To make a conjecture as to why Phillips Academy, like other preparatory schools of its kind, has never attracted a large pool of basketball talent would probably make good subject material for a master's degree thesis in either sociology or physical education. The facts are, however, that the success patterns of Andover basketball teams have been mercurial. Despite a continuity in its coaching and the lavishness of the Memorial Gymnasium facility, Andover basketball candidates generally have not had the physique or the ability to achieve overwhelming success. From the 1953 season, which inaugurated the new complex, until 1973, the basketball record in the Exeter series stood at 19 wins for Exeter with 11 for Andover.(102) There were exciting games in every season. There were players of exceptional ability and performers with extraordinary determination. But rarely did the basketball teams representing Phillips Academy have the individual height or depth of talent to produce a superlative season. One definite feature of the game which became evident during this period was the importance of height. It was the rare player who could compete if he were shorter than six feet, and if he did, that person had to be an extremely good outside shot in order to have any chance of scoring against opponents who were taller. The numbers of students who went out for basketball at all levels each year remained consistently high, running on an average of two hundred plus.(103) The unalterable facts were, and are, that whatever playing experience the boys may have acquired, only the exceptional ones could continue to compete at a higher level without the necessary physique.

After the 1953 loss to Exeter in the Memorial Gymnasium, the basketball team had three successive victories over the big Red. The 1954 group was the only winter varsity team to beat the arch rivals.(104) Captain Bill Agee's team of 1955 had an even record, 7 wins and losses, losing only to college freshmen teams. Agee, with Art Hotchkiss, Walter Roe, and John "Whitey" Polgreen, outclassed the Exeter contingent 56-36. With only four returning lettermen, Coach DiClemente had to rely on former junior varsity players for his 1956 team. Captain Walter Roe's quintet had a losing season, but trounced Exeter 76-48. Led by Captain Nick Gaede, the 1957 group had a winning season, beating both the Harvard and New Hampshire Freshmen, but losing to a juggernaut five from Exeter. Despite outstanding play by Otto Rogers, Wally Phillips, Chico Valldejuly, and Gaede, the late season's loss of Tim Orcutt and Dave Remington wrecked the team's hopes of victory over Exeter. Dick Eustis, who had already aided the Red football team in defeating Andover, was the sparkplug of the Exeter five, which proved too powerful for Deke's men. The following year saw a good season for Andover, the highlights being wins over the Yale Freshmen and Exeter. Veterans Jack Whitehouse, Bobby Hull, and a strong bench provided drive and determination, but the team's lack of height was a distinct disadvantage in getting rebounds. It was five years before Phillips Academy saw another basketball win over Exeter. During that time the varsity started practicing at night, releasing the courts for the afternoon play of J.V. and Club teams. In 1962, Andover and Exeter began playing two games per season on a home and home basis. Captain Mike Moonves' team had beaten Exeter and Mount Hermon in a Round Robin Tournament at Mount Hermon but lost both regular season games against Exeter by close margins. The strong play of Andoverians Bill Kingston, Bob Holt, Roger Hardy, Tom Brayton, Butch Hetherington, Bernie Boone, Moe Zuckerman, Ed Quattlebaum, Paul Kalkstein, and others made the 1960 and 1961 basketball records reasonable but not outstanding. Andover's 1963 winter term was not successful in terms of Exeter victories, with all varsities, except hockey, falling in defeat. The basketball team won most of its games against other schools, but the tall college freshmen teams were too much for the hard-driving Andoverians. Exeter also had one of the tallest teams in its history. The game seemed to be one played only by giants.

Captain Win Williams' Andover basketball team of 1964 provided the winter spectators some of the most exciting play of the decade. The team had height, ability, and desire. Beating Exeter twice and Deerfield once, they compiled an 8 and 6 record. Robert Wurster, a one-year senior from Tacoma, Washington, proved to be one of the finest basketballers ever to attend Andover. His height and outstanding ability gave the team the extra edge it needed; in the second Exeter game he scored 45 points to break a school scoring record. L. E. Sawyer, Glenn Greenberg, Mike Wood, Clay Johnson, Adrian Almquist, Al Timberlake, and George Bush were reliable players all season, but Sawyer was the all-around star who, in the last seconds of the final Exeter game, stole the ball from an Exonian to assure a Phillips Academy victory.

A lack of experience and depth hurt the basketball team of 1965 and, as a result, the season was a losing one. The play of the lowers and uppers that year was promising, and their performances were reflected in the successes of the Andover basketball teams of the next two years. A victory in the last Exeter game by John Hilley's team in 1966 made a mediocre season a good one. Seniors Dan Bowler and Lou Maranzana, upper Greg Bruce, and lowers Dennis Cambal and Bruce Hearey helped Hilley produce the victory. Hearey brought back memories of Bob Wurster, as the two-year captain led his teams by performance as well as spirit. The basketballers of 1967 were chased by misfortune: Hearey missed nine games because of a broken bone in his foot; playmaker Elwyn Lee suffered with a bad ankle in the final Exeter game; and leading scorer, Hal Grinberg, was on crutches before the Deerfield game. Nonetheless, the team won more games than either of the two previous varsities and took the first Exeter contest. More important, perhaps, was the fact that the spectators were on hand in greater numbers. The second Heary-captained team provided another exciting winter, winning 8 out of 16 contests and splitting wins with both Exeter and Deerfield. Jimmy Yule, Bernie Mulholland, Wally Rogers, and Grinberg were reliable performers throughout the season.

The winters of 1969 and 1970 again brought misfortune to the Blue basketballers. Fred Adair's team in 1969 was plagued by injuries and a lack of height. Their losing season was not surprising, considering the physical edge which their college opponents enjoyed. The play of Bob Carrington and Dave Knorr was particularly heartening. Jim Shea's team, the following year, lacked experience but showed progressive improvement and ended its schedule with a victory over the M.I.T. Freshmen and a two-point loss to Exeter in the finale.

Winning ways against the Exonians returned to Captain Greg Messerole's Dekemen in 1971. Bob Kelley broke the Andover scoring record by getting 49 points in the first Exeter game, which Andover won 91-70. Butch Frazier and Fred Waterman were also stars for the Blue. The second Exeter game was lost in a hard-fought contest, but even Kelley's 26 points could not overcome the play of Exeter's Craig Lewis, who dominated both backboards. The record of Thurston "Butch" Frasier's team was 7 and 9. The totals did not indicate the improvement which the team made or its promise for the future. Despite the losses to Exeter, the quintet had beaten three freshmen teams as well as Deerfield and Mount Hermon. The hope of better things to come was the height and ability of several of the underclassmen.

The Andover basketballers of 1973 had one of the best team records of the school year. They lived up to their potential and, under the leadership of Timmy McChristian, produced 12 wins and 5 losses. This was the most outstanding season for basketball since the construction of the Memorial Gymnasium. Mark Schaefer, Ted O'Grady, and Willie Robinson were consistent stars throughout the long schedule. McChristian inspired his team by his own dependable play. This Andover basketball team had given Frank DiClemente one of his most successful and rewarding coaching experiences. It was a fitting way to end an era.

The popularity of ice hockey throughout the nation, as well as at Phillips Academy, since the early 1950's has been due primarily to the widespread construction of artificial rinks. Boys and girls in hundreds of communities have had the opportunity of learning to skate almost as soon as they could walk; the resulting instruction in figure skating as well as hockey has produced a tremendous quantity of well-trained skaters. Youth hockey programs were originally introduced as a recreational service in most areas by hockey coaches who hoped to create additional interest in the sport and by former players whose love for the game induced them to help boys in their communities enjoy it as well. The early Pee-Wee programs were designed for youngsters nine years and older, with an emphasis on instruction rather than game competition. In the twenty-year span between 1953 and 1973, the entire structure of youth hockey changed. Boys started playing at age five. With the increase in young players, the supply of qualified coaches diminished. While the adults were eager to help the youngsters, too often their own inexperience started the boys on a career of bad hockey-playing habits. Finally, the emphasis on the programs became different over the years. By 1973 the increased numbers of games played in the long season left little ice time available for the more valuable instructional practices. Whatever the negative ramifications of youth programs may be, the salient fact is that they would not exist except for the involvement of parents, friends, and neighbors whose loyalty and devotion to the sport are difficult to criticize.

In the twenty hockey seasons between j and 1973, Phillips Academy hockey teams won 223, lost 91, and tied 5.(105) During those years the Blue entered eight Lawrenceville School Invitational Hockey Tournaments held during the Christmas holidays. The 1960 group, captained by Webb Harrison and Hugh Wise, went to the finals but was defeated by Ridley College from Canada. Captain Ted Thorndike's 1970 team lost its first game on a disputed penalty shot but went on to win the Consolation Division. The teams led by Charles Stuart in 1962, Douglas Brown in 1964, Wayne Tracy in 1967, Caleb Warren in 1968, Daniel Bolduc in 1972, and John MacDonald in 1973 were all tournament champions. The Andoverians in 1962 and 1967 won their championships by three straight shut-outs. Phillips Academy has not been represented at the Lawrenceville Tournament since 1973, but at that date the Blue had won the title more times than any other school.

