GILLOM AND TOM JAMES
IN
ROMP
Greased lightning was turned
loose by Coach Paul Brown in Tiger Stadium Friday evening and the thunderbolts
struck fast and furiously to blast a 59-0 victory out of the Warren Presidents,
the 26th in a row.
While a crowd of between
13,000 and 14,000 fans looked on, another football pageant of sensational
touchdown runs, music flag waving, and marching splendor was unfurled.
It was a one-sided victory
for Massillon, as many had expected it to be, but those that came for the show,
were treated to the best yet, and they began to leave shortly after the start
of the third period.
The game differed from the
heated battles of past years. Not that
it was tame, for there was plenty of jabbing in the pileups, but it was more
one-sided than Massillon-Warren games of other years.
The touchdown cracked
There were five more
touchdowns, three by young Johnny Pizzino, and one
each by Junior White and Charles Holt, and there could have been more had not
Coach Brown kept his first team on the bench the entire second half.
Warren newspapermen had anticipated
a thumping, however, and questioned whether Brown would pull his punches after
an argument before the game with Pierre Hill, Warren coach, over the color of
the ball.
The two had it out at
The referee asked the
After the game, the referee,
R.W. Fensterwald, explained that he had made up his
mind that if Hill had agreed to accept the white ball and if Brown had refused
to do so, he would have insisted that Massillon wear white sweaters and play
with the brown ball.
The argument was a boomerang
to Hill for the Tigers are adept at hiding the ball, and with an orange
background to work with, even the fans looking down on the plays from their
positions high in the bleachers, had a hard time finding the leather.
It wasn’t the ball however,
that was accountable for Gillom’s long run, nor for
many of the sparkling dashes that Tom James, Dick Adams and Junior White reeled
off. They were hit by plenty of tacklers
but squirmed, wiggled and wormed around so as not to let an opponent get their
hands set on them.
Some of the visiting writers
described the
Mention of the Tiger line
raises the question if it has ever had a peer in
True the visitors made six
first downs, more than either Cathedral Latin or
The Tiger linemen played a
whale of a defensive game, one group submarining, another stacking them up to smother plays on the line of
scrimmage.
With line play like this in
front of them, backs naturally can go places and the Tiger ball carriers
frequently got away to long gains.
End
Around Stopped
The Presidents varied their
defense from time to time, using an eight-man line when backed into the shadow
of their goal posts.
Brown had anticipated a
“cock-eyed” defense, but his line had the power to beat it down.
The statistics as a whole
favored the Tigers. They made 10 first
downs to
The locals’ passing attack
showed improvement over last week, completing eight of 17 for 154 yards in
gains.
The spot punting of Gillom and Adams also brought applause from the fans. Gillom hoisted a beauty out of bounds on the five-yard line
and
There were few
penalties. The Tigers lost 40 yards, for
rule infractions. Warren wasn’t
penalized in yards, but the Tigers refused several penalties against the
Presidents, preferring to take the down instead.
James got away from his
first touchdown jaunt on the third play after the kickoff.
Ray Getz broke the ice with
a nine-yard run and James pegged a long pass to Gillom
which the latter might have caught had he not slowed down or misjudged the
ball. It went over his head with a clear
path to the goal line.
James blasted through right
tackle on the next play for a 46-yard touchdown sprint but the ball was brought
back when both sides were declared offside.
So little Tommy hit the same spot again, found a great big hole, ran around the
Fans had hardly settled back in their seats until the
Tigers struck again. Taking the kickoff
back to the 24-yard line, Eddie Exler tried to punt
on third down with Bill Wallace on the loose.
Bill gave a perfect exhibition of how to block a punt and recovered the
ball. When the pileup was removed he was
hugging the leather on the
Points came just as rapidly
the second period. Williamson opened it
with a 23-yard run that gave
The Tigers kicked off, but
after one play, Scarpaci fumbled and Herman Robinson
promptly threw himself on the ball on the
A 54-yard drive produced the
next touchdown and the last of the half.
Getting the ball on his 46, James passed to Gillom
for a first down on the 27. A Pizzino pass to Gillom gained
three more, and Getz picked up two on a spin.
James hurled to Robinson for a first down on the four-yard line and Pizzino took one play to get over. Getz kicked goal to put the score at 40-0 at
intermission.
The Tigers received in the
third quarter, but were forced to punt.
Here Dick Adams lofted a beauty to the three-yard line where it was
grounded. Scarpaci
punted back to Adams who reeled in the yards until he got to the 10-yard
line. It only took Pizzino
two cracks to slip it over from there.
His kick was wide but the score was 46-0.
