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

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SP0llTS --119 Ditk Nlartm clears tllf liar ,l llorri W Gallr lur 'll IPR011113 mal ,I Howlc beaten Cardinal Hayes Fordham Prep bt Helena St Augustine St lhomis Nlanhattan Prep, and Xayier while hay ing lost to Rice St Xnns and -Xll Hallows The team has ay eraged better than 45 points per game igarnst the opposition s punch IJ Bohan leads the club with 169 points in sixteen games, R Hughes has scored 113 points Tom Dailey has thrown in 139 points in fourteen games P Ahearn, Ix O Brien and VK Boylon are leading the squad in assists with their exceptional ballhandling., The team as a whole looked great in their last game agalnst Xayier, whom they outscored 74 47 They led all the way and their lead was neyer in danger D Bohan was high with 22 points Encouraged by this fine showing of teamwork and spirit, those associated with the club foresee a successful future for the youngest Panthers Track C H S A A Meet The dismal gloom and musty atmos rr lf it ilu 121111 btrut I'0llI is phere of the 69th Regiment Armory was pierced by the constant pounding of feet on the wood and the rafters re sounded the fimrlar cry they re Colors were fay spirits hi h and com petition lyeen for this was the Xnnual C HS X X Rcliy Q 1rn1y1l lyeryyyhere gold amonf the colors and confusion The Pow erites Iirst set of medals came early in the meet The mile relay started with plcturesque jim Nforrxs followed by A Anleyas NI Twomey andj How lev coming home a commendable third They wert followed by the sweepm yic tory ol the tro h 440 yd rel ry of Bohm Barrett Shel ind Iannuaai Ihey left their nearest competitor Hay es 40 yards in the rear Not 1 bad way to start the season on ri ht was it Spiked Shoe Meet On January 12 Iordham held its an nual qpilyed Shoe Nleet on its outdoor board track after issuing inyrtations to 17 leading hi h schools After a good 1 X L-1,1 U 1' 'f Qc! Po pits y print 1 and Joe lll'1f'f41 oycr Ilif- show in the C H S A X Rel ly Carmyal 'XIr Humphreys planned an ey en better display of Power talent Laclymg in num ber but not in spirit we placed a good nfth with a combined total of 1412 points Records galore were broken by thc greedy I anthers first by the sensa rett Shea and Iannuazi who broke their record by Z seconds in 1 minute and 47 seconds Ihls happens to be yery excel lent time so we should be hearing a lot about this combination in the near fu ture Our jr sm lap relay of Coffaro Dor sey Xl eber and Nlartin nosed itself into a third place tie Our up and rapidly coming yarslty mile relav NIorr1s, -Xnie yas Iwomey and Howley just were barely nosed out of third place In the High Jump Power attained fourth record NIart1n diyision with a jump S3 joe Nlaffal placed fourth 1n the Senior d1y1s1on and lN1ey es third 1n the 'Nhdget event lncxdently breaking the existing on the achieyements of Dick who placed second in the Junior Powpics The Alumni Xarslty tame lat December 73 brought the bt t oi our current carers igalnst former lowtr nt who now play for Manhattan St Johns and Iona lt wa nt really .1 tontt 1 but rather Iour quarter ol how to do ll a thc Alumni imparted tarloads of game info Like true port men they allow td the outclaxed Narsity to win 90 The Power K g n, ' D- I 1 ' V V 1 ' X D ,., 1 L ' .1 7 l l .5 1 . A tt . ' .L Z' 1 1 V ' I --A. 7' 'mn ,.- ., ,an 4' a . ,gy f. A Q I -: ay fue ' ' Q ,sr wa Q 1 A bmp. - ' '1'. :'g.1 s, W. '1gx.,.' ' 1 . 'Vs ' i1gg' ,1. V ' . llu l - 1 - ' -2 g 1 l.. l l 1 l V 1 'J ,l A Y I - - - 2 ' . v y , . -' 5 ' ' ' . - 'Q ' . . ' - f' - ' , . . ' . , z '. offf' - , ' ,. f- . ILM .. .gl - ,- - , X . . ,- ' 'V Y ' vc, I ' I v V ' 1' aff' Q ' '.5 '. . 