St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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ately battling to clear the disc from behind their own cage, Bob Murphy called for the puck and it was passed out to him by a Lynn defender, whereupon the Arrow center rifled it home before the rival net-minder knew what was happening. At 8:16 joe Deignan climbed on the band-wagon with a solo that found the opposing goalie complete- ly at his mercy and, when the light flashed, our lead had pyramided to 6-1. To take off the pressure as much as possible, the diaper line was inserted and John Doherty and Wally MacKinnon replaced Harold Field and Bill Gibbons respectively. Jack Boyle's old Football injury was aggravated early in the third period and he was forced to retire for the evening, but the Lynn sextet failed to threaten seriously at any time in the frame. Although the Red and Black reserves per- formed for most of the chapter, Andy Mc- afternoon, January 4th, when we faced Malden Catholic in a game that was expected to determine League superiority, even though not the League championship. Like ourselves, the Malden sextet had bowled along im- pressively through the first four tests of the season and both the offensive and defensive merit of the two teams seemed to be about equal. To add to the color of the clash, sup- porters of both teams hearkened back to the furious ice meetings which had high- lighted the previous years of Catholic League existence and had produced some of the finest schoolboy Hockey seen in Boston. When the two teams faced off at 2 o'clock, the largest crowd of the season was on hand to see the puck dropped and they were well rewarded with a sizzling struggle. As a piece of strategy, the Malden coach opened with Auliffe used his brief time on the ice to score on a pass from Murphy, and Bob, play- ing defense in place of Boyle, took time out from passing to his forwards to lodge our final shots in the St. Mary's net at 7:10 and 9:16. While the game could hardly be called a contest, Murph's five unassisted goals proved that he was in the best of fettle again, and Andy's two scores in 45 seconds con- stituted a memorable feat. The season's climax was reached on Sunday CRISIS AVERTED -1 105 1- BR UCIE SAVES MURPH GATHERS STILAM

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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-

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his second line and we countered the move by nominating the Lane-Murphy-Ryan fron- tier to oppose them. Bob Murphy won the face and we bore down on the rival cage but our bid was denied and there ensued a scramble for the disc behind the net. Sudden- ly, joe Donelan managed to control the rubber and he lost no time in passing it out to Herman Reboulet who was playing a sleeper role on the Malden blue line. With our defense caught in, the rival center carried down along the left side of the ice unmolested and had Bruce Harrigan absolutely at his mercy as he found the range with a 15 foot lift that entered the right side of our cage after only 45 seconds of play. That sudden break-away for a score was a heart-breaker, but the Arrows felt that they would get it back shortly. The first line, Egan-McAuliffe- at that point to the Malden de- by our passing our forays were broken up at their blue line. To make matters worse, the Middlesex lads time just before the five minute mark when Al Gubbins collected Bruce's fine save on Bob Donahue's savage shot and deposited it in the open section of the goal. That we were not giving Bruce enough support was indicated again at 6:15 when the high-scoring Wheeler blazed a shot off Harrigan's pads only to have the trailer, jack Smith, pounce on the rebound and stow it in for the third Deignan, entered exert further pressure, but fense refused to attempts and the the fray be split most of scored a second enemy goal. Before the period ended, the same technique paid off for Malden once more, for at 7:16 Al Gubbins drove a long shot from the blue line that Bruce warded off, yet Dan Leary managed to recover the carom and send it home for a demoralizing fourth tally. The only ray of hope to pene- trate the gloom came just four seconds before the end of that first chapter and it was manu- factured by Henry Lane with the assistance of Bob Murphy. Collecting the puck deep in hostile territory, Bob cleverly kept possession while piercing the rival defense and then passed to Hank who bulleted a shot across Goalie Dumas' chest and into the citadel to cut our deficit to 4-1. Although only one more goal was scored for the remainder of the game, the tempo of the last two frames was even faster in some respects than that of the first chapter. De- termined to stage an all out offensive to reduce the enemy lead, the Arrows pressed hard but their effectiveness was nullified by penalties which kept us short handed for the greater part of the second period. Malden meanwhile had elected to play a conservative, defensive brand of Hockey that would kill the clock and avoid the danger of diminish- ing their lead. The only break in the deadlock of the last two cantos came at 4:24 of the final stanza when Herman Reboulet inter- cepted a Bob Murphy pass in the center zone, split our defense and pounded in the final DEIGNAN BATTLES FOR PossEss1oN -1 106 1-