St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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Quarterback Richie Doyle runs the gauntlet of the St. john's Prep line. ON HIS OWN back sneak soon after the opening whistle, but other probings of the Waltham frontier were unproductive and Andy McAuliffe kicked over the goal line. St. Mary's promptly countered with a quick kick to our 45, whereupon Coach Murphy sent in a new backlield composed of Tom Green, Gibbons, Larry McAuliffe and Jenks. In live plays this new quartet, spearheaded by Larry's scamper of 24 yards through right tackle, had carried to the home 18, but the next series of downs failed to make the necessary distance and our surrender let GETTING l'l OH' PRECIOUS POINPI I Gibby protects while Andy COUUPY squeezes the Conversion boots us out of danger in pass that meant a 14-15 victory the prep game over Cambridge Latin. Waltham kick out of danger temporarily. Undaunted by the fact that the first quarter had ended without a score, we set sail again from the Waltham 49. joe Jenks and jack Boyle carried to the 37, Dick Doyle sneaked 10 yards more, and then the Boyle-Jenks Combine forced St. Mary's to take a time out when they delivered the oval to the home 13. just to vary the attack, the Ar- rows resorted to the air game and a jump pass from Doyle to Collupy on the 3 set up Boyle's plunge for the tally. On the attempt at conversion, Ed Quirk was under the pres-

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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

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