De La Salle High School - Delta Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Bock row—Vince DeLisi, Bob Wintheiser, Denny Murray, Dick Roodel. Don Jaeger, and Jerry Ferret. Middle row— Jerry Piano, Ronald Jocobt, lane Provencher, Mike Com- pton, Joe Stansberry, and Bob Hoiledine. Manoger. Front row—Wayne Valentine, Gordon Weber, Louis Cabella, Fred Cussler, Don Larson, and Dick Loesch, Manoger. ray and Don McGinty. Murray has played for two years in the backfield and is one of the fastest ball carriers to graduate from De La Salle. The third man, McGinty, has also ployed on the first team for two years, but being a junior, he has another year of competition left. Don, who in his first year played center, was changed last fall to an end by Coach Reinhart because of the shortage of good ends. Taking McGinty's place at center was Dick Boemer, a junior. Standings for the Central Catholic Conference in 1948 are: Team Won Lost Pet. T.P. O.P De La Salle ...3 1 .750 71 41 St. John's 3 1 .750 52 57 Cretin 3 1 .750 79 43 St. Cloud 1 3 .250 26 51 St. Thomas 0 4 .000 35 71 The ihfce All-Conforenco men pictured bolow ore, from left to righti Don McGinty, Dove Kennedy, and Denny Murray.

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Back row—Brothor Martin, Coach Reinhart, Bob Wortmon, John Compton, Tom Katbohm. Dave Kennedy, and Ray Flannery. Middle row—Ed Bergquist, Hanj Reiis, Steve Bell, Gene Reilly, D»ck Boomer, and Jim Dirlarn. Front row—Frank Barber, Don McGinty, Bob Kasbohm, Dave Woehtier, Joe Mayer, and Leo Svobodny. DE's Gridiron Warriors Retain Crown For the third consecutive year, the Islander gridiron warriors captured the Central Catholic Conference crown, under the coaching of Dick Reinhart and Fay Frawley. This is Mr. Reinhart's third chompionshio team in the four years he has been leading the squad. Mr. Frawley has been helping out the pas» three years and his coaching ability can readily be seen. During the season the coaches turned out three All-Conference men, one of them attaining All-State honors. Dave Kennedy, First string guard for two years and captain during the past season, was the All-State man. All-Conference men were Denny Mur- left—Coaches Dick Reinhart and Fay Frawley jtudy a new play. Right—All-Conferenco end Don Me-Ginfy (29) and Dave Kennedy (42), guard, received the honor of being on the All-State team. Denny Murray (24), along with McGinty, wot ploced on tho All-Conference bock-field ot left-half.

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Islander non-conference games were impressive, but the squad lacked the uniformity of a conference champion. DE dropped games to St. Paul Johnson and Rob-binsdale before beating Blake in pre-season contests. In the Johnson game, which De La Salle lost 20 to 13, DE marched 85 yards for the first touchdown, with Denny Murray scoring on a reverse. Murray and Dick Roedel led to the score with a variety of running plays. Johnson, however, wasted no time in tying the score, and in going ahead by converting the extra point. Their drive was highlighted by two long passes. The Johnnies scored two more touchdowns before the Islanders could get another marker in the fourth quarter, on runs by Murray again, with Dave Kennedy kicking the extra point. DE lost their second game of the season to the Rob-binsdale Lake Conference co-champs in a 13 to 6 thriller. At the half the Robins led 6 to 0 after intercepting an Islander pass and throwing one of their own good for 25 yards. In the third quarter Robbinsdale scored again on a 40-yard pass from Pete Hayek to Hamie Nelson, together with a 17-yard run by Hayek. At this point the Islanders took over with Lane Pro-vencher blocking a punt on the Robin 35-yard line. Dick Roedel then threw a pass to Don McGinty, who dropped it, but Dick Perzel was there to recover it for DE's only touchdown. De La Salle next went into action against Blake and trounced them 32 to 12, under the lead of Steve Bell. DE scored early in the first quarter, when, after intercepting a pass. Bell and Murray carried the boll to the one, with Bell scoring. Soon after. Bell and Murray moved the ball up to the Blake seven with Bell again scoring, putting the Islanders ahead 13 to 0. Blake tried to make it a tough game by connecting for two long passes and a touchdown, but on their kickoff Bell raced 75 yards for another DE marker. Kennedy made good his second extra point. In the last half Bell racked up his fourth marker, and Hans Reiss passed to Bud Blanchard for the final score. Top—Denny Murray, DE halfback, out-runs o Blake wingback as ho breaks away for a gain in the 32 to 13 rout of Bloke on our homo field. Center—Rugged line play and effective blocking was the turning point in the Cretin game. Holes in the line, like the one pictured, enabled Denny Murray to roce to two touchdowns. Bottom-Breaking into the clear is Steve Bell, as Andy Kasperbauer (50) comes In from the side to head him off. Page twenty-eight