Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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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:

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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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JUHN F. MEEHAN F The year l932 was noT conspicuous in ManhaTTan's hisTory Tor any oTher reason, The achievemenTs oT John F. Meehan as DirecTor oT Physical EducaTion alone would make iT exTraordinary. LaTe in December, l93I, BroTher Cornelius announced ThaT Mr. Meehan had been appoinTed TooTball coach, and also commissioned To provide aThleTic TaciliTies Tor every sTudenT. Members oT The sTudenT body whose greaT Tailing is ThaT They know so many Things ThaT aren'T so, exchanged knowing glances. Scarcely a week wenT by aTTer Meehan Took oTTice when Things began To happen wiTh bewildering rapidiTy. The newspapers suddenly blazoned daily TeaTure arTicles abouT ManhaTTan's new inTra-mural sporTs. The campus was dazed by a sTory lwiTh picTuresl oT an inTer-class crew. NOT a varsiTy, buT an inTra-mural crewl PresenTly The exciTemenT died down somewhaT and Mr. Meehan conTinued 'wiTh The Tull organizaTion oT The sporTs Tor all program. He called TogeTher an experT coaching sTaTT Tor every sporTg class Teams were Tormedg schedules were planned. BeTore long The skepTics received anoTher shock. The new sporTs plan, which Meehan had produced ouT oT Thin air, bore iTs organizer's sTamp and would endure. ii As more and more sTudenTs came To know Mr. Meehan, They began To under- sTand The Torce oT personaliTy and execuTive abiliTy which were eTTecTing These ' T Th exTensive plans. The lasT vesTiges oT doubT soon gave way To enThusiasm or e man and his program. We have Tound him Truly worThy oT ManhaTTan and oT The greaT conTidence placed in him. 269