Between 1953 and 1964 Andover and Exeter each won six of their annual hockey games. The Red did not stop the Phillips Academy pucksters after the win in 1964 until the two teams tied in 1972. That 2-2 game ended a seven-year Andover domination of the series. St. Paul's School had reigned supreme over school-boy hockey until the days of artificial ice nullified the Concord institution's advantage of natural ice. Until Captain Chris Crosby's 1955 team beat the "Paulies" by a 4-3 score, Andover had been the victor only once before. The previous win occurred in 1945, when Larry Dailey's team had an undefeated season. The 4-4 tie gained by the two teams in 1960 signaled the end of the St. Paul's School rule of the series. From 1961 until St. Paul's elected to end the competition after 1976, Andover won every game.

The strength and growth of the Andover hockey program were obviously due in large measure to the generosity of Sumner Smith, P.A. 1908, who had given the school an artificial rink in 1950 and then had donated a roof to cover it in 1958. Andover's hockey became almost a family affair, with boys coming to the school from communities where they and their families had been involved in the early Pee-Wee programs. Princeton, New Jersey, sent a host of hockey players beginning with Lance Odden, 1957, and including Jobe Stevens, Charles Stuart, Bill Smoyer, Webb Harrison, Hugh Wise, Fritz Mock, George Peterson, the Samson brothers, Ford Fraker, John Odden, and Warren Baker, among others. From Minnesota came Christopher Crosby, Tom Crosby, Jack Morrison, and James Hawkanson. Eastern Massachusetts, a hotbed of youth hockey, sent Edward Graney, Ron Martignetti, Roger Farrar, Charles Kessler, John Turco, Richard Delaney, John and Jeff Garrity, Brian, Kevin, and Charles Burke, Theodore and Robert Thorndike, Lenox Moher, Walter Row, Bob Fowkes, Dan Dilorati, Paul and Bob Wheeler, and many others. Locally, the author had started a hockey program for Andover town boys in 1955. The Phillips Academy players representing that group included Edward Leavitt, Robert "Bucky" Sides, Christopher Gurry, Gordon Freeman, Dana Seero, John Miner, Stephen Weiner, David Sagaser, Biff Stulgis, David Hubbell, and Charles Eccles. To name all the participants who were fine contributors to Andover hockey in this period would be impossible. The main point is, however, that boys and their families, alumni, and other friends of the school recommended the Andover educational experience to many people who were interested in hockey. During the winter games regular followers of the pucksters became acquainted, and many formed lasting friendships. From this group came Andover's best ambassadors, for their enthusiasm about Phillips Academy brought candidates from all walks of life to the Admissions Office.

When Harrison became Andover's varsity hockey coach in 1954, he had already coached for six seasons, under natural ice conditions, at the Berkshire School. His philosophy in training teams was based upon the old adage that "The best offense is a good defense." On this basis he worked to develop good goal tending, a strong defense, and fast backchecking forwards. During the early years of his regime he had various assistants working with him, many of whom ultimately taught his system to the younger junior varsity units. Stephen Whitney, Robert Hulburd, David Pynchon, John Odden, Charles Smith, and Joseph Wennik were among those who assisted Harrison. Andover hockey enthusiasts at all levels were fortunate in having experienced, dedicated men as coaches. William Brown, Jonathan Stableford, Frederick Pease, Hart Leavitt, Hale Sturges, and Philip Weld were active in the Phillips Academy hockey program during these years. Their contribution was of paramount importance, for it was a necessary fact of life that the younger, less experienced players had to be trained and developed properly if their interest and progress in the game were to be maintained. Without the ability to skate, no boy would ever be able to play hockey well, and without adequate ice time and training no boy would become facile in skating. The Andover coaches spent many long, cold hours on the Smith Rink helping Phillips Academy students to become good hockey competitors.

For the author to try to name all the extraordinary players and exceptional teams which represented Andover in those twenty years would be an injustice to all concerned. There were many obvious stars and an equal number of unsung heroes. Every team had its good and bad periods. Several teams, however, do deserve mention for special reasons. The 1955 sextet, led by Captain Christopher Crosby, has a special place in Harrison's memory for it brought him his first victories over St. Paul's and Exeter. The members of that squad were Crosby, Bruce Smith, Tom Crosby, Perry Hall, John McBride, David Morton, Tony Forstmann, Bob Crosby, Bill Whittlesey, Bob Karle, Bill Creese, Lance Odden, Gerry Jones, Harry Gittes, and Bert Creese. Walton McLeod, a senior from South Carolina, was the manager. Bucky Sides' 1961 team acquired the best overall record with a 14-1-1 season. The lone loss against the Boston College Freshmen was the fault of the coach. Earlier in the game Harrison had played his third line, which scored a goal, but in the third period he played only the first two lines. His strategy was that these groups would have the best chance of holding off the Boston College attack. The coach "blew it" for, without the relief of the third line, the other forwards tired, the freshmen scored, and the game was lost. Sides, Jorge Gonzales, Ed Graney, George Peterson, Jack Morrison, Bill Smoyer, Jim Knowles, David Gibson, John Greene, and Walter Upton were the forwards. Charles Stuart, Joseph Jobe Stevens, Roger Farrar, and Jeffrey Mosenthal played defense, while Dexter Newton and Lee Gilbert were the goal tenders.

Two teams which had unusually bad luck but demonstrated courage and progress despite misfortune were those in 1958 and 1959. It was clear that the hockey rink needed a roof, for even the refrigeration system which manufactured the ice was no match for the weather variations of an Andover winter. Unfortunately the construction of this cover was delayed and was finally started in the late fall of 1957. This action prohibited the use of the rink for most of the winter. As a result the Andover varsity had to skate on any natural ice to be found or rent any available rink time from their North Andover neighbors, Brooks School. There were no home games until well into the schedule and, even worse, no practice time for skaters below the varsity level, which meant that the development of the younger players was impeded. Added to these woes was the fact that the Captain and most experienced defenseman, Stephen Ripley, broke his leg skiing during Christmas vacation and never played that entire season. Nevertheless, the Andoverians, led by acting Captain Frank Hammond, put forth efforts which were commendable even in defeat. The following year the returning lettermen from the 1958 team, although hampered by the events of the previous season, were joined by a group of strong-skating underclassmen. Their determination and aggressiveness provided the basis for the success of the following teams. The greatest obstacle for the 1959 Andover hockey team to overcome was the death of Brooks C. Hall, Captain-elect. Hall, who was also a football and lacrosse player, had exhibited tremendous hockey and leadership skills and was expected to be a vital cog in the success of his team. He was killed in an automobile accident on Cape Cod in August 1959, just before returning to Phillips Academy for his senior year. No one was elected to replace him as the hockey captain, and his teammates played above anyone's expectation. It was as though they were trying to perform in a way which would honor Hall's memory.(106)

Perhaps the most important fact relative to Andover hockey during these two decades was the success of the graduates. Practically all of them played hockey at the freshmen level and a majority continued to play on either J.V. or varsity teams throughout their college careers. Three of them, Gerry Jones and Jack Morrison from Yale and Joseph Cavanaugh from Harvard, were named collegiate All-American hockey players. Ted Thorndike and Dan Bolduc were members of the 1976 United States Olympic Hockey Team. Bolduc, 1972, and Bill Army, 1974, played professional hockey for the Detroit Red Wings and the Buffalo Sabres respectively. The alumni who were known captains of their college teams were John Poinier, Bruce Smith, Steven Ripley, and Edward Wright at Yale; John McBride at Princeton; Chris Crosby and William Clift at Amherst; Charles Stuart and Michael Turner at Dartmouth; and Jack Garrity, Dennis McCullough, Joe Cavanagh, and Chris Gurry at Harvard.

As the number of players increased in hockey, so, too, did the spectators. This was not true at Andover alone, but in cities and towns all over the country wherever the game was played. Television coverage, first of professional games and later of college contests, certainly had an influence on the growth of interest in the sport. The student and community enthusiasm for Andover hockey grew steadily after the rink was roofed and as the success of the team heightened. When Headmaster Kemper asked the Athletic Department to schedule Saturday night contests as an addition to the students' entertainment, attendance at the evening hockey games was as much as the rink could hold with spectators jammed in every nook and cranny cheering their heroes in Blue.

The names and the achievements of the pucksters of the era are myriad. The goal tending in 1960 of Alex Browne, of Kentucky, who had never skated until his eleventh grade year at Andover; the saves made by goalies Jones, Newton, Forstmann and Tracy; the dynamic leadership of Bucky Sides; the abilities of forwards Smoyer and Morrison, who took turns holding scoring records; the dependability of defensemen Stuart and Gurry; the high scoring 1967 line of Fraker, Cavanaugh, and Norman Cross, whose record was broken by Bolduc, Kevin Burke, and Craig Brickley in 1971; the clutch scores by Jorge Gonzalez, the only Puerto Rican hockey player in the world---all these have given Andover hockey fans many exciting memories.

