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1946: Massillon 20, Youngstown East 7

Tigers Beat Youngstown East While Eyeing McKinley
Massillon Eleven, Under Wraps, Wins 20-7; Canton Bulldogs Trim Lakewood

By LUTHER EMERY

The Washington high Tigers defeated Youngstown East 20-7 in Rayen Stadium Saturday afternoon but that is old news and of secondary importance now. What matters most this week is that the Tigers will tackle Canton McKinley’s once beaten and once tied Bulldogs in Tiger Stadium at 2 o’clock next Saturday afternoon in a continuation of one of the oldest and most heated football rivalries in the state.

The Bulldogs defeated Lakewood 13-7 Saturday, and like the Tigers looked bad doing it, but one might well believe that Bulldog Coach “Bup” Rearick like Tiger Coach “Bud” Houghton, was holding his punches and trying to get by just as easy as he could.

Such was the case at least at Youngstown, Saturday where Houghton started four players who had never previously started a Tiger football game, and likewise twisted his defense continually throughout the game so as to even confuse Massillon fans as to what he was trying to do.

New faces in the Tigers’ starting lineup were Bill Edie at left tackle, Bob Angstadt at left guard, Wayne Krisher at center and Jack Houston at right guard. Regulars Jim Young, Merle Darrah and Dan Byelene, and Dave Dowd who might be classed as a regular since he has started the last several games, didn’t play a second of the contest. Tony Uliveto was in for only two defensive and two offensive plays and Tom Brooks was used sparingly.

Houghton, in fact, used 22 players in the contest, substituting freely and mixing everything up after his Tigers had roared to all of their 20 points in the first period and a half of the game.
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THIS IS NOT intended to imply that the Tigers did not try to score more than three touchdowns. They did, but in the second half they looked just like the great 1940 team did on the same gridiron when Paul Brown pulled his regulars after running up 26 points in 16 minutes, and then couldn’t get another point, regulars and all.

In fact, East scored one touchdown, had a second called back and threatened on two other occasions after Houghton started his program of substitution, but the final score showed Massillon the winner by a score of 20-7 which was one-half of the afternoon’s objective. The other half was to get through the game without any serious injuries, and that was accomplished too.
Most seriously injured was Morrie Eberhardt who had the web torn on his hand between the first and second finger, necessitating six stitches, but Morrie had it sewed up, bandaged and even went back into the game to try it out. Otherwise there were no injuries.

The game was used to test the physical fitness of Gene Krisher and Julius Wittmann, first and second string tackles, who handled the right tackle post, as well as Paul Cary, who started the season as the first string quarterback but who was cut down by injuries in the second game. Cary twice held the ball for Al Brown to kick points from placements, then went into the game to quarterback the team for a few minutes. He carried the ball once for a sizeable gain and announced that his leg was O.K. and would be ready for service next Saturday. He hopes to see a lot of action against McKinley.
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THE EAST GAME was not only used as a testing ground for the Tigers for McKinley but preparations for the Bulldogs went forward immediately after the contest when all players were given “conditioning” pills to keep them in good health for the forthcoming all important battle.

Back in Massillon after the contest, the squad was not dismissed until after a pep talk by Houghton and an outline of plans for this week’s work. That work began Sunday when the players took a two-mile walk, an annual custom followed on the Sunday preceding the Canton game…MORE.

Tonight the squad will begin a week of secret practice which is scheduled to end Friday afternoon when a few limbering up exercises are expected to hone the team’s precision and physical condition into a fine edge.

A start against McKinley, such as the Tigers made in the East game would gladden the hearts of Massillon fans.
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IT ONLY required as much time as it takes Gene Zorger to run 85 yards to get the first touchdown. He grabbed Larry Ciolli’s kickoff on the 15 and ran along his right sideline without a hand being laid on him. Twice before this season Zorger has gotten by everybody but the safety man on kickoff plays. Saturday he went the route behind perfect blocking. In fact a hasty survey of the field showed but four East players on their feet and they were on the far side of the field.

With Zorger holding the ball, Brown missed an attempted placekick for the extra point.

The Tigers scored again in the second period after twice losing the ball on fumbles. Getting the ball through a punt on the East 46, they moved it up five yards and again turned Zorger loose through left tackle. He cut sharply to his right as he caught the East secondary off balance and outran them to the goal line 41 yards away.

Cary was sent in to hold the ball for Brown and Al kicked the extra point with as dead center a boot as is possible to make.