1: ' L 1 . 'I' ' ' 1 ' -A - 35, which proves the team's scoring could be seen the familiar purple and tional frosh six lap relay of Bohan, Bar- . . ' ' ' 'i f J l . 1 ' ' ' x V Y ' H li il I . I c l . D v . Q , . . V Y l i U ' - y . . . . - - ' i i 7 V V . . . ' . . , . V Q ' . ' s ' . z ' 1 , -'Y ' A . hz 1 ir., V- y ' , . ' V V ' i L . I . ' Y v V1 ' r A . A - 0 V . v. . ' ' . ' h' L . l Y 1 ' ' ' H 'rr ' ' 9 ' l , - ,, . . U . y . . . 7 1 y Y . I ., '. I . i . v. . X y. . , ,, , . . . . . ' C 'Q ' ' ' ' ' ' V' ' . Q . .U Y. Y . . . g g . . . , P I TQ' ', ' ' - V Q - A V ., ' , . , ' ' , 1 -. . -.Q V . , . ' ' ' WS ' .V I- . - .5 . V . ' V . Q ' 1- V ' .5 . I ' ' . , -. . ,. ' - '

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LaBu.1 D Bohan scores two with perfect form games speak predominately of offensive concentration, but the deficit in the score proves the JV plays a very efficient defense Playing stingy possession, and having a congregation of accurate shoot ers, they are adept at opening comfort able margins, encouraging themselves and keeping Brother Kostka s blood pressure down In speaking for their only defeat, an maccurate sortie, of bad shooting and weak guarding, though a defeat, as the close scoring 1nd1cates, it was no disgrace So, should the squad continue at their present pace, it would excite great enthusiasm for next years Varsity The team possesses and dis plays the marks of further success They lack helght with john Rice the biggest at 6'2 ' but this IS compensated by level headed shooters True many games are won and lost on the backboards, but if a club can sink a better than average percentage of their shots, a big man IS noticably lacking only on the defense This is proven by the fact that Braun, Melsopp and McK1ernan, none of whom are over S 11 have played the major roles in offensive excellence Frosh Basketball What They ve Done Its review time for Frosh basketball as the second half of the season looms near Until now the young Panthers have had their ups and downs but have, to a degree been successfully co ordinated through the efforts of Brother Kelly. So far this season they have won eleven games during which time they ran off a tive game winning streak. The record now stands 11 to S. They have February 18, 1952 Vxs F Qs of 5' ,wif 3 fa if SP0ll'l'S ff peowlg

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SPOIlTQ Shots Wrthout Soda by fumes II lICCaf?rey A few years back an afed eccentrrc Phrladelphran who had the strange rdrosy ncrasy of Ily rnff a krte durrng rarn storms had the unexpected pleasure of drscoyerrnv lrghtnrng Lhronologr cally howeyer hrs drscoyery was secondary to another feat whrch occurred when a sluggrsh Englrshman sleep rng beneath an apple tree was abruptly awakened by one of rt s yreld fallrng upon hrm Nluch to hrs surprrse he drscovered gravrty Such rndolence and slothfullness does not usually add up to a success story except rn relatron to bas ketball Seemrngly to be a potent pornt producer on the hardwood you need only be a seven foot freak show Need less to say not all who play the game have been blessed wrth seven foot frames so basketball rs strll a feature attractron and not just a srde show It rs nrce to note that only after Barnum Barly and Rrnglrng Bros moye out does basketball moye rnto the Garden But strll the tall man holds a domrneer rng status on the court because of the contrnued narrow foul lane Recently the pros broke away from the orthodox by wrdenrng the lane to twelye feet and so far rt has been a success Eyen brg George Nlrkan has been