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

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PAGE 46 AQUILA Coach J Emmett Hannigan A double N I G A N spells Hannxgan' Thxs ns the theme song of the football squad and ll shows wlthout questlon whom the boys regard as thelr best friend They can never express sufflclent gratitude to thls genlal molder of men Coach gives hls valuable time to instruct the football team and th1s devouon to thenr recreatnon ns fully appreclated by the boys A star at Fordham University he played quarterback IH 1911 Later he played semt pro football and baseball and was Coach and Captann of the Champnonshnp Bronx Tngers Success has come to hlm not only ln sports but also nn business In Yonkers New York he was the Dlrector of Recreatlon and had supervlslon over one hundred sixty mstructors At present he IS the eastern representatnve of the Buster Brown Shoe Com pany of St Louis In his two years of coaching at Salnt John Hlgh Coach Hann1 gan has developed runner up and champlonshnp teams nn football and a fme baseball club He IS a firm exponent of hard clean play and an excellent director of boys He stresses the fundamentals of blocklng and tacklmg whnch are the foundation upon whxch he constructs a superb runmng and passlng attack He ns famous for hrs offen snves to whtch the one hundred nlnety two pomts for Salnt ohn against fifty nme for the opponents are a testlmony The Class of 1946 ns sincerely grateful to Coach Hanmgan and prays that he will contmue to gunde Salnt john s teams for many years to come Wzllzarn F Shen 46 I-iff-I-I-I-I-I-1-1-I-1-,,.l.f.f.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,., I 0 't . ,, . . 9 , . 9 9 . . . V . , . a . . . . , . . ,

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PAGE 48 AQUILA The Flghtmg Irlsh AIN'l Iohn Hugh footbzll squ1d bcgan to prep1re for thelr se1son IH the spring of 1945 hlhe germ of a team nourlshed 1t thrs tlme grew during the summer Through the generoslty of our p1stor Rlght Reverend Monslgnor Buckley the players enjoyed 1 weeks trfunmg on the grounds of Camp Gregory Marne Thls prep1r1t1on proyed to be lnvalulble for the season to comc Coach lohn lzmmct H1nn1g1n a h1rd vsorklng efhclent te :Cher drllled thns team untnl 1t vsas one of the best eyer to spot and spanglc the green 1nd vshnte IH the 1nnals of our parochlal 1nst1 tutron The Ifxghtmg Irish as the te1m ns popularly c1lled played one of thc toughcst schedulcs nn thc history of the school and cxmc through vuth 1 br1ll11nt record xxmnmg exght and losmg one game to 1 Cllss A team Thns lost glme vs IS the opening wedge of the selson played rn Memorlal Fxeld under the flood lnghts before a throng of four thousand spectators Fnve mght games before a total attendance of nmeteen thousand enght hundred people g1ye the team an attendance record that vu is excellcd by only one h1gh school of the st1te Nashua 'Ihe openmg defeat dld not dnshearten this aggressxve well drllled hard hnttlng te lm for II defeated the next elght opponents vuth the followmg scores Saxnt ohn Laconla Samt ohn Somersworth S11nt ohn Pmkerton Academy 911nt ohn Tovsle Hxgh Samt ohn franklln Samt ohn Lebanon Sannt ohn Exeter Samt Iohn Saxnt Patrlck 6StonehamJ f-I-I-1-I-I-f.,..f.f.f.f.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,., I I I T ' 7 , s y I A . . . . . . , . 1 . 7 L . . Y . i . A , .Y . g Y K , - K f, ' . ' . . ' f ' 2 ' - , , ' K 1 1 . 'n , . - f ' Y, ' 2 , . . . . Y I X Y K Y . . L . . .- .. .. . Y . ,, I - 7 C Y s y 1- - - A ' 1 ' y s , -2 X V. S . .K , V. . Y . I . 7 Y . . 2 . ' 2 'z ' Y Y 2 V . . . 7 I , V V2 ' 1 ' ' Y . , . 9 . , - . . Y 2 . ' 14 ' 0 ' 34 13 . ' 27 ' ' 6 c 1 ' 26 ' ' 0 Q ' 26 ' ' 0 . ' 20 18 ' J 20 8 ' L 12 ' ' 0