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Show Friday, November 13, 1942. SOUTH HIGH SCRIBE Page Five C Win and B Loss Second Place Longmen Triumph In Clincher; Cal, Oily Shine Realizing that a possibility of winning South's first football crown depended upon their per-formance, Nate Long's midgeteers downed a scrappy Leopard eleven 13-- 6 Thursday at South. After receiving the opening kickoff, the Cubs marched sixty-eig- ht yards to a score without los-ing possession of the ball. Cal Hathenbrook scored on a cleverly executed play from East's twenty-tw- o yard line. Russ Mears' try for extra point was wide. The Leopard's score came as the result of a pass play shortly after the opening of the second quarter. Ray Langston took the pass at mid-fiel- d and outran sevtral pursuing field and outran several pursuing try for the extra point was an end run which the Cubs smother-ed. Capitalizing on a fumble re-covered by Bob Nielson in the third quarter, South again scored in two plays. Hathenbrook took the ball on a lateral from Dick North and scooted to pay dirt. The play covered twenty-fiv- e yards. This time Mears conversion was good. Trailing by seven points East unleashed a desperate passing at-tack in the last quarter and came within fifteen yards of scoring. The gun sounded just as Whitey Bullock knocked a Leopard, pass in the end zone. After completing their final game under Coach Long the team hoisted Nate to their shoulders and carried him off the field. A rejuvinated "C" team finally caught the title-boun- d stride Mon-day, and from then on broke the jinx which had all but ruined South high hopes for a football crown. The blue and white clad football men overpowered the hapless mid-gets from West 27-- 0 irf their sec-ond encounter with the panthers. The victory was sweet revenge for the 6-- 6 tie West handed the Cubs upon their initial "Big 3" meeting- -Ray Golding threw a wrench into the panther gridiron machine in this second encounter. He inter-cepted passes as though they were thrown intended for his arms. On the line, Clyde Oliver and Rues Mears slashed through and plays before they had a chance to develop. Dick North thoroughly demoral-ized the Panthers with his wide end sweeps which carried him far into the red and black territory and made more than one Panther see stars. Frequent fumbles marred the first game between the cross-tow- n rivals. The Cub machine seemed to be as bogged down as the Nazi A week later at East, the Cubs ran into trouble. The referee help-ed East greatly according to the spectators, who saw him penal-ize the Cubs approximately 200 yards enough for two touchdowns. However, this is not an alibi, as East played good ball. East's first touchdown came on two 15-ya- rd penalities, one after another, which put the ball on the South high five-yar- d line. Midgets Humble East, 13-- 6; Cub "B" Bows, 13-- 0 4 McGarry Stars, But Juniors Dump Title Hopes Falling prey to a slashing East "B" team, the junior squad lost a hard-foug- ht battle last night on the Leopards' home grounds, dragging South high's first championship dreams as they fell to an ignoble 13-- 0 defeat. In the first half the Leopards dominated throughout, scoring as the gun ended the first quarter. Dex McGarry was the big gun for South, breaking through the Red and Black line to drop the mail carriers of East. He muffed the attempted play for an extra point after touchdown. The second half was played on more even terms until the Eciders broke through the Cub defense and rocketed to a touchdown and extra point. With several minutes to play, the Cubs unleashed a des-perate offense built around a "T" formation. East intercepted as the game ended and South lost the best chance in its history to hand East a disappointment instead of a championship. After dragging through the des-ert of defeat for three long years, South's junior eleven finally emerged into the oasis of victory by virtue of. an impressive 26-- 0 victory over West's "B" team. East's giants broke the new-found winning streak a week later when they dropped the Cubs for the count, winning 19-- 0 on South's gridiron. Coach Gilbert's men invaded the Panther's lair with a spirit of con-fidence. This confidence materia-lized into two quick touchdowns before the first half ended. After those first scores it merely became a question of how many times South's juniors would score. The final tally read 26-- 0. Find Going Tough South encountered much stiffer opposition in their second encoun-ter against the Panthers. West managed to hold the Cubs scoreless in the opening quarter. Paul Wis-com- b scored on the first play in the second period from West's twenty-thre- e. 