To many, Holy Cross means a grueling fied by another senior citizen atop the football game, a tlirilling basketball Hill, the venerable Bart Sullivan. If encounter, or a record-breaking track anyone has a lifetime job at Holy meet. The enviable record which Cross it is Bart. As he enters his Crusader athletes have built up is a fiftieth year here, his mind no doubt story of desire—of dedication to excel- wanders back to the many immortals lence. The track team may practice he has coached at Holy Cross. His nearly every day just to compete in a track teams have always brought glory handful of meets. The football team to the purple and white, not only here is the first to suffer the biting cold of in Worcester, but at national meets in the November wind. Such dedication Boston and the renowned Madison is seen in every phase of all sports on Square Garden. the Hill from football to fencing. But Perhaps the most famous of Holy nowhere is it more in evidence than Cross coaches is the late Jack Barry. among the coaching staff. Dr. Edward Coach Barry passed away in April of N. Anderson, dean of American foot- 1961 in what would have been his ball coaches with thirty-five years of forty-first year as head baseball coach experience, mirrors this dedication. for the Purple. Barry was a member The "Doc" has split his career be- of Connie Mack's stellar million dollar tween the University of Iowa and infield and his record here at Holy Holy Cross, and his teams have never Cross is incomparable. A man who failed to make a favorable impression knew how to handle his players. Jack both on and off the field. He liimself Barry never had a losing season with was a star end at Notre Dame. As the Crusaders. There can be no one Boston scribe so aptly put it, greater testimony to his greatness. "Dr. Anderson is in years the oldest To say that very few schools can coach around, but also the youngest boast of such topflight coaches is no with fresh ideas." In 1960 the Cru- understatement. Sons of Holy Cross sader mentor received an award given both past and present can be justi- annually to the coach who has con- fiably proud of the athletic achieve- tributed the most toward furthering ments which have taken place under football in New England. As he en- this able leadership. It can only be ters his thirty-fifth year, the Class of our hope that Holy Cross may be as 1962 salutes Dr. Anderson, with the fortunate in the future as she has hope that he may stay on a few more been in the past fifty years—a fifty decades as head coach of Holy Cross years of greatness due to the dedica- football. tion of men like Dr. Anderson, Bart Dedication to supremacy is typi- Sullivan, and Jack Barry. 102 -« ""is%' ^ « ...Ajgg. ^^^H # L.^ 1 ^^^^^^^H L ^.. ,*»•• ni« JBiii , Bk.. ._idi ^ f ..- y'y-'V.-'.? 1 Ik v'%: ''4hH|^Hb K''^ >^k -* 1^ i ^R ^^^^^^^^^ 9mf^B r""'% i ^^K ^^^^^^^^H \ ''' ^i!^^-^% -- ''-^t *9^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H ] 103 *# The Purple thinclads embarked on the outdoor track season hampered by the poorest weather conditions and the runner's most feared enemy, the pulled muscle, which prevented a repetition of the brilliant winter cam- paign. In the Crusaders' first encounter, a resounding 103-32 victory was re- corded over the Lord JeflFs of Amherst. Versatile and dependable Eric Tait turned in an eighteen point perform- ance, including three firsts. Tom Noering, '63, Jack O'Connor, '63, Dave Daly and Ted McLaughlin, '61, Steve Chupack, '62, Buddy Barker, '62, and Charlie Buchta, '63, all garnered vic- tories as Holy Cross stampeded to twelve firsts out of a possible fourteen. Then the Purple sufifered its first loss of the season, 80-60, to Brown's New England Champions. However, these stouthearted harriers bounced right back with hard-fought victories over Boston College and Boston Uni- versity. Despite a rain-soaked track, Eric Tait again led the Holy Cross scorers with three seconds and a fourth. Soph speedster Charlie Buchta ran second in the mile at 4:17.1, his best ever, and followed captain Jay Bowers who easily won the half mile. Buddy Barker registered a quick 9:43.1 in the two mile run. Kevin Kilgallen took the hammer throw honors with a toss of 162' 9". A clear sky, a slight breeze, and a warm, dry afternoon set the stage for the best outdoor performance of the Crusader team, as they drubbed the Eagles of Boston College at the new Brandeis track. Charlie Buchta turned in a spectacular double by notching victories in the mile and 220 yard dash to spark the team to vic- tory. Sophomore Bob Scully, Jay Bowers, Paul Lilly, Buddy Barker, 104 Coach Sullivan and Manager Giles discuss the lineup. Tony Armstead awes a BC bystander. 