St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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and Jack Boyle decided to make the last period a memorable one, Andy's contribution was two scores on successive face-offs at 1:28 and 1:54, while Defenseman jack put on one of his patented hikes the length of the Arena to light our final lamp of the season at 6:24. In between times, with our reserves on the ice, St. Mary's pushed in a harmless goal that enabled the final score to read, 8-2. Outside the pale of Catholic League com- petition, several private school meetings were arranged but, due to the failure of outdoor ice, only one of these games could be played. On Saturday, January 24th, we paid a visit to St. Mark's at Southborough only to bring with us a driving snowstorm that lasted for the entire contest. To make matters worse we were without the services of Coach Murphy and Captain Bob Egan, but Fr. Flanigan took over in Vin's place and nom- inated Henry Lane to play Egie's wing. Despite the fact that the St. Mark's students kept scraping the ice up to game time, their efforts were nullified by the swirling Hakes and shortly after the opening whistle it be- came difficult to raise a shot off the surface. The puck often became imbedded in the ac- cumulated snow along the boards and it took much probing to unearth it. Under such con- ditions a single goal loomed very important and we were highly gratified when Bob Murphy found the range halfway through the opening period to put us out in front. Try as we might, we were not able to add to our margin until late in the second frame when Joe Deignan pounced on an Andy McAuliffe rebound and lifted it over the prostrate goalie to increase our edge to 2-0. With conditions getting progressively worse, neither side threatened seriously thereafter and we were glad to skate off the ice on the right side of a 2-0 score. Defensively, the play of Bruce Harrigan in our nets was superb especially in the opening period when the home team pressed hard in an attempt to rack up the Hrst marker. Because of the tight battle, only two reserves saw service, jim -I Ryan and jim Cotter, and they did much to take the pressure off the starting sextet. In continuance of the Red-Blue tradition, the annual inter-squad game was played on a Friday afternoon late in the season at the Boston Arena, and Bob Egan and Frank Hennessy were designated Red and Blue cap- tains respectively. On paper the Reds seemed to have an overwhelming advantage, for, with the exception of Bruce Harrigan, the entire first team and two-thirds of the second line were numbered in Egie's fold. Undis- mayed by this state of affairs and encouraged by the memory of a Blue victory the year before under similar circumstances, Frank Hennessy's sextet put up a highly creditable under-dog battle to press the opposition to the limit. The first blood of the contest had a Red tinge to it, for at 1:55 in the opening frame, with Blue Tom Green in the penalty box, Bob Murphy found an opening in Bruce's cage and poured in the initial tally of the day. Although they strove with might and main to equalize it, the Blues were un- able to penetrate the Red defense cordon and it took an involuntary assist on the part of the Reds' Egan to beat Harold Field and give Andy McAuliffe credit for a Blue register at 6:53 of the second stanza. The period ended with this deadlock, but the Reds broke the game wide open early in the final frame. Once again Murph hit the target on a solo flight at 1:54 and then the Red high scorer proceeded to set up a Jack Boyle tally a half minute later. Trailing now 3-1, the Blues stayed in the fight and came back with a jimmy Cotter blast at 4:06 to reduce the margin against them. It was a losing cause, however, for the Reds put on almost point- a-minute pressure to score three times in quick succession. Henry Lane paced this surge with two goals while Bob Murphy added another to lock the decision in the refriger- ator. In the final minute Andy McAuliffe achieved the distinction of tallying the last marker of the day, but his effort only served to whittle the Red edge to a 6-3 final count. As an aftermath of the Red victory, Bob 112 1-

