St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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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.

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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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Y TO ONE' EASY LESSON xx-X 4235 getting the touchdown and the latter scor- ing the seventh point. During the rest of the first half we had little to cheer about, because our best offer- ing was an 8 yard center plunge by jack Boyle, while St. john's was grinding out two more first downs. In the third quarter, however, we began to roll from the opening whistle and Boyle personally hammered out a first down in three tries. Ellard and Mc- Auliffe then took up the burden and had made the distance only to see a fumble undo their work. After another Danvers first down had intervened, Dunn and McAuliffe exchanged punts, but, on the latter's boot, Fitzgerald fumbled and Collupy pounced upon it at our sideline. Returning to the attack, Quarterback Dick Doyle shoveled a well-intentioned lateral to Jack Boyle out at the decoy post, but all seemed lost when the pass dribbled along the ground. The Bul- let, however, was opportunist enough to scoop up the rolling pigskin, fade back un- til he sighted a receiver, and then fire a 45 yard bomb which Collupy collected behind the vainly-waving Horan and carried over for a score. With pandemonium reigning on the sidelines, Doyle arched a pass that forced Bob Murphy to give everything he had in order to make a miraculous clutch that evened the totals at 7 all. Roaring back to the fray, St. john's drilled out two more first downs, only to fumble on the opening play of the final stanza and allow Collupy to garner further glory with a second recovery. Four tries yielded us scant gain, so the enemy took ad- vantage of the fact to uncork a Dunn-to- Tardiff pass that ate up 16 yards. With a yard to go for another first down, Pitts stopped Fitzgerald dead in his tracks, and a 15 yard penalty against the visitors gave us the ball at midfield. Sensing a last op- portunity, Richie Doyle surprised with a quarter back sneak that was good for 16, only to fumble on the play following and permit Tardiff to fall upon the oval. That was our last threat of the day, but the Prep was far from through. Carrying 7 out of 8 times, Bill Leck delivered 3 consecutive first downs, the last a 53 yard end sweep on which Doyle and Ellard barely threw him out of bounds on our 9. In real danger this time, the Red and Black stiffened again, Pitts and Collupy stopping the enemy pile- driver and Fish forcing him to fumble a pigskin that McAuliffe was only too happy to recover, back on our 17. There remained time enough for Boyle to punch out a per- sonal first down, and then, with the clock slowly dying, to fill the air with despera- tion passes, the last of which was intercept- ed by Leck. The game ended on the same note, as Leck just failed to reach a Dunn pass on our 15. It was indeed a weary team that trooped off the field to rejoin parents for the Coffee Hour, but the weariness was soon forgotten in the realization that it had achieved laurels in the greatest struggle ever waged on St. Sebastian's gridiron. We had a week to recuperate from the Prep game before taking the field for our fifth venture of the campaign, a Sunday meeting with St. Mary's of Waltham. Al- though the two schools had been Hockey rivals for three years, it was the first grid- iron encounter between them and a crowd of 2500 was attracted to the Waltham Ath- letic Field. Without losing any time, Richie Doyle snaked his way 21 yards on a quarter- k CO-CAPTAINS Bill Harwood and jim Caulfield practice their smiles for the Boston Traveler cameraman. 'T I