Hun School of Princeton - Edgerstounian Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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Cheerleaders Football S5 Varsity Football 1959 was a disappointing season for the Hun gridders, a year in which injuries and hard luck treated the Red Raiders harshly. The prospect of having three members of the All-Delaware Valley first and second team returning along with twelve lettermen, plus a rise in the enrollment, looked en- couraging. Mr. Waterman, the head coach, and Mr. Ball, the assistant coach, anticipated a success- ful campaign. The first game against Pennington, in which the Johnny Huns were heavy favorites, tumed out to be one of horror. Four of Hun's first-string players were not available to the team. I Injuries to Dave Savidge and John Ward had an even worse effect on the team as the season progressed.j Pennington scored four touchdowns and four extra points, while the Red and Black could manage only one touchdown. Hun's lone score resulted from an eighty yard run by Paul Kadlic and a ten yard end sweep by Gary Grover. The Solebury encounter proved to be a more enjoyable affair as Kadlic scored three touch- downs and Grover clipped in with another T.D. The final score was 28-0. Now with the team in high gear Kadlic scored sixteen points and Grover eight in a smashing vic- tory over Gennantown Friends. John Keffer ac- counted for a T.D. and Tom Johnson scored two more points in the 32-8 success. With two straight victories under their belts the players journeyed to Wilmington, Delaware, to face the highly touted Tower Hill array. In this con- test Hun's offense was completely stopped by one of the toughest defenses in prep school competition. The Hnal outcome was a 28-0 whitewash for Hun and the first of four straight losses. Friends Central shut out Hun 14-0 and George School squeezed by with a 12-8 decision, the only tally for the Red and Black being the result of a seventy-three yard pass play from Kadlic to Pat Donohue. John Kef- fer followed through with a P.A.T., good for two markers. The Hnal contest of the season was the finest game the '59 team played, a game in which a break here or there would have reversed the de- cision in Hun's favor. The first half ended 0-0, and the only T.D. scored was registered by Del- barton in the third period, making it 7-0. In the fourth the Raiders were on the march as the clock stopped the game, handing Hun its fifth defeat of the season against only two wins. Wait till next year!

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Athletic Improvements The period from 195 7-60 has been one of rapid improvement and growth for the Hun School athletic program. While winning teams have not been too frequent, the various teams have been growing stronger and more re- spected, and a greater variety of sports has been offered the student body. Some have argued that fewer sports would improve our record, but the school's philosophy - Athletics for every boy - and the individual tastes and differences of democratic youth demand a wide variety of sports. In the past four years lacrosse, fencing, and wrestling have become var- sity sports, and this year swimming has been introduced on a pre-varsity level. Lacrosse has been admitted to the Interstate Lacrosse Conference, and bas- ketball admitted to the Penn-Jersey Conference. J.V. football and soccer have become a permanent reality. Highlights of the past four years include: having the Schoolboy Nationals in Princeton with Hun as the host crew, placing fifth in the 1957 Nationals, winning second place in the 1958 Small Schools Basketball Toumament, collecting two firsts, two seconds, and two thirds in the short span that the school has entered the New jersey Private Schools Wrestling Tournament, achieving a truly winning season in football last year for the first time since 1951, and dominating all-star soccer teams among New jersey prep schools in 1959. The most notable material gains of the past four years for the athletic department are: the six new hardsurfaced tennis courts, two new playing fields, and a new shell for crew. To help govern and direct the athletic program, a qualified athletic di- rector has been hired, to decide athletic policy, a faculty athletic committee has been formed, to suggest improvements in the athletic program, the Ath- letic Council composed of team captains and the Varsity club has been created. Some of the ideas of these various groups have been realized in an expanded intramural program, the introduction of Saturday night athletic events, a new type of letter award, and standardized requirements for earning a letter. When one looks at Hun's athletic future, it seems bright. Every year more of its coaches are full-time members of the faculty. Our much-needed gym Mr. Waterman Athletic Director is foremost in the development plans of the school. No longer are our teams composed primarily post-graduate students. Today's teams are truly student manned - perhaps not always as strong - but more unified and more spirited. 34

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