Georgetown Preparatory School - Cupola Yearbook (North Bethesda, MD)

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FN V V7 - W - '-- .... A M M Y gr I .-A.. . VARSITY FOOTBALL SQUAD Front Row, left to right: Leslie Thompson, Thomas Roche, Robert Crowley, Murray McDon- nell, Louis Salb, Catesby Clay, John Lally, Vincent Scullin, Gerard Kunkel, John Showell, Joseph Lombardi, Manager. Second Row: Mr. Keating, Coach, Raymond Schneider, William Cremen, William Coakley, Justo Lamar, Donald Eckrich, Roger Goodspeed, Charles Dillon, James Toomey, Arthur Hiemenz, Thomas Coakley, Bud Eck- rich, Ben Decker, George Ghecas, Michael Tobin, Michael Daly.

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unify goofbaff G. Prep. 0 Charlotte Hall 0 6 Saint Albans 27 26 Landon 0 7 Wilson 6 13 Loyola 0 14 Iona 6 A glance at the record shows the spirit of the 1940 Varsity. The team began the season with a tie at Charlotte Hall. Throughout the game Bud Eckrich and Ben Decker had gained consistent'y, but there was a jinx on the goal line, and our scoring threats vanished in a scoreless tie. The second game was one of those overwhelming defeats that makes a team great, for instead of crushing the hopes for the rest of the season, the team's spirit rose in a grim determination to win every game. And the very next game proved it. A 26-0 victory over Landon saw Bud Eckrich score four times behind the bruising blocking of Ray Schneider who mowed down would-be tacklers in Bud's path. An upset was what the papers called our 7-6 win over Woodrow Wil- son. Trailing 6 to 0 with a few minutes left to play, and the ball deep in our territory, Bud Eckrich heaved a 40 yard pass to Mike Tobin, who out- ran the secondary and scored standing up. Bud crashed through tackle to gain the winning point. It was a story-book ending to a hard fought game -a game that was won because the Prep didn't know they could be beaten. Loyola was the last game for many Seniors on our home field. And the mud was everywhere, oceans of it. Still the line charged low and fast, and behind them came Bud Eckrich to score twice, and lead the team to a 13 to 0 victory. The season saw one misfortune which hampered the team greatly- the star quarterback and hero of many a previous game was injured early in the 'seas-on-Ben Decker. He wasn't able to play again until the Iona game, but he was with the team at every practise and in uniform at every game. The Blue and Gray salutes the following Seniors who have played their last game for the Prep- Thomas Coakley, William Cremen, Michael Daly, Ben Decker, Bud Eckrich, George Ghecas, Justo Lamar, Bob McChesney, Murray McDon- nell, John Nicolaides, Thomas Roche, Leslie Thompson, Michael Tobin. In conclusion, the sweetest victory ofthe season was the 14 to 6 win over Iona. The game was played at New Rochelle, and the local paper had headlines on the result. Its article was so full of superlatives for the team that we take the liberty of quoting it at length:

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