EAGLE
SPORTS
Melvin Schwab. Editor
6 THURSDAY, SEPT. 16, 1948 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
Grid Men Get
Ready for Fri.
This week saw the Loggers
preparing vigorously for the com
ing tilt with the Tillamook Cheese
makers scheduled for Friday
night, September 17, at Tillamook
at 8 p.m.
The Vernonia squad has been
practicing very conscientiously for
the game.
On Monday night,
the Loggers called puntformation
signals and punt returns along
with kickoffs. Tuesday and Wed
nesday afternoons were spent in
mapping out defensive alignments.
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings
were the first nights the Loggers
turned out for practices under the
lights to become accustomed to
conditions on a lighted field. They
also tried on their game uniforms.
All in all, most of the week was
spent in polishing up the squad's
offensive machine and running
through plays.
Coach Jake Hergert announced
this week that managers for this
coming year have been chosen.
They are Kenneth Lindsley, Senior
and Larry Sutton, Junior.
Released this week also was the
tentative first string for the game
Friday evening. They are: Tick
Bass, left halfback; John Brown,
fullback; Dick Nightwine, quarter
back; Gerald Millis, right half
back; Gordon Crowston and Syl
vester Williams, left end; Bob
Fredrickson and Earl Wantland,
right end; Floyd Snyder, left
tackle; Don Renfro, right tackle;
Bill Wilcoxen, left guard; Ronald
LaFollett and Forest Reynolds,
right guard and Deri Roberts
center.
Tick Bass or John Brown will
call signals and Bass will do thé
punting. Williams or Nightwine
will return punts.
According to the coach, the Log
ger team is in excellent shape for
the coming tilt and the spirit and
morale of the club is very good.
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Tillamook has been beaten twice
before by the Logger squad and
will be looking for revenge this
year because of getting kicked out
of the TYV league. A winning
season will quite possibly put
them back in it. The Cheese
makers will be fighting for an
other reason also and that is that
two new coaches will be making
their debut there this season. They
are Larry McKeel and Mr. Med-
dley.
•
Six Teams Play
In Sunset Sked
Byers Stars
In OSC Tilt
By MELVIN SCHWAB
This week will see a Vernonia
squad go onto the field at Tilla
mook to play its first tilt of
the season. Many new faces will
be in the Logger lineup, replacing
those men lost last year. The
Logger squad this year is strong
in the backfield but fairly weak
in the line. Coach Hergert’s line
reserves are also weak while back-
field reserves are strong.
Dick Nightwine, quarterback, a
moveup from last year’s second
string is the best blocker and
tackler on the Logger squad so
far this season. If the Loggers
plays click this season, the suc
cess will partly be due to Dick.
Sylvester Williams, at the latter
part of last season, looked great
on blocking, tackling and running
with the pigskin.
Those who
saw the Rainier game will remem
ber the sensational block Wil
liams threw, taking three men
out at one time, enabling Tick
Bass to run for a score. So far
this season, Williams hasn’t quite
come up to the standards expected
of him, but later in the season
he may snap out of it. Incidently,
Williams will probably return
punts and see action in the back-
field in the coming game.
Tick Bass, the only four-year
letterman on the team, will do
the punting and part of the ball
carrying Friday evening.
Tick
has been getting off very good
kicks this week and in Coach Her
gert’s words, “runs like a mad
fool when he has the ball.” He
is the leading scorer on the Log
ger squad.
Information released a few days
ago indicates that six instead of
five teams will compete in the
Sunset league which was formed
last year.
The team not pre
viously mentioned, but a last
year’s contestant, was Verboort.
The teams now included in the
league are Banks, Gaston, Ver
boort, Forest Grove B team, Carl
ton and Vernonia B team.
According to reports, it is hoped
later to increase the league mem
bership to eight schools, making
a full football schedule within
the league for each school.
The schedule drawn up at a
meeting held at Banks will see
the Loggers go into action Oc
tober 7 at Forest Grove. The rest
of the Vernonia schedule follows:
October 7 — Vernonia at Forest
Grove
October 14 — Banks at Vernonia
October 21 — Vernonia at Gaston
October 28 — Yamhill at Vernonia
November 4 — Vernonia at Ver
boort.
All the games scheduled for
Vernonia will be played at night
at 8 p.m.
•
I League Tilt
Ready This Week
The Rainier Columbians will play
the Parkrose Broncos in the only
Lower Columbia league game
scheduled this week, at Parkrose
in Portland. Parkrose, a new ad
dition to the Lower Columbia
league, is usually a strong team
in the Portland circuit. Rainier
which has six regulars this year
and five lettermen, is also slated
for a gtjod squad this year.
The St. Helens Lions will pit
their strength Friday evening
against the Oregon City squad.
The Oregon City team, according
to reports, is one of the best
teams to come out of that school
in recent years. The Lions, in
their practice scrimmage with the
Jefferson high of Portland, looked
mightly rough in places according
to Dug Olds and the green and
inexperienced players were very
apparent.
The only information on the
Scappoose-Columbia Prep tilt is
that they will meet in Portland to
play the game.
Duke Byers, standout of the 1946
Logger football squad and now
attending Oregon State college,
was one of the star players in a
recent intra-squad battle to give
the White Shirts a 20-20 tie with
the Orange shirts. Byers made
a neat 12-yard run into pay dirt
in the last minutes of the game.
Near the end of the third period,
Byers intercepted a pass and ran
40 yards to another touchdown.
Byers, who is a Sophomore at
the college, played on the fresh
man squad last year.
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