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

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Last November when the smell of burning leaves filled the air and foot ball news filled the sport pages noisy seminarians began filling the north wing of Quigley Basketball had started' This sport besides being the most popular one at Quigley IS also one of the best organized Much of the credit for this organization IS due to Fathers Howard MIkolaItIs and McKenna During the past season these three priests unselfishly gave their valuable time In order that Vafl ous leagues might run smoothly l m sure all the students will agree that these priests were successful In their to them for their splendid work Credit should also be given at this time to the scorekeepers and timers especially l-leying and Jirgal The many score sheets In the candy room testified to their faithful work In order to produce evenly matched teams the students In second third fourth and fifth year are divided INTO three leagues the majors minors and Intramurals The major league IS com posed of boys who are the pros In basketball Play IH this league IS there fore more polished than In the other two The minors comprise students who aren t quite good enough for the mayors This league contains many future major league stars and gen erally produces many thrilling con tests Next In line IS the Intramural league Players In the Intramurals are limited to those who aren t In either the mayors or minors ln first and second year especially the quality of play IS quite good The majors this season continued the tradition of former years by pro viding their fans with a number of hard fought thrilling contests Des pIte the fact that this year the seniors fielded only two teams fourth year definitely seemed to have the top contenders The Crusaders paced by captain Chuck Cronin and little the first round and were almost cer tain to be playing In the St Patrick day finals An Important factor In the Crusaders success was the excellent fast breaking play of Brennan The shooting of Brigham and the rebound Ing of l-lughes and Kaikaris also played an Important role In keeping the Cru saders near the top of the league Although such a sItuatIon doesn t occur very often fourth year came up wIth another powerful team With Windham s great all round playing and the excellent rebounding and jump shots of Smyth the Widowers were a defInIte threat to the play off hopes of every team The two guard posItIons on this club were ably taken 41 efforts and are appropriately grateful Joe Stevens, took the lead position in V K

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being an excellent means of relaxa- tion, are also meant to help a semi- narian develop physically and morally. With this idea in mind therefore Quigley has set up a system of sports in which each seminarian has the chance participate prove this let s take a look at the schedule lrst in e beginning of the school year two tournaments are held a tennis and a handball tour nament Both are open to all stu dents Swimming and bowling also begin about this timeand continue until near the end of the school year Basketball then takes the the middle of November and lasts un til the middle of March All of these sports are highly organized so that the maximum number of students may take part in them In the spring the baseball tournament begins with a team representing each room Also in the spring after basektball ping pong tables are set up in the gym and a ping pong tournament is held in which every student may take part The sports year then closes with an other tennis tournament. From this rapid glance at Quigley's sports pro- gram it can be easily seen that it of- fers every seminarian the chance to develop physically and morally lt is pretty evi dent how these various games help physical de velopment or instance a sport like ping pong develops quick reflexes while another such swimming is es pecially useful in Strengthening the shoulder muscles However per hapsitisnotquite so clear how sports can help a seminarian in other ways T demonstrate let us take a case at hand basketball a team game therefore it teaches co operation an important quality for priests Besides it teaches self control and provides opportunities for the seminarian to overcome anger patience and disappointments By bearing losses cheerfully seminarians are conditioning themselves for set backs in later life Similarly all sports at Quigley can help semmarians to become better priests The picture above sums up the idea lt is a seminarian dedicating his recreation to Christ through His Blessed Mother 48 to ' ' ' . To ' - ' ' . F F' , ' th ' , as ' T . o spotlight abou t First of all this is . v . , , ' im-

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care of by Farrell and Nlckllborc whsle Bonner and McNulty more ex amples of fourth year helght helped Smyth IH grabbing rebounds Although the junlors seemed to have the most potent clubs the Stags led by Duck Stalzer could never be counted out of the race The chlef reason for their hugh ratlng was the play of Ed Burke He was reboundlng better than ever and could always be depended upon to score with one of hns famous jump shots McHugh and lvers also helped out under the board whlle Kennedy and Paul Burke with hls fancy underhand shots took care of the guard posntuons Although the thundering hoofs of the Meese trampled many teams whenever they played the Wldowers or Crusaders nt looked luke open sea son on moose They had one of the has ever seen nn Dreyer wnth has fancy drlbbllng and Lyman wlth his deadly long shots Besldes captasn McGlvnn other mooses on the Meese were Der wnnskn Neumann Falkner and Don Stalzer Nemecekwlthhlsdependable one hand shot also played well at elther guard or forward As was expected the Savages col lected qunte a few scalps durnng the season even taking one from the re doubtable Crusaders The thard year entry desplte the loss of key men from last year s squad stall had Gene Noonan with hrs uncanny long shots and drlve In shots Captain Schult Quinn and Murphy contributed to the Savages helght under the boards Some team had to be last and as usual the second year qunntet fnlled the bull However the players on the Yokels gave promise of more success ful seasons an years to come Ruley 50 ell fo the Wotch th cel g Je and Walsh especially looked luke fu ture greats ln addltlon Captain Yadron and McCarthy fought hard though un a losing cause S 1 ' Forr brings one up r m floor. e iin, o. best guard combinations the school ' l