T H E ( O U I L L E V A L L E T f l S I I M I 'S
PARADE CE / K i l l
COQUILLE. ORBGON
T H U R S D A Y , O CTO B ER 21, 1948.
Red Devil Eleven Absorbs Smashing
Defeat At Hands of North Bend, 26-6
The hapless Red Devils of Coquille high school absorbed
their third conference defeat of the 1948 football season last
Friday night when they met the North Bend eleven on the
Bulldogs’ home field. The final score was 26-6.
Bad
luck
plus
half-hearted
playing combined to keep the Red
Devils out of the w in column,
Three intercepted passes and in
ab ility to crack the strong B ull
dog tine bogged the Coquille of
fensive continuously.
Tom Graham, North Bend half,
w as ,« giant on offense as well as
defense throughout the game. I t
was Graham who started the flret
touchdown drive early in the
game by intercepting a Red Devil
pass on the f if t y yard line. Six
plays moved the ball to the Co
quille nineteen; and Bejebe, G ra
ham ’s running mate, took the ball
over the rig ht tackle from that
point, crossing the goal line fo r
the initial score. The conversion
attem pt was blocked.
Again in the firs t quarter, the
Bulldogs tore savagely at the Red
Devil
defense, sending
Beebe
through the center of the line
and around end for sweeping
gains of fifteen and tw enty yards
a t a clip. In eight plays, the
North Bend gridders were strad
dling the Coquille one yard line.
From there, i t was an easy m at
ter for Joe Pennington, substitute
back, to go charging over the cen
ter of the bewildered Red D evil
line fo r the second touchdown of
the evening. This time, the try
fo r the extra point was good.
Score: 13-0.
A spark o f life eeemed to come
to thé Coquille lads afte r that
second N o rth Bend touchdown.
Taking the kickoff, the Red Dev
ils started to march and quickly
tallie d two firs t downs to put the
ball on the Bulldogs' 42. As the
Clock ticked o ff the remaining
sixty seconds of the first half,
Keith Johnson, (hero of the Grants
Pass game), tossed a pass to Ray
G ilkey th at netted another first
down on the North Bend 29. The
completion o f that pass apparent
ly fired the Red
Devils
with
touchdown feyer; fo r on the next
play, Jim C lark brought through
the Bulldog defense to go all the
way for Coquille’s lone six points
of the game. A r t Richardson’s
kick was low.
The Red Deviia, «till steamed
up over th ir successful drive to
pay d irt, quickly got possession of
the ball a fte r North Bend re
ceived the second-half kickoff by
holding the Bay team for downs
and forcing them to punt. Taking
the ball on their own th irty yard
lin e, Coquille pounded the Bull
dog line fo r three con’secutive first
downs, moving the ball to the
North Bend 44. But the offensive
logged down when W yatt, North
Bend quarterback, intercepted a
Johnson pass on his own th irty
yard stripe.
Graham , Beebe and Penning
ton started smashing the Red
D evil line. Short gains of four,
ive and six yards moved the ball
slowly but irresistibly down the
field. F in ally Beebe, cutting over
right tackle from
the Coquille
thirteen
yard
line,
crashed
thrOugh the secondary defense to
chalk up North Bend’s third
i third touchdown. Joe Pennington
, kicked the extra point, m aking
the score 20-8. ’
As i f to add insuit to injury,
Graham intercepted a Red Devil
pass on the initial play after the
kickoff.
Again Graham, going
wide around left end on the fo l
lowing play, broke away from
three w ould-be tacklers to swivel-
hip his way through the Coquille
secondary. Shaking clear of all
hie pursuers, the w ily young h a lf
back neatly sidestepped the Red
Devil 'safety to add another six
points to North Bend's score and
blast any hopes th at Coquille
m ight »till cherish.
A spark of effo rt again took
possession of the Coquille boys
late in the fourth quarter when
a Io n * pass from Johnson to O er-
ding
clicked
for th irty -th re e
yards and a firs t down on the
Bulldog 28. Jim Clark then crack
ed the line fo r nineteen precious
yards to move the ball to the nine
yard marker. But th a t was the
end.
Nothing seemed to budge
the North Bend defense, and Co
quille lost the ball on downs on
the Bulldog 2.
W ith only tw o minutes left of
the fourth quarter, N orth Bend
held the ball tenaciously, making
wide, tim e -k iltin g end rune. A t
the gun, the ball rested on North
Bend’s IS.
The lineups:
North Bend
Coquille
Scott
LE
G ilkey
M etcalf
LT
McCauley
Dunn
LG
A v ery
Gooley
C
Owen
Bellah
RO
M ullen
Hesse Itine
RT
Howell
Perkins
RE
Oerding
W yatt
QB
Johnson
Graham
HB
Clark
Beebe
HB
Wolgamott
Reeves
FB
Howe
Substitutes: NorthBend, Reed,
Choat, KeUy, Adams, Penning
ton, Dooley, Russell, H ano i, Pat
rick, J. Sausser, Squires and R ea
dy. Coquille: M cK ay, Groves, Sco-
lari, Sctrweinfurt and Richardson.
O fficials: Hod Turner, referee;
W yatt, head linesman, all
of
Roseburg.
Statistics:
NB
C
First downs __ _____ .... 13
13
N et yards rushing __ X78
174
Yards passine
4
70
Passes attempted ..._.
9
Passes completed .....
Passes intercepted ....
Fumbles
2
Opp. fum . recovered ..
