University of St Thomas - Aquinas Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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Reggie Riedl runs inTerference for Bob Montbriand as They lead The Skid Dick Caron of The Skid Row Gang scores in spiTe Row Gang To The Top in The intramural baskeTball championship playoffs. ofThe eFforTs of The Rum Runner'sMarTy Campion Intramurals Give All Students a Chance The basketball courTs and The bowling alleys in O'Shaughnessy Hall were kepT busy Through The winTer months by providing The facilities for The Two most pop- ular inTramural sporfs. The inTramural program under The direcfion of Mr. Bill Funk provided a healThful exfra- curricular acTiviTy and an excellenT conditioner for all inTeresTed sTudenTs. ln baskeTball, The Skid Row Gang wenT Through The season undefeaTed To become The represenTaTive of The College's 28 inTramural Teams in The MIAC ExTramural MeeT. ln This meeT Their winning sTreak was soon broken by Hamline, who wenT on To win The baskeTball cham- pionship. The only firsfs ThaT The Tommies could garner were in bowling and handball doubles. The gym is alive wiTh acTiviTy as numerous Teams compete in The different The handball doubles champs, l-larold Juba and sporTs for The right To represenT ST. Thomas in The, exframural meeT. Dick Kirch, geT in a liTTle pracfice beTween classes. , If

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T221 N . '15, - ' :cv vi , :L an FE! 1. 2:13. W. 1' f-Lf ri Back row: Coach Bill Funk, Terry Dunn, Jim Bloom, Jake Healy, Jack Lannon, Roy Bredahl, Bill Fitzgerald, Dick McKenna, Denny Monahan, Larry McGough, Warm Winter Mel Everybody enioyed The mild winTer, buT iT can be blamed for The failure of The ST. Thomas hockey Team To bring home Their flffh TiTle in six years. The Tommies sTarTed sfrong, winning Their first seven games againsf ST. John's, Carlefon, Gusfavus, ST. Cloud, MacalesTer, and l-larnline. Then 'Old Sol sfruck The crippling blow, melTing The ice which necessiTaTed The posfponemenf of games againsT Dulufh, Gusfavus, and MacalesTer. The Dulufh game was re-scheduled aT DuluTh's indoor arena for The day before The regularly scheduled game. BUT The Toms were sTill wiThouT a place in which To prac- Tice. They played The games aT DuluTh afTer Two weeks Page One Hmzdred Forly Y T' J and Monty Carlson. Front row: Mike Mullin, Tom STeFFen, John O'Phalen, Mark Brown, Bob GarreTT, Jim Goodwillie, Dick Rousseau, and John McCormick. ts Tommy Sextet of no pracfice, and surprised The mosT rabid fans wiTh a spliT, losing The firsT game 4-3, and winning The sec- ond 4-2. The MacalesTer game was scheduled aT Williams Arena. The Toms, afTer a Two week layoff, losT by The score of 3-2. This hearfbreaking loss gave The Bulldogs of DuluTh The ouTrighT championship. The Toms were paced by Johnny O'Phalen, Denny Monahan, and Mike. Mullin. O'Phalen and Monahan were The one-Two scorers on The Team and Mullin was a sTandouT defensively. Mike and John were honored by being named To honorable menfion posifions on The T954 All-American hockey Team.