FIRST TEAM ONLY PLAYS HALF
GAME
Record Breaking Stadium Crowd Sees
For 41 Points
First Half
That’s settled, and rather
convincingly too, the question as to whether
It was convincing from the
standpoint of the score and the fact that the second and part of the third
teams played the entire second half. At
the start of the third period, someone ventured the remark that Coach Brown had
sent his first team off to a dance, but the Tiger coach insisted he had his
entire club on the bench up to the very end if needed.
For what? The Massillon first team in two
periods had demonstrated to the record breaking crowd of 18,300 that the Tigers
were still Ohio champions as far as Weirton was concerned, and with the second
team battling the visitors on slightly better than even terms, it was a cinch
the rest of the way.
Coach Paul Brown put a
versatile bunch of Tigers on the field last night. They tried everything, and even though
everything they tried did not work, the fans applauded their efforts.
From the time Horace Gillom ran 49 yards for a touchdown on an end around play,
the first half was a parade of touchdowns for the
The second half produced a
more balanced game, with the Tiger second stringers scoring a touchdown against
the Weir first stringers in the third quarter, and then allowing the Weir
second team to battle them to a standstill the last period.
Its hard to find something
to get dissatisfied over when you run up 48 points on a supposedly “tough
opponent”, but Coach Brown has a thing or two to say to his second team that
will require more than two words when he gets going. He wasn’t at all pleased with the yannigans’ performance and indicates a shakeup is in the
making.
The second team tried
everything, and though its efforts at one time had only gained it second down
and 49 yards to go, it kept on trying and put on an entertaining performance
even though the ball moved the wrong direction because of penalties.
Coach Hamill,
will probably have a thing or two also to say when he gathers his brood
together Monday. There’s no doubt that
his second team gave a better account of itself against the Tiger seconds than did
the varsity, though allowance must be made for the latter, since they had gone
through a terrific first half.
There were two periods of
fierce football.
The
The blocking was great, and
the line sliced the visitors’ forward wall as you would cut a watermelon,
leaving large gaps for the ball carriers to amble through.
Weirton never expected as
severe a beating, though some visiting fans confidentially admitted before the
game that
On
Weirton pinned its faith in
its big line to stop the Massillon ground attack, and
scattered five men in the secondary to break up the Tigers’ aerial maneuvers.
The
In possession of a
comfortable lead, Brown, used the greater part of the second period to brush
his varsity up on passing – and it didn’t look so good.
Discarding his running
attack, James tossed pass after pass. He
had difficulty hitting his mark. Three
times an attempt was also made to work a pass off an end sweep, but this too
failed when Herman Robinson, who throws the ball on the play, was unable to get
it to receivers.
The Massillon second team,
after scoring a touchdown at the start of the third period, played with the razzle dazzle the rest of the way, tossing shovel passes,
lateral passes off forward passes, and almost everything you could think of.
The prettiest working play
of the lot was a forward pass from Dick Adams to Keve
Bray, who tossed a lateral to Junior White.
On the next play
Weirton’s offense was
stopped cold by the great Tiger line, and somewhat to the disappointment of
many Massillon fans who had hoped the visitors could gain sufficient ground to
make the game interesting from a competitive standpoint. The fans gave the Riders a big hand late in
the first period when Capt. John Begola picked up 13
yards on an end around play for the first of the visitors’ two earned first
downs. They didn’t make the 10 yards
without the referee’s assistance again until the last play of the game, when an
eight-yard pass coming on top of a gain of three yards in two ball carrying
attempts, moved the leather up beyond the 10-yard marker. The gun cracked before it could be placed in
play again and several thousand of the fans were on their way home and missed
seeing it.
The hard running of Gillom and James, the pass defensive work of Robinson and
Bill Wallace’s ability to prune off Weir runners behind the line of scrimmage
were big lights in the Tiger victory.
James and Blunt also carried
the leather well behind the almost perfect blocking accorded the Tiger ball
carriers.
Statistics as well as the
score tell the story of
For the first couple of
minutes after the kickoff it didn’t look as though it would turn out that
way. On the first play after the kickoff
Ray Getz tried a spin at the Rider line but fumbled when hit hard and Frank Kazmerski, the Rifer center, covered on the
Here the Tigers demonstrated
themselves the superior team. They
blasted a big hole in the visitors light tackle and James ripped through for 21
yards. “Horace, its
your turn,” they said in the huddle, and when the big end turned on the steam
on a sweep, Weir tacklers bounced everywhere.
It was 49 yards and a touchdown, and Ray Getz kicked goal. Runs like that do something to a team and
Weir never had as much pep thereafter.
