St Justin High School - Justinian Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Olga. an X :J X 3 3 ALA- Qharlnife Ruth 26115 Ruth. why They cheered Where They Chcercd ST. JUSTIN CHEERLEADERS ADD A FEMININE TOUCH T0 THE VICTORIES Ix'111'1'Ii11g: Clhttrlotle llurge. Ru lh Stalex and Ruth Nl2ll'llll. tslllllflfllgl Olga Cawley and Kittx Shenkel fftllllllllllb. ST. Ittsiix zo ............ St. crEORf,l', o This was the third league ganie and it was won rather easily. St. ustin 's inarched straight down the held after receiving the kick-ofl and scored in less than 5 niinutes. The rest ol' the ganie was played niostly by the seeond teain and they added two touchdowns to the score. Une of the touchdowns was a pass from Ed Haney to Bernie Seneway. Rocco Debeceo and L. Petrolio scored the other two. JUSQISIN 30 ........... ST. 'lliioiwms o The 1,941 team closed its season with the biggest score ever rolled up by a St. Justin teatn. Things went pretty niueli their way and the score kept mounting even though alniost. every tnetnber ol the Iirst and second Learns was sitting on the bench. The scoring was done by Paul Nally Q2 touehdownsj: Petrolio Q1 touch- down, 1 held goal: 1 extra pointjg Tink Mills Q1 touehdownjg Fortunato extra pointsj. S? its Ik SG 256 Thus ended one of St. -lustin's ntost successful gridiron seasons. Hope runs high for a third championship next year in spite ol' the fact that eight eraek players will be lost through graduation. l

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XVhen the 1942 basketball season opened we faced the foe with a world of confidence. Now that everything is over we still retain that con- hdence . . . despite the fact that we often INCL defeat. XVe retain it because we are sure we did our best . . . and because we know that it is much harder to lose than it is to win. Good sportsmanship has always been our goal-and that's a goal no one need miss. If our basket- ball season was not as glorious as our football experience, it still was no mean showing. NVC won more games than we lost, we made third place in the league, and we attracted and satis- fied a large following. YVe got off to a great start by winning the hrst and second league games. The opening contest with St. Luke ended in a 32-I4 victory for St. Justin in spite of the fact that we were on the short end. Our next game was with St. Mary of the Mount. The pre-game prophets gave them the victory by a margin of l0 to I5 points, but we gave them the surprise of their lives when with a minute to go and leading by 27 to 25 we froze the ball for the biggest upset of the year! The game with St. Basil was un- fortunate from the start. Becker put four in a row through the strings and we never caught up . . . final score, 26-lti. There followed an easy victory for St. -Ioseph's strong aggregation . . . a 35-I8 defeat for us. Our next encounter was a thriller. XVith a minute to go we were leading, 2l to 17. Vie began freezing the ball Intl lost no time in swishing four points through the hoop to tie the game up as the gun sounded. Forced to play three minutes overtime, neither team scored, but in the second overtime period Straub and Mosh of St. George made baskets and defeated us, 25 to 2l. At the start of the game with St. Veronica, it looked like a walk-away for our opponents. ,-Xt the half we trailed by a score of I5 to 4. lint we kept plugging away and we brought the AND TAKE THIRD PLACE IN THE CATHOLIC LEAGUE score to IG-I2 at the third quarter. The very last minute again proved fatal to us. The score was 2l to 20 their way when we missed a foul shot that would have tied the game. Opponent O'Brien put the game in for his team with a long shot that made the score 23-20. The return game with St. George was a dif- ferent story. Early in the game we took the lead and kept it to the end, when the score was 33-20. XVe had a return game with St. Basil which was close throughout. A tie at the half, it looked like a close victory for St. until the boys from Carrick tied it up at 20 all. The three minutes overtime was all Rufiing- of the opposing team. He intercepted five passes and turned them into points. The second game with St. Luke was more like football and, as in football, we f'0IlflllCl'CCI with a score which was very close-20-25. Our return game with St. Mary of the Mount proved that they conldn't win them all on their own floor. MR: heat them by a score of 26-l5 . . . the first time St. Justin ever beat them at home. Again we met St. Veronica and they avenged their first defeat by leading us all the way through to a final score of 23-17. St. 'loseph's, the future champs of the league, made an early lead and kept, it. Our opponents were unbeatable on their own floor, and final score was 33-20 their way. In addition to the above games, we played twelve non-league games and one tournament. Statistics reveal that we chalked up 510 points to the opponents' 567, and that's not a bad record for a team boasting of only one senior player. Outstanding among the individual scorers were Captain Bob Brill, who pierced the hoop with 00 points, Larry Mangan, who rated sec- ond with 89, while Debecco, Fortunato, Doran and Burke came next with 63, 57, 38 and 31 points, respectively.