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I A i-fe CP spBBsjBSMasMSMSMS 1 -v OM'vTNy v amsfsa - i 1 HUSKIES DUMP DOPE-CART The Merrill Huskies had only one victory to their credit prior to Friday night's action but they wrapped up the County B season on a definite "up" beat when they blasted the Chiloquin Panthers 33-7. Their impressive triumph ruined the Chiloquin hope for a third of the B championship and it boosted the Malin Mustangs, who dropped Sacred Heart 27-6 last week, into the title role. In the action photos above Merrill's Duane Mattson, 42, Larry Chance (in back ground) and Dale Kurtz, applying the tackle to Chiloquin's Benny Nygren, illustrate that the Husky defensive mechanism, as well as their side-saddle offense, was in proper working order. In the center picture both the unidentified Merrill defense man, at left, and Chiloquin's Nygren avert their faces just before crashing head-on. At far right Merrill coach Gene Christensen, who has just completed his first season at the Husky reins, is packed off the field on the shoulders of his jubilant ball players, en route to a shower he has been looking forward to all year. Identifiable in the picture are Chance, the ground-gaining star of the game (with helmet off, at left, and big Bill Poe, 48, 300-pound Merrill defensive lineman. Photo By Kettler font's- Mamlma tDktrid May on berths PAGE' 8 A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore Sunday, November S, 1961 Lady Luck Smiles On Beaten Cavers GRANTS PASS (Special) The I water, who gained 109 of Med- clasped hands high over the head ford s net 130 yards on the ground, of Grants Pass Senior Hich Frin- tallied from the seven on a run cipal Frank Thomas as he gal loped toward the Caveman root ing section was the signal that immediately erased the chagrin the Cavers felt after losing to the Medford Black Tornado 13-6 here ' Friday night. His victory gesture indicated that the Cavemen had just be come the District 8-A-l entrant in the coming Oregon Prep football championships, despite their loss, when Jim Bocchi, a came off! cial from Klamath Falls.' picked their capsule out of the black tin can. The draw was necessitated since the Medford win had plunged Medford, the Klamath Union Pelicans and the Cavemen into a three-way tie for first place In the Southern Oregon Conference flog chase. - Presiding over the draw were Jesse Loffer, the GP athletic di ' rector, Lee Ragsdale and Jim Johnson, his counterparts from . Medford and Klamath Falls, re spectively. Bocchi. who was assigned the ticklish position as the man to draw the lucky capsule, is a former Klamath Union athletic star. He played on both the KU football and basketball teams dur ing the 1943 era. An intercepted pass on the Med- ford five-yard line with seven scc- onds left In the came ended all hopes the Cavemen had enter .. tained for a clear cut league title. Had they won they would have finished the league season with a 4-0 mark, having defeated the Pelicans earlier in the season. Each team wound up with a 3-1 record. Medford, sparked by the ball carrying of fullback George Clear water, scored the first touch down of the game with 8:51 , left in the second quarter. Clear- and little Danny Miles followed up with a successful conversion boot to give the, Tornado a 7-0 lead. The Cavemen retaliated with a score of their own to even it up on the first scries of downs fol lowing the Medford after TD kick-off. After a 21-yard pass from Bob Lewellyn to Dave Haunti and a Medford penalty, sophomore Gary Van Kolcn. who was a substitute for star Terry Isabell, scooted in from the eight and John Summers kicked the conversion. Neither side scored in the third frame but Medford got its big six with 4:16 left in the game when Clearwater bombed in from the three. They had threatened a series earlier but the thrust was dulled by a fumble on the Caver five-yard marker. At the end the Grants Passers nearly caught up but Medford quarterback Scott Eaton inter cepted a pass on his own five and killed out the clock. The game was played in mud that obliterated jersey numbers and yard markers before the game was minutes old.. The team statistics: 7. J lY2psif ' if 'im ; ; J ' f V If Merrill 33-7 Win Over Panther Ml' Worth Quarterfinal Slot To Mustangs By WAYNE SCOTT Herald and News Sports Editor MERRILL (Special) They may1 have been rated underdogs before the ball Eame but the word obvi ously never reached the Merrill Huskies. They literally blasted the Pan thers out of a three-way tie for the lead in the Klamath County B football race when they explod ed for a smashing 33-7 victory over the Chiloquin eleven on the Merrill gridiron Friday night. Their big win, the second eight games this season, not only put the quietus on the pie-season favorite but it boosted the Malin Mustangs into the league "cham pionship." The Mustangs defeated the Sa cred Heart Trojans 27-6 last week end to knot the lead, but the win. plus the Merrill triumph, earned them the right to represent Dis trict 5B in the coming Oregon B quarter-final playoffs. The Mustangs will host Condon next Saturday afternoon at 1:30 in Malm. Paced by wingback Larry Chance, the game's big sod- gainer, glue-fingered end Dave Hill, new quarterback Dale Kurtz, transplanted end Duane Mattson! and Ken Smith, the Huskies bounced back from an early-game 7-0 deficit to score at least once in each period and hamstring the Panthers. Chance scored a pair of TD's, one on a perfectly executed screen pass from Mattson in the second quarter, and the other on a re covered fumble in the Chiloquin end zone midway late in the final frame. Hill also notched a pair of six- pointers, pulling down scoring passes of five and six yards among five receptions. The other Merrill tally was three-yard run by Smith with 1:35' left in the third quarter. Chiloquin halfback Benny Ny gren gave the fans the impression the game might be a Panther run away when he took off for a 56 yard touchdown run the second time the Chiloquin squad called a play. It riidn t work out that way. however, because Hill made it 7-6 irve plays later when he pulled in a five-yard pass from Smitn. After an interchange with the Panthers in the second canto the Huskies took the lead once and for all when Mattson faded back and hit Chance behind the line o(! scrimmage with a screen-toss that went for 19 yards and six points. Chance set up the play with a brilliant 50-yard romp in a drive that had started on the Merrill seven. The third Merrill score came in the third period after reserve Dave Alter had turned in an 18- Tlm sniimci Ttam Mtdford O-Piti First Dnwm Ruihlng 7 5 Plrjt Down PaMlng S 1 Flrit Downs Pnlty 1; 1 Total First Downs 13 7 Yards Gained Rush. IMt S3 Yards Lost Rush. 70 13 Yards Gained Pass, 107 31 Yards Lost Pass. 1 0 Passes Attempt. 13 Passes comp. v Passes Intercept. By ? Punts (Ava l 3'18o Yards Penaliied 3-10 Fumblas Lost 3 Touchdowns 3 Conversions 1 Score bv quarters: Grants Pass 0 7 fl Medford 0 7 0 613 Scoring summary: Grants Pass TD's Van Koten (8-run). Conv.t Summers tklck). medlord TD's: Clearwater 3 (7-run, 3 run). Conv.i Mllea (kick). C ""T XT ftT JTT GLUE-FINGERED MERRILLITE Husky and Dave Hill was a constant problem tor Chiloquin Friday night one that wouldn't be solved. He pulled down six passes, two of them good for touchdowns in the Huskies' 33-7 win. Here he is stopped by an unidentified Chiloquin tackier after one of his glue-fingered grabs. Drawn From The Wood 0 3-3 tl 4-75 Jeff, Tillamook Complete Prep List . By T1CE ASSOCIATED PRESS ' Jefferson of Portland and Tilla mook clinched championships Fri day night completing the num ber of entries in the Oregon class A-l high school football playoffs that open next weekend. Medford threw the Southern Oregon Conference race into a three way tie for f ir st That left tlie two teams dead locked with Klamath Falls, but a . drawing after the game was won by Grants Pass, wliich will play Boseburg in the first sound. Roscburg, No. 1 in the poll, Jx?at Cottage Grove, 20-0 Bose burg already had won the Mid western League tilt. 