Massanutten Military Academy - Adjutant Yearbook (Woodstock, VA)

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ginia, the Gluntmen lost a close game to Fork Union Military Academy by the score of 6 to 0. Resorting largely to straight football the two teams battled evenly through most of the game. At the half the statistics showed but one first down for each team and neither team seemed to show weaknesses. After failing to penetrate Massanut- ten's line, Fork Union resorted to the air in the fourth quarter and finally tallied. Massanutten threatened several times during the last period and advanced the ball within 18 yards of the goal line, where they lost it. ln a stirring Homecoming game, played amid snow Hurries on a wet field, the Purple Dragons staged a driving second half comeback to defeat Bullis Preparatory School, after the latter led 6 to O at the end of the first half. The game provided Massanuttcn Varsity vs, Navy Plelwcs, at Annapolis. Some lively action during the Homecoming game. fi! ' af N-frm . ., . 3 many thrills, despite unfavorable weather con- ditions. The final game was played against the Western Maryland freshmen. Massanutten clicked on the ground and through the air and completely out- played their opponents in every department of the game. The final score was 33 to O. Four members of the Varsity football squad were chosen on the All-State Military School Team. Bill Furman, powerful and husky, was given one of the tackle positions, while Vernon King was named an end. In the backfield, I.i'l Abner Slaterlsl' stellar playing and Dan Young's driving power placed the two in the quarterback and full- back positions, respectively. JUNIOR VARSITY l+'UOTl5AI,I, The Junior Varsity football team, coached by Captain R. Benchoff, closed another very suc- cessful season, dropping only a close first game to Shenandoah High Schoolgthe second loss in three years. The tricky V.'s have won fifteen out of eighteen games played during the past three years. After dropping the opening game to Shenandoah High School 7 to 6, the l.ittle Dragons began to pile up a new string of victories by defeating Mt. .Iackson's untied and unscored upon team. lt was a very tough game for both teams, but led by Wloishnis and Piatt and the sure toe of Cole, Mas- sanutten nosed out Mt. Jackson, 7 to 6. On Friday before Homecoming, Massanutten played host to I.uray High School, always one of the most powerful high school teams in this section of the State. The Luray team battled the j. V.'s to a draw the year before and defeated us two years ago. Playing heads-up football from the kickoff to the final whistle, the l,ittle Dragons came out victorious over a slightly SfI'Ol1gCI' l,uray team. The score was 7 to 6. Massanutten V.'s began to click when they travelled to VVoodberry Forest to defeat the NVood- berry V.'s by the score of 21 to o. Woodberry seemed helpless against the clever playing of our team and the former was forced to play a defensive game throughout most of the second half. ln the final game of the season the l.ittle Dragons JllNl0R YARSl'l'Y l lXlTB.ALl.fHm'k Ruta' llfffl In riglill: blcflcllan lblanagcrb, Capt. R. Bcncliotf, Piatt, Klein, R., Baggett, Klein, K., Woislinis. Tl1irdRntc.- Rcillcy, filunt, Clark, YY., Jones, Smith Hershey, H., Degan, lf. Strom! Row lfritts, Gervaile, l.aMarca, Fahnestock Miller, R.,-Iohu, Dennis. f i7'.IlR1rZL': Mor ris, Martori, Bctson, Reccher, lfyler, Cole, Bucher.

