Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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.M f..ef41-A-14,4-3,1 ,Q-fififii T an fi i I I 1 ' Wg l 1 l is Four vicTories, Two deTeaTs and one Tie-ThaT comprised The record oT The season. T ExcepT Tor The Tie wiTh CiTy College, The lv1anhaTTan TooTball Team Tor The year oT l ,..--Qc l93l did all ThaT could be expecTed of iT. ln The number oT games won, losT and Tied, '51 iT ouTraTes any Team in recenT years. AlThough Coach Johnny Law will noT be wi+h A 4 us nexT year, we can loolc back upon The record ThaT he leTT Tor his Two-year sTay aT lvlanhaTTan wiTh a Teeling oT graTiTude Tor a iolo well done. i i l l - i i I l I l l l Q . T . y T Xfgi 'x xx 1 i l i T 267 '

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X I -7 A . 2 Thrilling conTesTs ThaT has ever been played on Jasper Field. ATTer almosT sixTy minuTes oT hearTbrealcIng play. The Jaspers were on The Tail end oT a 6-7 score. AlThough The VarsiTy Time and again placed The ball in scoring posiTion some Triclc oT TaTe seemed To carry The ball baclc inTo Their own TerriTory. The ball sped Trom one end oT The Tield To The oTher wiTh exciTing rapidiTy. l-lowever, on one oT Those Trealc plays ThaT so oTTen decide The TaTe oT such conTesTs, Two huslcy ManhaT'Tan line- men swooped down on The ST. John's baclc as he was recovering a bad pass Trom cenTer and swepT him across The line Tor a saTeTy. Even Then The play did noT cease To have iTs Thrill. Twice again did The Redmen march wiTh deTermined vigor To wiThin scoring posiTion buT The lv1anhaTTan line held and The Jaspers won 8-7. , ill, 266

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ij E 1 9 3 Q HA,TTAl1-UE: 'll ' V' l AX lr U T T JUHN LAW . Ol-lN LAW, capTain and all-American guard oT The Tamous l929 NoTre Dame eleven, enTered upon his duTies as head coach aT lv1anhaTTan in The spring oT l93O. AlThough he had iusT concluded a brillianT TooTball career, The.Taslc beTore him was noT an easy one. The Jasper Team had been Trained in The Warner sTyle oT play, which is radically VdiTferenT Trom The Roclcne sysTem. Also Law was beginning his TirsT coaching assignmenT amid sTrange surroundings. BUT perhaps his greaTesT handicap was The Tendency To expecT magical resulTs Trom The NoTre Dame sysTem. In his Two seasons as direcTor oT lvlanhaTTan's TooTball desTinies, The Jasper 5,14 eleven came close To emerging Trom The ranlcs oT ordinary TooTball Teams. The Ogle- Thorpe game lasT Tall marlced The high spoT oT his career aT lvlanhaTTan. On ThaT E evening The squad Toolc compleTe possession of The Tield. Capable and conTidenT, , They showed ThaT They had acquired The Timing and precision oT The NoTre Dame l sTyle. They cliclced. ii l When Law resigned, The school auThoriTies decided To inTroduce a general aThleTic I program Tor all sTudenTs, and Chick Meehan was engaged as direcTor oT physical l educaTion. WhaT The TuTure holds Tor ManhaTTan in TooTball, The class oT '32 need noT predicT. lT does, however, expecT ThaT The upward climb which began wiTh I Law will conTinue under his successor. WhaT The new Team does will naTurally be oT inTeresT To all lVlanhaTTan men. BUT The TooTball memories oT The class oi '32 will always be associaTed wiTh The rhyThmic shiTT, The one-Two-Three-l-like! which John l Law broughT To lvlanhaTTan. l gg if if , , 268 wc Th, pr gr gli wi aT pil Th cc Be li sh ex rn, gr miie: