Cathedral High School - Orbit Yearbook (Hamilton, Ontario Canada)

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Bon Habros, Denis Masotti, and Stan Kosakowski made the All-Star team. Besides the All-Star rating, Valuable Playern and the Most Sportsmanshiplike fullback Bon Habros received the leagues Most Playern awards. He was also the top scorer in the league. All-Star quarterback, Denis Masotti, led the Gael attack by using good judgment all the way. Stan Kosakowski, All-Star guard, was a boulder on defence and, on offence, he opened holes a mile wide. He was the youngest and heaviest All-Star. Halfbacks Armando Borsato and Roger Yachetti were given honorable mention when the All-Stars were chosen. Both played well on defence and on offence they gained valuable yardage. End Bon Granatier was selected on the All-Star team last year but this year he played with a painful shoulder which he dislocated last season. However, his blocking was excellent, opening up holes in the end for the back- freld. Centre Pete Carson fortified the middle of the line. Carson was moved from tackle to centre before the season got under wayg his height and ability strengthened the middle of the line. Ends Art Laush and Vince Hubbard returned from last year's squad and played fine ball. Bob Mahler. Walt Hayes and Barry Bepa, blocked and caught well at their end positions. The tackles, Phil Mazza, Art Sebastion, Bill Kirk and Emil Crosman, were big and rough. Crosman and Kirk tackled hard and rough on defence, Mazza and Se-bastion opened the holes for the backfield on offence. Len Kuehinski, Paul Hogan, john Nowaski, and Peter Gravelle filled in the guard positions. The four guards skilfully rushed, tackled and blocked the opposition. Bill Meehan, on offence, played centre but on defence he played corner linebacker with one thing in mind, Stop the ball carrier . Quarterback Basil Mercury replaced All-Star quarterback Denis Masotti who moved to halfback. Mercury proved that he was a fine quarterback mixing up and carrying the play exceptionally well. John Ben, Bob Boyle, Rudy Didimenico and john Pennylegion proved themselves as fine reserve backs. -Eif- fjgwsifff Page Twenty-eight Mike VVilcox handled the kicking for the team. The punt returners were Ted Carney and Bob Ben who did a fine job running back punts. Hats off to Mr. Dick Tighe and his able assistant Mr. Don Dunn. Mr. Dunn takes time off from work to coach the line and as usual did a tremendous job. Mr. Tighe had a busy season because of the inex- perience of his rookies: his task was done superbly. The managers, John Pennington, James Began and Murray Mazza, were always on hand ready to give their assistance. Next year with almost all the players back the Gaels stand a good chance of bringing back the Championship. f sv f ,, xi i i g.gg-4 fy 1 MW' Wig ' , jf Qzwf My N I 7 fi? ' :Ai sz if f 4. 3 L x we: f A i i im , f . z. I , 1 l I f' ffl l R z Q ff r H 7- if J HEAR l PAUL IIA IWEI1' TEEN'S CHOICE i DAILY 3.00 A.M. 900 CHML The Orbit, 1957-1958

