Tigers Wallop Rayen 39 To 0
For Ninth Straight Win
LAST
DUEL BEFORE McKINLEY CONTEST
Regulars Score Three
Touchdowns And They Are Pulled Out With Second And Third Stringers Carrying
Burden In Cold Battle
And now, ladies and gentlemen, girls and boys, sit
back, take an aspirin tablet or two, take a good long drink of H2O
(that’s about all there is for us these days) and try to keep your nerves under
control if you can. The main event that
you’ve been awaiting for nine long weeks is only five days away.
The preliminaries are over, the big show is moving
on to the set and next Saturday afternoon it will have its premier and its
finale all within the space of a few hours.
It’s the Same
Old Picture
It will be a battle between 22 youthful warriors out on a chalk line
gridiron, fighting out their hearts to bring victory to their colors. On the sidelines will be 22,000 of more
frenzied spectators, nerves strained to the breaking point, shouting
encouragement to the band of gladiators they want to emerge victorious.
Yes, it’s the same old picture the same old setting
and the same old rivalry that has come down through the years. It’s the annual football clash between the
Tigers of Washington high school and the Bulldogs of Canton McKinley. Ohio’s schoolboy classic of the gridiron.
This year it will be staged at Fawcett stadium,
Canton and this year, as in years past, the warriors of the two schools come to
the end of the trail with hopes high and with a determination that the school
they represent shall hold the crown of champion when dusk settles over the torn
sod of the battleground next Saturday night.
For one team a cherished ambition will be
realized. For the other it will be a
heart breaking, dismal windup, the bursting of a bubble they had hoped would
stay intact to the finish. Seldom does
a Massillon-Canton game end in a tie.
Once again these two old scholastic foes of the
gridiron come to the end of a long, hard journey rated as the outstanding teams
in Ohio. This year both enter their 10th
and final tussle of the season with undefeated records. Of the two the Tigers own the best, they
have won nine in a row. The Bulldogs
have won eight and have a 13-13 tie with Warren to mar an otherwise perfect
slate.
Both teams hurdled their final obstacles last
week. The Bulldogs completed their
final task before the Tiger encounter last Thursday night barely nosing out a
determined Mansfield team 12 to 7. Two
Canton touchdowns in the closing minutes of the fourth period saved the
Bulldogs from their first lacing of the season.
The Tigers completed their final assignment before
testing the bite of the Bulldogs last Saturday on a snow covered gridiron at
Tiger stadium by defeating Youngstown Rayen 39 to 0 for their ninth victory in
a row while 5,000 shivering, teeth chattering fans braved a cold, wintry
blizzard to watch their favorites run rough shod over a beefy but rather
awkward opponent from Mahoning County.
As was expected the game proved a rather easy task
for Coach Elwood Kammer’s youthful pigskin chasers. Scoring in every quarter they rolled up six touchdowns and three
points after touchdowns, hitting pay dirt twice in each the first and second
periods and scoring lone markers in both the third and fourth.
As far as keeping his regulars in good physical
condition, the game worked out fine for Kammer. His starting lineup contained only eight of the Tiger first
stringers, the other three remaining on the sidelines throughout the encounter.
After the Tigers had scored their third touchdown
early in the second period, Kammer pulled all his regulars out of the encounter
and sent them into the clubhouse, the second team doing the battling the rest
of the day, giving way to the third stringers a minute or two before the final
gun. Every Tiger in uniform got a
chance to have his nose pushed into the snow that covered the field.
Rayen furnished but little opposition to the orange
and black. The Youngstown lads were quite
hefty but they failed to show a thing until late in the fourth quarter when
Jack Pickering, a pretty fair sort of halfback and Rayen’s offensive star,
brought his comrades to life by taking a Massillon punt on his 23 yard line and
racing it back 60 yards to Massillon’s 17 before being pulled down from behind
by Bob Richards, Tiger guard. It was
the longest single individual gain of the day and the only reason young Mr.
