St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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St. Albans, eleven registered its first victory of the season by overwhelming Balti- more Friends 46-6 on Satterlee Field October 27. With the backfield running wild, the Blues rolled up 33 points to their opponents none by half time. By the end of the game, Mr. Wagner had sent in all the reserves, the score being St. Albans 46, Bal- timore Friends 16. Outweighed and outcharged, the St. Albans eleven went down 19-7 before an inspired Georgetown Prep team on November 3. Prep scored in the Hrst, third and fourth periods, but St. Albans was not able to tally until the final quarter, when a lateral from Williams to Harwood to Bob Smith was good for siX points. The game ended soon after the Blues' tally with Georgetown Prep 19, St. Albans 7. In their second I.A.C. game of the season, St. Albans defeated St. Andrews 13-O on the losers' field on the tenth of November. Both the Blue scores were registered by Bob Smith in the Hrst half, neither team being able to score in the final two quarters. In a thrill-packed football game, St. Albans' eleven defeated a fighting Landon School, 28-19, a week later on the loser's gridiron. With Schoenfeld and Harwood sparking the way, the Blues drew first blood early in the second period, when Schoen- feld took a reverse from Harwood and raced thirty yards for a tally. This victory marked the eighth time in the last ten years that St. Albans has defeated Landon. In the final game of the season, St. Albans edged out St. James 7-0 to clinch the I.A.C. championship. The only touchdown of the afternoon was scored by Har- wood in the first quarter at the end of a forty-yard drive powered by Schoenfeld and Bob Smith. The remainder of the game was a seesaw affair, in which neither team was able to score. The game ended with the Blues on top of a 7-0 score. Devitt School . .lost 16-23 Charlotte Hall . . .lost 7-13 Baltimore Friends ,.,..., won 46-16 Georgetown Prep , ,lost 7-19 St. Andrews .... Landon . , . . St. James . . .won 13-0 won 28-19 .won 7-O A T HLETICS194S

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Back row, left to right: Kie-r 1Assistant Managerj, Mr. Whelan, Mr. Wagner, Lockwood 1Man:-lgerl. Fourth row, left to right: Faulkner, P. Shorb, D. Carter, Plaster, Meader, Hartford, Linke, McHugh. Third row, left to right: J. Byron, Baxter, James, J. Miller, Birney, West, R. Smith, Adair. Second row, left to right: E. Austin, D. Daniels, R. Williams, Stirling, Harwood, Ericson, Orem, P. Smith. Front row, left to right: Powel, Collin, Jenks, Schoenfeld, Reeves 1Ca1JtainJ, Monroney, McCulloch, R. Lee. Football REEVES, Cajlfaizz Locicwooo, Nimmgw' Mia. WAGNER Kink, A.YSf.Yf!l17f Mamzgvr MR. WHELAN HEN football practice began last fall, Mr. Wagner announced that a new coach was going to help to train this year's gridmen. Tommy Whelan, former Cath- olic University star, was the man chosen to aid Mr. Wagner in the task of making thirty-two out-of-condition boys into a well-knit group capable of playing football. St. Albans played its opening game of the 1944 season against Devitt on Cctober 16, on Satterlee Field. Leading until the final quarter, the Blues, with two touch- downs, scored on passes from Bob Smith to Bruce West and a safety by Stirling, became exhausted and fell prey to Devitt's sparkling aerial offensive. The Devitt team left the field on the long end of a 23-16 score. The following week the Blues journeyed to Charlotte Hall. There on a rain soaked held they were able to score once, this on a reverse from West to Schoenfeld, and their opponents twice. ln the final period with the score 13-7 in their favor, Charlotte Hall once more moved toward the Albanite goal. This time, however, the Blue line held, and the game ended with the Marylanders ahead 13-7. Tl-IE ALBANIAN'

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. new fs viafaaii i F A w+fss,..i.,i..g.,4.ii1ff3i2f1. Standing, left to right: Mr. Davison, Stickle, J. VVilliams, Heartlield, Jones, Monroney, Mr. Smith, Baxter, G. Byron, Hinton, Hollerith tManager7. Sealed, left to right: J. Byron, J. Austin, Plumb, Schoenfeld 1CaptainJ, Reeves, Ericson. Beck. SCllO1.Nl'liLlJ, Captain MR. SMITH l'lUl.l.l'.RlTH, Manager MR. DAv1soN on THE third year in succession the St. Albans team lost the one game in the sea- son that cost them the IAC championship. They became, however, co-winners with Sidwell Friends of the City Championship and ended the season with a record of five wins, two ties, and one loss. The Blues opened their season by defeating Sidwell Friends, on Satterlee Field. The game was exciting, for Friends broke through to score shortly after the kick- off. Through Baxter's tackling, however, the ball was kept evenly in both ends of the field, until Monroney tied the score in the second period, and Byron kicked a goal in the closing minutes of the game. The second game, also played on Satterlee Field, resulted in the defeat of Lan- don, 1-O, on February 2. When Monroney scored in the second period, the game be- came exciting and in spite of the Browns' threatening the Blue goal, the resistance of- fered by Austin prevented scoring. Six days later the Blues encountered their first defeat at the hands of Friends. In spite of a good defensive game played by Jones and Owen, the Friends, having scored in the Hrst quarter, made two goals in quick succession. Then Byron scored, THE ALBANIAN