Milford School - Typhoon Yearbook (Milford, CT)

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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

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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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