Word: bellboy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stepping back after an upset victory over Leverett earlier in the week, a wild-shooting Adams quintet was ploughed under by Lowell House in the second game of the afternoon by a lop-sided 47 to 29 figure. Fred Donahue led the Bellboy avalanche with 25 points to cop high scoring honors of the day. Lowell, using its greater height to advantage, had the Gold Coasters boxed up throughout the game...
Pass interceptions paved the way for the Bellboy touchdown and margin of victory by setting the Gold Coasters back deep in their own territory. When two penalties thwarted an attempt to score from the five, Lowell intercepted again on the 40, from where Bill Ayres drove to the 25. Loring Briggs flipped a short pass to Pat Bowditch in the fl at and Bowditch went over standing up. Dan Silver, whose kickoffs this season have suggested big-time football, booted the extra point...
There were no individual stand-outs in the Bellboy-Elephant fracas, with Lowell making consistent gains on the ground and Eliot clicking on short passes. The black-shirt line, however stymied the Mastadon running attack and the Eliot men had to resort to the air route for any substantial gains...
Hard-running by the Lowell backs and hard-charging by the Lowell line spelled defeat for the Puritans, who were unable to halt the co-ordinate Bellboy attack, which operated almost exclusively on the ground. On the defense, the black-shirted Lowell forward wall constantly thwarted the Winthrop T formation plays, so that the Puritans were forced to take to the air for their first two downs. Only once during the game was Winthrop in Lowell territory, that coming as the result of a recovered Bellboy fumble...
...Dudley's first play in the second half, Bill Billings, aided by a key block from Steve Gilman, slithered through the Lowell secondary before being shoved outside on the Bellboy 10. Three plays were stopped just two feet short of paydirt; on the last, Billings went over standing...