St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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END JAUNT Bill Gibbons Carries Against St. Marys of Brookline. heavy artillery at that point to have Clark Hallissey complete a pass from Thurlow and then make a 20 yard end sweep that carried him across for the first score. The extra point was missed and, on the kick-off, the visitors were penalized 15 yards for roughness. Even that was no help, however, because a fourth down fumble on our part let the Braintree lads take over on our 28. Hoping to beat the clock and chalk up another score before half-time, Hallissey passed to Dick Cox and it took everything Murray Regan had to bring down his fellow Townsman short of the goal line. A moment later, jim Harnedy stepped into the hero's role by falling on a Dunphy fumble and preventing the expected score, The Thayer hrst backfield was still present when play resumed and they took full advantage of an early fumble of ours to drive for a second T.D. In this offensive, Dunphy, Tagliano and Cox divided the carrying and it was Dunphy who bulled his way through center for the score after which the conversion put us behind 13-O, Quite appropriately it was a Paul Carey fumble recovery that spurred us on to a counter attack that was productive of three straight first downs. In this surge Wally MacKinnon, Paul Carey, Tommy Green and Dave Keelan played the principal parts and the high point was a 20 yard aerial from Tommy to Paul. just then our luck changed when a back in motion nullified a brilliant pass completion by Jim Coleman and shortly thereafter we lost possession. Another fumble recovery in the final stanza, this one by Frank Renaud, set the stage for a very consoling St. Sebastian score. Taking over at midneld, Tommy Green coolly faded back and fired a close to 50 yard pass right down the middle. Mean- while Paul Carey had streaked down the right sideline and suddenly he cut in sharply to take the bomb over his shoulder in the midst of three defenders. Witli Bill O'Brien T-1 126 1-1

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Eventually the rain stopped and we drew a beautiful Sunday afternoon for our visit to Brookline Athletic Field. To replace the injured Dave O'Connor, Bud Fisher was pro- moted to the starting team, Duke Demeo was at right end and Charlie Sullivan was back at his tackle post. Having won the toss and elected to receive, the Red and Black started to roll at once with Paul Carey and Bill O'Brien registering a first down between them. As luck would have it, a fumble on the very next play lost us the ball, but, after an exchange of punts on which Gibby gained 7 yards for us, St. Mary's reciprocated and Ed Ryan recovered on the Brookline 19. Gibby's 8 yard tackle thrust was nullified by a holding penalty against us and, when Tommy Green let go a 45 yard pass, Billy was only able to get his finger tips on it and it went incomplete. At the quarter mark, the home team's offense started to click and it rolled up three consecutive first downs until Tommy Green stepped in with an interception at our 17 that gave Obie a chance to deliver a personal hrst down at our 32. We lost the formula at that point and were forced to punt, yet Green regained possession by capturing a fumble, only to have a Wally MacKinnon pass intercepted by Trahon. St, Mary's had time to punch out two more first downs in the half, but Murray Regan, jimmy Coleman and John Condon came up with some beautiful defensive work to inflict 5 and 10 yard losses on the home team just before the rest period. Early in the third period it still seemed to be anybody's ball game, for the rival lines held well and the teams exchanged kicks. The hrst break in the defenses came when Brookline completed a short pass that was followed shortly by a 15 yard penalty against St. Sebastian's, the ball resting then on our 19. Unable to swing Duke Demeo or break through Charlie Sullivan, our opponents took to the air and completed a pass that was good for six points, a minute later, Simard's placement raised the margin to 7. After the ensuing kick-off, Paul Carey tried to ignite a spark by plunging for a Hrst down, but a punt exchange intervened and the third quarter ended before Tommy Green earned another with a 13 yard run after vainly searching for a likely pass receiver. Another 15 yard penalty was no help to us at that point and, to wipe out the deficit, Green attempted to pass to Regan only to have Simard intercept. In the next series of tries, St, Mary's clicked on a short heave that pulled in our secondary and then resorted to a longer aerial that was completed by Myles Kelly to make the score, 13-0. When the conversion proved unsuccessful, an onside