St Agnes High School - Spires Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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We HAMPERED by The loss of some oT Their TirsT sTring sTalwarTs, The scrappy Red and WhiTe held The powerful Harvard lvliliTary Academy To a slim 6 To O vicTory. Angered by Two deTeaTs in succession, The SainTs swepT over a TasT Raenford Team To The Tune oT I8 To 6. The opponenTs showed lighTning speed, buT, due To The excel- lenT defense oT The ST. Agnes' line, They could make liTTle use of iT. An ill wind blew in Trom The coasT when The huslcy bunch of pigslcin pushers Trom ST. Monica's plowed The Red and WhiTe under wiTh a score OT 37 To O. The Sherman Indians bore down on The SainTs nexT and ambushed our boys, scalping Them 20 To 6. The CadeTs and SainTs meT in The lasT game oT The season. lT was a TighT Trom sTarT To Tinish wiTh The SainTs geTTing The upper hand Toward The end. The whisTle Tied The score 6 To 6. Always du Ur dienl V... ' . 1 I 1 'C I Bill Lauerman sends Blaire in To win The game Top Row-Coach Bill Lauerman, Bill McMonagle, MaTT McDonough, Jaclr Magner, Wakefield EvereTT, Michael Quinn, Harold Barlow, Clyde Walker, Charles Bruce, Carl Call, Manager. 55 Middle Row-Mark Cahill, Wayne Devine, Fred Lopresfo, Neal Van Houfen, Frank Mramor, Franlx FauceTTa, ErnesT Ramirez, Louis Sais, Jack O'Hara. BoTTom Row-AI McNulTy, Charles Hufchinson, Lawrence OTT, Frank Blaire, Rudolph AbeyTa, Joseph Gannon, Ralph Heil. :F T T A

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Un! Teammatesl SAINT AGNES' SAINTS opened fhe l94l season by invad- ing Long Beach fo defeaf a favored Soufhern California Milifary Academy. Under fhe leadership of Capfain Frank Blaire, fhe Red Horde displayed plenfy of courage and feamworlc by rornping over fo pay dirf fwice. The final whisfle sef fhe score af I3 fo O. Affer a week of hard pracfice, fhe Sainfs mef Villanova af Ojai. The heavier Villanova feam scored once in fhe lasf guarfer by infercepfing a pass deep in Sf. Agnes' ferrifory and once in fhe second quarfer by lighfning fhrusfs info fhe lighfer Sainf Agnes' line. Wifh fhe score I2 fo 0 againsf fhem, fhe Sainfs, as if inspired, came ouf on fhe field fo score a fouchdown in fhe fhird guarfer and fo fhreafen again in fhe fourfh. The game ended I2 fo 6 wifh fhe sfrong Villanova feam digging in fo wifhsfand anofher onslaughf. ' QTKMJ VARSITY FOOTBALL TEAM Baclrfield-Neal Van Houfen, Frank Blaire, Franlr Fauceffa, Laurence Off. Line Charles Hufchinson, Joe Gannon, Bill McMcnagle, Rudolph Abeyfa, AI McNulfy and Ernesf Ramirez. Cenfer-Charles Bruce.

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+ 1 VARSITY TEAM FirsT Row-Coach Bill Lauerman, VincenT Greco, ArThur Walsh, Bob Ferraio, Charles Bruce. Second Row-Franlr FauceTTa, Danny HarringTon, Frank Blaire, Lawrence OTT, Harold Barlow. Baslcefball sTars, Danny Harringfon and ArThur Walsh. do some fancy playing. Tl-TE I94I-T942 BASKETBALL TEAM, cap- Tained by Danny l-larringTon, broughT eiqh+ vicTories home To SainT Agnes'. Triumphs over Cumnock, Black-Eoxe, SainT Bernar- dine's, Villanova, and SainT Monica's loroughT saTisTacTion To The conTesTanTs and Thrills To The specTaTors. Lack oT heighT proved a liabiliTy To The home boys when playing Teams wiTh exTra Tall men. In spiTe oT This handicap The SainTs made a good showing in every game. The season closed wiTh The lnTer-CaTholic TournamenT, spon- sored by MounT Carmel High. SainT Agnes' Took 4Th place and broughT home a Trophy Tor Their driving Tinish in The Two games They won. B STRING To Row-Richard BurT Geor e Berr MaTT Mc- P I 9 Yi Donough, John O'Leary. BoTTom Row-Jack Magner, Wayne Devine, Ed Maron. Bill Tullius. 56 ' A 4 : sf'-f '- ' A ' A i us of 'S J ' W l if ', Q- ,-1,,. X yr up E I H' 1 A.-,M ,aww M Q i N ,f L, new gy. ilk-Q51 gm . 1. ,w.vo,. . 4, K Q., 5' Q- ' x if, T T X x , QL irq ' 'T YA .no ,gi-H , V . ., mgkigbgqg Tr: