St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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194 5'-46 ICE SQUAD Kew' linux' Fr. Flanigan, Bolcs, Kirk, McCarthy, Morrissey, Ford, Quirk, Skchan, Darwin, Barrcttc Coach Murphy Center Roux' Dcignun, Boyle, Gibbons, Mulhern, Captain McGrath, Murphy, Slattery, Ellard McAuliffe lfmnf Rauf: Regan, O'Bricn, MacDonald, Kelly

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had made a first down, Mul passed to Ellard for a 16 yard gain, and then repeated the performance to McAuliffe with a 38 yard scoring heave. The extra point and the margin of victory was delivered by Ellard's successful conversion. Before the half ended, the Reds threatened again on a McGrath carry of 31 yards, and a McCarthy-to-Boyle 20 yard toss. Again in the third stanza, the Reds threatened by earning three consecutive first downs, McCarthy's jaunt for 12, a 20 yard pass from McCarthy-to-Neelon, and Boyle's thrust for 14 putting the pigskin on the Blue 7. The situation changed in a A survey of the competitive season Individual Scorers T.D. P.A.T. i'o'rAL McAuliffe 6 1 37 Pickard 4 3 27 Mulhern 4 0 24 McGrath 3 2 20 Neelon 3 1 19 McCarthy 2 1 13 Murphy 2 O 12 Ellard 1 3 9 Boyle 1 2 8 minute, however, when Mul intercepted a pass and carried to the Red 43, and Collupy followed with a 35 yard trip to the Red 8. At that point the Red defense held and took over on their own 10. With Red Lane M'cCarthy's 45 yard thrust called back because of a back in motion, an interchange of punts resulted in no advantage to either side and the contest ended with the Blues on the Red 8, after recovering a Red fumble. The Red 6-3 edge in first downs, their 66-50 margin in yards gained by rushing, and their 108-67 achievement in passing still allowed Blue Danny Sullivan to hang his plaque. reveals the following statistics: Yardage Gained by Rafhing McAuliffe 450 Mulhern 341 Pickard 229 Boyle 216 McGrath 163 . Yardage Gained by Pairing Mulhern 201 Boyle 163 McGrath 117 HALL OF FAME Dan Sullivan hangs his Football Plaque

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AMW ', .- - ex, f I ,f- , X. J ST. Sebastian's fielded the first hockey team in its history in the winter of 1943-44, the year in which we had reached the status of Sophomores. Under the captaincy of Junior Dan O'Brien, who had been the prime mover behind the experiment, twenty-five candidates sharpened up their eyes by shooting here in our gym and then, during the Christmas holidays, moved to outdoor ice. just at that time the Catholic Hockey League was being formed and our School was invited to become a charter member together with Malden Catholic, St. Patrick's of Stoneham, St. Mary's of Waltham, St. Clement's of Somerville and Mission High. Fr. Mclnnis' approval having been obtained, Fr. Collins accepted the invitation and com- mitted us to a ten-game schedule, the con- tests to be played at the Skating Club. Our Sophomore Class placed two members on the regular sextet that wore the Red and Black that first season, Paul McGrath and Jack Mulhern, and they gave us every reason to be proud of them: Paul by his net-minding and Jack by his spectacular stick-handling and play-making. The rest of that first year line-up had Hank Barry and Ed Phillips with Mul in the forward line and Captain Dan O'Brien and jimmy Collins at the defense posts. Although our debut in the newly-formed circuit was rather inauspicious, incurring a stage-fright 2-O defeat at the hands of St. St. Mary's of Waltham, we were highly im- portant factors in the league race. After a few games it was evident enough to all that Malden, St. Patrick's of Stoneham and St. Sebastian's were the contenders for the crown. The first half of the schedule saw us split exactly even, winning two, losing two and submitting to a 1-1 tie with Malden. Our defeats were at the hands of Waltham and Stoneham C5-45, and our wins were 10-O over Mission and 6-2 over St. Clement's. In the last half we were considerably more im- pressive, garnering four victories and going down to defeat only in the game with Malden, and that by a 2-1 razor-edge. Revenge was exacted 5-1 from Waltham and 2-1 from Stoneham, and we repeated our previous con- quests of Mission and St. Clement's, this time 6-2 and 7-1, respectively. When the tabulated scores became official, the final standing of the teams gave us third place, behind top-place Malden and runner-up Stoneham. Our record stood as six Wins, three losses and one tie. Statistics revealed that we had turned on the red light forty-two times and had been scored on only seventeen. In the post-season selection of stars and titles, our Sophomore Jack Mulhern was unan- imously voted the outstanding player of the Catholic League. In addition he was found to be the circuit's high scorer, having won the palm over his team-mate,Ed Phillips. Our other class representative on the ice, Our Paul duelled all year with Roche of Malden for the distinction of being the league's leading goalie. Memories of those scenes on Saturday nights at the Skating Club are still fresh and vivid in our minds: I-Iank's solo score in the first Malden tilt, the furious tempo of the 5-4 Stoneham engagement, Phillips' head-on crash into the metal support of the Mission cage, Malden's two scores in the last two minutes of our second meeting, when our boys were in a state of helpless exhaustion,