'South recovered a Panther fumble moments later and scored on Flash Long's plunge from the four. Bill Angelos con-verted and the cocky juniors trotted down the field boasting a 13-- 0 lead. West scored on a pass midway through the third period but failed to convert leaving them seven points behind the Cubs. South scored their final counter when Gregory intercepted a pass and ran forty-fiv- e yards to pay dirt. The conversion attempt was blocked making the final count 19-- 6 East's juniors apparently hadn't read the press notices about the talent of South's "B" team. The heavier Leopards ran and passed the Cubs dizzy.-- East displayed fundamentals which are so often lacking in the first year teams. Those fundamentals; blocking, tackling, punting and passing spell-ed for South. 'Experience has proven very val-uable to "B" teams in past years. The Cubs should be in much better condition come November 19. d'Scribing It by Frank Allan 4 Reviewing the season's high-- , lights South, has once again come out of apparent obscurity, to show up as one of the better football schools in the state. At the start of the the ,seasona mf games'3to GralSte Ind Bnghanfb? fe ' 'ft PSfc score of 7-- 0, 12-- 0, respectively; gmJSfe N ';-44- Kt The big upset came when those overly large players from. West SSE'S f invaded the cub domain and were set back on their haunches by a lucky, for them, 13-1- 3 tie. All these defeats, and in the case of the lat-- ter a tie, were by way of the air, I but in the game with East, Leop ! ards passes were of no avail and it was only on a partially blocked I kick that the Eciders made their points. In the second game with West i as in the first, the bunch of South erners proved the statement, the bigger they are, the harder they ! fall, to bp true. It might be said : that speed creates weight and if J any of you doubt me ask some-body that saw in the "A" game i what happened to the tackier who tried to get Jackson as he was re-turning a punt. Courtesy Salt Lake Tribnue Here's Jack Okland . . . Modest and unassuming, he nevertheless is dynamite when lie tackles an opponent of Utah U on the gridiron. An alum, he will in all probability don the khaki of the army in the near future, which brings to mind the words of Douglas MacArthur, "On these fields are sown the seeds of victory ..." As for a prediction for today's game I would say it won't be any-body's game until the final gun. Personally I give South the edge. The "B" team started with a boom, died down, boomed again and as I write this I don't know whether they boomed for the fourth time or not. A lot of credit must be given to the lads of the "B" team, as they're a bunch of hard fighters and should give us a lot of good material for next year's "A" team. The "C" team? Weil after the impressive way they held Lincoln, which might easily be called the best B league team in the state, it's hard to say. I don't know whether the refer-ees at the first East "C" team clash were prejudiced or not, they're us-ually "right, but 247 yards denotes an abundance of questionable pen-alties. X X 4 ' 4' s v r3 A. 17 : x X X Xj-- - - 5fh t' X X "T N 'rr;":A--- . f.k'J: I 1 t2S"' . o & .s rrnv. v X v - Kck , --V- j- -- --7T7rrh p5j w X :y v JrZ'i x N L 5 f t: x r N--V X X ' , jBu oh X - X x I X. X. ?"'4$'CJ j N. X" X. fjiJl &i7 X X - V --V --V r- - I N. X. f 6n i v . . ( N i ....j- - i ir i x X L i X ltC 0.i -- X X . --i ' f X X j ' I J I I X X illustrates action in the first South-Eas- t "A" encounter. Vhnvp ffraDh dravn in a hasty moment, Who beat who? This graph te,ls' blocked kick started East's touchdown aunt. 1 SSL1SLZSZ 'Ih'e which fea.ured an change of j Pn Th Cub, bottled op East in the third quarter, while in the last quarter South's desperate drive and passing attack are shown. Navy May Get Nate Long i Nate Long, one of South's out-standing coaches, is contemplating enlistment in the navy as physical instructor in the near future. He knew that sooner or latefhis Uncle Sam will request his services, and like so many others, Nate desires to enter some department in the service which can best fit his ab-ilities. If Nate can do as well with the men of the navy as he did with the men of South, there'll be "gobs" of trouble for that little luck-tooth- ed son of - - - (we must say heaven). For the past seven years Coach Long has been developing champ-ions in IfootbaU, basketball and track. His success at South has not affected his modest and unassum-ing ways. All of us at South will miss Nate when he leaves to do his bit for our country in its time of peril. Don't forget us at South, Nate, Southerners will never forget you. |