St John High School - Aquila Yearbook (Concord, NH)

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AQUILA IPAGF 531 Basketball ITH the help of a veteran varslty squad our qumtet expert enced the most successful season 111 the hlstory of St ohn Hlgh basketball annals Back for duty were Paul Nlurphy Walt McMahon Fat Rufo George Ruddy Ed Raclne Hub rt Isa belle D1ck Venne and ohnny Corbett The schedule called for games wxth some of th best teams m the State a fact whlch IS true of every St ohn schedule After a vrctorxous tuneup w1th the Grads the varsxty opened agamst the always formidable H llsboro Hxgh cagemen Verne urmbys qumtet handed us one of the rare defeats of the season Z9 23 Undauntedly our hoopmen went on to p1le up the amazmg total of ten VICKOFICS IH thxrteen starts Penacook Hlgh Andover High Belmont High and Hampton Academy were all downed twxce by our sharpshooters Txlton and Newmarket spht 1n home and home serres Hlllsboro Htgh was the only qulntet able to outpomt our team IH both contests The uxmbymen sparked by left forward Phelps H1llsboros Mr Zero who reglstered twenty pornts scored a 45 38 d c1s1on over our cagemen Thts defeat mcldentally robbed us of a b1d to the State Class B Tournament held at UNH Regardless of thxs fact the Flghtlng Irish came back to the vlctory trall ln drubbmg Tilton 54 Z8 marklng the thxrd t1me that our basketeers have raced over the charmed 50 potnt mark The Intramural League opened for the eighth SUCCCSSIVB season Coached by the unxor Varsxty m mbers the youngsters dlsplayed great enthusxasm It IS by means of such a league as thrs that we hope to lay the foundatlons of truly great basketball teams to represent St John H1gh rn years to com Rzcfmrd Brackett 40 L 5 ' - tt n - - a tc an - D - 7 7 7 ' 7 tc - ar 7 7 - J ' . D . e , . J . - - - rr as - - 7 . . . Q . , 1 . A , T 1 a . .. , a v . Q , ' a ee av - 7 ' v . - A.. . , ., . - et - ' - as ' 1 ' 5 J ' ' 0 ' ' s . . D . e. - r

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AQUILA IPAGE 551 Baseball PRIL 8 Nlonday afternoon found Coach B111 Slattery and h1s squad of slxty odd youthful asp1rants ready to begm thexr r1g1d trammg for thelr conung baseball Campalgn The prospects for a successful season seemed pretty shm but our coach although wlth only a handful of well seasoned players and w1th h1s never say dle Splflf formed what has proved to be a well balanced Wllllllllg mne Apr1l 30 only four weeks later found our F1ght1ng Irxsh trek klng to Gossler Park in Nlanchester to oppose Coach Geremonty s Manchester West nme Thls proved to be an opening game thr1ller Although only seven 1nn1ngs were played St ohns behlnd Buddy Eldrldge carrled off VICYOYY No 1 wlth the score 6 5 The second game an encounter w1th Penacook was ralned out and IS to be played at a later date A game wrth Brxstol resulted rn thlrteen 1nn1ngs and a score of 109 m Br1stol s favor Thls years squad lncludes Buddy Eldrldge Lorenzo Gllbert Andy Sulhvan and ackle Burke as pltchers ohn Corbett and Walter lVlclVlahon d1v1de thetr dutles at l'-IFSC base Paul Nohn Dxck Venne and Tom lxlng labor at second Paul Nlurphy ohn MlU1Cl1lCll0 and Charles Burke cover the thlrd base pos1t1on Herbert Norton occupies shortstop wlthout a sl1p The outfleld u1rk Edward Racme and Robert BOISSY take care of the recelv 1ng end of the pttches The 1940 schedule IS as follows Aprx May Maw May May May Ma May une June Nlanchtster West Hlgh Ptnacook Hxgh Brlstol Hlglm Hxllsboro l-hgh Penacook High Andover Hrglu Hdlsboro High Manchester West I-hgh Andover High Brrsrol Hxgh Manchester Penacook Concord Hillsboro Concord Concord Concord Concord Andover Brlstol Rzrlmrd Horan 40 5 ff ' 79 Q 7 - 7 ee - ' I 7, . 1 7 ' 7 7 1 re ' - ' 77 - 7 7 - - 7 . . , 1 J , 3 . rf 75 - - - ' , . ' - 7 7 ' 7 ' fl 97 ' ' . '7 7 , QQJ. 1 , 1 . I J 4 ' 7 If ' 79 ff 77 7 ' 7 J 7 4 . I consists of John Nolin, Bob Belisle, Hubert Isabelle, and Edmund 'l 30 ' ' . ' 4 7 . ' g ll 1 ' I, 21 , ' 24 ' A y 25 ' : ' , , 31 ' , ,. ,,,., ,, . . , J 5 ' C so eeeeeeees,eseso,s ,e,e,,s, , to 8 . . gg gggr g V g ggrgg , ' 7