Weymouth High School - Campus / Reflector Yearbook (Weymouth, MA)

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which they received. They were penalized ten times for a total of 115 yards, six of which were fifteen yarders for unnecessary roughness and for holding. Braintree scored their first touchdown near the close of the first period. A punt by Leary had put the ball on Braintree ' s 40-yard line. On the next play Braintree was penalized fifteen yards for holding. However, with twenty-five yards to go for a first down, Rogers threw a pass to Nelson, who was downed on the 50-yard stripe for a first down. Erickson then gained five vards through centre, and Nelson picked up twenty yards, putting the ball on the Weymouth 20-yard line. On the next play, Meehan broke loose around left end, and carried the ball over for a touchdown. The second touchdown was made in the second period. A pass thrown by Al Wilder was intercepted on the Weymouth 13-yard line. A minute later a Braintree back carried the ball across the goal line, where he fumbled it. A team mate recovered, and Braintree chalked up six more points. A forward pass was com- pleted for the extra point. In the third period Weymouth ' s line braced, holding Braintree scoreless, and at the same time enabling the backfield to pick up a couple first downs. Shortly after the opening of the final period, Braintree intercepted a forward pass, which again paved the way for their score. The touchdown was scored on a pass from Rogers to Dacy. Thereafter Weymouth fought furiously to score a touchdown, but the closest they could to the goal line was the 25-yard marker. In doing so they completed two passes. One (Wilder to Tibbs) was good for four yards; the other (Wilder to Batchelder) was good for twenty-two yards and a first down. The game ended with the ball in Weymouth ' s possession and in Braintree ' s territory. The kicking of Spike Leary was exceptional throughout the game while Tibbs played a great game at end for Weymouth . The lineup : WEYMOUTH BRAINTREE Tibbs 1. e Shea DeLorenzo Westfield Kelley 1. t. Walker Blake 1. g Shores Quirk Christian White c. Rowson Munroe Goodspeed Pray r. g. Peters Munroe r. t. Jordan Hunt Sumers McNeill r. e Hanson McKenna Spiess Al Wilder q. b. Hart Johnson 1. h. b. Munroe Batchelder Nelson Bedford Rogers O Connor Sears Hunt r. h. b. Meehan Arnold Dacey Art Wilder Erickson Leary f. b. Cronin Nelson evmouth vs k vs. PI Y mont li Weymouth gave Hingham something to worry about when they put up their best defensive game of the season, to hold Plymouth scoreless and earn a to tie. The game had two outstand- ing features : the fine defensive work and the wild passing of both teams. In the entire forty-eight minutes of play only four first downs were made, each team having two to their credit. Weymouth made both of their first downs on passes. One, from Wilder to Bedford in the second period, gained fifteen yards and a first down on Plymouth ' s 40-yard line. However, this was the best Weymouth could do, for two plays later they fumbled, and Plymouth re- covered. After losing this opportunity, Wey- mouth tried to even things up, and threw Ply- mouth for a twenty yard loss on the next two plays. Intercepted passes played a large part in the game. The tide of battle changed back and forth, as first one team intercepted and then the other. Neither side seemed to know where their passes were going when they were thrown. At the end of the game the two teams were tied in this department also, as each team had inter cepted three passes. In the last period Weymouth tried desperately to score a touchdown. After Al Wilder had run a punt back fifteen yards, Tibbs reached into the clouds to pull down a pass which was good for a first down. On the next play Johnson gained five yards. O ' Connor then faded back to throw another pass, but was unable to get it off, and was tackled fifteen yards behind the line of scrimmage. A pass (Leary to McNeill) ot the fifteen yards back again, but on the next o ' ay another wild pass was intercepted by Ply- mouth. A few minutes later, just as the final REFLECTOR ...19...

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whistle blew, Plymouth made another first down, their second one of the game. Bill Pray, the Mite of Power , was the star of the game for Weymouth. Besides stop- ping every play attempted by Plymouth through his position, Pray blocked two kicks which helped greatly to save the day for Weymouth. The lineup : WEYMOUTH PLYMOUTH McKenna i. e. Taivores DeLorenzo Martin Kelley L t. Chose Tirrell . I g- Neru Munroe Thompson vv nite c. Golene Pray r. g. Bassler Cnfe j- t Alhprtini Hunt Dantore McNeill r. e. Paluzzi Tibbs White Al Wilder q.b. Hughes Johnson L g- b. Parmental Arnold Provinzano Batchelder r. h. b. . Mello Bedford f. b. Govani Leary Rogazinoni Nelson W eymoutk vs. Hingl 1am Weymouth met defeat at the hands of Hing- ham in their annual football classic on Thanks- giving Day morning. The final score was 19 to 6, but this is far from being an accurate esti- mate of the game from a Weymouth standpoint. The game was a classic in every way ; everything a spectator could wish for was packed into it. There were sensational runs, flashy plays, beau- tiful punts, long passes, brilliant defensive stands in the shadows of the goal posts and the thrills of many intercepted passes. Besides all this there were two bands to entertain between the halves, and a collegiate touch was given by the sale of illustrated programs with pictures of the players. Weymouth kept the home crowd hoping up until the last period that perhaps they would finally turn in a victory over Hingham -- a feat which has never been achieved on Legion Field. However, the boys got some satisfaction from the fact that they were the first Weymouth team in five years to score on Hingham. Teddy Stewart was declared eligible for the third time this year and he started at quarter- back. With him throwing passes, Weymouth ' s passing attack was improved a hundred per cent. Weymouth completed seven passes during the game, four of which were good for first downs and one for a touchdown. Stewart to Tibbs was the combination used for most of the passes and it was the most efficient one used by Wey- mouth all year. There was no scoring in the first period al- though Hingham came very near to doing so when they carried the ball from their own 45 yard line to Weymouth ' s 3 yard line. Here the Weymouth line resisted four attempts made by Hingham to score and finally took the ball on downs. In the second period, Hingham opened up her passing attack for the first and only time in the game, and in this way scored their first touch- down. Henry White caught a punt on his own 28-yard line and ran it back twenty-five yards before he was downed. Then two passes were good for two first downs and on the next play Handrahan gained 15 yards around end putting the ball on Weymouth ' s 3 yard line. Bennet carried the ball over and Hingham was in the lead, 6 to 0. The third period was the bright spot of the game for Weymouth. They far outplayed Hingham and at the same time scored their on- ly touchdown of the game. Stewart started the period off by running the kick-off back 20 yards. Then he punted to Hingham ' s 30-yard line. Henry White ran the punt back 15 yards, but on the next play Red Batchelder intercepted a pass and ran 27 yards with it. Then Wey- mouth was thrown for a 10-yard loss, putting the ball on Hingham ' s 31 -yard line. Here Wey- mouth was given a completed pass and a first down when the receiver of a pass was interfered with another first down was made on rushes by Hunt, Batchelder and Johnson. Then came the play of the game. Teddy Stewart faded back to throw a pass to Tibbs. Tibbs caught the ball on the five yard line and, just as he was about to be smothered by four Hingham players, he tossed a short lateral pass to Butch Hunt, who carried the ball over the goal line and the score was tied, 6 to 6. The try for the extra point failed. Weymouth lost the game in the fourth period when, with the score tied, they began throwing passes around. Two of these were intercepted and resulted in touchdowns for Hingham. Soon after the period had begun, Eddie White inter- cepted a Hingham pass on his own 40-yard line and ran it back eight yards. On the next play Weymouth was penalized five yards for being offside. With fifteen yards to go for a first REFLECTOR ...21...