St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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66 THE 1940 ALBANIAN first Little Hoya score and the winning conversion occurred in the first six minutes, after which the winners were continually on the defensive until Eckrich's sudden seventy-six-yard touchdown-dash in the last period. The following week St. Albans suffered a complete reversal of form, but gained a lucky decision over a stronger Landon team. Following LeFevre's perfect coffin-corner kick, Denit Viciously tackled McKelway behind the goal for the winning two points. Thereafter Landon com- pletely outplayed their traditional rivals. Highlighting the game were the fine defensive play of Hannon and Hare's sixty-five-yard kick from behind his own goal line. Outstanding for Landon were Amussen's hard line plunging and Sager,s passing. Their next encounter was a hard-fought battle with a much heavier St. Paul's eleven, who won 13-7 . The Blues scored on the second play, when Hare received a fifteen-yard pass from Davidson and escaped three tacklers to run forty-five yards for a touchdown. However, St. Paul's recovered a Blue fumble on the latter,s ten-yard line and tied the score in two plays. The tie was broken in the last minute, when St. Paul,s intercepted a pass from Davidson and scored on the next play with a long pass of their own. In the season,s final, St. Albans gained an easy 19-0 victory over St. James. The regular Blue team started the game and quickly scored two touchdowns. With a comfortable lead, the reserves took over and at the half were on the Maroon five-yard line. In the third quarter the reserves tallied and were threatening again at the end of the game. The Blue defense limited St. James to one first-down and yielded but thirty-five yards. Baltimore Friends Boys, Latin ..... St. Andrew's . . Church Farm . . Georgetown Prep St. Paul,s ,.... , Landon . . . St. James , won won lost, won lost, lost, won won

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ST. ALBANS SCHOOL 65 thwarted many goal-line drives. Offensively, the team was a continual threat in the air, for the accurate passing from rangy Dave Davidson to short George Trible accounted for many sizeable gains. The Blue,s ground game was strongest through the middle of the line and on its sharp-cutting, off-tackle plays, where the work of next year's captain, Mike Rizik, and of LeFevre was good. In the first game St. Albans scored a hard-fought 13-0 victory over Baltimore Friends on the latter,s field. The Blues, alternating passes with powerful line plunges, pushed their opponents back from the opening minutes of play. The first St. Albans score came in the first period, when a pass from Davidson to Hare advanced the ball to the Friends one-yard line. From there, LeFevre plunged over for the touchdown. For the final score, Dave Davidson threw a twenty-five-yard pass to Trible, who crossed the goal line. This same combination accounted for the winning score in the first few minutes of the Boys' Latin game. After the score, neither team threatened until the last half, which was entirely dominated by the Boys, Latin team, whose superior weight and reserve strength kept the Blues continually on the defensive. When the final whistle blew, the ball was in the Baltimore team,s possession on St. Albans one-yard line. St. Albans lost their third game 19-0 to an unbeaten St. Andrew's team in Delaware. In the first quarter, Dick Myers recovered a fumbled kick on the host,s ten. Two plays later, LeFevre smashed over the goal, but fumbled, St. Andrew's recovering for a touchback. For the Crimson's first score, White passed to Clark, who sprinted to the goal. The other two touchdowns resulted from inter- cepted passes. l St. Albans next won 29-0 over a weak, but game Church Farm team. From the opening whistle there was no doubt of the outcome. Chewning scored twice, Schoenfeld and Sunday each tal- lied once, and Hare completed the scor- ing with a field goal. The Blue defense did not allow Church Farm a first-down throughout the contest. On November 3, although amassing twelve first-downs to Georgetown's two and completing fourteen passes to their opponent's one, the Blues lost 13-12 to Georgetown Preparatory for the first time in seven years. Both St. Albans scores were made by Walt Swift after sustained marches down the field. The

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ST. ALBANS SCHOOL 67 Front row, l. to r.: Snyder, Alexander. Cousins, Ghormley. Second row, l. to r.: Cooper. Cochrane, R. Myers, V. N. Philip, Triblc, Pizgott, Manger. Third row, l. to r.: Mr. Smith, Sunday, E. .lacobsen,'J. Myers, VValker. Magruder, Morrill. Back row, l. to r.: S. Davidson, G. Smith, Fish, Borden, Ernst, Bauernschmidt, Hustvedt, Breuninzer Soccer VAN Nizss PHILIP, Capfaizz MR. SMITH ScoT'I' MORRILL, Manager HE soccer team, with its first undefeated season, emerged as the Dis- trict Private School League champions for the third consecutive year, and hence the School will have permanent possession of the plaque. In League competition, St. Albans won four games, tied two, and were scored on only once in the entire season. With two impressive victories over St. James, the team also won the Interstate Academic Conference championship. With a majority of last year's team representing the School, Mr. Smith was very slightly handicapped by any loss of material. Consequently, in the opening game with Georgetown Preparatory, the team displayed a well coordinated attack of the forward line, backed up by the stellar defensive play of the half-backs, who kept the ball in Georgetown ter- ritory for over three-quarters of the game. However, the team lacked a scoring punch and could score only once. In the last minute of play, Georgetown made the only goal scored against the Blues all season, as