The Tigers kicked to the
visitors but they punted back to James when they couldn’t gain and little Tom
was unable to gain, so fast did Begola come down
after the ball. But on the first play
from scrimmage, he started on his own 18 and raced back 23 yards to the 41
before being flopped to earth. Blunt did
a jitterbug on the next run before the visitors got him on their 35. Robinson, Blunt and James put the leather on
the 19, and it was left for Gillom to free wheel
around left end for another touchdown.
Getz kicked the goal and it was 14 – 0.
Janura got off a quick kick after the following kickoff that sailed over
James’ head and rolled dead on the Tiger 24.
On the next series of plays, James tossed his first pass, a beauty, to
Getz, who made a spectacular catch, literally stealing the ball from two Rider
defenders to carry to the Weir 44-yard line.
It was a 33-yard gain. In two
attempts, Blunt was hugging the leather on the 20-yard line. Robinson passed to Gillom
on an end sweep. The pass was short, but
a Weir secondary interfered with Gillom getting to
the ball and interference was called, giving the Tigers a first down on the
Weir four-yard line. Blunt took it over
and Getz again kicked.
That was all for the first
period. Early in the second quarter, the
visitors’ had their only scoring opportunity when James fumbled George Wansack’s punt, Begola covering
on the Tiger 25-yard line. There stocky
Bill Wallace went to work and tossed Begola for
a five-yard loss on an end around play,
and when Wansack’s pass was far out of reach of the receiver on the
next play, Coach Hamill substituted Janura for Wansack. Robinson again rose to the occasion,
intercepted Janura’s pass, picked up blockers and ran
back to the Weir 10-yard line before he was hauled down by Janura.
James made two yards, and
Blunt in two attempts was over the goal.
Getz missed his first attempted placekick and the score was 27 – 0.
The Riders stopped the
Tigers next time the locals got the ball, Gillom
kicking a spiral that twisted its way for 53 yards over the
After an exchange of punts,
James intercepted Janura’s pass in midfield and raced
back to the 31. Gillom
picked up another 15 and on third down, James shovel passed to Robinson who ran
for the touchdown. Again Getz kicked
goal, five out of six for him.
While the varsity played the
entire first half with the exception of two substitutions, Pizzino
and Oliver, not a one of the 11 starting players, entered the second half.
An entire second team
started the third period, shoved over a touchdown quickly and then declared a
holiday. The touchdown came after the
Tigers had gotten the ball through a punt on the Weir 39-yard line. Pizzino and Adams
made it first down on the 27, and Adams, Bray and Pizzino
got another first down on the seven.
Bray lost two yards on a sweep, but
The second team shoved
another over late in the third period but it was not allowed because of a
penalty.
They threatened again in the
fourth quarter, and Frank Erdley passed to Bray over the goal, but offensive interference was called,
the Tigers were penalized 15 yards, and
Except for a bruised left
leg sustained by Pizzino, the Tigers emerged
unscathed. The Red Riders though they
took time out frequently, because of injury, escaped without any serious
results. Walter Gelini,
their giant right tackle, complained of a sore shoulder.
Tigers Again
Robinson LE Stakius
Carinal LT Gelini
Wallace LG Babiak
Appleby C Kazmerski
Russell RG Canel
Broglio RT Lalich
Gillom RE Begola
Kingham QB Ziniach
James LH Janura
Getz RH Yoklic
Blunt FB Fabyanich
Score by periods:
Substitutions:
Touchdowns:
Gillom 2, Blunt 2, James Robinson, Adams.
Points after touchdown: Getz 5, (placekicks), Pizzino
(placekick).
Officials
Referee
– Lobach.
Umpire
– Jenkins.
Headlinesman – Brubaker.
Field
Judge – Wrobleski.
TIGER 1ST
TEAM RUSHED TO
41 – 0 LEAD AT
HALFTIME
16,000
See Mighty
(Plain Dealer Special)
MASSILLON, O., Sept. 20 – The famed juggernaut
of Coach Paul E. Brown ran its football supremacy past the highly regarded
Weirton, W.
With the first team
compiling a 41 to 0 advantage in the fist half, Brown sent in an entire new
team that finished up with a touchdown to treat the overflow crowd of 16,000.
The second touchdown was an
exact duplication of the first with the exception that Gillom
was taxed with only a 25-yard sprint.
After that touchdowns came easy, with Blunt zigging through the opposition for a pair and James and Robinson,
finding the route for one each. Ray
Getz’s educated toe was in top form as he split the uprights with five
placements in a half dozen attempts. An
interference penalty aided the locals considerably in ringing up the third
touchdown in the first quarter.