105 stellar four years at Holy Cross when he captured a fourth in the 880 in a driving rain on a soggy and muddy track. Thus did Bart Sullivan end his forty-ninth year as track mentor on Mount Saint James. Holy Cross will lose valuable points from Bowers, Tait, Daly, McLaughlin, and Byron, but prospects look extremely good for the coming year with sophomores Maiberger, Callahan, and Malone moving up to bolster the ranks of the varsity after a tremendous year. Bart Sullivan's fiftieth year, a phenomenal feat in itself, could very well be his best. Another typical record setting crop of freshman has arrived at the Hill this year assuring Holy Cross of even more powerful teams in the future. Firsi row: Lilly, Captain Bowers, Tait, Barker. Second row: O'Connor, Kilgallen, Chupack, Lambert, Handron, Noering, Armstead. Third row: Sullivan, Sornberger, Ardizzone, Cronin, J. O'Connor, Lawler, Winters, Toner. Sornberger spreadeagles for the long trip down. Tom Hennessey, and Eric Tait all turned in blue-ribbon efforts. The Purple then rolled over the Uni- versity of Massachusetts, scoring heavily in the running events from the 440 to the two mile run. The big attraction of this meet was the setting of a new Holy Cross hammer throw mark by junior weightman Kevin Kilgallen who hurled the ball and chain 177' 6", shattering a twenty- three year record. In the final dual meet of the 1961 spring season, Holy Cross journeyed to New Hampshire to face the Dart- mouth Indians, and suffered its second and last defeat of the outdoor cam- paign, closing with a creditable 5-2 record. The New England Championship Meet brought only discouragement to the hopeful harriers. Charlie Buchta dropped out due to an injury, and •^f Jay Bowers failed to place as he garnered a fourth in the half-mile. Eric Tait, Tom Hennessey, and Buddy i' Barker closed out the scoring for il Holy Cross. // In the IC4A meet in New York, veteran captain Jay Bowers ended a L. 106 First row: Fanelli, Captain Driscoll, Ritzel. Second row: Carton, Ryan, Bemardin, O'Brien, Byrne, Fraser. The little-heralded, but highly skillful perennially strong Amherst and sport of tennis seems to attract a Brown, followed by a squeaker in greater following each year as Holy which Tufts emerged victorious after Cross racquet squads continue to overcoming a 4-2 deficit. The Purple abound with increasingly better talent. netmen finished the season as they Under the tutelage of Coach Sharry, had begun with decisive wins over the Purple's first official tennis men- Fairfield, Providence, and Worcester tor, many Crusader netmen have im- Tech. proved their game tremendously. Mainstays of the team were cap- A tennis "first" occurred at Holy tain-elect Dave Driscoll, who has a Cross last year. The team began prac- 15-4 record in singles against some "I hope you're playing doubles, Peter." tice early in March on indoor courts very formidable opposition, and Jack in the gym. This gave the Crusaders Sinnott, who graduated with one of a jump on teams forced to wait until the finest records in the history of the courts were clear of snow to start Holy Cross tennis. practice. With these early practice Prospects for this season appear to sessions behind them the team went insure an improvement over last year's on to compile a 7-4 record. As the record. Returning from last year's warm weather came, the Purple piled squad are seniors Driscoll, Fanelli, up two quick victims, blanking Bab- and Ritzel, and juniors Bemardin and son and Assumption by identical 9-0 Carton. Excellent newcomers in scores. Yankee Conference leader. sophomores in Pete O'Brien, Dick University of Massachusetts, showed Byrne, Dave Ryan, and Doug Fraser why its top spot was going unchal- round out the 1962 Holy Cross tennis lenged when it handed the Cross its picture. first defeat. Other losses were to 107 108 First row: Co-Captain Heaphy, Mgr. Keefer, Coach O'Connell, Co-Captain Kenney. Second row: Caprise, Graziano, Hurley, Prybylski, Joern, McKenna, Mulligan, Leding, Egner, Foley, Whalen, Dugan, Howe, Sampers, O'Conner, Kenney, Maloney, Antonechia. ^^ "me, ^». '%.-*. In recent years lacrosse has taken its record remained unsullied as they great strides toward establishing itself enjoyed a relatively easy victory over as a major sport at Holy Cross. Two the Purple. years back, the Crusaders and Wor- The 1961 lacrosse team was cer- cester were honored by the selection tainly the most exciting and success- of Fitton Field as the site of the ful ever seen at Holy Cross. After a North-South All Star Classic.