St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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equalizer. That lone goal was all we could manufacture against the brilliant net-play of Somerville's Leahy, although the final seven minutes of play saw him tatooed by the smoking barrage that came from the sticks of Mul, Slats and Murph. The final sixteen seconds afforded the year's moat dramatic spectacle when, with a face-off impending at the Somerville net, Captain Paul McGrath removed himself from our nets in order to give his team the last second benefit of six attackers on the enemy citadel. Even this tactic failed, however, and the final buzzer rolled out a 1-1 deadlock. Although a regularly-scheduled contest with Middlesex School had to be postponed owing to the lack of ice, we also crossed blades with Boston English and with units of the United States Coast Guard on two occasions. In the tilt against the inex- perienced English icemen, the Red and Black had a field day with Mul hanging up six goals and three assists to top Bob Murphy's three tallies and four assists. Bill Gibbons' two scores, together with McAuliffe's and Egan's singletons made the adding machine read 13-O. Facing older rivals in the meetings with Uncle Sam's Coast Guard, our prep school lads took plenty of body-checking to rack up triumphs 7-6 and 9-3. In the second engagement the uncanny Mul hit the bull's eye for scores on six missions, while the two opening St. Sebastian tallies came from Murph's blade. Andy McAuliffe was the ninth lamplighter. At the conclusion of the Catholic League schedule, the coaches of the-circuit met to select an All-Catholic team to face the G.B.I. Seconds at the Boston Arena on Washington's Birthday. Our entire forward line, Mul, Murph and Slats, won the agree- ment of the mentors and played the dominant part in the All-Catholic 10-2 triumph. Capitalizing on their two years of team-play together, Mul and Murph checkerboarded passes back and forth to each other and to Bourque of Waltham in such a dazzling fashion as to put the name of St. Sebastian's, on the lips of the thousands of spectators. In every one of the first five Catholic tallies Mull and Murph played either the scoring or the assisting role. They then paused to let Davis of Somerville and McGinley of Malden take over the burden, but returned to play either the tallying or feeding part in the last four registers. Final tabulations found Murph with four goals and two assists, and Mul with two tallies and five assists. In this brilliant fashion Mr, Hockey bowed himself out of school-boy ice circles, and at the same time his young, but promising, team-mate served notice to all present that he is the logical successor to Mul's mantle of glory. Before the skates and sticks were packed away for another year, the entire squad was divided into Red and Blue teams to contest the School championship. Piloting the Reds was the aggressive Lane McCarthy, while versatile Johnny Ellard guided the destinies of the Blues. The rivals crossed blades March 13th on Arena ice and the Blues got away to a flying start when Mul soloed in 40 seconds and Slats, a minute later, took the center icemen's feed to make it a Blue 2-O. Before the chapter ended, however, Murph and Bob Egan made successful sallies that deadlocked the count at 2 all. When hostilities were resumed, the tide of battle see-sawed back and forth with McAuliffe netting a Blue tally that was equalized by Murphy's second goal, and Logue's marker being offset by Egan's second register. From that point on, however, the contest took on a definite Red hue and at the end of the frame goals by Captain McCarthy from Egan, and by Bill Gibbons from McCarthy, put the Reds out in front 6-4. The final stanza yielded the Redmen four more, when Murphy found the range three times and Egan dented the strings once again. In these final scores, Egan and Gibbons were credited with one assist apiece.

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during the play our Mr. Hockey was personally attended by Lynn body-guards, while the Lynn fans shouted their threat to to get even with us in Basketball. A mid-week contest called us to Groton to contend with a sturdy Lawrence Academy six on its home rink. Delayed in their departure, our icemen dressed en route and stepped out on the glassy surface as soon as they arrived. Slowly accustoming themselves to the locale, our speedsters took a one-tally lead in the opening period when Murph found the range on a Mulhern pass. The middle stanza found Murph, Mul and Slats each powering the disc home, while in the third it was Mul, Slats and Gibbons that ran up the count to 7-O. Filled with admiration for our type of team-play, the Lawrence Coach and students acted as hosts to our squad at the aftermath luncheon. Our first-half hex , St. Mary's of Waltham, clipped the wings of our ambitions a week later by pinning an unexpected 2-1 defeat on the Red and Black. Playing stub- bornly defensive hockey, meanwhile tallying a goal in each of the first two periods, Waltham, although it incurred six penalties, was able to turn aside every wave of out attack until, with forty seconds of play remaining, Slats took a smoking pass from Johnny Ellard and turned on the red light to avert a shut-out. Srnarting under the sting of our early season defeat at Malden's hands, the Red and Black faced the Blue and Gold for the second time on February 2nd. Right from the opening whistle our icemen surged for the Malden cage and kept the puck inside the rival blue line until Murph scorched a Mulhern feed past the astonished Roche at 5:27 of the opening period. Less than three minutes afterwards, Murph powered that felled the Malden another shot netman unconscious although it did not tally. At this point play was suspended out of courtesy to the injured Roche, and it was agreed to play a twelve-minute second period. With Roche unable to continue, Malden dominated the second chapter, taking the pressure off their rookie goalie and mak- ing things hot for Our Paul . McGrath was equal to every occasion until, at 5:09 of the final stanza, Donahue dented the strings to tie up the struggle. Refusing to yield, Mul took things into his own hands on the following face-off, poked the disc between McGinley'S skates, recovered it, weaved through the defense, and caged the winning goal-all in 20 brief seconds. Pandemonium reigned, for Mr. Hockey had done it again. After the game, an impromptu celebration was held in the School dining hall and the winning puck presented to the Headmaster. Weakened by the absence of Jack Boyle, a victim of the grippe, the Red and Black took on St. Patrick's of Stoneham a week later, and gave an admirable exhibition of the ability' to take it . Taking an early lead on Mul's scoring feeds to Slats and Johnny Ellard in the first eight minutes, our skaters sewed up the verdict on Slats' second period lamp-lighter and Mul's final chapter goal. The rough play deprived us of the services of the valuable Joe Deignan, but every man in uniform had a turn in the fray, including the tiny diapers . With the subs on the ice, Stoneham managed to score twice and make the final 4-2. Tied with Malden Catholic for second-half honors, we faced St. Clements' of Somerville, on February 16th, conscious that we had to win in order to stay in the fight for the title. We were handicapped too by the loss of Bill Gibbons to the flu, although the appearance of the en-gripped Mul in the dressing room boosted morale. With a capacity crowd on hand to watch the third ice contest, the tide of battle began and continued at fever-pitch. Neither side scored in the first ten minutes, although the hardest bid came from the blade of Lane McCarthy. Half-way through the middle period, Somerville got a break when Cleveland's shot caromed ofi' a Red and Black blade and hopped into the strings. Attack after attack followed on the St. Cleme-nt's net, but it was not until three minutes of the final chapter that Mul was able to take a Murphy pass and rifle in the

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MR. HOCKEY Mul about to make a left sweep that will shake off a bothersome trailer Mr. Hockey a mild moment EVHQYTHING GOES.- Having knifed through the Malden defense, Mul is being hooked by an enemy defender FURIUUS STICKIV'0RK.- The Leagues outstanding player battles for possession deep in hostile territory TURN ON THE RED LIGHT: DESERVED RECOGNITION! I Jack gets set for his third goal Mul hangs his personal in the St. Clements game plaque