St Andrews School - Criss Cross Yearbook (Middletown, DE)

Page 34 text:

Tl-TE '38 FOOTBALL SEASCDN AST SepTember TwenTy-TourTh seven leTTermen and some ThirTy odd oTher boys meT on The pracTice Tield To sTarT The TooTball season oT l938, From This huslqy group oT aspiranTs, iT was lvlr. lvlaos iob To piclc boys who would worlf TogeTher as a Team. Ably assisTed by lvlr. ScoTT, he seT To worlc, and on The eighTh oT OcTober The school wiTnessed The resulTs. ThaT day The Team played Dover l-ligh School in a rough, TasT game. l-lowever, The Dover Team, which was desTined To become STaTe Champion, proved Too sTrong Tor The SainTs by a score oT I3-O. The nexT Friday The Team beaT an obviously unequal Ferris School, 47-7. The Ferris Team gave a scrappy accounT oT iTselT, buT was no maTch Tor The heavier Red and WhiTe eleven. On 0cTober TwenTyfTirsT a powerTul, aggressive ST. Paul's eleven invaded The ST. Andrews domain and aTTer a bruising game, wallced OTT The Tield vicTorious, I3-6. The conTesT was TeaTured by The greaT line play oT bofh Teams and by The plunging oT Bob Browne. The nexT week. The Team won iTs second vicTory oT The season by walloping Friends School, 31-O. This easy win musT have gone To The SainTs' head, because Their nexT game was losT To an inspired Tower l-lill Team by a 7-O margin. The hardesT ToughT game oT The year was played aT ChesTnuT T-lill, and was losT, I2-7. ExcepT Tor a Thrilling TiTTy-seven yard run by Bill Sommervell in The dying minuTes oT The game, iT was a raTher swiTT TighT beTween Two very egual lines. The lasT game oT The season was played on a muddy Tield againsT Landon, in Washing- Ton. An even maTch, iT ended aT The appropriaTe score oT OfO. The lineup oT The Team during mosT oT The season was as Tollows: ends, Ervin and Clarlqy Taclqles, Pilling and Phillips: guards, Menzies and SiberT7 cenTer, Moor, guarTer- baclc, Jones lcapT.l: halTbaclcs, Sommervell and Ragland: Tullbaclc, R. Browne. 30

Page 33 text:

SPORTS REVIEW l-lE l938 Crew season may be deemed a success even Though The gig did noT bring back The King's Cup. The Tinal reckoning showed Tour vicTories and Two deTeaTs, boTh oT These in regaTTas. The varsiTy Tour beaT Penn CharTer, GermanTown, McDonough, and The Penn Erosh. They losT The King's Cup by Two-TiTThs oT a second in a race ThaT had The enTire gallery roaring. ln The lnTer-ScholasTics aT PrinceTon, a second and a Third were garnered againsT sTiTT compeTiTion. Sailor Bill Clarke was'elecTed capTain oT The '39 Crew, and wiTh eighT leTTermen back, The season looks very promising. The '39 WresTling Team, under undeTeaTed capTain Jack Menzies, wiTh Tour wins and Three deTeaTs, proved one oT The besT yeT. The WilmingTon Y.M.C.A. eTTecTed our TirsT deTeaT oT The season. The second maTch, againsT an experienced George School Team, also wenT on The wrong side oT The ledger. Then The Tide Turned and ST. Albans was Taken, 26-8. A week 'aTer, anoTher vicTory was scored Tor Coach Cam- eron's grapplers againsT Episcopal. Travelling away To Overbrook Blind School, The maTmen meT Their Third and lasT deTeaT oT The season. The Tollowing maTch was perhaps The besT ST. Andrew's has ever seen. WiTh every man giving his uTmosT, The S. A. men emerged vicTorious over a sTrong buT over-conTider-T Lawrenceville Team. An easy vicTory over Tome clirnaxed The greaT season. The baskeTbaII season did noT show any specTacular resulTs as regards scores. Though The Team did noT win any oT iTs games, sTill a greaT many oT Them were losT only by close margins. The spiriT oT The boys under capTain Ervin was aT all Times excel- lenT. NexT year's Team, led by capTain-elecT Ridge Clark, should be a much sTronger and more poised ouTTiT. I938's baseball opened on a hopeTul noTe wiTh a vicTory over Eerris. From Then on The Team had iTs ups and downs, and The Tinal counT was seven wins eighT losses. The inTield was air-TighT, and wiTh Bud Harris, Charly Murphy, George Buckner, and Ken Ervin as hurlers, The season may be counTed a success. The loss oT eighT leTTermen will be a serious handicap To The coming Team, buT The greaTesT hole To be Tilled is ThaT leTT by Big Ed Eddy on The receiving end oT The baTTery. The varsiTy Tennis season in '38 proved To be a very successTuI one, wiTh six wins and only one deTeaT. The combine oT AusTin, Brooks, Turner, Reade, l-lousTon, Bare, and Turnbull was a powerTul one, and wiTh only Three oT This group gone, The coming season should come ouT equally as well as The lasT. 29

Page 35 text:

WRESTLING TEAM Top Row: Mr. SCOTT, P. Brown, Menzies, Moor, Turner, VV. Clarke, M Bofufom Row: Come-TL VV'ilTiams, Cary, Barlcfie, BASKETBALL TEAM To Row: Mr, ETQMMQ, Thomas, Ervin, Racjamd, E. JoT'ms+or' F7 Boifofm Rcvf: R. Clarlf, HempLTL Burfcw, W. Whife. 31