Rider University - Shadow Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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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

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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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TO THE OUTSTANDING. This graceful, long sTriding lad from Pough- keepsie, N. Y., was perhaps The hardesT TighTing baskeTball player Rider College ever-had, and all his courT play, boTh offensively and defensively, re- vealed a sTyle and polished skill ThaT could only be described as disTincTive. During The pasT season John shrugged off a severe ankle injury philosophically and, wiTh no fuss of any kind, quieTly wenT on The floor and played ball under condiTions ThaT would have forced mosT lesser men noT only ouT of The lineup buT even inTo bed. l-le didn'T quiTe compile The necessary poinTs during his four years as a varsiTy man To puT him in The l,OOO caTegory, buT by his endless efforT and his fine aTTiTude as a sTudenT and an aThleTe, he has made himself one oT The mosT popular men in Rider. John CoTTrill is, aT The same Time, The finesT example of The modern college sTudenT. The Presi- denT of The senior class who has aTTained a high academic raTing ThroughouT his college years is- quick Thinking, alerT, well-spoken, inTelligenT, moder- aTe in his habiTs and keenly aware of his posiTion as an ouTsTanding Rider aThleTe. RoberT Dawson, in his firsl year aT Rider has developed inTo a fine floor general, superb re- bounder, and an excellenT scorer. l-Te was parTicu- larly deadly lasT season on sa-T and lay-up shoTs. T-le is a very fasT, shiTTy player, a good ball handler and a nifTy passer. BuT aside from This The man who capTained The Newark Prep Team for Two seasons before enrolling aT Rider is known To all Roughrider hoop-followers as Mr. lndispensable. l-le played The game in such a way as To win, hands down, enThusiasTic nomina- Tion by The sTudenTs as The ouTsTanding baske-Tbail player of The i949-l95O season. As his award he was presenTed wiTh The AdverTising Club's player of The year Trophy. Bobby is such a genuine person ThaT he is popular noT only wiTh The fans, buT also wiTh The players, who afTer all, know him besT. They admire his inTelligence, his wholesomeness, his sense of honor, his leadership and everyThing else ThaT makes characTer. John CoTTrill receiving Jargon's MVP award from Frank Donlon, direcTor of aThIe+ics. .50 'DV 4 T949 m M ,ball 0 M TTD A ML Bas 6 rkisinq Hop Y revel. T , A 0 P Bob Dawson C353 receives PTVGTTT beams BP The siudeni Woe-Pfegden io- Sal Decal' 4