Middlesex School - Yearbook (Concord, MA)

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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

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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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the team found rtself at the short end of a 5 12 score rolled up by the Boston Lacrosse Club Consrdermg the club s years ofexperlence the defeat was hardly a drsgrace BLC dldn t get going unt1l the second half when they snapped ln 10 of therr 17 goals whrle holdrng Mrdcllesex to one Defenseman Fordyce played excellent ball bottlrng up BLC s All Amerrcan attaclcman Hanlc Frsh On May 24 thc team steamrollered Dean Academy 2 After a slow start wc were ahead 4 1 at half trme The team camc to lrfe rn the second half sconng ten goals to Dean s one Mlddle sex controlled the ball throughout but If was nt untrl the second halfthattheteam press ed home therr attack elfectrvely In the season s fmal game the team defeat ed Lawrence 12 3 ln a return match Agaln the brg Red offensive was ID the second h rlf Nenther team scored rn the hrst quarter and at half time we had a slrm perrods sent us to an easy vrctory A few srgnxfrcant facts about the season Mrddlesex scored 115 goals to the oppon ents 67 Taylor was top scorer wxth 28 goals and 28 assrsts for a to tal of 84 poxnts Shrrver was sccond hrgh scorer wrth 24 goals and 28 assrsts for 76 pomts we played a total of 592 mmutes 64 mrnutes wrth a man out on a penalty goalres Farnsworth and Hutter made 135 saves lettmg only 67 tallres through Letters were awarded to Captarn Taylor Captam elect Shrrver Hoffmann Horween Hrbbard Osthermer Fordyce Green Lltchfreld Farnsworth Latta Summersby Hoplclns Bose anu Rodgers iv 1181 . . y ' ' - ' . , 3 , , ' . X . r , Y 14- U , , L , Q ,, ' I n I A . . ,ff I . ' A -- ' v .f 7 ' ' , 1 Q - R 1- , f v I ' Y F '- I , w . , , - ' Y , K ' 3-1 lead. A barrage of faf H+- rallies in the last two .' Q J A , V' .17 V 7 A 1 x K Q - Q 1 f 1 I , ' 7' 1 1 f 3 - . y , , ' , . ' - ' 1 7 7 7 ' 1 v - v I N 1 1 I v a ' 1 . , 1 , . .f r 'wr Y vt 0 ' A, V, H, . ,f ' f Q . X ,. mf l l 1 1 .