La Salle Academy - Maroon and White Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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- - do - e as - .s 2 MARQON SDCLWHIQE 5 g fought fray by the score of 6-0. La Salle out- rushed their adversaries and our aerial attack was superb. but, as yet, the line was a bit weak and unable to hold the battering Central Falls forces. The boys should be given credit for holding their opponents to the low score at which the game ended. On October l8, La Salle dedicated the Alumni Field by handing the De La Salle outfit a decisive beating. The game was ours from the first whistle up to the final one. Moon Mullen and Quirkie were the real heroes of the day, how- ever, and scarcely had the game begun, when Quirk, our crack backfreld man, received the ball on the first play and raced sixty yards down the field for La Salle's first touchdown. Play had hardly begun again before our stellar quarterback scooped up a fumble and galloped fifty yards to the goal. The score at the end of the fray was 2 7-0. A powerful and well-trained St. Raphael eleven took our boys by the count of 25-l3. It was a clean, hard game all through and, although we showed superiority in plunging, still, costly fumbles paved the way for defeat. The entire squad worked well. ze .v F V . , f ti T 1 - ef uf ' il:-svuj I All TT 'M Q . .1 an x...' A. ,.- . Undaunted by this defeat, We drove to Wes- terly to take on their Warriors. We were sent home defeated. However, we left a badly bat- tered Westerly crew to remember us. McGroarty carried over a pass from Moon to count the openers for us and in the final period Quirkie came through with a sweeping end run. Failure to count on the after points contributed to our defeat. With a group of injured players we encoun- tered the Mt. St. Charles forces and received an- other setback. Our rejuvenated backfield did their best to break through a heavy St. Charles line but were repulsed by the opponents who put up a faultless fight. The score indicated a defeat, 31-6. The Maroon and White forces staged a spec- tacular come-back when they tore the Colt team to shreds. The Boys were filled with the fight- ing spirit that our school alone can possess, and at the finish of the game we had the upper end on a 32-6 count. We bewildered the opposing team completely. The Mullin-McGroarty aerial com- bination played a big part in the game. The line was a stone wall. Colt hit time and time again but when they met our sturdies they just bounced back. Quirkie, who had played a consistent game all season, played like a pro, tearing through for a touchdown in the second. If the La Salle team that represented our school had 63

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? E It TE f 3 s OQN gfslxmajg and WHITE 5 Front Row: F. McMurrough, .l. Carroll, F. Mclbollmtl, R. ML'Don:-llcl, G. Kr:zu'nsx, li. Batnstini. XV. Testa. Clancy, T. Harrington Middle Row: K. Quirk. T. Sullivan, C. Durfran, S, Kindelan, J. Rogers, J. Myette, M. Sullivan, J. Galoogly, R. 'VVetzel, 'l'. Moll:-iughlin. J. Reilly. Buck Row: J. Cronin !CoachJ. T Conoly, F. Read. McCarthy, C. McCann, VV. Lunt, XV. McGroarty, T. Hogg, W. Carroll, B. Mullin. ilinnthall HEN better teams are made, La Salle will make them. This is the trite slogan that is on the lips of all La Salle students. The echoes of the grand old championship teams of years past still returns to haunt us. Echoes that vibrate over the campus and along the halls of old La Salle, thrilling our souls and provoking within us that loyal spirit of devotedness and courage that will assure us of the return of the halcyon days of old. The i928 season was just a step nearer our goal. It was a most successful season from the point of view of points scored. It gave us some adequate idea of the efforts that must be extended if we are to equal, may excel the records of the old boys. Time will bring these results. We must consider the present season. When Coach Jack posted his first call for candidates for the football squad, more than thirty-five aspirants reported. His situation was 62 indeed criticalg new material seemed his only hope. From the previous year not one baclcfield member remained. They were either lost by graduation as in the case of Cilmartin, Wholey and Cassidy, or by transfers. It was up to the new candidates to fill the vacated places and through the diligent efforts of jack, we were soon able to vie with the best in the State. After a few weeks of intensive training, weeks that required a heavy sacrifice of time and pleas- ure, the boys soon developed into a hard-working machine. We found that our backfield was now composed of ex-line men. Among them were Willie Testa, former end, and Moon Mullen, a center, who had been made into a quarterback. Other players were chosen and soon the La Salle team was out to blaze its way through the i928 season. A For the first game of the season, our boys journeyed to Central Falls, only to lose a hard-

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I I 2 E T T E ii 5 2 OON ggelxmjnz-1, and WHITE 5 played this same brand of football the entire sea- son we would take on all comers and show the former grads what real football was. With such a start, as we received in the pre- vious game, we traveled the open highway to East Greenwich for the final game of the season and met East Greenwich on their own battle-ground. Rearing to go, our prancing backfieldmen took the ball and placed it over the opposing goal at will. The line, invulnerable as ever, held while the men in back completed their plays. The score of this particular setto, I do not recall, but you can rest assured that we were not on the wrong end. And this is the uconsummatus est of the sea- son. With the others it will go down into the an- nals of the school, as a successful l928 football season. We were vanquished four times and we t .. Q 64 JOE MYETTE Captain conquered only three, but if one should figure the scores they would lind that La Salle led their opponents in points for the entire season. We have taken another step nearer our goal, which is to equal the teams that represented our Alma Mater on the gridiron before us. Every man on the squad is to be congratulatedg every Brother or coach connected in any way is to be thanked: every student who stood in the stands those bleak, autumn days cheering is to be cheered. And now let every mother's son of us join in THREE ROUSING CHEERS FOR THE 1928 LA SALLE TEAM. Let's go-Hip-Hip-.