'Jefferson downed Grant, 13-7. and captured its fifth straight rortland city league champion ship. It will meet Bcaverton this week. Beaverton is ranked No. 2 in the Associated Press poll, Jef ferson sixth. Beaverton warmed up for the playoff with a 20 0 win over Central Catholic of Portland. Tillamook clinched its first foot ball title since entering the Tualatin-Yamhill Valley League by roll ing over St. Ile'ens, 37-8. It will he pitted against Jesuit of Beaver- Ion, which beat Parkrose. 19 0. The oilier A-l playoff first- rounder will pit North Salem ngains Pendleton next Saturday. The teams are ranked 3-4 in the AP poll. North Salem closed its regular schedule by slamming South Sa lem, 25-6, and Pendleton wound up with a 19-0 victory over Her miston. In class A-2 league action Cen tral Union of Mnnmouth-lndepcnd- ence, the defending slate cham pion: Reedsport, Myrtle Point. and Phoenix became league and district titlists. Central Union crushed North Marion of Hubbard-Aurora, 40-6. Reedsport beat Siuslaw of Flor ence, 27-6. Myrtle Point shaded Coqiulle. 6-0, and Phoenix wal loped Glide, 37-12. BASEBALI.ER NOW TEACHING PORT WASHINGTON. Wis. il'PIi Johnny De Merit, former Milwaukee Brave outfielder sold recently to the New York Mels, is teaching science at Port Washing ton High School. SHA Trojans Clip Honkers By SKIP MOHATT Herald and News Correspondent Lady Luck smiled on Sacred Heart Friday night at Gem Sta dium as the Trojans squeezed by Tulelake 12-6. A good sized crowd of frozen football fans watched Mai v DelPlanche's crew nab a big six points in the final period to gain a victory. A fumble and 30 yams in pen- allies put the damper on the in spired Honkers who had a mild upset going when they knotted the game at 6-6 early in the fourth quarter. Sacred Heart crossed the goal line first in the second period. Doug Murray and Mike Holland, the two Trojan work horses, took turns moving Ihe ball 60 yards downfield to the Tulelake five. On a first down and goal the Trojans fumbled the ball over to IB cm H If fl a Oregon High School Football By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS North Salem 25. South Salem 6 1 Pendleton 19. Hermislon 0 Jesuit (Beaverton' 19, Parkrose Junction City 31 South Eugene 14. North Eugene 7 the Californians. But the Honkers wanted no charity so they prompt ly fumbled the ball back on their first play. Sacred Heart recovered. Murray then took it over to give the Academy Red Shirts a 6-0 half-time lead. Late in the third frame the Honkers took over on their own 40, and marched to the Trojans five-yard line as the quarter ended. The drive downfield was sparked by the running of Mike Todd and Ray Krcizenbeck. Krcizenbeck tied Ihe game up on a one-yard plunge. With four minutes to go, and the score 6-6, the Trojans punted from their 33. The punt was fumbled on the Tulelake 35 where Shan Britton fell on it. Back in business, the Trojans passed. The pass was incomplete, but an interference penalty gave the Trojans a first down on the Lack Of Conditioning Blamed For Deaths By H all Of Famer yard gain which was followed by a 16-yarder by Kurtz and Smith's three-yard plunge The hard defensive play by the Huskies took a wicked toll of Panther players and by early in the fourth quarter the Chiloquin club was utilizing an entirely new backfield, composed primarily of freshmen. A fumble by one, lanky Kim Hale, gave the Huskies their fi nal touchdown when Chance pounced on it in the end zone, with 3:50 left in the game. Nygren led the losers with a total of 09 yards on the ground 10 carries while Chance had 112 in 15 for the victors. Merrill completed nine of 18 passes while the Panthers connect ed on four of six tries. Smith, Mattson and Kurtz collaborated in tossing the Merrill aerials while Nygren and Hale threw for Chiloquin. Panther fullback Bob Bojorcus was the third ground-gainer wilh 30 yards in seven trips while Matt son was next with 29 in four. The victory marked the close of Merrill coach Gene Christensen's first year at the Husky reins. The statistics: By HAL WOOD SAN FRANCISCO (UPD-Willie Hcston, Michigan's turn-of-lhe century Hall of Fame football great, can't understand these 33- man football squads. And he won't blame faulty equipment for the high number of gridiron deaths and injuries this year. "You can blame both problems on failure of the athletes to be in condition," said Heston, 84 years young and still going strong. Heston is here as the guest of San Jose Stale students, who brought him to he West Coast to act as parade , marshal for their homecoming game against Arizona State tonight. Willie, a strong believer higher education, spent three years playing for San Jose State (then called San Jose Normal) before playing for Michigan for four years. 