Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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silly .1-1 Coach John Law was serving as head coach Tor his second year. The Team was Tairly well acquainTed wiTh The NoTre Dame sysTem. There was a good supply of players. For The TirsT Time in years ManhaTTan seemed capable oT moving inTo TirsT class compeTiTion. lV1anhaTTan was in need oT This enThusiasm, Tor The schedule arranged Tor The Jaspers was iusT abouT Twice as hard as any lisT oT Teams ThaT They had ever Taced. OgleThorpe, which had deTeaTed The Jaspers I9-O The year beTore, was slaTed To come norTh once again wiTh almosT The same Team. CaTholic UniversiTy, which was a comparaTively weak Team in l93O, developed inTo a Top-noTch Team as The season progressed and became The second sTrongesT eleven on The schedule. ST. John, T' A 1 263

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oT The Jaspers aTTer Two years, The squad which he inTroduced has Tormed The basis Tor many lvlanhaTTan successes since. ATTer SchwarTzer had organized The squad Tor Two years, he Turned over conTrol To Coach John Law, who had jusT compleTed a Tine career as capTain oT NoTre Dame. Law also spenT Two years aT ManhaTTan. l-lis Teams were well Trained. Using The NoTre Dame sTyle oT play, he was Torced, in a way, To reorganize The Team. Now ManhaTTan has once more changed coaches and will resume The old sTyle OT play inTroduced by SchwarTzer Tour years ago. The enThusiasm ThaT inTesTed lvlanhaTTan aT The beginning oT The l93I TooTball season lenT an air oT Tense expecTancy oT greaT Things during The coming schedule. gfw ,Q 4, , fa 4, 15 4,2 f V f :5 g , f , ' - JoHNNiE DEL NEeRo BILL Hieeins Lou LEPIS A762 L

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T r.:L45c,-.1...9 3 Q HATTA N VV E lll which had also deTeaTed The Jaspers The year previous, was loolcing To repeaT. The Redmen had as an added incenTive The ThoughT ThaT upon The success oT Their l93l season depended The conTinuance oT The sporT aT ST. John's. All These consideraTions shrunk inTo easy work in comparison wiTh The baTTle scheduled wiTh ColgaTe. Even The mosT enThusiasTic Jasper rooTer did noT hope Tor a vicTory. YeT The crowd ThaT iournied upsTaTe To waTch The conTesT was one oT The largesT delegaTions ever To Travel ThaT disTance Trom Man'haTTan. The spiriT which pervaded lvlanhaTTan made The Jaspers ready To Tace any opposiTion. The season began wiTh one oT The biggesT vicTories ever achieved by lvlanhaT- Tan. The BalTimore UniversiTy game neTTed an 87-O vicTory Tor The Jaspers. CapTain Johnny Del Negro showed Tine leadership. The subsTiTuTes Tried ouT in The course oT The game gave promise oT being able To susTain The work oT The TirsT Team in The harder conTesTs ThaT were To come. The vicTory was noT wiThouT iTs Toll, however, Tor George Koeck, one oT The TinesT aThleTes ThaT ever came To ManhaTTan was car- ried oTT The Tield wiTh a splinTered arm. Koeclc was a good, reliable end on The eleven, and one oT The mosT reliable baslceTball players on The Jasper squad. The second game was a real TesT oT The progress made by The Jasper eleven. ManhaTTan meT pracTically The same Team which had represenTed OgleThorpe The year beTore. ln one oT The hardesT ToughT games lvlanhaTTan succeeded in deTeaTing The SouTherners I3-O. The game had abouT iT The same air oT grandeur ThaT marlced The iniTial nighT game which The Two Teams played. The baTTle was a liTTle more closely conTesTed-The Georgians lceeping up a sTiTT opposiTion unTil The Tinal whisTle and ThreaTening To score several Times in The closing period. The success oT The TirsT Two games senT Jasper hopes soaring. NOT only lvlan- haTTan Tans buT even cold-blooded sporTs wriTers were expressing expecTaTions ThaT The Jaspers would give ColgaTe a Tough game. The Green and WhiTe Traveled I . - 1 M. ,,- ,uf , ,A l il I E. fx a , al li 1 l i T i l T li .3 lf l 1 I T T l. -1 S i 4 ii 'I T i T ll ll '. I i i pl T l l 1 T i J f ' 'T i 'lfrj . -..L ,.x,.,a.. 264 ll I 1 I '23