St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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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

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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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Vlurphy wins a face-off and hustles in pursuit of thc rubber disc Paul McGrath imlnortalizes the puck that he stopped so often in our 2-1 victory over Malden At the Hockey-Basketball Banquet on March 18th, deserved tribute was paid to the icemen of '45-'46 in words of praise and in the awarding of handsome jackets, bearing the Sehool's insignia. Their record of 12 wins, 2 ties and 2 defeats was another phenomenal success that served as a magnet to draw the attention of Greater Boston to St. Sehastian's. Mul faces off against Davis ofSt. Clement s with Slattery waiting for a pass Mulhern Murphy Slattery McAuliffe Gibbons SCORING RECORD GOALS 33 Ellard 13 McCarthy 13 Boyle 6 Egan 3 PRECIOUS TROPH Y Catholic