Mynderse Academy - Myndersian Yearbook (Seneca Falls, NY)

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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

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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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Class Officers Cleda Ward, Treasurer ; Francis C lary, Vice-President ; Earl Sanderson, President ; Mary Long, Secretary a very successful team but it met its defeat before the eleven of 1911. Their only score was a touchback. Hockebome made our touchdown on a recovered punt. MYNDERSE 0. PENN YAN 0. On a wet and soggy field Mynderse met Penn Van in the last home game of the season. It was so cold that the game was a series of fumbles and misplays. The Penn Van team was outplayed, but our team was unsuccessful in taking the ball over the line. MYNDERSE 9. OVID H. S. 5. On Thanksgiving day the team journeyed to Ovid where they played their last game of the season. It was a cold and windy day. and the game was to be played on a frozen field. The prospects looked exceedingly poor for our team, being outweighed about twenty pounds to a man. But at the kick-off Mynderse rushed the ball to Ovid's thirty yard line where Kibbcy made a pretty drop-kick. The same quarter Ovid carried the ball to Mynderse ten yard line where they lost it on a fumble. Kibbey punted and the wind carried the ball over Ovid’s goal line. Hockeljorne by making a very fast sprint down the field and beating out the Ovid half back, recovered the ball. DeReamer then kicked the goal. In the next half Ovid made one touchdown. This game was practically the greatest delight of the season to the players, for Ovid has never been beaten by Mynderse on their home grounds. When the Ovid players saw they were being beaten they tried in every feasible means to take the game, even so much so that the police officers ordered them to play fair or they would stop the game. [8] That Trip to Washington How many classes from New York have cherished the fond hope that perhaps they might persuade the Board of Education to vote them a substantial sum of money, in order that it might be possible to spend Commencement week at our national capitol. Washington. The class of 1912 cherished that ambition ; and, at a meeting held during the last of March, the class selected Miss Emily Ryan, Emmett Ryan, and Earl Sanderson to undertake, (perhaps you noticed that the class chose a delegation composed solely of Undertakers), to persuade the Board of Education, either by tears or threats, to suspend all Commencement exercises and to select and pay the expenses of a chaperon to look after us on our trip. Although it seemed to us that our arguments were reasonable, the proposition was voted down five to two. ‘Undaunted, the members of the class cast an unanimous vote to carry out all their previous plans. They decided to hold a benefit dance and bazaar two weeks later. The entire amount of money raised was voted to defray the expenses of those members of the class that would take the trip. At a meeting of the Senior girls, the President, the only boy present, found himself in a serious difficulty because of his ignorance of women's paraphernalia, and only retained his dignity by a hasty exit through a side door to escape the roars of laughter from within. Phe meeting proceeded and by an almost uniform vote, the girls decided to wear plain white shirtwaists and skirts, thus reducing partially the expenses of Commencement. In the meantime, the various committees appointed by the President were busily engaged in working up the dance which they hoped would be a great success financially. The Elks generously granted to the class the use of their temple, and the music was furnished D. G. K. T2.