An intercepted East pass on the Youngstown 49 set the Tigers in motion for their third and final score with Brown tossing nine yards to Zorger who caught the ball in the end zone. Brown kicked the extra point.
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EAST SCORED its only points in the same quarter after being stopped in one attempt when Earl Johnson intercepted Joe Malmisur’s pass behind the goal and ran it out to the six. The Youngstowners started from their own 45, drove and passed their way to the Tiger four, where Mancuso plunged through left tackle for the touchdown. Al Bucci kicked the extra point.

That sums up the scoring, and what happened in the second half; Massillon would just as leave forget. The Tigers were badly outplayed the last two periods, and only because East was in motion the score might have read 20-14, for Ken Queener got loose for a brilliant dash in the fourth quarter that carried him 58 yards and over the Tiger goal. The ball was called back, however and East was penalized five yards. Even in the face of this disappointment, East moved the ball to the 13-yard line before losing it on downs.

The Tigers never threatened seriously in the second half. They got to the 25 once when the ball was lost on an intercepted pass and they were on the 20-yard line when the game ended.

From the statistical columns you would believe East the winner. It made 14 first downs to the Tigers six and ran up a net total of 264 yards from scrimmage to the Tigers 230 yards.

Zorger’s two long touchdown dashes, belie all other statistics, however and give Massillon the advantage in the column that counts most points scored.
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THE STATISTICAL columns reveal, however that the Tigers left much to be desired in the way of defense, and this department undoubtedly will receive more attention than ever this week as the local team prepares for the Bulldogs.

Ralph Pucci, the Bulldogs’ great back, runs between the tackles where the Tigers have appeared weakest all season.

Lakewood was fairly successful in topping Pucci Saturday. He was held scoreless, save for a point after touchdown.

You can’t gang up your secondary on the Bulldogs to stop Pucci either, for the Canton team has a good passing attack. In fact Lakewood learned the folly of concentrating too heavily on a stop Pucci movement, for Canton’s two touchdowns were scored on passes from Pete Spera to Nick Stevenson.

Pete, who quarterbacks the Canton T, is an accurate passer and will bear just as much watching as Pucci.

Lakewood, however, demonstrated as several of the McKinley opponents have this year – that the Bulldogs are vulnerable. The Lakewood eleven powered its way over the goal line in the third quarter for one touchdown and threatened again later in the game.

The lineups and summaries:
Massillon Pos. East
Zeller LE McKeown
Edie LT Carderelli
Angstadt LG J. Massaro
W. Krisher C Sulick
Houston RG Santillo
E. Krisher RT T. Massaro
Eberhardt RE Ciolli
Brown QB Maimisur
Giloff LH Casey
Zorger RH Queener
Yost FB Mancuso

Score by periods:
Massillon 13 7 0 0 20
East 0 7 0 0 7

Substitutions:
Massillon – Bishop, re; Uliveto, lg; Takacs, fb; Schludecker, re; Johnson, re; Wittmann, rt; Cary, qb; Pedrotty, fb; Roderick, lh; Badarnza, rh; Brooks, rg.

Touchdowns:
Massillon – Zorger 3.
East – Mancuso.

Points after touchdown:
Massillon – Brown 2 (placekicks).
East – Bucci (placekick).

Referee – Paul Avery.
Umpire – Denny Schill.
Head Linesman – A. Lindsey.
Field Judge – K. Soller.

Statistics
Massillon East
First downs 6 14
Passes attempted 8 12
Passes completed 2 6
Had passes intercepted 1 4
Yards gained passing 38 124
Yards gained rushing 211 183
Total yards gained 249 307
Yards lost 18 43
Net yards gained 230 264
Times kicked off 4 2
Average kickoff (yards) 47 44
Kickoffs returned (yards) 95 27
Times punted 4 2
Average punt (yards) 28 37
Punts returned (yards) 0 13
Times penalized 10 4
Yards penalized 80 30
Times fumbled 4 5
Lost ball on fumbles 3 3

McKinley Pos. Lakewood
Winn LE Yuhas
Snyder LT Lestock
H. Wetzel LG Bender
Bourquin C Sopka
E. Cobett RG Webster
O’Bravic RT Stoyanoff
Stevenson RE Ostlund
Spera QB Courtney
Hamilton LH Kadar
Pucci RH Bristow
B. Wetzel FB Sanders

Score by quarters:
McKinley 0 13 0 0 13
Lakewood 0 0 7 0 7

Touchdowns:
McKinley – Stevenson 2.
Lakewood – Sanders.

Try for point:
McKinley – Pucci (placement).
Lakewood – Sanders (placement).


Merle Darrah

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1946: Massillon 6, Toledo Waite 40

Toledo Waite Crushes Washington High Tigers 40-6
19,000 Fans Stunned As Indians All But Chase Locals Out Of Stadium

By LUTHER EMERY

The Tiger lost his stripes here Friday evening and they were transplanted in war paint on the Toledo Waite Indians who all but ran the Massillon gridders out of the Stadium in rolling up a 40-6 victory, the largest score chalked up against a Massillon team since the 68-0 defeat at Steubenville in 1931.

