DEFEAT
BY 32-0 SCORE
Bulldogs Speared With Passes As Tigers Record New Margin of Victory Over Ancient Foe And Boost Record to 43 Games Without Defeat
Orchids to Bud Houghton and his
The
team that didn’t have a chance at the start of the season is still champion of
While
25,000 fans blinked with amazement the Tigers blasted their way to the seventh
title in Fawcett stadium,
Stunned
by the suddenness of an unexpected aerial assault, the Bulldogs were never able
to recover long enough to organize a protection against the
They
had concentrated on stopping the Tigers by land and sea as evidenced by their
refusal of the tarpaulin, but their gamble that
Tiger
coaches had anticipated it. They knew in
their own hearts that the Massillon passing attack had not looked good all
year, so they set out the past two weeks to improve it, did, and when the
bulldogs tossed an eight-man line against them on the first play, and crowded
the three-man secondary against it, the Tigers had the necessary weapons to
fight with.
Tail-backs
Bob Graber and Dick Adams, just rared back and let
fly, and far out in the Bulldog secondary, the receivers bobbed up to haul in
the ball with little or no interference.
It
was Graber to Fred Blunt for 37 yards and a near touchdown; Graber to Keve Bray for 12; Graber to Blunt for 36 and a touchdown;
Adams to Bray for 32; Graber to Joe De Mando for 44;
Adams to Bray for 34; Graber to Bray for 49; Adams to Fred Cardinal for 22; and
Adams to Tom Jasinski for five.
There
you have the list that shows the potency of the Tiger attack, nine completed
passes in 17 attempts for one direct touchdown and 271 yards. While passes only accounted directly for one
touchdown, they set up all the others and might have produced two more scores,
had not the receivers lost their balance after working themselves in the clear
in tremendous efforts to catch the ball.
That
is one-half of the passing game.
The
other half is the defense set-up by Houghton and his staff to stop the Bulldogs
in the air. The
The
Tigers were in the pink. Smartly
quarterbacked from the opening minute to the final gun; they surveyed their
opponents’ weaknesses, and struck at the opportune moment.
They
showed no mercy with a vicious running attack once passes had placed them in a
position to score, and in powerful sweeps, Keve Bray,
John Hill, Joe De Mando, and Fred Cardinal would lead
Graber, Blunt, and
Sweeps
were the only weapon the Massillonians had on
hand. The Bulldogs had so thoroughly
concentrated on the off-tackle and spinner plays, that
Capt. Fred Blunt, Chuck Holt, and Bob Graber found it next to impossible to
move. Blunt, who has been the big ground
gainer all season, was virtually stopped all afternoon, but he did get loose
for one of the touchdown sweeps.
The
Tigers, in their new defensive setup, prepared especially for this game, found
Tom Harris, but Bulldog fullback, the hardest of the
The
Bulldogs used three different defenses going from an eight to a seven to a
six-man line, but the Tigers outguessed them most of the way and tossed passes
when the secondary was least protected.
You
will be looking for heroes, but you need not hunt. Take all 11 of them into your arms. The linemen from tip to tip played fine
football and every member of the backfield put in his contribution.
Don’t
overlook Keve Bray; who played his greatest game; and
don’t forget little Dave Miller, the 140-pounder who went in when Bob Wallace
came out with an injury. The way he submarined when the
They
did. They carried out the promise made
by Capt. Blunt as he dashed out of the pre-game huddle and ran to the
Wow!
How
the
There
was no dropping the pigskin. Everything
that was close was caught and in most instances the receivers were beyond the
secondary when they took the leather.
Because
the passes were completed for long gains, the first down total is not
commensurate with the 32 points. Each
team made 11. Yardage gained tells the
story better, 431 to 109.
The
Tigers gained 189 yards on the ground and lost 29 for a net total of 160. Leading ground gainer for the Tigers was Dick
Adams who gained 113 of the 189 yards himself.
He made the longest run of the game, 59 yards and was hauled down from
behind. He raced 26 yards for a
touchdown on another occasion.
And
while you are still thinking in terms of heroes, don’t overlook the tremendous
punting of Graber, especially the 51-yard boot from his nine-yard line that
took the Tigers out of a hole early in the third quarter. Graber actually was behind his goal line when
he kicked the ball. It soared 60 yards
over the McKinley secondary.
The
average of 43 yards per punt would be a compliment to any college kicker.
The
Tigers scored in all but the third period.
