Rhodes School - Rhodester Yearbook (New York, NY)

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| JUNIOR FOOTBALL TEAM 4 (Left to right) Manzo, Maggio, Gill, Baker, Parris, Cooper, Ca. garten, Di Pietro, Carter, Melnick. tro, Lotesta, Rosen- allowed the Juniors to capitalize on a Senior mistake, and Ralph Maggio scored a safety for the Juniors. With the score 8-0, and two minutes remaining, the game was, to all intents and purposes, over, but a charging Senior line led by Dom Lasaponara, Jerry Axelson and Myron Jackler deflected a Cooper pass into the arms of Hans Andersen, who tan the length of the field to score for the Seniors. The Seniors threatened again with just a minute left. A timely interception by Terry Rubin halted this threat, and the final score was 8-6 in favor of the Juniors. The next week saw the Eighth Grade meeting the Freshmen to decide the championship of the lower school. The Eighth Graders, led by Glenn Porter, upset the Freshmen in a closely contested game. The future of the intra-mural program looks good because of the talent displayed by all the underclass teams. The championship game started at 3:30 and was called because of darkness at 5:30 with the score 0-0. The score notwithstanding, the game was an excellent display of the teams’ offensive and defensive skills. Kozak started the Seniors rolling against the Juniors. Short passes to Mike Dalley and end runs by Don Freidel were piling up consistent yardage but repeated penalties against the Seniors foiled their attempt to score. The seniors lost Gary Ackerman early in the game when a jarring block put him out of commission. Talented pass receiver Mark Berent was also injured but insisted upon remaining in the game. | On defense, both teams did exceptionally well. The Senior defense, led by Axelson, Dalley, Freidel, Navarro, Lieberman, Lasaponara and Stelzer intercepted many of Cooper's passes. Don Freidel covered Charley Di Pietro tightly enough to prevent his catching but one pass from Cooper. Forced to use his secondary receivers, Cooper did so, and hit Ralph Maggio, Roger Parris and Ken Rosengarten for steady short gainers. Cooper seemed unsure of his secondary receivers, and so the Junior passing attack wasn’t as effective as it had been in previous games. Charley Manzo almost broke the game open when he intercepted a Senior pass and began to race for the end zone. He was caught from behind, however, and on the next play, Freidel intercepted Cooper's first pass of that set of downs to end the Junior drive . Finally, when the game was called, the result was a scoreless tie. Credit: must go to Coach Keats and Mr. Miller, who refereed at all the games, and to Oscar Schmulewitz, who was Head Linesman at the 3 Championship game. The teams look forward to a more active season next fall. oi wil ee 3 Manzo (on ground) recovers fumble for Juniors. Kozak spots Goldfeder open downfield for Seniors, = Kozak’s pass to Goldfeder is complete for a short gain.

