Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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22 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR W ithout a doubt i; is the earnest desire of every individual connected with the school, that vc ex- perience a very successful year in athletics. While the outlook is not as shining as it has been in cer- tain other years, nevertheless it is very promising and we’re out to win. We tender our best wishes and brightest hopes to Captain Anderson and the football squad for a winning team. Let us hope that first game with W ellesley will prove the truth of the adage: A bad beginning makes a good ending. Remember, you “Somerville red bloods who back the team, when you want a touchdown, CHEER, and CHEER LOUD, and your chances of getting one will be much better. They used to cheer in the “good old days which are often re- called with pleasant memories, they made the touchdowns, too. touchdowns that meant cham- pionships. Are you going to help the team win that championship? Well. then. CHEER. The shifting of Captain Anderson from the back- field to his old position at guard seems to have been one of the immediate outcomes of the game with Wellesley. His added strength and fight has shown out very impressively in the line and has given it an entirely new aspect. Both Jim Robert- son and Wiley will also prove hard men to pass in those deciding games provided they are going at their best. It is evident that if the team’s line turns out to be a strong one. it would be a valuable asset in producing a favorable close of the season, for with a powerful bulwark of defence, such a man as Jim Robertson to do the kicking, and a fast open style of play on the offence, the chances to win would be greatly improved. This appears to be the ] licv oi Coach Mahoney and by all means is the best. Is everybody on edge for those Suburban league games? They’ll be here before you know it. Judging from the showing made by Rindgc against Tufts' second team early in the season, it looks as though that Rindge-Somerville game on Thanksgiving Day will be one grand struggle. Here’s hoping that Jim Robertson boots them between the uprights hot and heavy this fall. Fa- gin. of Waltham, seems to be the only shining star in the drop-kicking department that is left among the school bovs. Our Jim has it in him if he will only round into form. The value of a drop-kicker at critical stages in a game is inesti- mable. How many times have teams gotten within twenty-five or thirty yards of the opponent’s goal line, and sometimes even nearer, only to find that its punch has been repulsed. Here is the time that the quarterback, when he secs his op- portunity wavering, is at a sore loss without a man to drop the ball over the crossbar. Countless games have been won or lost, as it were, by the services of. or the lack of a skillful drop-kicker. Take for instance the game with Medford last year, which was won by Robertson’s wonderful feat, also the Dartmouth-Harvard game of last year was won by a drop from the field, and so. too, the Xavy defeated the Army two years ago, and Waltham beat Somerville last year bv one point with that field goal. Harvard had four excel- lent opportunities to win its game with Yale in It)11, but failed for want of a man to do the deed. W hat made Bricklev, of Harvard, the talk of the country last season? The answer is his ability to drop-kick. Such conditions arc prevalent in every game and should be met with. Drop-kick- ing is one of the greatest scientific branches of the game of football and one of the great sources from which the game takes life,' it makes a contest fascinating. Well, let us hope that our own Jim

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 21 NOTES OF THE A LVM NI CATtTDELL-OS The following members of S. II. S.. '13, have en- tered Wellesley College: Marion Slade, Pauline Murray. Isabel Whiting, Iola Johnson, and Isa- may Richardson. The class of 1913, S. H. S.. is represented in the Freshman class of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by: Ketchum Alexander, Ernest Gustin, Fred Hoyt, Jr.. Charles Martell, and Chester Ames. Members from S. H. S., 13. entering Harvard College are: Hubert Ames, William Brooks, Ray- mond Farmer, and Joseph Looney. The following members of S. H. S.. '13. have entered Tufts College: John McCarthy. Warren Holton, Ellsworth Simpson, Chester Carvell. Row- land Davies. Bernard Shea, Edwin Burse. Francis Gallen, Angelo Luciano, and Francis Mahoney. The following members of S. H. S.. T3, have en- tered Boston University: Miss Hammond, Ruth Ranger. Stanley Lane, and Helen Pond. Filing Doane, whose work at fullback on the S. H. S. team last year was sensational, is playing halfback on the 'varsity eleven at Colgate College. Grace Lewis and Phoebe Underhill, both S. If. S.. T3. have entered the Freshman class at Mt. Holyoke. Mildred Carr, S. II. S., T3, is at Dana Hall, Wellesley. Ruth Alexander, S. H. S., '13, is employed by the Educator Shoe Company, Boston. Virginia Johnson and Claire Sweeney, both S. 11. S.. '13. are members of the Freshman class at Radcliffe. Members of S. H. S.. T3. who entered Boston College this fall are: Thomas Garrick. Francis O'Garra, Patrick Scanned, and Charles Sharkey. Douglas I). Fleming. S. II. S.. T3. and Howard Shaffer. S. H. S.. '1?. are both at Dartmouth College. Ruth Lane. S. II. S.. '13, is at The House in the Pines School. Norton, Mass. Donald Gudakunst, S. II. S.. '13. has entered the University of Michigan, and Arthur Machan, S. H. S.. '13. the University of Vermont. Estelle B. McCoubrev, S. H. S., 13, is at Bur- dett's. Austin I. Pierce. E.. '11. who was an All-Inter- scholastic guard while playing on the High School team, is studying, preparatory to entering the Posse Physical Culture School. Boston. Genevieve G. Niles. L., ’ll. has entered the “Sisters «f Mercy’' Convent in Manchester, New I Iampshire. Kathryne Louise Nolan, E.. '01, was married September 1(1, to Raymond Burrows Handforth, of Greenfield. Mass. They are now residing in Wollaston. Helen Mae Phinney. E.. '09. was married in July, to Walter Enos Currier, of Somerville. Rose Byrnes. S. H. S., '13, is at. Winter Hill Business College. Alexander “Pop Haskell. L.. '11. is working for the Edison Light Co.. Boston.

