St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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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

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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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went out of bounds on our 9. Immediately, in three plays, we tore off 77 yards on Mul's sneak of 30, Boyle's off-tackle thrust for 32, and a 15 yard McGrath-to-Neelon pass. The situation was not too critical for Providence as yet, however, for a 15 yard unnecessary roughness penalty was called on Mul's dash. Undaunted we sent Boyle through the line again, only to draw the same 15 yard loss from the oiiicials. Losing possession after two fruitless pass attempts, we fell victim to a triple reverse with a long pass on the end, and saw Romano race 66 yards for a score. Although only time enough for two plays remained before the half, it was suflicient to have another 15 yard infraction called against us. With McAuliffe and Boyle crashing out successive iirst downs to open the second half, we managed to reach the enemy 35 before a roughness charge hauled us back to midiield. On the next play the penalty was varied to illegal use of hands , but it cost us 15 more. In desperation, Mul called for a kick and McGrath got off a beautiful 40 yard spiral. With the home team making no gain even with the aid of an offside penalty against us, they elected to kick,ibut the punt was blocked by Dan Sullivan and recovered by Bob Shea on their 19. Again the ofhcials entered and set down the ball on the home 34, because there had been rough- On the March. St. Sebastian's drives toward a second touchdown against Portsmouth Priory Elect for '46 Center Bill Harwood ness on the blocking play. With Andy tearing off 8 and Paul 5, the gain was erased by another verdict of 15 yards for illegal use of hands. Utterly unnerved by the chain of circumstances we fumbled and lost possession. Having held our rivals to 4 yards in 4 tries, we put on a final drive in the last quarter Co-Captain