New Utrecht High School - Comet Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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dtbe Qtumer had the support of the student body. So, when Thanksgiving Day arrived, the team that faced Boys High was thoroughly broken in spirit, besides being bruised in body. Despite Roskin's touchdown, and the playing of Conte, Cerevalo, Segal and Rag- gazino, Utrecht was overwhelmingly defeat- ed 32-7. With the close of a football season, var- ious all teams are always picked, and 1931 was no exception. Phil Raggazino, joe Ceravalo and Marcus Segal of the Utrecht eleven were honored by all-Brooklyn rating. HEREWITH is the lineup of the 1931 edition of the Utrecht football season. Ends: Dan Lesselbaum and Danny Del Vec- chio, two of the finest all-around ends play- ing football in high school today. Tackles: Red Mangiamelli, Cassaza and Cheriak. who have been keystones in the powerful Green line. Guards: Phil Raggazino and Mug Migliachio. Phil was the unanimous choice of the sports writers as the outstand- ing guard in Brooklyn scholastic football cycles, need more be said? Stalwart Migli- achio was an impenetrable barrier to all who face him. The work of Phil and Mig rivals that of the Damon and Pythias pair of two seasons past, Gewant and Simnowitz. Centre: Marcus Segal, generally considered the best center on the New York football horizon this year. Segal could kick, charge, hold and do a dozen other things that are required of star linesmen. The backfield consists of Ben Roskin, the nearest thing to Albie Booth to ever cross the portals of New Ut- recht, Conte, the most spectacular and most dangerous ball toter and kicker we have seen in action this season. Joe Ceravalo, plunger, passer, leader extraordinaryg Cris- afulli, a steady, dependable back that any coach would thank the heavens for, and last but not least, Hy Picker, the life of the team. Every eleven needs a spark plug, and Ut- recht's carried the label Picker . Picker is a triple threat man, besides being a fine fel- low on the field and off. mffsqjfvd fl ve-'limb 'SDK ,N 5615? 6351+ ,Qu 4 W Twenly Iv gzjfivf ,Sheff :lyqgi i f '53 if,

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arm, atnmer the championship in rather sombrous colors, due to the fact that our opponents have retained their stars of former years. As formal practice has not been com- menced and is starting about the seventeenth of February, Coach Frankel stated that can- didates are yet permitted to report. He ap- peals to the students to come out for hand- ball, if they wish to see it maintained in New Utrecht High School. F OOTB ALL X f . WITH the University I i of Southern Cali- fornia's victory over Tu- lane, New Year's Day, the curtain was rung down ,on the 1931 football season. From the viewpoint of a Ut- recht student, the season was not altogether successful. True, the eleven won five out of seven games played, but the two that were lost were bitter pills to take indeed, for the simple reason that they were admin- istered at the hands of the Green and White's staunchest rivals, james Madison and Boys High. New Utrecht opened her season with a most successful onslaught against Thomas jefferson, Ben Roskin leading the boys so a 14-0 triumph. The next game was what is known in the vernacular of sport as a breather. The Bensonhurst eleven took an easy one to the tune of 20-0 from a scrappy Lincoln High School eleven. The next two games will long be remem- bered in the history of Utrecht sport. The Green and White team had the eyes of the scholastic sporting world focused upon them, as they upset the odds two weeks in suc- cession, beating Manual Training and Brook- lyn Tech, 12-6, 6-0, respectively. On November 14, Utrecht traveled to Boys High stadium to meet the team rep- resenting Samuel Tilden High. The team was greatly hampered by playing on a strange Held and also by weather conditions. The result being that Utrecht managed to eke out a 6-0 win over the Silver and Blue team. THE following Saturday found the boys still dog tired from the pounding of the much heavier teams of Manuel, Tech and Tilden. Nevertheless, the Utrecht eleven had to face its rival, james Madison. The stands were jammed to capacity and were a pag- eant of gorgeous colors. In the field, the Black and Gold band and cheer-leaders were vieing with the music and cheering of the Green and White stands. From the opening whistle, it was apparent that Utrecht was in no condition to play a team as strong as Madison on that particular day, but Ut- recht fought gamely until the end. Time and time again, the line held desperately as if their lives were at stake, on the 1 or 2 yard lines. But no human body can as- similate punishment forever. Twice the Black and Gold managed to wiggle through the lines for touchdowns. When the final whistle had blown, the Green team lay in the dust, with a 13-0 defeat chalked up against them. Coach Warchaizer then set himself to the task of preparing his team for the final Thanksgiving Day clash with Boys High. Carl Dosic, captain of the cheer squad sug- gested a pep rally as a means of strength- ening the boys' morale. This plan was agreed upon, and arrangements were made to hold the rally in the school auditorium. When the day of the rally dawned, out of the 8000 students in the Bensonhurst school, not more than 100 students attended the gathering which showed the eleven that they no longer Nineteen

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TES Mr. Leonard has been in print so often lately that he hast1't found time to read all the articles. wt . Generally speaking, school is a tough racket: If you answer questions briefly in history, you don't know your stuff, If you say a great deal, the teacher thinks you are bluffing. If you go to class, you are annoyed for a period, if you cut, you are suspended. Eunice Kowalsky knows a boy who has the largest tonsils in the United States. Imagine the embarrassment of the vac- uum cleaner salesman who once asked the President's wife if she had a little Hoover in her home. You won't be so smart now, said father to Willie as he put away the strap. In a bio. class: Ambitious Octopus to his gal: Let me put my arms around you, sweetheart. The Pilgrim fathers gave thanks for a dry land and now they have it. fOh Yeahlj Stop! John! Stop! you're crushing me! Stop! What do you think youlre doing, writing a telegram PH One: Hear about the gal in the cotton stockings? Two: No, what happened to her? One: Nothing. Julius Gottlieb tells us how we won the Soccer Championship. I saw time was getting short and there was no use in playing any more in the snow so I picked up the ball and began an end run which demoralized the entire Morris team. As one of the opposing players was about to tackle me, I shot the ball at the basket on the outdoor basketball court. The ball bounced on the rim and one of the Morris players caught it and immediately threw it up the ice where I interecepted it with the hockey stick I was carrying in my pocket and batted the ball far over the out- Iielder's head. I, being a bright young man, raced to where the ball was to land and on the fifteen yard line I attempted a drop kick that fell short into the goal, thus giv- ing New Utrecht its first Soccer Champion- ship. Irene Tautitz, pretty typist, Really made a hit With her new boss, Dave A. Meyer. But she had to quit When he noticed on each letter She had signed DAM:IT After studying physics, we have come to the following conclusions : Wind is air in a hurry. Vapor is patched water. A circle is a line which meets its other end without ending. Young man,', said the angry Mr. Fine, as he grabbed the senior by the collar, I believe Satan himself has got hold of you! ! Said the Senior: Yes, I believe he has. She blushed in surprise, although she had expected this, she could not stifle an excla- mation. Her friends had warned her that it would come to thisg but she had not thought his feelings were so intense. Oh! the shame and consternation that were hers! For she was a mere child, and he was a high and mighty. He was the Principal and Twenty-three