The Andover winter and spring track teams have tended to have cyclic histories. In the two decades between 1953 and 1973, the tracksters ran an average of five meets per season.(107) Since most of the contests were against college freshmen teams, who were older and more mature physically, the success of Phillips Academy track teams was largely measured by the results of the Andover-Exeter and Interscholastic meets, where the competition was likely to be more equal. From 1943 through 1952 Andover had strong track squads and won its contests with Exeter regularly. As has been noted, the winter track team of 1953 was successful against the Red, but lost the spring meeting. The following winter the Andoverians won the Interscholastics, but lost to Exeter. The spring meet was another defeat for Andover. Captain Dixie Morgan's spring track squad of 1955 scored an exciting upset victory over their arch rivals, but their winter counterparts had been soundly defeated by the boys from New Hampshire. The Blue seemed to have returned to the winning ways of earlier years when the 1956 winter thinclads, led by sprinter Stephen Snyder and broad jumper Tom Kelley, had decisive wins in the Interscholastics against Exeter. Snyder set a new forty-yard dash record of 4.5 seconds that season, while Kelley, undefeated in the broad jump competition throughout the year, leaped 22 feet 3-3/4 inches to break an indoor record set by J. Goodwillie in 1926. The spring upset victory in 1956 was scored by Exeter, however. In spite of Snyder's 3 wins in the 100-, 220-, and 440-yard runs, Tom Kelley's first place in the broad jump and Tom Dignan's in the discus, Andover came in second. The tide had turned again, for the powerful Red tracksters soundly defeated the Andoverians, both in winter and spring, for two years in a row. A bright Blue interlude in the series came in 1959, when Coach Steve Sorota's teams scored victories in both the winter and spring. The strong Andover squad had disappointing losses to several college teams that winter, but had also been decimated by sickness. Finally everyone was ready for the Interscholastics as well as Exeter, and the result was a first place in the Interscholastics and a 55-25 win over Exeter. The scene was repeated in the spring, for Andover won the Interscholastics and defeated Exeter in the final dual meet. Charles Goodell in the hurdles, Gerry Shea in the 300, Hobson in the middle distances, Alan Albright in the broad jump, and Ed Rice and Bob Cahners in the weight events were the leading Blue luminaries in the victories.(108) The 1960 winter track team was star-studded. Bob Cahners broke the school record in the weight, John Hartnett equaled the 6-foot mark in the high jump, while both Steve Hobson and Tony Accetta ran the 1000 in near record time. Although second to Huntington at the Interscholastics, Andover climaxed its schedule with a 48-33 triumph over Exeter. After scoring impressive wins over four teams, including Brown and Harvard Freshmen, Andover sought first place in the Interscholastics and a win over the Exonians. Such was not to be, for a strong Exeter team took the Interscholastics and the dual meet with Phillips Academy. John Hartnett and David Grant set new school, meet, and field records in the high jump and shot put respectively at Exeter in the 1960 meet.

The cycle seemed to be at work again. This time, however, it was working against the Royal Blue track teams. After the winter victory over Exeter in 1960, the Andoverians did not defeat Exeter until the winter dual meet of 1969! The track teams may not have done well against Exeter in those years, but they were not without their moments of glory. Tony Accetta's 1961 winter group won the Interscholastics. Except for the mile and the relay, Andover took first in every other event. Andrew Cahners won the 50 and the 300; Steve Hobson, the 600 and 1000; Tom Phelps, the 45-yard high hurdles; Steve Lempkin, the high jump, and George Houpis, the shot. The 1964 winter B.A.A. Relay was won in an exciting upset by Andover's Jim Chestnut, Bob Stempson, Dick Howe, and Jeff Huvelle in a new record time of 3:31-7. Howe and Huvelle also set new Cage records in the mile (4:27.9) and the 600 (1:15.4) respectively during that season. It was the first time in Phillips Academy history that there were three runners in the school who could do the mile in under 4:30. The three were Stempson, Huvelle, and Howe. Their teammates, Leo Jones and Colby Snyder, also could pole vault 12 feet 6 inches or better. The 1965 teams lacked running talent, although Mazel, Snyder, and Carey Underwood were strong in the field events. Captain Doug Pirnie was the star runner of the spring group. Carey Underwood broke the Andover indoor pole vault record with a height of 12 feet 11-3/4 inches during the winter of 1966.(109) Dennis Cambal broke the school discus mark that spring. It was the only bright spot of the season for the thinclads, as Exeter defeated Andover for their fifty-second consecutive dual meet victory and seventh straight undefeated season. The outstanding performance of the ninth grader, Peter Sorota, who broke the indoor pole vault record with a 13 feet 5-3/8 inches mark in the winter, and those of Dennis Cambal, Co-captain Harvey Kelsey III, and Chris St. Lawrence in the spring made another losing year brighter for the track team. Cambal made new records in the discus, shot, and hammer; Kelsey took first in both the 100- and 220-yard dashes against Exeter, and St. Lawrence set a new pole vault record (13 feet 6-3/8 inches) in the finale against the Exonians. Kelsey's father still holds the Andover record in the 100-yard dash.

Although the 1968 winter track team did not have an especially good season, the spring tracksters were far stronger than in previous years. They had a 5-win, 2-loss record, while taking second place at the Interscholastics. Sorota's charges had amassed the best team record since 1950, with thirty-three of the members contributing points to the wins. Mike Turner set a school record in the 2-mile run with a time of 9:44.7 and Chris St. Lawrence pole vaulted to a New England Preparatory School Meet mark of 13 feet 9 inches. Henry Hart, Mike Turner, Al Mangan, and Nick Leone took first place in the 2-mile, mile, 880, and 440 respectively at the Exeter contest. Cambal took firsts in the shot and discus, while Sorota, Peter Hollinger, and St. Lawrence swept the pole vault against the Red.(110) Things were improving for the runners from Andover Hill. Although several stand-outs from the previous year had gone, winter track in 1969 provided a few exciting surprises. The relay team scored an upset victory over Exeter in the B.A. A. mile relay, a race which was climaxed by a duel between Exeter's star, Joe Dudley, and Andover's Nick Leone. The Blue had a and 2 record when they met Exeter in the dual meet and came within points of tipping Exeter again. Leone set records in the 50- and 600-yard races in that meet. Tom Swain broke the two-mile mark against the Red, while St. Lawrence became the first New England schoolboy to pole vault over 14 feet. The contest was decided when Dudley nosed out Leone in the final leg of the final event, the relay.(111) Spring reversed the story as Andover beat Exeter for the first dual meet win since 1959. The contest see-sawed back and forth until Tom Costagliola's clutch throw in the discus assured a win of 66-65. The long drought was over, and the trackmen hoisted Sorota to their shoulders. Seniors Costagliola, Larry Gelb, Tom McVity, Ken Gilligan, Tom Swain, Bruce Davis, and Captain St. Lawrence had been superb performers all year. Leone had been undefeated in the 440 for two seasons; Peter Sorota, in the three running events, was the top scorer. It was truly an overall effort, and the tracksters were voted the team of the year.(112)

The victory wheel seemed to have turned again toward Andover as Captain Peter Sorota's 1970 squad defeated Exeter by 9 points for the first winter victory in eleven years. Leone set a Cage record in the 600-yard dash with a mark of 1:14, while lower Samuel Butler surprised the coaches by running a 2:26 1000. The team's record stood at 6 wins and 3 losses to college freshmen teams. Captain Nick Leone's spring track group took first in the Interscholastics and defeated Exeter later by a score of 86-47. Sorota won three first places in the Interscholastics for a meet record. Leone and eleventh grader Trip Anderson won 25 points between them on the same day. Leone and Sorota led the teams scoring in the Exeter duel with 15 and 18 points respectively. It was a fitting end to their Andover careers.

Captain Tripp Anderson's winter team of 1971 fell again to the Red. Anderson, Bruce Wolfe, Bob McDonald, Morgan Flaherty, and David Roll won their events, but to no avail. The spring was a different story, as superlative efforts by Anderson, Bruce Wolfe, Ed McPherson, and Sam Butler gained the Andoverians first place in the Interscholastics. Anderson won the high and low hurdles as well as the high jump. Butler and McPherson scored 11 and 10 points respectively and Wolfe won the mile. A week later Andover beat Exeter in the dual meet for the second straight year. Once again, Anderson scored three first places and set a record of 20.0 in the low hurdles. McPherson won the 100-, 220- and 440-yard dashes, and Butler won the 880. The following winter the winning cycle was still with Andover, and Captain Sam Butler's tracksters established a fine 7 and 3 record, which included a twenty-point win over Exeter. Butler won the 1000 and the hurdles, while Scott Gillogly and Ed McPherson swept the 600. The depth and versatility of the Blue showed again in the spring when Phillips Academy won the Interscholastics. Sam Butler won the high and low hurdles as well as the 880, while Tom Fleming won the 100- and 220-yard dashes and ran as anchorman on the victorious relay team. Bruce Wolfe ran the mile in 4:32.2, McPherson won the 440, and John McCulloh set a new record of 6 feet 3-1/2 inches in the high jump. With the rout of Exeter by a score of 83-48, the 1972 Blue team completed one of the best track seasons in Phillips Academy history. Losing only to Dartmouth Freshmen, they had scored seven victories. Butler had set a new record for the javelin at the Exeter meet, hurling it 201 feet 11 inches.