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 23 has a few more kicks left like that one of last fall's Medford game. Joseph Murphy is showing grand form at end, especially in covering punts and getting his man. The team greatly misses the services of Erling Doane. Nevertheless, Hayden is playing a slash- ing game at fullback. He is only a Sophomore, and should develop into a star: he is a natural full- back. W iley lias made quite a reputation breaking through.” Oh. no! not a second-storv man. only a football player. Speed Anderson sprained his hand in the Wellesley game. ----------------------------- Somerville Xoses Opener Somerville lost its opening game of the season 1 • Wellesley. 1 5 to 0. The game was played on Somerville Field, and the defeat of the home team was due chiefly to poor team work. It was Wellesley's third game, however, which may account somewhat for its splendid showing. The game was not Somerville's best exhibition of football, however, and much improvement is expected. J. Robertson, A. Anderson, and Wiley excelled for Somerville, while Stover, Putnam and Kuhle- wein put up a good game for Wellesley. WELLESLEY. SOMERVILLE. J. Carey, l.e..................l.e.. Iloban, Hall Putnam, l.t.................l.t., Joseph Murphy Bergen. Weeks, 1. g.. l.g., H. Robertson, EI. Anderson Tilton, c.................c., Cushing, Hopkins Harvey, r. g.......................r.g.. Wiley Coolidge. r.t.................r.t., J. Robertson W. Carey, r.e..........r.c., Doughty. Farnum Kuhlewein. q.b..............q.b.. Uianchi, Egan Curry. Finnerty, l.h......l.h., Ellis. Rubenstein Hatch, r.h.........................r.h., Bowen Stover, Fowle, f.b............f.b., A. Anderson Score—Wellesley, 15: Somerville, 0. Touch- downs—Coolidge, J. Carey. Goal from field—Put- nam. Umpire—Hvslop. Referee—Smith. Head linesman--McCarthv. Time - 10-minute periods. -------------------------------------- Somerville, 12; Xawrcnce, 0 Somerville defeated Lawrence, October 8, in a hard-fought game played on a soggy field. The showing made by the Somerville outfit was a de- cided improvement over that of the previous game with Wellesley. Lawrence kicked off to Somerville to start, and was down with the ball like a flash. The home team was unable to pierce the opposing defence and punted to the middle of the field. From here, by a eries of line plunges, the boys from the great mill city pushed ahead until Somerville was in the shadow of her goal posts. But here the defence stiffened and forced the offence to try a field goal, which failed. I11 the second period S .nerville started from her own thirty-five-yard line and by speedy work made two first downs. Then it was that Hayden broke loose and ran through the middle of the whole Lawrence team, all but ten yards of a touch- dr wn. This inspired the team with new life and in two rushes Bowen was over for a touchdown. The attempt at the goal failed. In the fourth period. Lawrence led another grand charge down the field, and a 1 mchd nvn looked inevitable, but at this moment Somer- ville's stonewall defence courageously withstood the attack and held. With but a few minutes to play. Ellis, by ex- cedent interference and clever running, carried the ball from bis own twenty-yard line down the field for a touchdown. The ball was re-called, how- ever. to the opponents' forty-yard line, where Ellis was claimed to have stepped offside. The final score was made by Bowen, who was materially aided by another brilliant run by Hayden and a tackle play by J. Robertson which brought the ball to tlie one-yard line. Joseph Murphy. Wiley. J. Robertson, Hayden, and A. Anderson shone for the home team while Redman. Fleming, and E. Perry played well for Lawrence. The game was played at Recreation Field. The score:— LAWRENCE HIGH. SOMERVILLE HIGH, (-lover. Blair, l.e., l.e., Iloban, Doughty. Farnum E. Perry, l.t...............l.t., J. Robertson Marsden, Cummings, l.g.. l.g.. H. Robertson. H. Anderson Callahan, c...............c.. Cushing. Hopkins J. Perry, r.g...............r.g.. A. Anderson Maginess. Eastwood, r.t.............r.t.. Wiley Delaney. Zelinsky, r.c..r.e.. Joseph Murphy Hall Redman, q.b.................q.b.. Bianchi. Egan Kennis, Marsden, l.h......l.h., Ellis, Rubenstein Higgins, r.h.........r.h.. Bowen. John Murphy Fleming, f.b......................f.b., Hayden Score—Somerville. 12: Lawrence. 0. Touch- downs— Bowen. (2). Umpire—McCarthy. Referee —Smith. Head linesman—Kolseth. Time—Ten- minute periods.