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SENIOR FOOTBALL TEAM il ay. i. i (Left to right) Lezama, Navarro, Schneid, Berent, Kozak, Freidel, Ackerman, Andersen, Cohen (face hidden), Lieberman, Lasaponara. The second year of intra-mural football at Rhodes was an unqualified success. The season got underway on October 9, and from that day for- ward there was constant and keen competition between the classes. The culmination of the season came in late November, when Mike Kozak’s Seniors and Mark Cooper's Juniors played to a scoreless tie despite three overtimes in the championship game. Because of the size of the Senior turnout, Mr. Miller divided the team into an “A” squad and a ““B” squad. These two teams played each other in the first game of the season. Kozak, captain of the “A” team, found Mike Lazama in the clear early in the game for a thirty yard touchdown. This turned out to be the only score of the game as fine defensive work | was turned in by Mark Berent, Mike Uppman, and Hans Andersen. The “B” team, captained by Gary Ackerman, marched downfield with a series | of completed passes from Ackerman to Goldfeder. A timely interception 7 | by the ‘A’ squad halted the drive. The final score was 6-0 in favor of Kozak’s “A” team. In the second part of the opening day doubleheader, Mark Coopet’s Juniors downed Reginald Towe’s Sophomores 12-0. Cooper found his favorite receiver, Charley Di Pietro, early in the game for a score. The Juniors cinched the win with a short swing pass from Cooper to Roger Parris late in the game. The line of Howard Baker, Harcourt Carter, Ken Gill, Stephen Lotesta, Ralph Maggio and Charles Manzo held the Sopho- mores to but one first down. The next week saw the lower school in action. Glenn Porter’s Eighth W) Grade defeated the Seventh Grade by a narrow margin. In the closing minutes of the game, Porter took an end run that swept him into the end zone for a score. , At the midpoint of the season, Kozak’s Senior “A” team defeated t the Juniors in a game which saw very free substitution. Some Seniors from P the “B’’ team tried to stem the tide for the Juniors, but Kozak’s attack : was too persistent to halt. Don Freidel connected with Richard Hess early in the game for the Senior “‘A’s’’ first touchdown. Freidel then iced the victory by spotting Mark Berent downfield and hitting him with a long | pass for the second score. The blocking of the line led by Hans Andersen, iM Bob Stelzer, Myron Jackler and Dom Lasaponara was instrumental in the Senior win. This victory guaranteed the Senior ‘‘A” team a berth in the championship game. The following week, the Senior “B’”’ team at least had to tie the Junior te team to remain in competition. Cooper fired a bullet pass to DiPietro i, early in the game for the Junior’s first tally. A faulty pass from center Iunior’s Cooper gets off a pass against Seniors. aponara, Axelson, Schneid and Dalley protect Senior's Kozak as he laterals to Freidel.

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i Coach Keats gives advice to team during time-out. ‘ ia o wt ww All-Star selection Mike Dalley and Most Valuable Player Marc Packer pose for “Rhodester’ camera at Garden Tournament. 92 Rhodes Basketball Team, Garden Tournament Champions (left to right) Brown, Hamilton, Packer, Hayes, Rubin, Coach Keats, Lasaponara, Co-Captain Dalley, Co-Captain Kozak, Ackerman, Cooper, Castro, Copeland. BASKETBALL With only five members of the team returning this year, Coach Donald Keats faced what he believed would be a season of rebuilding for the future. The basketball team, infused with new talent, went on to win the Garden Basketball Tournament to cul- minate a 13-3 season. One of the new crop of players was Junior, Marc Packer. Marc played left guard for Rhodes, and rolled up a total of 270 points during the year. This was the highest individual point total. Marc led the Scholars in individual scoring honors in five of the regular season games and in two of the three Garden Tournament games. He topped off his successful season by being named most valuable player at the Garden Tournament. Another new addition to the Rhodes roster was Charles “Terry” Rubin. Terry sustained an injury early in the season, and was used only sparingly by Coach Keats. He managed to maintain a scoring average of fifteen points a game. Back in action against Highland School in January, Terry played strongly, but two weeks before the Garden Tournament oened, he re-injured himself and had to sit out two of the three tournament games. He made a short appearance in the last game, scoring only six points. Six-foot-six Stacy Brown was slated to fill the cen- ter position for Rhodes, but he injured himself before the season got underway. Rejoining the team in Feb- ruary, Stacy averaged ten points a game and eleven rebounds a game for the balance of the season. Mike Dalley, co-captain, and one of the returning five was a “team player’; he sacrificed his own indi- vidual point totals to set up his team-mates for easy shots. Despite his team effort, Mike managed to maintain an impressive average of twelve points a game. Mike improved as the season progressed, reach- ing his peak at the Garden Tournament, where he was named to the All-Star team. The other co-captain, Mike Kozak, also fell prey to injury. He dislocated his knee and had to sit out four g ames in the middle of the season. His injury couldn't keep Mike down, however, and his big day came against New York Friends in December, when he poured in twenty-five points. Mike was fourth highest scorer and second highest rebounder on the team.