Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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Y ,f fs NlANHA1'1'ANl'rEflX-3, - , , ll., .. Q-fi E, . Z I f 5 it K. L TP' I. 5 ? to win! Providence, St. .lohn's met defeat at our hands but-wwe lost to New York University Sillll Boston College as a grand finale. We need not melltioll the victories over Pratt. Upsala, Seton Hall and Rutgers, for these were expected,fall in all ytwas not so bad-eh? M'ait just a moment before you mix that next cocktail for we lI1llSl1 mentioll the tennis team, for didnlt ollr famous JHIIICS K. Cllddy. Jr. do his stuff as number one lnall. Jim is the pride of Yonkers, U. S. A., and I know if it wasnlt pllt in XVl12lt a stellar athlete he was we eouldllit sell him the twenty Year Books he prom- ised to lilly. Although tllis is a minor sport it saw its beginning in the last of the term of ,25 alld Tolll Morrison '26 of Rochester was unanimously elected as Captain with Merril Sllllmflll '27 acting as the capable manager. Indoor practice was called Ellld a fairly good team daslled forth to bear the lJI'llIlt. Wve would rather not speak of the victories being tllat only three matches were played. llllt then you sulilillg readers rememlzerfit was a fine beginning. So then do we 001116 to the Pllfl of a fine year in Sports: we, the Freshmen, had completed ollr first year alld retired to ollr scattered homes to study upon the wllite sunny sands of the many beaches for ollr Sophomore year. At last we are Sophs and after strllttillg Pillllllt during registration week, we are ready to take ollr medicine as we like ollr medicine. The call is ollt alld football is the ery. Football! Football lv-lVlloopeel Upon the field. day ill Illld day out, the boys UNCC' again struggled. Zillll pushed. lllld Il!lIltCCl. tugged and swore. all for the llonor and glory of Manllattall. lVith .lim Ml-Cartlly the falllolls end froln folgate being helped by Britt Patterson All American froln XV. alld J., a good season was looked forward to by one Ellld all. George Smith was the llew eaptain, alld what a fine fellowiwhat a fighter-what a manl Al Corrado 327 had completed a per- feet SCllCdlIlC Zllld the first game arrived as games do'-if they are scheduled, of course! Rutgers had lltlllflvfl us a fine pasting ill '25 and away we went to do damage to the boys froln the Raritan. Boy oh boyl How it rained, poor Jersey-- it drowned all the chickens Zilld nlade New Brunswick look like the Mississippi Cno reflections on the llississippil. It is an aiftllill fact tllat the water on the playing field was so deep tllat the ball floated upon the water before Ted fyclllfflliiflq, the center, was able to pass it. Back Ellld forth the ball floated without anyone gaining lilly outstanding advantage till finally a stronger, lnore powerful eleven I'l1Slll'd the ball over and the score was six to nothing ill favor of Rutgers. The pass for the extra point failed. On alld on swam a Slllllll Qfallilllt team, dripping, pouring wet. knee deep ill Illllfl alld water till finally ill the closing milllltes Rutgers P1lSllCd forward wllen the .laspers were defellding tlleir owll goal lille alld taking advantage of a fllllllllt' fell upon the ball bellind the goal posts to gaill two lnore points. Eight to nothing was the final score llllt wllat a trilllllpll it was for a three-year-old Om' llul1u'l'l'Ll' Sl'-r'l'll!l'-fllzll' ' V 'Jil kf s, f 'Xrxpf-4 'J ,fxlk4.P'N f

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J -a - - ef I - f ' '7 ,t 2 Z :ll - ... BOXING 19281229 1 1 if JOSEPH J. Bovlnax JOHN Mumii.-x FRANK Lo PINTO 3 Mumzgvv' Coach Capfain SCHEDULE Temple, 6g Manhattan, 1 Bucknell, 73 Manhattan, 0 1 nine was away to il flying start. Volunibia took our measure. but a bitter, cold. drizzly rain dampened everything including the pitc'lu'r's arms and a slippery diamond J handicapped the club that should have won. However, considering the score! J I 5' to I-it was not so had and George Smith only got started in the fourth inning. ' It was :1 good thinf' that Columbia grabbed two runs on fluke hit in the iirst inning? but no alibis-we never duck admitting a defeat. The strong Crescent Athletic ' Club at Bay Ridge tasted a bitter defeat-and to make things worse it was a young Freshnian who let them down with four hits. George Fiorenza '29 doing the excel- lent twirling. On to victory was the ery and along we went until the victory column stood at six against the lone defeat. at Columbia. Bang! an off day-Nol Yve do alibi- '. '. f. Y. trimmed us with tht- aid of two capable umpires. but what t in-y said went and if you don't believe it look up the sc-ore. or better yet. ask any '. 7. -'. Y. ' l-fvian fthey always tell thc truthj. Nine to four it was and it all a YDCIICK1 in the r-ighth,fjust goes to show it doesnyt pay to give bases on balls. lt rained the day we were to have played 1 ordham-'iwhat a lucky break they goti' i ust when we were all set to beat them, and take it from me we were all set- N . i' lluazdrwd 5i'z'i'11ly-tlzfvv L vi W Q we W e . eJ-fly JMJJIA.. ,J , l U Y P I Y f K I I P A Kr I I Y l P I li 1 K Y Y I l 1 f l 5 I Y P h 1 , el T , f I n Z' not f C N l I I C 'N X Colig 1111 - r 1 I U11 X' VX I C

