Orono High School - Crimson Crier Yearbook (Orono, ME)

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BASKETBALL The Rlots had a scrappy club m spxte of the record In games won and lost the season was hxghly unsuccessful but 1n experlence and personal en Joyment the season was h1ghly successful Coach Dolan spent conslderable tlme and effort with the boys but unusually strong opposxtxon a poor floor to plactlce on and a lack of fully exper1enced men spelled defeat for the college towners Although the team was predomlnantly an underclass af falr Ray Atherton Charles Allen and Jack Weymouth played well to represent the Senxors Next years team should be falrly successful as there w1ll be at least fifteen thoroughly experxenced men to woxlt vwlth VARSITY BASKETBALL Fxrst row Jack Weymouth Clarence Pelletxer Raymon Atherton Clarence Burrxll Charles Allen Richard Sulllvan Second row James Levemllc manager Fred Wallace Nlcholas Hashey Stacy Stevens Frank Llttlefield Coach Dolan Thlrdoggw John Porter Donald Hashey Wayland Shands Robert Wallace Earl G me A lot of hve wu-es would be dead ones 1f It were nt for thexr connectlons . . . ' 1 1 1 ' , . , 1 Q l l . 1 . 1 1 1 . , - . 1 E3 Q , Q- N, , 4' ., , . v 1 x4 , 1' I - 5 . 1 . 1 1 1 1 D - . , . ' - 1 1 1 1 , , . . 2 1 1 1 1 . . . . , . . .

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Bucksport 12 0 The Rlots cllnched the little P V C trophy wlth a two touchdown vcrdxct ovel the Golden Bucks on a cold and drlzzly mornmg Picked to lose the Crxmsons cont1ad1cted the scrlbes for the thlrd tlme Jack Wey mouth spal kplug all year gathered ln a punt at mldfield and txght roped the remalnlng half century to glV6 Orono an early lead The Riots con tlnued to dominate the play and finally salted away the verdlct m the thxrd perlod when an enraged Orono llne cleared the way for Freddy Wallace who galloped 60 yards through center for a T D Thls play followed a hlgh ly questlonable eJect1on of Don Hashey from the game Hal Pepper was lost to the team for the remamder of the season as the result of a tricky arm mjury suffered shortly after thls play Th1s game was obvlously hotly contested and the vlctory was extremely sweet for the college towners Brewer 0 27 The Witches upset the slugglsh Rlots on a very hot Halloween afternoon The CTIIIISODS playlng far below thelr usual brand of ball presented only one major threat early ln the thlrd perlod Weymouth led a qulck march to the Brewer 13 only to lose the ball on downs This loss gave the Scarlets 1 hnal record of five wms two losses and one tle AA l Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the dumb understand.

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lk-Q JV BASKETBALL Flrst row Howard Jackson Merle Lounsbury Rlchard Hobson Douglas Powers Her bert Doten Delmont Knlghts Rlchard Chadbourne Second row Coach Deermg Harold Pepper Leonard Kenny Richard Glbbs Rlchard Ingersoll Ralph Hobson Louls Dall Stephen Brush manager J V BASKETBALL Mr Deerlngs Jumor courtsters had a falr season, wmnmg a couple of games whlle loslng several others by small marg1ns The value of any J V team, however, IS not measured ln games won and lost, but 1n the amount of work accomphshed ln bulldlng a strong foundatlon for next year's team There were many strong prospects playlng on the team this year, and all ln all, the season could be termed qulte successful. All men are born equal, but it's what they are equal to later on that counts.