Pickering did not make it a touchdown was because he appeared to be so fagged
out he could hardly put one foot ahead of the other in the final stretch.
After Pickering enlivened his mates with his
spectacular dash, the Youngstown outfit made a determined bid for a touchdown
and almost succeeded. They finally
worked the ball to Massillon’s three-yard line with a first down coming up but
they lacked the punch to put it over, the Tigers ganging up on them and
repelling Rayen’s four attempts to score.
It did not take the Tigers long to tally their first
set of counters. The Tigers received
and an exchange of punts gave Massillon the ball on Rayen’s 39. On the first play the orange and black did a
clever bit of ball handling and when it was all over Wilmer Luke had scooted
down the sideline for 39 yards and a touchdown. Bob Wallace took the ball from center, tossed it to Romeo
Pellegrini for what looked like a reverse, and then Pellegrini uncorked a
lateral to Luke who had come around from his end post and the lanky colored boy
tucked the leather under his arm and neatly picked his way through the visitors
for a nifty bit of running that did not end until he was back of Rayen’s goal
line. Mastriann’s placekick was good
for the extra point.
A few minutes later another Tiger touchdown was in
the making. Tom Jasinski punted to
Pickering who was hit hard by Pellegrini just as he was picking up the
ball. Pickering fumbled and Luke
covered on Rayen’s 24-yard line. Then
on another one of those triple passes Wallace, Mastriann to Pellegrini, Romeo
skirted right end for six. On the next
play Wallace, “Crazy Legs” they call him now, dashed around his left end and
never stopped until he had planted the ball back of Rayen’s goal line. It was an 18-yard dash. Mastriann again made good on the conversion.
The third Massillon touchdown was on the way when
the first quarter ended. Jasinski took
Moses Garcia’s punt on Massillon’s 30 and ran it back nine yards to the
39. Pellegrini on a reverse hit right tackle
for five and then Wallace went on another rampage, this time around left end
for 27 yards to Rayen’s 29-yard line.
Pellegrini from punt formation cracked through the line for eight and
Mastriann made it a first down to Rayen’s 18 as the quarter ended.
Pellegrini stumbled and fell on the first play of
the second quarter, losing six yards.
He then pitched a strike to Luke who was chased out of bounds on Rayen’s
five yard line. Pellegrini made two at
the line, Mastriann went to the one through left tackle and Pellegrini scored
on the next play.
After the kickoff Kammer pulled his seven regulars
and sent in the remainder of the second team to help Luke, Richards and Wilbert
Pedrotty who had done a good job with the varsity. Luke replaced Don Willmot, Richards was in for Bill Gable and Pedrotty
filled Glenn Keller’s shoes.
With the regulars in the club house, enjoying a hot
shower, the second team went to work on the visitors and chalked up Massillon’s
fourth touchdown before the second quarter ended.
Vic Turkall punted to Adrian Castella who was downed
by Bob Clark on Massillon’s 37.
Pedrotty tossed Armando Rossi without gain and Richards crashed through
to floor Casetlla for a 16-yard loss.
Castella then dropped back to punt but Don Sedjo rammed through to block
the kick. As the ball sailed across Rayen’s
goal Bob Heltzel grabbed it for the touchdown.
Turkall’s place kick was good and boosted the score to 27-0.
A Rayen fumble led to Massillon’s fifth set of
counters soon after the third period opened.
Dick Walschlag dropped the ball and Pedrotty covered on Rayen’s 30. Wilbert Webb attempted a pass to Pedrotty
which failed. Sedjo hit for three and
Turkall passed to Clark for 9 to Rayen’s 18.
A pass from Turkall intended for Luke missed fire and then Webb missed
the ball on a lateral losing 10. Turkall,
however, wiped out this loss by pitching a pass into Luke’s arms and the
Massillon end went over for a touchdown.
The gain covered 28 yards.
