Seward Park High School - Almanac Yearbook (New York, NY)

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THE ALMANAC Seward I2-Jefferson 0 DishearTened, buT Tar Trom discouraged was ThaT Seward TooTball Team when iT enTered Commercial Field Tor The second game wiTh JeTTerson High School. WiTh The excepTion oT The TirsT quarTer The game was clearly Seward's Fullback Willie Singer sTarTed oTT a sTrong aTTack wiTh an I8 yard run. Eleven TirsT downs were made. Rosenberg's Tine plunging neTTed The TirsT score oT The season. Ben Friedlander scored The second Touchdown on a 2l yard pass Trom Rosenberg. Seward I 2-Evander 6 ReiuvenaTed aTTer ThaT I2-O win over JeTTerson, The Seward Gridders meT Evander Childs on OcTober 26Th and beaT Them To The Tune oT I2-6. Those Orange and Black players oT Evancler TeaTured a sTrong aerial aTTack buT despiTe This our boys ToughT hard and held aT The crucial momenTs. ln The second period, Singer raced inTo ThaT end zone To score The TirsT Touchdown oT The aTTernoon, on a pass Trom Rosenberg. ln The Third period Evander's gridders compleTely overwhelmed by The hard TighTing oT our boys, Took To The air and managed To score Their sole Touchdown oT The aTTernoon. The Turning poinT oT The baTTle occurred in The lasT period, when a pass Trom Rosenberg To Singer was compleTed and resulTed in The second score. Seward 0-Cleveland 0 November 3rd inTroduced one oT The season's biggesT upseTs when The sTrong and highly Tavored Cleveland Team was held To a O-O Tie. BoTh Teams ToughT des- peraTely. Rosenberg and Singer conTinuecl Their splendid ball playing, wiTh a display oT conTinuous gains. lvlorreale, DorTman, lvlancher, and GeTTner played a major role, by breaking up The TasT and Tricky Cleveland plays. KasTin Karasik, Seward's greaT blocking back, played his TinesT game oT The season. BoTh Teams ThreaTened, buT TighTened in The close spoTs. Seward 7-Tilden 0 On November lOTh, Tilden Tor The TirsTTime meT deTeaT by a Seward TooTball Team. AlThough The score was close, our boys undoubTedly ouTplayed The TildeniTes ThroughouT The enTire game. ThaT Boy's High sTadium was iammed wiTh The largesT crowd ever To wiTness a Seward game. SixTeen TirsT downs were earned by The Sew- ardiTes ToTour by Tilden. The lone Tally resulTed Trom a 55 yard run by Singer. Commerce 6-Seward 0 I On November I7Th Seward's vicTory sTreak was broken by a surprising Com- merce eleven. The loss was enTirely unexpecTed and indeed a blow because The Blue and Grange Commerce gridders had noT won a game, nor scored a poinT ThroughouT The season. Commerce TeaTured an aerial aTTack which proved Too puz- zling Tor Seward. Page ThirTy-six

