St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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advance and Andy McAuliffe's punt was blocked, Hopkins recovering the ball back on our 19 yard marker. Taking full advantage of a golden opportunity, Halfbacks Fred Maher and jack Sheehan alternated in thrusts at our frontier, Captain Maher eventually scoring from the four yard line. To try for the extra point the Connecticut team used left-footed Red Brown and a drop-kick technique, but his effort was short of the distance and we trailed by 6-O. For the remainder of the first half, the most we could achieve was three successive first downs that carried us from the 8 to our own 41, Tom Green getting two on quarter- back sneaks and Andy carving out one through right tackle. In the meantime, Hopkins had swept our ends for two long runs but they were finally halted at the 8, just failing to make the necessary yardage. When they stopped us at the 41, they pro- vided us with more chills by marching on our citadel as far as the 19, where Maher was thrown out of bounds as the whistle sounded. We received to begin the second half but did not get far in our first four tries, and, when the home team took over, Joe Deignan jolted Jack Sheehan with a five yard loss just before Jack Boyle intercepted a short pass to put us back in the running. Starting on our own 45, Tom Green chose his plays wisely and sent Andy and Larry scurrying through the tackles when Hopkins was expecting Boyle to blast through the center. In alternate thrusts the brother combination hammered out four consecutive first downs, the last a 19 yard scamper by Andy that carried to the Hopkins 9. A time out was certainly in order and the Connecticut lads called it to plan a defense that held us to two yards in the next three tries. On fourth down with goal to go, there was only one thing to do, so Jack Boyle took the toss from Tom Green, dropped back cooly to the 20 and then arched a feathery pass that Hilt Collupy snatched from the clutching hands of three defenders over the goal line for our only score of the day. In getting ready for the point after, the Arrows took too much time and, with the handicap of five extra yards to cope with, Bob joyce's toe did not make the conversion. . The rest of the game saw the action con- tained mostly within the two 35 yard stripes and St. Sebastian's earning a 3-1 edge in first downs. On the first play of the final quarter, Andy skirted left end to reach the Hopkins 57 but neither passes nor line bucks could continue the advance. Later on, Tom Green sneaked a first down to the enemy 48 and, toward the end of the contest, Andy was awarded a pass completion on the home team's 45, but both opportunities failed to materialize. In the final minute, Bill Hind- inger set up a last ditch threat by intercepting a Boyle pass and the final whistle sounded as Dave Fitzgerald vainly attempted to catch up with a Fred Maher heave. Thus ended a most satisfactory gridiron battle marked by the highest type sportzmanship and by offici- ating that left nothing to be desired. After a buffet luncheon in the gymnasium, the two squads set out for the Yale Bowl to watch the Elis take on Cornell and thereby bring to a close the most pleasurable visit ever made by a St. Sebastian athletic team. The following Friday introduced another innovation, for the Arrows took part in the first game ever played under arc lights by a Red and Black eleven. Our opponent was Hudson High School and we arrived in the town to be pleasantly surprised by the facili- ties afforded at Riverside Park. As a matter of coincidence, our visit came during the week of the men's mission and the starting time of the contest was delayed until the services had ended. Preceded by the playing of the nation- al anthem by the local school band, the game got off to a most amazing start with Hudson taking Bob Joyce's boot and marching on three successive first downs to the Arrow 16 before giving up the pigskin. When we did get possession, we sustained a terrific loss, for jack Boyle was painfully injured in a pile-up when a St. Sebastian player fell on him and wrenched an important ligament in his left leg. With Bill Gibbons replacing jack, we managed to get one meager first down before the quarter ended, but the -I 85 j-

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Arrows at that point took to the air, but their strategy boomeranged for Tom Cusick intercepted a Boyle bomb intended for joe Deignan and hustled it to our 24. From that point it took only three successive line smashes for the Cantabs to achieve their third touchdown, with jimmy Cotter lugging the pigskin on the scoring play. The fates and Harold Field asserted themselves at that juncture and Cusick's placement caromed off Harry's chest to keep the margin, 18-6. Although the outlook was far from bright, Larry McAuliffe inaugurated the fourth quarter with a right end sweep of 20 yards, and a Green-Deignan jump pass chalked up another first down at mid-field. Even this joy was short-lived because Cusick intervened with another interception and Cambridge proceeded to kill the clock by running rou- tine line plays. On fourth down, however, we received an unexpected break when Saba- tino's kick went off the side of his foot and bounded backwards to go out of bounds on the C. L. 20. Taking full advantage of the opportunity offered, Jack Boyle carried in three successive plunges and roared through the center of the line to register his second touchdown and make the score, 18-12. The try for the extra point was foiled by Cotter who batted down a Boyle-Murphy aerial. Rallying their spirits by cries of let's get another one , the home team took Bob Joyce's kick-off and proceeded to hammer out two successive first downs in their own territory. In the third series of tries, however, a bobble in the enemy backfield gave joe Deignan a chance to pounce upon the rolling pigskin and we took over on the Cantab 38. Line smashes by Larry and Andy advanced us to the 25, but the clock threatened to stifle our efforts. There remained but 35 seconds to play when Tom Green called for a pass and Jack Boyle faded back and whistled a 37 yard bomb to Bob Murphy in the end zone for the equalizing six points. Pandemo- nium reigned in the ranks of our supporters, and they went completely delirious as Bob Joyce pumped the extra point through the uprights to decide the contest, 19-18, in our favor. For the second successive year we had upset the pre-game predictions of the sports- writers and the next morning's sport pages indicated the fact with headlines such as Cantabs Lose Tough One and Cantabs Edged, 19-18, By St. Sebastian's . The schedule rewarded the Arrows for their magnificent come-back in their opening game by giving them a delightful trip to New Haven the following week. The take- off was made on Friday Noon and the squad reached the campus of Hopkins Country Day School about 5 P.M., just in time to be dis- tributed among the Hopkins student body for an overnight stay. Living up to the finest tradition of New England hospitality, our hosts treated us royally and made our visit extremely pleasant. In the late evening, the city reverberated to the marching feet of the Yale students as they organized rallies and parades in anticipation of the Cornell game next day. To Tom Hartnett's amazement he found his height the subject of great publicity in the New Haven press and he was hard pressed to explain to inquirers why he was not starting in the Saturday contest. To enable us to see the Yale-Cornell game that afternoon, our fray with Hopkins was played at 10 A.M. and, despite the early hour, we had a cheering section of St. Sebastian parents and students, some of whom had arrived Friday night while others had driven down at dawn on Saturday. While the Arrows were without the services of Dave Connor who had been hurt in the Cambridge contest, they were strengthened by the presence of Hilt Collupy whose injured knee had re- sponded to treatment well enough to permit him to start at right end. Winning the toss and electing to receive, the home team re- turned Bob joyce's kick 20 yards and then followed with two first downs that brought them to our 37. Not able to advance beyond that point, they surrendered possession with a punt into the end zone and we countered with two first downs of our own, Larry McAuliffe and jack Boyle doing the honors. We had just made the necessary distance again when a 15 yard penalty stopped our -j I-

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