Vermont Academy - Wildcat Yearbook (Saxtons River, VT)

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FOOTBALL With Co-Captains Emerson and Blood at the helm, the 1937 edition of the Vermont Academy Football Team will go down in the archives as the group that made up for its lack of weight by its pertinacity and spirit. With three victories, two ties and two defeats, the team may look back with pride on the season, both defeats were contested until the bitter end, and the victories were well earned. The Orange and Black were conquerors over Stevens High, Holderness School and Mt. Hermon, they struggled to scoreless deadlocks with Stockbridge and Governor Dummer, and they were edged out by Dartmouth Freshmen and undefeated, unscored-on Kimball Union. Vermont Academy The season's record follows: Vermont Academy 13 Stevens High 7 Vermont Academy 31 Holderness School 0 Vermont Academy 0 Stockbridge 0 Dartmouth Fresh B 13 Governor Dummer 0 Mt. Hermon 0 Kimball Union 6 Vermont Academy 0 Vermont Academy 0 6 Vermont Academy 0 BASKETBALL The 1938 basketball campaign was definitely creditable with the team winning eight games and losing five. Of the latter, two were lost to powerful college freshman teams, Amherst and Wil- liams. Victories were enjoyed at the expense of such formidable aggregations as Cushing, Kimball Union and Mt. Hermon. The contest which unquestionably held the spotlight was the first of the Cushing games, held on our own court. Stan Kogut, high scorer of the season, sank an angle shot to bring victory to Vermont after two breath-taking overtime periods. Captain Curtis and Mr. Leavitt deserve great credit for the ability and spirit of this year's team. With most of the first five returning next year, Captain Don Rice should be able to lead a formidable team onto the floor. Vermont Academy Vermont Academy Vermont Academy Vermont Acad. Vermont Acad emy emy Vermont Academy Vermont Acad. Vermont Acadl emy emy Vermont Academy Vermont Acad Vermont Acad Vermont Acad. emy emy' emy Vermont Academy 29 34 20 26 15 22 29 44 24 47 32 29 37 Leland and Gray 16 Williams Freshmen 48 Amherst Freshmen 41 Stockbridge 19 Stevens High 24 Kimball Union 14 Kimball Union 21 Leland and Gray 26 Mt. Hermon 22 Stevens High 14 Mt. Hermon 46 Cushing Academy 28 Cushing Academy 41 HOCKEY This year's hockey team was the best ever turned out at V. A. Captain Bob Blood, Whiting, Reynolds and Singleton, were the only veterans left from last year's team, but Coach Dunn built a fine, well-balanced outfit which had no outstanding stars, but exceptionally good team play. The first six was made up of the famous Bob line: Bob Smith, Bob Blood and Bob Churchill. With Bob Elston and Saunders at defense and Stan Harvey in the nets, the team was complete. Singleton, Gardiner and Bates made up a good second line. In most of the games the team was ably assisted by players from the J. V. group, who thus gained experience for future play. The varsity won eight and lost only two games, each of those by one goal, and each of them to very strong sextets. The J. V. team played a regular schedule too and won all four of its games. With four letter men back next year, Captain Stan Harvey will have a good nucleus for as good a team. Vermont Academy Vermont Academy Vermont Academy Vermont Academy Vermont Academy Vermont Academy Vermont Academy Vermont Academy Vermont Academy Vermont Academy 4 4 3 7 2 5 3 1 2 3 Proctor Academy , 0 Hanover High 1 Brattleboro High 0 Stockbridge 2 Bellows Falls High . 3 Hanover High 1 Kimball Union 0 Mt. Hermon 2 Kimball Union 1 Brattleboro High 0

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, ' sKnNG It looked as though the ski team would have good snow throughout the season at the time of the Mt. Hermon meet, but thereafter conditions were exceedingly poor. This however didn't faze V. A.'s skiers, for they turned in a fineshowing despite the lack of snow and consequent prac- tice. . ' After the New Hampton meet the team competed at K. U. A. in the Eastern Preparatory School Championships. The conditions there were adverse and the competition keen, but even so the team placed sixth. Next were the Vermont Interscholastics at Stowe, where the team placed fourth in Class A, thanks to Rod. Smith, Irv. Townsend, Holmes, Benedict and Captain Emerson. H The only thing we can hope for next year is more snow, so that Co-Captains Benedict and Holmes can lead their forces to greater heights. BASEBALL With the spring came the baseball season, earlier this year than usual, which was much better for the team. Having only a few veterans, Coach Markoski has developed a well rounded, fast and scrappy team which will give the best of them a battle. The loss of Stan Kogut for the earlier game 4 was a severe blow, but nevertheless the team will settle down and finish the season in grand style. Dick Graves will make a fine captain at second base. The rest of the infield is: Irv. Fenton at 1st, Huntington or Bates at shortstop, and Simonds at 3rd. In the outfield are: Stan Harvey, Don Frey, Don Rice and Louis Graves. Brad Bush is behind the bat, and the pitching staff con- sists of : Osgood, Rice, Luther Graves and Huntley. The schedule is as follows: , April 27 Leland and Gray Seminary? May 21 Cushing Academy? April 30 New Hampton School May 25 Deerfield Academy May 4 Stevens High ' May 28 Kimball Union Academy May 7 Cushing Academy June 1 Mt. Hermon School May 11 Stevens High June 4 Kimball Union Academyt May 18 Amherst Freshmen June 11 Alumni ' fHome Games. TRACK Track at Vermont Academy is progressing each year. This season a small but well balanced squad started practicing. The first meet with Bellows Falls, we won by the score of 57-42. At a dual meet with Brattleboro at Brattleboro we again came out ahead, this time by the score of 59-49. The climax of the dual meet season came against Kimball Union, where we won a most exciting meet 48-42, the outcome not being certain until Blood and Perry won the first two places in the 220. The other meets on the schedule are the Keene Invit-ation Meet and the Vermont Interscholastics, where we should win our share of points. Outstanding performers in the dual meets have been: Blood, Perry and Downs in the sprints, Hill and Lang in the middle distances, Stebbins and Singleton in the mile g Downs and Curtis in the hurdles, Blood and Downs in the jumps , and Saunders, Perry and Baldwin in the weight events.