St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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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-

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VEN before the last football was deflated and packed away, our Basketball en- thusiasts were anticipating the 1947-48 season by working out in the cage and sharpening up their shooting eyes. Real zealots like Hugh Bradshaw, Bob Kelly and Frank Kett utilized week-ends as well as afternoons to get ahead of the game, and a visitor to St. Sebastian's could see the lights on in our gym on many a Friday and Saturday night. When it came time to start formal practice, the School authorities announced that a new Assistant Coach had been signed to work under Vin Murphy. A meeting was called to introduce the new mentor to the hoop can- didates and he proved to be Mr. Bob Hogarty, a New Yorker who had played on the Holy Cross teams of a few years ago. In his re- marks the former Crusader stressed the im- portance of conditioning as well as fidelity to practice sessions, and called attention to the fact that we were opening our season much earlier than usual. To field a competent quintet, the coaches were faced with the necessity of finding two new guards to fill the vacancies caused by the graduation of Jack Cremmen and Bill Harwood, while the team would have to get along for some time without the services of Captain Hilt Collupy who dislocated a shoulder in the last game of the Football season. Bob McNabb also could not be ex- pected to do much after his long ordeal of illness, so there was much to be done in a O Zi K , .Q comparatively short time. On the other side of the picture, however, the presence of players like Hugh Bradshaw, Andy McAuliffe, Tom Hartnett, Bob Kelly and Fran Kett, all of whom had seen considerable service in the previous campaign, afforded a nucleus around which a good club could be built. Then too there were the graduates of the very success- ful j.V. team of the year before, capable basketeers like Bill Brooks, Bill Carey and joe Shea. Early in the pre-season practices it was also noticed that a newcomer named Charles Hearn gave the impression of having seen a basketball more than once in his life. In virtue of a special invitation extended to St. Sebastian's by the Boston Garden, we opened our season on that court the night after Thanksgiving. Our opponent was Sacred Heart of Newton, coached' by Hank Barry, an alumnus of St. Sebastian's, and that fact injected added interest into the contest. At game time, Hugh Bradshaw was desig- nated to start at the jump post, Bob McNabb and Bob Kelly were to flank him in the forward line, while Andy McAuliffe and Charlie Hearn were to be our back-court de- fenders. Starting slowly enough, the contest resembled a tight pitcher's battle with its 4-4 score at the end of the first quarter, although the pace quickened somewhat in the second chapter which ended in a deadlock of 13 all. After the rest period we came back to cover Sacred Heart more effectively and to more than double their second half score, thereby emerging the victors by a 30-21 edge. -i ns 1-