The Tigers were no more stunned than the near capacity crowd of 19,000, when the visitors capitalized on two first period breaks to score touchdowns and then turned loose their vaunted power to score 27 more points in the three remaining periods. The victory established Waite as a leading claimant to the Ohio scholastic football title.

Waite had everything last night – power, deception, good kicking and luck, and the first three always make the latter look good. The Tigers had little of anything. They started out the first minute as though they had their minds set on making a runaway of it, but after two, consecutive first downs they lost the ball on a fumble, stopped the Indians on the next series, but lost it again on their 27-yard line from which point Waite swept to its first touchdown.

A blocked punt paved the way for Waite’s second score which likewise required only 27 yards of traveling, and the Tigers were never in the ball game thereafter.

The two first-period fumbles and the blocked punt undoubtedly had something to do with upsetting the spirit of the local team, but the upsetting as a whole was caused by a hard charging Toledo line and the bull-like rushes of Fullback Bill Gregus, who had the Tigers reeling backward most of the evening.

It was the third game between the two schools and it proved to be the charm for Waite, since it was the first time the Indians were able to take the measure of the local team. Massillon won the two previous games played in 1940 and 1941.
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THE VISITORS were jubilant over their victory. The Waite dressing room after the game was the scene of great exultation with players cheering each other, their coach, and spending more than the usual amount of time in the shower room – a sure sign of satisfaction.

The scene in the Tiger dressing room was exactly the opposite. Massillon players dressed and slipped quietly away, as quickly as possible – all except the injured, who had to have their faces patched or legs and arms tended to by the trainer. An early checkup revealed bad legs on Gene Krisher and Earl Johnson. The former was playing his first game since the Alliance contest a month again in which he sustained a knee injury. He aggravated it again last night. Johnson lasted only one play, when he was assisted to the sideline.

The game was clean and the injuries were not the result of any unfair tactics. Waite hit the harder of the two teams and the team that is hit the harder is the one that comes up with the injuries.

The Tigers showed the effects of the visitors’ power on their faces and bodies just as they did when they fell backward on the playing field. It has been many a year since a Massillon team gave ground as the locals did last night, but they have been up against few teams as good as Waite in the last dozen years.

SCALPING PARTY
Massillon Pos. Waite
Zeller LE Durst
Young LT Scallish
Uliveto LG Kowalka
Darrah C Torda
Brooks RG Rae
Dowd RT Hepler
Eberhardt RE Tambur
Byelene QB Young
Giloff LH Carson
Zorger RH Davis
Yost FB Gregus

Score by periods:
Massillon 0 0 0 6 6
Waite 13 14 6 7 40

Substitutions:
Massillon – Schludecker, re; Brown, qb; G. Krisher, rt; Wittmann,rt; Johnson, re; Houston, rg; W. Krisher, c; Pedrotty, fb;
Waite – Vas, rg; Schaetze; fb; Kovesci, fb.

Touchdowns:
Massillon – Zorger.
Waite – Gregus 4; Carson; Durst.

Points after touchdown: Waite – Carson 4(placekicks); Young (carried).

Referee – Brubaker.
Umpire – C.W. Rupp.
Head Linesman – Rainsberger.
Field Judge – Shafer.

Statistics
Massillon Waite
First downs 9 16
Passes attempted 14 6
Passes completed 5 4
Had passes intercepted 2 0
Yards gained passing 76 69
Yards gained rushing 137 378
Total yards gained 213 447
Yards lost 16 16
Net yards gained 197 431
Fumbles 4 2
Lost ball on fumbles 2 0
Times punted 4 1
Punts blocked 1 0
Average punt (yards) 25 29
Yards punts returned 0 39
Times kicked off 2 7
Average kickoff (yards) 50 50
Yards kickoffs returned 143 28
Yards lost penalties 10 25


Merle Darrah

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1946: Massillon 35, Dayton Chaminade 12

Tigers Pluck Feathers Of Chaminade Eagles 35-12
Massillon Gridders Find Caliber Of Dayton High Football Isn’t Too Tough

By LUTHER EMERY

The Dayton Chaminade Eagles which had expected to roost this year on the state high school throne, was a featherless bird today, fully aware that its flight to Massillon Friday evening was a sorry mistake.

The ambitious Eagle had its feather picked by a mightier Tiger to the tune of 35-12 while a near capacity crowd of 18,000 fans looked on.
String of Victories Snapped
The Eagle had flown from it’s nest into strange territory and had paid the penalty for it
— the loss of any opportunity to claim the state title and the end of a long winning streak of 16 consecutive games.

