Middlesex School - Yearbook (Concord, MA)

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ort yee 111 Htrt ey e1eh r1eltel Ll w 150 wrn Potter 1nd Meier were the only losers of the Ll e we r w1s es wee11 sweet w 1s the only tune we hue exer lWL1ILIl I xeter on their home eourts n 1ry 78 le nequetmen rn 1 flll'16lTl1Il mateh luttled the State Guard to 1 I se 5 1 were y Brownell Potter M1 ton lhornis llltl Ahny were wrnners whlle the Crllifel proved too mueh for Iorlyee Meier Hlfflly lI1elR Brownell e e.m seored 1 e shut ou ox Groton rn a Fehru1ry 1 m1teh on the Mrdelle sex. eourts Brownell Potter Fordyee Mrlton Meler Hartley Almy 'Ihomas,and ROSCl'1Il1lll played dropplng only one game out of 28 to the opponents Pete Mnlton s raprel rlse to the number four POSIIIOH anel hrs sueeessful performance there eleserxe speC11l mentron On February 15 the team nosed out the Harxard 53 second squ1el rn a elose 3 7 m1teh Brownell Fordyee and Merer contrrbured the wrns, whxle Potter and Almy were overeome by the Crrmson players Pl1y1ng a group of graduates on February 19 the team guned another 5 2 vretory Brownell Iours Meflagg and George Nrehols respeetrxely ID 5 0 matehes Potter tlpped tl1e baltnee rn Mleldlesex s faxor with 121 I wrn overCh 1se Peterson 1nd Almy was hested hy ohn Srmonds 2 3 'Ihe r1equetmen faeed M I I tw1ee rn qulelt sueeesslon the V s on Februiry 70 and the 5s fC'1lU the 71st l teh eneounter w 18 1 4 l xletory for the Reds w1thFordyee dropprng a m1tel1 to the V s U1 l Potter grwng the 53 team their only wnn Desplte the sueeessful efforts of Brownell and Pete Mllton the team dropped the return mateh to Brooks 7 s Ftelng the Milton Cluh on our Courts on Fehruary 76 the racquetmen eased ahead to a 5 2 xlete ry Brownell Mllton and Almy eon trrbuted the neeessary wrns In the final match of the season the team put up a battle aga1nstSt Paul s but were noseel t 7 5 In eontrast to the hrst Sr Pau s mateh rn whleh we won no games Brownell and Potter were xxett nous and two ofthe other matehes went the hmrt of hte Mueh of the eredrt for thrs nmproxement goes to the exeel lent eoaehlng of Mr Briggs Larry Brownell earned a m1lor letter for the season Mrnor letters w ere 1w lfeltel to Potter Iordyee Almy and Pete Mrlton nest ye1r s e1pta1n -lfw F l 'Al tl l ll V t Q 4 ' 'K I K Y ' V- . . lr y. Th- 'to y 4. -fl lly J '-A, as it N h -1, - 1' ... ... ' O janur -.t1'r' l 1 7 eo: V mr. ' -, -, 'l . , ' 2 , - : L .' . Q V Th' t1'1 J K 1 rar- . - t 'cr 1 1 ' ' -2 ' . suffered one of his rare defeats at the hands ofjimmy Bacon, but Fordyce and Milton shut out . , . y , ou. --,. ' ' ' . ' l' ' , V i 'X , I Q . , rf 1-

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SQUASH Fror1!Rou Mrlton Potter Brownell Captam Fordyce Almy Sem11dRuu Mr Briggs Hartley Meter The 1949 50 squash team wound up mth a very successful season desplte a slow start After four strarght losses probably due to laclc of confidence the team s experrence began to pay off and lf was on 1ts way to vrctorres Playmg rn the unfam1l1ar Englrsh style courts at Samt Paul s for the season s opener the team suffered a depressrng 0 5 loss Brow nell Potter Hartley Mexer and Fordyce were all bested by the St Paul s qumtet The team put up a better fight agamst the Harvard 53 second team on December 3 M I T .IV s on the 10th also ended ln defeat mth scores of 1 4 and 2 3 respectlvely On anuary 14 the M I T 55 squad became the flrst vrctxms ofa Mrddlesex wrn nmg strealc that was to down seven successlve opponents Brownell Potter Meter Thomas and Mxlton were all VILIOFS The next mttch wlth I xctcr onjanuary 71 was undoubtedly the lunch Pillflt ofthe setson Brownell ln an exhlbltxon of top notch squash downed h1s opponent 5 1 while 4641 l ,f - , , , ,' , N . y ' , N ' 9 , 7 l I , . 4 A - . 1 , 1 ' , I . ' ' l 1 9 3 I 9 , V I 1 1 1 I , P ' 1 , F 7 but were nosed out in a 2-3 defeat, The next two matches, with Brooks on December 7, and the . . . , , ' V , 'I - -, l . J, f, I . .' k -, ' ' ' , 5 - ' I Y l T h ' 7 5 7 l 3

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BASEBALL Front Rau Hamershlag Perera D Amory W Buttrlck L Smlth Sprout Chrlds Semnd Rau Mr Ray mond R Green Buehler Alles Rogerson Roma1ne Pratt Ward Tl11rdRou Mr Farnsworth I Buttrxck The 1950 baseball team s retord was not the outstanding feature of the season They rolled up a drsappomtmg total of four wms agamst ten losses and a tle The team dld snap out of xts early season slump to mn three ofthe last hve encounters and played good enough ball to grve an only once beaten St George s squad a had scare rn the final game The Red n1ne rmproved ln Mlddlesex baseball tradlnon from an early season bunth of green and lneytperl enced players to a team VNlllLll perhaps tame Closer to upsettlng an excellent St George s squad than the 2 5 score would rmply The team dropped the season s opener to Waltlmam Hrgh 7 5 on Apr1l 17 rn a game Wllllll may have been declded by a HIS! 1nn1ng trlple play whlth snuffed out a Mlddlesex two run rally After th1s untrmely end to what had seemed a blg mmng we could get only five hlts gettlng only Dave Rogerson as far as th1rd after hrs s1xth lnnmg smgle Alles Buttrlck Smrth and Pratt handled the prtchmg holdmg Waltham to snt hrts but handrng the opposxtron a total of eleven walks On Apr1l 1 the team was held to two hxts a single by Rogerson and a double by Romame by Roxbury Latm s Vey and dropped the season s setond game 1 7 -l 66 I Q f l A 1 f ls' 'I f . , my 1.2 I .-+, ' , T A 4 . V.. A ' ' 1. - Y ' 3 3 I I 3 U ' l'. ' 1 , ' Y Hawks, Hammond, Thomas, Mr. Cutler, Pear. , . , , - , , 1 f 1' 3 . I Q ' r . , , , x , ,' . - - . , . y ' f f -, ' . , D ' 7 , , , , , A . - . , - z -- -, . l , . - - , , , - , , , 7 r 7 f 1 f ' ' 1 , ' -4 I f I I r , A ' 1 , ' - , H , L - s y ' .