St Pauls School - Sigillum Yearbook (Garden City, NY)

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FOOTBALL KNEELING: Stetson, Lomax, Koester, Cron, Stutzmann, Canning, Smith, Fischofer. SECOND Row: Man- ager Klinedinst, Seibert, Petrou, Sky Smith, Tuck, Cook, Convey, Hollmann, Keller. THIRD Row: Coach Muller, Spurrier, Coots, Ceravolo, Millere, Ohman, Nagle, McGee, assistant coach Bush. The 1953 St. Paul's football team completed a most successful season by finishing in second place in the lvy League standings. Greatly helped by the combined etforts of co-captains Bob Cron and Fred Stutzmann, Pete Coots, and Charlie Ohman, who gained positions on the All Ivy League team, along with teammates Bob Spurrier and Ronnie Petrou, who received honor- able mention, the Saints compiled a very impressive record of 4 wins and 2 setbacks. However, the long awaited Poly game, the second oldest school boy rivalry in the country, in which the Saints were heavily favored, was canceled due to unavoidable circum- stances, During the first few practice sessions, coaches Mul- ler and Bush had a most pessimistic outlook for the outcome of the season. However, the boys being eager and hard working, they were able to produce a good team. Page Fifty-two This successful season began with a 7-6 win over Trinity. Although it was a low and close scoring game, the Saints proved time and time again that they were the better of the two teams. ln the opening minutes of the contest, both teams suffered from considerable nervousness and there were a great many fumbles through which the Blue and Gold were able to score six quick points. It wasn't until the second quarter, however, that the Mullermen settled down and began to move. Through the extended runs of Fred Stutz- mann and Pete Coots the Saints marched to the Trin- ity twenty-hve yard line. From there they scored on the next play. Bob Spurrier plunged over the line for the extra point which, as it turned out, proved to be the deciding margin for a St. Paul's victory. In the next game with the heavily favored I-lackley team, the Red and Black once again emerged victori- ous, this time by the score of 29-19. In this contest

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Charlie Ohman, who scored three times on long aerial passes, proved to be the outstanding factor. Through- out the entire game, the hard charging St. Paul's line kept the Hackley backs well hemmed in and limited to a minimum score. The final points for the Saints came when Bob Cron smashed through the opponents' offensive formation to score a touchback. The game ended soon after with the Red and Black possessing a 2-U record. The following weekend when the Saints played host to Riverdale, they displayed their finest offensive and defensive maneuvers of the year. However, when the final whistle blew and the scoring was ended, the Saints had lost their first game of the season, 27-20. Pete Coots and Bill Stetson were the main standouts for the Saints' offensive attack. Stetson scored on a pass and Coots added two more tallies, one of which also came on a pass. The other came on a forty-five yard end run. Riverdale drew first blood in the open- ing frame after marching sixty yards to pay dirt. All afternoon the tide of tlte game kept changing. ln their first game away, the Saints traveled to the Bronx where they met a small but surprisingly good Horace Mann eleven. lt wasn't until the Hilltoppers unexpectedly broke the ice in the first quarter that the Red and Black began to move. Then, sparked by a series of ground plays, the Saints came within strik- ing distance of the Horace Mann goal. Here they took to the air once again. This time, however, it was Fred Nagle who was at the receiving end of the touch- down and extra-point passes. From here on the Saints held their lead, and not once did Horace Mann threaten to score. Wlten the game eventually ended, the Saints had added another six points to their tally, putting them in the lead, 14-6. It was in their next contest that the Saints rolled up their highest score, a 40-6 triumph over Stony Brook. In this game St. Paul's proved to be much too over- powering for the hapless Blue and Gray. Through extended runs by Bill Stetson and Dick Koester and by long passes the Red and Black were able to score in every period. Three touchdowns came on runs and the other three came on passes. The single Stony Brook tally came in the second quarter on a twenty-five yard end-zone pass. In the final game of the season, the Saints lost a chance to become the best preparatory school team on Long Island by submitting to a QU-7 defeat at the hands of La Salle Military Academy. Oddly enough the Saints led 7-6 until the end of the third quarter when La Salle suddenly broke loose and scored two quick touchdowns. The lone St. Paul's tally came early in the second period on a long pass into the end zone. The 1953 season was officially closed with the elec- tion of two new co-captains, Williaitt Seibert and Ronald Petrou, and the awarding of letters to fourteen players and one manager. Those who received letters were Robert Cron, Robert Spurrier, Peter Coots, Fred- erick Stutzmann, Frederick Nagle, Charles Ohman, William Stetson, Williaitt Seibert, Ronald Petrou, Stu- art Smith, Richard Koester, Charles Fischofer, Maurice Convey, George Cook, and manager Paul Klinedinst. Page fFifty-tbree