Dayton schools are not playing the same type of football that is played in northern Ohio, and Chaminade now knows it. Chamindae was perhaps, the poorest team the Tigers have met this year. Either that, or Massillon was sharper than it has been in other games.

We would like to think the latter true, and feel convinced that the Massillon eleven did show an improved brand of football over previous performances in past weeks, but we also believe that most any opponent the Tigers have faced this year, could have beaten Chaminade last night.

The Massillon eleven appeared sharper on the attack, especially in the take off on the line which beat the Dayton forwards to the jump most of the time and opened the way for two blocked punts, one of which led to a safety and the other to a touchdown.

Give the linemen the credit. Though badly bruised from wing to wing as a result of bumps received in games the past weeks, they refused to baby their bruises and out charged their visiting opponents from start to finish.

The ball carriers did their part too, but it was the long, accurate passes of Dan Byelene that produced three of the touchdowns including the most sensational one of the day, a 35-yard peg to Gene Zorger, who caught the ball on the 25-yard line and hot-footed it the rest of the way across the Chaminade goal.
Five times the local team crossed the Dayton goal line and twice the Eagles flew into Massillon pay dirt. The first Chaminade score was wrapped in three sheets of tissue paper. The first was on a first down awarded the visitors when the ball was actually a yard and a half short of a first down. The second was a Massillon player’s muff of a Dayton pass with an open field ahead of him. The third was the fact that the Eagles scored with only 10 seconds remaining of the half. It seemed as though the visitors were pre-destined to get that one, and it looked big until the Tigers began pouring more points on their own score in the second half.

The officials later admitted they had erred on the first down play. What had happened was this: Ralph Fleischman, after catching a pass from quarterback Bill Hoban, was thrown out of bounds on the Tiger 34 yard line and one line carrier pulled the stick back from the sideline to keep Fleischman from hitting it and possibly hurting himself. An official saw the stick, and not noticing it had not been returned to the line though Fleischman had made his yards and awarded a first down. Otherwise it would have been fourth down, and Chaminade would have been faced with the decision of punting or running another play.

The decision furnished the cause for the big boo that was heard between halves. It was not intentional but an oversight that could have been costly in a close game.

The game was a whole was held in control, at all times by the officials when it easily could have gotten out of their hands. While the visiting fans took their defeat gracefully, flashes of temper on the playing field resulted in two Dayton players being expelled from the game for unnecessary roughness.

When it appeared that the boys might try boxing instead of football, Coach “Bud” Houghton yanked his first stringers and sent in his second team to finish most of the game.

This was the fist time this season that the first stringers were able to gain the rest they need so badly, and it should do them good, as well as provide the second team with needed experience. In fact the third team finished the game as Houghton cleared the bench of all players.

It was because of this fact that Chamiade statistically does not appear as many as 23 points inferior to the Tigers.

The Dayton gridders scored one of their touchdowns and a lot of first downs while the second team was in the game, but the latter, by pushing the ball over in the fourth period, managed to keep on a par in points.

Statistically, each team made nine first downs and Massillon gained a net total of 283 yards to Chaminade’s 214.

Of the yards gained by Massillon, 104 came on pass plays, while Dayton gained 116 yards on passes.

The local team’s passing attack was sharper than usual, as you can judge by its completion of five of nine passes, three of them for touchdowns. Byelene was even hurried on some of his throw.

That too was Hoban’s chief difficulty. He had little time in which to pick out his receivers and get the ball away. Given a little more time he could be a deadly passer.

It was evident from the opening kickoff, however, that Dayton had stepped out of its own backyard and “into the major leagues,” as one of its city’s sports writers wrote.

Several thousand Chaminade fans, who had traveled by special train or driven to Massillon for the game saw the Tigers rip their team apart from the start.

Had Dan Byelene been a little faster, he would have gotten away for the works on the first kickoff. His teammates had cleared the alley for him, but one Dayton tackler managed to sneak in and drop him. Only two plays later Zorger got loose for a dash to the Dayton 25, where he was tackled by Hoban, the Chaminade safety man.

The touchdown opportunity was lost on downs on the 18-yard line, however. Dayton’s offensive weakness was revealed on the next series of plays when it was thrown back to the eight-yard line in three ball carrying attempts. When Jack Schneider, crack fullback, attempted to punt on the fourth down, Tom Brooks broke through and blocked the ball as hard that it rolled into and out of the end zone for an automatic safety. That put Massillon ahead 2-0 and that was the score at the end of the first period.

