St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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fs While Basketball normally waits until December to lay claim to the athletic spot- light, the installation of the beautiful new wooden floor in the cage during the summer did much to make the student body Basketball conscious from the opening day of School. Even before the Hrst Football game was played, the devotees of the hoop game were asking permission to work out on the court and their joy knew no bounds as they noted the improvement that the new surface made in their dribbling and foot- work. On the fifteenth of November, formal practice was announced and the Varsity candidates were happy to welcome back Bob Hogarty as mentor, while the j.V.'s looked forward to an enjoyable season under Father Keating's tutelage. As he surveyed his prospects, the Varsity coach was pleased to see that Graduation had taken only four of his previous year's squad, Hugh Bradshaw, Charlie Hearn, Andy McAuliffe and Tom Hartnett. That meant that he could capitalize on the experience gleamed in the past campaign by Captain Frank Kett, Hilt Collupy, Bob Kelly, Bill Brooks and Bill Carey. ln addition, he was fortunate to have ample reserve strength in joe Shea, Ralph Donnelly, jack Cochran, Dick Collupy, Fran Downey and jim Canning. Among the newcomers, Ed Collupy, john Murphy and Paul Burke showed the greatest promise. When the 1948-49 schedule was posted, the basketeers were delighted to find that it included the top-notch private school quintets and a seasoning of parochial and public school competition. To open the season, St. Sebastian's was invited to the Boston Garden on December 7th to lace the South Kingstown, R.I., team that had defeated us on the same court for the past two years. This time it was a different story, however, for, after Kel sunk the hrst basket of the year Bill Carey and Hilt Collupy netted two consecutive goals apiece that put us out in front by a comfortable margin. When Frank Kett tapped in one of Fish's rebounds, the Rhode Island lads called for a time out to revise their strategy, but it had little avail because, by the end of the first period, we led 18-6 and, by half time, we had pulled away to 31-10. In the second half, our pace slackened a bit because of frequent substitutions, yet we con- tinued to roll up points on the strength of Bill Brooks' sharpshooting that gave him 10 tallies on Kel's wizardry that accounted for 6 more. The final reading on the elec- tric scoreboard was St. Sebastian's 49, South Kingstown 30, a result most gratifying to the St. Sebastian student body which attended as a unit. When the box score appeared in the next days papers, we were pleasantly surprised to note that we had had three big guns in our offensive: Bill Brooks with 16, Hilt Collupy with 13 and Bob Kelly with 12, Although these efforts would have been enough to outpoint the out-of-staters, Bill Carey's 6 and Frank Kett's 2 came early in the game and helped to discourage the opposition. The first contest played on our new floor was with Walpole High, a team that had pressed us to the limit to beat them by one point the year before. With our j.V.'s setting the Varsity a good example by winning their preliminary game, 38-14, the Arrows proceeded to break the game wide open in the hrst period and then went on to win by an identical score. Although Hilt Collupy and Bill Carey were on the side- 141451-

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an. 'e 5 6 7 8 10 12 14 15 17 18 22 26 31 1 4 5 12 HOCKEY SUMMARY Coach - VINCENT C. Captain - HENRY L 1948 - 1949 MURPHY ANE, '49 Manager -- RICHARD KEELAN, '49 SCHEDULE Browne and Nichols . . . ....... . . . . Walpole High School . .. St. Clement's . ....... Middlesex ............. Wellesley High School .... Watertown High School . . . Rivers ................ Phillips Andover ......... Lexington High School ...... Boston College High School . . . St, Mark's ................. Natick High School ..... Arlington High School .... Dedham High School .... St. Mary's of Waltham .... New Prep ........... St. Seb. 6 6 5 2 Roxbury Latin ................................ 7 Ice Ice Ice Ice Ice Ice Ice Ice Ice Ice Ice Ice Rieds QRobert Murphy, Captainj 3, Blues fBruce Harrigan, Captainj 2 AWARDS farketr Henry Lane Bruce Harrigan james Cotter john Doherty Edward Carroll Lellerr William Gibbons Robert Murphy Thomas Green Paul Sullivan David O'Connor john Sherry Kenneth McArdle Charles Coan William Maguire -1144 1-t Paul Corcoran Robert Joyce Kevin Lane Wallace MacKinnon Fred Elston Paul Carey Lawrence McCarty Vincent Durnan Richard Keelan Ovv 2 l 1 2 1

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