The next year the winds of fortune changed for Andover. Neither the winter nor the spring track team was able to defeat the Exonians. Hampered by injuries, even the veterans were not up to their potential level of performance. Paul Cook, an eleventh-grader, broke the Cage record in the high jump and made 6 feet 2-3/4 inches. Charlie Nadler and Tim Whalen also gave good performances in both the winter and spring meets.(113) Steve Sorota and his fellow coaches prepared to build another winning unit, realizing that their pool of candidates would be lessened with the advent of co-education in the 1973-74 year. Head Track Coach Sorota was primarily concerned with the field events in track, but over the years he was ably assisted in the other parts of the program by a variety of faculty members. Former Andover trackmen Edmund Hammond, Gordon Bensley, William Harding, and Thomas Regan were among his coaches. William Graham, N. Penrose Hallowell, Stephen Marx, John Richards II, Karl Roehrig, and Schuyler Royce also helped in training the tracksters of Andover at one time or another.

Lacrosse, like ice hockey, was another sport which seemed to attract more participants and spectators at Andover, as well as in other parts of the country, after the Korean War. It had always been popular in certain areas, such as Long Island and Maryland, but since its influence was not widespread, few knew enough about it to start teams. During the 1950's, however, many more high schools started programs, and its promotion steadily increased in New England, especially in Massachusetts. Andover was no exception to the growth of this sport.

Andover's program in lacrosse had had sporadic success until 1945, when the varsity beat Exeter for the first time since the competition began in 1933. After a five-year lapse, the Red were again beaten by the Andoverians in 1950. That year, coached by E. "Tiny" Littieton, the team captured the New England Preparatory School Championship.(114) After the departure of Littleton from Andover in 1951, J. R. Lux of the Math Department faculty replaced him as the coach of the Phillips Academy lacrosse team, a position he held until 1956. Lux was a product of Pennsylvania State's lacrosse team and had been coaching at Andover since his appointment in 1949. During the early 1950's the lacrosse candidates were young and inexperienced, and the Lux teams were not able to gain a victory from Exeter. His best group in 1953, despite an unblemished record all season, could not overcome their pre-game nervousness and lost to a strong Red contingent. The next two years were building years, and despite the play of Ray Clevenger, Fritz Okie, and Jack Doykos, the Andover laxmen had mediocre records. At the end of the 1955 season, it was decided that Lux, who had become the varsity wrestling coach in 1954, should handle only one varsity sport in deference to his already crowded schedule, which included housemastering and teaching a full course load. Robert Hulburd succeeded Lux as head coach of lacrosse in the spring of 1956.

Hulburd, of the German Department, had played lacrosse both at Exeter and Princeton. He had also been a successful coach of the sport at Middlesex School before joining the Andover faculty. His first team was weak, but began to improve as the season progressed. A large number of the players had been promoted from the All-Club group, and their training and experience were to be of the utmost importance in ensuing years. Their and record in 1956 was a step in the right direction. Another highlight of that year was the fact that an Exeter Club lax team had lost to an Andover Club team, the second such loss in the history of those contests.(115) When the spring of 1957 rolled around, Hulburd had a nucleus of nine lettermen returning upon which to build his team. Captain Bill Sterling, Charlie Clark, Bill Miles, Dick Nordhaus, and Brian Golden were among these experienced players. Underclassmen Lou van Amerongen, Gil Bamford, and Mac Rotan improved all season. The most exciting game occurred when the Blue defeated Deerfield, which had not lost to a school team since 1954. The Exeter contest was an uphill fight all the way because the Andoverians were behind from the beginning. Dan Adams got a tying goal in the overtime, and the score ended at 4-4. The record for Captain Sterling's team was 9 wins, 2 losses, and 1 tie. Captain Mac Rotan's 1958 lacrosse team had a host of returning veterans, and the predictions were for an even better season than the previous year. Coach Hulburd and his assistant, David Pynchon of the English Department, planned their strategy around Tom Gildehaus, Rotan, Charlie Bakewell, and Roger Ahlbrandt on defense; Pat Gorman, Ed Rogers, Gil Bamford, and Byron Fox at the midfield; and the strong attack of Caddie Brooks, Van Amerongen, Mike Golden, Steve Ledyard, and Jon Linfoot. With an early loss to the very strong Boston Lacrosse Club, the 1958 team then lost to both Deerfield and Exeter at the last of the season. In each case, the difference was two goals. Cadwallader "Caddie" Brooks, a three-year veteran, brought the 1959 Blue Laxmen to the second New England Lacrosse championship in the history of the school. Roger Ahlbrandt, Art Rogers, and Jim Okie were also outstanding throughout the season. Despite their previous performances, Brooks and his team were unable to beat Exeter, losing to the Red by a score of 12-7.(116) Hulburd and company were wondering when the monopoly would be broken as a very strong group in 1960, with an 11 and 1 record, also was beaten by the Red. Jim Okie's team that spring had ability and depth, with veterans Fred Kenney, Denny Gallaudet, Hugh Wise, Charlie Kessler, and Ward Woods returning from the 1959 squad. On a wet field, they jumped off to a 3-0 lead only to have the Exonians creep up and pass them to win the game by one goal. The season had been bright for lacrosse, however. One hundred and eighty-eight boys had played the sport, and the J. V. had been undefeated.(117) With several lettermen returning, Bob Hulburd and Dave Pynchon looked to 1961 for victory over Exeter.

The jinx was finally broken in the final game of the 1961 lacrosse season. Captain David "Beaver" Gibson's team had lost only to Deerfield and the Harvard Freshmen when they travelled to Exeter to meet the ever-strong Red. Gibson, Paul Kalkstein, Toby Hay, Pete Richardson, Denny Gallaudet, and Walter Upton had been scoring well all season, but it was Gallaudet and Upton who made the goals against Exeter. Goaltender Ivan Higgins was playing well, and Andover came home with a 4-2 victory. It was the first win in eleven years for the Blue. The next three years saw strong, spirited Andover lacrosse teams come to the final game against Exeter and lose. Captain Geoffrey Cullen and company were beaten in a 4-3 game in 1962. The following year Roger Farrar led a spirited, less experienced group through a season with only two losses (Deerfield and Harvard Freshmen). Once again the Blue were defeated by Exeter by one point. Dick Reynolds was strong in the goal, but Exeter managed to tie the game and won 9-8 in double overtime. Toby Hay's 1964 squad had twelve returning lettermen, and Coaches Hulburd and Timothy Callard felt that their biggest job was to keep up the spirit of the 1963 team. This seemed to be no problem, as high scoring by Doug Franchot and Dan Warren, together with strong defensive work by Dick Reynolds, Jon Hay, and John Kiddé, among others, gave this talented team a 12-win and 1-loss record going into the Exeter fray. A last-second disputed goal put Exeter ahead, and the game ended by the score of 9-8.

A strong, well-balanced squad brought Hulburd his first undefeated lacrosse season in 1965. Captain Dan Warren, Jamie Kilbreth, and Tex McLean were the attack; Randy Evans, Dick Barnum, Bill Clift, and Bob Arras the defense; while Steve Allen, Jim Munroe, and Geoff Perry patrolled the midfield on this New England Championship team. Their sweetest victory came with a 15-3 win over Exeter. The following year Captain Bill Clift's laxmen won 10 straight contests after 2 early losses. Their defeat of Exeter was 7-4. Walton "Bucky" Walker's 1967 team did not fare quite so well. With little or no experience defensively, the Andover lacrosse team surprised its fans with a hard fought 9-win 3-loss season. Exeter, however, was simply too strong for the Blue that year.

After being defeated by Exeter in 1967, Andover's laxmen did not lose to their Red foes again until the spring of 1973. Captain Caleb Warren in 1968; Captain Charles Kittredge, in 1969; Captain James Shea in 1970; and Captain Philip Hooper in 1971 all led their Phillips Academy lacrosse teams to victories over Exeter as well as New England Preparatory School championships. Each team was talented and well balanced. All played exciting games and dull games. Paul Brown, Bob Frisbie, Dana Seero, Charles Clark, John Sheffield, Steve Sherrill, Romerio Perkins, among many others, were names familiar to the Andover lacrosse fans in those years, but each group performed so well that it would be unfair to single out individual stars.

One interesting note was the fact that the three Warren brothers, Dan, Caleb, and Ethan, had all been stand-out performers in both hockey and lacrosse during this period. Daniel and Caleb had been captains of the hockey and lacrosse teams as seniors. The father of these students was George Warren, P.A. 1942, who had also played hockey and lacrosse at Phillips Academy.

Hulburd was ably assisted at various times during the seasons by Timothy Callard of the Religion Department, Roger Farrar of the Athletic Department, Paul Kalkstein of the English Department, and James "Gil" Leaf of the Admissions Office. The last three were former Andover laxmen coached by Hulburd.

At the end of the victorious 1971 lacrosse season, Robert Hulburd chose to retire temporarily from coaching to devote more time to his administrative duties. He was replaced as the Andover varsity lacrosse Coach by Frank Eccles, a former Phillips Academy lacrosse player, who was a member of the Math Department. In his first season Eccles team lost 6 games and won 6 contests including victories over Deerfield and Exeter. Co-captain Kevin McCall scored seven goals against Exeter. The following season the laxmen were led by tri-captains Alan Senior, Scott Mead, and David Victor. Their final game, played against the Exonians, resulted in a one-goal victory for the Red. The score was 7-6. It was the first loss to Exeter in six seasons. Clearly the Red lacrosse monopoly had ended.

