York College of Pennsylvania - Horizon Tower Yearbook (York, PA)

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)h )t % it For the fifth time in five years YJC won the state championship. This goal was only attainable through hard work, the enormous amount of patience and perseverance of Coach Hulton, and, the team executing the hypothetically im- possible feat of defeating Hazleton Un- dergraduate Center for the champion- ship after Hazleton had beaten the Flying Dutchmen twice during the reg- ular season. Credit must also be given to trainer Basil Biggs for his untiring efforts— taping ankles and massaging stiff joints— and also to the student managers, Ronald Beckmeyer, Keith Diehl and Charles Depfer. State ' s Zop Zeam ga ' m Russ Trimmer, Co-captain, and his deadly jump shot gives YJC two points. 29

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Hulton, Sterner and Trimmer receive the Polack Championship Trophy for permanent possession from President Hoffman of the Johnstown Center. Coach Bob Hulton finally gets a well deserved chance to sit and rest after converting a handful of basketball play- ers into the college ' s fifth straight cham- pionship team. 28

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Charles Depfer, Kane Stanibaugh, Fred Noel, Tony Arcuri, Dan Kinard, Russ Trimmer, Dick Thomas, Coach Hulton, Bill Sterner, Lew Levin, Frank Ruth, Basil Biggs, trainer; Ronald Beckmeyer, Ed Smyser. The season began with an easy victory over Baltimore Junior College, followed by a very honorable defeat at the hands of a very strong Annapolis team. There were good games and bad games until the Stevens Trade game, when history began to repeat. This game was the first win of a streak that reached 15 games. This streak is surpassed only by the 1952-53 record, which reached 18 games. This win streak was sandwiched between two defeats at the hands of the Hazleton Undergraduate Center. The defeat preceding the win streak was the first for York after 22 consecutive victories in the Pennsylvania Junior College League. It was a one point heartbreaker that caught York on an off night. History was also repeated during the win streak when York beat both Altoona and Johnstown on the weekend trip. This was only the second time in the school ' s history that this double victory was accomplished. The defeat at Hazleton, which ended the winning streak, found the YJC team unable to overcome the small lead which Hazleton built up in the opening minutes of the game. This defeat dropped the Hultonmen into an eventual tie for first place. Both teams received first place trophies, but Hazleton was declared the first place team for the tourna- ment by the flip of the coin. Following this 3 point defeat at Hazleton, York lost by two points to a strong Gettys- burg Frosh team on the Battlefield court. Although many YJC teams have beaten the Gettysburg Frosh on their home floor, they have never beaten them on the Gettysburg court. This is just one of the many goals of next year ' s team. Honors were many during the year as Tony Arcuri set a new single season scoring stan- dard by tallying 518 points to break the previous standard of 454 set by George Guyer last year. In addition, Arcuri ' s 164 foul goals 30