Saint Michaels College - Hilltop Yearbook (Colchester, VT)

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,--. L L ' Fl 1 n back Williams ' ' ' d helped N' Poux human Stape and The Texans found little warmth in their greeting, how- ever, and when the buzzer sounded they were on the short end of a 75-6l count. For the Knights it was another great team victory with three men hitting for double figures. Burzenski poured 22 points through the hoop while lim Farley hit for 20 and Dan McCarthy chipped in l4. Fresh from the Texas win, the Knights were now op- posed by a powerful St. Anselm's club which was being hailed as one of the best in New England. However, the visitors ran into a better club and were handed a stun- ning 73-5l defeat before a highly pleased Winter Carni- val crowd. Burzenski again was high scorer as he dropped in 24 to bring his season's total to l8l. Moving to Canton, N.Y., the Knights continued their Winning ways by whipping a determined St. Lawrence team. Burzenski's l8 points were high again as the Mike- men came from behind to eke out a 67-55 victory. Al- though the win was satisfying, the trip was even more memorable for the bus ride back on which the team was stranded for some seven hours. The iirs 1 UVM game W A btem P-nd Creighton was no Pro Norwich was the next victim on the list and horsemen were easy pickings for the Knights v racked up their third conference win, 60-42. Burzern and Barry contributed l4 points apiece to pace attack. lt was a horse of a different color the next even' Traveling to Manchester, N. H., the Mikemen drop their second game of the season as the St. Ansel Hawks revenged themselves with a 57-44 victory. lt just a case of too much Bob Williams as the Ha flashy playmaker led the home team to victory. For Knights, Burzenski was high with l4. Home again, St. Michael's ran its Memorial Audi ium win streak to l9 straight as it edged a stubb Vermont five. In a roughly played contest, the Kni were never able to build up a comfortable lead despite Burzenski's l5 points the final score was 54-49 in favor of the Branonmen. Moving to Springfield, Mass., the Knights proved easy prey for Springfield College with the Gymna ending up on the pleasant end of a 64-53 count. Knights had little luck from the floor with only Bc and Kateley showing any real success. Barry's l7 v high for the Mikemen. h Bm the remm Klum . le easier- Was Q lin a5 tough - ' ' fi I Kev Special dellvew bv Ka e

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PM We vw.. U if 44 , it at A .fy , 4 ' IWW 'T' Milli X . 4 nf bfi ,nik W c i V I , la' f vt 1 f Jr. Q J, 3, 4' f , kyrr k w x 'K Coach Barry Branon 31 And with this interesting conclusion we swung into December and the beginning of the basketball schedule. The Dartmouth lndians were our opponent in the season's lid lifter which was played, of all places, in the Barre Auditorium. The famed Doggie lulian was handling the coaching down at Hanover and the Knights were wonder- ing if lulian's Dartmouth club would resemble the NCAA champs he had piloted at Holy Cross. lim Farley got things going, however, as he dropped in a toul tor the first point of the game, and the Knights held on to the lead until, with tive rninutes to go the lndians moved ahead, 40-37. It looked bad at this point but the Knights were in no mood to get scalped as George Barry, Paul Stapleton and Barry again hit on succes- sive shots to put the Purple back in the driver's seat. The postmaster then dumped in another driv- ing lay up to bring his point total to l3 and leave him tied with Ted Burzenski tor scoring honors when the game ended a second later with the Knights on the high end of a 46 to 42 count. The opener had been slow and somewhat sloppy but the Knights now moved into high gear. Entertaining Champlain in Memorial Au- ditorium the Purple easily racked up an 83-56 triumph. Picking up Where he had left off the season betore, big Ted Burzenski tossed in 10 tield goals and a foul shot tor a total of 2l points, Hook shot artist Paul Aumand hit for l3 as did Danger- ous Dan McCarthy as the Knights swung back into the form expected ot them. The managers - Don Droulette cmd lack Barry I ,f1tP6s.l e'NMqztls ,size ff F41 il' l sn, ..., ,r KW... ln,, Hl '

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After a week's rest, the Knights were able to give 1 better account of themselves as they faced Vermont Jr the second time. With Barry turning in a great floor lame, and Burzenski tossing 29 points, the Knights nded the tilt on top of a 66-58 win. The game gave St. flichael's the state title for the second successive year. Playing their last home game of the season, the :nights trouncecl a hapless Norwich five 76-45. Big Ted turzenski was the center of attraction as he attempted 9 cut into the 31 points which stood between him and :record of 1,000 points for his career. The hawk fell short .owever although he still hooped in 26 for the Knights. ..-1 1 v ...AD elf..- limmv e11i Yed mms Ed Markey also closed out his career at home with a irilliant exhibition. The only remaining member of the rhiz kids of our freshman year, loisy Ed dropped in 10 oints on driving lay-ups. Dan McCarthy, played his last home game in his tsual standout defensive manner, passing up many boring opportunities in order to feed the Hawk. Riding high on the crest of the finest season ever facorded by a St. Michael's quintet, the Purple Knights rought their season to a close with a 61-50 win over 7hamp1ain. Early in the first half big Ted Burzenski broke into ie charmed 1,000 circle and his 12 points for the eve- ing made his three year record 1,007 points. Bob Kateley was high man for the Knights with 17 oints while close behind came Nick Stapleton with B. It was the nineteenth win of the season for the Mike- ten who then prepared to enter the National Catholic ivitational Tourney at Albany. a so aid the Cheed FRESI-IMAN BASKETBALL After getting off to a mediocre start, the St. Michael's freshman basketball team won their last three games to wind up with a 6-3 mark and a successful season for new coach, Bill Piscione. The highlight of the frosh season was pro- vided by the two games with the Vermont fresh- men. Games with UVM are always watched with excitement whether they be varsity or freshman tilts. This season the frosh contests provided equal interest with the varsity games. SY- Middlebunl proved eo eqders- After dropping their first tilt to the Kittens, 67-55, the Squires came back to reverse the de- cision. Definitely up for this second game, the Squires upset Vermont 54-51 as lack Polworth led the way with 22 points. Constantly improving, the Squires showed their best form in their last game as they ran Champlain's IV's into the ground. The score was 80-59. High scorer for the frosh was lack Polworth with 100 points in 7 games, a 14.3 average. Bob Brouillette with 97 and Paul Crotty with 93 ran two, three. Iohn Donovan with 92 and Red Clark with 83, rounded out the first five scorers. Schedule SMC 79 Midd. 63 SMC 112 N.Y. Agricultural 69 SMC 37 Midd. 42 SMC 50 St. Lawrence 57 SMC 74 Norwich 32 SMC 55 UVM 67 SMC 54 UVM 51 SMC 75 Norwich 72 SMC 80 Champlain 59 51491