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Friday, November 13, 1936 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 7 ASHLAND DRIVES TO LAST-MINUTE TIE ♦— SONS FINISH IN HIGH SCHOOL GRIZZLIES BREAK EIGHT-YEAR JINX OF LOSSES 7-0 GAME HERE not the best football TO MEDFORD IN FINAL SECONDS Although In Southern Oregon Nor Steve Fowler L«*a«ls Mutes In Year’* Most Thrilling March In Inspircil Performance; Ashland Fans (io Wild At Dramatics season mal history, the one that ended last Saturday with the homecom ing battle against Oregon Normal was, nevertheless, far from the worst. The Nona, under the MM'oiid- year direction of J«*an Eber- ‘ hart, won two, I oat three and tied one game, bettering con siderably the record of last year’s team which wax de feated in al* out of seven bat- t Il'H. Plagued by injuries all year, the Sons leached their peuk in the Oregon State Rook game played In Klamath Falls when they blunted over two touchdowns in a sensational fourth quarter rally to come from behind and tie the •con, 13 id Following is the season record: Pacific college 0 Sons Sons 6, Oregon Frosh 26 Sons 13, OSC Rooks 13. Sons 21, Albany college 0. Sons 3, Humboldt State 40. Normal 7. Sons 0, Oregon _ Total points: Sons 95, oppon ents H6. GOOD SPORTS ALEXANDER. WOJCIECHOWICZ (ccMvc*) OF FORDHAM By L PICKEM So you guys didn’t think we would have the nerve to appear again this week, eh ? Thought we'd fold up and holler uncle, IF YOU CAN'T didn’t you ? Well, here we are, gents and ladies, and all we can PRONOUNCE say is ' ‘Nerts to you, all of you. 'EM.TMEV'BE And also to every durned football GOOD.* team that forgot there was such fault RoOtne a thing as ''dope.** Here are this week’s dozen Take 'em or leave ’em. Oregon-California. No of- lense is the trouble at Eu- gene, and we can’t see how the Webfoots will score while the Bears are doing it once. 7-0, California. Oregon State-Stanford. A great scoring battle. MY. Stiner really GEORGE'S GUESSES has a football team now, but so HOME TEAM has Stanford. We pick Stanford OPPONIMT after both teams go to town 'S Purdue through the air 21-19. Iowa T his rucged Washington State-UCLA So Nebraska Pittsburgh close we are tempted to call it a IM LB POLISH GIANT tie. The coin says State, so there 'WHOA-GEt; A5 Ml» N. Carolina IS Duke you are. 7-6. mates call him , Washington-USC. The Pa PACK» A DtVAFTATlMG W. and M. DP Wash^Lee cific coast title hinges on this DIFEHiE CHARGE one and the Huskies will come Duquesne Carnegie Tech. V O p - wojciechowicz a through. 13-6. PITT »C0UT $Alt>,"VHE * ‘ Cornell Dartmouth Notre Dame - Army. Upset! COULPH T KEEP THAT POLE Heavily favored Army will fall be out of our backfield let Army Notre Dame fore Notre Dame fury over their alone pronounce mi » 0-3 defeat by Navy last week. NAME* Yal« k Princeton 20-12. GIQKL,< > Nebraska-Pittsburgh. Another GABO Tempi« • K Villanova of those coin-flipping affairs. We WlMSlM II Washington k «or - call Nebraska because the game's U- C. L A in Lincoln. Yale-Princeton. For the "Big 3” title, Princeton will muzzle the Yale Bulldog. whk-h almost Is at an end. Navy - Harvard. Just another Some good games, some swell setback for fair Harvard. thrills, but above *11, just STAR TROJAN END Northwestern-Michigan, Easy football. Editor’s Note: This column was for Northwestern. Louisiana State-Auburn, Two in type before the thrilling Ash land-Medford classic Wednesday, finest teams in the south will fight it out with Louisiana State e----------- the winnah! Marquette - Mississippi. Rose POTPOURRI Bowl bound Marquette will have trouble getting over 'ole Miss, but will do it. •Wolf Fish Spearfish Normal-Slippery Rock Teachers. The season's greatest One of th* most savage fish grid struggle. All the dope points of the North Atlantic is the wolf to Spearfish, which has scored fish. It attains a length of five four points to its opponents’ 379. feet Interlocking teeth which but we will plant our dough on line the front of its mouth are good old Slippery Rock. strong enough to crush mollusks ------------•----------- and to inflict injury on its cap- • The interior of the Palace cafe tors whom it fights. Its skin is has been renovated to excellent very tcugh and when dried is advantage