Springfield College - Massasoit Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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Etyt iflassasoit 23 basketball; Seymour, ice hockey; Elliott, baseball; and Henckel, captain of the track team. We succeeded in carrying off the championship in ice hockey, lacrosse, and baseball. The field hockey was won by the class of 1903 by a score of 1 to o. It was known as the most desperate game played at the school since the introduction of that sport. The baseball and ice hockey games were won with apparent ease, and much surprise was depicted on the faces of 1902 when their fame as ice hockeyists faded before the coming glory of the Orange and the Black. The baseball championship was a simple story of 27 to 8. I he tale was told by Gray and was punctuated bysnake-hkecurveswhich appeared like ? P ? ? ? to our worthy opponents. The track team of the |umor year cap- tured two events in the interclass meet. The other classes thought we were

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tfljc JWassasott referred to the school football team, and it was not long before a number of our men were ranked among the best players of the school. The class athletics received due attention. It was hardly to be expected that a winning team in football or hockey could be developed in a few weeks, at least when it was to meet men of two years’ training; but ’04’s athletic pol- “1 icy was far-reaching, aiming rather to develop teams which should capture school championships later in its career. The result of athletic enthusiams was very marked — Seifert and Laudenslager began training at once for the ten-mile cross country run, and Ashley and Rea commenced a scientific study as to how to play field hockey without talking. During the junior year the captains of our class teams were Vose, field hockey; Gray, football; Barrier,

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24 3Tljr up in the air, and were sure of it when Seymour made the running high jump (5.5 1-4 and the pole vault (10.4). We h ate to tell the story of the middle year. It was entirely too easy The far-sighted policy of the athletic committee succeeded so well that all the championship games came to us in rapid succession. 1905 couldn’t get their breath, and 1903 were simply out-classed. Not that they did not try hard enough, and talk a good deal about it, and Tommy Clark often knit his mas- sive brows and ran his fingers through his flaxen hair, but it was no use; ’04 was always on top, and then the class rooters supplied energy enough to win any hockey game, almost without players, provided the sticks had been given a fair start. The captains of the class teams during this successful year were as follows: Elliott, field hockey; Moraller, basketball; Gray, ice hockey; Pinneo, baseball; and Holmes and Maier, track team. In the senior year, ’04 succeeded in holding the championship in field hockey and basketball. The games by which these honors were retained were particularly strenuous. The field hockey game was so closely contested that 13 minutes’ desperate play was required after the expiration of the two 35-mmute halves, before a goal could be scored. The entire student body was more or less interested in the celebration which followed this game. The class of 1905 were determined to take the basketball championship, but at the last minute the old-time “ Jasm” of ’04 reasserted itself. The captains of the class teams during the senior year were Seymour, field hockey; Rea, ice hockey; Elliott and Abbott, basketball; and Gray, baseball. (Note: At the time of the publication of this history, but three class games had been played.) Part IV. Reminiscences It was on the 26th of November, 1902, that Doctor Doggett was heard to remark, as he rubbed his nose, “The Middle Class has been the dominant class during the past century.” This remark was suggested by the after effects of the hockey “P-rade” of the day before. Never in the history of Old T. S. had such a jollification occurred; nor has it since been approached, except by the celebration held in honor of a similar victory in