Milford School - Typhoon Yearbook (Milford, CT)

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WILSON-GOULD LEAGUE BASKETBALL This year was the seeond in which Milford was represented by a fighting, hard-playing Wilson-Gould League team. They managed to win two games while losing four against their skilled opponents, even without the service of Dick Pearson, who moved up to the jayvees, and Bodie Tornrners, who was unable to play because of illness. As the team finally lined up, it was Jack Platt and Sherman Kouns at forward, Herbert Bailey at Center, and Al Strauss and Dick Fegreus at guard, with Porteous, Morris, Poriss, Maealuso, and Doolittle as substitutes. The record 1 Milford Ili Trinity ....,..,.. I6 Milford 20 Fairheld ....,.... I9 Niilforcl I8 Childrc-n's Center . . 41 Milford 21 Dayeroft ......... 26 Millord 25' Woodbridge . . . . 8 Milford 16 Trinity ..... . 18

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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,

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