St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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lines, Bill Brooks and Bob Kelly set a hot pace in the first quarter, scoring three baskets apiece, while Jim Canning and lid Collupy teamed with Fran Kett to turn in a nice piece of defensive play that held Walpole to five points. After the initial period, the issue was never in doubt, but Kel continued to amaze the gallery with a performance that yielded him 17 points for the day. To add to our attack, Ed Collupy poured in three consecutive goals in the third quarter and that set the stage for the appearance of our second team and this unit played for most of the remainder of the game. The highlight of their showing came in the final period when Fran Downey threw in a sparkling hook shot to earn his first Varsity points and bring down the house, Besides Ke1's 17, Ed Collupy's 8 and Bill Brooks' 6, the scoring column recorded single baskets by Kett, Canning and Downey together with a successful free try by joe Shea, Although the season was still in its infancy, our next game produced the most spine-tingling thrill of the campaign when we came from behind to put on a sensa- tional ending and defeat St. Patrick's of Watertown, 39-38. Led by the record-mak- ing Dave Nangle, highest schoolboy scorer in the state, the visiting quintet lost no time in establishing a 10-3 advantage over the Red and Black. At that point, however, Brooksie caught fire and racked up three successive goals and a free try to put us back in the running. Despite this endeavor, St. Patrick's rallied on their part to the extent that they were able to leave the floor at half-time with a 14-11 edge. Whatever the change in tactics was that Bob Hogarty called for between the halves, it certainly worked wonders. Roaring back to the fray in the third period, the Arrows immediately regained the lead when Bill Brooks continued his stellar exhibition with five goals in that stanza while Bob Kelly broke the spirit of the invaders by swishing in two beautiful set shots from 20 feet out. Not to be outdone, Nangle 8: Co. kept pitching as best they could, with the result that the end of the third chapter found them behind by a mere two points, To erase that deficit was only the work of a minute and, although Brooksie put us out front with another lay-up, in no time the tables were turned so that we trailed, 33-30. Successful free tries by Ed Collupy and Fran Kett then put us on equal footing at 33 all, only to have Watertown draw away 37-33 in the waning minutes of the game. Awarded two foul shots, joe Shea came through on both of them, just before Dave Nangle added a singleton that made the score, 38-35. In the midst of the general gloom pervading the cage, Bill Carey pushed up a goal as the minute hand of the clock started its final journey and, after the St, Pat's offensive had been repulsed, Brooksie broke through their close pressing defensive cordon to scoop in a lay-up while in mid-air and regain us a 39-38 margin. There was time then only for a work- ing of the ball to half court by the visitors before the final gong sounded to allow our players and spectators to break the tension with whoops of glee. As events turned out, it was the only defeat administered to the Watertown team over the entire season and Bill Brooks' 22 points won him the role of chief giant killer. Fairly well scattered, the rest of our tallies were divided among Bob Kelly UQ, Frank Kett Oy, Bill Carey and joe Shea Q2 apiecej , and Ed Collupy Q1 Q. To the delight of our loyal fans, the next game was easier on the nerves for we did not have too much trouble in disposing of Monsignor Coyle High School on our own court to the tune of 45-30. Once again, a heavy barrage of points in the first period sewed up the contest and we were never headed after Kel hit the target on the tap-off play. With a 28-13 advantage at half time, Bob Hogarty let the second team see plenty of .ervice and Dick Collupy proceeded to put on his best performance of the year by steal- ing a dribble at mid-court and going all the way to register a lay-up. Later on, two con- versions raised his point total to 4 and earned him the King's Chair at dinner that eve- ning, With no pressure on them, Kel, Brooksie, Fish and Bill Carey came up with 13, 11, 9 and 6 respectively, while Minnow's 4 and Kett's 2 closed out the Coyle account. A Sunday afternoon schoolboy program at the Arena brought us into competition with Henry Barry's Sacred Heart of Newton team and we were not extended too much -1 147 1 .

