Morristown School for Boys - Salmagundi Yearbook (Morristown, NJ)

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BAK The basketball team registered an 8-9 re- cord for the season's playing. Although the record is nothing special, it is in no way a true measure of the team's potentiality since they were forced to play their home games on a foreign court due to the lack of a home QYU1- The first two games of the season with Montclair Academy and Mt. Lakes, proved that Morristown needed more practice as we were- trounced by respective 50-34 and 50-36 scores. Morristown bounced back in the next game and upset Eastern Academy, 64-56. A new- comer, Don Backes, led the crimson attack, scoring 23 points. After easily beating Wardlaw 57-35, Mor- ristown and Oratory played a sloppy but excit- ing game. Morristown managed to hold an early lead just long enough to eke out a 38-37 win. The next four games saw Morristown get drubbed by Montclair College High, Pingry. Montclair Academy and Eastern Academy. Each game started out as a close contest, but in every case. except against Montclair Aca- demy, Morristown was winning at the end of the first quarter and behind by a very narrow margin at the half. The third quarter was always the most difficult for Morristown. Two lopsided games, a 55-33 win against St. Bernard's, and a disastrous loss to Delbarton followed. Although losing by ll points at the end of the lst quarter in the next game against

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'Pay .iv Left to right, first row: Ingram, Dean, Alford, Appel, Eil- beck QCaptainj, Ayrault, Lovell, Lichtenstein, Delmonico. Second row: Martin, Brewer, Throckmorton, Moglia, Gund- lach, Iackson, Farny, Herms. Third row: Trubee, Knauer, Graves, Kaiser, Tonking, Backes, Greenberg. Fourth row: Solmssen, Baldwin, Edds, Seward, Smith. Morristown at least ended the season as though it were accustomed to winning as it rolled over St. Bernards 13-6. The plays which had proved most successful during the season -the reverse and fake-reverse - were called upon to score both touchdowns. Herms and Eilbeck collaborated on a fake-reverse with Herms going over to open the scoring. Later in the game, when St. Bernards was looking for a fake-reverse, Herms went over untouched on a reverse. Morristown should be proud of Captain Eil- beck and his team, for in spite of injuries and an early lack of experience, they never gave up fighting. s-nfpflluix. ,i, tv I-'.k:Jx 'Yin' 3 .lf fb -1. 0.1. 1112.-f at -2- , ' ' -U . 4 ff. .,q fe- I 'QL .gi -5 J-Q-'l r -L9 Q71 411 f'9' U d - GJ Q2 5,293 t 695, H32 152 0

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BALL Oratory, Morristown kept fighting and won an uphill battle going away 64-59. Duane Wahl scored an impressive 21 points to break Ora- tory's back. Montclair College High was surprised by the highly inspired Morristown team as it bowed 72-54. Wahl and Ayrault put an effec- tive press to work: while, as the result of fine quickbreak passing by Bob Smith and Doug Lovell, Wahl tallied 27 points to dampen Mont- clair's spirits. After beating St. Bernard's, Morristoyvn lost its last two games. The Mt. Lakes game was very close-a one point loss, 42-41. In the last game, the team, having fought so hard for a losing cause, seemed tired as Delbarton won easily 60-47. Left to right, front row: Ayrault, Lovell, Captain Smith, Alford, Backes. Back row: Blue, Kaiser, Martin, Remsen, Manager Lichtenstein. Wahl, Brewer, Lum, Bostrom. F-me - ffl Q 5 P - A . ' I J V I C7 l l A K - Q, 1, 1 f 4 l QYUSTU ' Y-Rl . T +021 I5 BQMS1-gh, A T lab, V ' 4' , V' 1- lg ',, -:s +925 4 rx VKQQXSTGAQ f , r . I -W J 2D L- lj- ,.- is f,'15 ,ga-YUST04, ' 'SYZSEZ' UST0 ' 925042 Qgatsr Q. Q 03 40' I , 245' I f y- 29 ,4- ' 4 AgRI57'gh,4'