Mynderse Academy - Myndersian Yearbook (Seneca Falls, NY)

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1912 Baseball Team Hockeborn, Dtr Reamer, Cross, Harrison Sanderson, McDonald, Clary (Capt.), Reagan (Mgr,). Rumble. Kibbey Baseball The baseball team started the season of 1912, by electing Edward L. Reagan manager. In him, we find an efficient, and capable person for that position. Plans were made for raising the necessary funds. A pastry sale, given by the girls, netted $18. but the financial end did not turn out as well as was expected. Games were arranged with the following teams: Waterloo High School 2. East High School of Rochester, Penn Yan Academy 2, Ovid High School, Glen-wood A. C. of Geneva, Hobart Reserves, Dundee High School. The team was handicapped by the loss of Casey, last year’s star twirier, hut Kibbey bids fair to fill his place. Clary, who did the hulk of last year’s catching, was re-elected captain, and has worked hard to develop a team. The team has practiced hard, and the players are confident of winning the majority of the remaining games. E. L. R. ’12. Football—1911 'Phis year, our high school has developed a football team superior in every respect, to any gridiron eleven that ever represented our academy. Both in victories and in a financial way. it was a great success. A schedule of ten games was met with only one defeat, and that was administered by a seminary team. The outlook of the team at first was ratheV poor, because of the light material, but by continual hard practice, and strenuous daily training, a team developed beyond all expectations. 16] Among the students, there were only five of last year’s men. On account of this, it was necessary to build up a team of new material. But with the aid of a few of the graduates and others interested on the team, this hindrance was gradually overcome. By taking a subscription list among the students and merchants, a sum of about sixty dollars was raised for the support of the team. A small amount of this was used to place the Race Track field in condition for a football gridiron. Here we met our first opponents on October fourteenth. Our Senior class was well represented in the team, and their ability might probably he deemed a source of the team's success. The class representatives in the team, were Manager Sanderson, Captain Kibbey, and Reagan. All three played in the backfield of the team. A summary of the games is as follows: M VNDKRSK At Seneca Falls—Ovid H. S. 5 5 At Seneca Falls—Waterloo H. S. 0 5 At Seneca Falls—All-Senecas 0 35 At Penn Yan —Penn Yan H. S. 0 11 At Waterloo —Waterloo H. S. 5 12 At Seneca Falls—Starkey Sent. 41 0 At Seneca Falls—Geneva Y. M. C. A. 6 11 At Seneca Falls—Alumni 2 5 At Seneca Falls—Penn Yan 11. S. 0 0 At Ovid —Ovid H. S. 5 9 70 93 MYNDERSE 5. OVID II. S. 5 Mynderse opened the football season before a great crowd of about three hundred on the Race Track grounds. Ovid High School opposed us. and the game was played in fast time. It was early in the season,

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Publication Board Rockwell Kenyon, Olin Lyke, Earl Sanderson Emmett Ryan, Emilv Ryan, Janet Browne, Donald Kibbey ()ur meetings have always been more or less spirited, but this year they have been even more so. Probably the most exciting was when we were trying to decide on a Berrytown sleigh-load. It was at this meeting that Emmet Ryan said: I don’t propose to be the goat, Sandy.” At the meeting for the proposed trip to W ashington, Clinton Beach declined to be on the committee to go to see the Board of Education, saying. “I am not going to walk into town just to see a board. The class seemed unusually fond of Tuesday nights for holding parties, but after several lengthy meetings abandoned the idea. At Christmas we gave a reception in the Elks’ Temple and about this time we received our Senior pins. In February, we gave a party in Father Matthew Hall, consisting of dancing, games, and a banquet. The speakers for the Hamilton Contest were Donald Kibbey, Emmett Ryan, Clinton Beach. Earl Sanderson, Francis Clary, and Howard Woods. On Arbor Day the Juniors were defeated by the class team in the annual baseball game. In the evening we were entertained at a reception given by the Juniors in the Elks’ Temple. In Slay, the class presented Dicken’s “Cricket on the I learth,” which reflected much credit on it, and upon the school. One of the unusual features of the social year was the benefit dance and bazaar, given by our class in the Elks’ Temple, the proceeds of which goes to our fund for the Washington trip. Our Valedictorian is Alice Burroughs, the Saluta-torian, Margaret Brown; our other commencement speakers are Marguerite Bracht, Mary Souliam, Alice Penoyar, Evelyn Emeus, Cleda Ward, Clinton Beach. We have reached our upward climb. Our work is almost done, and our long journey here is nearly over. During these four years we have watched many of our classmates leave us and the entire class joins in wishing them a successful future. While rising from verdant Freshmen, to dignified Seniors, we have met many difficulties and perplexities, but have learned many things. Among the most important we have found is that we still have much to learn. So we leave old Mynderse. to assume the various duties of life, but always to follow our motto, “To be. rather than to seem.” EMILY J. RYAN, ’12. Our President S-hake off your drowsy feelings, A-nd take those eyes from off the ceiling; X-o man could come that’s quite as great, D-are-devil walk, and haughty gait; E-arly to school he ventures here, R-ound the building and always near; S-onie conversation he'll never fear, O-h, never was a man so great. N-ot even from the earliest date. 15]