during the past week. used as a leather substitute. • Charles Buettner of Glendale, C Wntera N'r wipe per Union Calif., is visiting in Ashland for a few months. E. R Hunt, district represen tative of the Utah Fuel company, I • Mr. and Mrs Z A. Zimmeree was transacting business in Ash and boby, formerly of Klamath land Thursday Falls, have established their home • J. C. Thompson and Mr. Star at 1223 Iowa street. buck of the Shell Oil company were business visitors Thursday. • A great deal of improvement Bud Gan dee was at work on time. is reported in the condition of Mrs Dave Whittle • Marcella Scribner visited on Armistice day with her mother, • R. G. Moore and family from Mrs. A. E McCaw of Fort Jones, Evans creek have established their Calif residence at 72 Alida street. Gena Hibbs, star end of the Uni versity of Southern California's great eleven, has been a tower of strength in the line in the esrly games this FARMERS season. He is a younger brother of Jesse Hibbs, All-American tackle of the 1828 team. By II1I.I.Y IHLEN AN AMAZING Ashland high Grizzly, twice defeated and once tied un<l given not even an outside chance ugalnst the Tigei [xiwer- house of Medford high, rose up In till its fury on that turf field at Medford Wednesday to turn in the most Ix-autiful fighting battle an Ashland team bus produced In over 10 yeais The score was 6-6, a tic. but the story of that Armistice day game between southern Oregon's most bitter fcxitball ilvuls cannot possibly I m * told in that final score Nor could It be told in a million j words ' Before more than 3,500 persona, the largest crowd to witness a football gam«* In southern Oregon thia year, th«* Medford team that was making funs forget all about Prink Cullison's wonder aggrega tions and the Ashland Irani that wua figured to lose by from two to six touchdowns, clawed and snarled at each other for 4H minutes of probably the most sensational fcxitball ever to be seen in this district Six to six the final score wua.>---- a deadlock But if there ever was a moral victory won on a fcxitball HEAP” WILDCAT field, it was won by Ashland on the Medford lot Armistice day. Ashland's touchdown, the period and most of the third. Only murker that enabled them to In the second quarter were the fight from lM*bind to lie the Tigers able to consistently M*orr iuk I send part of that threaten. huge crowd Into u frenzy, him The game was one of the clean produced In tli«' waning min est ever played between Ashland utes of the bull game. It was and Medforj^ Only one penalty »curixl hi closing MX'onds of was called, that against Medford the bull game. In fact—the for offside. last 30 seconds—and the hero Il was not until the last two of tliut final drive that was minutes of the game that Skeet to wx* the* Grizzlies rruch pay O'Connell sent in a replacement dirt was the boy who u mo for the battling Grizzlies Furman ment before had seemingly Carter was sent in for Walt Lee. tosMxl away ull chances for Coach Bill Bowerman of Medford an Ashland score—big bcxim- used new men frequently, nearly Ing Ntrvr Fowler. two full teams seeing action for Ashland marched 50 yards for the Red and Black. that touchdown They matched The lineups: half the length of the field .Mtxiford straight down through the middle Bayliss, right end; Blair, right of the Red and Black Mc-dford line tackle; G< w, right guard; Offord, that had allowed only two touch center; '.taker, left guard; Ehr- downs all year. And when they hart, let. tackle; Maru, left end; started that drive there were two Ettinger, quarter; Sakraida. full minutes left to play. buck; Bowman, left half: Morris, It wits Ashland's ball on the right half 50-yard line. Tbere wasn't Ashland time for the Grizzlies to sc ore. McCallister, right end; Wimer, They were too far away from the goal line—ftO long, long Heap. 170 pound Northwest right tackle; Brady, right guard; yards. They just couldn't do ern halfback, is one of the greatest Schreidereiter, center; Etzwiler. left guard. Bromley, left tackle; It . . . backs in the Western conference. He But suddenly Stev«* Fowler shot rxrplp nt dodging and pivoting Gettling, left end; Charles War a puss into Medford's left flat and through broke n fields. He is an ren, quarter; Fowler, fullback; Lee, left half, and Leonard War that grand little end, Jim McCal- — excellent punter and pa«ser. and In ren, right half. lister, hauled it down on a dead «di’ition chili- tiie sig <al.