THE ANCHOR Thurs., Dec. 3, 1964
Stang Amasses Outstanding
Record Under Carlin Lynch
~parta~s Cap~lUre 3-4 of 38 Ga~es
By Fred Bartek Congratulati(ms to Coach Carlin Lynch! And congratulations, too, to his undefeated and nntied Bishop Stang High School football team which has captured the State Class C division championship as well a8 the Bristol County League pen He lost to Dartmouth nant. Stang ascended to its contests. three years ago and last season two-fold grid pinacle last to Durfee High of Fall River. Thursday by virtue of its Coyle of Taunton and North At 27-12 victory over its northern tleboro High have played score county rival, Bishop Feehan less ties against Stang. High SChool of And, it is this superlative rec Attleboro, the ord-coupled with the knowl second regional . edge that Lyncfl is as good a secondary grid mentor as there is--that has school estab brought collegiate scouts to the lished by the Spartans' stands this season, Most Rev. evaluating the potentialities of James L. Con several college-bound players nolly, Bishop of· before whom are being dangled Fall River. The athletic scholarships. Thanks Strong Disciplinarian giving Day tri Lynch, who learned the rudi umph was the ments of the game under his season's eighth friend Coach Jim Burns at Coyle straight for the all-winning North Dartmouth aggregation High in Taunton, has moved to whose goal line was dented only the forefront of the schoolboy coaching ranks because of his four times this Fall. Feehan, ability to handle boys as well as which will meet the Lynchmen the art of teaching them the fine annually on Turkey Day in the points of the gridiron game. future, scored two of the four The former Coyle ace, who touchdowns notched against the Spartans who represent the first matr.iculated at Holy Cross Col lege in Worcester where he ex Diocesan regional high school. celled as an end, is a demanding Building Collegians disciplinarian. Like every coach, There are few, if any, second he establishes rules for his ary school coaches and teams with the tremendous record that players and he enforces each and every one. He has punished both Lynch and Stang have ac offenders, even at the risk of complished in the three years since the Greater New Bedford breaking up a smooth working combine. A team without disci institution began varsity grid pline fs headed for trouble in iron play. . Coach Lynch has guided his short order, the former Somer club to victory in all but four set High mentor knows too well. He believes his rules are cor nerstone for the building of character in boys who will profit from these regulations when they take their place in com munity society in the not-too distant future. NEW HAVEN (NC)-A $48 Lynch's first concern with hi. 000 Ford Foundation grant, first of its kind in the nation, players is their academic records. The best football player is no will enable an interracial Cath good to the school team if he olic parochial school here carry out its program of vocational does not keep up in his studies. guidance for inner-city childen. Lynch impresses this fact on all alike. He likes nothing better The two-year grant will per than to see his grid students go mit St. Martin de Porres Guid on to college. Some of the 1964 ance .Center and. Vocational Li brary to expand its program of player-crop are among the lead ing students in their respective assisting local students in choos ing vocations in life. The pro dasses which serves as an ob gram was begun two years ago jective to the other members by Msgr. Peter L. Gerety, pastor of St. Martin de Porres. . The school now serves more than 300 Catholic and non-Cath olic pupils. All children from the third grade on are enrolled TOKYO (NC) - Father Leo in a guidance program that fol lows them through the first year Close led the Irish team in the ceremony of the Tokyo of college. The Ford grant wiD opening Paralympics for partially dis expand the Connecticut school'. facilities to take care of· 200 abled- athletes and participated more cases per year and permit' in the discus and javelin events. The Irish priest is founder and a follow-up on all. chairman of Ireland's Wheel Unique Effort chair Association. He won a Under the program, the school gold medal in the Rome Para offers the services of its guid lympics four years ago. ance counsellors to all its pupils While a seminarian Father on the elementary level, supple Close, who was a fine athlete, mented by a library devoted had a serious accident and lost evclusively to vocational infor the permanent use of his legs. mation. He was ordained, says Mass, These facilities are the onl,. and administers the sacraments, ones available in a parochial by special dispensation 01. the Holy See, in his wheelchair. elementary school in this coun During the Paralympics here try, and represent a unique at tempt to serve the needs of a Father Close said daily Mass for neighborhood on a communit7 his teammates, and on Sundays level without distinction as to for Catholic participants from 22 nations at the Olympie race or ereed. Village, where they were all billeted. Leads in Prayer Father Close, ordained for the AKRON (NC) - Father Jolm diocese 01. Dunedin, New Zeal T. McDonough, chaplain of the and, has since left here to take Akron University Newman Club, lIP his pastoral duties. was the first Catholic priest to The priest's words as he em conduct the devotional period barked for New Zealand were: of a meeting of the Akron Min '"I enjoyed the Tokyo Para isterial Association. He read the lympics immensely. Now rm g0. Book of Psalms for the group ing to start training for the that numbers almost 100 minla Mexico Olympia betweea pu ten and Orthodox prie8ta. foral dutieL
