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ANOTHER POINT FOR US Carroll booting, Cryan holding DRIVE Shaun Kelly at his hcrccst
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clean cut victory by a 21-O count, Richie Donahue registering every one of the points. Noble and Greenough served as the next victim, the Dedhamites yielding to us via Gilbert's fancy end sweep which Richie punctuated to make the total 7-O. We prowled farther afield for our next scalp, luring Franklin Freeman High School all the way from Franklin, Mass. A windy day vetoed any passing efforts, so we em- phasized power plays that clicked invariably and catapulted Collins, Marshall, Dailey and Richie QtWiceD across the last white line, the latter using his educated toe to garner three extra points and swell the margin to 33-6. The last game of the season saw us facing St. Bridget's of Framingham, and Fr. Collins again handling the coaching reins. The country lads gave us trouble enough but we eked out a 7-0 verdict, Don Marshall scoring the lone touchdown, and Bob Baker coming into the backfield to pass to R. Donahue for the seventh point. At the end of the competitive season it was announced that an inter-squad game would be played between rival Red and Blue teams, in keeping with long-estab- lished private school traditions. Two cap- tains were elected and they, together with the coach and Fr. Collins, divided the school's manpower equally. The contest came off in late November and was marked by a spirited aggressiveness that no other game had evoked. Even families were di- vided on the issue, with brother being pitted against brother. When the smoke of battle had cleared away, the Reds had triumphed by a 9-O edge, and Captain Richie Donahue had won the right to have his name and his team's score emblazoned on a commemorative plaque that would hang in the dining hall and inform posterity of the epic struggle waged that day. Thus our second football year became a matter of history and we could well take pride in the late season surge that made the record read five victories and three defeats. When we met again in a football atmos- phere, we found a changed scene. To his deep regret our coach of former years had found it impossible in the face of war-time duties, to continue his work at St. Sebastian's, and he had been succeeded by Mr. Vincent P. Murphy. Then too the spacious gym locker- rooms of previous years seemed to have con- tracted suddenly and grown smaller, but closer investigation proved this to be a mere delusion caused by the presence of almost 80 boys, more than twice the enrollment of 1942. We sized up our new instructor rather cautiously, sensing the fact that the athletic destinies of the school hung in the balance, contingent on his success. We were not forced to suspend judgment long. Right from the start Vin showed a love for sports, a thorough grasp of the game and a drive that could not fail to bring out the best that was in us. We marvelled at his ability to organize effi- ciently such an unwieldy group of candi- dates, and when we found that he was as quick to praise as he was to call us on a boner , we said: He's our man . Time has not altered that verdict. Three weeks of intensive, preparatory drill were put in under our new coach, a period which he used to try out veterans and novices with equal impartiality. By the time that the first game on the schedule loomed into view he had settled on the following line-up: Barry and Ellard, ends, Doherty and Bob Shea, tackles, Lydon and George Baker, guards, McCarron, center. The backfield was composed of Captain Collins, Bob Baker, Joe O'Connell and McGrath.
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HAPPY LANDING Snatch O'Brien in a pre-game warm-up PRECISION BOMBING Collins takes to the air CLEAR THE TRACK! The Moose charges
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