St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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fm Donimoae WQRK THAN mf. PLAYERS ... - .. 'V' k 80 -A HERE'S HOW Boyle limbers up his wing in pre-game practice. Visibly affected by the heat of the Indian Summer afternoon, the two elevens returned to the wars to hold each other at bay dur- ing the third stanza. Not a single first down was registered by either side, al- though Andy McAuliffe made a serious bid for one with a 9-yard thrust off-tackle. With the clock running out fast in the fourth period, however, Lawrence uncorked a last ditch offensive that put them on even terms with us. Starting on their own 21, in four series of plays they traversed the distance to our 16, two successful aerials being respon- sible for most of the damage. With their backs practically to the wall, the Arrows' resistance stiffened, forcing the home team to use six tries before Moran was able to plunge through tackle for the tying score. The contest ended with the same totals, 6-6, for the St. Sebastian line swarmed through to block Central's attempt to drop-kick the seventh point. The team certainly needed something to take the edge off the chagrin it felt at being tied, and nothing could have served the purpose better than the magnifi- cent dinner at Shawsheen Manor on the way home. In a section of the dining room reserved for the squad, the players were able to relax and replay the contest, and then start for home in a leisurely and frolicsome mood. Our first home game of the season brought us a visit from St. Mary's of Milford, a pa- rochial school team from the diocese of Springfield. Not too much being known in advance about the visitors, we were pleas- antly surprised when the fray proved to be a respite from the fierce opposition which we had faced in our first two outings. After Milford had received, johnny Ellard inter- cepted the visitors' first pass on his own 35 and raced it back to our 46. Reliable jack Boyle had no trouble in piling through to St. Mary's 43 for a first down, and, on the very next play, Andy McAuliffe romped through right tackle for our opening score. On the attempt at conversion, Boyle's aerial to Collupy was completed outside the field of play and hence could not be entered as a seventh point. Four plays later, Paul King set the stage for our second T.D. by blocking an enemy kick and recovering it on the visitors' 32. In the ensuing huddle, the strategy called for an end sweep by Ellard and, once again, the Belmont sprinter went all the way to chalk up his second touchdown of the sea- son. Eddie Quirk, just to prove that drop- kicking is not a lost art, pumped the pig- skin squarely between the posts to increase the lead to 13-0. At this point, with the game already in hand, Coach Murphy began to send in replacements, yet the score con- tinued to mount. Co-Captain Jim Caulfield had his moment of glory in the second quar- ter when he intercepted on the invaders' 40 and pounded all the way to the last white line, only to have his efforts nullified be- cause he had been assisted in flight by over- eager team mates. jack Boyle assuaged his captain's grief, however, by registering shortly thereafter on a 13 yard plunge, after Dick Doyle had set it up by means of a 17 yard end sweep. Not a bit tired by his scoring effort, The Bullet exploded off tackle for the extra point. With an array of substitutes in the fray, the Arrows continued their policy of capi- talizing on Milford miscues. Larry Mc- Auliffe, working in place of his brother

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make the distance. On their part, the Latin- ites chilled our hearts on several other oc- casions, but fumble recoveries by Tom Green and Andy McAuliffe plus a memor- able 60 yard boot by john Ellard relieved the pressure. Bob Murphy added consid- erably to the effectiveness of the punt by felling the receiver dead in his tracks. The contest ended with a Cantab flurry of passes, but the whistle found them on their own 33, and its shrill tones announced a St. Se- bastian victory. The next morning's papers gave our triumph generous attention, and informed the world that we had shaded and edged Cambridge Latin before 5,000 spectators. Our second gridiron appearance of the season came on October 6th, when we jour- neyed to Lawrence to meet a strong Central Catholic team, representing the largest school of Catholic boys in the diocese. The fact that the game was a Sunday contest and was to be played in the Municipal Stadium added to the novelty of the occasion. Base- ball, however, was still alive for the Red Sox were battling the Cards that day, and yet 3500 fans turned out to watch the first Red and Black eleven to invade the Merrimac Valley. Hardly had the fray begun, when we re- ceived an unexpected break. The home team had received Bill Harwood's lengthy boot, but fumbled on the second play, Rich- ie Doyle recovering on the enemy 40. Boyle immediately hammered out 14 yards through right tackle, a quarter back sneak was good