St Johns Cathedral High School - Eagle Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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mmxxxxx C J'JZl'.l'J'J'J',J Z'r.r'.r.r.r.?-sgflg- 1.1.u.m.x.1.dXZ' Basketball i Cathedral 14-Cudahy 18 On December 4, after two weeks of training, St. john's invaded the Cudahy cagers in their hrst tilt. Our players, somewhat timid and unac- quainted with the foreign floor, made a rather poor showing in the first half, with a 13 to 2 score in favor of our opponents. But in the second half a more confident team appeared and only the referee's gun prevented a victory for the Eagles. Cathedral 18-Concordia College B's 11 The next week found the boys led by the eagle eyes of Long and Custer, showing their style by defeating the college boys. Worthy of note was Foran's defensive play. Cathedral 40-Alumni 54 A night of hectic play along with beautiful shots and monotonous reg- ularity of baskets ended in the second defeat for the Cathedral cagers. Losing at the half, 20 to 7, the boys staged the greatest comeback ever en- countered by any opponents in Cathedral's basketball history. Although Long proved himself to be a singular star in chalking up 27 tallies, the accuracy of Cook and jungbluth was too much for the boys to overcome. Cathedral 35-St. Mary's 12 The following week our squad met St. Mary's team of Burlington at our gym. The smooth offense and defense of St. John's was too tight for the plucky but light crew from St. Mary's. Scoring honors were carried off by Werner, Beland, and Long of Cathedral. ll? ?MxW Wikia I 9 3 2 E A G L E rm Page Sixty-nine

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x 0 xr s 4 , V' , X f We af? a I if - A AA. nh la Football i Cathedral 0-Marquette 12 In the next game of the Catholic Conference race, the Hilltoppers slowly proceeded to batter our light line to pieces. All our boys showed their mettle, fighting with all their might for the honor of the school, yet the cruel specter of defeat again crushed them to the tune of 12 to 0. V Cathedral 7-St. Thomas's 19 ' An innovation for our grid warriors-a night game at Rockford with St. Thomas's-proved fatal to us in a 19 to 6 reverse. Cathedral 6-Messmer 2 For the first time in the '31 gridiron campaign, hostilities were carried on successfully, this time against Messmer. The game drew one of the largest crowds to date. A tight defensive battle which lasted until late in the last quarter looked like another defeat, when Verona and Beland started a march that stopped behind the goal posts, resulting in a Cathedral win. Cathedral 7-Pio Nono 19 , Our first game in the new year started well for the Eagle gridders. After several attempts, Verona tossed a pass to Beland, who scored on the play. Then Pio Nono settled down to a gruelling offensive attack and, aided by our lack of substitutes, gained the victory. l I Cathedral 0-Edgewood 13 Another night game played at Edgewood Academy, Madison, ended our grid career for the year. A hopeless swamp of quagmirelcombined with a heavier team took our valiant, fighting squad into camp. Page Sixty-eight I 9 3 2 E A G L E E l

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'xsx'xxx.'xse Qpfyyuurxy-,J 5.E'rr.r.r.r.rfif-'lfl 5m.nnnnY Basketball Cathedral 22--Pio Nono 19 Our first game in the Catholic Conference race brought us the tradi- tional rival, Pio Nono. The classic started with perfect shots by the St. Francis boys, followed by superb action on the part of the home folks, so that the half score was knotted at 9 all. In the second half the two teams fought so desperately that the gun went off, leaving the schools tied. How- ever, the overtime period gave the Cathedral boys the decision. Cathedral 13--Marquette 17 The Hilltop Preps afforded us our next oppositiong the game moved slowly, but Marquette's defense could not be penetrated. The second half proved similar to the first, save for the late amazing baskets shot by Long. Cathedral 7-Messmer ll Following our upset at the hands of Marquette, we invaded the Mess- mer gym. Despite the spirit shown by our team throughout the game, we lost the closely contested decision. Cathedral 17-St. Catherine's 14 After the Messmer defeat, our boys tightened up their defensive tac- tics competently enough to hand St. Catherine's of Racine a trouncing. Cathedral 14-St. Bonaventure 11 The Sturtevant live came to Milwaukee with good intentionsg yet because of our sweeping offense they were repulsed in orderly fashion. Cathedral 24-Pio Nono 22 In our second battle with Pio Nono, supporters of both schools wit- nessed a most thrilling encounter. Throughout the game we lagged by several points until, late in the fourth quarter, our long range guns began to operate successfullyg again the score was tied, 22 all, when the gun went off. In an overtime period two free throws resulted in final victory ' .1 N 41,0 . fyfwfufadff' JZQ' 5' ,N EET .P ,Q foo ,f .I ' Q,AsHE1'- H-. 4 t 'ff 1 , K . . .I it Q. t , as ,M ,,a1EfR ' I 1 N i -' fl-'ia it lf Y V' HD 'I 4 ' J. LONG VV. WERNER G. BELAND H. COOK G. FORAN sv ,f I 932 EAGLE fitbtfw U' f W