Ogdensburg Free Academy - Devilog Yearbook (Ogdensburg, NY)

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l 1 1.7 Sfllldlllg Paul Tulloch Pete Cole Bill Stilson Bob Osgood Kneeling Carl ,Iesmer Tom Plantx 6l'0S5' Kvuntry Returning to Cross Country after a lapse of four years Ogdcnsburg Ircc Academy emerged as Section 10 Cross Country Champions of the 195f season Coached by Alton Elliott director of athletics OFA had a yery successful season winning one of two meets and the section 10 Championships. The team was composed of Carl esmer crack miler on the 1957 track team also half miler Tom Planty and Pete Cole of the same team. esmer and Planty ran 1 2 in all meets and were undefeated in league compe, tition. Newcomers to the harrier squad were Paul Tulloch Bill Stilson and Bob Osgood. Th Blues' first league meet was the Gouverneur Invitational. Contestants were O.Ii.A. Gouverneur and Carthage. esmer and Planty ran first and second oyer the 213 mile course at the Gouverneur Golf Club. Gouverneurs number one team was second behind Ogdensburgs low team score of 37 with 42. Carthages number two team finished third with 54. Stilson placed eighth Cole twelfth and Osgood fourteenth. Following the cancellation of the XVatertown Invitational due to bad weather the Blue and Wfhite Harriers traveled to Norwood to meet 11 teams in the Norwood In- vitationals. esmer and Planty' again finished 1 2. esmer covered the 2.3 mile course in 9158.5 seconds but Massena captured team first with 47 points. O.F.A. was next having 56 Norward third with 60 and Gouverneur fourth. Cole finished thirteenth with Stilson taking fourteenth. Tulloch and Osgood ended twenty-fifth and thirty'-first respectively. In the final meet of the season at the Section 10 Cross Country Finals O.F.A. copped the title. esmer and Planty crossed the line again first and second to give their team a good start. Stilson and Cole who has been running around 11 or 12 in meets with smaller schools gave it all they had and finished 11 and 12 in a large field of entries. Bob Osgood also a hard worker ran twenty-first with Tulloch finishing twenty-second. 'Iesmer completed the course in 11:35.8.

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il vu B I.aRose C roulx D oe I Rocker XY Dillingham A Bosnian D Brihint ow trfm tru 1 S Bouchare I King NI Iaffombe T Ana e M Deltluehetto A Bouchard D Kelso C Lixigne Ibm! nu Couch Plimpton Mmager Pitcliin oach Powers K Cole R Sy ii oo wird unn Smi Iesperince Xlsison H Iegault I Peo Coieh Strltttrl Zfzfflr ll It took a long time but OI A tinally beat Massena on their own field Ogdens burg was the first team to accomplish this feat in nearly twenty years of gridiron classics played at Alcoa Field The yietory was a sweet one for OI A who had been humbled many times both at home and away Getting the first and winning touchdown was ude Lesperance who broke away early in the third quarter for an 88 yard run to paydirt Dick Spooner tallied late in the fourth period to make the final score 12 0 Heads up line and defensiye work played an important part in their yictory In their league opener O I' A blasted Tupper Lake 25 0 Backs Hank Legault and Chico Spooner led the way for the Dexils etch getting two TDs and putting out a tine eftort A week later a big hard running Gouy erneur team romped ox er the Burg gridders 14 O for the Blue and XVhites only shutout XY aync Mousaw and Canton accounted for Ogdensburgs second defeat. Mousaw' scored 20 of 27 points in a 27-6 whipping of O.F.A. Lesperance bucked over the only' O.F.A. tally' of the game on a ten-yard run. Potsdam proved to be the battleground for O.F.A.'s most exciting game of the season. In a thriller, the Blues lost. '-6. Lesperance, again the team workhorse, ac- counted for O.F.A,'s only' TD, A muddy, rainy' day' with near-freezing temperatures was the setting for the Saranac game in which the Devils were beaten, 26-12. Ogdensburg was held at bay' until late in the fourth quarter, when Al XY'oodw'ard sped into the end zone for a six-pointer. and Al Smith followed minutes later. Finishing up strong, the Blue and XY hite battered Malones Huskies, 21-12, Spooner led the attatk. garnering his fourth and fifth TD's of the season on 50- and 55-yard runs. Steve Munn tossed for one TD and three extra points to end Don Kelso. Along with head coach Bill Plimpton. line coach Stratford and backfield coach Powers did an excellent job this year and hope for a winning team next year.