Pittsfield High School - Yearbook (Pittsfield, MA)

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Football HE 1939 football season dawned with high hopes in the minds of both the students and the team. This enthusiasm was heightened by the fact that the team was outfitted in new uniforms and was to play its home games on the new Dorothy Deming Field, with its splendid playing surface and extensive seating capacity. We opened a strenuous schedule against a superior Greenfield eleven, and our inexperienced forces suffered a 20-0 setback. At Springfield the Tech Tigers avenged the defeat that they had experienced here last year, turning back our boys by the score of 14-7. Returning to the home field, Pittsfield played host to a smooth-functioning Agawam aggregation. Due largely to the power of their back, Pisano, Agawam rolled up 20 points to our 6. Adams High then came to Pittsfield, and despite a sixty-three yard touchdown jaunt made from a kick formation by Grady, the North Berkshire team was victorious by a 7-6 margin. The Purple next invaded Noel Field in North Adams, where it held Drury to a scoreless deadlock. In the following game, before Albany Academy could ring up their fourteen points, Simeno caught a pass and ran some distance for our only score. On the Saturday following Armistice Day instead of on the traditional Thanksgiving Day, we clashed with St.joseph's High. A huge crowd witnessed the defeat of the favored Saints at the hands of our determined eleven. Our aerial attack clicked, with Mitchell scoring twice on passes from Grady. The final score stood at 14-7. P.H.S. had completed an unusually poor season. Nevertheless, we must re- member the sportsmanship and continued effort on the part of our boys. john Grady, our triple-threat quarter-back, and Twining, Captain Roche, and Mitchell deserve much praise for their fine work. 101

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Coach:Carmody Green Reid Lagrotheria Sammon Callahan Denno Laliarbera Carmody Kelly Bell Coach Stewart l00 Pharmer Rodriques Nykorchuck Surowiec Haddad Gleason Langley Anderson King D. Hurley Ginsberg Mele ......................i..a.L..a-1. xxx i a 2 THE SQUAD Shepsheley Roberts Marchetto Caliento Massiamiano Mezzejewski Burghardt Procopio Evans R. Hurley Ecklund Hanna .NR X Bramley Esposito Kellar Bence Rosanski Senger Captain Roche Twining Heidel Grady Simeno Mitchell Our warriors in serried ranks assembled Never quail - or they conceal it if they do.

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BASKETBALL TEAM First Row: Varney, Rosanski, LiMardi, Hopkins, Masterson, Flossic. Second Row: Mele, Quirk, McGill, Moynihan fcaptj, Heidel, Grady, Francis Third Row: Coach Stewart, De Pietro, Reid, Davis, Salimon, Burghardt Gonzales, Procopio, Cook fmanagerj. l02