Thatcher School - El Archivero Yearbook (Ojai, CA)

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72 EL ARCHIVERO a slow start, and the experienced collegiate players took advantage of the fact by scoring three goals in the first quarter. Gates retaliated with one and Rich with two, but the fast U.C.L.A. forwards matched them with three more, making the final score 6-3. After the game Thacher was the guest of its opponents at the U.C.L.A.-Stanford football game at the Coli- seum, and on the way back to school the group stopped at Tip's for an enormous dinner. On November lst the entire Cate School arrived at Thacher to see its varsity defeat a favored Thacher squad. With Gates and Rich each scoring one, the home team dominated the first half of the game completely, and many more attempted shots were stopped by the agile Blue goalie. The third quarter found the situation reversed, and the Cate team racked up 3 points before they could be halted. Neither side could score again, and the game ended a victory for Cate, 3-2. The weekend of the Fall Dance found the Green Zebras facing Webb. With the added encouragement of the girls, the team started fast. Rich, Helmholz, and Gates each tallied one goal during the first period. When Rich broke his leg, the Captain moved to center-forward position and slammed three more shots past the Webb goal guard before the gun went off. The Hnal game of the season Was against Midland. On the results of this match depended the winner of the coveted Lowery Cup. The Varsity also hoped to maintain the clean sweep which the three lower teams had thus far managed to attain for Thacher that day. Petit and Nicolaus kicked through one apiece in the first half. Although the Midland forwards did score once in the third quarter, the remainder of the game was a stand-off. The final whistle blew, and the field immediately became a mass of Thacher rooters who swarmed around the team and carried Captain Gates and Coach Miller from the field to receive the Lowery Cup and complete the first clean sweep for either school in many years. This was the first time that Thacher had won the Cup. At the banquet Wendel Nicolaus was elected to captain next year's team. After the season was over, the various soccer coaches chose Tony Bryan and Perry Gates as members of the All-League Team. Chris Rich and Dave Behnke received honorable mention. This year's squad consisted of: Forwards: Bryan, Petit, Gates, Helm- holz, Nicolaus, Labbe, D. Williams, Halfbacks: Pleasants, Heard, Bolduan, and Coleman, Fullbacks: Myrin and Behnke, Goal Guard: J. Lewis. SECOND SOCCER TEAM Coached by Mr. Thacher and led by Co-captains Tom Bell and Harry Wyeth, the second soccer team compiled a 2-win, 3-loss record. The initial game was played at Thacher against Midland on October ll. The visiting team was fast and showed superior ball control, which paid off

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EL ARCHIVERO 71 Back Row: Mr. Miller. Helmholz, Labbe, Bolduan, D. Williams, White fMgr.D. Middle Row: Heard, Nicolaus, J. Lewis, Pleasants. Clyde, Bellnke. Front Row: Myrin, Rich, Cates KCapt.J Bryan. Petit, Coleman. S O C C E R FIRST TEAM SOCCER IS year Captain Perry Gates and Mr. Miller led the varsity soccer squad to a successful 4-2 won-lost record for the season. Gates booted in 12 of the 30 points which the team scored in all its games, while Thacher's de- fense let only 12 balls enter the goal. On October 8 Thacher got off to a strong start by defeating Midland 5-2. George Helmholz sparked the team with two goals, which he headed between the posts on corner kicks from Bryan and Petit. Forwards Gates and Rich contributed one and two, respectively, to cancel the threat of the two goals which Midland scored during the third quarter. The next weekend the varsity traveled to Caltech to Win an easy 12-0 victory. Captain Gates led with five points, while goalie John Lewis had an easy job, touching the ball only six times in the entire game. On the following Saturday the team faced its toughest competition of the season when it met U.C.L.A. at Westwood. The team this time got off to

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EL ARCHIVERO 73 by goals in the second and third' quarters. John Case scored for Thacher in the third period, but Midland retained its 2-1 lead until the final whistle. The next week saw a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Cate in Carpinteria. The Blue team, playing on their grass field, tallied in the Hrst quarter and soon after the half, keeping Thacher on the defensive for most of the game. The first Thacher win was here over Laguna Blanca on October 27. The home team dominated the play throughout most of the contest. Derek Anderson scored on a corner kick by Dick Rhodes in the second period. Both teams made many attempts at the goal, but the score was still 1-C at the end. In a home game Thacher dropped a return engagement with Cate, 2-0, when the men from the Mesa rallied to score two quick goals in the third quarter. The season's last game was at Midland. The first half, played in a hail- storm, was cold and slow. Midland scored in the first quarter, but Hugh Gordon tallied for Thacher during a welcome clear spell in the second. The 1-1 deadlock was not broken, so two five-minute overtimes were played. Midland made a goal in the first period, but in the last minutes Freeman Ford and Dick Rhodes kicked two goals to clinch a 3-2 Thacher victory. The 1958 lineup was: Forwards: Rhodes, D. Williams, Gordon, Bell, An- derson, Case, Truog, Ford, Halfbacks: W. Boyd, R. Boyd, Wyeth, N. Chick- ering, Eggers, Fullbacks: Spaulding, Jordan, Oliver-Smith, Goal Guard: J Acquistapace. THIRD SOCCER TEAM This year the third team was led by its returning coach, Mr. White- head, and Captain Dick Walden to a 3-win, 1-tie, 1-loss record. Unfortu- nately the first game, played against Midland, was the one loss. A game with Laguna Blanca followed in which the forward line met little resistance, and the team came out with a 6-1 victory. The third game saw Cate and Thacher battle to a 2-2 tie. Two weeks later, in a return match, Thacher overcame a 0-1 deficit to beat the Blue 3-2. In its final game the third team produced a decisive 4-1 victory over Midland. The team lined up as follows: Forwards: Andrews, Corbett, Dole, Myers, Cooley, Halfbacks: DuBois, R. Walden, Jensen, Fullbacks: Kend- ricks, Luppeng Goal Guard: Bailey, Subs: Escher, Kent, Weitzel, Williams, Zellerbach, Abbott, and Whitney. FOURTH TEAM SOCCER With Mr. Shagam as coach and Bob Gardner as captain, the fourth team had a season record of 2 wins, 3 losses, and 1 tie. The first game was a tie with Midland, 2-2. This was followed by a 4-2 setback at the hands of the