Saint Andrews School - Andrean Yearbook (Barrington, RI)

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Page Twenty-eight The A N D R E A N Varsity Basketball Starters Charles C. Fields, John Griffiths, Donald Redfern, Lawrence Vilardi, Robert Jones. Basketball Squad Second Row (left to right): George Benford, Harold Mararian (Managers), Charles Fields, John Griffiths, Donald Redfern, Robert Jones, Lawrence Vilardi, Roger E. Downing (Coach). First Row: Richard Nettles, Donald Mcintosh, Robert Jaworski, Richard Rice, Robert Downie, James Duke, Robert Jellison, Larry Worth.

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The A N I) K E A N Page Twentu-xeven Football 1952 The Saints had a most successful season in 1952 by winning six out of seven games. According to all reports it was the best record made since 1937. All season we were plagued by injuries of various sorts but the boys were able to overcome this handicap with amazing spirit and team play. We got off to a jittery start at North Kingstown, where we lost 21-0. Three starting players were lost for the season and we had to rebuild all over again. We came up with a combination that won six straight games. On September 26th, we played in McCoy Stadium, Pawtucket, against a surprisingly strong Pawtucket Vocational team. The Saints started on their win- ning ways by beating Vocational 20-13. Our next game took place at Tabor Academy in Marion, Mass. Tabor is known for its powerful football teams and this year proved to be no exception. After leading 14-0 at the half, Tabor tied it up midway through the third quarter but with the chips down St. Andrew ' s came through with a fourth period score that wrapped the game up 21-14. We spent most of the next week patching miscellaneous bumps and bruises and getting ourselves in shape for Mt. Pleasant High School ' s visit to our campus on October 10th. Mt. Pleasant brought down a squad of 52 players (we had 15) and the outlook was quite dismal considering that we were out-weighed 15 pounds per man. The half ended 7-6 in our favor but the effect of playing against a two platoon team were beginning to show. Strangely enough the second half proved to be the turning point of the season. The Saints completely ignored the over- whelming odds and proceeded to turn the game into a complete rout. The final score was 33-1 2 in our favor. By this time everyone was convinced that we had a good ball club and noth- ing could stop us. In the following two weeks the Saints ran roughshod over St. George ' s 38-0, and defeated a stubborn Moses Brown squad 13-0. For our last game we traveled to Tilton, New Hampshire, to play the Golden Rule Farm School. Although Tilton fielded an extremely scrappy ball club our boys were not to be denied their sixth straight win. With the temperature wavering around 20 degrees above zero and a snowstorm to boot, we handed the New Hampshire rivals a 40-0 pasting using only 13 players. Incidentally, that ' s all we had left. It might be interesting to review some of the team statistics. Running from a Missouri split T, we scored a total of 25 touchdowns in 6 games. Total yards gained, passing, 1039. Defense allowed only an average of 6V2 points per game plus 36 yards gained per game on the ground.

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The A N I) H E A N Page Twenty-nine Basketball 1952-1953 Following a very successful football season the varsity basketball team could not seem to get into high gear . The season ' s record included two wins and nine losses. The nine defeats were not all wide margins, however. A 52-46 loss from Norton, a 52-46 defeat at Case and a 43-42 breath-taker at Wrentham in an overtime period, all kept the spectators on the edge of their seats. The Saints won a very impressive game over a tall St. George ' s team 61-35. It was one of those days when everything worked smoothly. Passing, shooting and good team-play was evident throughout. Our other win was over Wrentham, 47-25, in which the boys looked good and played excellent ball. The varsity lacked in height with Bob Jones, center, who is six feet tall, our biggest man. Other members of the team were Don Redfern and John Griffiths as varsity guards; Russell Brown and Charlie Fields as forwards with Don AAclntosh, Lawrence Vilardi, and Dick Nettles standing by as replacements. iiiiiiMiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiimiMiiiiiiim