TIGERS
SMOTHER
NEW CASTLE 52-7 BEFORE
CROWD OF 12,000
HARD CHARGING LINE
RIPS RED HURRICANE
In Winning Seventh Game On Schedule;
Band Scores Again In
Flashy Exhibition
By LUTHER EMERY
A pack of Tigers, thirsting for revenge and fighting to
obtain an objective for their coach, swept out of
While 12,000 fans, the largest football crowd in New Castle history, looked on, the Massillon eleven gave the greatest exhibition of football its supporters have seen since the great 1936 team whipped Canton McKinley here 21-0.
Score Eight Touchdowns
With George Slusser’s strong right arm firing deadly accuracy and the backs, even to the substitutes, pile driving behind a sturdy line, the Tigers scored twice in every period, rolled up 21 first downs and gained the net total of 372 yards by rushing and 155 by passing.
If the Red Hurricane had any wind, it did all itS blowing before the game. The sturdy
The Hurricane struck once, in the third period when with a
That run and a 31-yard pass that took the ball to the
Badly beaten as their team was,
The crowd was orderly, it gave the Tiger band a great
ovation and spectators lined the streets after the game to applaud, not “boo”
It was back in 1936 after the Tigers waded out of the mud
and rain at
The statement irked Brown.
He denied ever making it and wasn’t exactly pleased with the way
So Brown determined long ago, he was going to turn the statement into a boomerang and go out and get those 50 points.
He announced his team was primed to shoot the works and it did. It shelled New Castle with passes, it launched one offensive after another and the few times the Hurricane succeeded in blowing it back, the orange and black countered with another scoring drive.
“The fellow who misquoted me can be blamed for those 50 points,” Brown said in the dressing room after the game.
Uses Every Member of Squad
His team to a man helped him accomplish the objective and the score mounted one touchdown after another, even with a second and third team in the game. Every boy who wore a sweater saw service and when the Tiger coach glanced around at the sidelines in the closing minutes of play, we wondered if he had designs on sending in the cheerleaders.
In front of the brilliant performance of the
Their vicious charge opened huge holes in the
On defense they were superb.
Martin On The Go
Leading this display of defense was Earl Martin, the elongated Tiger center who is developing into one of the best snapper-backers the school has ever had.
Martin was in the thick of the fight and on several occasions penetrated into the Hurricane backfield to smear the ball carrier for losses.
Offensively, there was little to choose from in the statistics. In fact to find the ground gainer with the best average you must leaf into the page of substitutes and stop at the name of Roscoe Clendening. He only carried the ball twice, in sneak plays through guard, but he went 30 yards on one and 13 for a touchdown on another, to average 21.5 yards per try.
Red Snyder in 14 attempts gained the net total of 122 yards. George Slusser in 16 attempts gained 92 yards. Ray Getz in seven attempts made 32 yards. George Fabian in nine runs went 48 yards and little John Pizzino in three attempts went 41 yards.
The Tigers completed nine of 16 passes for 155 yards and had
one intercepted.
Getz Shines As Receiver
Contrary to the usual procedure, it wasn’t Toles or Gillom who did the catching last night. It was Ray Getz in straight shots down the alley. The Hurricane left Toles get by to snag the first touchdown pass, but kept him and Gillom covered the rest of the evening.
The Tigers, however, are blessed with the best lot of receivers they have ever had and Getz was the boy who hauled in the leather last night.
He made several sensational catches, one of which was the finest play seen in many a game that was not allowed because of an offside penalty. It is worth describing.
The Tigers had the ball on their own 40 and Horace Gillom was called back into punt formation. Standing on his own 28, he caught the ball,
faded back to the 20 and then fired a long, bullet pass that Getz snared on the
The statistics likewise do not describe the quality of punting Gillom put on last night. He booted the ball skillfully with one exception, that a sideline kick that only traveled five yards from scrimmage and cut down his average. Three of his punts were good for over 40 yards from scrimmage, which means that with Gillom standing 15 yards behind the line, the ball actually traveled over 55 yards.
Rocky Red Snyder had his customary luck of winning the toss
and elected to receive. For the first
minute it appeared the Red Hurricane would play inspired ball as it held the
Tigers on the
It is the customary thing for the orange and black to drive
for a touchdown from the kickoff and
Tigers Get First Touchdown
The resistance was only temporary however, for the Tigers
forced the Hurricane to kick back, the ball rolling dead on the
After Snyder had picked up a yard, Slusser
ran hard through right tackle, reversed his field and was hauled down from
behind the
He caught the Hurricane asleep on the next play as he faded
back and shot the ball to Toles who took it on the
one-yard line to out distance the
A 50-yard drive produced another touchdown the same period. An exchange of punts and the Tigers secured the ball in midfield.
Getz ripped through for 16 yards and Snyder battered his way for 15 more. Fred Toles went to the nine-yard line on a mouse trap and Getz circled the other side to pick up the remaining yards and a touchdown. He was hit just as he reached the goal line but had the drive to carry over the stripe.