The Tigers scored their first touchdown with a 64-yard march that ended with Giloff tossing on fourth down to Jack Zeller in the end zone for 22 yards. Zeller dropped a pass from Byelene for the extra point.
An Easy One
Dayton received, and two plays after the kickoff Hoban fumbled while trying to pass and Jim Young was Johnny on the spot to cover the ball on the Dayton 26. Zorger and Giloff moved it down to the one-yard line and Zorger took it over, only to have the ball called back because Massillon was offside. That didn’t stop the local drive however, for on third down Byelene tossed to Zeller for a touchdown and this time Al Brown came in and kicked the extra point. That swelled the score to 15-0.

Chaminade had courage still, however, and came right back from the kickoff to move the ball on a series of passes to the Tiger 31, where Hoban passed to Ralph Fleischman in the end zone for a touchdown. Schneider then tried to kick the extra point but it was wide of the uprights and the half ended 10 seconds later.

The third period was only a couple of minutes old when Brooks broke through to block another of Schneider’s punts and recover the ball on the two-yard line. Byelene legged it across on second down, but Brown’s attempted placekick was wide.

Chaminade marched right back with the next kickoff to the Tiger 36, where Giloff gathered in one of Hoban’s passes and got back to his own 40. On the very first play, Byelene caught the Dayton secondary in close and fired a long pass to Zorger who ran for a touchdown. Paul Cary, who hasn’t seen any action since the Canton Lincoln game last September, went in and kicked the extra point from placement.

That made the score 28-6 and that’s where it stood at the end of the third quarter.

Came the fourth quarter and Coach Houghton sent in a second team. The kids responded by shoving over a touchdown with Ben Roderick toting the leather from the two-yard line. A 15-yard penalty on Dayton for unnecessary roughness put the ball there. Cary again kicked the extra point and boosted the score to 35-6.

Chaminade took the following kickoff and made touchdown scoring look easy as Bernie Faulkner sub halfback ran from his 24 to the Massillon 44 before John Badarnza closed in and hauled him down. Otherwise he would have gone for a touchdown. But Dayton got it anyway, for Dan Fulwiler moved the ball 12 more yards nearer the goal and Hoban tossed to Larry Zugelder for a first on the 18 and then repeated with a peg to Tom Zimmerman for a touchdown. Schneider’s kick was low and the score stood at 35-12; neither team threatened the rest of the game and the Tiger third stringers finished out the last two minutes.

The victory should add considerable prestige to the Tigers in the weekly football poll for Chaminade in some pools had been ranked at the top of the scholastic standing and was among the leaders in all of them.

Toledo Waite’s 31-7 triumph over Mansfield last night, however, will keep the Toledo boys near the top and their game with Massillon here next Friday night will have an even greater influence on the scholastic standings than last night’s clash with Chaminade.

Good Hunting
Massillon Pos. Chaminade
Zeller LE Kremer
Young LT Kramer
Uliveto LG Hemmelgarn
Darrah C Stachler
Brooks RG Meineke
Dowd RT Smith
Eberhardt RE Zimmerman
Byelene QB Hoban
Giloff LH Fulwiler
Zorger RH Zugelder
Yost FB Schneider

Score by periods
Massillon 2 13 13 7 – 35
Chaminade 0 6 0 6 – 12

Substitutions:
Massillon – Brown, qb; Schludecker, re; Takacs, fb; Ellison, rh; Hill, lh; Pedrotty, fb; Johnson, le; Ceckler, t; Cary, qb; Angstadt, g; Morrow, e; Ebert, g; McVay, c; Edie, t; Paul, g; Bush, qb; Houston, t; Roderick, lh; Williams, t; W. Krisher, c; Bishop, re; Badarnza, fh; Farris, b.
Chaminade – Krug, le; Koepnick, fb; Russell, g; Bolton, t; Angerer, g; Bulpin, hb; T. Zimmerman, hb; Faulkner, hb; Stachler, c; Fleischman, re; Schamel, le.

Touchdowns:
Massillon – Zeller 2; Byelene; Zorger; Roderick.
Chaminade – Fleischman; Zimmerman.

Points after touchdown:
Massillon – Brown (placekick); Cary 2 (placekick).

Safety – Massillon.

