St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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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-

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BETXVEEN PERIODS By this time the scoring was developing into a sharpshooting contest between Bob Egan and Bill Gibbons and at 7:54, with Henry Lane in the penalty box for the first time this year, the defenseman took full advantage of a jim Ryan feed to give us our seventh marker and tie up his personal duel with Egan. There was still time, before the buzzer sounded, for Frank Hennessy to tally after Bob Kelly had given Coughlin a hard chance. To take the pressure off, the Freshman wings, Vin Durnan and Larry McCarthy pivoted by Paul Corcoran, made their appearance and were given a warm welcome by the spectators. In the last chapter we added two more tallies on openings that could not be passed up and - you guessed it - Egan was credited with the first at 2:55, while Gibby had to wait until 9:15 before he equalled it on another solo. Thus the wing and the defenseman had a Roman holiday and emerged with four tallies apiece. Except for Columbus' only score in the hrst period, our goalies had an easy time of it and neither Harold Field nor john Doherty complained of overwork. On December 28th we showed no ill effects from the Christmas festivities and we cele- brated the return of Bob Murphy to perfect health by outclassing St. Mary's of Lynn, 9-1. The return of the center iceman posed a bit of a problem for Coach Murphy because -l 104 the first string frontier of Egan-McAuliffe- Deignan had been functioning smoothly and no mentor likes to break up a winning com- bination. It was decided that Andy would start and that Bob would center the second line, and the decision was more than justified in the first minute of play. Winning the face, McAuliffe poked the puck through the rival center, regained it neatly and then threaded his way through the defense to fool the goalie and register our first score in exactly 22 seconds. While the din of the crowd's ap- proval was still re-echoing through the Arena, the West Roxbury all-round athlete won the second face and varied his tactics by pass- ing to Bob Egan who in turn handed off to Jack Boyle. Meantime, Andy shook himself free of coverage, picked up a lead pass from Boyle and dented the strings again at 0:45. Two goals in 45 seconds was a feat seldom accomplished in any kind of competition. At that point the Murphy line took over and, while the pressure was never off the Lynn cage, nothing more came of our efforts until 7:32 when Bob Murphy raked in a clearing shot in our territory and wheeled his way down the ice unaided to carry the goalie out of position and deposit a going-away shot in the open corner of the net for our third count. For the rest of the period, the Kelly- Hennessy-Cotter line took command and per- formed so aggresively that Harold Field was never bothered by an enemy sally. Despite the fact that penalties deprived us temporarily of the services of Bill Gibbons and Bob Egan early in the second canto, St. Mary's could not penetrate the Boyle- Murphy defense tandem and the crisis was averted. just about half way in the chapter, Murph decided that we had gone long enough without a score and put on one of his patented break-aways to register his second goal and make our margin, 4-0. To the complete surprise of everyone, the Lynn sextet broke into the scoring column a half minute later when Bill Nagle slapped a loose puck past Harold Field and thereby ruined the guardian's hope of a shut-out. That tally was quickly neutralized, however, for at 5:10, when the North Shore icemen were desper- 1-