Proctor Academy - Green Lantern Yearbook (Andover, NH)

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VARSITY SKI TEAM Back row: M. Green, Manager, Johnson, Farrell, Captain, Elbow, Mr. Camp. Front row: Kittell, Beattie, T. Gilbert, Yandell. tfleiin With the biginnins of cold weather, ac- tivities for the ski team were rapidly gotten underway. Boys were working out for cross- country and all were getting their equipment in shape. With good snowfall over Christmas vacation, a pre-arranged ski camp was held five days before school started, to really get a good start on the season. Quite a few boys attended this camp, as did Charlie Gulick, providing a great deal of moral support. The team was ready, with a redhot captain, Farrell, fresh from a session with the Aus- trians at Stowe. In January, he rode over all competition to win three events and lead his team to its first victory over the University of N. H. Freshmen. After winning at Vermont Academy, the Proctor skiers, who were this season literally a green team for the most part, learned the hard way the necessity of team action in a ski meet. At Holderness in a quad meet a few of our men took bad spills in the first event, and, fighting des- perately to retrieve those lost points, Proctor got within 1.6 points of Deerfield, to take second place. Following was a close meet with Hanover High and Lebanon High, and Hol- derness, one of the toughest meets on the schedule. All the teams were within one or two points of each other all day, but with Proctor's Carnival dates to cheer them on, the Proctor team came through in the last event, slalom, to take the meet. This meet need not have been so close, had it not been for the fact that just a few days previous, Dave Farrell was struck by an acute appendicitis. This ruined the rest of the season for him, for he never got back into real shape again, as well as writing in a question mark after all the coming meets of the season. In spite of weak- ness, he skied the Alpine events of the Inter-

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J. V. FOOTBALL TEAM Burk rozw: K. Weeks, Copellman, Carncross. Second mir: Kittell, Perron, Perkis, Burdett, Llewellyn, Horton. Iirmlt faux' Mr. Camp, Noll, Henderson, Humphrey, Putney, Captain, Chambers, 1.. Rice. Canfield, J. Mclnnes, Manager. Football On September 15, 26 boys returned to Proc- tor to get in shape for what was hoped would be a successful season under the new coaching of Mr. Wright and veteran Mr. Farrell. The next days were busy ones with many condi- tioning work-outs and the learning of funda- mentals. The highlights of the 1951 season were the games with Phillips Andover, with West- mount our international rival, and with our traditional rival Holderness. The first half of the Andover game was hard fought with neither team scoring. Andover scored in the third and fourth as against Proctor's one score in the third by a pass from Riley to Calvert. The final score was 14-6. With pre-game speeches by Gov. Sherman Adams of New Hampshire, james A. Strong, Canadian Consul General to Boston, and Mr. Farrell, with a parade of the teams led by the Franklin High School band, and with the raising of the Canadian and American flags, the game was begun against Westmount, a team of superior weight, speed, and experi- ence. In the hrst half Westmount overran a bewildered Proctor team to score 27 points. Proctor's only tally came when Steel scored on a pass from Gilbert. Nwestmount again showed its power in the last half by running up more points, to make a final score of 49-6. On October 31, Holderness came to An- dover to play on a field covered with mud and snow. Holderness scored in the first and second periods, and twice in the fourth period to break the Proctor's three year winning streak. Great credit should be given to Brown, Farrell, and Riley for the undying spirit they showed throughout the game. The team will lose eleven seniors: Capt. Brown, Farrell, the dashing halfback, Riley, our fighting fullback, Moore, Steel, Crowell, Cozier, Gates, Beattie, MacColl, and Mancoll. Those left who should contribute to a powerful and spirited team are: Capt. john- son, Fowler, Tip Gilbert, Morris Green, Pat- ten, Freiberger, Killian, Smith, Coffin, Batal, Treadwell, Fox, and Bixler. The J. V. squad, coached by Mr. Camp, had a successful season, splitting a series with the Golden Rule Farm, and winning an exciting game with the Franklin High School AlV's and Reserves. Many of the players on this squad should do well with the varsity another year.

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scholastics and the meet preceding and did amazingly well. In the meets following Car- nival the Green team was not so green any more, and in spite of the absence of their captain and best skier, they came back to win over Deerfield and to take decisive victories from New England College, Holderness, Har- vard Frosh, Exeter, Vermont Academy, West- mount, Tilton, Brewster, Kimball Union Academy, and New Hampton. At the Tilton Carnival, where we skied against the last four teams and Deerfield, Proctor took all the laurels of the day and came away with three out of four trophies. The lnterscholastics this Mount Moosilauke in just there were about sixty in necessitated cutting a lot closely in the running of year were held at one day, although every event. This of corners pretty the meet, and, in addition, just about every Proctor man had a had day. Consequently the results for us were rather poor. ln a 15 team meet the big Green took fifth place, winding up behind KUA, V.A., Putney, and Exeter. In addition to school-boy meets, members of our team ran in many individual races such as: the Easterns, the Sap Run, the Hockfleiger Slalom, the Gibson Trophy, the Annual Black- water Slalom, held here at Proctor on April 13th, and many others. These boys have done exceptionally well at these races, giving Proc- tor a real place in the skiing world. The B team has not had such an impressive record, but, as always, they have produced a new batch of competent skiers for the A teams that follow. They had some of their own meets such as those with Kents Hill, and Golden Rule Farm, and they skied in many varsity meets. With their new coach, Mr. Fisher, they expect to maintain the high standards set by Mr. LaCasce. The Varsity this spring has lost Farrell, Beattie, and Yandell by graduation, but with underclassmen like johnson, T. Gilbert, Kit- tell, Green, and Ludwig left as material for captain-elect Peter Elbow, they have hopes of maintaining the school's good record. J l 1 5 fs., i ...arf