St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Mn kttMPkLy Flk MD VHFSIEY Basketball 1-us YEAR the basketball team surprxsed much of the School by dxsplaymg a Haxr for line basketball and by wmmng seven games wh1le losmg elght In the newly formed IA C the team captured thlrd place compnlmg a five and five record m conference play Most responsible for the 1mprovement of the team was the coaching of Dutch Usxlaner who spent many hours dur mg the games quletly dxrectmg the team and the OmC13.lS from the bench The team opened the season before Chnstmas vacatlon w1th a 49 42 vxctory over Gallaudet Prep as erry Lyman hlgh scorer for the season scored 19 pomts The layoff durmg the vacatxon showed 1n the team s next game as they were outhustled by Georgetown Prep and lost, 68 58 A 22 pomt performance by Barry Brokaw of Prep offset the 24 pomt effort by Lyman and a 16 pomt effort by Co Captam Ed Tr1ckett In the next three games the team proved vnctorlous beatmg St ames St Stephens and Sxdwell Frrends Co Captam Sandy McPeck and Charlle onas played good all around ball and Jerry Lyman contmued hrs torrxd scor1ng pace as the team dlsplayed the steady basketball whxch has been lackmg at St Albans for some tlme ust before mld year exams the team lost a close game to St Andrews 63 58 Wlth the bxg men of the St Albans team lVlcPeck and Lyman foulmg out the Blues could not qulte catch the boys from Delaware Agamst Coolldge St Albans faded ln the second half and lost 56 40 Rlcky Martln, play mg h1s best game of the year scored 12 polnts and plcked off 15 rebounds ln the losmg cause Toby Symlngton played an excellent game as dtd Bruce MacDougall but lt was not enough to stop the fine shootmg of Coolldge s Elvls Butler and Barry Wolfe 96 ATHLETICS 1959 Front raw, I. to r.: D. a in, C. Jonas, Tris: e , 1: ec , man Second row, I. to r.: Shreve, R. Jonas, Hiss, Symington, a 1: Last row, I. Io r.: B. ac ougall, E. Smith, Wynkoop, Ricken C . . . ., , . ' ' tc 77 - , - .I 9 ' 1 ' . . . , 9 . . . , 9 9 ' ,I 9 ' 9 . - J - , 9 . , . J . , . , - . ee ' 77 ' ' - 9 9 9 9 - 9 ' ' ' , . 9 9 . . , .

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112 eff Klxne defeated Woodrum, 5 4, and at 122 Bennett agam showed hls man the llghts After three setbacks the v1s1tors again scored on Charlle Martins rldmg txme dec1s1on at 145 Wllson declsloned Kammer and then ohn Smathers used a figure four to brmg the Blues three more pomts agamst a man twenty pounds heavier At 175 and unhmxted, Post and Scholz were declsloned but kept the Blue margm safe After thls gruelmg meet the matmen easxly stunned vxsxtlng St Stephens 44 5 on anuary 21 Wlnnxng ten of the eleven matches, the Blues turned ln a total of s1x pms and three decxsxons Fastest of the pxns was Pxerson s whlch took only 38 seconds Bennett took 44 seconds to pm hls man Kllne Wathen Martln and Post went into the second perlod The polnt v1ctor1es were made by Wxlson Smathers and Scholz At Woodberry Forest anuary 24 the St Albans grapplers won s1x matches t1ed two, and lost three to g1VC them a 24 15 vlctory over thelr hosts The only Blue pm of the meet was made by Klme who stopped his opponent m 57 seconds of the second period Plerson Bennett Martm Smathers and Wxlson all won on pomts and Wathen and Scholz tled the1r men Bob Clxaborne Scholz s opponent had pmned all of hxs prevlous opponents but was unable to score on Scholz The Spartan wrestlers of Walter ohnson were defeated by the V1S11Z1I'lg St Albans team on February 5 Bennett and Wathen pmned their men and chalked up three team pomts apxece by virtue of thelr declslons The final meet of the year at home wxth Gallaudet February 10, saw St Albans agam vxc torlous 26 17 Pierson wrestlmg above h1s usual welght of 103 suffered his only defeat at the hands of Karl Kovats Bennetts and K11nes matches were forfelted Moser and B111 