They got their first touchdown in the middle of the opening quarter, as
you would expect by now – through passes, two of them in a row, a 12-yarder to Bray and a 36 yard toss to Blunt, who raced across the goal
with no one near him. Graber was the
thrower.
They
scored two touchdowns in the second period.
A 44-yard peg from Graber to De Mando took the
ball to the
Dick
Adams’ 34-yard pass to Bray, set the stage for the third with a first down on
the nine-yard line. And again
The
fourth touchdown came early in the fourth quarter after
The
extra point that had previously been missed through two kicks from placements
and an attempt to carry the ball, was made good this
time by Graber who hammered his way through right guard.
The
final
The
Bulldogs got on the march twice, once at the end of the first half, and once at
the end of the game.
In
their first half effort they moved the moved the ball from their 35 to the 18
where the gun ended play with fourth down coming up and a foot needed for a
first down. Passes gained 19 of the
yards.
At
the end of the game they marched the kickoff back from their 36 and aided by a
38—yard pass, Tom Harris to Pickard, planted the ball on the 12-yard line for a
first down. Four plays only gained three
yards from there on, however and the leather was lost on the nine-yard
line.
The
game was officiated better than any we have seen this season including Big Ten
contests. Dr. David Reese and his
officials kept the contest moving, called only two
penalties both against
The
game brought to a close the first year of Houghton as coach, and he did what
none at the start of the season expected him to do, retain the state title for
Massillon a seventh straight year.
Others
may claim it. Martins Ferry,
Never
before has a
You
could go on and on writing about the game, but why use all the metaphors this
year. Seven of the 11 starters will be
back next season. None was seriously
injured.
Still
Champions
Bray LE Parks
Paulik LT Parshall
B. Wallace LG Zimmer
Hill RG Schuster
Weisgarber RT Smith
De Mando RE Pickard
Cardinal QB Williams
Graber LH Dominick
Blunt RH J. Harris
Holt FB T.
Harris
Score by
periods
Substitutions –
Miller, lg;
Power, qb; Edwards, rt; Dolmos,lt; Stout,c;
Gibson, fb;
Jasinski, re; Robinson, le; White, rh;
Armour, le.
McKinley: Haverstock, le; Jordan, rt; Lombardi, lt;
Coulas, rt; Wernet, c; Simms, rh.
Touchdowns – Blunt 2, Graber, Adams 2.
Points after
touchdown – Graber, Holt (carried)
Referee – David Reese (
Umpire – Earl Gross (New
Headlineman – A.B. Long (
Field Judge – Titus Lobach (
Boosters
Have Open Meeting
Do you want to
celebrate Saturday’s 32-0
triumph over
Then turn out
at
MASSILLON’S
TIGERS turned
32-0
larruping before 20,000 not too astonished customers at
The
defeat was the seventh straight the Bulldogs have absorbed at the hands of
their deadliest rivals. McKinley last
whipped the Tigers in 1934 and recently they haven’t even been able to make it
close in this traditional battle.
The
triumph yesterday merely continued the amazing saga that is
For
William “Bud” Houghton the decisive
Yesterdays’
game was decided in the air, for on the ground, the Bulldog line showed up
surprisingly strong.
But
McKinley had no semblance of defense against the passes of Bob Graber and Dick
Adams. The two
The
Tigers pitched 17 passes and completed 10 of them for the amazing total of 266
yards. To appreciate just how helpless
the Bulldogs actually were against the
On
the ground, the Tigers had far too much speed for their rivals. The crisp, deadly blocking which has always
marked
McKinley
equaled the Tigers in rolling up first downs, each team making 11, but still
the Bulldogs failed to make a serious threat.
McKinley outgained the Bengals
rushing, 187 yards to 128 and completed eight of 24 passes for 69 yards.
McKinley
put itself in a hole right at the start when its two
safety-men played far too shallow on a punt by the Tiger’s Bob Graber. The boot went over their heads with the
Bulldogs finally winding up on their seven-yard line.
Mass. Can.
First downs rushing 4 7
First downs passing
7 3
First down penalties 0 1
Net yards rushing 128 187
Yards gained passing 266
69
Total yards gained 394 256
Passes attempted 17 24
Passes completed 10 8
Passes intercepted by 2 3
Number of punts 5
8
Average of punts 43 31
Number of kickoffs
5 3
Fumbles by 2 1
Opponents’ fumbles recovered 1 1
Yards lost by penalties 5 0