Ford Grant Aids Guidance Service
WheelchairPriest In Olympics
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MARKSMANSHIP IS THE BEST
Coach carlin Lynch
of the squad. He instills the spirit of scholastic achievement as well as athletic accomplish ment, serving as a guidance in structor as well as coach. All-Around Player The North Dartmouth helms man did another masterful job this season in building the well balanced combine that easily captured the State divisional and county league championships. SCouts from opposing schools quickly learned that the classy ball-carrying star in one game turned up as the crafty, good blocker for another pigskin car rier in the next contest. Lynch was not going to permit an op posing club to bottle-up an of fense built around one player. Patiently, he developed the all-around player, the one who can block as well as ·tackle, .the one who can run. interference as well as tote the pigskin. He switched, from week to week, employing his proteges in vari ous roles. And, by so doing, he was able to keep the Spartans on the march notwithstanding the fact that every club in the area was out to stop Stang. Wins 34 of 38 Lynch's ability to develop teams is no better illustrated than by the record in his second year in the mentor's role at Stang. He had de'll'eloped a 'ayvee team, starting with fresh men and sophomores, when there were only two classes at the new diocesan school. Then, in the third year of the school, he had boys from all three classes on his club. Even though he had only three classes at the school, he led his stang charges in a varsity sched ule, winning Ilix, losing one and tying one. n was this unit which formed fhe strength 01. the first Stang tour-class club which copped the Bristol County title in 1962, with eight wlna and one tie. Then, stang won eight out 01. . . . III 1981. 'l"bIa ~ tbe:r
romped to eight straight vie tories. This gives Lynch a record 01. 34 wins, two ties and two losses. "He 'has brought that team along for three years. Graduation will 'kill' him and then he'll drop back." This was the com mon talk in many quarters. But, Lynch was back in '63 with an aggregation that lost once only and that to Durfee High which moved on to win the county loop. Hoi,. Cross Stalwart Graduation took its toll again
in '63 but Lynch was back with an all-winning outfit in '64. As a result of his gridiron ac umen and his fatherly interest in the welfare of his players, Lynch has lifted Stang to the top of the Southeastern Massa-
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chusetts schoolboy f 0 0 t baIl ranks. Carlin is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Lynch, now of Taun tori.. He was a student in the Somerset public schools before he entered Coyle in 1948. After graduation from the Taunton diocesan school in 1952, he en tered the Jesuit college in Worcester from which he was graduated with an A.B. degree in 1956. While at Coyle, Lynch was All-Bristol for two years in football as an end and he was all-Bristol for three years as a catcher in baseball. The astute Stang coach earned three football .letters as an end under Coach Eddie Anderson at the Cross. Anderson completed 39 years as a coach last Saturday. He has resigned his position. Lynch was eighth in the coun-. ~ try as a pass receiver in his Senior year which made him fourth-ranking in the East. He was voteod on the all-opponent team by Syracuse, Dayton and Marquette. Lynch was . also chosen on numerous All New England teams in his final year at the Worcester institution. He married Frances Sqyasta of Worcester in August 1956; just prior to his acceptance of a coaching berth at Central Cath olic High School in Pueblo, Col orado. They are the parents of five children. At Pueblo, he was a line coach under Jack Parsons. Lynch was also head baseban coach at the Arizona Catholic school. Returns to Somerset The Parsons-Lynch combine won the Colorado state football championship in 1957. The Stang coach then returned to his na tive Somerset where he took over the head high school foot ball coaching reins. In his first year at Somerset, Lynch piloted the Blue Raiders to an undefeated and untied season which brought them the State Class D championship. The following year, Lynch'. Somerset club won the newly organized Tri-County footbaB league. He became athletic di rector and head football coach at the first diocesan regional high school in North Dartmoutll in 1960.
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