With the departure of baseball Coach George Follansbee in 1953, Valleau Wilkie, who had been his assistant, was chosen to take over the fortunes of the Andover nine. Fred Harrison helped Wilkie with the varsity until the latter left Phillips Academy in 1959. Wilkie's first team lacked experience, but lacked luck as well. In a sixteen-inning duel against Deerfield, they lost 2-1, and in their final game with Exeter they still failed to hit and lost 1-0. It was the second consecutive loss to the Red baseball machine. The next two years found Andover on the winning side against the Exonians. Captain Willis Whittlesey's 1955 unit had a reasonable season, winning 6 and losing 5. Their hopes for a better record were dashed by inconsistent fielding on clutch plays. Nevertheless, a 1-hit performance by pitcher Tom Burke and a 10-hit attack led by Doug Brown, Whittlesey, and Art Hotchkiss gave the Blue a 3-0 win over the New Hampshire team. Walter Levering's running catch for the last out left Exeter men stranded on base and saved the game for Burke.(118) The next spring found the Andover baseball team plagued by bad weather. Unable to practice outside until mid-April, Captain Tom Burke's group lost several early season games, despite strong pitching by Burke, Ned LeRoy, and Wally Phillips. As the season progressed, the nine improved steadily and beat Exeter for the second straight year. Ben Field, Chico Valldejuly, and Dick Blumsack had timely hits to give Burke the support necessary for an 8-2 win.

Coach Wilkie's next two squads lost to the Exonians by one run. In 1957 Walter Phillips' team had won 6 games, including defeats of Deerfield, Harvard Freshmen, and Yale Freshmen, but lost to Exeter 7-6. John Hulburt and Jack Whitehouse each hit homeruns, but when the dust had settled, the Red, led by Dick Eustis and Charlie Ravenel, picked up the winning run in the eighth inning and Andover was defeated. The 1958 season was not a repeat of the year before, as the Blue team had won only three games prior to their tilt with Exeter. Individually the nine had talent, but never seemed able to sustain a winning streak. The loss of catcher Alex "Bumstead" Browne, whose finger had been hurt in the Cushing game, weakened Andover's chances against the traditional rival. The Red led Manch Wheeler's team by 6 runs at the end of the seventh inning. Wheeler, Jack Whitehouse, and David Adzigian spear-headed the attack to bring 3 runs in the eighth inning and 2 in the ninth, but it was not enough to win. By contrast Bumstead Browne's 1959 unit had a very creditable 6 and 6 record as they approached their last game. Browne, Webb Harrison, Roger Hardy, and Andrew Shea had been powerful on the offense, while Henry Higdon in center field starred defensively. Pitchers Wallace Winter, Jay Ogsbury, and William Dubocq had combined to give the Blue team substantial support on the mound. In the final contest after a ten-inning 1-1 struggle, the heavens opened and drenched the field and the spectators; the Andover-Exeter contest remained a tie.(119)

Valleau Wilkie left Andover to become the Headmaster of Governor Dummer Academy in 1959. Ted Harrison, assisted by Joshua Miner, took over the coaching of the Andover baseball team. In the time between 1960 and 1973 Andover beat Exeter eleven years and lost for two years. In 1961 the two schools decided to schedule baseball contests on an annual home and home basis. Since that time two games have been played each year, weather permitting. In 1967 the series was split, with each academy winning a game.

The decade of the 1960's brought the Andoverians seven years of Exeter wins and, in 1963 and 1964, two consecutive losses. Some of the Blue nines were considerably weaker than others, but a victory over the New Hampshire rivals always made a season brighter. The strongest baseball team to represent Phillips Academy in recent memory was that of 1960. With a record of 11 wins and 1 loss, Captain Browne's team's achievement has not been equaled at this writing. The loss was a defeat by the Dartmouth Freshmen, when the Blue left thirteen men on base.

The excellent hitting of Stephen Kehas, Dick Leete, Webb Harrison, and Roger Hardy combined with the fine pitching of Kehas, Bill Dubocq, and Tone Grant gave the Andover team a nine-game winning streak before meeting Dartmouth. James Turchik, Robert LeRoy, and Michael Moonves were strong defensively, and catcher Browne was a dynamic leader. They finished their season with a 10-1 rout over Exeter. It was a fitting climax to the careers of seniors Harrison, Dubocq, Browne, Leete, LeRoy, Hardy, and Turchik, all of whom had had outstanding athletic success at Andover. Captain Steve Kehas' nine in 1961 started off slowly, but managed a 7 and record with an unprecedented double win over Exeter in the first year of the two-game series. Jim Ogsbury, Dennis Kloepfer, Kehas, and Grant provided good pitching, while Daniel Hootstein, Thomas Brayton, and Morris Zuckerman were the heavy hitters. Tone Grant's 1962 Andover baseball team had a winning season, losing only 5 games of a hard 14-contest schedule. Kloepfer and Grant gave good exhibitions of pitching, while Samuel Caldwell, Hootstein, and Zuckerman provided timely hits. Grant struck out thirteen Exonians for a 7-3 victory in the last game of the season.

Guy Hughes joined Harrison and Miner in the baseball coaching lineup in 1963. The Phillips Academy nine that year, although hurt by the loss of graduated veterans, was captained by Daniel Hootstein, who led his team to an 8 and 6 season. Several one-run losses in the early part of the schedule and an error-filled Exeter game marred the record. Henry Wilmer, Kloepfer, and Thomas Bottonari, a lower middler, were the pitching staff. Joseph Belforti, Peter Pappas, Hootstein, and Dennis McCullough sparked the offense. The following season Hughes and Harrison worked toward building a team, for the group was relatively inexperienced. Captain Douglas Brown's team had spirit, but culminated a losing season with a loss to Exeter. Edward McCarty, the Red pitcher, allowed Andover only two hits. By the end of the 1965 season, Andover was on the winning side again. Tom Bottonari was not only a good captain, but a fine pitcher, and won a 9-3 verdict over Exeter. Anthony Gibson and Ford Fraker were the most dependable, hitters on the squad. The early part of the season saw the team lose a series of contests, but to their credit the Blue nine came back with victories in the later part of the term.

Guy Hughes of the English Department and Hale Sturges of the French Department were given the responsibility of coaching baseball while Harrison was on a sabbatical leave at Harvard in 1966. Captain Fernando Gonzalez' team lost several games to college freshmen as the season started, but managed a five-game winning streak, including wins over Deerfield and Exeter, for a record of 5 victories to 7 defeats. John Turco, the catcher, hit .390 for the season, while Richard Delaney and Ford Fraker were defensive stalwarts. Gregory Tellis was the star pitcher and the hero of the Blue victory over Exeter. Sturges and Harrison coached the 1967 Andover baseball team, which split the series with Exeter. Andover won the first game by a score of 4-3 on an excellent pitching performance by John Hawkins, good defensive play by Captain Ford Fraker, and timely hitting by Robert Kropke and Peter Nixon. Andover's commencement occurred the day before the second Exeter game, and the Blue players were clearly unprepared for the contest, which they lost 10-5. The season had started out with five cancellations in a row because of bad weather, surely a record even for New England. This situation did not provide adequate practice time, and it was midseason before the 1967 team began to take shape. Hearey, Fraker, and Peter Hawkins were the most dependable defensively. Joseph Wennik of the German Department, a former Phillips Academy baseball player, joined Sturges and Harrison as a coach of the 1968 nine. Good pitching efforts by Robert Corcoran and Captain John Hawkins, as well as excellent catching by Michael Thomas, was not enough to counteract the poor hitting of the team early in the season. However, victories later and a double win over Exeter by scores of 7-4 and 6-1, made the overall picture more satisfying for Andover. Although Hawkins had a record of only 2 wins against losses, his earned run average was 0.77.

With the spring of 1969 came another change in the baseball coaching assignment at Andover. Athletic Director Harrison chose Wennik and Sturges together to be in charge of the varsity program. Captain Peter Hawkins led his team to a 5 and 5 season, which was successfully climaxed in a ten-inning game against Exeter by a score of 4-3. Timely hitting by Robert MacDonald and Christopher Boyden gave the Blue the victory. Captain Theodore "Ted" Thorndike's 1970 baseball squad achieved the best record of any Andover nine since 1960. Thorndike's hitting, combined with that of Walter Snickenberger, Bob McDonald, Daniel Bolduc, Douglas Lentz, and James Gillan gave the team offensive power. John Sibal, Chris Boyden, and John Misztal gave solid pitching performances, while Charles Willand, John Healy, Evan Livada, and Gregory Bigwood were dependable all season. The result was a 10 and 3 season with a double win over Exeter. Misztal was credited with both Exeter victories. (120) Milton Holt was the star of Captain Evan Livada's 1971 team. The "Hawaiian Pineapple" was not only a strong pitcher but an excellent hitter. Teaming with veterans Bob MacDonald, Kenneth Lacey, and Gregory Bigwood, Holt and company compiled a 9 and 2 record. Milt struck out eighteen Exonians and hit a two-run homer to win the first game of the series by a score of 5-1. The second game at Exeter on 2 June 1971 was another Andover victory.