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CLASS OF JANUARY I935 FALL SPORTS MEMOIRS TRIKING and miraculous were The accomplishmenTs in The Tield oT sporTs This Fall. EnThusiasTs will long remember l934, as The Seward FooTball RevoluTion, or prob- ably as The Turning poinT oT The gridiron siTuaTion on The EasT Side. The success oT The Team inTroduced inTo The daily lives oT all SewardiTes Those imporTanT links To scholasTic presTige: he principles oT cooperaTion, spiriT, and loyal supporT. ATTendance records were shaTTered. Each game had a Tendency To draw more inTeresT. IT was made a duTy To devoTe SaTurday aTTernoons To The wiTnessing oT The scheduled TilT and The cheering oT The Team To vicTory. The opening oT school ini SepTember and The enTire TooTball Training period was saddened by The passing oT Coach David Hussack. Headlines in The school newspaper Tlashed his daring aTTempT To rescue Three lads aTTer a canoe had capsized. His conTribuTions was invaluable and Tormed The basic causes oT The Tremendous increase in spiriT on The parT oT -The sTudenT Toward sporTs. He was The organier oT The Blue and WhiTe eleven, a builder oT characTer, and a greaT insTrucTor. Many acknowledged Thas his passing would hinder The kindled Tlame- oT vicTory, buT resulTs have proven oTherwise. AlThough dishearTened, our Blue and VVhiTe Gallopers made iT a duTy' To live up To and To carry on The principles oT Their mourned coach. The game, however, had To go on, and Mr. Ephron, direcTor oT all sporTs acTivi- Ties, announced The appoinTmenT oT Two coaches, lvlessrs. Jack GolberT and Jerome- Washower. We can'T possibly esTimaTe The crediT due These Two TooTball menTors.. In a shorT period oT Three weeks, a TirsT and second Team was Tormed. One oT The sTrongesT lines in The ciTy, wiTh lvlancher, GeTTner, Friedlander, Dorifman, ZanTini, Scheckner and Lazar was developed by head-coach Jack GolberT. Hiss assisTanT- coach, Jerome Washower worked wiTh The second Team, and also wiTh ThaT speedy backTield group oT Singer, Karasik, RomanowiTz, and Rosenberg. Probably The greaT- esT TeaT oT The season, was Tieing ThaT highly Tavored Cleveland Team. The papers raTed us among The TirsT Tive ouTsTanding schools OT The ciTy. Seward Park High is no longer The door maT in scholasTic TooTball, neiTher are we known as The school which has Tor Three seasons gone down in deTeaT. ThaT TirsT class squad Tinally succeeded in having our name recognized in TooTball highlighTs. Summary Our TirsT game wiTh Richmond Hill scheduled To be played OcTober 6Th was posrponed due To prevailing weaTher condiTions. STuyvesanT I 3-Seward 0 On OcTober l3Th, an inexperienced buT sTrong TooTball Team encounTered The STuyvesanT DuTchmen, who managed To push over a I3-O win. Our boys were given Two TiTTeen yard penalTies, which led To bo+h STuyvesanT's Tallies. OuTsTanding Tor Seward in This iniTial P. S. A. L. TiTT was The punTing oT STreTch ZenowiTz. Page ThirTy-Tive

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CLASS OF JANUARY I935 Seward I6-Richmond Hill 0 November 24Th marked The conclusion oT The greaTesT TooTball season in The hisTory oT The school. Richmond Hill was Toppled To The Tune oT I6-O aT DexTer Park. CapTain Sammy Levine, ouT mosT oT The season wiTh a bad knee, undoubTedly played bang up TooTball againsT The Jamaicans. ln The TirsT period, on a reverse play, Rom- anowiTz crashed Through Tor a Touchdown Trom The 8 yard line. ln The second period Levine booTed a beauTiTul Tield goal Trom The 24 yard line. lncidenTally This was The only aTTempT aT placemenT ThroughouT The season. ATTer a scoreless Third period, Levine ripped Through righT Tackle Tor a Touchdown, Trom The 4 yard line. Scheckner's aTTempT Tor conversion was good. Soccer As usual, soccer s+iII' is one oT Seward's besT sporTs. We are graTeTul To Mr. H. Cohen, coach oT The squad, Tor his successTul insTrucTion ever since he Took over The Team. This year The Team engaged in six P. S. A. L. meeTs, winning Three, losing Two, and Tieing one. The end oT The season Tound Seward occupying The 3rd place in ManhaTTan. The season opened wiTh a vicTory over CurTis High 5-O. Seward's goals were scored by STein Bukowsky, RoTh, and Kozik. Tarashinsky and Sawaris played Tine deTensive ball, conTinuously breaking up The CurTis Plays. On OcTober l lTh The Seward BooTers Toppled TexTile 2-l aT CroTona Park. RoTh and Kozick scored The Two goals Tor Seward. Goalie NoviTzky excelled Tor The Blue and WhiTe, wiTh a Tew specTacular sTops. A On Wednesday, OcTober 24Th, The Team received iTs TirsT seT back aT The hands oT Haaren High. The TirsT halT saw Seward in TronT wiTh a 2-O lead, buT The deTense in The laTTer parT oT The game weakened. Haaren managed To score Tour Times, which proved iusT abouT suTTicienT. The Tinal score was 4 To 3. The Tollowing week, Seward Took advanTage oT a weak Townsend Harris squad The Tinal score was 4-I. STein Tallied Twice: while RoTh and Brown scored The oTher Two poinTs. I I - In a TasT and Turious baTTle, The Seward booTers on November I, held The Blue and Orange STuyvesanT booTers To a I-l Tie. Our boys were given Two Tree Tries aT The goal buT were unsuccessTul in boTh aTTempTs. Kozick scored The lone poinT Tor Seward, by ramming iT in wiTh his head. On November l3Th, Seward meT deTeaT aT The hands oTiCommerce High School in The lasT P. S. A. L. game oT The year. The Tinal score was 2-O. Page ThirTy-seven