St Andrews Seminary - Mapav Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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deTeaTed The Rauders and The TourTh year buT Trouble was brewv BASKETBALL The sensor baslceTball campaign oT I9-45 came To a close aTTer one oT The mosT dramaTc races IH The hnsTory oT The league The excuTe menT cenTered upon The acTTvTTTes oT The Eagles and The Raiders Two greaT TsTTh year Teams Each sguad had deTeaTed The oTher IU prevrous conTesTs and The play oTT Tor The league champronshlp was The clumax oT The wunTer sporT enTerTaanmenT Led by ReTe Gallagher and Bob avern Th Eagles T ally umphed over The Raiders 42 I8 The xlcToruous group was well bal anced each man dlsplayung ouT sTand4ng ablluTy an oTTensuve and deTensTve play Openrng The sea son wTTh a nlghT game The Eagles overpowered The slxTh year squad 43 33 as l. u uadrnnn splTT The mes es Tor 24 pounTs ln el nexT Two encounTers The Eagle ng Tn Their reTurn maTch wTTh The Raiders They were overcome 37 3l l-lowever The Eagles Tlnlshed The season w1Th Three more vac Torues and undTspuTed possessuon oT TnrsT place Tollowed by The Ralders The suxTh year and The TourTh year In The Tumor drvrsuon The sophomores had lTTTle Trouble rn ouTdusTancnng Thexr opponenTs and wTTh The excepTuon oT an overTume vucTory over The Thlrd year GuanTs They were never In real danger Through ouT The season CapTalned by Gene Zummer who ave raged more Than ThurTeen polnTs per game They Tlashed a well rounded ogence ThaT was a conTurTUeI menace To Therr 0pponenTs Ronny Proud Jim GT-lalloran and Carl De Palma possessed The unusual swTTTness which enabled Them To cover any man however Truclcy he m1ghT have been The Treshmen sparlced by Eranlc GualTuer Wnllsam lVlonTrous Dlclc Monahan and Jerry Bellxnle Tunush d un The runner up spoT Tol lowed ID order by The Thurd year Gunners GTanTs and The TrrsT year MTdgeTs The I945 Dsocesan play oTTs were won by RochesTer The TTrsT me 3l Zl vTcTory ov bany was played aT a Torrid pace a The rThalTs ore was coe buT RochesTer wuTh TTs coal play and good reserve s engTh oulled away an The wanlno mrnuTes To a IO poTrT vTcTory ln The secon game orlng pree In The Thlrd guarTer p over Too much Tor he Syracuse ouao o over ome arc T ey boweo To a 3l 25 de ea Timmons! Jugcfe Jltl0fl 69 T E . I 1 K D , e ' in Tri- x ' -f E . l -T O Q. . T h . Thr s . ..rN ..e. - Z f ga ,a ' ' erAl- nd Tisf c ls' , -- S +ve 'T ' , . d .asc s ' T' , r T . 'L F G E l gl T T h, rl ' 'T T. l . .e

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The crowd cheered as Rup Colluns booTed The pugskun To begun The annual CuTy T-lou e TooTball game There Tollowed a conTesT un whuch spuruT and skull were ar Theur hughesT We unclude an all sTar Team chosen Tor Theur ouTsTandung plays oT Those who par TucupaTed un Thus annual conTesT They are as Tollows R Colluns was ouTsTandung durung The whole day l-leadwork and brawn donT always go TogeTher buT un Rup Thus classuc muxTure Tound a happy blendung l-lus coolness and Irush spuruT drew admuraTuon Trom hus Team and Trom The specTaTors STocky TasT unperTurbable Bull Anderson comes very close To beung The udeal Iunesman unTercepTung Two passes and crossung The goal Twuce Bob Downs spuruTed The CuTy aTTack bafflung The l-louse Team wuTh hus long punTs and passes A Truple ThreaT man he us always reluable Moe Gorman wuTh hus blockung and Tlashy pass receuvung was par excellence Moe has Tew equals no superuors lT us The TughT un The punches ThaT counTs Jam Beeman provided Thus always a doughTy Tureless TughTer John Cuervo who us ideally buulT Tor The backifeld was an unspuraTuon To every man on The Team Twuce un The game The shuTTy ramblung SchenecTadean crossed The goal chalk mark An ouTsTandung pass receuver oT The Type seldom seen Whuzzer WhuTe who has always played a hard ToughT game un every sporT made an excellenT end Tall and rangy Chuck McCarThy well accomplished in blocking and pass-inTer- cepTing plunged Through The line To smear many a play. This years crown wenT To The House squad which rouTed The CiTy 34-I9. The l-louse played a game unequalled on The SainT Williams Tield. The CiTy however, always ouTweighed someTimes ouTplayed was a glorious example oT The belieT ThaT spiriT is greaTer Than body. R DOWNS W. ANDERSON W. GORMAN J. CIERVO Ziamonal julian: gzbfion 68 w. wHurE c. MQcAu2rHY R. couuusus .u. BEEMAN O I .' - . F I . s .

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