for 8 more, and then the Belmont Bullet racked up his second first down on the 12. Within sight of pay dirt, however, the air attack failed and we had to surren- der possession on the 8, where a jump pass to Collupy had carried us. Lawrence was quick to turn the tide at that juncture, reg- istering two first downs in short order, and carrying out to the home 54. Despite the fact that Pete Pitts recovered another fumble at this point, we failed to capitalize and Cen- tral intercepted a short pass to pave the way for another first down on their own 46. Shortly thereafter the initial period ended. The change of goals did not help the home team, for we held them to no gain in three tries and they kicked to us on our own 17. Resuming the offensive, we carried to a first down on the 28 through the efforts of Boyle and Ellard, and then, like a bolt from the blue, Andy McAuliffe swept left end for a 72 yard touchdown gallop. The West Rox- bury lad had no trouble coasting through the secondary, but it took a titanic block by Bob Murphy to erase the Lawrence safety man and enable the half back to register six points. The seventh tally was denied us, however, when a quarter back sneak failed. That we were not disposed to settle for six points was manifested when we threat- ened the enemy citadel again. Needled by an 18 yard end sweep by Doyle, the Arrows penetrated to the Central 21 where an inter- ception permitted the home fans a sigh of relief. Three first downs in quick succes- sion by the local team demonstrated the po- tency of its attack, and only a desperate tackle by Vin Greene saved us from being scored upon during an end jaunt. As the half ended, we were hugging the oval on our own 18. X ik 'K X . af , X 7 97 ' J x Xxx LEFT FOOT Southpaw Eddie Quirk gets off a practice kick before the St. Clement's game.

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Andy, spearheaded our fourth score in very definite fashion. Having intercepted at mid-field, Larry proceeded to rip off three consecutive first downs, and then paused to let Bill Gibbons insert a 13 yard carry. Pen- alties bogged us down, however, and called back an L. McAuliffe score, but Boyle made up for it with a register just before the half ended, to make the score read St. Se- bastian's 26, St. Mary's 0. The starting team lined up to begin the second half, but, when Richie Doyle took the opening kick-off and lugged it 75 yards for a score, the regulars were sent to the showers and every man in uniform saw ac- tion. During the rest of the afternoon, ac- tion see-sawed back and forth with Bill Gibbons, Ed Quirk and Larry McAuliffe do- ing the most effective ball carrying for the Red and Black. On the defensive side, a 60 yard boot by Gibby and a timely intercep- tion by Tom Green took first honors. jack Cremmen completed a sharp jump pass from Green and George Shannon was sent in to stop Milford's reverse sweeps around our end. The final tabulation awarded us a 32-0 victory, to which every member of the squad could lay some claim. On October 19th we reached our season's peak in a titanic struggle with St. John's Prep. The occasion was the School's Sec- ond Annual Parents' and Friends' Day and page program that acquainted spectators with newsy sidelights on both squads. The three six-footers in the Danvers line, the 220 pound McKitis and the diminutive end, Tardiff, were pointed out as often as Leck and Dunn, the stand-out backs. That the Prep was a powerhouse was demonstrated on the first play after the kick- off, when Bob Horan plowed through a gaping hole in our frontier and raced 66 yards to the St. Sebastian 14. The fear of an immediate catastrophe was dispelled, how- ever, when the Arrows dug in, held the foe to 3 yards in 3 tries and took over on our own 11. When we failed to gain through the Danvers forward wall, Andy Mc- Auliffe got off a pressure-relieving boot to the vicinity of mid-field. St. john's failed to gain in its series, but the visitors stub- bornly refused to kick and we were gratified to take over on the home 43. It was at this point that a high-centered ball rolled us back to our own 25 and forced Handy Andy to punt us out of danger once more. In the saddle again on their own 41, the Prepsters shook Tardiff loose on an end-around for 17 yards, and proceeded to punch out two more first downs that carried them to our 18 where the first quarter ended. They lost no time, indeed, in pushing across a tally when the goals were changed, for Leck and Hoban alternated in plunges, the former the game also marked the first athletic en- counter between the two schools. In the newspapers the tilt received considerable notice and the result was that 1100 people toiled up the Hill to watch the fray. The day itself was an October gem and a traffic crisis was averted by parking cars along both sides of the field. To celebrate the contest properly the A.A. printed an eight FIRST DOWN Boyle makes vital distance in the season's opener. ON THE MARCH Boyle roars in for a center plunge against Cambridge High and Latin.