Yards penalised*
. 25
Average punts ______ .... 37
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BY CHUCK PRITCHARD
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Passing The
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Now that the deer season is closed (and we sincerely
hope that all Coos county hunters are happy with the re
sults) Coquille sportsmen are getting ready for the migratory
bird season which opens October 28th. We understand that
all shotgun fans will be donning their hip boots and hitting
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for the marshes on that day in
Ï I search of a brace of ducks or geese.
M r. and Mrs. Charley Elkins of
Coquille left some tim e back to
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A G A L L O P IN G N E M E S IS who helped doom the aspirations of Coquille's Red Devils last F riday night do a spot oi pneasant hunting in
on the North Bend football field la shown here on one of his w ide sweeps around end. The b all-carrier that paradise of the birds, - North
is Vernon Beebe, Bulldog half-back who continually made life miserable for the Coquille boys. Dakota. W e’ll have more to report
W ould-be taeklers are Bay G ilkey (2 2 ), Jim C la rk (58 ), L a rry Scheinfurt (3 5 ), Tern M u lled (35 ). and on the success of their ex p ed itio n
as soon as they return to Coquille.
Keith Johnson (4 9 ).
Behind Beebe and fast fading out of the picture is Ben M eK ay (21 ), Coquille
Perhaps one of the most avid
half-back.
(Photo by Chally, North Bend Harbor) bird hunters in Coos county is
ry Crabtree, backed up by plenty
Starting Tim e: 8 P. M .
of good, solid blocking. The first
R EED SPO RT at C O Q U IL L E
touchdown was the end result of
Ashland at M arshfield
a seventy-five yard gallop by
Roseburg at Cottage Grove
Crabtree from his own tw enty-five.
Grants Pass at M edford
The second six points were not
North Bend at M y rtle Point
quite as spectacular but still the
w ork of young M r. Crabtree. A l
ternating w ith quarterback M c
Culloch, the shifty halfback moved
the b all to the Indians’ 15. From
w isirlet 3 standings
Won Lost Tied there, Crabtree broke through the
Roseburg defense to score. Crab
Grants Pass
0
tree climaxed his scoring spree as
Reedsport _
0
he took the opening kickoff of the
Marshfield _
1
Junior Standings:
second h alf on his own nine-yard
Roseburg
W on Loot Tie
line
and
twisted,
squirmed
and
North B e n d _______ 1
3
North Bend _________ 2
0
2
shifted
his
way
ninety-one
yards
M y rtle Point ~ ____ 0
2
M y rtle T>oint _______ I
1
1
down
the
field
for
the
third
count
Coquille -
o
3
Coquille ..................
1 2
1
er.
The Grants Pass Cavemen m ain
3 • 0
The North Bend-Coquille tussle Coos Bay ___________ 1
tained their lead of district 3 d u r-
which ended 28-6 in favor of North
A much improved Coquille ju n
toe‘ C ^ u ilt o R e d D evitt
ior high school team m et
the
Ashland is not in the league, the in undisputed possession of the
North Bend eleven that swamped
Cavemen continued th eir unbroken cellar.
Neither team had been
string of victories by trouncing the able to break into the w in column the Wildcats 20-7 four weeks ago
and held the strong Bay team to
southernmost Oregon c ity ’s high before Friday night.
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, a 13-13 tie last Saturday evening
school representative 24-0 last F ri
THIS WEEK’S GAMES
on the Coquille field.
day n ig h t
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DISTRICT No. 3
Although the W ildcats were
The Reedsport Braves crept one
Friday Night—October 22nd
notch nearer the leaders by virtue
(Continued on last page)
of a 12-8 decision over the M yrtle
Point Bobcats It was a th rilling
game, closely played throughout
the sixty minutes. In fact, the
game was all tied up at 6-6 until
the fin a l tw o minutes of play. It
was then that Fred Taylor, Reeds
•KAMO
port back, snagged a pass and
streaked down the sidelines to the
M y rtle Point 1. A moment later,
the Braves drove through center
fo r the winning six points.
The Bobcats drew first blood
when Ralph Clarno picked up a
Reedsport fumble on his own f if
teen yard line and outran the en
tire Reedsport team to score at
the end of an eig h ty-five yard
dash.
M arshfield’s Pirates turned in
i t HINT I « 4 / 5 Q T ,
the surprise of the week w ith an
astounding w in over the Roseburg
Indians 30-7. The victory put the
Bay city boys in undisputed pos
sessions of th ird place in the stand
ings.
M arshfield’s first three touch
downs can be attributed to th eg e-
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Justice Fred Bull who looks fo r
w ard to each coming season eager
ly. We understand that Fred is
a crack shot in the bird depart
ment,
Aa long as we’re passing the
buck, we'd like to see the Co
quille Red Devils do a little
more bucking.” Coaches Leslie
and Schweinfurt have done an
excellent Job of instilling foot
b all fundamentals into the high
school youngsters, but It
ED WALKER
more that that to w in football
games. I t takes a lot of fight
and the w ill to w in against
seemingly insurmountable odds.
Some of the boys seem to be
doubtful on that score.
At
least, t h e i r showing against
North Bend would seem to in
dicate something of the sort. Re
verberations on th at game were
fe lt as fa r north as Portland.
Had the pleasure of , seeing O re
gon win a close one from Southern
C alifornia in Portland Saturday.
For Oregon rooters, the score, 8-7,
was just a little too close. For
Southern California fans, tim e just
wasn’t quite long enough. Seemed
to this reporter that the Duck squad
was not quite as good as they
should be; although it was a de
cided pleasure to watch N orm V an
Brocklin work. As a passer, he is
everything that a coach could
desire.
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