>. Spike Leslie, referee; Brick run, then stumbled from the et- Leslie, umpire, and Hulbert, head fort of the fine catch It was a first down on Medford's 29 the the ball with no one near him linesman. pass play being good for 21 prec- Still trying, Sakraida shot another ioua yarda. Still the Grizzlies puss straight over the center and seemed hours from the goal line Ettinger took it for the score. They had been knocking at the Gilinsk) was rushed into the game door before, only to be repulsed to attempt to place kick the extra Nevertheless, Fowler drove into point, but his boot was wide and By Bill Huleo center of the line for a gain ot low. And that was Medford's two yards Furman Carter, Ash score. Football season, here in south land's only substitution, hit into Shortly before that final ern Oregon anyway, is giving its the same spot and was stopped march of Ashland's that eud- for no gain Fowler passed to dying gasp. Jean Eberhart's Sons ed In u touchdown, th«- Griz are all finished while the high Leonard Warren and it was in zlies were again dose to the school has just one more game to complete. Fourth down and eight Medford goal line. But Fow play for certain, that against Uni to go! A prayer pass now. it was ler, fumbling and then tossing versity high from Eugene a week the only chance' wildly on the 12-yard line, from tomorrow. Grizzly officials halted that drive when linker Big Steve Fowler took It, are dickering for a Thanksgiving swung wide to the right slde- intercepted his pass. Ilin's looking lor a receJver. Because of that wild puss, Fow day battle, but there is nothing Nobody open. There was no ler could have been the goat, but definite us to whom the opponent one to pass to. No Fowler because of what happened later, will be. if any. It has been a good football sea time and what he didn't do to op tucked the ball under his arm irrevocably and absolutely, we son, notliing great or startling or posing guards and tackles was a and smashed ah*-ad Two Mrd- state that Steve Fowler was the worth writing home about, but pity. Big and tough, he ought to fordites snuu-kixl him but they hero of that great ball game. He be quite a football player when he were us children in the path was Ashland's spark plug; he was good nevertheless. Both the Grizzlies and Sons gets to be a senior. Although we of an insplrod boy who was the best ball player on the field, have had fair seasons; the Sons don’t see how he can get much driving with a momentum But how can you forget those slightly better than was expected better. that draggtxl his tacklers like other Grizzlies who reached their of them and the Grizzlies proving And did that Tony Van Diver so much lint on his pants. Hr ¡>eak Wednesday afternoon ? And mild dissuppointments until Wed turn in a whale of a defensive boonuxl on, got bls first down the answer is, you can't. Take nesday's game. Eberhart's team game against Oregon Normal last and more too. Hr got 14 of Charlie Warren. Once with Sa was not expected to be any great Saturday. From his defensive left the tnugh«xit yards there are kraida away to the races with a shakes, but it turned out to be a halfback position he was one of to get, and there It was. four-man wave of interference in pretty sweet aggregation. And the the most deadly tacklers we have There, after having the door front -of him, it was the tiny soph Grizzlies, under Skeet O’Connell, ever seen in action. When he slammed in their faces time after omore who knifed his way past were slated to really hit the high cracked them, mates, they stayed time, was Ashland knocklngagain. all of them smash the Medford spots, which they didn't do for cracked. Thirteen yards from the Medford fullback to to the And that thrilling fourth goal line and football heaven . . . sure touchdown. ground, saving a quite a few apparent reasons. quarter comeback the Sons However, it’s all history now, time was short, only seconds re And we'll take Don Gettling for or most of it anyway, so we'll staged In Klamath Falls to mained. tie the Oregon State