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3:15 that touched off the attack, although the heavy barrage was layed down by De- fenseman Boyle who bettered his first period performance by cannonading two more un- assisted markers past the Columbus guardian. With every player on the roster seeing ser- vice, our reserves pressed hard in the last canto and hung up two more scores, Jim Ryan capitalizing on a McAuliffe feed and Murray Regan finding the range for the first time in his career with the timely assistance of Bob Egan. Besides the offensive exhibi- tion of Jack Boyle's hat trick , the contest was also memorable for the fact that no penalty was called against the Red and Black during the entire evening. The following Sunday night's contest in- troduced a slight innovation inasmuch as our School authorities permitted the rather weak Lawrence Central team to use some players from the previous year's sextet in their en- counter with us. With that injection of strength, the Merrimac Valley lads provided plenty of competition in the early minutes of the game and our only success in the first period was a Henry Lane goal, cleverly set up by an Andy McAuliffe pass. The second frame was entirely different, however, and we increased our margin decisively with four hard-earned markers. In this assault, joe Deignan and Bob Murphy were the chief gunners, the former getting two assists and a goal, while the latter registered twice and assisted once. Andy McAuliffe was respon- sible for the other tally in the stanza and he also added our last point sixteen seconds before the game ended. On his last scoring expedition, Andy had the novel experience of being assisted by Bruce Harrigan. As the game was rapidly drawing to a close, Law- rence put on an all-out offensive in an effort to avert a shut-out and their five skaters besieged the St. Sebastian cage. Sensing an opportunity to turn the tables on the foe, the wily Bruce took advantage of the situa- tion to pass out the puck to McAuliffe, after making a save, and Andy was able to go the whole distance unmolested for our final goal. GOALIE DOHERTY Our final appearance on a Catholic League program was against St. Mary's of Lynn and once more we notched an easy victory. Al- though our earlier meeting with the North Shore sextet had resulted in a 9-1 rout of them, they battled doggedly for the first period until their lack of reserves curbed their efforts. Once again the Red and Black Captain, Bob Egan, paced the scoring by hit- ting the bull's eye with Andy's help at 3:57, but St. Mary's continued to press surprisingly and at 7:51 their efforts were rewarded when Bill Kane pushed the disc into our cage. The deadlock was a brief one, however, for, on the following face-off, we bombarded the rival citadel fiercely until joe Deignan slashed in an Egan rebound to give us a lead that we never relinquished. The second period saw us extend our margin by three points, two tallied by jack Boyle and another by Joe Deignan. Only 56 seconds of the middle frame had elapsed when Jack poured in his first after a long solo jaunt, while his second came after he had intercepted a Lynn pass at mid-ice and skimmed a surface shot by the goalie. For our fifth tally, Joe Deignan put on his longest tour of the season, carrying from behind our cage and making a speedy break-away that enabled him to roar in on the netman unchallenged. Playing their last ice contest for St. Sebastian's, Andy McAuliffe -I lll 1-

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Egan was assured of a wall plaque in the refectory to commemorate his team's clean- cut triumph. In this fashion the Hockey season of 1947- 48 came to an end and the skates and sticks could be packed away for another year. Look- ing back over the campaign, St. Sebastian's -5 COU 'K could not help but be proud of the sextet that took the ice eleven times and were re- turned the winners on ten occasions. In particular the Class of 1948 could point with pride to the exploits of its representatives who did so much to make possible another creditable chapter in the Hockey annals of the School. tr ig 0 zo F if E Nm N at 5 -1 A lb, VD ' 5 EW + yAD- rw ,. 6 w 'f' xx5 'MASSACW HOCKEY SUMMARY - 1947-48 Coach - VINCENT C. MURPHY Captain - ROBERT EGAN Manager - RICHARD KEELAN SCHEDULE Dec. 7 Lawrence Central Catholic .... 14 St. Clement's ............. 21 Christopher Columbus . . . 28 St. Mary's, Lynn ..... Jan. 4 Malden Catholic ..... 18 St. Mary's, Waltham . . . 24 St. Mark's ............ 25 St. Patrick's, Stoneham . . . Feb. 1 Christopher Columbus ..... 8 Lawrence Central Catholic ..... St. Seb. Opp. 7 0 .. 4 0 ....10 l .. 9 I .. 1 5 .. 9 1 .. 2 0 .. 7 0 .. 8 0 .. 6 0 15 St. Mary's, Lynn ............................... 8 2 Reds fRobert Egan, Captain, 6, Blues QFrank Hennessey, Captain, 3. LETTER AWARDS john Boyle James Cotter joseph Deignan john Doherty Robert Egan Harold Field Bruce Harrigan Frank Hennessey Richard Keelan Robert Kelly Henry Lane Andrew McAuliffe Robert Murphy Murray Regan james Ryan -1 113 1-