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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1957)
BROOKINGS—HARBOR PILOT THURSDAY, S eptember is , ¿ 9 5 ? Bruins lose Opener 7-6 Jose l-V Here Saturday ILLINOIS VALLEY TO BE BROOKINGS LOSES FIRST HERE ON SATURDAY GAME BY 7-6 SCORE The Bruins, smarting from a The Brookings Bruins, pack game they should have won last ing only two weeks practice under week wtll play a tough 111 i n o is their belts In their second year of football made just enough m is Valley squad here Saturday. Game time will be at 2 p .m . takes to l e t S t. Bernards of at the Elmer Bankus field. Eureka beat them Saturday by a Illinois Valley won easily over 7-6 count. When it came to first downs or St. Mary’s of Medford last week total yards gained, or any one of by a 27-0 score. This game will be a conference a number of statistics the Bruins test for the Rogue Valley League were the victors. Coach Doug MacFarlane said But, as they say, the game is played by the score, and nobody he has been working his boys will take that away from Eureka, prim arily on fumbles, and on who were ahead in that vital penalties. statistic, 7-6 at the end of th e Looking good in the line last game played here Saturday. week were Bill Guthrie, B e r t The Brooks, green as g r a s s Clayton, Bill Workinger, Bob fumbled at the most inopportune Berger, Ron Fallert, with Gary tim es—and were penalized at the Galambos, Ron B u llo c k , and worst possible tim es. The com Bub Hanson holding down the end bination was enough to stop them and line-backer spots. whenever they got a head of stean ********** up. Je rry Fox took the k ic k -o ff The game started off with a back to the 35, McCabe pounded roar as the Bruins first held the through for 15 yards to the 50. Crusaders to no gain, and th e n Midwood passed to big Ron Bullock moved speedily down fie’d to the for five yards. Another pass and 8 yard strip e —where a f u m b le a lateral brought the ball to the cost them the ball, and a possible 34 and another first down. T he score. same play worked for eight, an« The big plays in that series McCabe picked up another first were five and six yard runs by down on the 24. Then he swept Ron McCabe*, then a pass f r o m end for 15 yards to the nine. quarterback G a r y Midwood to Jim Gribble picked up four, Je rry Fox, and then a 21 y a r d and then McCabe piled over on a end sweep by McCabe. wedge play from the five. The game seesawed back and A pass from Midwood to B u ll forth the rem ainder of the first ock for the extra point and th e quarter, and through the second, tie score was good—but it was with some fine punting by St. called back because of offsides. Bernard keeping the Brooks in a The next play had a bad pass hole. from center, and there went the Then, with only short minutes ball game. Still roaring the Bruins h e ld left in the first half, St. Bem art the C rusaders, and then Bub struck. After getting the ball on tht Hanson blocked a punt very neatly on the 38, and recovered it on the midfield stripe a pass was good for 9 yards, and another was good 12—aixi again the Brooks were in position. for 19 yards. A third pass h it But two plays failed to gain, anc a man down on the seven. About this time the Brooks were then two passes failed, and it looking at what they figured was was about over. The Brooks had two other op a rule infraction when fullback Tom Waters scurried around end portunities, but muffed them both through a disorganized Brookingt in the waning minutes. F irst a long, beautifully execut squad to score standing up. The extra point try was run ed pass from Midwood to F ox across by Frank Matagllati. The covered 50 yards, and a first whistle sounded halftime beofre down on the Eureka 24, but a across by Frank Matagllati. The poor lateral, which the Crusaders w h istle sounded halftime before recovered nullified that threat. ere wu*« Shortly thereafter, the Brook* there could ___________ even be a kickoff. The second half was a slightly I moved to the 21 before they lo s t different story. The Bruins came tj,«. ball on a fumble. They out first downed E u r e k a storming out on the field like a by a 10-3 mark. They gained over team that has seen the light. 200 yards to Eureka's 85----b u t they lost the ball four tim es on the fqaikfcJS. CALORETTE LEAGUE lost won 5 Chetco Hardware Muncy's Market Cliff House P alm er's Variety Simonson Logging Ship A Shore Hi-Way Market A Game: Doris Freeman 253 (scratch) w/hdcp. 280 High Series: Doris Freeman 564 (scratch) w/hdcp. 645 The 253 game was the third highest ever rolled by a woman at Azalea Lanes. In hitting that game Doris hit eight strikes High find tly ee spares,---------------------------------------------------------------- TOWN AND COUNTRY LEAGUE Team Knox Insurance Phillips Clothing Dairy Creem Franks Pills Oregonian Green Door Marine SkyRoom Fairy Creek Rock took 3 4 4 3 1 0 1 0 won 6 6 6 5 3 2 2 2 lost 2 2 2 3 5 6 6 6 High games with handicap: Donna Pearson, 239; Venita Hahn, 232; Nadine Hyatt, 206; and Alice Bordwell, 205.
