Quigley Preparatory Seminary - La Petit Seminaire Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Ore audience will never forget the day D clt O Neill rocked the gym os he went out to produce But the Eagles found a partner team inthe unior Marauders For power they had Cchultheis who was the u Lal high scorer For style they bca ed Ray Lutz who never wanted to score and for comedy they lcept Martin who lilced to crawl to the hoop on all fours Pawlowslci showed that system was more important than size by the manner in which he w ve in and out ol the ri al defenses The Sophomore Hust ers provided no little amount ofcpposition in the league with Herman and Houtsma doing the headwork The paper Double Dribble which for the second year re- ported onthe result of each night s game became even more popular this year. l:r.Qieger Bob Qponder Andy Greeley and oe l.eVoy lxept the students posted on the cage activities with a variety ol colorful writings complete with an occasional cartoon. The sports at Quigley form an integral part of the Qeminary training and during the long winter months basketball holds the center of ention pecial w' the fiery Major League contests. ,,,,--: :'..'.'.T'..Z..'i Wm NA.---1,4

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Q Heading the baslfetball pro gram this year was the major league with many vet ran players of last year The seniors supplied two teams against the two ot the iuniors and the interims and sophomores had one apiece l the sportlight most of the season were the Colonels of Tom O Con nell a d weeney s S rpents Forming a trio of resistance to all opponents Pete Shannon ohn Seidel and Paul Qchwartz gave the Colonels part of the fame which they gained erry Ma loney was the man ol the our with his energetic playing an characteristic manner of fouling ou Helfrich was the high scorer on the Qerpents squad and estab lished his record for the future by playmg a hard fought game with his customary calmness. Bones Kavanaugh helped the cause by being chief setup man that is when he wasnt draping his body over the opponents. Under the wing-spread ol the Eagles Cap- tain Enright led his quintet through many battles and although he did not turn out as the champ his team was composed of several excellent baslceteers. Spaghetti Cantieri and No Air Gladstone were two sell-supporting members who are also noted for their refereeing. Very few fouls were ever called on these two.

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4-nu The Minor League though laclcing tl'e ad vanced talent of the Major League is not out classed by it in spirited playing or in student approval and encouragement Many more students are playing baslcetball resulting in a surprising amount of talent This surprising baslcetball enthusiasm on the port of player and spectator is ci result of the change in the basketball system in 1942 by the athletic directors of Quigley Pre-viou ly in Quraley athletics the school played other high schools of Chicago, compiling a great record of many wins and few losses, and beating quite a few respectable teams. The school had a lightweight and heavyweight team composed of the better talented players. The other students played baslcetboll according to the intramural system, similar to our present intramural league. To give every student a chance to play baslcet- ball and improve himself the present three league system was established From the marvelous enthusiasm it has evolced the system has succeeded considerably well The Minor League competition has produced outstanding players McCabe and Keough of the first year Caravans captauned by Carroll have proved themselves most valuable The second year Qtars were sparlced by Griffin and their captain Stack while Wisz has been boost ing Barry s second year Bronlcs. ln third year the l'loodlums of Hasteroclc were being inspired by the fine playing of Enright and Poole. Nlaloney's Nlalcugites were getting brilliant performance from Moran. The fourth year Cyclops of Camel were getting the active support of Baggio and McNeany. Miller's lv1ohowlcs of fifth year were sparlced by such mainstays as Brett and Fabish.