Steubenville
Fifth
Victim of Tigers
By
CHUCK HESS, JR.
Webster’s dictionary defines a pile driver as a
machine for driving down piles.
Washington high’s Tigers came up with a new
definition Friday night. There could be
no more apt description of the Bengals offensive machine.
The Tigers literally drove a here-to-fore undefeated
Steubenville Big Red team down to submission, 38-14, before an overflow crowd
of some 10,000 fans at Harding stadium in the River City.
For the unbeaten Bengals it was win No. 5 on the
road to a third straight Ohio schoolboy championship. It was the first loss in five contests for the Big Red.
After the game an utterly flabbergasted Steubenville
coach, Ray Hoyman, said, “You’ve got quite a team there.” He also added, “We’re not thick enough for
you,” meaning Hoyman didn’t have the depth to cope with the Tiger juggernaut.
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MASSILLON COACH
Leo Strang said, “This was the best game away from home since I’ve been
here. Our power offense was also the
best this season.”
He mentioned the aerial game. We had tough luck with our passing. Steubenville made some beautiful saves he
said. The Big Red intercepted two
passes. Four were incomplete.
Although the Bengals played every bit as well as
against Alliance last week, Friday marked the first time any team had scored
more than one touchdown against Massillon.
Two bad breaks late in the game caused that situation.
With the Massillon second liners in and less than
two minutes left to play in the game,
Halfback Chuck Weiher intercepted one of Bob Baker’s aerials on the Big
Red 20-yard line and got back to the 24.
With the exception of this and two other times, Massillon scored every
time it got its hands on the ball.
Quarterback Bill Hoyman, the coach’s son and
Co-captain, picked up seven yards around left end. Then he passed to Co-Captain and End Ken Potts for 17 more and a
first down.
On the next play Halfback Ray Terry shot through the
middle, cut to the right sideline and was gone 52 yards for the score at
1:43. He fumbled a pitchout on the
conversion try to prevent any further damage there.
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MASSILLON RAN
seven plays after the kickoff, was penalized on three of them and Jim Alexander
dropped back to punt on his own 28. The
snap was bad. He fell on it but being
fourth down, it became Steubenville’s ball when the Bengals failed to make the
necessary yardage.
The Big Red took over on the Massillon nine with 10
seconds remaining. Wilson took a flat
pass off a pitch and raced around the right side to the one. Terry carried over through the center on the
final play of the game. Wilson took a
pitch and passed to Paul Cunningham for the conversion.
Steubenville was in Massillon territory only two
other times during the game. Earlier in
the last stanza, Harry Wilson, the Big Red’s leading scorer, grabbed Wilbur
Paisley’s kickoff after the final Tiger score on the Steubenville 20 and raced
down the sideline to the Massillon 23.
Confusion reigned among the Washington high ranks
with the reserves in on the kickoff.
Paisley almost kicked the ball before Referee Bill Holzwarth sounded his
whistle. Then the Tigers didn’t seem to
know who was supposed to do what on Wilson’s long run.
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THE BIG RED
lost the ball on an incompleted pass on fourth down four plays later on the
Massillon 27. On one of those plays Bob
Baker knocked down a Hoyman pass in the end zone to prevent a score.
Steubenville didn’t get onto Bengal ground until the
third period had seen about 10 minutes of play go by. After the Tigers fourth score, the Big Red took over on its 35
and moved to the Massillon 33 where a pass was incomplete on fourth down, again
thanks to an alert Bengal secondary.
Although Massillon didn’t blitz as much Friday as
against Alliance, because Steubenville didn’t have the explosive attack of the
Aviators, its Oklahoma 5-4 and Eagle six defenses were more than adequate,
holding Steubenville to 136 net yards rushing and 53 passing. The Tigers had 361 rushing and 25
passing. Steubenville completed only
one of 13 passes, Massillon two of eight.
The Tigers gained a lot of yardage on the trap
between the outside tackle and long side end.
With Steubenville playing a wide 6-2 most of the night, the Big Red was
a sucker for this type of play.
Massillon started off the night as if it owned
Steubenville. Although the Tigers
failed to score the fist time, they got their hands on the ball, they dominated
play for the rest of the night after that.
The Bengals lost the toss again for the fourth time
in five tries, but Steubenville elected to defend the East goal. The Big Red kicked to Co-Captain Charlie
Brown on the 30. His runback was only
three yards.
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WITH BROWN,
Fred Philpott and Ken Dean alternating on the running, the Tigers carried to
the Steubenville five in 12 plays and four first downs, using short gainers for
their yardage. Then with the ball on
the five, third and three, the Tigers were caught holding. The ball was moved back to the 18. Two plays later a pass incompletion stopped
the drive on the 14.
Bob Baker intercepted a pass on the Steubenville 25
to set up the Tigers’ first score.
