St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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MCGRATH CARRIES Paul, zlitlctl by thc perfect blocking of McAuliffe and Pitts, plovvs through right tackle against Rivers fr Mai' Y . POWER HOUSE lfaking to Boyle, Mul hands thc oval to Pickattl who bulltlozcs his way through Roxbury Latilfs line.

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to emerge with a tied score. During the cocoa hour that followed the contest, the chief topics of conversation were the pluck of Sull and Mul in continuing play after injuries, the drive of the St. Sebastian line, and the ground-gaining of Pickard, Mulhern, McAuliffe and McGrath. ST. SEBASTIAN,S 32-RIVERS 6 Our first home game saw the second string starting and scoring the first time they had the ball in their possession. On Rivers' fourth down, a poor snap-back was recovered by our Jack Darwin on the enemy 3 yard line, and from there Lane McCarthy plunged over, while Andy McAuliffe added the extra point. Late in the first period we registered again when Paul McGrath intercepted a pass and raced 30 yards for the tally. The second quarter also yielded two scores, one on a 25 yard toss from Mul to Bob Murphy, and the other on a McCarthy plunge. The conversion point was added in the last instance by Jack Boyle. After the half-time intermission, a Red and Black fumble, followed by two Rivers passes, allowed Tom Ormsby to dance down the right sideline for the visitors' only score. The most spectacular play of the after- noon came late in the final stanza when Center Bill Harwood snared a Chestnut Hill pass on his own 12 yard line and toted it 85 yards to the Rivers 3, the point from which Andy McAuliffe knifed through the enemy line for our final score. The game served to indicate the latent potentialities of our second and third stringers who played more than half the game. Once again,the drive of our line in general and Pitts in particular highlighted the day. Our smoothly-functioning passing attack was also highly instrumental in downing the game lads who opposed us. ST. SEaAsT1AN's 20-Roxauav LATIN 0 Playing host to this neighboring aggre- gation, we were surprised at hrst by their quick offensive and, save for a Pickard first down, did not start to roll until the second Bull's Eye Mul uncorks an Aerial Bomb quarter. With Dan Sullivan's recovery of a Roxbury-fumbled Mulhern kick on their 17, it was not too difficult to penetrate to the visitors' 2 yard marker and enable Mul to carry it over. On the following play, Pickard made it 7-0. After the ensuing kick-off and Roxbury's failure to gain, two McGrath precision passes, the first to Bob Murphy for 35 yards and the second to Neelon for 10, put the pigskin on the enemy 3 and it was no trouble for Benny to take it across. Passing again enabled us to score in the third period. Roxbury had opened the stanza by passing on the fourth play and the toss was inter- cepted by Paul McGrath on their 40 and carried to the 26. After a McAuliffe first down, Paul took to the air again and his heave was gathered in by Neelon deep in the end zone. The point after was delivered by air also, McGrath to Ellard. That ended the day's scoring, for neither team threatened seriously thereafter, although a 20 yard pass completion by the visitors and a personally- delivered Mulhern first down were closing features. The play of Frank Pitts against his former team-mates, the accuracy of McGrath's passing, the ball-handling and play selection of Mulhern, and the savage thrusts of Pickard

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and McAuliffe deserve particular mention. Every player on the St. Sebastian squad saw service, and yet the home team controlled the play practically from the opening whistle. ST. SEBAs'r1AN's 26-CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL 0 October 26th found us visiting Weston in search of our fourth victory of the season. A driving rain storm had converted the peat field into virtually a swamp, but we sloshed our way almost 50 yards before losing the ball on a fumble. This temporary set-back was nullified, however, by a 35 yard Mulhern- to-Ellard pass that set up Pickard's six yard drive for the score, and Benny also added the extra point. From that time on, an inter- cepted Red and Black pass and repeated fumbles offset our ground gains and it was not until the third stanza that we registered again. At that juncture, Mul took things into his own hands and carried five times consecutively to eat up 51 yards, then, with characteristic unselflshness, the ball-handler gave it to McAuliffe who scored from the five. On the conversion, McGrath tossed to Ellard to make it 14-O. While the fourth quarter yielded two more tallies, it was a costly chapter for in the course of it, a four- fracture arm injury ended Johnny Pickard's football career at St. Sebastian's. The final touchdowns were added by McAuliffe and Mulhern on 4 and 1 yard plunges. Both placement kicks failed. It was a subdued and silent squad that made the trip back to Newton, Pickard's loss was an irreparable one. ST. SEBASTIAN,S 45iIAMA1cA PLAIN O Our first November contest pitted us against an agreeable Jamaica Plain team that had kindly filled an open date in our schedule. The tone of the contest was manifested when our second play of the game saw Andy McAuliffe score on a 61 yard gallop. After the point had been added on a McGrath plunge, Mul's 30 yard quarterback sneak and a Boyle- to-Neelon 40 yard toss were the scoring factors in our production of two more touch- downs. The first conversion failed but the second, a Boyle-to-Ellard pass, made the score 20-O. Before the half ended, Mulhern used his patented quarter-back sneak to race 54 yards for another tally. Early in the third period, Jack Boyle broke into the scoring column and carried 23 yards into pay dirt. Duplicating and even surpassing his run of the opening stanza, McAuliffe again broke loose on our own SO., and snaked his way through the Jamaica defense to register unaided. In the line-up that followed, Lane McCarthy rushed the point after. The orgy ended when Bob Murphy gave Jack Boyle's mid-field pass a home and raced the remaining distance unchallenged to make the final score 45-O. Murph almost duplicated his earlier feat when, in the closing minutes of the game, he carried a McGrath pass, hurled from our 20, to theJ.P. 35 yard stripe. Once again the entire squad saw service, but, despite that fact, our opponents were at all times out- classed. ST. SEBAST1AN'S 0- PROVIDENCE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL 6 Journeying to Rhode Island for our sixth game of the season, we helped to provide the setting for Providence Country Day School's Home-coming Day . Preliminary glimpses at the opposition warned us that we would be in for a hard game, but at that time we did not realize how hard. The first period saw us taking the offensive and blasting out three first downs to Providence's one, Jack Boyle carrying for two of them and McGrath for the other. Providence gained exactly 17 yards in that first quarter, but in the second they managed the only score of the fray. Our troubles began when an obsolete penalty for roughing the kicker was invoked against us, and, strangely enough, it came just after the home team's punter had only managed to get 8 yards on his boot. Encouraged by re-gaining possession, our adversaries CProv- idence C.D.S.D punched out two consecutive first downs, although an offside penalty against us was a factor in one of them. We stiffened then and their surrendering punt