Power Memorial Academy - Power Yearbook (New York, NY)

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SPO RTS Cross Country Track Wmgfooted Panthers Newer before 1n Power s h1storx has there exer been anx th1nU l1ke them Some are SIX foot two others hte foot nothmg from 90 to 180 lbs of soakmg wet bundles of enth111asrn XX ho are thev' Xl hx Powers wlnfffooted Pan thers who are on the ramp'1ffe agnn seekmg new adxentures IH the realm of the Sports Xl orld An Unenvned Sport Cross Countrw IS the most unenwed sport IH exlstence Beffmmnff ID the earlv fall the act1v1t1es of th1s ters Splflted sectlon of the track world contmues t1ll the end of the school xear Though dreaded by most sportsmen lt ran be most relaxlng and entertammf' to partl clpants The ax erage frosh cons1ders the m1le and a quarter course a mghtmare a sort of phvs1cal barrler but to the average xars1tw sportsmen the two and a half m1le course IS looked upon as a test of ab1l1t5 passed w1th but 11ttle effort On the Cowpath The onlv axa1lable course ID the east IS at X an Cortlandt Park The startmg held the flats IS a lexel stretch of green grass In each race there are Cfenerallx between two and three hundred contest ants l111ed up across thls are1 at the sound of the gun the runner race ox er the quarter H1116 patch conxervmg on the narrow cow path leadlnff 1nto the h1lls 'Ihe course through the hwhlands IS remlnxscent ot a roller coaster TIQIDQ sharplx and descendmff unexpectedlx The path throuvh them 1 generallx cox ered wlth d1rt rocks and branches plus an OCCHQIOUHI tree or two Sou can be COI'lQld6'F6Cl luckx 11 on the dau of the meet xou don t hump 1nto a horse or two tor the course also rlouble as a brldle path Xt certa1n stave alonff the ro11te there are narow stretches w here onlx one person can pa at a t1me to further 1n crea e the obstacle Lan xou 1ma01ne all those x c ers on the path at the same t1me Mter commsf out ot the h1ll back onto the rlat xou adam tea t xour ex es on the r1ch ffreen pa ture wh1ch sur round xou as sou stumble and fall IH the md th1t coxtr the lonff wax home 90 come out to the meet brxng xour mend alone and xoull not be d1sap polnted The team needs tour moral support 26 ouA1'P-MK NSN Y BAD If ROMEW I, D mme: Z NHAT WAS 'IHAT 7 , 5g,4fOg' gao 1 nu.E fef37.S an mms RiCDP-0 aazmuue Rsmvs sooo svnursrrsa ' Dunn: mnsno ESTAB usual: Racoao snow WMP C C. u 22.0 RUNNER ll -ng BEANIE CAME IN ,5'rll ICB C C MEET -1-L lil .,, we START I 74,051 fgck :8f fw 7011-af THE wAY ll J Oo l'l '- oven DHLL Nw NLE Cnscounfn, 51 I-gf' i? ROMERO' .DA SH JACK AVARSITY SENIOR AND TEAM CAPTAIN IS THE r1OST PROL-IFIC 'HO AND SPRINT RE LAY MAN A RELIABLE seamrea AND STEADY PERFORMER' 1 c a Cf-asscountrq fffeef' H' ww 1 Cross G00 N'1' TRKP oven emo:-1 Gwen., BOYS ll 44 f S 3 Q 110 CHAMP I T e Power . . A V ABQ l .Y ' 'fy - - P - V . V ,' 's ' in l ' Nfl ' 1 t E 1 ' 5 1 A,n 1. bn 1 5 4 ' - S' 7 v '. - -r Al vt as ' , r , ' 1 1 A .rs ' . 5 C i' l ll ' . ' . Q 1 MN 4 . - 5. Gl I ..- T V . . A I I ' l - ' an -D - 19- 1 . , q v 1 2, pppppp e1 Q Q -- , .- - Q t-',fi 1 15 u ,: 1 in lop' ! .. jf ,NN - - ' h ,V l ' - vl., - . V V c ' i : is Q . Sz. , V 1 . ' X V j s 1 . A 1 M n no . .M . - F . .M. 1 H ' . ' ' 1 7. . A' ,M M ' M gag 1 A ', . . M l . 1 . N YD, 1 . . ' ,, ', s , . U ,, ssw ' H . 1 ' - s s s. , 1 if iv . ri. M S.- . . ' ' , ' ' 5 ' f - - K S. Y. . F, ' ' S Y. I. 916 t 1- A . X . A F S V . H - gs Wi ' -91.- s ' , ' 5 ' t QQ 7 , M, eg an ' pst , L 5 HT I, i . ppp 1 v X I I, U :. 7 1 A E S - -v ' - I r 1 -- I F AY . U 1 , ,KA if , - , I A 5 ?l5,f'n . '- h

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-SP0llTS outs at the 59th Street pool. Headache number one yy'as presented when Frank Barkley. last y'ear's star breast stroker. graduated in june. leaving behind a fme record as well as many medals and other record as well as many medals and ayyards but unfortunately an obyrous ,ap to be nlled The X arsrty yeterans yy ho wrll do therr utmost to by pass thrs obstacle rnclude jrm Gallaf her a 100 yard free style and relay man plus Gay Lurs JO yard free styler Paul Hoefelder returns rn both the 100 and relay Nluch support wrll be contrrbuted by J Hunton and .I Ixenny both of whom are long drstance swrmmers Look foryyard to seernff J Carroll and R Steyyart wrn the back stroke and freestyle rn champronshrp sty e As for yarsrty dryrng Brother Law rence has some great