Mount St Marys College - Pridwin Yearbook (Emmitsburg, MD)

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Hughes tried to make it interesting but the “Ange” gave him only one basket in the 2nd half. “Ange” got 26 rebounds and 16 points. . . MOUNT 54 GEORGETOWN 65 Bad night for the Blue and White. . . . The Hoyas record of 11 straight losses was snapped... . MOUNT 51 LOYOLA 57 Loyola’s gym continued to be our jinx . . . noth- ing went in... . Smitty gave us the best defensive show of the year .. . allowed Lacy 1 goal.... MOUNT 77 WASHINGTON 61 Back on the victory path . . . things were looking up.... scully and Sal had 21]-apiece ym MOUNT 111 BLU2aG A fabulous evening—hardly a record was left standing. . . . Sully had 44 points, Sal had a mil- lion rebounds, Swaine threw in 4 baskets in a row at one stretch, Stan had thousands of assists, and Smitty drove like a Cousy.... MOUNT 55 WASHINGTON 51 Slow night for both clubs. . .. Stan led the Mount with 13 points, and a pile of assists... . MOUNT 80 ABERDEEN 62 Soldiers were invaded and manhandled... . “Big Ange” rebounded with giants of all sizes and came out on top. ... Sully fired in 26 and Stan continued his sharp feeding. . MASON-DIXON TOURNAMENT On the opening night the Mount went against B.U. The game was played at Loyola and our jinx court still seemed to stymie us. ... The Blue and White started slow and trailed by seven at the half... picking up its momentum in the second half, the Mount tied the “Bees” and set up the stage for Sully’s memorable tap-in with 3 seconds remaining. ... That did it! Mount 52, B.U. 50. On the second night we met a big test and won going away.... We beat Roanoke, the tournament’s top-seeded club and Mason-Dixon champs by the score of 69 to 52. ... Sully had 20 points, and Sal rebounded like a “big cat”. . . . Stan and Smitty allowed Gira a mere 4 counters between them. . . The finale was the red-letter day to end them all... . WE BEAT THE GREYHOUNDS ON THEIR OWN couRT, and Sal became owner of his second gym. .. . He had 29 rebounds, and Loyola had 28... . The team worked to perfection and Sal’s 30 points paved the road to a long-awaited victory, 84-65... . Sal, Sully and Stanley made All-Tournament; Smith made second team, and Swaine made us believe he was enormously underrated. . . . The Mount team, the band and the fans were the talk and the toast of the town... .

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the mould was not yet set... but we were jelling and he made it!!!! an uncontainable emotion

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First row, left to right: A. Cecil, J. Smith, J. Moroney, J. Loftus, G. McMahon, F. Carine, R. Sauerwald, H. Reed. Second row: Coach Dunphy, R. Burke, C. Costenbader, J. Sukitch, R. Anglim, J. Wasser, F. Hogan, D. Mooney. shooting for the future taking advantage of the present FRESHMAN HOOPSTERS Senior Jack Dunphy directed the yearlings through the 53-54 campaign ...a record of six wins, four defeats was compiled . . . this success came mostly through the efforts of two individuals... Jim Moroney and Frank Hogan. . Moroney, the toothless wonder from Bethlehem, Pa., practically carried the Frosh through the first half of the season . . . Hogan, with his astounding rebounding and potent shooting ability, was no less successful in the latter half of the season. . The sweetest win for the Dunphymen was their triumph over Baltimore U. ... a team which had beaten them by over twenty points in their first meeting. . . Another feature of this squad was the back court work of M cMahon and Loftus . . . this pair made it possible for much of the inside scoring punch exhibited by forwards Burke and Wasser. . emerged Moroney, the one man marauder