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3. On October 23 the lVlagicians played host to Spaulding High of Rochester, this game proved to be the best game Laconia played all year, sending the Rochester eleven down to a I3-6 defeat. Laconia opened up in the first period and recovered a Spaulding fumble on Rochester's 14-yard line, and for most of the first half Laconia was inside Spaulding's 30-yard line. Norman Brough, a l25-pound sophomore, playing his first full game for the lllagicians, scored the initial touchdown early in the second period of the game, and a pass' from Beane to Barrett made it seven points. Then midway in the third period Rene Lessard, playing his last game before being inducted, ran untouched 45 yards to score Laconia's final six points. Laconia played Somersworth High the following week, October 30, on the athletic field and wrapped up their second straight win, 7-0, at the expense of the Hilltoppers. Captain Joe Depine scored Laconia's only touchdown from two yards out a few plays after Don Beane had made a thrill- ing 38-yard punt return to the Somers- worth 15-yard line. The lliagicians travelled to Franklin on Armistice Day to meet their arch rivals and there helped to dedicate the beautiful new Roger S. lllartin lllemorial Athletic field to the city's first war casualty and here suffered their first loss to a Franklin team in several years, 13-0. Franklin's .W Jimmy Coen was the outstanding factor in this game, intercepting a pass and scampering 54 yards to Franklin's first score, and then setting up their final score late in the second half. Although the season was only a mediocre one, the Magicians placed Tom Barrett, Charles McMurphy, Melvin Morancy, Robert Irwin, Jerry Sweeney, Donald Beane, and Rene Lessard on either the second or third all-state teams or with honorable mention. Immediately following the season the lettermen of the team X Lk-A-wl- ' elected Donald Beane captain of the 1944 team and also selected an all-opponent team which consisted of Iablonski CRochesterJ and Hanratty CDove1'j endsg Duffy and
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FIRST STRING Line: Melvin Morancy, Charles Sheehan, Robert Guay, Emmet Arnold, Harry Sweeney, Arthur Poire, Thomas Barrett. Barlzfield: Robert Hamilton, Herbert Hughes, Rene Lessard, Donald Beane. Not in the pzrturfz Maurice Depine, Robert Irwin. FUUTBALL-1943 Under the auspices of a new coach, Foster J. Flint, Laconia High Schoo1's football team ended their 1943 season with a record of two wins and four losses. The new coach, a graduate of St. Anselm College in Klanchester, where he captained the college team and made the 1934 all-New Ifngland football team, had little material with which to work. Although the record doesn't look too convincing, it can be considered very good from the standpoint of the material the coach had to start with. Laconia opened up their season with Klanchester 1Vest High School, October 2, on the high school field and lost a heartbreaking game, 15-12. Joe Depine, who was elected captain of the 1943 grid team a few days before the game, galloped 65 yards in the second period to chalk up the Blagicians first score, and then Don Beane crashed over for the second touch- down early in the third period. Another oustanding feature of the game was a great goal-line stand made by Laconia on their own two-yard line late in the final quarter. The next game was with the Crimson Tide of Concord, October 9, also on the athletic field. This time Laconia went down to a 13-6 defeat in the last fouf minutes of the final period. In the first period it looked as though Laconia might break into the win column when Rene Lessard, now in the U. S. Army Air Corps, ran 50 yards through the whole Concord team to make the 1XIagician's only score. This run stunned the Concord team, which was unable to do anything until just before the half, when Carl Skinny Riley scored on an eleven-yard off-tackle smash. This ended the scoring until just before the final gun when Concord's line- smasher, Curtis, scored from Laconia's four-yard line. The Klagicians travelled to Dover the following Saturday, October 16, and there met the Green VVave of Dover, who are the 1943 Class B football champs of the state. The Dover team proved tremendously strong and sent the Laconians down to a 19-0 defeat. The two oustanding Dover men who spelled Laconia's doom were Ernie Bastianelli and Larry Stone.
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, 4 Gilman CDoverD tackles, Guilmette CRochesterl and Datson CConcordl guards, Sleeper CConcordj center, Bastianelli fDoverj quarterback, Stone fDoverj left balfbackj Riley fConcordj right halfbackg Curtis fConcordj fullback, Coen fFranlclinj utility back. The 1944 team should start with a good nucleus of at least ten lettemaen as only Captain joe Depine, Tom Barrett, Art Poire, -lerry Sweeney, Bob Irwin, and Emmet Arnold will be graduating. FOOTBALL SQUAD First Row: Charles Sheehan, Rene Lessard, Donald Beane, Robert Guay. Emmet Arnold, Harry Sweeney, Arthur Poire, Thomas Barrett, Robert Hamilton, Strand Rofw: Normand Simoneau, Leo Morel, Charles Noyes, john Janes, Herve Guay, Albert Minnon, Norman Brough, Leon Flanders, Third Ro-wt Alfred La Roche, Roland Dubois, Park Munsey, james Darling, Herbert Hughes, Charles McMurphy, Leo Poire, Robert Drouing Fourlh Rofw: Coach Flint, Franklin Smith, Maynard Moore, George Collins, Kenneth Paige, Carl Angers, Manager Paul Rand, Faculty Manager Crookerg Seated in front: Melvin Morancyg Abrcntz Maurice Depine, Robert Irwin.
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