Milford School - Typhoon Yearbook (Milford, CT)

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M CD V cvg .. Q 'el ees. iul LOWER SClIO0L BASKETBALL The Lower School had a basketball squad which was the first of its class to represent Milford and one of which a Milfordian can be justly proud. The Midgets, a fighting team playing for the first time under the coaching reins of jerry Pepper, compiled a record of five victories against four defeats in the court season. On the opening engagement they met a Cheshire aggregation and trounced the Academy Juniors 29-21. Milford, slow to start, was slightly behind at the half, but a fresh attack in the second session, led by the points of Pearson and Danahy, pinned the victory. The Lower School quintet chalked up its second successive win by turning back Junior Trinity Parish 37-21. The Maroons kept the advantage throughout, largely due to the brilliant playing of Captain Pearson, who tallied 21 points. Milford was not troubled to annex its third straight win from a hapless Milford High Frosh five January 27 as the Midgets won the decision by a 26-232 score. The Juniors traveled to New Haven to take their first defeat in a return en- counter with the Trinity junior squad, 22-25. As indicated by the score, it was a close game and incurred a keen competition between the club outfitsg so two later games were scheduled between them. Next the Maroon and White played a two-game series with a strong Devon quintet and tasted the bitter pill of defeat in both contestsg the first on a foreign

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On the whole, the team had a very successful season by winning nine out of fourteen encounters. Praise must be given to Coach Pepper, Captain Farris, and the rest of the squad for the splendid spirit shown throughout the season. The varsity lettermen included Captain Jack Farris, jake Kupec, Mic McNally, Mike Pepper, Bob Schotta, joe Zanotti, Bob Campbell, Frank Coppola, Don F ischbeck, Al Hirshberg, and Arnold Lowe. Compiling one of the best Milford Junior Varsity court records in some years, the 1937-38 basketball squad went through their schedule with five victories in eight starts. The jayvee outfit was matched against four outside teams in a two-game series with each: Fairfield Country Day, from whom they took both games, and Trinity Parish, Bridgeport, and the junior College of Commerce, teams in the same class, with whom they split. The Maroon and White's first encounter with the Trinity J. Vfs proved to be one of the most exciting games of the year. Going into the second overtime period, Bob Campbell sunk the deciding goal to win for the Milfordians 20-18. The next contest pitted the jayvees against the F airfleld aggregation. Getting away to an early lead, Milford had little trouble in winning 37-22. A nip-and-tuck scoring featured the first three frames of the Bridgeport Trade game. However, Milford broke away from the 17-17 deadlock to win the game 23-18. Fischbeck and Kelly made the bulk of the Maroon score and sank the deciding points in the last spurt. Two consecutive games were then played with the junior College of Commerce. The Milfordians took the first game with a 40-32 victory but lost the second as their opponents eked out a one-point win by a 15-16 score. This loss ended the Jayvee's winning streak at four games, but they shook off is effects by trouncing Fairfield 27-18. The Maroon and White junior Varsity wound up its season with two defeats. The first saw Bridgeport Trade take a 22-12 decision, while in the finale Milford found the Trinity opposition too stiff and was overcome 20-41. The Jayvees had a very fiuctuating enrollment, many players being called for varsity service. In the general roster Kelly and Vitale played at right forward position, Gannon and Huppuch figured as left forwards, Newell and Fischbeck alternated at jump position, and Campbell, Boyle, and Frechette were used as guards. Don Fischbeck, Milfordis tall center, contributed 44 points in the five games he played with the club, and Walt Kelly's shooting netted him 41 points and second honors for the season.

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court 11-16, and the second on the home court, after a fiery last quarter, when the outsiders eked out a one-point victory. The juniors played hard and well in these matches but the Devon team proved too powerful. They took their fourth and last loss at the hands of Trinity to the tune of 17-22. Although the home team held the Parish to only two baskets in the second half, they could not buck the overwhelming difference in scores at the half. However, with three victories and four defeats the Midgets finally broke into their winning stride to reverse the tables on Trinity with one of their finest games of the year, downing a bewildered Parish outfit 18-27 and thereby dividing the four-game series. They culminated their season March 5th in a blaze of glory by dealing a second smashing defeat to a visiting Cheshire five with a score of 32-19. Dick Pearson sank 20 points in this game to climax his season. The lettermen were: Morris, Danahy, Fegreus, Pearson, Platt, Tommers, Hoff- man, Lambert, Obert, Wulfeck. Mr. jerry Pepper coached the juniors. Richard Pearson was captain, Macaluso was manager. Pearson led the individual scoring column by garnering 89 points in eight games and Danahy followed with 42 in nine games played. The Intra-mural Basketball Tournament This year after the varsity season, an intra-mural basketball tournament was staged in the remaining two weeks of the term. The teams were made up of the boys interested in basketball, varsity men and otherwise. Each team was given the name of some large university. There were five teams, each one captained by one of the starting five from the varsity. Zanollils team was Fordham, Farris's team was Yale, Schotta's team was Princeton, Kupec's team was Harvard, and McNally's team was Dartmouth. There was a schedule of about five games for each team, and throughout, each schedule was played off with interest and enthusiasm. As the playing progressed Yale and Harvard proved to be the best and evenest teams. The playoff game showed by the slightest margin that the Yale team was the winner of the tournament. The score of this game was 23-24. Throughout the tournament Kupec amassed the most number of points with a grand total of 76, Farris was second with 52, followed by Fischbeck with 49, Lowe with 44, and Hirshberg with 40. Final standings of the teams: Won Lost Yale .......... . . . 5 0 Harvard .... . 3 2 Fordham . . . . 3 2 Dartmouth . . . . 1 4 Princeton .. . . 0 5