Massanutten Military Academy - Adjutant Yearbook (Woodstock, VA)

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ing, while Myerston took second place in the 100- yard free style. Reichman, Watson and McCleod won the I'2O medley relay, while Klein, Busken, Greenwood and Prew took the I6O-yllI'CI free style relay. In meets against Staunton, Fort Hill freturn meetl, our young swimmers showed the form that makes champions. Coach Fouts is relying on sev- eral of these young men to fill varsity positions next year. VARSITY BASKETBALI, The 1939-1940 basketball season was the most thrilling in Massanutten history. After dropping the opener to .Allegany High School of Cumber- land, M aryland, the Gluntmen went on a southern trip to meet I-Iargrave Military Academy, Duke Ilniversity Freshmen, VVake Forest Freshmen and VVashington and Lee Freshmen. The Duke game was played in the new gym- nasium at Duke as a preliminary to the Duke- Citadel game. The Purple and Gold outplayecl a stronger opponent and it was not until the remain- ing minutes of play that Duke Frosh managed to garner enough points to win by the score of39 to 34. Hargrave Military School was the first prep school team to face Massanutten in the 1940 sea- son. Hargrave presented a very strong team and was leading the Purple and Gold IO to 4 at the end of the first quarter. At the half, however, Massanutten was leading 30 to 21 and retained the lead to the end. The final score: I-Iargrave 38, Massanutten 44. VARSITY BASI-fBAI.I. SQIIAD-Slumb ing Ucfl lo righll: Capt. I.. Ii. Glunt ICoachJ, john, Piatt, McMahon, Pulaski, Furman, Courtney, VVillingham fMana- gerl. Sealed: Buchanan, King, Corry, Simon, C., Williams LCapt.l, Slater, Wise, Young, Ifyler. At Wake Forest the Purple and Gold took a very close one by the score of 46 to 4.4. It marked the first loss of the season for Wake Forest. Everett Berger, former Massanutten star, played against several ofhis former teammates, who held him to five points. Among the teams who fell to defeat before Mas- sanutten were: Staunton Military Academy, Fork Union, Shenandoah College, Washington and I.ee Freshmen and University of Virginia Freshmen. Seton Hall Prep of South Orange, New Jersey, was the only prep school team to defeat the Purple Dragons. Massanutten was declared State Cham- pion for the second consecutive year. In the All-State selections Bob Corry and Charles Simon were named as forward and guard, respectively. Leroy Glunt, Jr., and Dan Young were also very steady and consistent through the season. INTRA-MURAL BASKETBALL In addition to the many Varsity and Junior Var- sity teams represented by Massanutten Cadets, a very important feature of the school is the Intra- mural Basketball I.eague. About eighty boys com- prise the various teams in the league. Each hall has a team and a regular schedule of games is drawn and adhered to. Rules and regulations for- bid members of Varsity teams to play in the intra- mural league. This year, as in years gone by, the interest was very high. The teams are as a general rule quite equal, but during the past season the teams ap- TRACK SQUAD' Sfrlildiflg flrfl to rightl: Capt. I.. DI. Fouts tCoaChl, Ronci fMan- agerl, Tilley, Raese, C., Corry, Litchen- stein, Slater, Beck, Clark, W., Dennis. Sermm' Row: Curran, Raese, D., I.ambing, Greenwood, Reecher, Morvay, Brooke, Zweirlien,Simon,W. I ir:lRotc.- Mitchell, Marmiun, Shanor, Price.

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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-

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peared to be better matched than ever before. The various teams assume the names of well-known universities, such as Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Pitts- burgh, etc. In the finals of the intra-mural tournament, Ala- bama defeated Yale in a spirited game by the score of 22 to 15. This victory gave Alabama the school championship and entitles the individual members of the team to medals which are presented at the Commencement Exercises. VARSITY BASEBALL With but two veterans left over from last year, Coach Glunt faced the opening of the 1940 base- ball season with a squad of green men as far as baseball experience is concerned. Corry, Slater and Buchanan have had previous baseball experience, TENNIS SQUAD Uqfl lu rightj: Klein, R., Degan, E., Kitchin, Raese, D., Woishnis, Terry, Fahnestock, Fritts. while the remainder have had limited experience. During the first week in April, with but two days of practice in weather suited for football, our boys were taken over very easily by the Harvard Frosh. ln this game it was evident that there were many weak spots and Coach Glunt set about building the ball club the very next day. Very little prog- ress was made owing to twenty days of inclement weather. In spite of this fact our Purple Dragons defeated the Shepherd Teachers' College in a ten inning game by the score of ten to nine. As this goes to press our team is slated to face such strong opponents as VVoodberry Forest, Staunton Military School, Charlotte Hall Mili- tary School, Seton Hall Prep and Navy Plebes. JUNIOR VARSITY BASEBALL Capt. Allan Keaney has put together quite a smooth fielding club with plenty of spirit. Led by Jerry Smith, captain of the team, the Little Dragons opened the season with a win against Strasburg High School. The score was 6 to 1. Bob Cole held the losers to four hits and showed re- markable control. The second game, against VVoodstock, was dropped by the score of 7 to I, but win or lose the spirit was high. With the fielding taken care of, Captain Keaney concentrated on batting. The J. V.'s won another game from Toms Brook High School on Tuesday, May 7th. Bob Cole pitched the entire game. The score was 9 to 7. TENNIS The tennis team consisting of Fritts, Degan, JUNIOR VARSITY BASEBALL TEAM---Standing tltjl to rightjs Capt. A. Keaney fCoachJ, Morris, Klein, K., Anderson, D., Connelly, Myerston, McClellan, Watson, Dick CManagerJ. Silting: Boyer, S., Beaihm, Cole, Smith, Gervaize, Reilly, Baggett. E. Kitchen, McCleod, Terry, VVoishnis, R. Klein and D. Raese has had very little opportunity at this writing to practice, owing to the bad weather that was predominate in every part of the country during most of the month of April. With very little practice, they opened the season against Staunton Military Academy, which they lost 6 to o. In the second match the Purple and Gold faced St. James School of Maryland and, although they dropped this match also, 6 to 3, they were a much improved team. We are looking forward to a successful season in spite of two reverses.