West Warwick High School - Chronicle Yearbook (West Warwick, RI)

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W 'il Wfwllli B - fl BOYS' BASKETBALL TEAM Kirby, Duffy, Hawkinson, Eldridge, Maciag, Haramis Archambault, St. Germain, Shepard, J., Shepard, H. The Boys' Basketball Team, playing the hardest schedule ever under- taken by a West Warwick quintet, exhibited a Hne brand of basketball in the majority of its games. The team garnered seven victories and most of the losses were by a small margin. Chief among the victories was the 16-15 triumph over the third-place Cranston teamg the 20-18 victory over Warwick and the 22-20 decision over Woodstock Academy. We lost to Durfee 27-253 to Warwick 21-205 LaSalle, 16-115 Woonsocket 15-10 and Commercial 17-13. These stirring battles are a fine tribute to the boys' spirit and determination even when the odds were against them. The Kent County League, in the first season of its existence, ended in a three-cornered tie resulting in a play-off series. We were eliminated by East Greenwich in a hard battle at Apponaug. Warwick finally won the P. H. Quinn cup. This Utriumvirate' is a fine thing for all three schools involved and has gone far, as was it's intention, to create a better feeling between the neighboring towns. 94

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T w... I FOOTBALL REPORT Q The Football Team of the school year 1930-1931 was the most successful that has represented West Warwick High School for several years past. The Team, coached by Mr. John McCarthy and Mr. Raymond Northup, won the first football Victory in more than three years when it sent Com- mercial High School down to defeat by a 7-0 score on October 24 at the Cranston Recreation Field. The Eleven opened the schedule with an impressive exhibition at Fall River, holding the big Durfee team to a scoreless tie. Fall River and New Bedford papers described our Eleven as the best orange and black combination appearing here in four years. In the Interscholastic League, our team dropped very close decisions to Classical. Woonsocket and Hope Street High School, and proved very stiff opposition to the championship squad representing Cranston High School. Only two of the eight scheduled games were played on our home field, the Interlaken gridiron. Eugene Hebert, the Team's captain, who has played every minute of every game for three years, was named centre on the Providence Bulletinfs All-Interscholastic Team at the close of the season. It is a number of years since we have had one of our students so honored. Louis Tomasso, another of the graduating class, who has made history in athletics, was chosen on the second All-Star Eleven at the fullback position. Louie was the spark-plug of the Eleven and a tireless worker-may we have more like him in the years to come! Dick Barry, next year's captain, John Shepard and Russell Smith displayed some fine football playing dur- ing the hard schedule. Any squad losing men of the calibre of Hebert, Tomasso, Shepard, Archambault, Moskaluk and Smith is bound to suffer for a whileg but, several of the utility men of last season should be ready to step into the vacant positions. Lefty Duffy, Phil Eldridge, Malcolm Patterson, Edgar Richard, Warren'Terwilliger, Red Hopkins, Dick Keenan, Jerome Trott, Douglas Joubert and Arthur Lamoureux will be the veterans available for the 1931 season. 93

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E - BOYS' BASEBALL TEAM !,,..,,,,,,,,,,.,-,,..s,,,-,,m, ,,,, , ,s K4 if I Q 5, ...- w 1 First Row: Levesque, Arcand, Veilleux, Shepard, J., Colwell, Shepard, H., Barry, Anderson. Second Row: Miller, Lisnoff, Lukowic, Tomasso, Terwilliger, Duffy, B'Parlant, Richard, Olney. At the time this article is being written, the team won 2 games and lost 5 in the first round of the schedule. After losing the first five games, the rookies suddenly became acclimated and won two straight vic- tories at the expense of Hope Street High and Classical. Louie Tomasso, captain of the nine, although hobbling' around with a decided limp due to a football injury, has pitched fine ball despite the physical handicap. Louie would have had four victories out of the five games he pitched had the pony infield afforded him better support. Gordon Anderson and Herve Veilleux made their debut on the mound in the Commercial game while Lefty Duffy started the Pawtucket contest. None of these boys have had previous experience as hurlers but show promise in the future. The team as a whole proved Coach McCarthy's statement, made early in the season, that they would hit well against any brand of school- boy pitching. 95