After Tom James’ pass
intended for Horace Gillom was broken up when a Wierton secondary man held his arm the Tigers received the
ball on the 1 from where Pokey Blunt crashed over. A beautiful 75-yard run of an intercepted
aerial by Herm Robinson led to the fourth touchdown shortly after the second
period commenced. Two attempts at guard by Blunt from
the 11-yard stripe ran the total to 27.
After 27 yards of twisting
and turning, Tom James’ buck pass from the
The second half was an
altogether different type of game, the Tigers mixing a series of lateral passes
with their off-tackle smashes. It was
the first time that the Tigers used the forward-lateral pass method in several
seasons.
Grid Statistics
3 First downs 21
25 Scrimmage plays tried 47
59 Yds. Gained from
scrimmage 336
19 Yards gained passing 86
0 Yards gained lateraling 52
78 Total yards gained 474
11 Yds. Lost from
scrimmage 27
67 Net yardage gained 447
9 Passes thrown 20
2 Passes completed 8
1 Passes intercepted 4
0 Laterals tried 3
1 Fumbles 2
3 Fumbles recovered 0
10 Punts 4
367 Total yardage of punts 174
37 Yardage per punt 43
2 Penalties 7
20 Yardage lost from penalties 75
1 Kickoff 8
(How They Gained)
Sp. G. L. N.G.
Begola 4 19 5 14
Januara 5 14 0 14
Volosin 6 12 0 12
Stakis 1 5 0 5
Ziniach 1 3 0 3
Fabyanich 1 1 0 1
R. Kraina 1 2 0 2
Wansask 6 3 6 0
25 59 11 48
James 9 112 10 102
Blunt 6 61 0 61
Gillom 2 32 0 32
Pizzino 6 30 0 30
White 7 25 2 25
Holt 1 4 0 4
Robinson 1 5 0 5
47 336 27 309
Tigers Top
By
48 – 0 Count
Regulars In Action Only In First Half;
18,000 Watch
Fray
The football score was 48 –
0, as Paul Brown’s
The win was over a fine
looking, well drilled, husky
Hoss Gillom, Massillon’s sensational Negro end,
simply outraced the whole
Minutes later on the same
sort of play in which he comes around from right end to become the third ball
handler in the backfield and the most important, Gillom
outraced the West Virginians for 19 yards and a second touchdown.
The third came after a long
pass to Pokey Blunt had been rules complete on the
In the second quarter Herman
Robinson intercepted Janura’s pass and returned 65
yards to set up the fourth touchdown, which Blunt made on a smash.
The fifith
was manufactured by Johnny Pizzino who smashed for
10. Getz who raced for
26 and James who cut back from the eight-yard line to go over the goal line.
Getz failed to convert after
the fourth touchdown, the first apparent mistake made by the Tigers during the
game.
Still later in the second
period James intercepted a Weirton pass and brought it back 17 to Wierton’s 30-yard line from where Gillom
got 17 and James then passed to Robinson who scampered 10 for the sixth
touchdown. Getz placekicked the 41st
point seconds before the half ended.
With a 41 – 0 lead at
halftime it was evident Brown might have sent his varsity regulars to a dance
for the remainder of the evening, so far as their being needed was concerned.
The second stringers counted
early in the third period on a smash by Dick Adams from five yards out and then
closed the books for the night.
Twice later they went over
for touchdowns which were ruled void because of penalties. A clipping charge offset a 13-yard touchdown
run by
But it is just as well. This affair was much more interesting than
the 64 – 0 rout of Cathedral Latin last week because the Massillon subvarsity was on practically even terms with the fighting
Weirton outfit during the second half.
The band competition was
closer but honors as usual went to the Tigers.
They featured a dance feature at the half, built around Madame LaZonga’s sixth lesson.
Before the
Classy
Tigers
Register 25th Straight Win On Home Field; Riders Fail to Make
Scoring Threat
Massillon High school’s
high-powered football machine, regarded as the best scholastic team in the
nation, rolled over the Weir Red Riders in blitzkrieg waves in the Massillon
stadium Friday night to win 48 to 0 before a throng of 17,500. The victory was the 25th straight
for the Tigers.
The Tiger machine was everything
it was pictured to be, displaying brilliant blocking and timing, elusive
open-field running and swift driving.
The Riders were left hopeless against the first team in the first half,
but limited the second team to one touchdown in the last half.
The Riders were completely
outclassed against the Tiger first team and never had a chance of scoring. The Weir secondary tackling bogged down, but
the team as a whole put up a determined fight despite the overwhelming odds
against them.
The Tigers mauled the Riders
for three touchdowns in the first period, three more in the second and one in
the third. Horace Gillom,
versatile 194 pound end, scored the first two touchdowns on end-around jaunts
of 49 and 19 yards. Fred Blunt scored
twice, while Tom James, Herman Robinson and Dick Adams scored once each.