Warren fl75 tled thelr men The other Blues all won declslons In the seventh annual Metropolltan Wrestlxng Tournament the wrestlers were able to take on y seventh place but were only a few pomts away from takmg fourth Three Blues placed ln the tournament eff Khne second at 112 Bennett thlrd at 1221 and W1lson fthxrd at 154 Coach MacLean has submxtted an espec1ally rough schedule for the commg year Thls IS 11lus tratlve of the teams sp1r1t and coupled w1th the fact that only one letter man IS leavmg thls year should make next year one of the most excltlng and successful years for wrestlmg at St Albans Our best wlshes go to Coast MacLean and to Captam elect Wathen and all h1s teammates for the very successful season they deserve next year W' Avatars SEASON SUMMARY B a1r won 40 13 Severn won 23 13 Eplscopal won 22 17 St Stephen s won 44 Woodberry Forest won 24 15 Walter Johnson won 31 10 P M K1 Gallaudet won 2617 THE ALBANIAN 95 9,1 ' ' , ' u , J , . . . . , 9 ' 9 'Q J . . , . . . , . 9 a 9 s - 9 s - :J r ' 9 9 - 9 a x 1 9 ' . , . . . 1 9 1 1 ' ' r ' ' 1 1 , . , . 0 . ' 9 -J 1 7, 1 1 1- . , .. . 7 7 . ' -5 Catain . ine '

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The first game wlth Landon saw the Blues walloped 62 30 as Trtckett led the Blue scormg wxth 12 pomts Fred Hetzel All Metropolrtan center from Landon led the scormg w1th 24 pomts and also led m reboundmg St Albans lost to Eplscopal 48 41 as the result of poor shootmg but atoned for the loss by beatmg St ames 61 51 as Trlckett scored 21 pomts and Lyman scored 16 Gerry Wynkoop the Jonas brothers and Mcpeck all played well and the basketball team won 1ts Hfrh game In the httle gym of Sldwell Frlends the team was nearly upset by a hustlmg Frxends team but rallied to w1n 53 50 Lyman scored 29 pomts 1nclud1ng a foul shot w1th less than a mmute left to put St Albans m front 51 50 Frxends lost the ball out of bounds and Ricky Martxn made a basket as the game ended In thexr most gratlfymg game of the year St Albans lost to a hlghly ranked Landon team 46 40 Playmg a ball control type of basketball St Albans outhustled the Bears on defense walted for the good shots on offense and at the end of the hrst half led 19 18 However Landon s hexght made the dlfference rn the second half and Landon managed to eek out a vxctory Trxckett led the Blue scor1ng wlth 14 pomts and collected 7 The next day the Blues played host to Kingswood School from Hartford Connectlcut and won 55 48 over the Connectlcut team whlch was handlcapped by a lack of helghr Trxckett and Lyman led the scormg with 19 and 14 pomts respectlvely Bruce MacDougall and Sandy McPeck played well clefensnvely and Coach Usllaner was pleased wxth the way h1s team progressed over the past two years Mr Us1laner s pleasure was short l1ved however as the team dropped the last two games of the year to St Stephen s and Georgetown Prep In the St Stephens game Lyman broke his wrlst and the unmerclful St Stephen s team responded wxth a 65 41 trouncmg of the Blue qumtet The Prep team was no gentler for the husthng Hoyas romped to a 76 58 v1ctory despite a 25 pomt effort by Eddle Trickett After two seasons at St Albans Mr Usllaner has devel oped the strength needed for the future The boys return1ng next year are experxenced in the style of play wxth whlch Dutch has had much success The 1960 Varsxty basket ball team wxll be strong and ready to reap the frults of hxs coachmg The basketball team thanks Mr Usxlaner to whom they owe their success and the School for the support they gave at the games The best of luck goes to next year s co captams Toby Sym1ngton and Dlck onas TI-IE ALBANIAN 97 ' 1 - 1 ' 1 o ' , 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' ' 1 a , ' I 1 , . , .. . - 1 - 1 1 , . . . 1 ' - 1 1 rebounds. 1 1 1 - , . 1 . , . ' ' 1 1 7 , . . . 1 1 , . . - 1 - , - o , n - Q! 7! ' ' 1 1 , . ' ' 1