The following two seasons were highlighted by four consecutive wins over Exeter. Captain Douglas Bigwood's 1972 team had another fine 10 and 2 record, including a double victory over the Red. Gregory Cronin hit a three-run homer to give Blue pitcher, Pat O'Connor, the victory in the first contest. The second game proved to be an Andover rout with the final result a 15-2 defeat of Exeter. Michael Takvorian led the 1973 baseball team to another winning season. The first doubleheader with Deerfield was scheduled that year, with Andover losing the initial game and tying the second. Paul McNicol was the hitting star of the first 1973 win over Exeter, while David Bauman pitched, giving up only four hits in the 5-2 victory. Robert Carroll hit a triple in the eleventh inning of the second, game to become another hero of the series and to give the Andover nine another win over the Red. Hale Sturges was on leave that year and Harrison returned to help Coach Wennik. With the close of the season in 1973, Phillips Academy had scored 8 wins against 39 losses and 3 ties in the baseball series with Phillips Exeter Academy.(121)

Andover springs have never been free of the various dramatic changes in the New England climate. Snow has covered the fields in April and May, while June commencements have been hot, with temperatures in the nineties or rainy and cold, with the thermometer going into the low fifties. Golf and tennis have been the two sports at Phillips Academy which have generally been most adversely affected by the whims of Mother Nature. Until the construction of the all-weather courts behind Bancroft Hall in 1960, the tennis program lost many days of practice because of unplayable conditions. The Wheelock Whitney Court renovation project, which included the hard surface ones, also provided for a major renovation of the clay courts which were located behind the Case Cage. The completion of that program was a major influence in the growth and success of Phillips Academy tennis teams in the years between 1961 and 1970. The attraction of the new courts brought many talented netmen to the school from areas like Florida and California, where tennis was played year-round, as well as from communities on the eastern seaboard where tennis could be played indoors. The brevity of the school tennis season made it almost impossible to develop good racquet men unless they had had considerable training and competitive experience before they arrived at Andover. Since tennis was the third sport, behind baseball and football, to be played on a regular competitive basis with Exeter, its teams' successes and failures were of major concern to the Phillips Academy community. Between 1953 and 1956, the Andoverians did not win a single Exeter tennis match, despite good individual performances by experienced netmen like Robert Semple and Maitland Jones. In the Pot Pourris of those years, the tennis teams' write-ups inevitably mentioned bad spring weather, cancellation of matches, and no adequate practice.(122) Coach Cornelius Banta of the Mathematics Department had his best team in six years when Captain Lowell Latshaw's brilliant play brought Andover the 1956 Interscholastic Tennis title as well as a 6-3 victory over Exeter. The following year saw another set of Blue netmen have a winning record of 5 victories, including 1 over Exeter, and 3 defeats. In defeating Exeter, the doubles combinations of Mark Woodbury and Laurie Chickering, as well as Ted Forstmann and Nick Saxton, proved to be the deciding factors, as both partnerships took their matches for the final points. The weather in both years cooperated to the extent that all scheduled matches were able to be played. Captain Mark Woodbury's 1958 tennis team was strong and well balanced but posted a disappointing 2 and 5 record. The match against Exeter was held in the Exeter Cage because of rain and went on until 8:30 in the evening. At that point, the last match was split, giving the Exonians a 6-1/2---3-1/2 victory. Charles Dey of the History Department, a former Dartmouth netman, became Andover's tennis coach in 1959. With a nucleus of veterans from the previous spring, he produced a balanced squad which compiled a solid 7 and 2 record. Captain Kirby Jones, David Smoyer, Whitney Foster, Nick Saxton, John McPherson, and Carl Forsythe comprised the team which took exciting matches from Deerfield and Exeter by the identical scores of 7-2.(123)

The decade of the 1960's opened with two successive losses in tennis to Phillips Academy's Red rivals. The Andover spring of 1960 was particularly wet, three of the team's nine matches were rained out, and progress on resurfacing the courts was hampered. While the Blue won 3 and lost 3 of their contests, 1 of the defeats was by an Exeter team which took of the 9 matches against Andover.(124) The following year, Dey left the school and Con Banta was recalled to service with the Blue netmen. Captain John McPherson's team scored a 7-win 2-loss record for that season. The losses were to a strong Harvard Freshmen unit and to Exeter in a very close contest. It was the last tennis victory over Andover that Exeter would see until 1970.

With the advent of the 1962 tennis season came a new coach, Dalton McBee, of the English Department. McBee was actually in charge of the Phillips Academy tennis program for the next ten years. During those years Andover's netmen produced some of the finest records in the history of the school. Captain George Andrews' 1962 team started the series of victories with a decisive win over Exeter and a single loss to the perennially strong Harvard Freshmen. The following season, under Jack Morrison's leadership, Andover's racquet squad repeated the record of Andrews' unit, with only one defeat and that to the Harvard Freshmen. Jose Gonzalez was unbeaten for the season. The 1964 tennis team was led by Gonzalez. Their season was disappointing in that their first matches against Deerfield and the Harvard Freshmen were losses. The group had experienced players, and they had hoped for a superior record, but, despite the two defeats, a 9-0 swamping of Exeter made their spring term successful. Stephen Devereux, playing his third year on the varsity tennis team, was undefeated in 1964. Devereux, who captained the 1965 Andover netmen, was one of the important reasons that his group was the first undefeated team in twenty-five years. Charles Pierce and Timothy Buxton, both teaching fellows, helped coach McBee develop the Andoverians into a smooth, well-balanced unit. Farlow Blakeslee and John. Spiegel led their teammates to an upset of an over-confident Harvard group to set the stage for the remainder of the season. Captain Erich Wise and his 1966 team followed the pattern drawn by their predecessors in 1965. With six returning lettermen, McBee once again produced an undefeated tennis team for Phillips Academy. Wet weather did not hamper the 1967 racquet squad, for Co-captains Bill Mears and Stuart Lytel led their team to a perfect 8 and 0 season. Teaching fellows George Andrews, a former Andover tennis captain, and Robert Barton aided McBee in training this highly successful group. Exeter's defeat gave the tennis team its 34th consecutive victory and the 6th straight win over the Red. Another Devereux was elected captain of the 1968 team. Rick, like his older brother Steve, had also played on the Phillips Academy tennis team each of his four years at the school. While this group did not maintain an undefeated record, they lost only to Choate and Harvard Freshmen, and finished off with a 6-3 victory over Exeter. One of coach McBee's proudest achievements was his 1969 racquet squad. Having lost five lettermen through graduation the previous spring, he was "humble but hopeful" about his current team's prospects. With the aid of English Instructor Kent Allen, McBee built a firm unit around seniors Gavan O'Herlihy, John Clauss, Hugh Peck, and David McCracken. This group was aided substantially by the play of underclassmen Peter Blazier, Grant Heidrick, and John Bush. The result was a single loss to the Harvard Freshmen and six victories. A 5-4 win over Exeter brought the New England Preparatory School Championship to Andover that year.

With the coming of another decade also came another phase of Andover tennis history. Under the tutelage of McBee and Allen in 1970 and 1971, the Phillips Academy netmen lost to Exeter by scores of 6-3 and 5-4. Grant Heidrick's 1970 squad was weaker by far than teams of the recent past, but Douglas Biilman was undefeated in competition for the season. Captain Bush's boys lost a close match to Exeter in the 1971 season. Dalton McBee ended his reign over the tennis program in 1972 and was replaced by Allen. The tennis talent entering the school in the early 1970's was not strong, and as each class graduated, the senior tennis players were not being replaced by experienced underclassmen. Captain David McCracken's 1972 unit had a 5 and 2 season but lost to Exeter by 6-1. Thomas Raleigh was the only winner on the Blue team in that match. William Kaplan's 1973 Andover team followed the losing pattern against Exeter and dropped to the Red by a 7-2 score. Seniors Steven Rockwell and Michael Gomez accounted for Andover's two points. The worm had turned, and Exeter had won the tennis match against Andover for the fourth consecutive year.

Golf has never been a spectacular success at Andover. As previously mentioned, the New England climate in the spring does not lend itself to making golf play ideal. The Phillips Academy golfers have also had to depend on the generosity of neighboring country clubs to allow them a place to practice and play matches. As the popularity of golf grew in the country between 1953 and 1973, the numbers of active golfers increased in the Andover community as well. Public courses were so crowded that there was no possibility of initiating any use of those facilities for Phillips students. Fortunately, the Andover Country Club has allowed the Academy golfers to use their course over the years. While the school is fortunate to have the use of this facility, nevertheless, the club members do have justifiable priority and the extent to which the Andover golfers may play is necessarily limited. As a result, golf team members are those who have had the opportunity to learn the game before they come to Andover. From time to time there have been attempts to provide a non-competitive golf program. However, the crowded course conditions and the limit on the number of students allowed to play at given times has made both instructional and recreational golf almost impossible to achieve at Phillips Academy.