cramped to the extent that hrs scorrng suprem acy rs rn jeopardy In a few years you wrll probablv see both collegrate and scholastrc rules puttrng wraps on the brg man -Ks thrngs stand now howeyer we havent a brg enough man on our ball club to be placed rn the J F fjunror goonj category much less one for the goon class So there rs no need for rnr medrate worry Srnce our squad doesnt center around one partrcular man rt r rnter estrng to learn just what men take what type of shots After a careful scrutrny of the strrngbeans halt prnts and what haye you we haye concluded that an extensrye yarrety of shots haye been perfected and are used rn accordance wrth therr adyantageousness to the par trcular man 'yy rth the srze of our team rangrng from Nlrlan Isundrsh who parts hrs harr at the 6 4 marked down to jack Scally at J 8 a barrel full of hots rs constantly rn use Nlot of the multrtude throyyn are yarn attempts to emulate erther profes sronal or collegrate players Howeyer each ballplay er has hrs fay or rte one the shot he contrrru ally trres to get rn posrtron to et go an rt usually rs n some way unrque One of the most rnterestrng of em on the squad rs Nlrlan lxun drchs jump shot from the bucket It seems that Xlrlan rs a personal frrend of Solly Xlalker the St john year lrng and has deyeloped many of XX alker s fakes passes and partrcularly hrs Jump play 'lhe two most produc trye shots on the team howeyer are Percudanr s oyer the head set shot and Xarwood s banked rrght handed hook Re al lercudanr cleyeloped thrs par trcular type set shot because rt s a drf lrcult one to block easrly seen from hrs trrst half ay erage of 17 J per game George started throwrng hrs hook shot back rn grammar school at the age of twelye and has been throwrng rt eyer srnce He has dey eloped rt to the pornt where he counts on rt to score half hrs total pornts rn each ball game Qrnce the most popular play on the East coast rs the jumpshot rt rs only natural that eyery one on the club should haye one of mentron Captarn berry Brennan has the famous Bud Palmer style of Jump shot feet hr h off the ground a moment of hesrtatron and let rt go yery prcturesque The two lrttle men who play the promrnent posrtron of quarterback wrth the yar srty crew are jack Bcally possessor of a nrtty set shot and Powers trrcky Drck George Dek eau XX hen next year s season Gets under yy ry a new ensrtron yyrll be unyerled rn name Dan Oqullryan Thrs Guy shoots the softest lay up I haye eyer seen He throws a shot that must be seen to be apprecrated He floats from the foul lrne then sprns rn the ea y lay up oh so gently Nrce We can say rn closrng that Power ha the plays Power has the trenvth It thrs combrnatron yells Poyyer may also haye a Champronshrp February 18 1952 Powprc lxrrndrclr and lrrs backlrand slrot Powprc Captarn Brennan trres a long one 91 s s r l v ' 1 v i 1 v r -' U 1 r . . - . , L V . 1 . 5 . , , . . V Q ,. . v L. V . . ,-, -1 , . . V V V. V. . V. A 5 v ' . . rw N H V H - ' 1 r ' . . ' r , V , , . , B B. , . , r s . - 1 . . r , V V . U . . . ' . s FV I 1 u ' y . 1 , d r , r . ., , ' r , , , V . y . . , '. ' ' . ' A 5 fr . . V , A - v ' ,' s v ' - ' 1 1 1 y . - . , ,' '. . ' . 7 'U , V . . , ., '. - , , ,, r ' , '. , , t. g . g rw f . ' ,I Q . . . V V V V V. V V V .V , , . . ' f - - ac 97 . , , Y r , - r . ' V V. T . V . . . . . . l Y r , . . , , r .f' . ' ' 1 . . , . . V V . .U . 7 Cs . . . V r . I . X , , , V . 1. r ' ' ' - -V . . . M, .V V -- 'a ' 'I . , ' ns ' v v i 1 ' . s C . . .. , . .Y 'Y Q L- r, S - 'Z ' ' ' S Q2 ' ' . . ts . 5 1 -Y , , . -. . V V - S. - ' , , r y. ' v -s Y v . -1' . - S '. ' ' S 3, . l ' ' I If 7 Q 7 u . ' ' 4 . C ' . s