St Marys College - Dial Yearbook (St Marys, KS)

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MR. STEPHEN (i. O'ROURKE REV. A. KERENS. S. J. MR. T. O'CONNOR. S. JAMES A. LEWIS ADRIAN TATE TIMOTHY J. MURPHY Baseball Mgr. Football Mgr. Basketball Mgr. One Hundred Thirty

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Season S'okmile was not only one of ins St. Mary’s lias ever had. ined qualities of leadership, sportsmanship, and aggressiveness in a remarkable manner. Paul was always in the thick of the fray and the more desperate the battle and the more ticklish the situation the more urgent were his words of encouragement and praise, the more tireless were his efforts to keep the team going at top speed. All praise to Captain Paul Normile, a true St. Mary’s captain. There existed in the team a spirit perhaps even better than in former years. There was. of course, the traditional never-say-dic-spirit. I ut the happy combination of friendship, loyalty, and co-operation made the team the fine unit that it was. The students were quick to recognize this and were all the more loyal and proud of their team’s efforts on the gridiron. Also in defeat each one was willing and ready to forget, realizing there was no use “crabbing” the game. Many things like this combine to offset the memory of the games lost with a more pleasant thought and remembrance of a season in which we often suffered defeat but in which the team or student body admitted they were beaten. Low scores might indicate that we had a very good defense, and at the same time a very poor offense. The former would he correct but the latter could not be asserted so safely. We did have a good offense potentially, but injuries and other things worked havoc in the backfield. We had a wealth of hackfield material at the beginning of the season but after the first game or two it was a case of try and find a whole back-field in good repair. Generally it couldn’t be done, with the result that the offense was rather weak. It may he said confidentially that it was only tough breaks in the matter of injuries that kept us from having an offense that could have provided the few tallies that separated defeat from victory. However winter has passed and spring is here. CArTAlX NORM ILK One Hundred Thirty-one