Referee – Slutz.
Umpire – Boone.
Head Linesman – Jenkins.
Field Judge – Long

Statistics
Mass. Dayton
First downs 9 9
Passes attempted 9 22
Passes completed 5 9
Had passes intercepted 0 6
Yards gained passing 104 116
Yards gained rushing 299 120
Total yards gained 303 236
Yards lost 20 22
Net yards gained 283 214
Times punted 2 3
Punts blocked 0 2
Average punts (yards) 36 16
Punts returned (yards) 9 24
Times kicked off 6 4
Average kickoff (yards) 45 47
Kickoffs returned (yards) 85 93
Fumbles 8 2
Lost ball on fumbles 2 2
Times penalized 2 6
Yards penalized 25 50

Massillon Tigers
No. Name Pos. No. Name Pos.
10 Yost, G. FB 52 Ebert, Pat G
11 Uliveto, T. LG 54 McVay, J. C
15 Takacs, M. FB 55 Byelene, D. QB
22 Zeller, J. LE 57 Krisher, W. C
22 Houston, J. T 65 Zorger, G. RH
25 Young, J. LT 66 Edie, W. T
28 Hill, J. HB 66 Paul, W. G
28 Ellison, H. HB 67 Bush, E. QB
30 Schludecker, G. E 72 Kutz, S. T
33 Pedrotty, J. HB 75 Roderick, B. HB
35 Brown, A. QB 76 Williams, R. T
36 Johnson, E. E 77 Giloff, A. LH
37 Ceckler, W. T 81 Dowd, Dave C
40 Krisher, G. RT 85 Schumacher, L. G
42 Wittman, J. T 87 Bishop, Jim RE
44 Cary, P. QB 88 Badarnza, J. HB
45 Eberhardt, M. E 95 Farris, E. FB
47 Angstadt, R. G 98 Brooks, Tom RG
50 Darrah, Merle C James, A. HB
51 Morrow, William E Pizzino, Tony T


Merle Darrah

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1946: Massillon 19, Warren Harding 6

Passes Give Tigers 19-6 Victory Over Warren High
Touchdown Pegs Defeat Presidents When Ground Attack Fails To Move

By LUTHER EMERY

The Washington high Tigers waited until the wettest night of the year to come out with a passing attack Friday evening and they can thank their lucky stars they had it for instead of beating Warren 19-6, they undoubtedly would have finished in a 6-6 deadlock.

While 16,000 fans, more than half of them drenched by the downpour of rain, looked on, the Tigers tossed two touchdown passes, one of which was the prettiest thing that has been seen here in a football way for a good many years.
Little To Report About
Aside from that the local team had little to be happy about. Its running attack was almost completely smothered by an inspired Warren line that out charged the Tiger forward wall, and the visitors in turn moved the ball quite freely through the Massillon offense to outnumber the local team 11-4 in first downs.

The pay off on touchdowns, however, and the Massillon gridders got three of them to Warren’s one. They gained more yards too, thanks to the completion of four of seven passes for 111 yards. Warren made the most yardage on the ground, 180 to the Tigers’ 101.

The first touchdown came cheap for the local team and it looked at the time as though Warren would have a bad evening. On the first play the visitors attempted, Dave Dowd broke through and, with a couple of other Tigers, batted down a pass as it left the hand of Herb Eddington, fleet Warren back. The ball went up in the air and Dowd hauled it in as it came down. He only had to scamper five yards to get over the Warren goal and over he went for a touchdown. Al Brown missed an attempt for the extra point. It was a personal achievement for Dowd who was starting his first game at right tackle where Gene Krisher and Julius Wittmann had already been laid low with injuries. Before the period was over, Dowd joined them with a lacerated nose that took several stitches.

The Tigers unleashed their passing attack to produce the two other touchdowns when their running failed to gain.

A 34-yard peg from Dan Byelene to Jack Zeller set up the second late in the opening period with a first down on the seven-yard line. When three line plays failed to move the ball any nearer the Warren goal, Byelene pitched one into the flat to Zeller who went over for the touchdown. This time Brown booted the ball between the uprights for the extra point.

The Tiger attack bogged down and neither team threatened in the second period.

Came the third quarter and Warren ran Massillon all over the gridiron and eventually climaxed a 50-yard march that saw Eddington skirt his right end for three yards and a touchdown. The Tigers appeared to have the Warren drive stopped on the 39, but with fourth down coming up, Eddington ran to a first down on the Massillon 23 on a fake kick and then with the help of Louie Schier and a five-yard penalty carried it on to the three from which he danced away for his touchdown.
A Real Thriller
The Tigers’ last touchdown was the thriller of the year. A 15-yard penalty for holding that followed the kickoff had the local team in deep water back on its 19-yard line. Interference on a pass moved the ball to the 35 and then it happened. Al Brown pegged a pretty 30-yard pass to Gene Zorger who caught the ball over his shoulder on the dead run. His blockers came up from nowhere and he gave them time to go to work.

Jack Zeller dumped the first Warren tackler, then Tony Uliveto dropped one, and finally Jim Young took out the last man who had a chance to lay a hand on Zorger as he raced 35 yards into pay dirt.

