Long Beach High School - Echo Yearbook (Long Beach, NY)

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BALL The season's opener, a non-league affair, played upstate against a tough Washington Irving Eleven, resulted in a good showing for Long Beach but a better one for our opponents, as evidenced by the 19-13 score. After playing to an exciting 6-6 tie with Mal- verne, we came up with our one and only victory of the year against the hard-fighting Woodmere gridders, with a single touchdown providing the margin for a 6-0 victory. Lynbrook, a championship contender all season long, found the Long Beach team, paced by the fine line play of Larry Hayes, one of their tough- est opponents, and were hardpressed to come up with a 19-7 victory. A 26-O pasting at the hands of the champion Southsiders explains itself. The season's finale was a 15-0 loss to East Rockaway, with the winners looking no more impressive than the losers.

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A H, HOUGH not the most successful of Long Beach's athletic teams, Coach Roy Illowit's 1947 football squad provided its share of thrills, spills and exciting moments. Undoubtedly the highlight of the schedule, even though it ended in the Long Beach loss column, was the mid-season 10-6 defeat at the hands of our traditional gridiron rivals, the Ocean- side sailors. A wildly cheering Long Beach FOOT student body was brought to its feet as they watched the Blue and White explode into a quick six point lead, only to sink back into their seats as the visitors slowly cut the lead from six to two points. Then, with the clock ticking off the final 30 seconds of play, Oceanside attempted a desper- ate 35 yard pass which clicked, resulting in a Frank Merriwell finish and giving Oceanside a storybook victory.

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BASKETBALL URING the 1947-48 Basketball Season the Varsity encountered some very rough going, but in an erratic fashion they played some fine basketball. While the overall record of seven wins and eleven losses does not speak highly of its prowess, the team showed flashes of ability on the nights when they were Shot. The result of two games against Central present the most shining example of two good evenings by our five Central, a top notch team, was defeated in two encounters with the Blue and White. However, nights of glory like that one were a scant few for the High School Hoopsters, who had to be satisfied with fifth place in section two of the S. S. A. L. standings. As far as the record goes, the locals opened the season with a 38-34 loss to Lawrence. During the course of the campaign our favorites dropped both engagements to Woodmere, Southside, and Malverne, and split a pair of games with Lynbrook, Oceanside, and East Rockaway. The Suffern Cats journeyed down from Sulfern, N. Y., only to meet