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Front Row ll. to r.J - Pinnington, Hubbard, Meehan, R. Ben, Habros, Borsafo, Yachetti, Kosakowski, DiDomenico, M. Maza. Second Row Boyle J Ben Kuchynski Gravelle Carney Masotti P I - , . , , i 1 , ennyleg'on, Wilcox. Third Row - Nowachi, Sebastien, Mercury, Laush, Hayes, Grossman, Kirk, Mazza. Fourth Row - Regan, Father O'Brien, Granatier, Repa, Carson, Hogan, Mahler, Father Maftice, Don Dunn lline coachl, Mr. Tighe lhead coachl. SENIOR FOOTBALL Under the competent hands of hlr. Dick Tighe, the Galloping Gaels of '57 appeared, at first, to be a very inexperienced squad. The team was comprised of only eight members of the '56 squad, along with twenty-one rookiesg of these only eight graduated from the Junior while the remaining had never played organized football before. The inexperienced Blue and White reached their first objective-the cham- pionship game. This was a hard-fought game and unfortunately the Gaels bowed to a hustling Delta squad to be thwarted of their principal objective- the championship. Prior to the opening of the season, the Gaels spent three days at football camp where the rookies learned a lot about the fundamentals of blocking and tackling which were stressed by Mr. Tighe. In the pre-season exhibition game against St. Michaels of Toronto, statistically the Irish outplayed their opponents, but due to Cathedral miscues the game ended in a 12-12 UC. The season began with a surprising 33-8 win over Westdale. With nine players out with influenza, the Gaels provedthat they had bench strength .by The Orbit, 1957-1958 walloping Central 21-O. Cathedrals first taste of defeat since the fall of 1955, was a close 4-O loss to Delta. Due to sickness which deprived us of the services of stars like Habros, Borsato, Masotti, and Yachetti, the lrish lost two games. Westdale surprised the Gaels with a 14-6 victory and De La Salle walloped Cathedral 42-12. The team began to roll again with a 19-14 win over Central. The Gaels earned a bye into the senior 1-I.I.A.C. football final by thumping Delta 27-12. Cathedral, Delta, and Westdale were tied for first place but since Cathedral had the best for and against record they got the bye. At Civic Stadium the stage was set for one of the closest fought games for the I'l.I.A.C. crown in many years. When the gun sounded for half-time Delta had a close 9-7 lead and after the final gun Delta was on top 22-8. The Irish didn't stop fighting until the final whistle but the opposition proved too strong to be halted. The frequent champions tasted defeat and Hamilton had a new interscholastic cham- pion. Page Twenty-seven

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Front Row Cl. to r.J - Catena, Milne, Billings, Olsav, Vanni, Zizzo, Keat, Kraftcheck, Szep, Alaimo. Second Row - Brunetti, D. Morelli, R. Morelli, Grebenc, Pigott, Stanevicius, McPl1ail, Kondrat, O'Gormon, Giandomenico. Third Row - Father Dwyer, Doyle, McCaul, Puchalski, Marnuza, Quinn, Starling, K. Morley, Keller, B. Morley, Lanza. Absent - Maniaci, Zwolak, Kawucha. JUNIOR FOOTBALL This past football season saw the Baby Gaels the 1957 representatives of Cathedral High School under the leadership of Father Dwyer finish with a 2-2 record, which enabled them to enter the semi-finals. Une of their wins was over Westdale C9-65 who later on won the city championship. The other win was at the expense of Hill Park C12-71 Unfor- tunately the team suffered defeat at the hands of Delta and Central C25-l-lj and C7-62 respectively. In the semi-playoffs against Delta the juniors couldnt score from in close and as a result went down to defeat by the tune of C26-61 In the course of time, as with all teams in sports, the team had its share of injuries. All season the Baby Blue was plaqued with minor injuries, but the most serious forced three of their linemen to miss part of the football season. Jimmy Zwolak aggravated an old injury in the seasons opener and was lost to the team for the rest of the schedule. John McColl con- tacted a severe charleyhorse in the opening game, also, and was handicapped the rest of the season. Finally Steve Mamuza suffered a broken collar bone in one of the team's practices when he empha- sized the flying part of a Hying cross-body block. In a sense, Cathedral got a new coach this past season in the person of Father Dwyer. For the past few autumns Father Dwyer had been line coach of the juniors but this last season he took over the full coaching job. Father Dwyer's task was made un- doubtedly more difficult in that he had no assistants to help in the training and moulding of the team. To teach football fundamentals to thirty SO- CALLED ATI-ILF.TES is a difficult task for any two or three men, yet let alone one man. Father The otha, 1957-1958 Dwyers Baby Gaels finished the season in third place, which gave them a playoff birth. In conclu- sion we can truly say that Father Dwyer came through with flying colours Cblue and whitel. Special thanks must be given to the managers, Rudy Brunetti, Vario Ciandomenic and Don Morelli, for their excellent co-operation they gave both to Father and to the players. FRANK OLSAV FRANK GREBENC. I' fm 0006 PM fwfr ft' gr Whefg fit-05, 7 nvfgaaygdfbf 'H QNX ,Milf Page Twenty-nine