{"id":97,"date":"2008-10-02T20:15:17","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T20:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=97"},"modified":"2022-01-03T22:39:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T22:39:22","slug":"south-shore-football-champions-of-1933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2008\/10\/02\/south-shore-football-champions-of-1933\/","title":{"rendered":"South Shore Football Champions of 1933"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Football Champions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This group portrait shows some of the 1933 South Shore Champion Football Team of Kingston High School on the football field at the Bailey Playground (note the goal post in the background). Twenty-eight\u00a0 boys, out of a total student body of 131 in Grades 9-12, went out for football that year. The new principal Mr. Gotschall supervised the football team (and the boys basketball team) in addition to his administrative duties.\u00a0 Under the principal&#8217;s leadership, this small, inexperienced team won five games, lost two and tied one to capture the championship.\u00a0 And as icing on the cake, the football games cleared a profit of $70.33; along with money from magazine sales and gifts, the school&#8217;s athletic and lunchroom bills were paid in full.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 461px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Members of the 1933 Kingston High School Football team\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/peo-00-0094-lhr.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the 1933 Kingston High School Football team\" width=\"461\" height=\"309\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the 1933 Kingston High School Football team<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Front row (kneeling): Bob Bailey, Raoul Corrazari, George Candini, Clyde Mills, Eddie Cadwell, Stephen Reed, Bob Davis.\u00a0 Second row: Malcolm &#8220;Mac&#8221; Peterson, Alfred Bruneau,\u00a0 Harold &#8220;Slim&#8221; Alberghini,\u00a0 Chester &#8220;Chet&#8221; Morrison, Amelio Ruffini, Russell &#8220;Prout&#8221; Prouty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Note the equipment that would never meet today&#8217;s safety standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football Champions This group portrait shows some of the 1933 South Shore Champion Football Team of Kingston High School on the football field at the Bailey Playground (note the goal post in the background). Twenty-eight\u00a0 boys, out of a total student body of 131 in Grades 9-12, went out for football that year. The new &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2008\/10\/02\/south-shore-football-champions-of-1933\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;South Shore Football Champions of 1933&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[109,248],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-schools","tag-football","tag-team-portraits"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22000,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/22000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}