Malvern Preparatory School - Malvernian Yearbook (Malvern, PA)

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Friends CenTral I2 Malvern 0 The sharp running and Tine passing oT Friends CenTral were Too much Tor The sTunned Malvern Team. The Friars sTaged Their big- esT ThreaTs in The 2nd and 3rd uarTers and held The enemy on 9 CI boTh exTra poinTs. Selesianum 6 Malvern 0 The season opener was losT laTe in The 3rd quarTer aTTer a well played game by boTh Teams. A blocked kick and subsequenT Touchdown were The killers Tor Malvern. Our sTrong line and sTar punTer, John Calpin, were kepT busy ThroughouT The game. Malvern 28 Bishop Egan 0 AT lasT. Our TirsT vicTory in more Than a year. Malvern's sTrong deTense and The TasT running OT Jim Graham and Jesse Owens combined To produce a sizeable diTTerence in scores. Malvern 22 C.H. 8 Malvern Took To The air. This Time wiTh an excel- lenT passing aTTack by Buzzy Dugan and. Jim Bruder. The whole Team played well and can Take crediT Tor The win. Malvern 8 HaverTord 6 A blocked kick and a saTeTy gave The Friars Their 3rd vicTory oT The season. Ed l-lailoran proved himselT To be The hero oT The game deTensively by blocking Two kicks and being The iron man oT The line. Malvern 22 Episcopal 0 A greaT all around game puT The Friars in TirsT place oT The InTer-Ac league. The deTense was in Top Torm. shuTTing ouT The enemy. OTTensively, we ran all over The Tield wiThouT much compeTiTion. Malvern 8 G. A. 8 The greaT moral vicTory oT The year came wiTh Top defensive playing. Jesse Owens scored The Friars' only Touchdown wiTh The aid oT The pass plays oT Buzzy Dugan and Jim Graham. Penn CharTer 32 Malvern 0 The Friars were overcome in Their aTTempT To win Their TirsT champion- ship. IT was a well-ToughT game, Though, againsT Tough compeTiTion. ST. Joseph's 34 Malvern 0 The season ended wiTh a bang. Even Though we losT The game. The cheering in our almosT Tradi- Tional game was aT iTs peak. ST. Joe's was iusT Too much Tor Malvern To handle. 2l

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Baclxfield Coach Mr. Donald McBride Head Coach Mr. Michael Mayoclx Co-Capfains Andy Murphy and Jim Bruder All-lnier-Ac-Firsf row: Jim Owens, H. Dugan, R Auch. Second row: J. Graham. E. Halloran, M. Car son, A. Murphy J. Bruder, H. Benham. Lune Coach Mr. Lloyd Wilkinson Line C0565 A+hle'ric Direclor Mr. Rltlldrd Mayock Mr, Jgmeg Auch

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Kneeling: B. McGovern, P. Harron, A. O'KeeTe, J. O'Brien, B, PlaTer-Zyberk, J. MCG-ill, E. McGovern. STanding: B. Ucros and M. Hubbard, Managers, Mr. Armon. Coach, M. McDonough, S. Saul, L. WhiTing, J. STraub. M. Kulzer, P. Mahoney, Dr. Powers, Coach. A. l.aGiglia and J. Cassady, Managers. The I958-59 baskeTball season aT Malvern opened up wiTh an air oT expecTancy. This was appropriaTe because The year beTore our Friars had Tied Tor The lnTerac TiTle, and hopes were high again. ln pre-season games Malvern showed ThaT These hopes were well-founded. We enTered The league compeTiTion wiTh a 4-I record, The only deTeaT being incurred aT The hands oT Salesianum. a Team ThaT had won 32 sTraighT games. Our TirsT league game was a real Thriller-a 43-4-l vicTory over co-champs l'laverTord. IT was won by Bob PlaTer- Zyberk's iump shoT aT The buzzer. We conTinued undeTeaTed in league play unTil conquered by GermanTown Academy on our own home courT, 48-4l. The Friars kepT plugging Though, and, wiTh an assisT Trom Penn CharTer who bumped- OTT G.A. managed To climb back inTo a Tie Tor The lead. All waiTed in anTicipaTion oT The big game wiTh G.A. on Their Tloor. WiTh a big assisT Trom school spiriT four Tans ouTnumbered Theirs 2-Il, we won The big one, 69-52. A loT oT crediT is due To Paul Herron, who broke up The German- Town deTense wiTh his long-range bombing. Assured now OT aT leasT a TiTle Tie, we wenT inTo The Penn CharTer game as heavy TavoriTes. BUT once again iT wasn'T in The cards, and Tor The Third sTraighT year Malvern losT The TiTle game. Thus we are now co-champs Tor The second sTraighT year, This Time wiTh G.A. We did have our momenTs oT glory and individual heroes, Though. Who will ever TorgeT Joe Mc6ill's 85 TooT' Ozark lke shoT in The ConesToga scrimmage. Joe sTill claims iT was a pass. buT we know beTTer. And T T how abouT PaT Mahoney in a iump ball againsT 6'6 George Raveling when we scrimmaged Villanova, or Mike McDonough's new record OT seven TlaT Tires dur- ing one season, Seriously Though, we did have a Tew brighT spoTs- Jim O'Brien and Paul l-larron made All-lnTerac . Obie was also picked on The All Main Line squad. For a very successTul season we oTTer our sincere con- graTulaTions To The enTire Team and To The coaches, Dr. Powers and Mr. Armon.