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"For many years, alumni basketball players would return at Christmas break to take on the current boys varsity basketball team in an exhibition game. The athletic director Mr. Dewey and varsity coach Bill Hoffman would coach the students, and Henry Metz, a beloved member of the janitorial staff, coached the alumni team. "In the year following graduation, Johnny Groth ('45) and I returned to Latin for the annual varsity-alumni game. Coach Hoffman nearly lost his mind when the alumni won, probably f or the first time. Well, that year we started a 10-year winning streak for the alumni. "Sometime in the '50s, we decided to 'stop while we were ahead' and the 'group' never returned for another alumni game. A month later, we presented Coach Henry Metz with a silver trophy to commemorate the 10 consecutive winning games for the Latin alumni over the Latin varsity basketball teams." – Howard Carroll '44 large part due to parent and trustee Thomas Geraghty, who was a great supporter of sports at Latin. In 1927, E. Russell Bradley came to the school as the new athletic director with a vision that still resonates today. "Education implies training in living; recreation is a phase of living and games and sports are the most popular forms of recreation." Bradley wrote in the 1939 Sigillum. "Our work aims to develop good character and vigorous minds and bodies; it does this by promoting such health habits, skills, attitudes and knowledge as will enable the boy to make adjustments for right living now and in the future." Girls tennis Ice hockey 62 L AT I N M AGAZINE Kersey Coates Reed Field The most significant development in athletics at Latin during this period came after the sudden death of longtime Latin trustee Kersey Coates Reed. Mrs. Kersey Coates Reed and her sister Mrs. Charles Schweppe (the daughters of John G. Shedd) donated $125,000 to the school in Reed's memory. The funds were used to purchase a nine-acre tract of land from Commonwealth Edison and the estate of Sophie Berger. The land, located between Addison and Grace from California to the Chicago River, was developed into one of the finest athletic facilities in the city. With this new space,