Evening star., 1939-12-03
BY BILL KING,
Associated Press Sports Writer,

BOSTON, Dec. 2.-Wlth the un-
kind weatherman as their 18th
player, the rugged Boston College
Eagles overpowered Holy Cross bril-
liant team, 14-0, in their annual
bruising battle fought in q murky
drizzle before a packed crowd OF
10000 at Fenway Park today.
It was Boston Colleges 18th vic
tory, against IS setbacks and 3
ties, in the long series that started
back in 1896, and enabled the Eagles
to close their regular season with a
slate that bears only one bad mark
TO defeat at the hands of Florida
early in the season. Holy Cross
only previous defeat was at the
hands of Louisiana State in its Sec
ond game Of the year.
Eagles Scoring Delayed.
Living up to their reputation as
strong f1nishers, the Eagles failed to
score until the first play of the final
period, when big Pete Cignetti
smashed inside his right tackle from
the 3-yard line to put touchdown
finish to 52-yard march. A short
time later, Gene Goodreault, by far
the best of the many fine ends who
appeared in the game, and Capt.
Ernie Schwotzer blocked one of Ron
ME Cahill's punts on the 15-yard
line and the B. C. leader fell on it
it in the Holy Cross end zone for
his teams second touchdown.
Cignetti's counter was only the
second one gained through the
Crusaders line this season. But
that, like the one Colgate made, was
set up by a 33-yard pass. from
Charley O'Rourke to violent Vito
Ananis, before the latter closed the
third session by plunging 4 yards to
Holy Cross 3.
Two Threats by Losers.
There was just enough dampness
to slow down Holy Cross speedy
and brilliant array of ball carriers a
few notches below the Eagles heavy
duty secondaries, with the result
that the Worcester collegians were
penned inside their own territory
for all of the first half and were
limited to two feeble scoring threats
in the third and final periods
The Eagles, however, did not be-
come alarming to their rivals fond
bowl hopes until the second period,
when they advanced As yards to the
IL, where Si Titus, the Crusaders
sub center, checked them by inter-
cepting one of Charley O'Rourke's
passes.
The third quarter opened in dra-
matte fashion, Co-Capt. Jim Turner
kicking of to O'Rourke in the B. C.
end zone. That passing expert fun
bled and recovered as he tried to
take of and the trigger drained
Goodreault, realizing that he would
be trapped inside the 5-yard line by
the onrushing Crusaders, made
flying tackle over his own goal line
and dragged O'Rourke down for a
touchback that entitled his team to
start rushing from its own 20.
Crusaders Get to FL.
Evidently flustered by his narrow
escape, O'Rourke enabled the Cru
saders to enter Boston territory for
the first time by punting feeble
25-yarder outside on his IS. From
there the Crusaders put together
three of the 10 short passes they
completed out Of % attempts to
move ahead 10 yards, but O'Rourke
.regained his poise and intercepted
one of Cahill's long heaves on his
10 and ran it back % yards.
During the last three minutes of
the game, when jubilant Frank
Leahy, the Eagles highly successful
flrst-year coach, was rushing in his
most deserving substitutes for let
tiers, the Crusaders started from
their 14-yard line and Alex Nahigian
and Hank Giardi ran and passed to
Boston's 81, where they made des-
perate attempt to click on a touch
down pass as time expired.
The Eagles Tailed nine first downs
for 148 yards while holding the
Crusaders to four and 40. Eighty
seven more yards Of Holy Cross ter
ritory were wiped out when