Seton Hall University - Galleon Yearbook (South Orange, NJ)

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HERE AND THERE

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The White and Blue of Nineteen Hundred Twenty-Four CLASS HISTORY ’24 FRESHMAN YEAR EPTEMBER, 1920, opened for us the doors to the College of Seton Hall. Enrolled to the number of twenty-six, we ambitiously set for ourselves many goals, towards which we ever progressed and which finally we realized. Within a few days, at the annual reading of “The Riot Act. our preconceived notions of college life, gathered promiscuously from story books, were fast dissipated. At early dawn, it was, in the day of college, that our sun shone penetratingly upon endeavors, Christian, cultural and athletic. I he lowest in rank, we yet finished in third place on Field Day. This happy beginning instilled in us the con- fidence we needed to become a factor in Class Football. A surprise even to our most sanguine aspirations was victory in each successive game. So we, the “Frosh,” at length met the next highest class to decide whose was the right to reign. Ushering in the second half, Ray O’Connor burst through the Sophomore defense and Charley Ward kicked the goal that brought with it — championship. The basketball season produced our first letters and initial captaincy. Les Fries led the squad and Ray O’Connor and Frank Walsh were listed with the players. By spring and the close of the scholastic year, several more members had carried Seton’s colors in baseball and tennis. Freshmen on the ball team were O’Connor and Sullivan, while the latter sport gave to Peter “Tilden” Cash the exercise he craved. SOPHOMORE YEAR And now, nineteen of us were Sophomores. We had lost ten, among them Cash, Ward, O’Connor and Murray, but to offset this, the heavyweight trio, Toohey, Dziewic and Huber, had arrived. Anxious hours we had in choosing rooms that were closely connected, hut confusion made way for order and we bent ourselves upon “plugging.’’ Alas, for good intentions ! With an easier schedule than that of the preceding year, more time was devoted to the “great outdoors.” Mainly through the efforts of the athletic prodigy Fries, Field Day saw us gain first place. Class football suffered a relapse with the coming of the Reserves, but the great basketball team of that year, managed by Frank Grady, was forty per cent. Sophomore because of Walsh and Fries. 32