St Pauls School - Sigillum Yearbook (Garden City, NY)

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-N el VARSITY TEAM Although not as brilliant as many of its predecessors, the football season certainly has its share of thrills and excitement. The boys, reporting two days before school opened, immediately started to work out their summer softness under the watchful eye of Coach Haire and Assistant Coach C. W. Smith. It was soon apparent that the Saints had a tower of strength in the passing ability of jack Comerford, Big Dick Morse's plunging from the full-back position was also an excellent offen- sive punch, while the two fleet, shifty halfvbacks, Eddie Regnell and Dick Rainey, promised to be hard men to stop. Henry Frost, the captain, was the only veteran in the line from the previous year, and from hfs end position strengthened by his experience his new line of jack Lyons and jud Cvoodspeed at the tackles, Ted Utz and Perry Williaitis at the guards, Tubby Wash- burn at the center spot and Al Tourangeau, who occupied the other end position. The Saints then prepared for their first game, which came on a hot September day. A strong Hofstra Frosh team journeyed to St. Paul's, determined to do or die. For the lirst half the Saints pushed Hofstra around almost at will and it looked as though they would be too tough for the freshmen. Comerford to Regnell seemed to be the key to the attack, and again and again Page Thirty-Eight the Saints marched almost to the goal line, only to be held or penalized as results of their overeagerness. The second half again found a tired Saint eleven fighting stubbornly down the held, only to be foiled by penalties. Once more a Hofstra pass and conversion clicked to make the score 14-U, and thus the game ended. The next week a fighting Newark team came to St, Paul's and everyone knew a good battle was in store. From the opening whistle an en- raged Saint's team hammered at the Newark defense. The Comerford to Regnell combination went to work, and soon the scoreboard showed 6-0 in favor of the Saints, due to Regnell's beau- tiful catch over the goal-line. The conversion failed and the half ended with no further score. The second half proved to be a period of thrills and breaks which kept everyone on edge, but no further scoring was made and the game ended with the Saints victorious, 610. Adelphi was the next opponent, and St. Paul's traveled to Adelphi for the game. The Saints faced a scrappy, light team which not only knew all the tricks but also when to pull them. Again and again St. Paul's marched down the field, only to be held from scoring, This proved to be a fateful day for the Saints, for soon after the kickoff big jack Lyons, left tackle, had to be taken out as the result of a

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GLEE CLUB The Cilee Cluh started the season with a rather disappointing outlook: the ma- jority of its members had heen gradu- ated the preceding year, very few new hoys were interested enough to try out for it, and, the preparations for the presentation of the Christmas pageant were interfering with rehearsals. However, once the pageant was out of the way, another call was issued for candidates and this time twenty or more hoys responded. Under the leadership of Mr. Ellis, this group has rehearsed each Saturday morning and has mastered many old and new favorites, which they sing most aceeptahly. COlltlllL'l0V-EIAVYN A, lfI,I.IS jlL'COlllI?t1lllSl-PliRRY XXfu.i.mMs Alhrecht, Bennett, Boehm, Cummings, Davis, Deevy, W., Eaton, Emhree, Grif- fin, D., Harris, Henley, King, Mitchell, Neumann, Perham, Regnell, Reed, Saurer, Thompson, Van Voorhees, Wyriii, XW. Page Thirty SCIVUI

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FUUT leg iniury. Then an Adelphi pass connected and the Saints dropped behind, 6-0. Late in the third quarter a Saint rally was stopped when jack Comerford was taken out of the game because of an iniury to his shoulder. And even when he reentered the game with a broken arm to complete a 4ll-yard pass, the touchdown was thwarted by the linal whistle, leaving the Saints trailing, 6-0. Wlien the Red and Black lined up for the St. john's encounter, there could be seen many patches and shifts from the previous game. Fred Giddings moved into right half position while Austin llogan took over left tackle, and versa- tile jack McKeon alternated between left end and backlield. It was soon evident, though, that the big red team had too much power, weight and experience for the Saints and rapidly set about running up the score. At the end of the half the score was 27-U in favor of the lndians. The second half found the Saints holding their own better and preventing any further scoring. The big game of the season was with Poly Prep and found the Saints still missing key men. The team, however, was determined to light and from the opening whistle did so. For the first L BALL... quarter the Saints battered the Poly defense, driving almost to the goal and keeping the light well within their opponents' territory. Finally, after an interception by Regnell on the twenty- live, setting up the touchdown, Dick Morse plunged over for the first score of the game. The conversion failed and St. Paul's led, 6-0. Poly, however, came back and soon the score was tied at 6-6. Then an inspired Poly team began to batter at the weakened Saints' defense and soon had chalked up 13 points. The Saints fought gamely, but when the game ended the Poly boys had crossed the goal four times and made one conversion to emerge victorious, 25-6. Although the Saints won only one of their games, our hats are off to the boys like Tubby Wasltbtirn, who played every minute of every game, to jud Coodspeed, who only lost three minutes, to jack Comerford, Henry Frost and jack Lyons, who in spite of iniuries kept plug- ging, to Perry Williaiits and Al Tourangeau, who in one season went from raw recruits to stalwart veterans, to Rich Rainey, Killer Hogan, Eddie Regnell, Freddie Giddings, Dick Morse, Fred Kreuscher, jack McKeon, and Bob Moore, who were in there lighting every minute, and to the rest of the squad, whose backing was ex- cellent throughout the entire season. LEAGUE TEAM Page fflvirly-Nine