St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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1946 FOOTBALL WARRIORS Seated left to right: Murphy, Darwin, Boyle, Co-Captain Harwood, Co-Captain Caulfield, McAuliffe, Doyle, Ellard. Standing: Father Flanigan, Gibbons, Green, Pitts, Morrissey, Collupy, Manager Boles, Coach Murphy.

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G 2 ,511 p S t1 'Z' l' L s fi . - 1 ,xr it THEIR HEROES THE world prides itself on the great soldiers, patriots and heroes it has produced. In similar fashion, the Saint Sebastian world respects the accomplishments of its scholars and admires the trained prowess of its athletes. The former receive an abiding laurel wreath of Honor Roll awards, First Honors credit and annual scholarships. The latter win passing praise that may prove evanescent unless their exploits are recorded for posterity. Athletic contests may well be regarded as sham battles in which the For-titude of the competitor is tested in the natural sphere. Life itself will be the real battle in which supernatural For- titude will assert itself. COU 3 5 5 fl- -04 S Q Qin .H L ,ij q'MAssA0

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SPGRTS HISTORY ,L' azz Wim 4- v -fx-.-as N the two preceding issues of THE AR- ROW, the sports section recapitulated at great length all the athletic contests en- gaged in by St. Sebastian's during the four year periods spent by the graduating classes on Nonantum Hill. This year, however, feeling that the past has already been suf- ficiently immortalized in the 1945 and 1946 editions, we shall confine our reporting to the athletic events which have taken place since the previous volume of THE AR- ROW went to press. Besides avoiding the dangers of monotonous repetition, this new policy will enable us to chronicle the individual contests of the Past year in great- er detail. Football does not wait for the formal opening of the School year to establish its sway at St. Sebastian's, Labor Day week finds our gridiron zealots reporting for the conditioning exercises that pare away the gains of the Summer and harden muscles for the campaign ahead. This year September Sth marked the beginning of the groan and grunt sessions and Coach Vin Murphy was on hand to welcome both veterans and new arrivals. By the time that School opened on the 16th, the squad was down rather fine and the afternoon sessions could be devoted to team work and the perfecting of plays. Watching these preliminary workouts, the student body could see that Coach Murphy's main problem would be the finding of suit- able replacements for the six regulars of '45 fvuii 1nn-v who had graduated. The chief loss, of course, was jack Mulhern, clever ball- handler in the T and field general, while the departure of Benny Pickard, a real powerhouse, and Paul McGrath, a depend- able kicker and carrier, created major back- field difficulties. In the line Assistant Coach Tom Crosby was faced with the necessity of finding successors for Guard Danny Sulli- van, Tackle Bob Shea and End Ray Neelon. Despite the complexity of the situation, the two mentors used rather sparse material to such good advantage that they had a smoothly-functioning unit to send into the opening game with Cambridge Latin. The contest found us facing a highly- favored opponent on his home grounds, Russell Field, and playing in front of the largest crowd that, up to that time, had ever witnessed a St. Sebastian gridiron perform- ance. Arrayed in white jerseys with red numerals ibecause of the impossibility of obtaining our traditional colorsb, the Ar- rows lined up in this order: l.e. Bob Mur- phy, l.t. Bill Morrissey, l.g. jack Darwin, c. Co-Captain Bill Harwood, r.g. Co-Captain Jim Caulfield, r.t. Pete Pitts, r.e. Hilt Col- lupy, in the backfield, Dick Doyle was at quarter, Johnny Ellard and Andy McAuliffe at the half-back posts, and jack Boyle in the No. 4 position. Cambridge won the toss and elected to receive, but their possession was short-lived, for Ellard intercepted a pass on their first offensive play and carried it to