Wakefield High School - Oracle Yearbook (Wakefield, MA)

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RAYMOND S. DOWER Faculty Director of Athletics

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CROSS COUNTRY Cross country ranks as one of the older sports of our school. Many say that Wakefield ' s reputation in the athletic world was made by her cross country runners. I feel that in the space that is given to cross country some mention should be made of the individual stars who helped to put Wakefield High on the athletic maj). Among these men are James Burk( and Raymond Brown ,of the class of 1912. The former also ran in middle-distance track events and broke many records while a schoolboy. He later went to Lehigh University where he captained the track team for two consec- utive years. Brown later specialized in the mile run and ran for Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The next are George Goodwin and Joe Duggan, of the class of 1916. They both proved consistent winners. Goodwin is still the New- England Interscholastic Cross Country Cham- pion and also holds the world ' s schoolboy record for the mile run, having broken both the one and two mile records while a Senior at this school. His record for the two mile run has since been broken. He later went to Bowdoin where he holds the record for the Maine Intercollegiate Mile Run. He was a member of the Olympic team in 1920. William Burke, ' 18, and Abe Levine, ' 20, were both prominent in cross country. After leaving high school, Burke attended Notre Dame University, and while in his second year there, captured first place in the mile run in the Western Conference Meet in the fast time of 4m. 20 4-5 seconds. Levine and his team-mate, Ray Batt(-n, both went to Bat(!s College where they took an active part in athletics. Last but not least are Albert Burke, ' 20, and Irving Patterson, ' 22. The former was captain and scored many points for the school. Patterson won the Harvard Interscholastic Cross Country Run while a Junior. He also took an active part in indoor track, winning the 1000 yard run at the Greater Boston School- boy Meet this year. The first meet of the season in which the team competed was an open meet held by the Olympic Club of Woburn. The meet was won by the Olympic Club with A ' akefieId second by a small margin of points. The Wakefield team finished in the following order: Jazukawiz 4th, Butler 7th, Clark 8th, Pasqualino 9th, and Seaward 11th. Patterson, who was ineligible to compete for the school, ran unattached and finished third. The next meet was held at Worcester with the strong Worcester Academy team. The meet was won by Worcester Academy by the close score of 26 to 29. Melanson of Wake- field, after running a fine race, finished first by two hundred yards. The rest of the team finished in the following order: Butler 5th, Jazukawicz 6th, Burke 7th, and Seaward 10th. 17