kick kept the ball in the enemy's possession and we had only a chance for two short gains before the clock demanded a cessation of activities. Practically every player on the squad saw action and the younger players like Ernie Woelfel, jimmy Delay and Ed Connors gained valuable experience during their term of service, All season long, the Thayer game had loomed up as one of the hardest tests on the schedule because the Braintree team was a star-studded aggregation that boasted of several former high school standouts in its ranks. The South Shore club visited St. Sebastian Field on Saturday, November 6th, and was greeted by the best brand of Football shown by the Red and Black all year. Knowing our unimpressive record, Thayer did not start its first string backfield and we were far from our full strength, especially after having lost Bill Gibbons through a back injury the preceding Thursday. However, Murray Regan took over Gibby's backheld assignments and jim Coleman, a neophyte at the art, was kept in readiness for the kicking chores. No appreciable gain was registered by either side in its first series of tries, but the morale of the Red and Black was visibly strength- ened when .Iimmy Coleman stepped back to his own 25 and calmly delivered a sky- scraping punt that bounced sharply and went out of bounds on the Thayer 11. Satisfied with a ground attack, the visitors proceeded to ground out a series of five consecutive first downs that had carried as far as the St. Sebastian 16 when the quarter ended. They did manage to reach our 12 after the exchange of goals, yet we forced them to hand over the oval without any further damage. Delighted at the stand that had been made, the Red and Black put on a mild counter offensive of its own, pounding out two first downs and stopping only when a pass interception snapped the string. In came the Thayer .-I 125 1-.

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ploughing 7 yards and Murray Regan contributing 3, we had four chances to play with but one was enough for Paul Carey and he scored through right tackle to make the score, 13-6. The try for the extra point failed. Although the final quarter was coming to an end, St, Sebastian's still had some uncomfortable minutes to squirm through before the game ended. To begin with, Clark Hallissey broke through right tackle and sprinted down the side line for a 74 yard jaunt that raised the Thayer score to 19-6. Then, on the ensuing kick-off, Murray Regan slipped and fell on his own 9 and that put the oval perilously close to our citadel, how- ever, the mighty mite responded shortly with a brilliant end sweep that took the ball out to our 33. The remaining plays were pass attempts by Tommy Green and Wally MacKinnon on which losses were sustained and these, together with a 15 yard penalty, pushed us back to the 1 yard stripe. jim Coleman was equal to the occasion once more, however, and his boot from the end zone to midfield averted this danger. Thus the final score read 19-6 and yet these figures fall far short of telling the story of the courageous spirit manifested by a plucky underdog in the face of overwhelming superiority. To bring the season to a welcome close, we paid our third visit to Dilboy Field to meet St. Clements of Somerville in a Sunday contest on November 14th. As if we had not been plagued sufliciently by injuries earlier in the season, two more faces were missing from the pre-game warm-up, Bob Joyce and jim Hefler, the former laid low by the grippe and the latter rendered hors de combat by a bad fall. The net result was that our starting line-up bore a very slight resemblance to the eleven that had opened the season against Cambridge High and Latin: the backheld was composed of Tommy Green, Murray Regan, Reed Gomperts and Paul Carey, Duke Demeo and Dave O'Connor were at the ends, Ed Ryan and jack Cochran at the tackles, Marty Fisher and Dick Schiffman in the guard slots and old reliable Ralph Donnelly at center. Return- ing the opening kick-off to our 43, Tommy Green then called upon Murray Regan and Paul Carey and they blasted out a hrst down between them, before jim Coleman had to be sent in to punt at the end of the second series. As soon as they took possession, St. Clements put on a touchdown march in which their speedy trio of Cassell, Fenton and Waldron featured, even though two successive clipping penalties were called against the home team. The score came on a plunge from the 8 by Waldron, after a Cassell- Fenton aerial had carried to that spot. The same forward passing combination clicked For the conversion and we trailed, 7-O. zji-1, s K1 in k s js . ' 2, -51 - f w- 1 f V V ' f was 1 i ' A - it AERIAL A Tom Green Gets Off A Long One Against St. Clement's. l27