It was the prettiest display of setting up blocks and downfield blocking that has been seen here in a long time.

Trouble was, there wasn’t enough of it at other stages of the game, for the Tiger ball carriers had a hard time moving last night, and had it not been for their ability to complete an occasional pass it is doubtful if they would have scored more than the one touchdown that Dowd gathered in on Warren’s first play from scrimmage.

Penalties hurt the locals; offensive work many times. The linemen were unusually eager to get at their opponents and were penalized seven times for offside. In fact their eagerness frequently got them in bad for Warren used a series of trap plays that time and again cut down Tiger tacklers and left big openings in the Massillon line.

Many Massillon fans, bearing the scores of other high school games announced over the public address system, considered the local team fortunate that it was able to come through on a night of upsets such as Mansfield 6, Canton Timken, 6; and the scoreless tie that locked Canton McKinley and Steubenville together.

Fortunately for the local gridders, they emerged from the game without too many injuries.

Wittmann’s split nose required several stitches and Gene Yost, who has been playing in tough luck all season, left a couple of teeth on the field and sustained a cup lip that had to be stitched. His tackling in the early stages of the game when he threw Warren runners for losses was cheered by the fans.

Several of the boys came out with bumps and bruises on their faces and bodies but it was the first game this season that nobody turned up with an injured leg and Coach “Bud” Houghton is happy on that point, for one of his big tests of the season is coming up next Friday when Dayton Chaminade brings its undefeated, unscored on team to Massillon.

Houghton didn’t take many chances with any of his cripples last night for that reason. He kept Junior Pedrotty on the bench and used Wittmann only briefly. He hopes, as a result, that Wittmann, Pedrotty and Krisher and possibly Chick Cary will all be ready for the Chaminade game, and if they are, that will be the first time the team has been intact since the second game of the season.

Aside from the blocking accorded Zorger on his long touchdown run, the outstanding dashes of the game were made by Warren’s Herb Eddington. Only a sophomore, he is fast on the get away and several times almost gave Tigers tacklers the slip.

His long runs practically accounted for the one Warren touchdown and he almost got away on the return of Massillon’s last kickoff when he raced from his own 10 to the 42 before being tackled. It set the stage for Warren’s last march and its only other serious threat of the evening. The Presidents reached the 15-yard line before they were thrown back to the 20 and forced to surrender the ball.

The Tigers have reason to show concern over the outcome of the contest, even though they did win. It was the second straight game in which an opponent succeeded in taking their defense apart fairly well. They couldn’t stop Mansfield successfully two weeks ago and the 180 yards aimed on the ground by Warren last night were too many to be passed up without a bit of serious thinking.

The defeat was Warren’s fourth in seven games, it having been previously beaten by Campbell Memorial, Canton McKinley and Akron Garfield. It was the Tigers’ fourth victory in six games.

PASSES CLICK
Massillon Pos. Warren
Zeller LE Smedi
Young LT McGee
Uliveto LG Spelich
Darrah C Coleman
Brooks RG Rogers
Dowd RT Graham
Eberhardt RE Bassett
Byelene QB Cardinal
Giloff LH Eddington
Zorger RH Corbin
Yost FB L. Schier

Score by quarters:
Massillon 13 0 0 6 19
Warren 0 0 6 0 6

Substitutions:
Massillon – Schludecker, re; Brown, qb; Ceckler, rt; Wittmann, rt; Roderick, lh; Bishop, re.
Warren – Bevan, lh; C. Schier, rh; Pulca, fb; Smith, lh; Flowers, c; Allgood, lh.

Touchdowns:
Massillon – Dowd; Zeller; Zorger.
Warren – Eddington.

Point after touchdown:
Massillon – Brown (placekick).

Referee – Rupp.
Umpire – Lobach.
Head Linesman – Gross.
Field Judge – Shafer.

Statistics
Mass. Warren
First downs 4 11
Passes attempted 7 1
Passes completed 4 0
Had passes intercepted 0 1
Yards gained passing 111 0
Yards gained rushing 101 180
Total yards gained 212 180
Yards lost 33 50
Net yards gained 179 130
Fumbles 1 2
Lost ball on fumbles 0 2
Times kicked off 4 2
Average kickoff (yards) 46 39
Kickoffs returned (yards) 31 79
Times punted 6 5
Average punt (yards) 26.5 32.8
Punts returned (yards) 30 23
Times penalized 9 3
Yards penalized 65 35


Merle Darrah

Massillon Tigers Black Letter Logo

1946: Massillon 12, Mansfield 12

10,000 See Tigers And Mansfield Battle To 12-12 Tie
Massillon Has Ball On Three-Yard Line When Clock Runs Out of Time

By LUTHER EMERY

Eleven men and a clock beat the Washington high Tigers to the goal line at Mansfield Friday evening and the Massillon team had to be contented with a 12-12 tie.

