Rider University - Shadow Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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GOLF, A GAME OF PERFECT TIMI G The Rider golT Team, under The capTainship oT PaT Zaino, oT WesTbury, N. Y., wound up a successful season: on May I8 wiTh Three wins and Two losses. The Purple and Gold linlcsTers deTeaTed Panzer College 7 and 2 in The Tee-oTT game buT bowed To a powerful Fordham UniversiTy Team, 5 and 4, in The second game. Traveling To AIlenTown, Pa., The Iinlcmen noTched Their second win oT The campaign by edging a sTrong Muhlenberg Team 5 and 4. In a remaTch wiTh Panzer College, The golTers gained Their Third vicTory by a 9 and O win. The Team suTTered iTs second loss, 9 and O, aT The hands oT Lehigh UniversiTy in The Tinal game oT The season. Managed by Don Handville, oT SumrniT, N. Y., The Purple and Gold Team consisTed of CapTain Zaino: Carmine Palermo, of Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Charlie Fish. AllenTown, Pa., and alTernaTes Ray Kerr, of IrvingTon, N. Y., Bill Mohr, Orange, N. J., and Mickey Byrne, of Scarsdale, N. Y. FNB' ABOVE, LEFT TO RIGHT: Carmine Palermo, Don Handville and PaT Zaino, caphsin. TOP, LEFT, LEFT TO RIGHT: Mickey Byrnes, Ray Kerr and Don Hand- ville looking over driver in preparaTion for ensuing mefch. STANDING, LEFT TO RIGIHT: Carmine Palermo, Ray Kerr and Don Handville. KNEELING, LEFT TO RIGHT: Mickey Byrnes and PAT Zaino. Charles Fish was abseni' when phoTo was Tallen.

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I! X. yi Nz: MOST VALUABLE f f 1 1' ' . T I HX xlsllff i'l, fl 4 Q4 frm 2l0 ff' 9 M - JR- . ' 'v ,- x ,f T ,., W I BASEBALL PLAYER The honor oT being baseball's mosT valuable aThleTe of This year wenT To George Pug Malone, co-capTain oT The Roughrider nine. The veTeran shorTsTop Took down Team baTTing honors, esTablished one new Rider sTandard, and Tied Tor anoTher. The Tinal marks show Malone edged Olimpio Pacchioli by one poinT Tor The TeamihiTTing TiTle wiTh a .339 average. Malone's speed and 'base- running prowess led To The esTablishing oT a new sTolen base mark, The shorTsTop pilfering 26 sacks in I5 conTesTs, wiThouT once being caughT. Included in This sTring of sTeals were Tive TheTTs oT home, an- oTher Rider mark. l Malone maTriculaTed aT Rider in T939 and im- mediaTely sTarred on The unbeaTen soccer Team. Pug dropped ouT of Rider aTTer one Term, and con- Tinued his soccer and baseball acTiviTies in The Tren- Ton lndusTrial League. Malone enTered The Navy in '4l and served Tor Tour years, winding up in lndia. l-le reTurned To Rider in '46 To compleTe his educaTion and played Tor Tour years on The Rough- rider nine. ln his TirsT season Malone played boTh second and shorT Tor The Kellyrnen. Pug was desTined Tor a uTiliTy role The nexT campaign, buT when Joe Tanzone broke his leg in The season opener Malone sTepped in and Took over The key- sTone posT, baTTing .340 Tor The season. LasT season Malone moved across The bag and held The s-horTsTop sloT, clubbing The ball close To v ig m.300. T .ni if lil 'TT ll il' ii 1 A ,,, xy lil l NV . T ll Tx SAX s if 2 ' f A., , I 'W J T 14. 4 , fi - '-ff In addiTion Pug won honors in '47, when he was selecTed To Try ouT Tor The Olympic Team. However, because of oTher aThleTic commiTmenTs. he could noT perTorm aT his besT. NeverTheless, Pug was chosen Tor The EasTern DisTricT Team.

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Nick Spadaccini receiving MVP from Head Coach Joe Behof. Nick sTarred for The Broncs for The pasT Three years. John Pop Moore, veTeran cenier for The Broncs The pasT Three years, receiving 'MVP co-award for foofball from Assisfanf Coach Walf CarTer. L i A lT has Taken many diTTerenT kinds OT people raise The sporT oT TooTball To The high place iT oc cupies in The Rider aThleTic sysTem Today. who have lenT To The game noT merely Tremendous Tlashes of elecTric exciTmenT, buT a sense oT digniTy and useTulness as well. Such a person is Nick Spadaccini The incom- parable backTield ace oT The Roughrider eleven who has done much To elevaTe TooTball aT Rider To iTs presenT eminence. When The speed demon's name is menTioned one naTurally Thinks insTincTively OT maTchless running skill on The grid-TurT, buT you also Think of Nick-wheTher you know him personally or noT-as an ouTsTanding Tigure who proved ThaT success could be achieved in a rough-and-Tumble game like TooTball wiThouT sacriTicing The qualiTies of a genTleman. The CliTTside Park lad will always be remem- bered by The sTudenTs and Tans who have cheered him Through his college years as he looked charg- ing Through an opponenTs's line wearing The digni- Tied purple-and-gold-uniform OT The powerful Rider College eleven. John Pop Moore, a Tinished TooTball cenTer, was someThing To waTch. During The grid-campaign he was The sparkplug of The Team on The pracTice Tield and on The playing Tield. Whenever The going goT rough Tor The Ridermen, The ex-Navy airman always broughf The Team ouT OT The ruT. x Xf- .1 Pop Thrived on Tackling. l-Te was TerriTic aT backing up a line and proTecTing both Tlanks. T-Tis TinesT giTT was his range. John was no mere hole- plugger, buT covered The enTire line. He made aT leasT 60 percenT oT all Rider's Tackles when he was in The game, and half oT Them were beyond The ends, where even The besT backer-uppers were noT expecTed To do much. Every coach who has senT a Team againsT The Purple and Gold Tor The pasT Three years will agree wiTh This conTenTion. The rugged boy Trom Newark, Delaware, was a bruTal Tackler. When Pop Moore hiT' em They sTayed hiT: AWARDS