Middlesex School - Yearbook (Concord, MA)

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FOOTBALL Front Rau J Ostheimer Taylor J Amory Horween QCaptamJ Litchfield J Green Romame Serond Rau McCann Hammond Motley Alles Pereta Potter Fordyce Tla1rdRuu D Wells Anderson Childs D Amory R Green Almy Lamb Fourth Ruu Mr Pratt Brainard Bose Hubbard Estrada Mr Alexander Both the offense and the defense performed superbly the former rolling up an average of 54 points per game and the latter holding their opponents to a meager 11 points per game The mag nrhcent spirit and alertness of the team led them through a great season climaxing with the crushing Saint George s upset The fine coaching of Messrs Pratt Alexander and their assis tants enabled the team to overwhelm all comets except Groton Notwithstanding this defeat Captain Horween and his men earned the best record in our league The team got off to a fine start on Saturday October 1 by plasterung Brovt ne and Nichols 40 0 in a touchdown parade that more than made up for their last year s victory over us Jim Green led the scoring with four touchdowns Romame tallied once and Osthelmer after four runs totalling 117 yards added another six points to the score The defense firmly anchored by Alles and Childs held B 8: N to 65 yards gained by passing and rushing Bob Green scored the remaining touchdown on an eight yard plunge lv0l l l i'. ' i 1 1 - 1 D s i I v ' v i ' A Y: i 3 ! D Y 3 ' ' V ' ' 7 Y Y ' x - s 1 - I ' 1 I v v Y x u - - The 1949 Middlesex football team can look back on its record with justifiable pride. 7 l P V 7 ' - 7 , ' - 1 s ' 7 3 V I - , I ' A . Y 5 . A 5 . 7 I r i i ' 1 . . . . Y

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Ted Romame pulled the Hrst of the season s five hat tricks as the team overpowered Brooks 34 6 on October 8 Ted was high scorer that Saturday rallying after runs of 32 43 and four yards lm Green was close behmd with two TD s one scored on a 28 yard sprint and the other after an excursion by Osthermer to the tune of 80 yards set things up The line with Captain Horween john Fordyce and Al Litchfield was again immovable holding the Brooks eleven in complete check The only enemy tally was made after a 52 yard pass in the last period With two push overs under their belts our boys faced Groton their first real battle on October 15 In spite of excellent blocking and tackling on our part the result was a heart breaking 20 27 loss to a team unfazed by unfavorable pre game reports In the rough bruising battle we lost because of injuries the valuable services of ohn Alles for the rest of the season and those of Monty Childs for two weeks Groton scored the first touchdown on a perfect 27 yard pass during their initial In the next period a 36 yard pass from McCann to Lamb put us on the nine but the Groton line held fast A moment later however we recovered a blocked kick on the 15 andjim Green scored five plays later Potter s extra point kick was successful as usual and the half time score stood at 7 7 The team s bad break came in the third period Green s fourth down kick was blocked and Groton recovered it 14 yards behmd the scrimmage on our 25 In four plays Grot on capitalized on their good fortune scoring and taking a lead which they never relinquished A few moments later they scored again on a 33 yard run Behind 20 7 the team rallied in the last quarter scoring once on a two yard plunge by Green and again on a perfect 67 yard sleeper pass from McCann to Romame Unfortunately Groton also tallied again after a 49 yard drive and this proved to be the winning score 4511 ' 1 - . 1 ' x 9 ' I l ' 1 ' I 1 . A ? ! 4 ' l 5 . ' 7 9 I 9 D l I I ' l Y v I ! , , A ' ' , ' J , possession. After a successful extra point, they had a 7-0 lead in the first third of the first period. ' Q ' I y . . , , . , . ' ' . l 1 9 ' i Y ! ' 7 - , . s 1 ' ' p , . . , I - 3 ' I ' 1 l ' 4.