The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1960-12-02
of TIMES
Eagles, Irish
Paced Field
BY LOU FABR0
Times Sports Editor

Watterson and Lancaster st. Mary headlined the
1860 Diocesan football campaign by posting unbeaten
and united records.
st. Mary chalked up 344 points and allowed only
81 in winning all eight of its games. This is quite an
achievement considering the Irish began playing IN
terscholastic football only last year after a layott dat
ing back to 1885.
LAST SEASON, ST. MARY lost only one game by
two points. Its twoyear record is a sparkling l2-1, In
Guiding a nine-game win streak.
st. Mary, one of the best Class A teams in Central
Ohio, was coached by st. Charles graduate jim Veeley
who came to the Lancaster school to revive its football
program.
Top scorer for the Irish was Dick Mccormick who
tailed 102 points.
Under the direction of sidelinepacingD Dick Walk
err, powerful Watterson piled up $50 points and gave
up Ill while racing through its season with nine VIC
tories. Among WatterSon's victims were Linden, CO.
champion of the City League, and Greenfield McClaln,
South Central Ohio League champion.
COUNTING WINS at the end of the 1859 season,
Watterson now holds a II game victory string, longest
now existing in the Diocese.
Watterson, the best Class AA football team In Cen
trail Ohio, featured a flashy and explosive backfield
which included bulldozing fullback Dick Thoma, half
backs Flank Biancone and Keary Ryan and quarter
back Jack Dennis.
Thoma, Central Ohio's most outstanding back,
was the top scorer in Franklin County with l38 points.
He also was the leading scorer in the Diocese.
BESIDE THE w unbeaten teams, six other
Diocesan squads posted winning records. These IN
Clude LaneSeVllle R0SecfdnS l0Z), ROSARY lO-A-Il DeH-
nison st. Mary (6-3-1, Portsmouth Notre Dame (6-4l,
Marion Catholic (5-3-D and Hartley go.
Rosary saw two long streaks ended during the
season. Circleville beat the Crusaders, 10, to end
a 23-game unbeaten streak and unbeaten New Albany
shaded Rosary, 1913, to end the Crusaders l7-game
Franklin County League win streak. In three seasons
of league competition, Rosary has won 20 games and
lost one while winning two crowns.
DENNIsoN ST. MARYS 33-game unbeaten
string, longest in Diocesan history was snapped by
Newark Catholic 1922. Keeling from that loss, Coach
Paul Drotovick's st. Mary team won only one more
game while losing two and tying one.
STANDoUT ON THE st. Mary squad was quar-
terback Sandy Bonvechio who completed 90 Of 119
passes, % for touchdoWns. He also scored Ii touch
downs. In his ~four-year career, he fired 39l passes
and complete 800. And 83 of his passes went for
touchdowns.
In posting a 6.2 record, Rosecrans, coached by
Rudy Antonetz, enjoyed its best campaign since 1854.
The 1860 season goes into the books as a big Sue
cess for Hartley. The Hawks posted a winning 50 rec
ord in just their second season of varsity ball. In so
doing, the Hawks preserved Coach John Murphy's
record of never having a losing season. The 18-year
coaching veteran last year also guided Watterson to
its first winning season.
THREE TEAMS RECORDED even records. Aquin-
as was SIS; Dover ST. Joseph had a SOL mark, and
st. Charles had a AL record.
For st. Joseph, it was the most successful CAM
paign since 1858. 1t was all the more pleasing for
Coach Art Teynor's crew since the season was climax
ed by a victory over archrival Dennison st. Mary.
TOuI DIUIGodu iGdulo-lNGWulh AdLllOll SOluil~
bus st. Mary, Mt. Vernon st. Vincent and New Lex
ington st. Aloysius went through losing seasons.
Newark Catholic, however, had the rare pleasure
Of stopping Dennison st. Mary's fabulous streak. ST.
Mary finished strong while st. Vincent and st. Aloysius
were left to look towards next year.
BESlDE THoMA NJ BoNvECHIO, some of the
other top scorers we're Bill Shaffer of Portsmouth
Notre Dame who racked up 1856 points; Mickey Leone
of Dover st. Joseph who led the field in Tuscarawas
County with 118 markers; and Phil Spencer of Mt.
Vernon st. Vincent who notched 10 points. Dennis
Doherty of Rosary led the Franklin County League
with 80 points.
The best football record of any Catholic college
team in the country was chalked up by the University
of Detroit. The Titans posted a To mark.
Losing the opener to Iowa State, 4421, and the
finale to Michigan State, Abs, the Titans knocked
off: Xavier, 26-6; Cincinnati, 40; Boston College,
1917; Dayton, 1910; Quantico Marines, 28-7; Mar
quette, 1912; and Vilanoya, 1877.
Aqunuas PLAYERS Cited BY Loop