Rice High School - Edmundian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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IIIHISS-Iillll llll U' 1 T1 l 4i. . Q Front Row llelt to rightl: Mr. Carroll, lame: Mclieever, Michael Radigan, Iohn Brennan, Ioseph Keane. Second Row: Patrick Daly, Eugene Holmes, Francis Leahy, Iohn Fahey. Iohn Brennan, a three letter man on the track team, and one of the mainstays of the Cross-Country team last season, shows the way in the Bronx-Manhattan-Wesb chester Meet. Frank Leahy, Freshman Cross-Country champion in the I.C.B. Meet, and now on the vanity breaks the tape to come in first against Bishop DuBois. Q 5, ii? Q L T' Ll V' , ji , -Q ' g I 1

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At Van Courtland Park, on a bitterly cold day, the Rice Gene Holmes now a senior cmd a member of the track Cross-Country squad gets off to a good start in the Irish team for four years finishes third in the I C B Meet tr Christian Brothers' Meet. pace the team to victory ai r... In the short history of our school, our achievements in varsity track meets have not been too notable. This year, starting with the Cross-Country Season, the team has shown that Rice is ready to take its place among the other schools of the city as a ranking con- tender in Catholic High School varsity com petition. The Irish Christian Brothers' Cross Country Meet saw Rice take its first varsity track title. Led by Gene Holmes, who finished third in the race, the squad won the meet by the comfortable margin of fifteen points. The other members of the team who finished among the first fifteen, to help clinch the title were, Frank Leahy, Mike Radigan, Iohn Brennan and Iohn Fahey. This triumph was a fitting climax to a season of hard work on the part of the team and Mr. Carroll, their coach. nl'