Soon after the fourth quarter opened, Pickering
staged his thrilling 60-yard run and the Tigers had their chance to show how
rugged they were by successfully repelling Rayen’s
only real bid for a touchdown.
By this time Rayen was gambling desperately on
passes in an effort to score. Pickering
was doing most of the tossing and seldom hitting a receiver. He did, however, hit one receiver and it
meant another touchdown for Massillon.
The receiver happened to be Sedjo and he raced 50 yards for the score.
It happened near the end of the game. After getting the ball on Massillon’s 48
through a punt, Pickering dropped back and cut loose with a pass.
The ball landed squarely in the waiting arms of
Sedjo who was standing on the 50 and with a clear field ahead the Massillon
fullback romped 50 yards unmolested for the sixth and final Tiger touchdown.
Massillon’s third team took over after the
kickoff. Pickering completed three
passes, all to Stan Grosshandler, before the game ended but Rayen was still far
away from a touchdown when the gun sounded.
The statistics show Massillon made 12 first downs to
five for Rayen. The Tigers attempted 22
passes, completed six for 102 yards.
Rayen tried 23, completed five for 51 yards and had five intercepted.
The Tigers had a gross yardage from all plays of 263
and a loss of 46 for a net yardage of 217.
Rayen had a gross of 85 with a loss of 28 for a net of 57 yards.
Bulldogs
Next
Massillon – 30 Pos. Rayen
– 0
Luke LE Hunyadi
Arrington LT Burnett
Tonges LG Cappuzzello
Williams C Schan
Richards RG J.Degennaro
Berger RT Conroy
Jasinski RE Galose
Pedrotty QB D.Degennaro
Pellegrini LH Pickering
Wallace RH Tabachino
Mastriann FB C.
Bruno
Score by
quarters:
Massillon 14 13
6 6 – 39
Touchdowns: Luke 2, Wallace, Pellegrini,
Heltzel, Sedjo
Points after
touchdown: Mastriann 2 (place kick),
Turkall 1, (place kick).
Substitutions
– Massillon: Webb, Ielsch, Belch, Sedjo, Turkall, Profant, Clark, Heltzel,
Cicchinelli, McGuire, Weeks, Prine, Matako, Millar, Bonk, Rouhler, Stevens,
Makowski, Paulson, Slussler, Green, Kelly, Edie. Rayen: Surbrick, Dios, Maltbie, Garcia, Nicklas,
Labozan, Chimento, Markawitz, Wolshaf, Julian, Russi, Castella, Dickey, Fox,
Gosshandler.
Referee: Lobach.
Umpire: Shafer.
Headlineman: Murphy.
Field judge: Brown.
Statistics
Tigers Rayen
Total
first downs 12 5
Yards
gained by rushing 161 34
Yards
lost by rushing 46 28
Net
yards gained by rushing 115 6
Forward
passes attempted 22 23
Forward
passes completed 6 5
Yards
gained by passing 102 51
Total
net yardage rushing
and
passing 217 57
Passes
had intercepted 0 5
Number
of punts 10 5
Average
distance of punts 27 19
Number
of kickoffs 6 2
Average
distance of kicks 40 34
Number
of fumbles 1 3
Times
ball lost on fumbles 0 2
Number
of penalties against 5 4
Yards
lost by penalties 35 30
Big
Program for Tiger Boosters
The final meeting
of the Tiger Booster club before the Massillon-Canton game next Saturday will
be held in the Washington high school auditorium this evening at 8 o’clock.
It will be one of
the most important of the year and should prove to be one of the most
interesting.
It will be an
open meeting and all Tiger fans are invited.
Coach Elwood
Kammer will not attend tonight’s meeting.
The Tiger coach never attends the meeting before the Canton game.
Officers for the
coming year will be elected. The Tiger
swing band of Washington high school will be on hand to furnish music and the
recently organized Massillon chapter of the Society of the Preservation and
Encouragement of
Barbershop Quartet Singing in America will make its first public appearance.