St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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forwards and in eluding their defensemen to drive home our first goal of the year at 1:50. Exactly a minute later we added a second marker when Murph faked the rival net- minder out of position, then passed to Joe Deignan at the opposite side of the cage and the Belmont wing rose to the occasion by sliding the disc into the opening. just about this time, one of the rival defensemen re- sorted to over-aggressive tactics that brought him three penalties before the period drew to a close and, with the Central lads handi- capped by his absence, Andy McAuliffe, who had replaced Bob Murphy, laced home a Bob Egan offering at 3:03 to give us almost a point-a-minute average. With the tension considerably lessened by this early lead, Coach Murphy experimented with various reserve combinations in order to rest different members of the starting team and give every member of the squad a chance to see action. For that reason the remainder of the first stanza went scoreless until ten seconds before its closing bell when Bob Egan blasted home a Jack Boyle feed to dent the strings and make our margin 4-0. By no means anxious to run up the total, the Red and Black coasted for the greater part of the last two periods, although at times the reserves put more pressure on the foe than the starting team had exerted. This was demonstrated clearly in the second stanza after Egie hammered home a Deignan assist for our fifth goal. When the teams lined up in mid-ice, the Hennessy-Kelly-Cotter line took over the operations and, after winning the face-off, fairly flew over the glassy sur- face to rack up another point in 15 seconds, Jim Cotter turning on the red light and Bobby Kelly assisting. Similar pressure caused Murray Regan to draw his first penalty in league competition before that chapter ended. To close out our offensive for the evening, jim Ryan collected the rubber from Bill Gibbons in our territory, carried just across the Lawrence blue line and then scorched a low shot into the cage that proved to be the final Arrow marker. Defensively, we were not tested too strongly for Bill Gibbons and Jack Boyle had little trouble in breaking up rival sallies, and Bruce Harrigan was more than equal to the task of clearing the few shots that came his way. Next morning, The Boston Post gave us top billing in reporting the Catholic League games and referred to our well co-ordinated offense and our snappy and well-executed assault early in the gamef, The following week found us crossing blades with St. Clement's of Somerville, a team that in years past had provided some of the stiffest opposition in the League. Upon arriving at the Arena, we were informed that the Red and Black would be without the services of Bob Murphy for the contest be- cause the high-scoring center-iceman had been stricken with pneumonia. To meet this new development, Andy McAuliffe moved up to center the first line and jim Cotter succeeded him on the second frontier. When the teams faced off, Andy celebrated his promotion by winning the face and sparking a drive on the Somerville cage but his bid was turned aside by the guardian. In the ensuing battle for possession of the puck behind the enemy cage, St. Clement's managed to slide out the disc to a sleeper on their blue line and he proceeded to roar down the ice and carry in on defenseless Bruce Harrigan. Bruce, however, was equal to the crisis and, when the foe shot for the left side of the goal, our wily custodian beat the rubber to the spot and the drive caromed off his pads harmlessly to snuff out a very real threat. That early exchange set the tempo for the contest and both goalies were kept on the alert by repeated bids for scores. Before the first period ended, however, the Somerville lads had skated themselves out and we were able to rack up two sudden goals that were only a minute apart. The first register came off the blade of Bill Gibbons who raked in a second rebound off Shea's pads and powered it home to turn on the red light at 7:40. Since it had been joe Deignan who set up Gibby's score, it was only fitting that our hard-pressing wing should find the range for himself and he succeeded in doing so with -I 101 1-

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the aid of Jack Boyle and jim Ryan at 8:42. The Deignan tally really was the turning point in the stanza because it came so close on the heels of the opening score that it broke the spirit of the St. Clement's lads who had given everything that they had, but to no avail. If we were inclined to coast at all in the middle frame, we were not permitted to do so, for the Somerville skaters returned to the fray rested and they kept the pressure on our cage the greater part of the period. Once again Bruce Harrigan was tested to the limit when an ill-advised Arrow pass across the front of our cage was intercepted by an enemy who made the most of his opportunity by blasting a 10 footer that Bruce just barely deflected with a hasty thrust of his stick. Late in the chapter, Bob Egan's trailing paid off when he hopped on a Henry Lane rebound and beat Goalie Shea with a flip into the open side of the net. That ended the scoring for the period, but we added a fourth and final marker early in the last chapter on a solo jaunt by the Red and Black captain who surprised the St. Clement's goalie by getting off his shot earlier than usual instead of carrying in deep. Emerging as high scorer of the day, Egie almost lived up to his per- formance against the Somerville sextet the year before when he scored all our goals against them. In the absence of Bob Murphy, the services rendered by Frank Hennessy, Bob Kelly, Paul Corcoran and Murray Regan during the fray were most valuable because they lightened the burden of the first two lines considerably. Defensively, the work of both netminders was superb inasmuch as they were besieged relentlessly but our custodian came off with the laurels as he turned in his second consecutive shut-out. The third week of Arena competition in- troduced us to another team that had been added to the League roster this year, Christo- pher Columbus. On paper the in-towners were not figured to give us too much com- petition, because in their two previous con- tests they had failed to score a single tally. -I TO 3 The game was played on the Sunday before Christmas and we were without Bruce Harri- gan in the nets, john Doherty replacing the regular goalie who was on his way to Canada for a vacation with his family. Bob Murphy was still in the hospital and once again Andy McAuliffe took over the first line pivot spot. When the puck was faced-off we began auspiciously enough by descending upon the opposite cage but, although Bob Egan lifted two hard shots at Columbus' Coughlin, they caromed off his pads and we lost possession of the disc. Within two minutes we were given an unexpected jolt when, during a scrimmage in front of the enemy net, the rubber was cleared out of the danger zone and then collected by Dick Lee, opposing wing, who raced down the ice to feint johnny Doherty out of position and push home the first score of the night, as well as the first marker ever credited to the new school. Try as we might, we could not find the range and it was not until 6:20 that Andy broke the spell by savagely lashing home a joe Deignan rebound that tied up the score. Once the ice was broken, we lost no time in forging ahead. On the following face-off we bore down again on the enemy citadel and although our first try was rebuffed, Bob Egan found a Bill Gibbons pass on his stick and rammed it in to extend the count to 2-1. Gibby felt so good about the last proceedings that he decided to venture a solo two minutes before the end of the frame and his sizzling shot from just over the blue line turned on the red light for our third goal. In the second period we scored practically at will, adding five points to our score and making the contest a run-away affair. First to start the parade was Egie at 1:10 and he was set up by Deignan and McAuliffe. Half a minute later, Gibby took away the puck from a Columbus carrier and encountered no opposition in bearing down on the rival cage to register his second goal of the day. With substitutes shuttling in and out of the fray, five minutes elapsed before we hit the bull's eye again, the Red and Black captain acting as marksman on a pass from Andy McAuliffe. j-