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Mr. A. -I. Keaney, although not a former Mas- sanutten student, has caught the school spirit from the very start. Mr. Keaney succeeds Mr. Mag- nifico as junior varsity baseball coach. Very little can be said about baseball as this goes to press, but if we are to judge from practice, we can say that Mr. Kearney will have a very fine team to compete against the various high school teams in the Valley. 'VHIQ .tm ifoow.-x1.1. sr3AsoN qv.-xasrrrp The H1311 football team, which was considered one ofthe strongest in Massanutten history,opened its season with less than ten days ofpractice against the Navy Plebes, who were ranked the strongest plebe team in years. The week before the plebes met lVlassanutten they held the Navy Varsity to a tie during the first three periods. Thus it was that a Navy Plebe team in razor edge condition met a Massanutten team that was far from ready. The Plebes scored at will and the odds were com- pletely against us, but our men fought hard to the finish even though lack of practice showed ragged edges in the Massanutten play. The greatest thrill of the game occurred when Slater of Massanutten intercepted a pass behind his own goal line and Zig-zagged his way for IO5 yards for a touchdown, but the officials ruled that hc stepped out of bounds near the mid-stripe line. The final score: Navy Plebes 34, Massanutten 6. ln the second game of the season the Purple Dragons faced the Roanoke College Freshmen, a very plucky, team which fought a very hard defen- sive game in its own territory during most of the first two periods. With less than three minutes to play before the half, the Purple and Gold opened up with a bag of tricks and scored twice in two minutes. During the second half our boys added two more touchdowns to defeat the Frosh 27 to o. The next opponent was the Franklin and Mar- shall College freshmen, who came to VVoodstock with a very strong defensive team. Massanutten VARSITY lfCXYl'BAl.l. SQUAD Bark Rua' lglzjff In ri-Qhtl: Tran QAss't Managcrl, Boyer lhlanagcrl, Connelly, Slater, Corry, Wise, Mannion, Coach l.. Pi. Glunt, Coach l.. Fonts. Thim' Row: Simon, W., Shanor, Zwicrlcin, Albrewzenski, Young, Racsc, D., Simon, C., Raesc, C. Sfroml Row: lirdelyan, Wheeler, Zuma, Buchan- an, Beck, Morvay, McMahon, Courtney. Front Row: Price, lfurman, Pulaski, King, VVillingham,McCurdy, Cusumano, Ander- son. x, Wz An nfl'-tackle thrust in the Roanoke Frosh game. completely outplayed the Lancaster eollegians but could not push over a single tally that would have spelled victory. Our boys were equally as strong defensively but offensively we had the edge on the Froshg however, not enough to penetrate the strong defense. A powerful and brilliant attack and a bad fourth quarter for Staunton Military Academy brought victory to the Purple and Gold in the annual game between the two rivals. The final score was 27 to O. Pre-game comment gave Massanutten an even chance to win, and some thought Staunton had a slight edge on us, in view of S. M. A.'s string of victories that included a 43 to o victory over Mer- cersburg. In the first half Staunton fought Massanutten quite evenly but in the second half, and especially during the last eight minutes of play, our Purple Dragons were superior both on the offense and on the defense. In the Scott Stadium of the University of Vir-

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travelled to Staunton to play the V.'s of that school. In this game a real spirit was displayed. S. M. A. was leading by two touchdowns and it looked hopeless for our boys. However, where most teams quit, our V.'s begin. They were de- termined to win that game and win they did, for the final score was M. M. A. I4 and S. M. A. 13. SWIMMING The record of the Purple and Gold teams is envi- able in the best inter-scholastic swimming circles. l.es Ifouts, our swimming coach, points with pride to our record ofthe p1lSf seven years. Ufseventy-one meets hflassanutten has lost but four. Among its victims are numbered such outstanding teams as Yale Ifreshmen, Princeton Ifrosh, Naval Academy Plebes, and Trenton High School. In 1936 Massa- nutten won the National Interscholastic Swim- ming Championship. In addition to this, Massa- nutten has been State Champion for the past seven years. In the first swimming meet of the season, the cadets defeated Woodrow Wilson High mer- men of Washington by a score of 43 to 23. Two interscholastic school records were broken, one by lfdward Sidwa in the loo-yard breast stroke, time i:o4.8. The other by the 160-yard relay team of Bob Brooke, Bill Tilley, Don Boyer and Ted Ho- bart, time l:I4.8. This lowered the record estab- lished by the relay team of Blair Academy in 1937. In the Open A. A. U. meet held at the Shoreham Ilotel, W'ashington, Coach I outs's team annexed :mother trophy in winning the meet. This year the team won by a wide margin, scoring 27 points to 7 for Baltimore A. C., which team took second place. lNcIassanutten's crack swimming team continued its winning stride against Allentown High School, Allentown, Pa., by the score of 43 to 23. In this meet three pool records were broken. At I.ehigh University Interscholastics, which was represented by fifteen schools, the Purple and Gold took second place, losing to Mercersburg by the margin of seven points. Despite this fact, Mas- sanutten won five out of a possible eight first places and in doing so broke five tournament records. Against North Carolina State University Fresh- men, Massanutten recorded 54 points to ll for the Freshmen. In this meet Ted Hobert, captain of the team, broke both the pool and the Southern Conference records in the 50-yard free style, which he completed in 23.9 seconds. In the meet with the University of Virginia Freshmen, our boys gained ll points to 5 for the Iirosh. Iildward Sidwa established a new pool rec- ord in this meet when he completed the loo-yard breaststroke in I:37.8. In this same meet the loo- yard relay team of Hobert, Tilley, Brooke and Boyer approached the national interscholastic rec- JUNIOR VARSITY SWIMMING SQUAD Rusk Ruse: Capt. I.. Ifouts, Coach, Mitchell, McI.eod, Cole, Dusenbury, Degan, G., johns. Scrum! Raw: Myerston, Greenwood, Watson, Reicllman, Busken, W., Soles, Morvay. Front Rate: Ronci, Benchoff, Horner, Traver, Wilson, Shein. CHAMPIONSHIP RELAY 'I'I'1AM-Hubert, Brooke, Tilly, Boxer D VARSITY SWIMINIING Capt. I.. Pours fCoachl, Klein, K., Anderson, D., Brooke, Trumble, Hardman, Clark, R., Boyer, D., Hubert, Sidwa, Tilley.