Frustrated once by a penalty
after they had advanced the ball to the seven-yard line, the Tigers got the
ball on the
The game was practically
over and third stringers were in the lineup when the Tigers scored their ninth
and last touchdown. Stopped on a fumble
that
The first attempt to buck
the point over for the extra point was good but
The game wound up with
practically a third team on the field for
First
downs 10 6
Yards gained
rushing 296 37
Yards
gained passing 154 17
Total
yards gained 450 54
Yards
lost 16 11
Net
yards gained 434 43
Passes
attempted 17 9
Passes
completed 8 9
Passes
grounded 9 6
Passes
intercepted 0 1
Times
kicked off 9 2
Average
kickoff (yds.) 51 29
Times
punted 4 11
Average
punt (yds.) 39 30
Fumbles 2 2
Lost
ball on fumble 1 1
Yards
penalized 40 0
26 In A Row
Robinson le J. Johnson
Cardinal lt Hoffman
Wallace lg Henry
Appleby c Andress
Russell rg Parker
Broglio rt
Gillom re Gorges
Kingham qb Williams
James lh Scarpaci
Getz rh Larson
Blunt fb Exler
Score by
points:
Substitutions:
F. Cardinal, qb; White, hb; Erdley, hb; P. Getz, g; Kanney, e;
Weisgarber, t; Power, fb; Bray, e; Hill, g; Fuchs, c;
Stout, c;
Graber, hb;
Paulic, g; Dolmas, t; Holt,
fb; Miller, g;
Touchdowns – James 3,
Gillom, Pizzino 3, White, Holt.
Points after
touchdown – Getz four, Pizzino 1 (placekicks)
Referee – Fensterwald.
Umpire – Jenkins.
Headlinesman – Wrobleski.
Field judge – Lobach.
Why It Rates As Ohio’s Best
Playing about as well as was
expected against one of the most powerful Massillon High teams in the history
of an institution that makes a business of annually turning out powerhouse
machines, Harding High’s Presidents absorbed their worst defeat in modern years
last night at Massillon before a crowd of more than 13,000 when the Tigers
rolled up 59 points in a one-sided massacre.
Warren fans were warned
ahead of time that the present Massillon club is rated as the best ever turned
out by Coach Paul Brown – today they believe all of the stories and can even
add a few for good measure. Few football
fans in the Mahoning Valley area ever saw a team that could score so many
points in such a short time as Massillon did last night and has in all games
thus far.
There isn’t any question but
that the score could have been much higher had Coach Brown decreed but he
yanked his first stringers at the start of the second half and used nothing but
second and third team players thereafter.
However, the varsity rolled
up 40 points in the first two quarters, 20 in the first and 20 more in the
second, and the second and third teams added 19 more to the total.
Standing out head and
shoulders over all other players and completely dominating the play during the
time he was in action was Horace Gillom, brilliant
end of the Tigers.
Warren’s offense clicked at
odd times but the Massillon linemen generally nailed the runner before he got
started and if he did manage to break thru the line, then Gillom
took care of him at that point with a vicious tackle. There isn’t any tag tackling for Gillom, when he hits the ball carrier knows all about it.
The Presidents had Booker
Williamson, speedy Negro halfback, in the open twice on reverses that had
It took exactly two plays
for
J. Johnson kicked out of
bounds on the
From then on,
Touchdown No. 2 came after
four minutes of milling when Scarpaci attempted to
quick-kick from his own 24 but Wallace, Massillon guard, broke thru, blocked
the kick and recovered it on the Warren five.
Getz plowed thru tackle to the one-foot stripe and James stepped over on
the next play. Getz’ placement made the
score 14-0.
Late in the quarter, Gillom punted out of bounds on the
Gillom tallied Touchdown No. 4 early in the second frame when he took the
ball in punt formation on his own 25 and shook off half the Warren team in a
spectacular 75-yard touchdown run. No
less than seven
Two plays later, the Tigers
were in the scoring zone again. Scarpaci fumbled and Robinson recovered on the
The Tigers took to the air
for Touchdown No 6 in the fading moments of the half.
F. Williams punted out on the Tiger 46.
James tossed a high pass to Gillom on the
The remaining touchdowns
came with the second stringers in the game.
Pizzino tallied touchdown No. 7 after
Touchdown No. 8 came in the
same period after Scarpaci had punted out on the
Score on Interception
That’s the complete story of
the nine touchdown defeat and it only serves as a warning to
Robinson L.E. J. Johnson
L. Cardinal L.T. B. Hoffman
Wallace L.G. E. Henry
Appleby C Andress
Russell R.G. Parker
Broglio R.T.
Gillom R.E. Georges
Kingham Q F. Williams
James L.H. Scarpaci
Getz R.H. Lasson
Blunt F Exler
Score by
quarters:
Substitutions:
P. Getz, g; Kanney, c; Weisgarber, t;
Bray, e; Hill, g; Oliver, t;
Stout, e; Graber, hb; Paulic,
g;
Holt, f; Miller, g;
Warren – B. Williams, hb; Maccarello,
f; Miles, g; Marzulta, hb;
Comanescue, e;
Touchdowns – James 3,
Pizzino 3,
White, Holt.
Points after
touchdowns – Getz 4, Pizzino
(placements).