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v :QE .-. ff-7 MANHATTANITE' fN w team. Yesl YVe were satisfied, in fact we were tickled to death with the score. Next week the team traveled to Springfield and what a game they played. Neil Cohalan, a fighting quarterback, stepped back and calmly drop-kicked 47 yards to give us three points. From this point on it was a bloody battle and man after man was taken from the field-not because of his inability to play but because it necessi- tated his leaving-unconsciousness being the cause. WVith one minute to play Springfield rushed down the field, ten yards, six yards, two yards,-slashing off tackle plays one after the other until they had the ball down on our one-yard line with first down. Digging in Manhattan put their last bit of strength into the play and fought to victory. The ball was passed and a gallant, brave Manhattan man, one Larry lNIcManus ,27, broke through and threw the Springfield captain for a good seven-yard loss. It was easy from here on and the Green and VVhite fought hard-Springfield had lost its chance and any way thirty seconds is a very short timeg boy oh boy we celebrated igand how! Here we come to Fordham and really I want to prepare you for the jolt that is coming,--no, we did not win but we handed that Bronx institution a fine lumping and it makes me chuckle to think of it. On and on rushed both teams flet me here interrupt and say that there is no love lost between usj, and many were the penalties. Fordham reaped a 31 to 0 victory but what do we care-we did our best and we were growing while they had reached their peak. .lust wait we would say, with all the lovelight eliminated from our blackened eyes, just wait! Travel, travel, travel-trains, boats, buses- it would tire a professional outfit. Here we were at Canton, New York, to play St. Lawrence and as the game was a defeat I do not wish to see it clearly, we lost but we tried, and who could ask more? On to victory Y was our cry, and we gave the farmers from New York Agricultural College Il beautiful pasting-77-O I think it was, and any way we all got tired counting. At last came the City College game, Hbloodiest of the bloodiestf' After a kicking duel in the first quarter City College, on a series of line bucks and long passes, crossed the Green line to lead 7-0 at the opening of tl1e second quarter. But Manhattan came back fast and on short passes from Neil Cohalan to Captain George Smith and John Cohalan the ball was placed on the Lavender five-yard line. Big Tom Skidd-what a man !-hit the line for a mighty crash and slid over to tie the score, for Neil never missed that extra point. The third quarter ended 7-7 and the stands were crazy. After both teams had played safe for the Hrst few minutes of the last quarter, Neil Cohalan scored three points to make the score 10-7 with a thirty-five-yard drop kick. Noise! They thought the stadium would come down. This was short lived for the alert City College team pulled the game from the fire by intercepting by a long forward pass and crossing the line. It was a sad crowd that went back to college that night. and there wasn't a paper to be seen next day-yes, sir, we were broken-hearted. It seemed as if the break would never come, but we still held on to that boast of- YVait until next year V' VVith football at an end there came that of basketball and here our hopes ran high. CAS the governor of N. Carolina said to the governor of S. Carolina- It's a long time between drinks, so tell Hans to mix me another highball. j Ive started off with a bang, as we always do, and swamped the Alumni under a barrage of baskets -119-23, and this built up our confidence. Captain Neil Cohalan grabbed off six baskets and five fouls while Tom VVhelan '29 crept into the limelight with four baskets and four fouls. Mike Hayes '29 the fastest man ever seen on a Green and VVhite team, held Gene Meehan '26 to one foul and collected three baskets and two fouls,-away we go. Dartmouth came down to our camp and took a pasting to the tune of 29-19, so things looked pretty fine for they were the intercollegiate winners that year. Along thellong schedule we swept beating.St. Johnis. Providence, Villanova, Catholic Universityi and MtT'St.'lNIary's' until we hit a 1, - One lluudrva' .S'c'z'1'11ty-five 5' E Je, Qi 'K r.. re -Na Ls. 61 E43 J' .Q f J 1' r 1 I E M ,r I 1 P In l I 41 1 4,1 I J j x 11' I i 1 S 1 4 X