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1933 High School State Champions
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Front row (left to right)—Rudolph “Rudy” Anderson (Captain), Harlan ”Red” Shane '34 (pitcher), Robert “Pete” Tetrault '34 (3rd base), Harold “Jack” Harmon, Henry “Buck” Cote '34 (centerfield), Lloyd “Shrimp” Spiller '35 (2nd base), Forrest “Stud” King.
Middle row—Paul “Ginger” Fraser (Coach), Roland “Rollie” Tetrault '36 (short stop), Edmund “Tud” Waterman, Albert "Fat" Bernier (pitcher), Wyman “Jack” Foster, Lawrence ”Joe” Farr, Armand “Danny” Daniel '36 (sub, catcher). Back row—Millard Chaplin (Ass’t Manager), Edward “Eddie” Mayo (Manager), Leo Cormier, Ronald “Ronnie” Jordan '33, Philip “Harvey” Nelson '33, Joseph “Joe” Robichaud, Raymond “Buck” Cote, Neil “Neally” Leighton. |
Coach Paul F. Fraser made his valedictory bow at Westbrook High School in 1933, by molding a championship nine and leaving a strong nucleus for another team in 1934. Westbrook asserted its supremacy in the Telegram League by capturing all divisions of play except home runs and stolen bases. After an inauspicious beginning at the Warren League grounds, where they were beaten, 6 to 5, by Sanford, the team gained its stride and swept the opposition aside methodically to win the Telegram League pennant for the eighth time, winning eight games and losing two.
At Deering, the following week, in the midst of a sleet storm and bitter cold, the boys were victorious, 9 to 4. Robert Tetrault's home run in the first inning started the ball rolling and Forrest King held the Deering batters well in check for the remainder of the game.
In the final and what proved to be the championship game, Westbrook beat South Portland in easy fashion, a pair of errors and Westbrook hits contributing to the downfall of Kershaw, the opposing pitcher, to the tune of 6 to 2.
In the All-Telegram selections, Shane, Bernier, Cote and Spiller gained positions and Shane was the League's leading pitcher and batter. The school received the Telegram League cup and the Wilson Trophy. The boys later went to Boston as guests of the Westbrook Merchants. At a benefit game in which we won over the All Stars, 4 to 3, enough money was realized to purchase chamois jackets for the letter men and Coach Fraser.
Letter men were: Harlan Shane, Forrest King, Albert Bernier, Henry Cote, Rudolph Anderson, Captain, Lloyd Spiller, Robert Tetrault, Roland Tetrault, Harold Harmon, Wyman Foster and Edward Mayo, Manager.
[Taken from the Westbrook High School Blue & White 1934]...
*Paul "Ginger" Fraser came to Westbrook in 1922 to accept a position at the Westbrook Community Association. From 1929 to 1932 he served as assistant football coach at the high school. In 1933 he himself coached not only this championship baseball team, but also the football and basketball teams at Westbrook High. When Coach Fraser died suddenly in 1938 at the age of 45, he was eulogized as "a coach and athletic director, one of Maine's all-time football luminaries, teacher and youth leader". Long remembered as a local legend, the softball field behind Warren Library was named Fraser Field in his honor on July 22, 2000.
At Deering, the following week, in the midst of a sleet storm and bitter cold, the boys were victorious, 9 to 4. Robert Tetrault's home run in the first inning started the ball rolling and Forrest King held the Deering batters well in check for the remainder of the game.
In the final and what proved to be the championship game, Westbrook beat South Portland in easy fashion, a pair of errors and Westbrook hits contributing to the downfall of Kershaw, the opposing pitcher, to the tune of 6 to 2.
In the All-Telegram selections, Shane, Bernier, Cote and Spiller gained positions and Shane was the League's leading pitcher and batter. The school received the Telegram League cup and the Wilson Trophy. The boys later went to Boston as guests of the Westbrook Merchants. At a benefit game in which we won over the All Stars, 4 to 3, enough money was realized to purchase chamois jackets for the letter men and Coach Fraser.
Letter men were: Harlan Shane, Forrest King, Albert Bernier, Henry Cote, Rudolph Anderson, Captain, Lloyd Spiller, Robert Tetrault, Roland Tetrault, Harold Harmon, Wyman Foster and Edward Mayo, Manager.
[Taken from the Westbrook High School Blue & White 1934]...
*Paul "Ginger" Fraser came to Westbrook in 1922 to accept a position at the Westbrook Community Association. From 1929 to 1932 he served as assistant football coach at the high school. In 1933 he himself coached not only this championship baseball team, but also the football and basketball teams at Westbrook High. When Coach Fraser died suddenly in 1938 at the age of 45, he was eulogized as "a coach and athletic director, one of Maine's all-time football luminaries, teacher and youth leader". Long remembered as a local legend, the softball field behind Warren Library was named Fraser Field in his honor on July 22, 2000.
The photograph and the autographed game baseball were recently donated to the Westbrook Historical Society by the daughter of Albert Bernier, pitcher for the championship team of 1933.