St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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joyce and Wally MacKinnon were excellent insurance, while up front Paul Corcoran, Paul Sullivan, Murray Regan, john Doherty, Kevin Lane, Eddie Carroll, Paul Carey, john Sherry and Ken McArdle could be relied upon to keep the tempo of our attack at a peak. As understudy to Bruce, Brookline Dave O'Connor also gave promise of develop- ing into a fine goalie. Despairing of ever seeing ice in our rink, we hnally opened our season very belatedly and indoors at that, when we met Browne and Nichols in an early morning contest at the Skating Club on january 21st. The Cambridge sextet provided stubborn opposition all during the first period and it was only shortly before the buzzer that Freshman Ed Carroll scored the season's first goal on a cleverly egcecuted feed from Paul Corcoran, In the second stanza, however, BSLN lost no time in getting the I-1 equalizer, but, as the game progressed, it became evident that our depth would win the day. To break the deadlock, jimmy Cotter found the range on a pass from Bob Murphy who then proceeded to tally in turn with an assist from Bill Gibbons, Shortly thereafter, the rival defenseman, Graham, soloed to make it 3-2, but Gibby got it back before the second chapter ended, Murph getting credit for the pass. Coach Murphy made frequent substitutions all during the game and, in the third period, replacements Johnny Doherty and Murray Regan dented the strings with assistance from Paul Corcoran, Bob Joyce and Sophomore Charlie Coan. While this 6-2 victory was indicative enough of our potentialities, the entire squad felt that, with a few more games behind them, this Red and Black sextet would rival the achievements of the School's greatest ice teams of the past. Two days later we were pleasantly surprised to learn that Middlesex School had playable ice on one of its ponds and we made the Sunday afternoon trip to Concord in the best of spirits. Upon arrival, we noted that the edges of the frozen surface were a bit soft, although the main body of ice was good and fast. As soon as the opening whistle blew, we realized that our hosts were using a close-covering technique that hampered us for the lirst two minutes of play. At that juncture, Bill Gibbons found Billy Maguire free and set him up with a lead pass that the Newton boy rammed home for our first score. That was the signal for Middlesex to abandon its defensive play and, when the home sextet began to press, we were quick enough to capitalize on the situation and get two more fast tallies, all in the third minute of play. Fifteen seconds GETTING IT OFF Tom Greene Unleashes A l-lard Shot. -1 136 I-

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after Maguire's register, jim Cotter made our second goal and, a quarter of a minute afterwards, Henry Lane added the third, After that scoring spree, things quieted down until the Middlesex left wing, Bancroft, whittled our lead to 3-1 temporarily, but, once again, Bill Maguire had his sharpshooting eye and laced home a Murphy assist to close the period at 4-1. Despite many threats during the second period, we were not able to score in that chapter, but we blanked the home team at the same time to maintain our 4-1 edge. just by way of no harm, we added two points in the final stanza, Gibby regis- tering on a feed from Cotter just before jimmy went all the way to score unassisted and make the final figures read 6-1 in our favor, Once again, the Red and Black used frequent substitutions and every player on the squad saw service. In the second period the Middlesex goalie was injured during a scrimmage and the host school was grateful for the prompt ministrations of Billy Gibbons' dad. At long last we were able to play our first game on the St. Sebastian rink when the weather man was co-operative enough to favor us with ice on Friday, February 4th, St. Mary's of Walthain was our guest for the dedication contest and proved an obliging enough victim by the score of 5-1. The honor of scoring first was earned by Bill Maguire just two minutes after Doc Gautreau had dropped the first puck, and credit for the assist went to Brookline jim Cotter, After that initial achievement, Captain Henry Lane pro- ceeded to put on a scoring rarity by tallying three times in succession to achieve the hat trick. During this rampage, Henry had assistance from Maguire twice and Gibby once with the result that by the time Henry relaxed his efforts, we had a comfortable 4-0 lead. To close out the day's offensive for us, Freshman Ed Carroll registered on a solo flight before the visitors' Dion found the range and the 5-1 verdict in our favor was highly satisfactory, Witli the Annual Retreat just concluded that afternoon, most of the student body found it possible to be on hand for this first contest on our own ice, but, from time to time, they found it convenient to dash into the gym to watch our quintet match baskets with Huntington. The following night we went into action again, this time indoors at the Boston Arena, where we battled a surprise sleeper, New Prep of Cambridge, with no better result than a 2-2 tie. Time and time again, our puck chasers were in on the rival net- minder for unimpeded chances, but their bombsights failed them and their shots caromed SECOND LINE Corcoran, Doherty, Carroll. 1-I 138 I-