Gonzaga High School - Aetonian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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fl 1' ff 1 qoNzAqA-'47 mrs.-o qoNzAqA-51 DEVITT - 0 ff 0 I I Z C-,ONZAGA-2'f first game of the season, one with National Training School, was played, Gonzaga had a well-drilled team to put on the field. This was evidenced by the way the first team methodically went to work in the first quar- ter to score twice. The second team came into the fray to push over another touchdown, but it was the third string that played most of the game, crossing the goal three times. Iourneying to Baltimore on October 4, Gonzaga was turned back by a strong Mt. Saint loseph team. The Gaels scored early in the second period after a 45 yard march. Gonzaga threatened just before the half with Angelo Zanger carrying the pigskin to the one- yard line, but then a heart-breaking holding penalty killed our chances. Devitt Prep. was the object of Gonzaga's wrath fol- lowing the Mt. St. Ioseph's game, and the team rolled up a 39-0 score despite the heavy line of the Preppers. Bob Horan and Moe Zanger each scored two touch- downs, while Ioe Hickson picked an enemy pass out of the air and galloped 45 yards behind fine blocking to score. Ioe O'Neill crossed the goal from the 6-yard line to help the Eagles' scoring column climb to such a height. In the midst of rain ana wet, Gonzaga defeated a .... qeo. PQEP-o Cocrkley on the loose. started. Ioe Hickson picks up a few yards. qoNzAqA- 0 Mr sr J,- 4, -X Murphy bowls through powerful Georgetown Prep team, with Ioe Hickson scoring three touchdowns and passing to Chester Coakley for the count which gave us a 24-0 victory. The little Hoyas drove well into our territory on five occasions, but our line held them and our season scoring totaled llU points to 5 for our opponents. Again a Baltimore trip proved unhealthy for the Gonzagas, as the Calvert Hall eleven had a good day at our expense, scoring four touchdowns to beat the Eagles, 27-7. Fighting hard, the team just couldn't get rolling against the boys from Calvert, though they played their hearts out trying to stave off the Calvert drive. Stopping him before A real football hug.

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-i,T.....- Picking up a few yards through center. Loose ball. Coakley advances behind a host of blockers The bench during a tense moment. Hickson blocks for Murphy. lt looks like we just scored Coming back to local school competition, Gonzaga tore into Mt, Vernon High in one of the flashiest games of the season. Most of the scores came after long drives, but Hickson cut away with a 40-yard run in the first quarter. On another occasion Ioe ran 85 yards to score standing, as his teammates had eliminated all opposing tacklers. Bill Murphy intercepted a pass and ran 35 yards to score our last touchdown. Thus with the aid of four conversions by Bob Horan, Mt. Vernon was beaten, 34-6. A blocked kick accounted for the opponent's only score. Father Flanagan's Boy's Town team received a warm welcome and a hard game of football here in Washington in the biggest high school contest of the year. Gonzaga scored early in the first quarter, with Hickson bucking over from the two-yard line, but Boy's Town cracked back quickly with a touchdown pass to tie the score. The scoring machine bogged down slightly at this point, until the third quarter, when the Nebraska team snatched a Gonzaga pass on the Boy's Town 45-yard line and then carried the ball to pay dirt by means of a number of short gains. As the game went into the closing minutes, with Zanger and Hickson alternating as ball carriers, the Eagles pushed to the Boy's Town 20. On the fourth down, Hickson whipped a pass to Coakley that would have tied the game, but one of the Boy's Town backs tipped the ball just enough to make it impossible for the Gon- zagan to hang on to it. This was our last scoring chance, as the visitors hung on to the ball for the final minutes of play. The following week, the Eagles were defeated by Eastern in -a hard-fought game played in the bitter cold, with a high wind halting all passing attacks and rendering kicks ineffective. Eastern scored by return- ing a punt to the Gonzaga 10 and driving over in two plays. The Eagles had a number of good scoring chances, having driven to the 5 on one occasion, but failed to cash in on any of them. The big game with St. Iohn's arrived in November and l0,000 people attended the battle at Griffith Sta- dium. The Eagles showed the class and form needed to win the game through the first half, pushing inside the Iohnnies' 20-yard marker five times, but the second half told the story. St. Iohn's came back on the field a different team, scoring in both the third and fourth periods, with Bauman and Hughes carrying the ball. Desperate passes in the final moments of the game were unavailing, as St. Iohn's won, l2-U. In a post-season game, the All-High team and the All-Prep team battled to a U-O tie. Gonzaga was well represented, having on the team three backs, Ioe Hickson, Angelo Zanger and Bill Murphy, and three linesmen, Iimmy Nalls, Tony Mussolino and Ken Atch- ison. This was a great tribute to these boys, who played such fine football all season.