs best all-time soccer players, Artie Bijur has shone with the Varsity for three years. HE 1936 Varsity soccer eleven began and con- cluded its season in a most triumphant manner. However, sandwiched between the two victories over Lincoln and Poly Prep lies a very unimpressive record of six defeats and two ties. Four lettermen from the mediocre unit of the previous year formed the nucleus of the young squad that reported to Mr. Schmitt. Though on many occasions the aggregation seemed to be instilled with a real ferver for victory, it was for a large part of the season a spiritless group whose morale was decreased by a growing array of losses. Nevertheless. the defeat meted out to Poly Prep saved the season. In its initial contest with Lincoln, the team appeared to have the material for another cham- pionship outfit. Art Bijur led the way, scoring two of Horace Mann's five points, while Bob Kaufman. Lincoln Bloomfield, and Hal Jacobi each came in for his share of honors. Lincoln's only tally was pushed past Goalie Alan Jaffee on a freak play. Further scoring by the downtown eleven was pre- vented largely by the superb defensive work of Elbridge Graef. At Fieldston. the same score was recorded- with Horace Mann on the wrong end. A versatile Fieldston unit completely baffled the visitors on a wet and soggy field. The lone marker for the losers was chalked up by Artie Bijur in the first period. A weak backfield, destined to add many gray hairs to Coach Schmitt's collection, proved to be the downfall of the team. An unwarranted 1-0 defeat at the hands of McBurney at Van Cortlandt Park had a most de- moralizing effect on the players. Though Horace Mann clearly outplayed the visitors, an agile goal- guard and a successful try for the uprights in the third quarter won the game for McBurney. A few days later a powerful Blair eleven eked out a 2-1 decision in an even and hard-fought strug- gle, with both teams exhibiting top-notch soccer. The shift of Bijur to center half strengthened the backfield considerably, and for the first three pe- riods neither team had a decent shot at the oppo- nent's goal. Midway through the final quarter Blair pushed through two goals in rapid succession, and with about a minute to go the bewildered H. M. soccerites rallied and Bijur rang up the one tally for the losers. While Horace Mann did as it pleased in the first half, Garden City dominated the game there- after and tied the contest, l-l. Doug Goldsmith came through with a score in the first quarter, and it was not until the third period that Garden City booted the ball between the posts. In respect to scoring, the game with Haaren High was identical to its immediate predecessor, but the Haaren outfit completely outplayed the home team. In the first period Artie Bijur scored on a penalty kick and at the very end of the game a corner boot slipped past Dick Baumann to knot the count. As in the pre- vious games, extra periods were to no avail. On a wind-swept field in Van Cortlandt Park, Townsend Harris High took the home team into camp by 2-1. In the second quarter, Hal Jacobi sent a perfectly executed angle shot spinning past the Townsend Harris goalie, and H. M. held its slim margin until the third period, when a rejuvenated visiting eleven coasted through the backfield to shove a slow roller between the uprights. The Townsend Harris squad broke the deadlock in the closing minutes of play. Traveling out to Hoboken, the squad was blanked by the strong Stevens Frosh eleven. The contest was actually a night game without the cus- tomary bright lights. The rough game played by the yearlings was too much for the M. H. embassy, which succumbed by a 3-0 count. The soccerites lost another heartbreaker in upper New York to