Middlesex School - Yearbook (Concord, MA)

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LACROSSE T 'gf '11 Front Rau Drnsmore De Gunzburg A Wells Hopkrns Hoffmann Carney Brown Van Meter Salam! Rau Lrtchfield Hutterj Osthermer Shrrver Taylor fCaptfm1j Hrbbard Horween Farnsworth Rodgers Tlaml Rau Mr Hulburd Travrs Bose Summersby Fordyce j Green Latta Lrttle Ingram The 1950 lacrosse team rollrng up an rmpressrve serres of vrctorres brought Mrddle sex well into the prep school brg league Many members of the orrgrnal team formed four years ago were semors and they formed a seasoned nucleus for the squad Captamjaclt Taylor led the team under the expert tutelage of Mr Hulburd to erght wrns out of eleven starts The team got of? to a good start on Saturday Aprrl 15 defeatrng New England Col lege 7 6 Desprte a New England score the Reds dominated the first half scorrng three trmes The opposrtron sparked rn the thrrd quarter srnlong four goals but Mrddlesex toolt over rn the last perrod wrth Taylor and Hubbard tallyrng Attackmen Shrrver and Hrbbard were top scorers racltmg up three and two goals respectrvely Horween drawrng the year s first penalty fulfllled Mr Hulburd s predrctron On Tuesday Aprrl 18 an rnexperrenced Lawrence Academy team met 5 15 defeat at Mrddlesex hands Scorlng at wrll agarnst the opponents our strong attack gradually degenerated as often happens to an unmatched team The second and thrrd mrdfield s laclt of scormg drrve showed up Hrbbard and Shrrver paced the offence wxth four goals aprece and Lrtchfield ltept the enemy attack under control -116 r r , Agri-S W guy v If Y r , , N - 1 v - x r v l r - ' v s - w Q r - , 1 - ' - v r v 1 1 - v , w - 9 v ' . ,, . ,, . . - v a s - , . , , 1 1 ' . r f . , , . , u a - Q -' f - ' f ' ' , - s w , , . v a ' A 1 v . . , . . ' ' Y' , ' , , - Q 1

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year s vrctory was especrally gratlfyrng On Wednesday May 3 the rackctmen blasted 1 weak Browne and Nrchols 9 0 Mlddlesex won all the matches nn straight sets The Red team was on the short end ofa srmrlar score on May 6 Badly outclassed by a strong St Mark s team the squad dropped all the matches to them rn strarght sets Bouncrng back agarnst Belmont Hrgh the Red sux scored a 7 2 w1n on Wednesday May 10 Lamb and May won therr smgles rn long three set matches whrle the rest of the team won wrthout much trouble Hartley and Heck scher won thenr doubles rn three sets but the other two doubles matches went to Belmont Hrgh A proposed second team match was ramed out On May 12 and 13 the team went to Exeter to play rn the rnterscholastrc tourna ment Heckscher was the only one who lasted unt1l the second round of smgles and he was ehmrnated there The doubles combrnatrons had been shlfted just before the tournament Lamb and Hartley and Potter and Heckscher got 1nt0 the second round before bemg elrmrnated The next Wednesday the team dropped an extremely close 4 5 match to New Prep loslng rn three set matches We were unable to capture the declsrve doubles wrth only Prodxs and May wmnmg On Wednesday May 24 we edged Newton Hugh 5 4 Lamb Heckscher dll'-l PYOJIS lfl SlUglCS Hfld PUIICY dflcl HCLlsSLl1Cf and Prodns and May rn doubles were our wmners We dropped a close hard played 3 6 match to Mrlton Academy on May 27 The smgles were even up wrth Lamb Heckscher and Prodls wrnnrng We were unable to cap ture any of the doubles though and our fall ures here cost us the match A game wrth Portsmouth Pnory was ramed out The team recovered for a well earned 6 3 vxctory over St George s We were ahead all the way wrth Lamb Potter Prodrs and May wrnnnng thelr smgles rn straight sets and re shuffled doubles teams Potter and Heckscher and Lamb and Prodls takrng therr doubles Hartley and Heckscher were smgles losers and Hartley and May dropped their doubles ln three sets After a successful season Captaln Potter Captaln elect Lamb Hartley Heckscher Pro dns May and Manager Walker were awarded letters lfol , . Q V Y I , . Y. Y K I , I I 4 1 . , ' , ' r . , - A f ' y n I ry 3 . - V. , p r A f ' '- , . ' 9 1 I ' ' We split the singles with Potter, Heckscher and Pr-Qtlig winning and Lamb, Hartley and May all l - I a 1 v 7 7 y ' - I v Q V 4 f ' ' y + fi ' A - A . 1 r ' I . . I 7 V. 7 l I 1, I , . V 1 I 3 I ' v 1 1 ' I Y 7 V V

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Governor Dummer was the next vxctnm of the Hulburd squad nettmg five to our twelve ln the Saturday Apnl 25 game Middlesex though hampered by Governor Dummer s ef fectlve body checkmg played con srstently racl-.mg up three goals rn each quarter Captam Taylor made the last goal hrs fourth of the game wnth one second to go jrm Ostherm er sank three and Ronme Farnsworth dld an excellent job rn front of the nets On Wednesday Apr1l29 Mlddle sex contrnued xts wrnnxng streak bowlmg over the M I T -IV s 12 4 Playrng rn a sea of mud w1th ram tightened stlcks the team looked understandably sloppy The Red stlckmen were ahead all the way holdrng Tech scoreless for the first half Taylor tallymg five tnmes agarn led the scorlng parade The hrst taste of defeat came on Wednesday May 3 at the hands of an experrenced Worcester Tech squad Mrddlesex battled goal for goal untll the last perrod when Worcester surged to a two pomt lead Stopped by an excellent Worcester goalle the home squad drew the short end of a 5 7 score On Tuesday May 8 the Harvard Freshmen bowed 5 12 to the Mlddlesex stxckmen The team poured nn erght goals rn the first half whrle goalle Farnsworth dropped only one to the opposmon The pace slowed rn the second half and Harvard got xn two more tallres Jim Green led the defensemen and wrth Shnver who scored three goals led the team to thexr vnctory over the fxrst of the bxg three Harvard Tabor and Andover The second of the bng three met defeat wrth a Mxddlesex 12 I0 trxumph over Tabor on May 13 The game at Tabor was close all the way w1th the opponents leadmg Mrddlesex provrng rt could come through nn the pmches moved ahead ln the last penod to the Hnal two pomt lead DlClx Shnver was high scorer smklng five POIUYS The seasons bag game agamst Andover ended rn a heartbreakrng de feat 910 for Mlddlesex Faclng a tough pollshed team the Red suck men battled evenly turmng rn thexr best performance of the season It was anybody s ball game all the way After tymg rt up 9 9 wrth forty sec onds to go we were penallzed one man and Andover capltallzmg on th1s scored the wlnnmg pomt flfteen sec onds before the final gun In a um formly excellent game the perform ance of the Andover goalie stood out Osthermer scored three for us wnth Taylor and Shnver each gettmg two In a May 20 Dance Weekend game -I 77 I- v 1 , ' Y .. V 1 ' , s l ' ' ' ' - 4 hr, 1 . . . Ma ' , r 1 ' fl - 1 . , I 1 ' 1 y . 1 1 - a . I , 1 1 1 ' 1 - w . , . 1 1 ' 4 - - n 1 1 ' ' 1 ' 1 w 1 ' 1 Y . . , - , . . 1 y . 1 ' 1 - 1 , , - , , 1 , ' 1 , . , . , . -, 1 1 1 y . 1 - M, 1