South Glens Falls High School - Arrowhead Yearbook (South Glens Falls, NY)

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KNEELING: Tom Prouty, Harold Washburn, Luther Taylor, Larry Hawkins, Steve Blakeslee. STANDING: Dick Sweet, Earl Helwig, Dick Bodette, Dave AIIen, Steve Dickinson, Steve Borgos, Gladwin Jackson. HEAD COACH: ANDREW MCGUFFIN I 958 VARSITY SCHEDULE Varsity 'ARGYLE, away .......... ARGYLE, home ...,..cc...c.., HUDSON FALLS, away ST. MARY'S, away .s..,.,c. c.... GRANVILLE, home ....c -- HUDSON FALLS, home ST. MARY'S, home ss..,...c HUDSON FALLS, home GLENS FALLS, home .....c,..c ,..c. FORT EDWARD, away WH ITEHALL, away ........, ,.... FORT EDWARD, home GRANVILLE, away ......... ..... 'non-league games We They 8 2 2 3 I 3 3 4 6 4 I0 2 8 7 5 O I 8 I2 2 II 6 7 8 3 7

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HAROLD WASHBURN, Pitcher LARRY , HAWKINS, l 2nd Base I 958 varsity baseball The Bulldogs turned in an over .500 average for the 1958 season, winning seven of their thirteen starts. Coach Andrew McGuffin led his team to the best season for South High since entering the Northern Conference. Pitchers Dick Bodette, Earl Helwig, Harold Washburn and Tom Prouty took turns hurling to catcher Dave Allen. Dick Sweet held down first base while Larry Hawkins and Earl Helwig guarded the keystone corner. Dick Farry did a great job at third base. ln the outfield, Luther Taylor, Steve Blakeslee, Steve Dickinson and Tom Prouty showed sensational fielding abil- ity. The Bulldogs had great hitters with Prouty L3857, Washburn t.308D, Taylor l.28ll, Sweet t.276l, and Allen C2625 leading the team. During the season, the Bulldogs split with Argyle, St. Mary's, Gran- ville and Fort Edward. Winning two out of three starts from Hudson Falls, the diamond-men took a single game from Whitehall, but lost one to Glens Falls. The Bulldogs were not shut out all season, but managed to blank Hudson Falls due to the fine pitching of Earl Helwig, who allowed the vis- itors only two hits for the game. Three of the six losses during the campaign were by one-run margins. Playing their final game for the Bulldogs were Allen, Sweet, Helwig, Farry, Taylor, Blakeslee, Dickinson and Bodette. The team lost eight players last,June but Hawkins, Prouty, Washburn and Jackson were available as a nucleus of the 1959 team. From the outstanding JayVee team came Don Flewelling, Sam Grover, Tom Cleland, Louie Luciano, Scott Gray and Henry Dwyer.

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KNEELING: John Hayes, James Gormely, Richard Kobor, James Bolio, and James Prendergast. STANDING: Gladwin Jackson, Thomas Cleland, Stephen Dickinson, Ronald Measeck, John Fitzgerald, and Robert Canales. varsity i L squad 'rack and field - 1958 ln the second season under Coach Ron Lennox, South High competed in class B Track for the first time in the school's history. Competition with larger schools at ie Johnstown Sectionals was complicated by mid-season injuries to key personnel, so 1ey were unable to repeat their previous Sectional Championship. The high point of the season for the South High cindermen was their convincing lctory at the Glens Falls Annual Invitational Meet at Glens Falls on May l0. Despite we stiff rivalry of Hudson Falls, St. Mary's, Glens Falls, Granville, Whitehall, Fort Edward, loversville and Corinth, the Bulldogs came through with top honors of the day. The 7 points tallied by South High earned them the beautiful trophy which graces the :hool's trophy case. The Bulldogs made their standout debut April 30 by crushing Fort Edward and t. Mary's at home, 5l-29-24. Here, Ron Measeck started a string of wins that was not wterrupted until his injury at the mid-season mark. Ron vaulted l0 feet and broad-jumped HEAD COACH. l8' l l for his double victory. Dick Kobor also scored a double victory ' in the l8O-yard low hurdles and the 220 dash. His 23 seconds time in the 220 was a new school record. Jim Gormely copped the milej Jim Bolio won the 880 and Jim Prendergast won the shot to make j JAV, their debut satisfactory. The After a 69-l5 romp over Ballston Spa, in their second meet, RON LENNOX ai ' 'X 5 Hudson Falls finally overcame South High's cindermen in their third outing. Still Measeck kept up his victorious rampage with a vault of lO' 6 and a jump of l9' 3 . Other victors in South High's first set- 'P' WR., back were Steve Dickinson, Jim Bolio, Dick Kobor and Jim Prender- gast. Final Score . . . Hudson Falls 57, South High 45. However, when South High ventured to Hudson Falls the following week, the Bulldogs demonstrated the fighting spirit of the South High cindermen. Here Ron Measeck vaulted ll' lV2 to set an outstanding high school record. f flew by both Hudson Falls and Whitehall to win by nine points. This . .. ' f liti