University of Connecticut - Nutmeg Yearbook (Storrs, CT)

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aseball USING their new indoor practice cage for the first time, the Christian charges began to round into shape rapidly. After three days on the diamond the Husky nine went down to Kingston to battle it out with the Rhody Rams in their opening encounter of the season. Beck and Dropo were the big guns in the U-Conn attack but the Pale Blue had enough to overcome this and win out 4-3. By a twist of the schedule the Huskies tackled four opponents in the next five days. Opening against Mass. State on Tuesday Gene Kovacs hurled the Christian charges to a 6-2 victory. Dropo and Curren both slammed out triples to lead the 10 hit onslaught. On Wednesday Scussel toed the mound against the Rhody Rams at Storrs in a return encounter. In a game ranked all the way by Light Stickucuk it was finally a seventh inning double by Wink Winzler that drove the winning tally across the plate. Following a one day reprieve the U-Conns returned to the diamond Thursday to slug it out with North- eastern, Dropo and Baldwin each with a single and a double, paved the Way for the 17 hit Blue and White barrage. The Christian charges made it four straight for the week as they shellacked the Cardinals from Wesleyan 16-3. Capitalizing on the 10 hits at the most timely moments the Huskies topped off the afternoon with an eight run splurge. Springeld invaded Storrs on a Husky off day and they went home with an 8-5 decision. Di Laurenzio was the individual star of the way making a double play unassisted as well as collecting a pair of singles. Playing a double hill against Maine the following weekend the U-Conns dropped the opener, the result of a brilliant one hit performance by Ed Tooley. The Christian forces rallied behind the pitching of Ray Scussel to come back and sweep the night cap 6-0. The U-Conn bowed before the Lord Jeffs from Amherst 8-2. Dropo led the Husky offensive- with a resounding winning triple as well as playing a sparkling game behind the plate. In a return encounter at Durham, the Wildcats made it two straight in a 3-I edict. Baldwin and Scussel led the hitting parade with a pair of hits, but on both occasions these men were stranded and allowed to die on the base paths. The next game was a 7-6 decision that was dropped to Northeastern with the score tied at 6-6 in the last of the ninth. The Bos- tonianssqueezed in the winning tally with only one away. The Northeastern game climaxed the sea- son as the annual Commencement Day con- test was rained out. Seven seniors, led by that diminutive slugging fielder, Captain Oz- zie Baldwin, hung up their spikes for the last time. llTlI'CGSlllllUI'IlfEMIl1 lBfHLSlGllJLEllllll Scores Conn. 7 Monson 2 Conn. 10 Cheshire 5 Conn. 4 ' Choate 3 Conn. 0 Springfield 2 Conn. 9 Mercer 2 20

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Bas kd Lau Feofball fr I 0 4 1 .pun ,g 1:-v . --an N3 S irntfirma THREE TIMES AND OVER was the familiar cry as the volley ball season started. After several close contests, the tall sextet from X wound up on top of the heap. Softball found six diamonds in work four nights a week, as the season was drastically curtailed due to bad weather and an early clos- ing of school. Phi Mu edged out Gamma Rho to take the championship of the league. The annual track meet was rained out on three consecutive weekends and finally cancelled. The splash artists converged in the pool and after a night of keen competition, Sigma Phi walked off with first honors, being followed by X and Gam- ma Rho in that order. Then came summer and three long months of vacation. Greek athletic relations were resumed on the gridiron in early September. Using a split league system, X took league B, and Alpha Gam- ma Rho swept league A, running up 100 points while keeping their opponents scoreless. In the post season play-off, held on the upper field, a smooth functioning, hard hitting, blocking green and gold club from Gamma Rho upset the X ma- chine 7-6. Trailing by a touchdown, a third period pass from Puglisi to O'Hara tied the score at 6 all. With the same exacting position Puglisi shot a bullet pass into the end zone to Bobby Moss for the point after touchdown that meant ultimate victory and the championship for the big grey house on the corner. i Athletic efforts went indoors once again as the basketball campaign got under way. In a close season, featuring many hard fought games, a tall veteran X club gained first honors and Alpha Gamma Rho and Alpha Phi finished in a tie for second. SOHP'-ll Tru K 'H J J 7s