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
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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
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