Massanutten Military Academy - Adjutant Yearbook (Woodstock, VA)

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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.

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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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VARSITY BASKETBALI,-Top Row: Piatt, VVise, Capt. I.. E. Glunt CCoachJ, Slater, john. Illiddle Row: Pulaski, Zwier- lein, Vl'heeler, Eyler, Young, McMahon. From Rofr: Raese, C., Simon, C., Carry, King, Lichtenstein, Raese, D., Glunt. Lqft la right: C. Simon, Corry, King. INTRA-MURAI. CHAMPS CALABANTAJ-Qld! to righil: Spitalny, Clark, W., Dick, Wheeler, Miller, R., Fahnestock, McCurdy, Degan, G. ord held by Mercersburg CI:36.2j, doing the dis- tance in 1:36.8. Other teams who met defeat at the hands of our boys were: Duke Frosh by the score of 51 to 15, Vilashington and Lee Freshmen, in which meet our boys took every lirst place except oneg Staunton Military Academy, which was defeated by the score of 37 to 29. In this meet Don Boyer broke the National Interscholastic 50-yard free style record. His time was 23.5. At the Rutgers University Interscholastics Mas- sanutten took first place, defeating Trenton High, the defending champions. The Purple and Gold earned 26M points to 21 points for Trenton High in second place. Over thirty schools competed in this meet. The real thriller of the year took place in Phila- delphia, where the Purple and Gold was nosed out by Mercersburg for first honors in the National Interscholastics. Two points was the margin by which Mercersburg became the National Prep School Champion. However, Massanutten did not leave Philadelphia empty handed, for in this meet the free style relay team won once again the George Malphas Trophy, in addition to winning more first places than any other team represented at the meet. Ted Hobert won the 50-yard free style, Don Boyer, the 100-yard free style, and Ronnie Trumble, the diving. JUNIOR VARSITY SWIMMING The Junior Varsity mermen completed another very successful season, losing but one meet and that one to Wilson High School of VVashingt0n, a team out of our class. In the first meet, against Hagerstown Y. M. C. A., the Junior mermen garnered 31 points to their opponents 26. The last event, the 160-yard free style relay, decided the victory. The relay team of Greenwood, Busken, Reichman and Prew made the distance in 1 :27.6. The 120-yard medley relay was also won by Massanutten's team of Prew, Tilley and Klein in the time of I:I0.1. In the second meet, against Fort Hill High School of Cumberland, Maryland, the V.'s took every first place with the exception of one to win the meet by the score 49 to 17. Greenwood cap- tured the 50-yard free style, Watson the 40-yard breaststroke, Klein, K., the 220 free style, Prew the 40-yard backstroke, Harold Hershey the div-