St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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POSSESSION Captain jack Cremmen gets one off at the St. Mark's basket. victorious leader and Tom Hartnett to- gether with one pointers by Dave McSorley and Sam Hefler carried the day. For the vanquished, Hugh Bradshaw's 8 and Bob Kelly's 6 were tops, for Captain Collupy's best was a hard-won 5. Andy McAuliffe and Sophomore Bill Brooks made their presence felt by 2 markers and Johnny Ellard boosted the Blue total with a singleton. Harwood's triumph was a popular one because the con- test was his final Red-Blue court appear- ance, while Collupy has other years in which to make a more successful bid. As we survey the 1946-47 season in retro- spect, its record of six victories in nineteen contests is not an impressive one. How- ever, it certainly must be pointed out that the lads who wore the Red and Black were called upon to face an arduous schedule that found them deprived of last year's high scorer, Bob McNabb, before half the cam- paign was completed. Despite this handi- cap, the Arrows gave St. Sebastian's loyal and courageous representation on the court both at home and abroad and made new friends for the School in the athletic world. No quintet could ever hope to have a finer leader than we possessed this year in john Cremmen, and his indomitable spirit served to inspire his team at all times. Working at the other guard position, Bill Harwood was a defenseman par excellence, while Hilton Collupy's play at the pivot post was tireless and exercised a steadying influence on young forwards like Kelly, Shea, Kett and Carey. Loyalty to St. Sebastian's induced Andy McAuliffe and johnny Ellard to rally to the cause, just as it prompted Dick Wat- son, Hugh Bradshaw, Tom Hartnett, Dave McSorley and others to give their talent to our quintet. St. Sebastian's has reason to be proud of them individually and as a group, for at all times they proved themselves to be athletes worthy of representing the School's high ideals of Christian sportsman- ship.

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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.

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BASKETBALL SUMMARY-1946-47 Coach-VINCENT C. MURPHX' Cdflldill-JOHN CREMMEN '47 Manager-JOHN KEHOE '47 ' 1 SCHEDULE U St. Seb. Opp December 6 Our Lady's of Newton 22 28 10 St. Columbkille's 1 33 26 15 St. Clement's 54 29 17 St. Mary's of Waltham 14 47 20 Boston College High School 24 -H 29 Lawrence Central Catholic 25 59 january 8 Belmont Hill , , 7 , ,L 51 27 10 Immaculate Conception CRevereJ L , 20 19 15 Sacred Heart of Newton 2 , 27 58 21 South Kingstown, R. I. 24 54 24 St. Columbkille's ,, , 54 19 29 Cathedral CBostonJ S 21 52 February 1 St. Mark's ttt,t,,, ,,., , or 31 28 7 Cambridge High and Latin 7, 28 49 11 St. Charles of Waltham , H , 35 47 20 Coyle High School 1 30 54 23 Our Lady's of Newton , , 26 39 26 Sacred Heart of Newton , t...,,, r2tttr,.............. . ., 35 57 March 4 Thayer Academy 1 ,. , 2 26 48 Reds fWilliam Harwood, Captain! 31, Blues CI-Iilton Collupy, Captain? 24 JACKETS John Cremmen William Harwood Robert McNabb Hilton Collupy Robert Kelly joseph Shea Collupy Kelly 7 Cremmen Shea McNabb Harwood AWARDS LETTERS john Ellard Richard Watson Andrew McAuliFfe Hugh Bradshaw Thomas Hartnett Francis Kett james Hefler john Kehoe LEADING SCORERS , , ,tt., ,,t.. ,, 167 77 71 70 60 , 55 TOUGH ANGLE McNabb's shot fails to register.