St Ignatius High School - Ignatius Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Standing: tleft to rightl I. I. I. Sullivan, Witry, MacDonald, T. Maher, Reynolds, Foran, Faccenda, R. Maher Henry, Fenlon, Cusick, R. Maloney, Moroney, Casaletto. Middle row: Burke, Wanucha, Abata, Moore, Hackett Foreman, Foote, Galvin, Geraghty, W. Maloney, Uhler, Garvin. Bottom row: Williams, Quinn, Mininni, Kelliher, Shelffo, Wise, Hurley, Murphy, Reiland. THE LIGHTS This year's Lightweight Team showed very much spirit and willingness to fight. The team had a fairly heavy line with a light backfield. The starting team was composed of Quinn and Tobin at ends, Garvin and McDonald at tackles, Cusick and Burke at guards, and Fran Maroney at center. In the backfield was Iohn Foran at quarter, Maher and Abata alternating at full, and Sullivan and Wanucha at the halves. The team was under the capable direction of Bob McDonnell, '42, who assisted Coach Mail- liard while on leave from Notre Dame. IGNATIUS 7. LEO 7 Ignatius won the toss and elected to re- ceive. After a few tries at the line, Sullivan ran off tackle, eluded several would-be tacklers, and sprinted down the field for a touchdown leaving a seventy-yard trail of bewildered Leo players behind him. Abata scored the extra point on a center plunge, making the score seven to nothing with the Wolves on top. Wanucha's kick to the twenty-five was run back to the thirty. After a hard tackle Leo fumbled and Iggies recovered. Then the Wolves marched down to Leo's eight yard line. There, however, a Leo tackle broke through, grabbed the ball from the quarterback, and ran ninety-two yards for a touchdown. The kick was good and the score was tied 7-7. To begin the third quarter Stan Wanucha made a nice kick to the Leo thirty-five. The line held well and forced Leo to kick out. It was a bad kick but Leo recovered the ball on their own twenty-eight. The Lions fumbled and Ignatius recovered but gave the ball up on downs. After trying our line without success, Leo kicked to the 42. Ignatius re- turned it seven yards to end the third quarter. In the fourth quarter Ignatius was con- stantly the aggressor. Wanucha made a first down and the referee gave us fifteen more yards because of holding. The day was muddy and the ball was slippery. The pigskin got away from the center and Leo recovered on the forty-five. The Wolves made a savage tackle and Leo fumbled. With a few moments left to play Witry faded back and threw a pass to Wanucha who speared it on the fifteen and battled it to the ten. The whistle blew at that point and that was the game. Fenwick 20, Ignatius U Ignatius won the toss and elected to re- ceive. Wanucha ran the ball back to the twenty-eight before he was stopped. After four downs Ignatius forfeited the ball to

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ST. IGNATIUS 33. ST. PATRICK 0 To a team that had been rolling smoothly and in high gear for five weeks, St. Pat's presented no problem. After a comparatively slow start the Wolves penetrated St. Pat's defense late in the first quarter. Brocollo plunged 3 yards to score on a quarterback sneak and Rotunno ran the ball for the point after touchdown In the second quarter Grimes heaved a 20 yard aerlal to Ed Fran coeur who covered the remaining 30 yards to the goal line for the second tally Rotunno again added the point Rotunno scored in the third quarter on a reverse from Fran coeur that netted 15 yards Th1s time Grimes plunged over for the point In the fourth period Grimes powered 12 yards off tackle Section race, adding that years later recol- lections of this game would stand out in their minds. The talk wasn't of the go-out-and- die-for-the-school variety, but nevertheless an inspiring one. The final score demon- strates how well the team took Mal's advice to heart. Before frve minutes of the f1rst per1od had elapsed Rotunno chmaxed a pair of passes from Hodek to Francoeur good for 30 yards with his plunge for the score Big B111 Keefe went over for the point on a quarterback sneak The second quarter went scoreless w1th most of the action taking place in the v1c1n1ty of the Mel 35 yard line The third quarter netted us 2 more points when Mel s Hurst was to attempt a punt in h1s own end Bob Gr1mes hard plunglng fullback for the Wolves goes off nght tackle for cr gam agamst De Paul m VV1nnemac Park Guard B111 Guay 1S running mterfer ence to score Then Pat s took to the air but there as on the ground their attempts were futile Big Bill Keefe intercepted one aerial and raced 75 yards to the goal line and another score The sole Pat threat came late in the last quarter when Hett1nger uncorked a 60 yar esperation heave to McCaffrey but thei ext pass was intercepted and so end ed t e game ST IGNATIUS 21 ST MEL 6 Intent on emerging North Section champs the Iggies took the Key Branch held 1n the last league contest of the season agarnst an aggress1ve St Mel eleven Before the game Coach Ma1ll1ard reminded his boys that they had come a long way in the North zone The pass from center sailed over h1S head an automatic safety The ball was Mel 20 The krck was short and three downs later saw Big Biff Grimes plunge 8 yards over left guard to score In the final period guard Bill Guay realized the llnernan s dream of carrying the ball when he inter cepted a pass from Mel s Quarterback B1ller and scooted 26 yards to the goal l1ne Mel s sole score came 1n the waning minute of the final per1od when after a 30 yard march the Cadets Biller scored from the lyard line It was certainly a welcome Slght to see Bor degan Garrow and Turek back on the field after sustarmng injuries earlier 1n the season NORTH SECTION CHAMPS' ' ' ' ' then put into play by a place kick on the - ' - I - fn - .. . 1 I3