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and our eleven had little team work; vet individually our men outplayed the Ovid representatives. In the first half. Ovid rushed the ball over the line for a touchdown. In the second half, by recovering on-side kicks Mynderse carried the hall to Ovid two-yard line, where it was lost by fumble. Ovid attempted to punt but the kick was blocked by Pizzinienti, who recovered it for a touchdown. MYNDERSE 5. WATERLOO H. S. 0 Mynderse met Waterloo II. S. here on the next Saturday and outplayed their opponents at every stage of the game. Still, we only succeeded in obtaining one touchdown. This was made bv Reagan, who ran forty yards to the goal line. The game was featured by numbers of fouls and misplays. MYNDERSE 35. ALL-SENECAS 0 Mynderse opposed a Seneca Falls team on the next Wednesday, and by fast and steady work, featured by improvement in the back field defeated their opponents by a score of thirty-five to nothing. The touchdowns were made by the following: Kibbey 2. Card- well 2, McDonald. Reagan, and DeReamer 1. MYNDERSE 11. PENN YAN 6 On the following week. Mynderse journey to Penn Yan, where they faced a team outweighing them about twenty pounds to a man. Gritty playing, and hard, strenuous work finally decided the game in our favor. In the first half. Kennedy carried the ball over the line, and Kibbey kicked the goal. Then by straight line plunging the ball was again carried towards Penn Yan’s goal, and Kibbey took the ball over the line. MYNDERSE 12. WATERLOO H. S. 5 Mynderse played Waterloo I I. S. the following week at Waterloo. It was a poor exhibition of football, and would have resulted in a shut-out for Mynderse but for a fluke in the last half when Waterloo carried the ball over the Mynderse line for a touchdown. Sanderson and DeReamer made the two touchdowns for Mynderse and DeReamer and Kibbev kicked the goals. F—D MYNDERSE 0. STARKEY SEMINARY 41. The next Saturday Mynderse met the only defeat of the year. The heavy Starkey team practically walked away with our eleven and carried the pigskin over our line eight times. There were about five-hundred spectators on the field, and a good representation of the high school girls were there to cheer on the team. MYNDERSE 11. GENEVA Y. M. C. A. 6. Mynderse next met a fast and heavy team representing Geneva Y. M. C. A. This game was considered by every one to have been a great exhibition of good football. It was hard and fast work in every stage of the game, and Geneva only succeeded in getting one touchdown. Sanderson and Kibbey made our touchdowns, and DeReamer kicked the goal. MYNDERSE 5. ALUMNI 2. Mynderse next met the team that represented our high school in 1900. This team was always considered 1911 Football Team Pollard, Ashmore, Dennis, Jacoby. Cardwell McDonald, Reagan, Kibbey (('apt.), Sanderson (Mgr.), VanCleef De Reamer, Hockeborn, Kennedy, McArdle, Pizzementi 171