Phillips Exeter Academy - PEAN Yearbook (Exeter, NH)

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Fall-Winter Story organized riots and athletic achievement - 1958-59 start- ed off rather unproductively. The fall and winter terms offered practically nothing: in the way of spectacular sport- ing events or destructive pranks. and the previously exalted MIICQUQ, was fast disappearing from the pulmlie eye. There- fore. in the following summary of the tyxo terms. a lack of lmoyish enthusiasm and relish in deserilring the events may he noticed. As far as fall sports went. lnedior-rity reigned. The greatly lauded soccer team was not undefeated. hut did manage to squeak out a well-played victory against that School. Football presented other prolnlenis. Faced with a n contrast to its predecessor. a gener- ally positive attitude prevailed in the class of VJ59. especially in the realms of student goy ernment. discussion groups. puhlica- tions. and musical cluhs. Nlature hull ses- sions. preoccupied with such weighty con- siderations as the effectiveness of the new Council, senior discipline in the dorms. and the compulsory church question. re- placed contempt for the petty side of lfveter lilo 3 scholastic and intellectual. Yet. lay the usual standards of evaluat- ing a class or a year at Exeter 4 well-

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somewhat green team and a dubious sup- ply of talent which never fully materialized, Coach Seabrooke made use of an amaz- ing lower middler and a pint-sized Charley Ravenel to try and win at least one game. Exeter won one. As can be readily imagin- ed, the traditional Exeter-Andover football game appeared less than scintillating to a crowd of dejected but always hopeful Exon- ians. Cross-country, perhaps PEA,s most maligned sport, had an overpowering sea- son, led by Captain Byron Rose, who was a master of speed and endurance. Despite victories over Andover in soccer and cross country the fall athletic picture was blackened by the resounding loss in football to the Blue. In winter sports, which are more on an equal footing with each other than the fall sports. due to the lack of one dominating sport such as football. the outlook was a good deal brighter at the end of the season. Against Andover. hockey and wrestling were won. though not by impressive margins. On the final Saturday of the winter sports season. the lied swept four of the five squash matches against the Blue. and won the basketball game by a margin comfortable enough to atone for the decided defeat of the previous year. Only swimming and track marred the winter record. A new sport was instituted this year. in that it was played for the first time with enough zeal to be termed a sport: touch football. or rather. senior touch foot- ball. At the end of the rugged season, the captains of the romantically named teams t'4Goodie,s Crapplersw, Nlenga's Klaulerswl sent off a skillfully composed challenge to Andover. which in its uniquely lethargic way. declined. Unfortunately for the senior class, the Assistant Director of Athletics did not share its ardor for enlightened sports. With his customary candor. he announced that a fine old Exeter tradition, twelve o'clock squash, was being discontinued until further notice. Rebounding with remarkable vigor, several seniors, led by two dangerous inno-