After Coach Brown's very successful season in 1953 the years did not produce many good golf team records. There was a succession of coaches, including William Harding, John Hawes, Peter McKee, Nathaniel Reed, William Markey, Graham Baldwin, George Best, Rennie McQuilkin, and, more recently, John Chivers and Samuel Anderson. Yet with all the interest and enthusiasm of those men and the students, Andover's linksmen have had only nominal success. The Pot Pourris of the period habitually summarize the golf team's season with comments on the poor weather conditions and lack of sufficient practice. Governor Dummer Academy and Exeter have had the use of local golf courses in their areas almost without restriction, and this fact is reflected in the margin of their victories over Andover in the Round Robin Golf Series among the three schools. In 1954, Andover won its fourth round robin victory but lost to Exeter in the dual match The next two seasons were hard ones for the Blue and resulted in losses to Exeter.(125) Captain Dale Lindsay's 1957 team had five returning letter winners, who beat M.I.T. Freshmen, St. Paul's, and Exeter in dual matches but lost in the Round Robin with Governor Dummer and Exeter as well as dual meetings with the Dartmouth and Yale Freshmen. Jon Porter's 1958 group won only two matches, but finished on a winning note with an exciting victory over Exeter. Giles Payne saved the day for the Blue by beating his Exeter opponent in a sudden-death playoff. Golf was the only Andover team to defeat Exeter that spring. The next seven years saw the golfers again face losses to the Red. Coach Hawes' team in 1959 had a 4 and 4 record but lost to a strong Exeter group by an 8-1 margin. The 1962 golfers, coached by John Chivers, achieved the most successful season since 1954. Captain William McKee's team won the Round Robin for the first time in eight years. Melvin Weinberger fired three straight rounds under eighty to lead the group to victories in each case. Once again, however, Exeter won the dual match 6-1/2---3-1/2. Weinberger's team of 1964 won the tri-meet with Governor Dummer and Exeter, beat Dartmouth and M.I.T. Freshmen, but lost 5-4 in the Exeter contest. In the previous season of 1963, a strong Andover golfing group led by Terry Rogers had won three matches, including Harvard, but fell to the Red 5-4. The 1965 team also lost a close decision to Exeter 5-4.

The Andover golf team of 1966 was indeed special, for it not only finished with a 9 and 0 record but was the second undefeated golf team in the school's history. Chivers' linksmen consisted of Captain Christopher Gurry, Charles Tolman, William Dawson, John Holkins, Craig Combs, John Spencer, and Wright Wading. Among their accomplishments these players won the three-school Round Robin and defeated Exeter by a 6-3 score. John Holkins led his golf team to a 3-3-1 record in 1967 with a final 7-2 defeat of Exeter. Once again the spring rain had cancelled the Blue's first two matches as well as early spring practice time. The next two years saw Andover golf teams overcome by stronger units from Exeter. They were third in the Round Robin in 1968 and won only three matches for the season. The 1969 golfers had established a strong rating with 4 wins, including defeats of Harvard and Dartmouth Freshmen as well as a first in the tri-meet with arch rivals Exeter and Governor Dummer, but the jinx in the dual contest prevailed, and Exeter won 6-1/2 -- 2-1/2.

The year 1970 saw improvement in Andover's golfers Alexander Kazickas, Lawrence Bump, and William Brenizer, all of whom were returning lettermen. The result of their efforts was a 6-3 victory over Exeter and only one match lost. The defeat came from a strong Harvard Freshmen team. Bump, Kazickas, and company beat the Exonians again in 1971 by a score of 5-4. The 1972 season ended with a 2-win and 6-loss record and another close match with Exeter. The Red was victorious, 5-1/2---3-1/2. Captain David Chase's 1973 golf team could not overcome Exeter either, as the match was lost in a playoff 5-4. In the twenty years between 1953 and 1973 Phillips Academy had managed only 4 wins in the annual dual golf match with Exeter. Certainly the record gave the Red an overwhelming lead in the history of this series of contests between the two academies.

Other activities sponsored by the Athletic Department during this period should also be mentioned. Riflery was originally organized as a club but in the early 1970's was recognized as a sport, letters being awarded for distinguished performance.(126) Up until 1954 the rifle group met in the Cage for practice. During the academic year 1953-54, however, Donald Merriam of the Spanish Department was able to have a rifle range built in the basement of Pearson Hall. Merriam and Karl Roehrig, then of the English Department, were the active coaches of an enthusiastic group of riflemen. The move from the Cage to the better-lighted new facility increased interest in this activity, and many more students became members of the rifle club.(127) Merriam gave up his coaching in 1962, but Roehrig continued to direct the program until it was ended in 1975. The rifle team had an informal outside schedule but generally participated in the Eastern New England Preparatory School Interscholastics. Among their opponents over the years were Belmont Hill, Tabor, and St. Paul's. The 1954 and 1961 Andover riflemen were winners of the Interscholastics, while the teams between 1958 and 1969 did not lose a single match to Exeter.(128) As is usual with such groups, the success or failure of any club depends on the interest and enthusiasm of the participants. The rifle team members would meet for regular practice at a given time in Pearson Hall basement, but even as late as 1970, they were required to go to regular athletics as well. Their only reward for their interscholastic competition and industry was an emblem.(129) Over the years the Rifle Club had been governed by a group of officers, but by 1966 the more expert members had been separated into a competing team with an elected captain.(130) The 1966 group, under the leadership of Captain Peter Weil, lost the Interscholastics. Had they won for the third consecutive year, it would have been a first in the history of the match.(131) In 1971 the Athletic Advisory Board agreed to award varsity letters to those rifle team members who were recommended by the captain and Coach Roehrig. David Gravallese was the captain of the first Andover rifle team to be so honored. Riflery was discontinued in 1975 for a variety of reasons. The ammunition had been supplied by the government through the National Rifle Association, but this program was not going to be available any longer. The cost of purchasing the shells as well as the difficulty and expense of repairing guns made it impractical to continue to offer riflery as part of the athletic program.

Sailing, too, has generally been regarded as a club activity, but it has been underwritten and supported by the Andover Athletic Department over the years. The Andover Sailing Club was formally organized in 1948. What had been named the Phillips Academy Yacht Racing Club underwent a complete transformation with a new constitution, elected officers, and a system of collecting dues. The group obtained permission to build a dock on property of the North Andover Country Club bordering Lake Cochichiwick.(132) With a loan from the school the membership was able to buy five dinghies to sail on the lake that fall. The purchase of the new equipment and a home base from which to sail increased the interest and activity of the club tremendously. Meets were held at Chochichiwick and in Wakefield, as well as at other schools with sailing teams, such as Proctor Academy. The Sailing Club continued to flourish, using Wednesday afternoons and weekends to practice. William H. Brown was the faculty advisor who enthusiastically supported the group, and who arranged for the boats to be stored in the basement of Johnson Hall, where the boys could repair them in winter. By 1954 the club's membership had greatly increased. The group had won the Interscholastic Sailing Race held at Wakefield in 1953 and this, plus new boats, had aroused considerable enthusiasm for the sport within the student body. Brown had arranged to purchase six unassembled "firefly" dinghies from England, and four were in use by the spring of 1954. Under Brown's system all who wished to were allowed to sail, but only the best four sailors would be sent by Andover to the Interscholastics. In the fall of 1955 the Andover Faculty expressed an unprecedented interest in sailing by allowing Daniel Catlin, a senior, to leave school and go to Florida to enter the World Championship Sailing Contests. Catlin's expertise as a sailor had qualified him to compete in the Star class races. The Phillips Academy teachers were impressed not only by this feat but by his fine academic record as well. The spring of 1956 found the Andover sailors with a fifth Firefly dinghy in operation as well as a new faculty advisor, Harold Owen of the English Department. That year, too, the Athletic Department offered sailing as a spring sport, and its popularity was proved by the large number of students who chose it. Ten members were selected to represent the school at the various interscholastic regattas held during the season, and the remainder of the group settled for weekend sailing on the lake. The club's activities were curtailed shortly before Commencement because the town of North Andover no longer wished to register the Phillips Academy boats. Since there was no facility within the town of Andover where the Fireflies could be used, it was decided that the school's boats should be sold to Proctor Academy, which owned lake front property in New Hampshire. Although the formal club was disbanded, an informal group sails on Wednesday afternoons and weekends as of this writing. Depending on the enthusiasm, talent, and dependability of the students involved, they can compete at various interscholastic regattas held in several areas of New England. The availability of a faculty sponsor is of the utmost importance, since the sailors must be transported to all such engagements. Samuel Anderson is the current advisor and has been for over ten years. In August 1973 the Bulletin proudly announced that Andover had won the thirty-seventh Interscholastic Yacht Racing Association Regatta held that year in Branford, Connecticut. It was Andover's sixth win of that championship, and the skippers in 1973 were Austin "Wally" Corwin and Peter Fernberger. Previous Phillips Academy winning skippers were Fred Sorenson in 1953, Nicholas Kip in 1960, Walter Pierson in 1965, and Tony Leggett in 1972. Up to 1973 no other school had won the Regatta more than three times.

