CROWD OF 13,000
SEES TIGERS
BEAT LEHMAN 52-0
SECOND TEAM
PLAYS OVER HALF OF GAME
Crack Stubborn Lehman
Resistance In Second Period;
Band Sparkles In Flat Foot Floogie
By LUTHER EMERY
Those Gold Dust twins, Fred Toles and Horace Gillom and an up and coming substitute, George Fabian, by name, pulled downs heaps of glory here Friday evening as the Washington high Tigers stretched their season’s record to eight straight victories and advanced a step in the Stark county series at the expense of Canton Lehman 52-0.
A crowd of between 13,000 and 14,000 spectators, as large as
any this season, was treated to another of those football shows that have made
this season’s attendance a record in the history of
Fabian Leading Ground Gainer
Give every member of the team credit and place the
It was the Gold Dust twins, first Toles, and then Gillom that made a stubborn Lehman team crack early in the second period and it was Fabian in the role of substitute who scored more yards than any other person on the field as well as the honor of making the longest run of the evening.
And while handing out the glory, don’t forget the
weatherman, who held off a rain storm for two hours. And keep your fingers crossed, for that is
what the Tigers want Nov. 19 when they meet their second
McKinley beat Lehman, 48-6 and there you have a comparison.
The Tigers chalked up their 52-0 triumph last night with the
first team on the bench for two and one-half periods. The victory was more than anyone had expected
in view of Lehman’s achievement last week in trimming the previously unbeaten
Columbus North, the potential central
Tigers Improving
The varsity, from all indications is just beginning to come into its own. Its performances of the last three weeks have heaped surprise on surprise until one wonders just how strong the eleven really is.
It didn’t look a whole lot better than Lehman the first quarter, but Lehman weakened after Toles speared Fuller’s pass to end its only scoring threat and it lost its spirit completely when Gillom six plays later went high into the air to pull down George Slusser’s pass from his own 41-yard line and race 25 yards to a touchdown.
Those two plays cracked Lehman wide open and before the period could end the Tigers had dug their cleats behind the Lehman goal three more times.
“My team appeared to lose all of the fight after that touchdown pass,” said James Robinson, Lehman coach, after the game. “I think I have a better ball club than the score indicates. In fact I know I have.”
Then turning to Coach Paul Brown, Robinson added, “I want to thank you for playing your substitutes, but honestly I wish you would have let your first team continue in the game.”
Brown replied, “Your players are young and –“. But Robinson broke in with, “I know, but if a team can run up 100 points, it has a right to do so. That is my honest opinion.”
Lehman used an unorthodox defense that confused the Tigers
in the early stages of the game. The
Bears lined up with a five-man line, but hopped one and sometimes two players
in as the ball was passed to confuse the
“It was the only thing I could do,” Robinson said after the game. “I was afraid of that flat pass and I tried to come up with the wings as long as possible.”
Brown was well pleased with the performance of his eleven and most of all he was gratified that none of the first stringers suffered any injuries. To chance injury as little as possible and to give the subs an opportunity to play was the principal reason why he only used his regulars one and one-half periods. A second team carried on for two quarters and the third stringers finished the last half of the fourth period. The second stringers scored one half of the points, the score being 26-0 when they took over the evening’s work.
Tiger Line Shines Again
For the third straight week, the Tiger line played a whale
of a game. It held the Polar Bears to
two first downs while clearing the way for 16 for
From tackle to tackle, there wasn’t an outstanding performer
on varsity or yannigan teams. To name one you must name them all and that
is done in the lineup. Every boy made
his contribution to the victory which places
The Tigers resorted to little passing last night. They didn’t need to. In fact, the second stringers didn’t throw one the last two and one-half periods and Slusser tossed but four. Two of these were completed, both to Gillom. The first was good for a gain of 59 yards and a touchdown and the second also to Gillom for 11 yards and a first down on the 12-yard line.
A high wind made punters look good when kicking with their backs to it and just the opposite when kicking against it.
In punting Lehman held its only advantage in the statistics. Wallick averaged 36 yards on his punts while Gillom and Kaspar Lechleiter averaged only 23 yards. However, with one exception all of the Tiger punts were against the wind. The exception was a boot that rode the crest of a wave, 65 yards from scrimmage. Add 10 more yards for the distance Lechleiter stood behind the line of scrimmage and you find the flight of the ball was 75 yards.
Shriver also got off one of the same kind early in the game.
With Lehman tackling fiercely, there was no indication the
first quarter of the game would develop into the walk-a-way it did. In fact the Polar Bears came fighting back
after the first Tiger touchdown to wage a successful punting duel in the
wind. A well placed boot went outside on
the
Lehmans’ Big
Moment
It was Lehman’s big moment and when two plays only gained two yards Fuller tried a southpaw pass to Shriver, Fred Toles was on the job and hauled in the ball on the
eight-yard line to end the threat. In five plays, Getz and Snyder carried the ball to a first down on their 41. There Slusser took the oval, dropped back and pegged it toward the speeding Gillom, who raced in between two Polar Bear players, timed a perfect leap, snatched it away from them and scampered 25 yards for a touchdown. Lehman seemed to realize it was useless after that, for touchdowns came cheaply the rest of the game and even a string of substitutes failed to stem the scoring.
Hooray For Subs
Toles LE Uebing
Lucius LT Hale
Russell LG Bauer
Martin C Banks
Gillom RE Oyler
Slusser QB Fuller
Getz LH Hankes
Zimmerman RH Shriver
Snyder FB
Score by periods:
Substitutions:
Lehman – Ashton; Elsaesser; Boone; Wyler; Cromley.
Touchdowns:
Points after touchdown:
Referee – Brubaker.
Umpire – Howells.
Head Linesman – Wrobleski.
Game
Statistics
First downs 16 2
Yards gained rushing 372 66
Yards lost rushing 7 16
Net gain rushing 365 50
Yards gained passing 70 4
Total yards gained 435 54
Passes attempted 4 5
Passes completed 2 1
Passes incompleted 2 2
Passes intercepted 0 2
Number of punts 6 7
Average punts, yards 23 36
Number of kickoffs 9 1
Average kickoffs yards 46 49
Punts returned, yards 0 9
Kickoffs returned 18 82
Lost ball on fumble 0 4
Yards penalized 35 5
INDIVIDUAL
GAINING
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Player Gained Lost Total
Slusser 45 2 43
Getz 40 3 37
Snyder 85 0 85
Fabian 119 2 117
Pizzino 10 0 10
Toles 16 0 16
James 57 0 57
_______ _____ ______
Total 372 7 365