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

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MAROGN AND WHITE lhelr first asslgnment was their old stumbling block West Warwick on West Warwick s home floor Despite the absence of the coach our forces brought home the bacon ln fine style Zl I8 In a return contest we repeated our former victory by the large score of 37 I5 Following the Chrlstmas holldays the team continued their wmnlng ways when they barely overcame Cranston by the count of 28 I8 ln a return encounter later ln the season our hoopsters completely overwhelmed Cranston by the score of 3612 La Dalle dropped Inelr nrst game or tne year to De La Salle of Newport when they were un merclfully beaten In a Class A Conference con test lhey came right back however the follow mg game when they trlmmel St Raphael s ln a Class A Conference set to by the narrow margin Their next game was with De La Salle at Newport Our hoopsters went down there deter mmed to beat their powerful opponents The con test was a thriller from one Whistle to the other wlth nelther team having any advantage ln the hrst three quarters However the homesters proved too much for our club ln the last period when their fast pace began to tell on the ultimate loser lhey dld a hne plece of work ln holdmg them to the count of 34 24 In an afternoon contest with Warwlck our quintet emerged vrctortous by the tune of Z1 Il lhe game was llstless and dull despite the fact that It was a class A Conference game Our old rlvals Mt St Charles were the next on the schedule lhey journeyed down to our gym to play us and after a thrllllng contest we emerged the vlctors Z6 I5 lhe following week the home team travelled to Pawtucket to play St Raphael s ln a Class A Conference game lhls encounter by the way was the most excltmg of the current season as the fmal count read 23 22 ln favor of the SBIDIS The major game of the season was the next ln lme when the club met rlech at the L S A gym lhe stands were packed with rooters from both schools and all were expecting the usual tor rld struggle that the two teams lnvarlably played Tech was the first to score but 1t wasnt long be fore the Maroon and Whlte equalled the count The lead see sawed back and forth with hrst one team scorlng and then the other At half time the count was ln favor of lech but after a spmted rally La Salle tred the score and then went Into van when they scored two free throws tn rapld succession lhelr lead was short lived however when lech counted on two pretty ba kets under our hoop lhe stands were once more thrilled when the Maroon staged a belated rally to pull up wlthm one point of our opponents but following scored the wmnlng basket The slren sounded soon after this and the game was only hxstory and a Tech vrctory Colt undefeated to date was our next oppo nent The game was very fast In the openlng periods and the half ended with the lead belong lng to Colt However true to form l..a Salle came right back and selzed the upper hand de termmed to hold this lead untxl the game was fmlshed lhe Maroon and White held off the Bristol men the rest of the contest and flnlshed m real style for once The final score was Z7 I6 The hoopsters broke a jmx ln the next contest when they overwhelmed the Frenchmen at Mt St Charles by the count of 25 7 thus was the flrst time ln the history of the school that a team has successfully defended Its record against the Frenchmen ln two games ln the same season Therefore our court team went up there to give them a severe drubbmg and they surely succeeded In dolng so when they emerged the wmner by 2 7 ALUAANGIOLDEN sl Seventy eight . . V ' ' s 1 - ' ' ' v it ' - I . , 1 . . s L , l r 1 . . , 7 V - V. . . F I , ' . . . . L ' T ' . 9 1 ' ' I . , . - , .. K . Y 1 n 1 I I I - r r 1 - , , n 7 'K 'T 9 . - T Q D ' Q 1 I ' - M . s . 1 T ' - 1 U - v T A A Q . . , . , . - . . . . , . of 21-18, this spurt the team slowed down and Tech soon , . , ' I . . ' , , - . . V Y I . f l . l . . . , , . . F - , - J- . . . ' ' . F- . . . , . . 7 I Q O ' 4 ' . V D 5 - . . 5- . I I U B E E

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LA SfXLLE ACLADEIWV I X x BASKE I BALL one to say the least Wherm one looks over the flnal record they fmd nlne vlctorles agarnst elght defeats An analysts of this year s season shows a very puffllng result Lengthy sessions of vlctory fol lowed by equally lengthy perxods when defeats were the only outcome of the Nlaroon and Whltes efforts A majority of the wins and los es were the results of very close scores which threatened at all trmes to brlng the opposltlon either uctory or defeat All thrs shows erratlc playlng on the part of the team durmg the major part of the eason and a lack of consistency that 1 xery drfficult I1 not lmpo sxble to dlagno e Ihr year s team w as coached by that master mlnd from Provldence College Al McClellan lhe General as he ls called by his frlends wa ern College Al was forced to dlvrde hrs tnne be tween Provldence and La Salle however and there were many trmes w hen he would be on the road whlle our team would be checltled to play ln hrs absence lhe prospects that greeted the new coach were none too brlght to start w nh a only a few veterans showed up to practrce at the OPCIIIIIU of the season lhe mitral try out found Flynn Dunn and Ahern from last year s quintet and Geartn Lefebvre lxmg and Sheehan Graduate of th unlor Varsity After a few weeks practrce the squad was picked and when the openmg vame arrived not a student II1 the school thouf hr that the team was destined to go anywhere becau e of their ll1fCflOl' sue But thls team tarted off wrth a bang and then some NINETEEN THIRTY ONE Seventy seven 'YAXIISITY H.XSKl'I'I'I!.Xl,l, 'l'I'I,XKl l'iI'HlIlI II. KVN--il. .l. llurm, Us pt. .l. Ving. T, Flynn. XY. Atrvzzrlr lint k: Alzrrmpgu-r Il, XYvIz1-I. l,. .'l1e-1-hun. 'I', Volt-y, 11, Kztiv, !f. Iifvgf-rs, .I. In-t'1-lun'-s. lhe l93l basketball season was an erratic an All-American selection for center at a South- .' ' . I Q 'Q ' ' . ' S L v V ' -I . S . .' , , . D ' 7 . A' ' 'N ' . Q . D s e S . . ' , ' O 's ' A . 7 ' sf , ' . V A J g F N 's ' Q 5 - ' t h ' s . ' A ' , ' s .

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