Pomfret School - Griffin Yearbook (Pomfret, CT)

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Leogue Footboll League football this year was highlighted by a record number of participants, sixty- nine, great enthusiasm, and the best Ionian -Achean series in years, Mr, Francis again taught the juniors the fundamentals of blocking, tackling, and the single wing, Outstanding in his group were Tony Abry, Rozy Rozendahl, Fred Pyror, and pass-catching end Charlie Till- Princeton buck lateral series, the Michigan reverses, and strong Pomfret weak side at- tack. The climax of the playing season was reached against a luckless St. Georges eleven that was so unfortunate as to play before a Pomfret dance weekend crowd of feminine inspiration, Before the reserves could take over, Young, l-loag and company had rolled up 25 points against l2. 9 , .. ,A 1 1. W Front Row- Left to Right: Mclieown, Beard, Young, Stons, Rhodes, Von Suber, Back Row: Wagner, Croft, Franzius, Caulk, W. Wil- liams, Lasell, R, Belknap, Smith, Coach Marble. Front Row 1- Left to Right: Faunstock, Brough, l-luss. Forester, Shepard. Lord. Back Row: Coach Parquette, Loeb, Stewart, P, Borden, Schaeffer, Crace, Morse, Lightfoot, Coulden. inghast. Though the team lost to a surprise ingly big and rough Rectory eleven, the boys did show that they had come to re- spect the game of football. With the Senior group Mr. Parquette and Mr, Marble. capitalizing on the versatility of Sugar Lasell, Sandy Young, Pivots Schaeffer. and Steve Sharp, fashioned a single wing offense complete with the But for Pomfret the real football did not begin until the League series, In three hard fought, hard played games, no de- cision was reached, The first went to the Ionian with Lasell snatching one in the end zone. The second went Achean as Shepard and Fahnestock clicked. And the third saw an undermanned Achean squad led by l-luss hold the bigger lonians to a draw. Pfllfff' f1l'i',ifH-,ifi7i

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League Basketball League basketball has continually been one of Pomfret's more didactic activities, lts requirements are actually very simple to fullfill, and none have been turned away yet, Whether or not it is just plain natural ability to put a ball in a basket, which is slightly off the ground, is soon discovered Seniors from the Varsity, each of a different league, coach the players for a week to get them ready for the coming series. They usually divide the two leagues into two dif- ferent teams. The first team consists of. on the whole, those who are quite capable of winning for their league and who seem by the coaches. Naturally, there are many who struggle along and have to exert a little more effort, and some who simply flick their wrists and plop the ball in for two points, But all seem to attain that quality of spirit, which is often lacking in other sports. Every year at the near-end of basketball season, there are a series of games played between the lonians and Achaeans. Two Page thirty Front Row - Left to Right: Spiva, Bergman, Crouse, Kemble, Yacubian, P. Park- er. Back Row: Wagner, von Saber, Fields, Eshbaugh. McKeown, Straus, Coach Strandes. Front Rowe Left to Right: Hamilton, Rose, Thoron, Brough, Griffin. Second Row: Taylor, Morse, lackson, Grace, P. Borden, Forester. Back Row: Miller, Watson Grant, Cioulden, Weaver, Coach Sheaffe r. to be the unanimous choice of themselves. The second team is made-up essentially of the slow-learning boy who is definitely a ringer for future years on the first team, The winner gets credit for the yearly competition. Aside from the fact that League Basket- ball sounds like a hoax, the education learn- ed from it can never be found anywhere else.