Alexander threw to Wingback Ron Schenkenberger on the hook pattern for a
first down on the 16. Brown gained a
yard and Philpott 10 through the middle.
Then Brown went between the center and the long side
guard for the score at 2:37. The same
play netted two more points on the conversion.
This was to be the first of four two-pointers for
the Bengals. They seemed to have found
the answer to all of their conversion attempts, which went awry in the previous
four games.
The Tigers scored again after getting the ball via a
punt mid way in the second frame. They
marched from their own 25 to pay dirt in nine plays with three first downs.
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BROWNS 42-YARD
run down the center on the first play from scrimmage helped set up the
score. Dean took the ball over on the
wedge from the one on third down at 6:13.
Philpott swept left end for the conversion.
The Bengals had one other chance in the second
quarter, but were forced to punt the first of two times during the night when
they failed to get beyond their 37.
Receiving again at the start of the second half,
Washington high lost no time in scoring.
It took the Tigers five plays and two first downs, starting from their
own 33.
Brown had an 11-yard romp through from his 48 to the
Steubenville 41 on second down in the first series. Two plays later on second and three on the 34 Philpott went
through between the outside tackle and long side end for the tall at 9:15.
When Steubenville was penalized to the 1 ½ for delay of game, Dean tried to use his
favorite play, the wedge, for the conversion, but missed. It was the only time during the night the
Tigers did.
A little later the Bengals forced the Big Red to
punt again, taking over on their own 36.
Massillon covered 64 yards in eight plays and three first downs for the
fourth TD.
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THE BIG RUNS
were by Alexander and Brown, both between the tackles. Alexander moved the ball from his 42 to
Steubenville’s 33 on second and four, Brown raced from the
22 to the nine.
Brown then cracked over, again between the tackles,
at 3:43 on second and four from the four.
Philpott’s sweep off a pitch left made it 30-0.
Massillon’s final tally came after a Big Red
incomplete pass in the final quarter.
The Bengals took over on their own 33 and reeled off 67 yards in eight
plays with three first downs.
Philpott’s long run from his 33 to the Steubenville
39 on a second and 10 situation helped set up the last score. Davis finally carried in, between the
outside tackle and long side end for the score on third and one from the one at
7:51. Alexander tallied the conversion
off the short side.
The long trip to Cincinnati for the Roger Bacon game
comes next Friday as the Tigers take step No. 6 in the climb toward the state
title.
MASSILLON
Ends – Ivan, L. Ehmer,
Garland, McDew, Pierce and Dewald.
Tackles – Spees, Strobel,
Dekan, Profant, Magliacho, Mercer, C. Bradley and Clendening.
Guards – Clendenin,
Migge, Geckler, J. Ehmer, Poole, Whitfield, Mickley, Caldwell, Relford, Radel
and Matecheck.
Centers – B. Bradley and
Heckathorn.
Backs – Alexander,
Schenkenberger, Brown, Philpott, Dean, Baker, Snively, Franklin, Jarvis, Lash,
Getz, Williams, Sullivan, Davis and Kanney.
STEUBENVILLE
Ends – Potts, Ray and
Herring.
Tackles – S. Schaeffer,
Mazzaferre and Peters.
Guards – Newman, Ohle,
Lawson and Sheffert.
Centers – Archer and
Duncan.
Backs – Hoyman, Weiher,
Wilson, Terry, Cunningham and Barnes.
Score by Quarters
Massillon 8 8 14 8 38
Steubenville 0 0 0 14 14
SCORING
Massillon
Touchdowns –
Brown 2 (five and four-yard runs); Philpott (34-yard run); Dean (one-yard
plunge); Davis (one-yard plunge).
Conversions –
Philpott (2) Brown, Alexander.
Steubenville
Touchdowns –
Terry (52 and one-yard runs).
Conversions –
Cunningham (pass from Wilson).
OFFICIALS
Referee – Bill Holzwarth.
Umpire – Wilson Murray.
Head Linesman – Ted Humphrey.
Field Judge – Andy Chiebeck.
STATISTICS
First
downs – rushing 18 3
First
downs – passing 2 2
First
downs – penalties 0 1
Total
first downs 20 8
Yards
gained rushing 382 130
Yards
lost rushing 21 3
Net
yards gained rushing 361 136
Yards
gained passing 25 53
Total
yards gained 386 180
Passes
attempted 8 13
Passes
completed 2 5
Passes
intercepted by 2 1
Times
kicked off 5 3
Kickoff
average (yards) 45.0
26.3
Kickoff
returns (yards) 8 97
Times
punted 1 3
Punt
average (yards) 27.0
30.6
Punt
return (yards) 2 0
Had
punts blocked 0 0
Fumbles 1 0
Lost
fumbled ball 0
0
Yards
penalized 40 75