St Augustine High School - Lance Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Vars1ty Track Records are made to be broken' The 1952 1054 track team dtstmgulshed ltself by a lone record of achlex ements Led by captam Tom Murphy the Lancers accomplxshed a feat hltherto unknown ln the track annals of the school ln the Cardmal Hay es and New York Unn ersxty Meets they won the Open Champlon shlp defeatmc ln each meet more than one hundred schools from the Metro polltan Area In the Hayes Meet Tom Murphy set a schoolboy record m thc 600 yard run 1 14 1 Two weeks later tn the New Xork Unn erstty Meet Tom surpassed hls own record wlth a 1 140 clockmsz The Mule Relay of McCann McElroy, Sweeney and jay ne placed second to Boys Hlgh Frank Kennedy competed m the 300 Paul Cale 111 the 4-10 and john Hands m the shot put and the 100 yard dash Vifmmng as they dtd 111 these meets thc reputatton of thc school w as greatly enhanced St Augustine attamed creat prommence m March 1052 by capturing the Cathollc Champlonshtp un Madlson Square Carden The tcam w as at that ttme under the leadershnp of Brother Mtchael Durmg, the summcr Brother Mtchacl was appomted Prmcnpal of a Chrtsttan Brothers school m Walthattt Nlassachu setts Brother james succeeded htm as coach and moderator of the track team A hard worker and a wonderful coach Brother james ts admlred by all He ts by no means a novtce at thls work havtng coached champtonshtp teams m Detrott The Senior trackmen deserve fCCOQ.,I11U011 for 1 job well donc Tom Murphy s Team referring to St A s was a fax orlte expresston heard from fans throughout the clty You wtll be hearmg more from htm at Manhattan Colleffe Frank McCann, recelver of a track scholarshlp to Seton Hall Untvcrstty w111 be remembered as a strong competltor wlth a wtll to practtce d1l1g,ently Bob McAdams and Ceorge Crrbbm were Important contributors to the success of the tcam Frank Kennedy wmner of many mdnvldual exents and an tmportant les, on relay teams Don jayne strong and good natured w ull be sorely mtssed at graduation Kevm Rooney and Vmme Matthews the two masters of the mtle and joe McElroy yavelm thrower and George Wahl champxon hurdler are proud to have called themselves Lancers . ' V ' 1 ' 1 c A 1 . . Q . . Q Q .Q . V . QQ ' 1 . . Q. Q 1 c ' V . I , . . r y ' r 7 'r ' r - - - 1 r, 1 . Q . Q . . . . Q. , Y V - s s . r I I . , , . . ' s' 1- I x . , , , . . . Q Q . . Q Q Q . 7 QQQ Q QQ V . , , ., . , Q 7 Q ' 7 ' ' 1 - QQ r L ' 7 t , L f . 1 . ' 'z 'cfyc , x ' s '- ' y - s 'f x ' - 1 . . . . . 1 . Y ' ' 1 at - . . ,, ., Q Q. . . , . . , , s . - QQ .. . Q Q11 1 . , K . Q U . 1 Q Q . . . ,. , . , , . ., . ., c . . Q Q. . . 7 . P. . . . Q Q. Q Q. ' ' .1 . 7 'l 'A ..' . . J . . Q . . Q Q Q QQ Q Q , .. . , 7- . . . Q Q . Q QQ . Q 4 ., , . y . . . . . QQ Q . 'I 7 l . . Q , I 1 1

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