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

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Many of our more unforgettable experiences occur on H.M.-Lincoln athletic fields or in H.M.-Lincoln gymnasiums. Every student is required to participate in some phase of the athletic program each term. Early in the fall, the boys are usually requested to clean up the dirt play- ground.in preparation for girls' field hockey and speedball, and their own football scrimmages and soccer games. The fall season is perhaps the most difficult period for the athletic department to manage, for, because of an acute shortage of playing fields, recreation during the warm seasons of the school year is somewhat cramped. After the Thanksgiving holiday, the winter program begins and, under the expert guidance of the staff, even the most inept enthusiast gains a certain amount of pro- ficiency in at least one of the activities. Those who do not participate on varsity teams become graceful fencers and tumblers, spectacular floor hockey players, or hardy wrestlers and boxers. At the first signs of spring, the boys are again herded out to the playground, not only to be reconditioned by hours of sunshine, but once more to make the fields fit for the young lady softballers of H.M.-L. The sports year finally ends with the great annual field meet in which a large proportion of the student body competes for hard sought-after team points. ' While it would be hardly fair to say that athletics at Horace Mann-Lincoln take precedence over our academic studies, we can best determine its position in the school curriculum, perhaps, by judging its popularity within the student body. A1- though most of us often obtain health excuses for the most trivial ailments without the slightest compunction, few, if any, H.M.-Lincoln students have been known to wish themselves back in a mathematics or history class during their regularly sche- duled gymnasium period. We charged right through for the Orange and Blue Page 17