The Search and Rescue Program has been an athletic offering at Phillips Academy since 1964, only two years after Outward Bound, on which it was modelled, was brought to this country, as was described at the start of this chapter. The skills and knowledge gained by this activity extend far beyond those of rapelling, snowshoeing, orienteering, or any of the other outdoor experiences included in the program. The challenges presented to those in Search and Rescue test their determination, courage, stamina, and resourcefulness. Equally important is the team aspect of the activity. A successful weekend of mountain climbing, for instance, is dependent on trust and cooperation. Many students have found Search and Rescue a very satisfying and rewarding experience because it creates a sense of self-worth as well as a sense of community.

Since its inception, the numbers of those choosing it as part of the athletic program have increased steadily. Search and Rescue now is offered by the Athletic Department in each of the three academic terms. Largely because of a limited number of instructors, the demand usually exceeds the supply, and often students are unable to take the course at the time when they would prefer to do so. Nevertheless, each year younger faculty members coming to the school have been able to undertake the very demanding responsibilities which the Search and Rescue Program entails. The fall and spring programs offer rock-climbing, rapelling, orienteering (map and compass work), canoeing, and an overnight camping trip. Each of these activities includes instruction in technique, care and use of equipment, first aid, and ecology. The winter term students do cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and also develop orienteering skills, all of which are put to practical application on two overnight camping trips as well as two day trips. Search and Rescue groups usually comprise one faculty leader, one student assistant leader, and seven students. Search and Rescue had always maintained a tradition of student leadership, and many alumni, returning to the Faculty, have been former student leaders. One of the biggest problems facing Search and Rescue through the years has been a financial one, for the increased cost of transportation, equipment, and adequate training for the instructors has necessitated an ever-increasing budget.(133)

By 1970 there was increased interest in judo, karate, water polo, cycling, and street hockey among the Phillips Academy student body, and the Athletic Department accommodated these desires whenever possible. Joseph Garrie, a member of the Class of 1971, coached a competitive judo program in 1970. Garrie, ranked second nationally among sixteen-year-old judo wrestlers, was aided by teaching fellow James H. Grew, Jr. The Andover team sent contestants to two tournaments and returned with a total of five trophies. After Garrie's graduation, judo returned to its former noncompetitive status. Although there was some agitation to make it a varsity sport, once Garrie departed the impetus for such action was gone, and judo has remained an intramural offering.(134)

One of the most important contributions of the Phillips Academy Athletic Department during the two decades between 1953 and 1973 was to the relationship between the school and the Andover community at large. A town group helped by M. Lawrence Shields had earlier established a Badminton Club, using the Borden Gymnasium area for play. Upon completion of the Memorial Gymnasium these people became known as the Racquet Club and expanded their program to include squash. The Athletic Director encouraged this use of the school's facilities, for it produced good feeling among the townspeople and provided income to the school as well. Shortly after becoming hockey coach, Harrison started the Youth Hockey Program for all town boys. This grew to become an official A.H.A.U.S. group which ultimately has contributed thousands of dollars to the Phillips Academy hockey program, including a dressing room as well as funds toward the renovation of the Sumner Smith Rink. Several interested local citizens helped Harrison establish the Andover Skating Club, whose members were allowed to skate at prescribed times on the rink. This group, too, has grown in number and has paid substantially toward the maintenance of the facility. David Thompson, P.A. 1934, asked the author to become a member of the Board of Directors of the Andover Youth Center in 1962. Later Harrison was President of the Board when the Center affiliated with the Lawrence Young Men's Christian Association. When this arrangement occurred, the Andover-North Andover Y.M.C.A. leased, at certain hours, the Phillips Academy pool, tennis courts, and Cage. This affiliation allowed the local organization to expand its program greatly. This expansion led to more interest on the part of local citizens and, consequently, a much higher enrollment of members. As the membership increased, it became clear to all that the community could and would support a new and larger facility. While Harrison was still the President of the Y.M.C.A., this building was constructed on land owned originally by Merrimack College. The project was made possible after a successful local area fund drive had been completed. Phillips Academy and the Y.M.C.A. still share a number of their resources. During the late 1960's several of the area high schools were lent the use of the Case Cage for indoor track meets and practice, while the Andover High School hockey team was first started when they were able to rent ice time from the Academy. Another activity which Harrison and DiClemente organized in 1954 was the Andover Press Club. This organization, run by students, was to supply athletic information about the school, not only to the local newspapers but to the wire services as well. Although its performance largely depends upon the reliability and enthusiasm of the student leadership, the Press Club has performed a real information service about the school to the public at large. Additionally, a development which produced income for the school and generated much amusement and interest in the town was the use of the athletic facilities of Phillips Academy for pre-season training by the, then, Boston Patriots. This team trained at Andover for nine summers and presented an added attraction to the area. The Andover Tennis Club was another local organization which was formed because the Academy allowed its members to lease certain hours of playing time on the school's tennis courts. It is important to emphasize that when Phillips Academy helped to found these various organizations and began to open its athletic plant to the townspeople, there were very few recreational facilities in the area. The Sumner Smith Rink was the only artificial ice surface within thirty miles. There were very few public tennis courts and no indoor racquet clubs in the community, and the only swimming available was in the summer. The Academy recognized the town's need for recreational facilities and felt a responsibility toward helping to alleviate this problem.

During these years the Andover Program, a capital fund drive, was successfully completed, and the Phillips Academy Athletic Department was the grateful recipient of some of these gifts. The addition of the Ray Shepard Wing was made to the Cage; Sumner Smith roofed over the rink he had already given to the school; the Whitney family donated funds for the renovation of the tennis courts; the Rafferty family made possible the building of three more playing fields; and Edward P. Moore was responsible for another cutout baseball diamond located on the old campus. Later the Class of 1922, as their Fiftieth Reunion gift, and again Sumner Smith sponsored the construction of a much-needed Field House on the southwest side of Brothers Field. This building had room for the shelter and repair of four vehicles, two visiting team rooms, and public toilet facilities. While the addition of these items to the athletic physical plant was undeniably important to the Phillips Academy sports program, so, too, were the men and women who were responsible for maintaining that plant and the administration of the department. Herbert Allicon, Walter Runge, James Bisseth, Joseph Mahoney, John Laycock, and Constant Lambert, all of whom were involved with the fields, hockey rink, and the Cage, gave many years of loyal service to the Athletic Department and to the students of Phillips Academy. Robert McCoubrie, Phillips Academy 1918, retired in 1965 as chief custodian of the Memorial Gymnasium. His competence in watching over the complex machinery of the building and his concern for students and coaches alike would rarely be equalled. William Burby, whose presence in the stockroom assured the Athletic Director that the complicated details of that operation were in good hands, was sorely missed when he retired. Irving Couilliard, a Lawrence High School manual arts instructor, worked in the summers for the Athletic Department but performed spare time tasks, such as building a ramp from Cooley House to the gymnasium to protect the girl athletes from the weather. His work was invaluable to the operation of the sports program. Marjorie Walsh, June Wermers, and Eunice O'Brien contributed hours of labor to accomplish the intricate details of managing the athletic office. They were not only skilled workers but loyal fans of Phillips Academy teams as well as friends to the students and faculty. The close cooperation of Walter Winn, Superintendent of the Grounds Department, and Frank Richards, the Academy Chief Engineer, with the Andover Athletic Department made the Academy's sports program function at times when it seemed an almost impossible task. The continued cooperation between the administrators of the Medical Department and the Athletic Department was of paramount importance to the success of the Andover Athletic Program. With the retirement of Dr. Donald Clark in 1965, Julian Kaiser, P.A. 1943, was appointed to the position of the School Physician. He resigned in 1970 to become the Medical Director at the University of Connecticut and was replaced by Dr. Frank Soule. Both of these men and the Isham Infirmary Staff worked closely with the Athletic Department in their dealings with the students.

The period of the late 1960's and early 1970's was a time of change and turmoil in the world, in the country, and, particularly, in educational institutions. Phillips Academy, like other schools, felt some of this change and turmoil. The students wanted more of a voice in deciding school policy. Such things as the elimination of the dress code and a wider variety of course and sports offerings were brought about largely through the influence of the students. The dress code and the length of hair worn by students were problems of particular concern to the Athletic Department. The dress code was settled in that coaches taking teams away on trips to other institutions had to make sure that their players were neat and presentable in appearance. All participants in sports which required protective headgear had to wear their hair at a length which allowed for the proper fit of the equipment. Nonetheless, the long hair worn by the males of the period did prove to be a nuisance both in the pools and showers of the gymnasium, for the hairs continually clogged the filters in the pools and the drains in the showers. The new attitude of the students ultimately also resulted in their being given more free weekends and off-campus excuses. A competing athlete necessarily found himself giving up many of these privileges and also losing the loyal spectators whose presence meant so much to a player's morale. In spite of the attitudes and temper of the times, Phillips Academy students did continue to play at all levels of competition and in all sports. Faculty and student interest as onlookers lessened, but the resulting performance of the teams and players remained high. The attitudes of these athletes may have been slightly different from those of their fathers or grandfathers, but the end result was the same. As one athlete of the Class of 1971 expressed it, "When you look back at Andover athletics, what you will remember will be the guys you played with and the coaches you played under, not the championships and letter sweaters."(135)