Kooks. Steve Fowler took that pigskin our boy when it comes to sheer let by-gones be by-gones. But be Arba . Ager pitched passes again, hammering hard over Med nerve. Gettling broke his collar fore we leave King Pigskin en- until he was black in the face, ford's left guard, through a sweet bone on the first tackle he made tlrely for another year, we've got and Jim McBride and Darrell hole opened up by Jim Brady. He early in the opening quarter. He to spout off about some of the Leavens were coming down bashed in that Tiger forward wall stayed In the entire ball game, thrills presented to us by Ash with them when it seena'd for five more bitter yards. Then telling nary a soul about the pain land's two football teams, to-wit: impossible. z The fine play of the two it was Carter off Medford's right he was suffering. He played his newcomers to Ashland high's tackle for a yard and a half; and greatest game Armistice day. By And Justin Carey, recovering an Grizzlies—Jim Brady and it was third down, seven yards far his best game. Oregon Frosh fumble a few sec Charlie Warren. Both sopho And hc-v about Bud Etzwiler. onds before the half ended in out. mores, both seeing high school He was in the Medford backfield Tluxi th«' touchdown play — Grants Pass to give the Sons the action for the first time this most all afternoon looking for ball and an opportunity to tie up th«' play that turned a niocll- year, Brady at guard luid somebody to tackle. And Leonard ocre Ashland football season the score at 6-6, which they Warren In the quarterback Warren, who caught that touch promptly did. Into a sticc«*ss. Fowler was and safety position, were Just down pass and called plays like Back to the Grizzlies: That back again. It was a pass— about the two best ball play another Frank Cartedo And Rol short pass of Steve Fowler's into he fasltxl back, shot It over th«' ers on the entire team. It's a and Scheidereiter, who made that pay dirt which little Charlie War goal line dangerously near th«* big Medford center look at his cinch that tiny Charlie War ren snatched from the hands of right sidellii««*, and Ix*onard ren, no bigger than a second, hole card. two huge Grants Pass Cavemen Warren, out of a maze of Ti It is hard to hand the was the most deadly tackler for the touchdown that iced the ger defemlers, reached up iui«l of the whole outfit. Three "hero” label to any on«' man, game, 12-6. dragged that ball to his chest. III«' we hand it to Fowler. It times in the Klamath Fall» Now back to the Sons: Bob And that was that. That was «locsn't, somehow, seem fair. game he stood alone between Duesenberry’s sensational 100- the lying score, and there Every miui played such a the roaring Glovanlnl and the yard gallop to a touchdown were only 25 srx’onds left to grand gam«* of football. They Ashland goal line, and three against Pacific college in the op play! were nil “tops.’* But It was times he brought the huge ening game. He took a kickoff on Medford's touchdown came a and niggl'd Klamathite down his own goal line and shot straight Fowler who provided th«' few minutes before the end of the spark In that ftO-ynril march, with vicious tackles. Ami that down the field, varying scarcely a first half after Halfback Hill had yard in his wild dash the length so to him iniist go the lion's day Glovanlnl was running gone 14 yards on a spinner share of credit for the touch through the Ashland team of the gridiron. Perfect blocking through Ashland’s left side, plac like it was a grammar school and his own speed did the work. down. ing the ball on the 10-yard line. And that's that. That's The entire first quarter of the outfit. Bowman made one at left end; what we'U remember from Jim Brady, like Warren, step then Sakraida passed over the ball game was played in Medford this 1986 football season goal line to Bayliss, who dropped territory, and so was the final ped into fast company for the first SPORT SHORTS The FOOTBALL Crystal PLOWS POINTED AND SHARPENED FARM MACHINERY WELDED Tanks of All Sizes and Shapes PORTABLE GAS AND ELECTRIC WELDING OAK STREET GARAGE Phone 37-J 97 Oak Street BOXING 8:30 MONDAY NIGHT MEDFORD ARMORY JACK RAY vs. BUZZ BROWN 10-ROUND MAIN EVENT 6-ROUND SEMI-FINAL 2 FAST PRELIMINARIES 1 Mack LIliard PROMOTER
