Tigers Rock,
Roll Benedictine
In 55-0 Waltz
A bunch of Swingin’ Cats dug the Bossu-Novak beat provided by the Benedictine Bengals at Tiger Stadium Saturday night and turned what was expected to be a Pier 6 brawl into a waltz.
It was the wildest party of
the 10 rock’em sock’em
football socials played between the 2 foes and when it was over the mighty
The 11,097 who saw the game
were amazed at the outcome. Never did
they expect to see a Benedictine team beaten as badly as this one. Not since 1961 when the Benies
lost 40-0 to
Benedictine Coach Augie Bossu, obviously unhappy
with the outcome, was asked if he had any comments on the game and came back
with a standard reply, “What can you say?
We got beat by a good ball club.”
Asked if the absence of his 2 stars, halfback Larry Zelina
and Captain Greg Betts, both out with leg injuries, hurt his club, he replied,
“How the heck should I know? You can’t
tell what they would have done. I won’t
take away from their (the Tigers) effort.”
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AND IT WAS quite an effort by the Tigers who almost duplicated their 58-0 victory
of last week over
The Tiger touchdown parade
started after Benie quarterback Glenn Novak picked up
9 yards on 2 roll outs, failed to get the necessary yard on a 3rd
and 1 at the Benie 44 and booted to the Tiger 36
where Dave Sheegog ran it back 2 yards.
Halfback Edgar Herring got 6
yards in 2 tries and then his running mate Bob Hewitt broke inside the Benie left end from his own 44 to the visitors’ 9 for a
47-yard gain. Herring went off tackle
for 9 yards for the touchdown and the Tigers were on the scoreboard with
Benedictine had the ball for
2 plays including the kickoff when safety man Nick Pribich
intercepted a Novak pass on the 50 for the Tigers. A
Benedictine moved from its
32 to its 47 where Konrad Kmetz
punted out of bounds at the
THE BENIES picked up 5 yards
in 3 tries and Kmetz went back to kick on a 4th
and 5. However, linebacker Paul Marks
broke through and blocked the kick and defensive end Dave Whitfield picked up
the ball about the 6 and went in for the score making it 22-0 with 9:06 to go
in the second quarter. The extra point
try failed.
Three plays netted the Benies 7 yards after the kickoff and
Seven plays later a 52-yard
drive sparked by an 11-yard gain by quarterback Steve Kanner
and another dazzling run, this one for 20-yard by Hewitt, was climaxed by an
8-yard cut off tackle for a touchdown by Lawrence. Hewitt picked up the extra points and a 30-0
score with
The half ended with the
Tigers in possession on the Benie 44.
In the third quarter an
8-play, 49-yard Tiger drive stalled on the Benie 10,
wasting a
25-yard gain by Herring. With a 4th and 13
for Benedictine on its own 13, the Tigers blocked a punt and recovered the ball
in the end zone, but an offside penalty nullified the score and Kmetz kicked out to his 45 where Sheegog
returned it to the 25. The Tigers moved
in to the Benie 18 from where Herring ran a gauntlet
of Benedictine tacklers, twisting out of the arms of the last one at the 5 and
scored to make it 46-0.
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THE
CLEVELANDERS then made their deepest
penetration to the
An 82-yard drive in 12 plays
highlighted by a 15-yard run by Terry Manson and aided by a 15-yard penalty on
the Benies ended when halfback Walt Lemon scored for
19 yards out to make the score 42-0.
Junior place-kicker Bill Pearch made his first
conversion of the season to put the score at 43-0.
Benedictine never got past
its 46 on the following series and punted to Sheegog
at the 16, the junior quarterback returning to his 33. The Tigers moved to the Benie
34 from where Sheegog connected with end Rick Paige
who took the pass on the 25 and went down the sideline, lunging into the end
zone for the score making it 49-0.
Co-captain Don Schenkenberger recovered a
Massillon Coach Earle
Bruce’s only comment along with surprise that the Tigers were able to score so
much on Benedictine, was that his team came up with “a
real good offensive effort.” He added,
“We had some good blocking, especially at the point of attack by tackles Dennis
Morgan and Dennis Rambaud.” Morgan got his man 90 per cent of the time
and Rambaud 80 per cent.
ON THE BASIS of the movies grades, John Muhlbach, center
and co-captain, was named player of the week, guard Tom Whitfield the lineman
of the week and Edgar Herring the back of the week.
Muhlbach received an overall grade of 67 per cent and was credited with 10
tackles and 1 assist. Whitfield got a 66
per cent grade, was accredited with 4 tackles and 6 assists, applied pressure
on the Benedictine passer, and blocked a Benedictine punt.
Herring got an 84 per cent
grade. The movies showed Herring did a
real fine job of blocking.
BENEDICTINE – 0
Ends – Petrus,
Hodakievic, Ciccone, Kane, Pilcavage.
Tackles – Iwan, McManamon, Koprowski, Inman, Russ.
Guards – Busi,
Morgan, Treska, Hyclak, Braschwitz.
Center – Baumbick.
Backs – Novak, Ellis, Kmetz, Marn, Dienes,
Scanlon, Roff, Mihalek,
Grim.
Ends – Goodnough,
Paige, Crone, B. Williams, Gilmore, Franklin,
Garcia, McGuire, Pollock, Lash, D.
Whitfield.
Tackles – Croop, Morgan, Binge, Hartley, Petroff,
Paul,
Guards – Zorger,
Larsuel, Richards, Whitfield, Mazon,
T. Whitfield.
Centers – Muhlbach, Biddle, Rambaud, F.
Williams, Hartman.
Backs – Kanner,
Sheegog, Pribich, Frieg, Schenkenberger, Marks,
Shanor,
James, Foster, Herring, Hewitt, Lemon, Schaar,
Lawrence, Healy, Conti.
BENEDICTINE …………… 0 0 0 0 – 0
Touchdowns – Herring 2 (runs of 9 and 18 yards), Paige 2 (passes
of
34 and 16 yards from Sheegog), Hewitt (50-yard
run),
D. Whitifield (6-yard run with blocked kick
recovery),
run).
Extra Points – Herring 2
(run),
Pearch 1 (kick).
Officials:
Referee – Don Welsh (
Umpire – Russ Kemper (
Head Linesman – Clarence
Rich (
Field Judge – C.W. Rupp (
First downs—rushing 18 5
First downs—passing 4 4
First downs—penalties 2 0
Total first downs 24 9
Yards gained rushing 397
109
Yards lost rushing 4 57
Net yards gained rushing 393 52
Net yards gained passing 79 75
Total yards gained 472
127
Passes attempted 17 13
Passes completed 4 5
Passes intercepted by
2 0
Yardage, on passes intercepted 0 0
Times kicked off 9 1
Kickoff average (yards) 47.2 33
Kickoff returns (yards) 12 166
Times punted 2 6
Punt average (yards)
25.5 30.3
Punt returns (yards)
49 4
Had punts blocked
0 1
Fumbles 1 2
Lost fumbled ball
0 1
Penalties 1 7
Yards penalized 5 54
Touchdowns rushing
5 0
Touchdowns passing
2 0
Touchdowns by miscellaneous
0 0
Miscellaneous 1
0
Total number of plays
66 54