Gonzaga High School - Aetonian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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filairanfd T V A s iff' lst How. L.-R.: O'Meara, Kline. Iohnson, Lowe, Reilly, B. Davis, Redmond: 2nd Row: Watson, Sheehy, De Chard, McDonald, Di Misa, O'Neill, I. Maher, 'Wintermeyen Mgr. Mullaly: 3rd Row: Fr. Herlihy, Gleason, Taylor, McMahon, Flint, Wratten. Ielly, Healy, Sewell, Logan: 4th Row: Pope, Shanley, Burmcm, Davis, W. Maher. Lavins, Hitzelberger, P. Daly, F. Daly, C. Dalv. IUNIOR VARSITY FOOTBALL The call for candidates for the Iunior Varsity victories against two defeats. Football team was answered by 178 spirited The members of the lunior Varsity team bear responses. From such a large aggregation of watching. Anyone who saw them in action will determined and capable youngsters, it was not attest to this fact. Many of them are sure to win difficult for Father Herlihy, Sl., to choose a rep- berths on next year's Varsity. They have resentative group. The team responded fully to learned the fundamentals of team play and the expert coaching and met the demands of have made themselves familiar with the system a difficult schedule in laudable fashion, At the used by the Varsity. They are ready to don close of the season the record book showed six the Purple and White. lim Pope, a sure bel lor next year's Varsity. The Iunior Eagles' eleven. Lavins and Shanley-two blocks in the forward wall. ft 'K ,K 1 ff 1 t iff i 695. H 14

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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.

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n mnfer CATHCLIC CHAMPS AGAIN! BASKETBALL As the football season bowed out, the new king, Basketball, stepped forward. The guint played their first game on December 6, beating Greenbelt, 32 to l7. foe l-lickson and Chester Coakley, both old stand-bys, were back again, assisted by Scott Cranston, Dave Carroll and Sam Tancredi. Cranston led the scoring in this game with l3 points to his credit and proved to be a consistent high scorer throughout the year. Our next game did not prove quite as easy, for Montgomery-Blair held us down throughout the session but the final score was 37-35, with the Eagles on top. This game seemed to augur ill for the purple quint, and so it happened. The first defeat of the season was deliv- ered by Central to the tune of 24-l5 in a hard fought contest. Not dismayed by this loss, the Eye Street Quint took Anacostia, 29-lU, Devitt, 34-27, Blair, 30-12, and in the second Central game, a tight zone proved the de- ciding factor as we won, 36 to l4. lt seemed as if the season had just started and yet the first St, Iohn's game was at hand. The lohnnies were beaten, 33 to 29, by Hickson, Coakley, Carroll, Crans- ton, and Kellinger. But journeying to Baltimore, Gon- zaga met defeat at the hands of a strong Mt. St. losephs team, 36 to 3l. The team was back in the winning column a week later by defeating Georgetown Prep., 36 to 34, but soon succumbed to the larger and more experienced Bullis team. We lost two games to the Little Admirals, one 3l-27, the other 5l-30, and these losses were followed by another administered by a vastly improved Ana- costia team, 35-34. The determined Eagles did a permanent about face for the better and won all of the remaining sched- uled games, taking Greenbelt, 52.-27, Devitt, 58-39, and Mt. St. Ioe, 26-15. The Saints had a l6 game winning streak before this loss and that game was about the hardest fought contest of the year. Not relaxing for a moment, Gonzaga slaughtered Landon, 45-15, N. T. S., 26-16, and won the final game with St. lohn's, 44 to 38. After the Eagles nipped Georgetown Prep., 2l-20, they were invited to the Star Tournament but on an off night lost to Woodrow Wilson, 35-l8. L.-R.: Carroll, Cranston. Coakley. Kel linqer. Ready. Tancredi. Noone.