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Fenwrck The Frlars marched down the f1eld to the Ignat1us ten yard l1ne where they threw a pass that was good for the touch down The extra po1nt was made on another pass maklng the score 7 0 In the second quarter our captaln and quarterback Iohn Foran was 1n1ured and was unable to see any more actlon that day In the closlng mlnutes of the half Fenwlck made another score on a plunge from the three The conversxon was unsuccessful and the score at the half was Fenw1ck 13 Igna t1us U In the second half Iggre s l1ne was play mg a heads up game The team was bol stered by the hrgh sp1r1ts of Maher who was deallng out plenty of punrshment to the Frlars Wanucha kxcked to the thlrty and the FIIGIS were stopped on therr thxrty frve Iggxes took over on downs and began to hght 1ts way down the held sparked by hard runs by hm Casaletto and by Wltry to Qurnn passes Fenw1ck took over on downs but surrendered the ball after four plays The Wolves fought back maklng two flrst downs and br1ng1ng the ball to the Fnars able to make ground on runs Fenwlck took to the a1r and threatened to score from the ten yard l1ne Ignat1us held fast however and took over on downs The Wolves were forced to k1Ck The k1ck was partlally blocked and rolled to a dead stop on the twenty three yard l1ne Fenwlck took over and com pleted three out of four passes that brought them over the goal A plunge through center added another po1nt and made the score 2 Both teams fought hard rn the flnal quar ter but nerther team scored Ignatxus had the ball w1th1n scorrng drstance when the wh1stle blew to end the game Ignat1us 26 Rrta 12 Ignat1us received and began to march on runs by Wanucha Then Murphy took 1t over the goal on a quarter back sneak The con vers1on falled and the score was 5 U wrth the Wolves on top Ignat1us krcked to Rlta and they started mov1ng on passes gettrng as far as the four teen where they fumbled and lost the ball Unable to garn Barney Foote made a beautl ful frfty yard punt to Rlta s three from whxch spot Rrta was forced to k1ck The k1ck was partlally blocked and the Wolves took the ball on the twenty erght On the fourth down a pass from Abata to Qulnn was good for another score The converslon was good makrng the score I3 0 at the half Ignat1us k1Ck9d to open the second half and agaln Rlta threatened but was stopped on the thrrty A long pass from Wanucha to O Connor was good for a thrrd touchdown Wanucha spl1t the hne and the score was 20 U at the Ihlrd quarter A St Rlta pass was rntercepted and was run to the forty IIVS Agam Wanucha made a runmng pass to O Connor who scored for the fourth and f1nal trme The klCk was no good and the score was 26 U Here the second and thxrd team came rn and Rlta was able to score but only after supreme effort R1ta klcked off but the Wolves couldn t go and Rlta made another score on a long run The k1ck was not good and the game ended wlth the score 26 12 Loyola 19 Ignat1us U After trouncmg St Rxta the Monday before the L1ghts ventured out once agarn wrth new sp1r1t But Loyola must have been look 1ng for revenge for the loss they had suffered had the1r revenge to the tune of I9 O However the score had no effect on Maher and Foran for the1r offens1ve and defens1ve play sparked the team on to keep frghtlng Also much credlt goes to Abatta whose passes to Tobln and OConnor prcked up many valuable yards Ignat1us l8 Weber 6 The L1ghts trounced the Red Horde from Weber by the dec1s1ve score of I8 6 Torn Maher our quarterback and captam was rnjured 1n the IIISI quarter and was taken out of the game The team made a seventy frve yard march down the freld to score from the three on a pass to O Connor from Wanucha but the po1nt fa1led Nothmg happened for the rest of the frrst half and the score was B 0 w1th the Wolves on top In the thrrd quarter Weber made a suc cessful forty yard pass and scored The con vers1on fa1led In the flnal quarter the team really began to move Wanucha made a beautrful run eludmg four tacklers and go 1ng seventy yards for a touchdown The k1ck was off Bob Maher made a long touchdown run that was called back Wltry plunged from the fxve for the fmal score of the game thirty-eight. Iggies was forced to kick. Un- the SUffdCfY before- The Seefe Sh0WS lheY 0-0. - - I , I 15