15-Man Squads Getting back to the matter of conditioning: 'When we played at Michigan 11901-02-03-041 the squad was made up of 15 men," said Willie. "And usually the four reserves didn't get to play at all. When we played Stanford in the first Rose Bowl on Jan. 1, 1902. our 11 starters played the full game. Everybody had to be in tip top condition. And failure to be in that condition may be causing a lot of the accidents and deaths in the game today. "The boys don't stay in the game long enough these days to get up a good sweat." Heston. who practiced law in Detroit and then became a judge, has been retired for the past 17 years. But he still goes to one game a year at Michigan home coming. And he'll see the home coming game for San Jose Slate tonight. How did Willie happen to play so much college football? Well, in those days the Normal schools, where they educated teachers, were classified as high schools in athletic competition says Heston. "Actually, I didn't get out of the eighth grade until 1 was 17; out of high school when I was 20: and from college when I was 26. Not that I was Team First Downs Rushing First Downs Passing First Oowns PenalW Total First Downs Yards Gained Rush. Net Yards Rush. Yards Gained Pass. Ya.-ds Lost Pass. Net Yards Pass. Total Net Yards Passes Attempt. Passes Comp. Passes Intercept Punts (Avg,) Yards Penalized Fumbles Lost Touchdowns Conversions Score by quarters: Chiloquin Team Statistics Chiloquin Merrill 113 7! 0 73 IS 133 By 3-17.S S 1 0 3-ii.O 40 0 0-7 7 13 33 Merrill Scoring summary: Chiloquin TD's: Ny gren (56-runl. Conv.i Bolorcus (run). so dumh hut as a kid I pnl to Merrlll-TDs: Hill 7 (S-pass Irons su uuniu, Dill as a Kia 1 got 10 smith. 6-pass from Mattson). Smith 13- go to school only three months a runt. Chance 3 m-pass trom Mattson. ,. recovered tumble). Conv.; Mattson 2 Jear- I Irunsl, Chance Irun). 0 13, David Douglas (Portland) Centennial (Gresham) 0 Myrtle Point 6, Coquille 0 Union 33, Joseph 13 Scappoose 32, Molalla 7 Beaverton 20. Central Catholic i Portland i 0 Hilkboro 19. Astoria 0 Sandy 13. Silverton 7 Medford 13. Grants Pass 7 Springfield 24. Thurston (Spring field) 0 Marshfield 28. North Bend 13 Sheridan 13, Philomath 0 Tillamook 37, St. Helens 6 Clackamas 7, Gresham 8 j Grande 7, Baker 8 Prinevillc 20, The Dalles Rrseburg 20, Cottage Grove 0 Canhy 27, Sck) 0 F.stacnda 43, Banks 7 Central Linn I Brownsville) 32, 20. Next an end inn Inst three Willamette 25, St. Francis OivarrU K,,t ts..a,j iiioai ,, (both Eugene) Crater (Central Point) 19. Ash land 8 Phoenix 37, Glide 12 Reedsport 27, Siuslaw (Flor ence' 6 Waldport 39. Taft 7 Crow 13, Monroe 7 West Linn 7. Newherg 0 l,ehnnon 13, Sweet Home 7 of the hands penally gave SaciTd Heart a first and goal on the five -yard line. Holland llien plunged to the one, and Mur ray put Sacred Heart into the lead for good on a one-yard drive up the middle. The Sacred Heart victory was their seventh of the year againsi two losses. This was one of the Yamhill 41, Salem Academy fiimost successful seasons in acad Soaside 28. Hood River 18 lemy lootball history. Coached by Vernonia 6, Rainier 0 a proud Marv PelPlanche the Uke Oswego 15. Oregon City 14 .Trojans also claimed a share of Camas Valley 72. Butte Falls 19 ! the Countv R Lcaaue champion- 40. shin wilh Malm. Central Union (Monmouth) North Marion I Aurora' 8 Amity 46. Dayton 0 Maplcton 28. Sherwood 19 Portland League Jefferson 13. Grant 7 Lincoln 14. Washington 1.1 Franklin 0. Madison 0 Hie' Wilson 31, Roosevelt 6 Score by quarters: Tulelake 0 0 0 88 SHA 0 6 0 8-12 Scoring summary: Tulelake: TD's ' Krcizenbeck 1 1-pliinge'. Conv: None. SUA: TD's Murray 2 (1-plunge. I plunje'. Conv; None. 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