In the closing quarter the
Riders’ second team played the Tigers to a standstill. That quarter indicated the possible strength
of the two teams when they meet next year.
The Tigers lose nine regulars and the two to be around for the 1941 team
will be Fred Blunt and Herman Robinson, both colored.
Statistically the Buckeye
team completely outclassed the Riders in every department of the game. They piled up 21 first downs to 3, gained 474
yards to 78, and intercepted 4 of the 9 passes thrown. It was the first time a team outscored the
Riders on first downs since 1936 when
To name an outstanding
player on the Tiger first team, one would have to pick the entire team, which
worked with flawless precision. But Gillom was the spark plug of the team on the offense as
well as the defense. He did everything
well.
Three
Goals in 1st Period
The Tigers reeled off three
touchdowns in the opening period in quick fashion. James took Kazmerski’s
kickoff from the 10 to the 41. Getz, on
the very first play fumbled and Walter Gelini
recovered on
James took Januara’s punt on the 14 and returned to the 18. James reeled off 23 yards, while Blunt
crashed through center and reversed his field for 35 more yards. Robinson, Blunt and James on three successive
plays made it a first down on the 19-yard line from where Gillom
duplicated his first touchdown feat by scoring untouched. The march totaled 82 yards. Getz’s toe again was accurate.
The Tigers’ third touchdown
march started on the 24. Januara punted from his 22 to their 24 and on the play
The Riders got their first
opportunity to score in the opening of the second quarter. James fumbled Wansack’s
punt on the 25 and Begola recovered. This marked the nearest the Riders were to
scoring. On the first play Begola, on an end around play lost 5 yards with Wallace
making the tackle.
Januara replaced Wansack
and his pass was intercepted on the 20 by Robinson, who behind perfect blocking
raced 70 yards before he was hauled down by Januara
on the 10-yard line.
On three tries Blunt went over from the one-foot line. Getz’s kick went wide.
A few plays after the
kickoff the Buckeyes were on their way for the fifth touchdown. James returned Januara’s
punt from the 20 to the 38. The Tigers
were stopped for the first time and had to kick with Gillom’s
punt going over the goal line, but on the play, Gelini
was penalized 15 yards for clipping from behind, giving the Tigers the ball on
the 44. Pizzino
advanced the ball to his 45. James pass
to Getz netted 18 yards, putting the ball on the 27. James went through center and reversed his
field for the touchdown. Getz’s boot
made it 34-0.
With but two second left in
the first half, James shovel-passed to Robinson who scored the sixth touchdown
while Getz made it five out of six placements and the score at halftime was
41-0.
Coach Paul Brown started his
second team against the Riders at the start of the third period and they
finished the game by scoring once against the Weir regulars in the third
period, but were held to a standstill by Hamill’s
second team in the closing quarter.
After an exchange of punts, Wansack’s second punt went short as it carried to the 39
opening the way for the only score of the last half. Dick Adams on a reverse gained 15 yards. Bray on an end around play got 5 and Pizzino made it a firstdown on
the 7. Bray lost 3 with Kazmerski and Begola stopping him.
Adams scored once more in
the same period, but the touchdown was nulled when
one of his teammates clipped Kazmerski from
behind. On the play Kazmersaki
was hurt and had to be taken from the game.
No Surprise To Fans;
Band Goes Modernistic
The Weir gridiron defeat was
no surprise to the more than 2,500
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Led by Drum Major Harry Hovista and eight high-stepping, baton-twirling majorettes,
the Weir band of 75 executed its letter formations and marched down the field
to a faster and livelier tempo than ever before. Both sides of the field gave the band a
rousing reception. The waltz to “Repasz Band” was well performed. They also played the W-L Swing and the Weir
Pep Song. The band plans novelty
maneuvers for future games. Emil Holz received much credit for the excellent performance
last night.
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The
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The
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Yesterday was a day of
superlatives – the best scholastic football team in the country; the best
scholastic swing band in the country; the largest football crowd in the country
(high school or college); the biggest Weirton crowd ever to leave the city for
a football game; the biggest out-of-town crowd ever to come to Massillon
(except Dayton) – etc.
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The
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There were 636 persons
aboard the Lions special – 623 adults and 13 children. The crowd was in gay spirits going to and
from the game and was not disheartened by the grid reversal. They had expected a
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The attendance on the
special train was the largest of any trip sponsored by the Lions. Last year they averaged 500 for each of the
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The 12-coach train left here
on schedule but arrived in
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The train concession was in
charge of the Hi-Y club of which
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Last night’s crowd was
officially estimated at 17,500, and last week’s at 17,000. The
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The enrollment of