St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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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-

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Kel topped the scoring column with 14 points, McNabb threw in 6, Hugh Bradshaw and Charlie Hearn added 4 apiece, while Andy's 2 came on a swisher from quarter court early in the first period. A week later we inaugurated our home season by entertaining St. Clement's of Somerville in a night contest that lived up to tradition by bringing with it one of the heaviest and earliest snowfalls of the Winter. Frank Kett replaced Bob McNabb in the forward line, but our reserve strength was sparse due to the fact that the storm pre- vented quite a few of the Arrows from reaching the School. Although Hugh Brad- shaw sparked us with two early baskets in the first stanza, the 6-4 lead we had at the end of the period faded away into a 14-10 deficit by half time, principally because of the sharpshooting of Enos and Kerr who scored all the visitors' points between them. Wfhile we proceeded to set up a 7-6 edge Hugh Bradshaw's 12 points made him high man for the night, Charlie Hearn ran second with 6, Bobby Kelly found the range for 4, while Frank Kett and Bill Carey chalked up 2 each. Bill Carey's basket came in the dying minutes of the fray and constituted the dif- ference between a tie and a victory. A game scheduled with St. Columbkille's for the 10th of December had to be called off because the Brighton team was not ready for competition at that time, so our next encounter was with Boston College High School in our own cage. The in-towners had taken us into camp rather handily the year before, but we were convinced that we would make a much better showing this year. In our starting line-up one change was made, Bill Carey having been promoted to work in the defense tandem with Charlie Hearn. Al- most as soon as the opening whistle sounded, in the third period, it left us still trailing and it took a comparatively heavy last chapter to let us pull the game out of the fire, 26-24. Our victory was attributable in no small de- gree tothe fact that the Enos-Kerr combination was completely blanketed in the second half and could not score a point. In the summaries, B. C. HIGH IN POSSESSION -1 me 1- THE ARROXVS TAKE IT DOWN AGAINST B. C HIGH