Upsala College - Upsalite Yearbook (East Orange, NJ)

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SQUAD SAM SLIFKIN, Captain BERT NYSTROBIJ, Captain-Elect THEODORE STAZESKI RALPH THUL1N JAMES BUCKLEY JOH N DEN7I'1'TO ROY PETERSON l'lERBERT KONIG ALBERT KBAUL Upsala Upsala Upsala Upsala Upsala Upsala Upsala Upsala 2 5 6 O 14 3 8 7 RICHARD RICHTER, illanagcr JOHN SPEER VVARREN HANSON HOWARD SCHADE NORMAN LARSON VERNER XIETELL GERAIQD HELDEN RICHARD JOHNSON S UM M ARY Lafayette 3 St. John's 9 St. l'eter's 14 Fordham University lO Newark University 3 Moravian 7 VVagner 7 C. C. N. Y. 6 Upsala ll, Bard College 2 Upsala Rhode Island State 9 Upsala Lowell Textile 9 Upsala Panzer S Upsala Trenton Teachers 7 Upsala East Stroudsburg 22 Upsala Savage 9 Upsala Alumni 4 Page One Hundred Fifty

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xx QTQ f 4. v w j lk ' Wim The Vikings led most of the game but a timely rally by the home-towners gave them the victory. Kramer scored twelve points in the first half but was held scoreless in the final Canto. Juniata, their next opponent, handed the Vikings a sound beating by a 47-31 count. Upsala was scheduled to play Alfred University on the following night, but the game was cancelled. Upsala came home to crush Panzer, an age-old rival, 47-26. The entire Viking team entered the scoring column before the final gun. The game started slowly but soon the Vikings found their shooting eye to lead the first half, 20-12. Upsala broke loose in the second half to tally twenty-seven points to trim Panzer. Al Blaze led the powerful attack with twelve points, with Golgosky a close second, tallying nine. Upsala lost again to Bard College, by one point. The Vik- ings converted only half of their fouls, which accounted for another loss. Taking a 10-0 lead shortly after the opening whistle, Upsala took revenge for last year's defeat over Moravian, our ancient rivals. The score was 44-29. Golgosky, Spinelli and Stanziale performed marvelously on the defense as well as the offense. Kramer and Golgosky made a habit of taking the ball away from their opponents throughout the entire game to stop the continuous Moravian rallies. Upsala lost its eleventh and last game of the campaign to the Newark Engineers, 37-22. The Vikings fell far behind in the final minutes, every attempt to score failed. Kramer counted merely five points for the Vikings, high scoring for the evening. Upsala recovered in the next game to make its best showing of the entire season, beating a powerful Oswego quintet by 48-39. Blaze starred in the key position of the defense to completely baffle the visitors during the entire game. It was a rough and tumble battle with Golgosky, Stanziale and Kramer starring on the offense, tallying a combined total of thirty-nine points, equal to the scoring of the entire opposing team. Coach Lou Spinelli's efforts to perfect the zone system finally showed satisfactory results. Playing the annual tilt with the Alumni, the Varsity crew came through again to win, 38- 27. In the second quarter the Alumni were not able to make a single field goal against the perfect zone defense. Golgosky entered the game late in the second quarter to make ten points to lead the Varsity scoring, and overcome a one-point deficit of the first half. Straube, a freshman, was the second high scorer with eight. Nystrom, playing his last game, was third with six points. Ed Spinelli, the captain of the team, also played his last game in a Viking uniform to end a much improved season with eight victories and eleven defeats. Coach Lou Spinelli, a former Viking court player, turned out a fairly good team, and suc- ceeded in developing the newcomers into a promising squad for next year. U fill if Page One H1md1'Bd Forty-Nizzg

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GQEHE Upsala baseball team of l936, under the leadership of Sam Slifkin, made a fair showing in a long and diliicult schedule with but seven lettermen returning, three of them being pitchers. Playing the first part of the season on muddy fields, caused the defense to crum- ble and as a result only three of the first nine games were won, the victories being over Newark University, C. C. N. Y. and Bard. The pitching burden fell upon Howard Schade and Tornado Larson, but good pitching often went to nought as the team failed to bunch their hits. The Vikings continued their losing ways, dropping six straight games. In the annual battle of supremacy the Varsity scored an im- pressive victory of l4 to 4 over a strong Alumni team, as Schade and Larson, dividing the pitching duties. gained this well-earned vica tory. Ralph Thulin led the Viking sluggers with a batting average of 433, closely followed by Rertil Nystrom with .427. James Huck- ley, a newcomer, batted third with an average well over .300. Only two varsity men will be lost through graduation, leaving high hopes for the season of 1937. R r - X 7,1 X nf, ' Page Om Iluudrcd Fifty-Om'