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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sure of displaying his wares before his fel- low townsmen and his boot veered off from the uprights. After the ensuing kick-off, Waltham made a gallant bid to tie the score before the half ended. Wally Coleman returned Bill Harwood's kick to the home 45, where- upon Jim Hart skirted left end and, with the aid of some very neat blocking, ven- tured as far as our 23 before being thrown out of bounds. The passing attack that followed this gain, however, was ineffective and we took over to rack up two more first downs before half-time. , In the third period we lengthened our lead to 13-0. With the home team receiv- ing and carrying three times without effect, we took possession via the Punt route on our own 33 and refused to be stopped until we had another touchdown. Hilt Collupy surprised the defenders with a 17 yard end- around carry, and in quick succession Tom Green and Joe Jenks registered individual first downs. At that point a jump pass from Green to Collupy Put us on the 12, where Jenks stepped in to roar through tackle on a faked duplication of the pass play. The extra point was kicked into our total by Pete Pitts' -placement. Far from conceding the battle, St. Mary's managed to penetrate to our 17 in the same stanza. Bill Forster, the Purple sharp- shooter, faded back to his own 33 and let fly a long pass which Wally Coleman gath- ered in on our 25 and escorted to our 17 before stepping out of the field of play. That was their last real threat, however, and we went on to score once more before calling it a day. Battling desperately to avert a whitewash, Waltham preferred to gamble on passes, after taking a McAuliffe kick on its own 31, and, when the last-down aerial failed, it was an easy matter for us to capitalize on our position by two short for- wards launched from Tom Green to Dave Hanron and Collupy, respectively, the last one being good for our final six points. Shortly thereafter the contest ended and we had chalked up our third victory of the season. The fact that we had remained in the , undefeated class up to this time brought us to the attention of the Boston newsmen and THE WHAMMY on October 50th Fred Foye devoted his fea- ON U5 f ture story in the Boston Traveler to a col- I , F1 umn-long comparison of the football rec-' XQL ords of St. Sebastian's and St. John's Prep. 1 Xf- To crown this public recognition of our prowess on the gridiron, the team picture, captioned Pride of St. Sebastian's, ac- companied the article and presented a for- midable array of warriors to the sports fans of New England. It was, indeed, a fortunate occurrence for us that Mr. Foye publicized us when he did, because we were to tumble down from the undefeated class in very short order. All Saints' Day, November lst, brought us a visit from a strong Lawrence Academy eleven that was only too anxious to avenge the defeat that we handed them on their own field in 1945. We more than held our own during the first period which saw neither team able to make very substantial gains. Quarterback sneaks by our Doyle and their Rapsis produced the only first downs of the stanza, although their achieve- ment on our 29 gave us temporary concern until Jack Darwin and Gene Pierotti roared through to smother attempted passes and drive the invaders back to a safe distance at midfield. In the second chapter we be- gan auspiciously enough with Joe Jenks driving through left tackle for a 16 yard gain, but a devastating fumble three plays later gave the Groton lads possession and the opportunity to drive goalward. Having barely eked out a first down on our 30, the visitors grew air-minded, using first a jump pass to Rapsis and then a long aerial to the elongated Cronin who hauled it out of the stratosphere and carried into the end zone. McNeil's placement racked up a 7-0 lead for the visitors. With five minutes of the half remaining, the Arrows came to life and punched out three successive first downs before losing command through an interception. Doyle's sneak chalked up the first, Andy came through for the second and third, but the 85