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in attaining our fifth consecutive victory. Getting off on the right foot when Brooksie scored on the tap-off, the Arrows registered nine tallies before Sacred Heart found the range. At quarter time our edge was 11-2 and by half time it had climbed to 25-9. Al- though the tempo slackened in the final periods, our second team was able to hold the opposition in check and the final score read St. Sebastian's 37, Sacred Heart 14, Once again, Bill Brooks emerged with the high scoring laurels for his 16 points, Kel con- tributed 8, Ed Collupy was good for 6, Bill Carey threw in 4 and Frank Kett swelled our total by 3. To close out our pre-Christmas schedule, Our Lady's of Newton was invited to our cage on the night that had been set for the School's Annual Christmas Party, The game itself drew the greatest number of spectators to throng our gym this season, partly be- cause the rival team brought a large number of fans, but especially because the St. Sebastian's Association was to conduct the raffie of the Television Set that had been up on chances for several weeks, While Brooks scored the first basket of the evening, the visitors racked up the next three to give us a bit of a scare. After calling a time out to discuss the situation, the Arrows drew even on Bill Carey's two successive baskets and a nip and tuck battle ensued for the duration of the period that ended with Our Lady's ahead, 11-10. That was as far as the contest went, however, for the Red and Blacl-: defense was so thorough in the second quarter that the opposition registered only on two free tries, while, in the meantime, we had garnered ten points, In the third quarter, Our Lady's rallied to the point that they matched all our baskets save one, but the last chapter saw us pulling away steadily so that the ultimate verdict was 44-27 in our favor. The big guns of the evening were Bill Brooks, whose 18 markers were well applauded by the appreciative Red and Black spectators, and Frank Kett, who left his defensive floor-general's role often enough to chalk up 10. Figuring also in jim Clifford's record book, Fish's 6, Ed Collupy's and Bill Carey's 4 apiece together with Kel's 2 just about constituted the margin of our triumph. Other features of the contest were Father Beatty's cheering that nettled the opposition and the selection of one of the dainty visiting cheerleaders to make the rafiie drawing. After these six successive victories, the Christmas holidays were a pleasant inter- lude and the squad returned from them reinvigorated and ready to undertake the more arduous portion of the schedule, The First Friday of january brought New Prep to our gym and the Cambridge quintet must have thought us most inhospitable in using the occasion to establish a new high scoring record of 70 points. Registering practically at will, St, Sebastian's ran up a 12-O edge before our rivals counted once and after that the disparity remained almost equally great. When the totals had swelled to 39-17 at half time, Coach Hogarty sent in the second team and then reached down into the barrel to pick out players that were making their first appearance in a Varsity uniform. Late in the third period, it was Bob Kellyis lay-up that smashed the old cage record and it was the same little hoopster who came out of the fray with 24 tallies, the highest individual scoring feat of the season. Sharing the plentiful harvest, Brooksie ran second with 13, Fish came up with 10 and Ralph Donnelly put on a scoring spree of his own with 8. In the lower bracket, Ed Collupy turned in 5, Frank Kett tossed in 3, joe Shea, Bill Carey and Jim Canning were good for 2 each, while Bud Fisher was proud of his free try singleton. The following evening, St. Sebastian rooters were pleased to find that Gene Mack, jr., of the Barton Traveler, had been impressed by the Schools hoop conquests and had billed our quintet's record in headlines, Refusing to let such publicity throw them off stride, our Red and Black cagers paid a return, neighborly visit to Our Lady's on Sunday, january 9th, and, despite the handicap of an improvised gym, they racked up the same 17 point margin that had decided the earlier game between the two teams. For the second time, the parochial aggregation proved to be a better first-period club than we, and the home fans exulted as their favorites went out in front 9-1, then 11-3 and 13-5. The second quarter, however, found Bill Brooks on the beam for 12 points which, with :-I 148 I-Q