Riverview Military Academy - Orbit Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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BASKET BALL TEAM

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IIE Wllno enTl'a1is Were WhatBsuHisDNenme NVe might have such combinations as these: Professor George Garfield Wheeler, or, for instance, Merrill A. Gonzales. How would Franklyn -I. Sullivan soundg or Andrew Giraud Cunningham? Or, let us say, Elliott William Needham and Howard Smith. C. Coulter Berlitz would sound wellg so would Adam Hoch Crooks. XVc might take Chemistry under Clarence L. Lighty, or military under Frank C. Hyatt. Wfe might have such an anomaly as Diego WValsli. 'l.'hen, too, there would be Baltus Collins and VVendle Lumb. Charles Lovejoy Parker follows as a matter of courseg so do Gilbert F. Babcock and Hunting Thew. Besides, we might have Perry Caryg or jonathan B. Van Kleeck. Amory Von der Linden, Rudolph Ernest DeCordova, and Laurence E. XVillig are also possibilities. Added to these could be joseph Allen Longo, Christiano Schryver or llarold ll. l'orturas. Following are such good examples as XfValdo E. Pcrsiani, Ray G. DeKlyn, Gerald E. Butts and Oliver H. Schwartzwaelder. But the crowning glory of all is Victor Max llarrison Morgan 31

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asllzett alll In basketball the problem of inexperience was not of such magnitude as was the case at the beginning of the football season. 'l'wo men re- mained from the team of the previous year. to- gether with several of the second-string line-up. XVith Palmer and Parker as a nucleus, a strong, fairly fast team was built up. At the first of the season Cunningham, Longo and Poucher were nsed as forwards, Captain Parker as center, and Palmer and Mills as guards. This combination worked very well, and when any of the regulars were absent the team work suffered considerably. In the Peeks- kill game, which came about the middle of the heavy schedule, Parker sprained his ankle severe- ly, so that it was impossible for him to play again during the season. At this time. too, Longo was lost and Smith,Iwho took his place. was lamed for a time, so that the team was in a very weakened condition. The first-string sub- stitutes, however,-were equal to the occasion, and the team continued to win. A few words of criticism may not be out of place here. Parker played most of the year at center, at which position his work was as good as any center Riverview has had in the past few years. He fitted in to the team work well and played a clean, heady game. Several times during the season, however, he played guard, and at this position was better than at center. Palmer and Parker at guards leave little to be desired. Palmer's work improved immeasurably over that of the previous year, owing, among other things, to his having played on the football team. His elusiveness and his left-handed passing made him a hard man to get the ball away from, and he kept his head, which is the best of qualifica- tions for a guard. Cunningham played forward, guard, and cen- ter during the season and iilled each position equally well. His playing was brilliant, although his shooting was erratic. Sometimes he caged the ball from any place and at any angle, and then again he missed shot after shot by a hair-breadth. His strength enabled him to stand more rough stuH than anybody else in any game we played. Cunningham was placed