prospects notably Ray Osborne who placed rn last year s C H S X -X noyrce meet Paul Layy rence has come a long way rn the art of ex hrbrtrng a perfect dryrng form -Xll rn all thrs years team should shape up to pre season speculatrons But there rs one drawback The only Senror connected yyrth the team rs john joseph Thrs doesnt appear to be the usual exuberant Senror body There must be some Senrors yy ho are rnterested and can prove themselves worthwhrle contest ants If so see Brother Layyrence rm medrately Freshman Basketball They re fast smooth trrcky and where and how could a concoctron lrke thrs make up a ball club? Seerng rs be lreyrng so yye wrll hrye to wart untrl Brother Ixelly frnrshes hrs coachrng dutres Then you can be sure Powers youngest panthers wrll haye a club moyrng rn hr h gear IX rth the season s opener only a few yyeeks oft the fro h grye ey rdences of bernff a neatly yyoyen ball club Standrng hr h aboye the team ls Don Bohan kt sry one he rs the tallest man on the team Brother Iselly proposes to haye set prck plays yyorkrng off hrm rn the bucket The remarnrng play ers con strtute an agvressrye squad whrch drlr gently practrces each XX ednesday Thurs day and Frrday J Dolrnac appears to haye clrnched a startrng berth yyrth hrs frne ball handlrng and drryrng abrlrty We may also look forward to seerng R November 9 1951 LrBur YY lrat s your n rnrt ofhc ral room '7 Hr Hurrrplrreys sr ns up rt crurt for the Tr ack fc-am Hughes grye a yyorthy performance wrth hrs cleyer jump shot Lrttle Trm Ryan and Brll Boyland yyho drrye through l1ke Nlack trucks can shoot wrth erther hand NIr Outsrde on the frosh team rs Xrn Duffy Hrs excellent set shot yyrll undoubtedly proye yaluable rn the com mg season If youll remember last year s frosh comprled the best record of the school s three basketball teams Thrs year s prospects are just as brrght But w1thout a crowd to cheer them on thrngs can look awfully dull out on the court when you re dorng your best to yyrn So gather your frrends and trod on down to 28th Street where the gym rs located Remember ROOT ROOT ROOT FOR THI1 HOXIE TEANI' New Track Coach A former trackman paratrooper and football play er has become the new prlot of our eyer eypandrng track team Nlr Humphreys has come to our halls from Iona tollege wrth a long rmpressrye rec ord of achreyements rn the held f sports Lardrnrl Hayes Hrfh School was the scene of hrs yery actrye partrcrpatron rn eytracurrrculrr actryrtres Hrs most out standrnff feats were comprled rn football track and yournalrsm Football w as the coach s prrmary rnterest and he attacked rt yyrth yrm yr or and determrnatron Xttarnrnff lame from the pursurt of thrs sport he became a key sparkpluf for the team As for the track held ey ents were hrs specralty prrmarrly the hot put and drscrrs He also ran the cross country On the school paper he be came the Nlanagrnv Fdrtor another achreyement worthy of note Leayrn Hr h School wrth thrs out standrng record was approached a new re c the mrlrtarv He became at tached to the Second Xrrborne Drvrsron as a paratrooper and was statroned rn the Far hast under General Nlackrthur Though rn a new phase of lrfe he mam tarned phy srcal adrortness rn the lrne of football by playrng for hrs dryrsron XX hen frnally drscharged Coach H entered Iona College to contrnue hrs educatron As rn Hrgh School thrs versa trle man became the Nlanagrng Edrtor of the school paper The Lrterary Quar te Srnce the school hadn t any foot ball team he rmmedrately explorted hrs talents at track pursurng cross country and the shot Xt present Nlr Humph reys teaches Brology and -Xmerrcan Hrs tory at Power In the eyenrng he takes courses for hrs degree at New Stork Lnryersrty As prlot of the track team Nlr Hum phreys has a noy el sy stem for recrurtrng new athletes He ady ocates practrce nesdav and Thursday as an added rn ducement a lenrent sy stem for wrnnrng letters rs offered All that rs requrred of the athlete rs hrs steady attendance at practrce or rf he rs good enough the scorrng of a specrhed pornt ouota ln any yyorthyyhrle meet wrll rnsure the mdr yrdual a major letter Of course Fresh men don t recerye mayor letters but they do recerye the Frosh letters ks for the Learn generally Nlr Humphreys plans to concentrate hrs attentron on dey elop mfr the materr rl at hand and then usrnv thrs carefully to balance the team rn all departments Ihe squad rs small true but what rt lacks rn numbers rt certarnly makes up tor rn talent XX rth such a contrngent of athletes behrnd hrm and yyrth hrs knoyy hoyy he rs sure to haye a team that yyrll take second to no one 25 0 ' V ' . . 