Tigers Claw
Bengals’ Defense Shares Opening Night Limelight With Sparkling Offense
By CHUCK HESS, JR.
They ran it here! They ran it there! They ran that pigskin everywhere!
Like “Hurricane Betsy,” which
dropped some of its remaining rain on Tiger stadium, the
The
But the defense deserves a
pat on the back, too, for its multiple-player,
bone-crunching tackles and lightning-like charges. The Tarblooders
were held to a minus 3 yards on the ground, losing 76 yards.
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GLENVILLE got only 2 sustained drives going all night but was stopped both times
by a determined Tiger defense. The Tarblooders moved from their 41-yard line to the Obiemen’s one-foot line in the first period and from the
Had Glenville scored in the
driving rain, which hit in the first quarter and kept on sporadically the rest
of the night, the Tarblooders might have tied the
score. It was 8-0 at the time. But halfback Johnny Pollard was stopped
short.
“I thought we were over and
so did Pollard,” Glenville coach Phil Crawley said later. “That hurt us and so did the fact we have a
lot of green kids and
Tiger Coach Earle Bruce
thought, “Those 2 goal line stands helped a lot, especially since some of the
younger boys were involved.” Bruce was
happy that a lot of juniors got a chance to play and that he had the opportunity
to get his running game into shape. He
felt the rain hampered his team’s ground efforts.
The wet stuff not
withstanding, the Bengals rolled up 337 net yards to
80 for Glenville and 19 first downs to 6.
The Tigers gained nothing through the air in 5 tries.
The rain played havoc with
the ball-handling, 10 fumbles resulting.
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THE
TIGERTOWNERS scored in every quarter
with the most points – 20 – coming in the second. Several players figured in the
fireworks. Quarterback Dave Sheegog scored 2 touchdowns, 2 conversions and passed for
2. Halfback Tommy James, Jr., tallied
twice for 6-pointers. Halfback Walt
Lemon got 2 and a conversion and halfback Will Foster
one. End Rick Healy got the other
conversion.
The defending state champions
scored the second time they got their hands on the ball. They almost went in the first time after a
pass interception but fumbled on the Glenville 13.
Safety Rick Paige
intercepted another Glenville aerial on the Tarblooder
35 and ran it back to the 8. Lemon got
the call on the option play to the right on the next play and “Sweet Walter”
scored with
After stopping Glenville on
the one-foot line, the Tigers ground machine, with Sheegog,
Foster, Lemon and fullback Terry Manson all taking turns, moved the pigskin to
the Glenville 42. Lemon shot off left
tackle for the remaining distance with
The Tigers scored the next 2
times they got the ball in the second quarter, after bottling up Glenville in
its own territory. The first chance came
when tackle Dick Hartley made a teeth-rattling tackle which threw Glenville to
its 14 after a bad fourth-down snap.
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JAMES, bringing back memories of his famous father’s 1940 running, carried to
the 3 on the first play. Foster, like
James a junior, slanted left for the TD on the next play for a 20-0 lead at
The third second-period
score came when Paige intercepted a pass on his 45 and
long-legged it back to the Glenville 38.
Four plays later, with first
down on the 26, James saw daylight between left guard
and left tackle and “Red, Jr.” was gone for a score at
Paige intercepted another
pass near the end of the half on his 35 and returned to the Glenville 32. This time “Ramblin’
Rick” was injured and sat out the rest of the game with a left bruise, which does
not appear too serious. Sheegog came up with a slight “Charlie Horse.”
A Tiger fumble on the 22
aborted this scoring try.
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THE BENGALS activated the scoreboard lights twice in the third stanza. Driving straight down the field on the ground
after the kickoff, the Tigers scored at
Another bad fourth-down pass
from center and fumble gave
The final
Bruce felt that Lemon,
Foster and James ran well. He thought
junior Mike Kraft did a good line backing job but generally was pleased overall
with his team’s performance.
Although he wouldn’t admit it,
the Skipper was obviously running under wraps.
He must play a tough
A
Good Start!
GLENVILLE
– 0
Ends – Stewart, Smith, Bullard.
Tackles – Wilson, Binder, Gibbs.
Guards – Kince,
King.
Centers – Greene, Kitt.
Quarterback – Patrick
Halfbacks – Harris, White,
Dean, Holton, Pollard.
Fullbacks – Reese, Robbins.
Ends – Healy,
Paige, Riese,
Russell.
Tackles – Petroff, Hartley, Campbell, Neago,
Croop, Sherrett.
Guards – Rose, Kraft, Beiter, Mazon, Whitfield, Richards,
Porrini.
Centers – Marks, Ehmer, Croop, Williams.
Quarterbacks – Sheegog, Maurer, Doolittle.
Halfbacks – Lemon, Smith, McLendon, James, Foster, Muhlbach,
McFaden.
Fullback – Manson
Score by
quarters:
Glenville………………… 0 0 0 0 – 0
Touchdowns: Sheegog
2 (7 and 2 yard runs); Lemon 2 (8 and 42 yard runs);
James 2 (26 and 9-yard runs); Foster 1
(3-yard run).
Extra Points: Sheegog 4 (2 runs); Lemon 2 (pass from Sheegog);
Healy 2 (pass from Sheegog).
Referee – Harvey Hodgson,
Jr. (
Umpire – Jack McLain (
Head Linesman – Bud Shopbell (
Field Judge – Don Welsh (
First downs—rushing 17 2
First downs—passing 0 3
First downs—penalties 2 1
Total first downs 19 6
Yards gained rushing 351 73
Yards lost rushing 14 76
Net yards gained rushing 337 (3)
Net yards gained passing 0 83
Total yards gained 337 80
Passes attempted 5 17
Passes completed 0 3
Passes intercepted by 3 0
Yardage on passes intercepted 36 0
Times kicked off 8 1
Kickoff average (yards) 42.2 28
Kickoff returns (yards) 0 157
Times punted 0 3
Punt average (yards) 0 25˝
Punt returns (yards) 62 0
Had punts blocked
0 0
Fumbles 4 6
Lost fumbled ball 3 2
Penalties 2 3
Yards penalized 30 35
Touchdowns rushing 7 0
Touchdowns passing 0 0
Touchdowns by interception 0 0
Miscellaneous 0 0
Total number of plays 54 56