Intercepted Pass Starts It Again
Early in the second period Slusser intercepted Laruo’s pass on the Hurricane 45 and dashed back to the 17 before being brought down. Two plays only gained three yards but on third down Snyder found a big hole at right tackle, cut through it and smartly sidestepped the Hurricane for the third touchdown.
A 43-yard drive produced the fourth touchdown in the closing minutes of the second quarter. Snyder dashed to the 18-yard line. A line play and a pass resulted in the loss of five yards, so Slusser took the ball and gained five. On fourth down he fired it to Getz who made a leaping catch and fell as he caught the ball on the five-yard line. Slusser walked through standing up for the touchdown. Getz who had missed the three previous attempted placekicks for the extra point booted the ball between the uprights this time to raise the score to 25-0 at the half.
The Tigers came out with a rush to open the third period and marched back with a 70-yard drive for a touchdown. Two passes, one for 20 yards and another for 18, took the ball to the 17-yard line. Slusser and Snyder carried it the rest of the way with the red head going over for the touchdown. Again Getz’s toe produced the extra point and the score was 32-0.
A Statue of Liberty play was smeared for a 14-yard loss and enabled the Hurricane to hold the Tigers next time they procured the ball.
They scored again in the third quarter, however, after getting the ball on the Hurricane 46. A 14-yard loss when Slusser muffed the ball from center, set the locals back to their own 40 where Gillom executed his long pass to Getz that was not allowed. A five-yard penalty set the ball back to the 35.
Snyder Scores Another
On a fake kick, Snyder ran 27 yards to the
Gillom booted the kickoff to
Roberts, who caught the ball on his 15-yard line, bobbled it momentarily and
then headed straight up the east sideline.
He outraced the Tigers though Gillom nearly
caught him on the five-yard line but was taken out with a questionable
block. It was a run of 85 yards and
brought joy to the
Lauro kicked the extra point and the score was 39-7.
Clendening took over the spotlight
for
30-yard run, in which
A complete second and third team finished the game for the Tigers. With Fabian doing most of the ball carrying, the Tigers marched 60 yards to the one-yard line, Fabian going over for the touchdown. Pizzino bagged the extra point, the last of the game.
Bill McMichael was the only member of the Tiger team who did not compete. He put on his uniform but was kept on the sidelines throughout the game, lest he aggravate a charley horse that has bothered him for several weeks.
The Tiger team had dinner in
There was a rush for seats, however and many a
The
The finest tribute that has yet been paid to the Tiger
musical organization took place at the close of the game. At the moment the contest ended the Tiger
band marched up the field. Instead of
spectators rushing for theexits, they stood up. The show between halves had pleased them so
they wanted to see more and as one
The band held the audience for five minutes after the game
and few
Singing Not So Good
Prior to going to
Tom Henrich, of the New York Yankees, has decided never to sit in the press box again. Especially if paged. He was so besieged by youngsters wanting his autograph that he had little time to watch the last three quarters of the game. But Tom accommodated and there were a lot of happy faces among the boys.
Restaurants and eating places in
The treatment accorded the
They
Got The 50
Toles LE Motsko
Lucius LT Kuinis
Russell LG Castrucci
Martin C Adamo
Gillom RE Toscano
Slusser QB Davies
Getz LH Roberts
Zimmerman RH Sowinski
Snyder FB Lauro
Score by periods:
Substitutions:
Massillon – Fabian; Pizzino; Clendening; James; Lechleiter; Foster; Croop; Zqeezy; Page; Wallace; Appleby; Mauger; Broglio; Kester; Kingham; Pettay; Oliver; Cardinal; Moody; France; Pualik.
Touchdowns:
Points after touchdown:
Referee – Very.
Umpire – Jenkins.
Head Linesman – Wallace.
Game Statistics
First downs 21 2
Passes 16 12
Passes completed 9 2
Passes incompleted 6 6
Passes intercepted 1 4
Yards gained passing 155 39
Yards gained rushing 411 15
Total yards gained 566 54
Yards lost rushing 39 40
Net yards gained 527 14
Times penalized 1 2
Yards penalized 5 10
Kickoffs 8 3
Average kickoff 45 50
Punts 4 9
Average punts 30 29
Individual Ball
Carrying
Player Times Yds. Yds. Total
Carried Gained Lost
Snyder 14 129 7 122
Slusser 16 106 14 92
Getz 7 35 3 32
Fabian 9 48 0 48
Toles 2 7 14 -7
Pizzino 3 41 0 41
James 2 2 1 1
Clendening 2 48 0 48
______ _____ _____ _____
Totals 55 411 39 372
Lauro 11 12 27 -15
Sowinski 1 2 0 2
Roberts 4 1 13 -12
____ ____ ___ _____
Totals 16 15 40 -25