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

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Girls Basketball Team ARLY in anuary forty candidates answered the call for tryouts for positions on rhe baslcetball team From this eager group fifteen girls were chosen by the coach and athletic director M1 s Thornton to repres nt the school in the 1940 campaign Only three veteran players were on the squad so the practice was long and strenuous Soon rh players xx ere ready to m et their opponents Theresa Santamaria was elected captain and Ellenora Htgarty manager Several intramural games were played before three inter scholastic games were attempted A home and home game resulted in two def ats and a xictory This years work was prelm nary Big conquests art coming in the future F 11 ng the forward b rths were Captain Santamarxa Helen Payne Alma Comolli and ean Harr1son Subs were Mary Sull van Eleanor Palisi and Wiliifred Murphy. The guards were Ann. Long Mary Parker and Marie Painchaud aided by ai. Donovan Anna Karwoclci Theresa Cloutier Violet Pov, and Mary Shea. The senior players aslc but one favor of the next years squad to defeat our sturdy but friendly opponents the girls of St. Joseph High. Marie Louise Painrfmud 40 AQUILA IPAGE 571 . 1 E r 1 or T r i with St. Joseph High and one game with St. George,s High J 'S , , ,

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IPAGE Sfvl AQUII A AD QU f 1 40 GIRLS, BASKETBALL S . ON

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IPAGI- S81 AQUILA EN OR 1940 S I GIRLS, GYM TEAM