Vermont Academy - Wildcat Yearbook (Saxtons River, VT)

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' x 'Vermont Qcahemp Page eighty-mm Basketball Captain, ROY E. HARDY Manager, RICHARD A. SHEPARD Coach, JOHN E. BURKE If the number of games won is the measure of success the Vermont Academy team was decidedly unsuccessful this past season. We are told, however, that victories are not the only things in this world to strive for, so, that we may console ourselves with that. The team was not lacking in spirit, coaching, nor student support, for this has been a banner year in whole-hearted student interest in basketball. The team played a decidedly hard schedule, good luck seemed not destined to be their lot, and constant necessary juggling of the lineup proved their undoing. The team got off to a rather inauspicious start on Friday the 7th of January when the Bay Path team from Brattleboro managed to come out on the long end of a 26-29 score. Brattleboro had a big, fast, heavy team and simply beat down their lighter opponents though they played no more skillfully. John Stephens,- playing his initial varsity game, did himself proud with five field baskets to his credit. The following Saturday evening the team traveled through snow and ice to New London, N. H., where they met and defeated the team from Colby Academy. The score was 32-26. The game was close and fast but the taste of the bitter pill of defeat which they had been forced to swallow the week before had not left their mouths and the V. A. quintet came home smiling and with a victory. Then came disaster! The team journey to Williston Academy at Easthampton Mass., where they went down to ignominious defeat by a much superior team. The score was 33-I 1. The following day they fared little better against the Amherst Frosh. The best they could manage was a 34-I5 score. That was soon forgotten, however, and the team solemnly vowed to fight, fight, fight! The spirit was perfect but the flesh was weak. And they lost to the M. A. C. 2-year team on Saturday, January 22, by I6-7. One surely could not have blamed them then had their spirit have broken altogether. But no, they put up a glorious battle against Kimball Union the following week but were forced out the small end of a 34-30 score. But then on Washington's birthday the team took a new lease on life and handed a lovely trouncing to the Colby Academy team, who came down here to celebrate the anniversary of the father of our country. The score was 34-28 but the issue of the game was never in doubt. On Saturday, the 26th of February, our Quintet hopped down to Brat- tleboro in the morning. In the evening they hopped back with a 59-38 defeat tacked on them. On their own floor the heavy Brattleboro team simply ran riot. Then came another defeat by Troy Conference Academy by 29-20.