Milford School - Typhoon Yearbook (Milford, CT)

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BASKETBALL I . f BaskelLbaLL f 1lAL In response to Coach Pepper's call for basketball candidates, fifteen men turned out for the squad just before the Christmas vacation. Captain Allan Hirshberg, the only returning letterman of the 1938 season, led his team of Bob Yocher, Bill Thomson, Harry Shendell, and Al Roller through an exceptionally hard and diflicult schedule. And although only four victories were registered as against ten defeats, we had a really fine team, marked by fine spirit and fight, and beaten only because of lack of experienced substitutes. On January 10, after only two days of real practice, the Maroon and White opened its season with an overwhelming victory over the Junior College of Connecticut. Harry Shendell and Bill Thomson both turned in 14 points as Milford won, 51-39. Our second game, played on January 21 against the Yale Freshmen at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium in New Haven, was probably the most thrilling game of the season. After Milford had held doggedly to a slight advantage during nearly the entire game, the Freshmen rallied at the last moment to even the game up at 34-all, and then scored in a Sudden Death overtime period to win, 36-34. The same story repeated itself when the Bridgeport Trade School came from behind in the closing moments of the game to win, 40-37. Playing our first home game, we were nosed out by Cheshire Academy, 36-31. Foul shots played an important part of this game, inasmuch as ten of the visitors' points were scored on free throws. Collegiate Prep was Milford's second victim in five starts, as Hirshberg and Roller starred to give Milford the edge, 35-34. The game against junior College of Commerce, on February 4, was probably the greatest disappointment of the season, since we were finally nosed out, 35-34. However, it was in this game that Bill Thomson turned in the highest score for one game, tallying.19 points. In our next game, played against Choate on February 8, Milford was very much in the game until the last quarter, when the Wallingfordians pulled away to win a well-deserved victory, 35-31. Collegiate Prep, avenging its former defeat at our hands, eked out a slim margin of victory, 39-37.

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February 14 found the Junior College of Commerce gaining a slight edge to defeat the Milford team, 43-37, in spite of Harry Shendell's sterling play and 13 points. February 28 was a red-letter day in the season, as Milford took an easy 35-26 victory over the formidable Trinity Parish aggregation. Once again Thomson played an outstanding game, with 13 points credited to him. St. Thomas, of Hartford, a considerably bigger and more experienced team, handed us a one-sided defeat, 41 -27, The next game, against Bridgeport Trade on February 21, was a considerable disappointment, since we received a stinging defeat, 49-34. Our last game away, played on February 24 against Trinity Parish, was a' nip-and-tuck affair right up till the final whistle, with Trinity avenging its former defeat, and subduing the Maroon and White, 29-25. Winding up its season at home against the Junior College of Connecticut, the Milford team had little difhculty in coming out on top, 32-24. In short, although the figures do not seem to point to a successful season, Coach Pepper and his men deserve a great deal of praise for turning out a team with the admirable qualities of fight and spirit and sportsmanship so highly developed. And so, hats off to Coach Pepper and the Varsity squad of Captain Allan Hirshberg, Bob Yocher, Bill Thomson, Harry Shendell, and Al Roller. INTRAMURAL BASKETBALL just before the close of the Winter term, the intramural basketball tourna- ment was played off. Each of the five teams, composed of members of the Varsity, Junior Varsity, and League teams,.was named for some large university and was captained by one of the five Varsity men. Shendell was captain of Columbia, Hirshberg of Dartmouth, Roller of Fordham, Yocher of Harvard, and Thomson of Yale. From the start it was clean that Columbia and Dartmouth would be the chief contenders for first place. Each had played and won three games, but in the play- off Columbia managed to squeeze out a 14-12 victory, thus clinching first place. Bill Thomson was high scorer for the tournament, with 56 points to his credit, next came Sayre, with 505 Pearson, with 48, Hirshberg, with 345 and Coppola, with 32. W,