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“DIARY OF A WINNER”
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THE GREATEST EAGLE FOOTBALL TEAM October 1, 1940 ... 1000 students, parents and friends greeted the football team as they arrived at South Station. Many city notables were also on hand. Fire Commissioner William Reilly arranged to have the Boston Fire Department Band at the depot. The maroon and gold color bearers led the team, on a fire truck, in a parade from the station to Chestnut Hill. October 2, 1940 ... In spite of the fact that there is no game this week, Coach Leahy will not let up on his practice drills. The football squad went through one of their toughest workout of the season at Alumni Field. There was no scrimmage, but there was a two hour session of live tackling. The varsity backs ran against the hefty freshmen linemen. October 3, 1940 ... Frank Leahy put his team through a long hard scrimmage. The first team did not take part but were given a brisk workout, a stiff blocking drill and pass defense. In the scrimmage the varsity offense went against the freshmen defense. Leahy had great praise for Carl Lucas, who had switched from running back to fullback. Injured center, Chet Gladchuck will be ready for Temple, but guard Joe Zabilski may not be able to play with an injured ankle. October 9, 1940 ... The Eagles had their last scrimmage of the week. The Temple team will workout at Fenway Park on Friday. By sitting idle, B.C. lost their #1 national ranking and are now #3 behind Texas A&M and Cornell who both had big victories. |
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O'Rourke dazzles as October 12, 1940 ... "Chuckin'" Charlie O'Rourke and his All-American teammate Gene Goodreault, led the Eagles to a hair-raising victory at Fenway Park. O'Rourke was sensational as he completed five of seven passes, two for touchdowns, and quick-kicked 51 yards to the 10-yd line and 66 yards to the 1-yard line, to set up the touchdowns. He also punted the Eagles out of danger in the second period with a 64 yard punt out of his own end zone. Then he manufactured another touchdown with a 5 yard sweep, and set up another with a 36 yard run. While O'Rourke was doing all this, Goodreault was playing brilliantly on defense, making life miserable for Temple's quarterback Andy Tomasic. The score might indicate that B.C. had some trouble, but it was only for a brief time during the second period. Tomasic kept his team in the game when he passed to Jim Yeager to give them their first touchdown, ran for one himself and then tossed one 13 yards to Cliff Seaver for the third. B.C.'s first score came on O'Rourke's quick-kick over the head of Temple's Al Juralewicz, that was downed on their 10-yard line by Frank Maznicki. Temple only punted back to their own 34-yard line, and in nine plays put the first points on the scoreboard. In seven minutes, O'Rourke hit Goodreault and Maznicki on two passes and two rushes by Mike Holovak and the scoring one by Maznicki. O'Rourke's second quick kick was more dramatic. It carried 71 yards down the field and with Goodreault in hot pursuit. He made a diving grab at the 1-foot line. Tomasic the was forced to punt the ball back and sliced it out-of-bounds at his own 23-yard line. On the very first snap, O'Rourke started running to his right and at the last second stopped and hit Henry Toczylowski on the left, who the carried one Temple defender with him into the end zone. In the third period, sophomore Mickey Connolly took over command of the B.C. offense, hit Goodreault and Hank Woronicz on
passes and marched 64 yards down the field for another touchdown. The final pass covered 42 yards hitting Woronicz on the 9-yard line and the score. Later in the period Tomasic fumbled the ball back to the Eagles at his own 8-yard line. Holovak picked up three and then O'Rourke took the ball himself around right end for the next score. Against the Eagles' second and third stringers, Tomasic put up Temple's next points on a 43 yard drive. B.C.'s answer was to chase 55 yards in five plays to post their last touchdown. O'Rourke covered 35 of those yards by run over his right side and cutting back into the Temple secondary. Holovak then ran for six yards and O'Rourke hit sophomore end Don Currivan for the score. With two minutes left to play, Tomasic wouldn't quit. On his own 35-yard line, he churned out five yards, then ran around his right end and behind some fine blocking, took the ball down to B.C.'s 19-yd line. Powers picked up five and the Tomasic hit Cliff Seaver for a last ditch TD. |
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