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SPOB'l'S What Do We Have? by James H Speakrng of Basketball as eyery one IS the ouestlon usuallv front and center IS wadda we Got? Well frrends vye re not loaded but yye ye plentv just the other day th1s same ques tlon popped up -Ks the noon whlstle blew I closed my jacket jerked on my book an rather closed my book jerked on my jacket and hurrred to devour my mustard smothered salaml sand w1ch Hemmed ln yylth the fragrant scent of potent salamr between rye I was Q in glad the conversation dr verted my thoughts to an enjoyable subject At the t1me my rather d1m1nu t1ve physrque found rt d1ff1cult to swallow fbecause you re famnllar wrth the cafeterra thls need not be ex plamed J Anyway, who pops up with a few grlps you bet joe Ixnow rt all joe lncldently just mlssed commg year or even took the lnterest to folloyy the scores but here s joe 1n thls pre season bull sesslon soundmg off I s drsgustmg Arch sald Joe we hay en t more than three good ballplayers rn the school for the varslty thls term Boy you can say that agam , sand Arch mth consent XX hen I heard thrs chat I coulont surpress a heartv laugh for I yyas ln deed surprlsed by the pesslmlstlc att1 tude taken Personal HSSOCIHIIOH yyrth the ballplayers has strengthened my behef that vye re gomg to rumble on to success Qulckly turnmg to the br1l rant parr at my rwht I saxd ll hat about Xaryyood Percudam Scally Brennan and Tetro just to mentlonafeyyg They naturally yyere qulte taken back and I chuckled agam as I sayy thelr red faces XX hy at thrs early stage of the season thlngs look pretty good for yeteran coach Ed Burns jerry Brennan re turns from the JO al squad to cap lIcCaffrex ta1n thus years qurntet Slowed doyyn at pre season yyarmups because of a leg 1njury he recely ed durlnv the sum mer jerry noyy looks feels and lS sharp There are brlghter llghts stlll when the l,6I'CUd3Ill Xarvyood rssue for Brother Ixostka s tlssuej comes ln reylew Duck and George are both ready and waltmg for the seasons opener Xl ahoo D1ck or the Xl 11d Indlan as he IS popularly known kept ln shape throughout the sum mer by plavmg 1n yarrous tournaments around the clty Xou can be certam at the concluslon of th1s current campargn Drck yyrll have bagged at least a half dozen more college offers the vyord IS that he has had four already The other half of last years young tyy osome known throughout the league as the Sensatlonal Sophs IS George Xarvyood Xou ve probably heard em say I m from Xlrlyyaukee and I ought to knoyy Xlell gents Im from Queens Xarvyoods terrrtory and I knots George lS one of the top teen a e ballplayers rn Queens Tyyo years back George headed a superlatrye ag gregatlon representmg that borough rn a natlon yyrde tournament at XX ash mgton On the court George has adapted a hard dr1y1ng aggresslye offense yylth the umque custom of bent knees and slouched shoulders Thls has proyed both adyantageous and beneflclal to has deceptrye UUHIIIICS but hoyy the oppo ntlon hoots and hollers Nlany spectators lmcludxng my selfj belreye George should take more hot but he 15 on the other slde of the fence yyhen xt comes to 1nd1y rdual ball play ers George IS a team man by resolye and practice The yy hole team rs startmf' to yyork l1ke the preclslon moy ement ot a Qyyl s yyatch So 1n the future the near future too yye shouldn t be surprxsed to rrnd Poyy er 1n 1ts old top slot November 9 19a1 George I arwood Power Photo Dzck Pt rcudam Power Photo 27 i O , , . ' A 7 l l ,- . - , ,- ' -I . - ' . , ' . if ' -- - . . , .Y . I H ' Q rw , rs ' l 7 7 Y d-7 . . . . ' ' , It ' ' ,V , . tr ' 'v ' r , v D . I ' I ' 'I 5 - V w u 4 1 Q A 7 , . .' 7 , ' ! 7 Y -' - I K., . -Y . , . . H. . ,, . Q Q v 1 ' ' ' ' v f with the crowd to the ballgames last , .. - ' , . Q . .l H . ' I 'V' - t 4'-v, ' y ' - . . U . H Y . j 5, ' I ' r ' V' rr ' ' - ,C V . .. . . .I V. . 4 e 5 Ri Y Q - l v' . 1 ' v v' . 1 . ' ' . . . . ' Y 3 b - I - r . ' V 1 I ' v Q I ' 'N v I . v l . . s' ' ' f l . . , I I A ' l Q l . 4, .1. ., . 1.5 t., i 'L 'M j I. - - , . ' ff - ' ' s s. 7 . N - A . -V . ' . ' ' cv, k. ' 1, v . rv sv -qu V - Ll '.S- I .-' I v . . I . f - U . ,, el, 5 . . 7 - . - . , J