Yale University - Sheffield Scientific School Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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victories the game with Princeton was out- standing. The 1-0 score was largely due to the playing of Sam Bronson and Bob Wheeler. In cross country the 1935 team under Cap- tain Minor conquered the Princeton Fresh- men, lost to Harvard by a close margin, and came in fifth in a field FRESHMAN YEAR I7 Booting the gong. of fifteen colleges at the Intercollegiate races in New Yorkis Van- Cortlandt Park. We were handed the big thrill of the year when, by the aid of Tally-Ho! Booth's educated toe, the Yale team was able to take Harvard over and avenge the three pre- vious defeats. That 3-0 victory made life seem well worth liv- ing and the sight of Barry Wood flat on his back with two Yale men on him smoth- ering his final pass as the whis- tle blew was almost too much for our Freshmen hearts to stand. Where did you sleep that night? On the floor? Well, what of it? Yale wonl Then the next week we were permitted QWho had the money to bring a girlPj to watch Princeton slaughtered for an all- time scoring record, 51-14. VVhat a happy year for the Yalesl In the meantime there were mysterious The battle front.

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16 CLASS OF NINETEEN THIRTY-FIVE S. AND E. letes who proved themselves worthy in many a joust. The 1935 foot- ball team showed a fine fighting spirit and, though the scores were not particularly im- pressive, there were men of merit develop- ing on the team. Ioe Iohnson, the captain, Iimmy DeAngelis, Ben Grosscup, Clare Curtin, Andy Callan, and Strat Morton showed what they could do when they de- Sfmign,gC0unC,'1, feated a highly touted Princeton team by the decisive score of 31 to 13. This victory was only partially overshad- owed by the defeat suffered at the hands of the Harvard 1935 team on the following Saturday. Captain Wolcott led his men to a preponderately successful sea- son in soccer, with four successes and only two losses. Among the F rank M e1'1'z'wcZ I . S

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18 CLASS OF NINETEEN THIRTY-FIVE S. AND E. things afoot. Plans for a Round Robin tournament in football, plans for ring-around-the-rosy to be played by the Ac Interfraternity Council QPack 'em up tight, but don't let us catch youj, and-hist or lf' fr 6' Vandalism. -shh-plans to revive Bottle Nightl' in the Oval for the lucky residents of same. All plans Went through on schedule. Yale won the tourna- ment in the Bowl, the Ac Houses got their men QSheff was only a few days behindj, and the Oval got its riot. It was a fairly sad riot as riots go, but one industrious fellow reclaimed two cords of wood from the grass which he later sold at a tremendous profit. A less pleasing aftermath of Bottle Night was the enforced vacation of six members of our Class. Exams and Cal- cium Night, which preceded our small riot, were said by some to be the cause-ofggw pg H W Vf,i 3, W in The impending Christmas vacation seemed to make our Class a bit giddy. An incipient riot in Commons was held down to a polite sniping with rolls when the lights failed to go out per schedule. Plans to bring a trolley Kcar into the Oval were wrecked by a po- tential engineer who, slide rule in hand, figured out that the gate- way was too narrow. Christmas vacation came at last, with trips to Bermuda and Florida the order of the day. At the end of three weeks we returned for our much needed rest to find that we had a new and foolproof excuse for bill collectors. The Broadway Bank had failed, and, of course, every one of us had just deposited untold fortunes in it before va- cation. The bill collectors must have wondered how the bank We trusted. s