St Mary of the Assumption High School - Assumpta Yearbook (Brookline, MA)

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Night is joint laborer with the day. Victorious floodlight games at Haver- hill and Walthz1m,..hero 'lim Burns, gridiron lumi- nary at Waltham, . ,Basket- ball victory at Our Lady's, Newton.

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llllll Sports . . . Floodlight Game . . . League Football Stars. . .Basket- ball. . .Baseball . .Diocesan Cham- pionship . , . Girls' Basketball . . . Winter Carnival. , .Carnival Queen . . .Cheerleaders . . GEORGE V. KERR Barron Coffey 1941. Suflftaztariurlfft. ML17:Y,.f Higl1l037, Vufediftflrifm, .rclwfzzr and aflvfefe, b7'0dt1ftLffi71g after Barton Chamber of Cwrzrmrte tertimanial bunquzr ta Sugar Bowl pfqwxr. X! ffj I I L'y,:1f ' I I Hr.. J A I f ,..f ' , Qffvff

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Football The 1940 football got underway when a number of boys reported for the pre-season training in the fundamentals of the game at Griggs field. Those who survived these weeks of arduous training were the lads who carried the colors of blue and gold, under the capable leadership of Captainjoe Curry to the greatest season of the football team has ever enjoyed. Among Captain joe's classmates reporting for grid practice were Maurice Meade, James Hartnett, 'Iohn Curry, John Stuart, Joseph johnson, john Donovan, james Madden, Thomas Flanagan and James Burns. On September 12, the boys journeyed to Haverhill, to unoflicially open the 1940 season with a floodlight game against St. james High, the alma mater of Coach Moynihan. Although decidedly the under- dog against this football juggernaut of the North Shore, the Saints, stunned a ca- pacity throng by setting this bigger and heavier team down, 6-0. A timely pass from Griffin to Burke accounted for the margin of victory. The game was featured by ter- ritic blocking of Gabby Hartnett. En- couraged by this win, the team knocked the lid off the Catholic League by sub- merging the St. Charles to the tune of 6-0, 4500 SEE NIGHT TILT Ufmurt fast-.rtepping St. Muryfr High of Brookline, which feuturef Jpeed infteud of Jtruight power, continued undefeated, und un- tied in the 1940 Catholic-League Race, toppling Wulthurn St. Murj1'f 24 to 6 in u floodlight gume ut Victory Field, Watertown, luft night. The game wuf pluyed for the henefit of the Christmas Basket Fund. The .rtudent hund und hugle drum corpf from Brookline provided un excellent murieul interlude at the hulf und udded color to the feftieul with its glittering gold helmets und crimron caper. on an end sweep by Jim Burns. The Saints then traveled to Concord, N. H. to play a big and powerful St. John's High. al- though outplayed throughout the game the Concord team squeezed out a scoreless tie. By this time the boys were looking for- ward to the floodlight game at Victory held against St. Mary's Waltham. Last year the Waltham team tucked it on the boys by a big score. The stage was set for a real grudge game. Receiving last-minute r