St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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4 Besides Fish's harvest, all we had to cheer about was 4 by Shea, 3 by Kelly and 2 by Cremmen. Coming into the home stretch of the sea- son, we played a return game with Sacred Heart of Newton in our own cage and it proved to be the closest battle ever waged on St. Sebastian's court. The visitors had defeated us earlier in the season and they trooped to our gym accompanied by many fans who wanted to be on hand when their 6' 4 center, Dave Nangle, chalked up his 500th point of the campaign. Entering the contest, Nangle had already amassed 482 tal- lies and it was taken to be a foregone con- clusion that he would get the necessary 18 under our roof. From our point of view, the situation was none too bright, for we would be without Hilton Collupy in the fray and not too much could be expected from a line-up that had to be re-vamped at game time. However, to meet the situation, Coach Murphy shifted Captain jack Cremmen to the jump position and named Andy Mc- Auliffe to fill the guard slot. How well this move paid was indicated early in the game when our defense functioned perfectly and we proceeded to carry the battle to the enemy by racking up a 6-0 lead on Kelly's and McAuliHe's efforts. While this could not continue indefinitely, the quarter mark found us out in front 8-4, and we were still setting a 16-14 pace at the half. Even the 6-6 third period was in our favor since it kept us on top, but we realized that it would not take much of a wind to unseat us. By this time, in covering Nangle so ef- fectively that he had garnered only 8 points, jack Cremmen had incurred four fouls and therefore was under the necessity of being extra cautious so as not to incur a fifth pen- alty. When the last session began, both teams gave everything they had and their increased drive brought about the heaviest scoring chapter of the day. With Cremmen's effectiveness curtailed, Nangle managed to get 3 baskets to help his cause, but Kelly and Shea kept pace with him. Despite their AIR BORNE Collupy wins another face. efforts, however, the visitors had a 51-29 lead with little over a minute to go, until Cremmen cashed in two free tries to put us back on even terms. At this point, Nangle got his third basket of the last half, but, when all seemed lost, Joe Shea stepped into the hero's role with the tying two points that just beat the final gong. The situa- tion called for the first overtime period ever played in our cage, but in the three extra minutes Sacred Heart had just enough to nip us, 37-35, on baskets by Cronin and Car- roll. The Newton Centre fans may have been disappointed in Nangle's failure to get his quota, but they certainly were compen- sated by one of the finest contests of the year. According to Official Scorer Dick GriFfin's figures, our two forwards, Kelly and Shea, headed our attack with 10 regis- ters each, while Cremmen's 8 and McAu- liffe's 5 ran up our total to 53. To make their final competitive flight of the season, the Arrows winged their way again to the Boston Garden to take on a real powerhouse in Thayer Academy. Spear- headed by the sharpshootingpf Sprague and Creswell, forward and center respective- ly, the Braintree aggregation pulled out all

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On February 11th, St. Charles of Wal- tham climbed our Hill and caught us with another slow start that caused our down- fall. No matter what we tried in the first two periods, the ball refused to drop through for us and we were reduced to reg- istering via the foul route, chalking up 8 points in this fashion and racking up only 4 on baskets. The foe, meanwhile, had set up a 17-12 lead to which they added 19 more in the third session, while we were getting 4. Finally, with the last chapter underway, we flared up with 19 of our own, but once again it was too belated to be effective. One memorable feature of the contest was Col- lupy's first period foul shooting which netted him 7 points out of a possible 10, en- abling him to register a game total of 11. Next in order came Shea's 8, young Bill Carey's 5, 4 each by Kelly and Kett, Crem- men's 2, and Harwood's singleton. During the February vacation we made a memorable trip to Taunton to make an- other new athletic friendship for St. Sebas- tian's. journey's end was Coyle High School and the game was scheduled to initiate a competitive relationship in sports between the two schools. The fact that they had taken Sacred Heart of Newton into camp rather easily was an indication of their strength and we were not too optimistic about the outcome. Although Coyle fielded a medium sized quintet, they showed from the start that they were an aggressive, smooth-working unit that would take ad- vantage of every break. Getting away to a fast start, the home team came up with 10 baskets in the first half, while we were able to penetrate their zone defense for scores only on 3 occasions. Foul tries saved face for us, however, for we managed to rack up 6 more points via the free route. In the third and fourth quarters their superiority was not as marked, for the final total on the electric scoreboard was 54-30. The game marked the first occasion on which we de- rived more profit from the foul line than we did from the floor, for 16 of our 30 points Bill Harwood takes it down. were of the unopposed variety. Red and Black eagle-eye honors went to Joe Shea for his 11 markers, and Andy McAuliffe was a surprise second man with 6. Our remaining 13 were attributable to Kel's 5, Fish's 4 and 2 each by Cremmen and Bradshaw. The re- turn trip to Boston was a hazardous one be- cause we had to drive into the very teeth of a northeast snow storm, and the group with Fr. Flanigan was stranded in Raynham when motor trouble developed. Forced to seek refuge in the Town Club, the only illu- minated establishment on the road, they were rescued by Tom Hartnett's father's Good Samaritan act that cost him a long trip from Cambridge. Our next appearance was in a Sunday aft- ernoon contest on the floor of the Boston Arena in which we drew Our Lady's of Newton for an opponent, and once again they outpointed us 39-26. Things started auspiciously enough for us when our op- ponents' Small, on a quick-breaking play, raced half the length of the court to deposit the ball in his own hoop and give us a 2-0 lead. Unfortunately, we were not able to stay out in front, for at half time we trailed 16-12, and the parochial quintet used the last two chapters to lengthen their lead to 39-26. At the jump post, Hilt Collupy had a fair day that netted him 15 points, 10 of which came in the third and fourth periods.

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OFF THE BOARDS The Arrow Captain reaches for a high one. the stops in the second quarter to establish a commanding, 2-i-8, lead by the half-way mark. To cope with the situation, Crem- men shifted to cover Creswell in the second half and the result was that the Thayer cen- ter could boast of only two points for the remainder of the contest. With him blank- cted so effectively, we made a much better showing and even achieved the consolation of outpointing the South Shore lads in the hnal frame. However, in spite of the gal- lant defense work of Cremmen and Har- wood, the final decision was -18-26 in Thay- er's favor. For the day's work, Bob Kelly pumped 9 tallies into the basket, to be fol- lowed by Cremmen's 8. Harwood and Mc- Auliffe ranked third with Ai apiece to fin- ish stronger than Shea's 2 and Collupyfs 1. On February 28th, the annual Red-Blue court tilt was played to end our home sea- son. The rival leaders for the occasion were hard-working Bill Harwood on the Red side and high-scorer Hilt Collupy for the Blue cause. As the two teams squared away, it was seen that the squad strength had been distributed rather evenly, and the close type of play that featured the first half was cer- tainly proof positive. The Reds got away to a 6-2 start in the first quarter, but the Blues came back to tie it at 14 all in the second. After the rest period, the Harwoodmen came back stronger and, paced by their cap- tain at a forward post, forged into a 5 point lead which they lengthened to 7 be- fore the contest ended. In gaining his plaque, Bill Harwood relied chiefly on last year's victorious Red captain, jack Crem- men, who tallied 13 points to emerge high scorer of the afternoon. Frank Kettls 8 were also highly welcome, while 4 each by the PUSH-UP Hurried Shot by Harwood Bill Harwood on the beam.