It was a bruising battle staged before some 10,000 fans, the largest crowd ever to see a football game in Mansfield and only 10,000 because no more could get into the park.
Not Satisfied
The Tigers today were not particularly proud of their showing, though they can salvage some satisfaction out of maintaining the record of a Massillon team never having been beaten by Mansfield.

It was the third tie score in the 11 years of competition between the teams, the other eight games having been won by Tiger teams.

The Tigers were not particularly pleased with the result for they felt they had the better team. The statistics bear them out, and they might have returned the victor had not Mansfield succeeded in staving off a last minute thrust until the grim old reaper cut off the time and put an end to the game with Massillon in possession of the ball on the Tyger three-yard line with three downs to make it in.
Inopportune Penalties
That was a tough break for the Tigers, but they didn’t get out the crying towels for they were victims of several tough breaks all evening.

They had Mansfield stopped on both of its touchdown drives when penalties moved the ball forward for the Tygers, and three of their own drives went amiss inside the 35-yard line, twice on penalties and once when the officials got balled up and only gave the local team three downs in a series instead of four.

Albeit, the game was a nerve tingler from a spectator’s stand point and the crowd loved it.

The Tigers, first to score, pushed over a touchdown late in the second quarter on a thrust by Alex Giloff from the one-yard line after a march of 31 yards.

Mansfield came out high in the second half to take the kickoff and drive 67 yards to the two-yard line where Kenny Horvath took it over.
Brown Goes Over
The Tigers roared right back with the following kickoff and did not stop until little Al Brown knocked himself out with a run of 55 yards to gain five and the second touchdown of the game, and Mansfield tied it up at 12-12 when it marched right back with the kickoff to send Ralph Majors scampering around Massillon’s right end in a journey to the Promised Land.

The score ended in a tie because neither team had a kicker. Brown had two chances to boot the first point after touchdown but banged the ball into the line of scrimmage on both attempts. Gene Zorger tried to carry it across after the second touchdown but was dropped before he could get over the goal line.

Ross Frisbee tried to placekick both of Mansfield’s extra points. One was blocked and the other was wide of the posts.

It has been a long time since Massillon fans have seen a more exciting game. Danger was written into every play, for Mansfield’s Majors was a slippery runner who pummeled his legs into the Massillon secondary time and again. On several occasions Massillon ball carriers also threatened to go the whole route.
Defenses Crack
What the first half lacked in scoring was more than made up the last two periods when the teams cracked each other’s defense and drove for touchdowns every time they got the ball until they got tied up into a 12-12 knot. Even then Massillon almost got another, for after Mansfield had succeeded in tying the score, Zorger took the kickoff and ran hard through the Mansfield broken field, only to be hauled down from behind on the Tygers 43.

It was rough and tough and a pre-game argument between coaches over the kind of sweaters to be worn, served as hype to members of the teams to rip it up on the field.

Coach “Bud” Houghton of Massillon was snorting prior to the game when he saw Mansfield wearing a sort of gold jersey. He protested to Coach Snyder of Mansfield that he thought they had an agreement that Massillon would wear black and Mansfield white. Snyder replied that this was all he had that his other clothes had not been returned from the cleaner.”

Houghton took a look at the light ball to be used and noted how well it blended into the color scheme of the gold jerseys. “Then we’ll wear orange,” said the Tiger coach, and the orange sweaters were promptly pulled out of the bags and put on. This made a difference in the numbers of players with those on the program which were given for the black sweaters. The Mansfield numbers were also twisted around.

The sweater incident following a previous argument over the selection of officials for the game, so riled Houghton that he at one time threatened never to take a team back to Mansfield again until such goings on are stopped. A lot of people who stood throughout the game because they were unable to get their seats will breathe an amen to that statement, but perhaps the situation will correct itself in future months when Mansfield completes its new stadium and a better understanding between coaches is attained.
More Injuries
Injuries, which have plagued the Tigers all season, again weakened the team at intervals during the game. Wittmann, Zeller, Al Brown and Junior Pedrotty all joined regulars Gene Krisher, Chick Cary and Gene Yost on the bench for periods Friday evening.

Wittmann sustained an injured ankle; Zeller had the skin laid open above is right eye during the first half, but re-entered the ball game after the wound was stitched. Pedrotty was bothered by a bad leg and Brown writhed in pain from a back injury. Apparently a vertebra was knocked out of place when he was thrown against a post just after crossing the goal line, on the Tigers’ second touchdown. The injury mended and he went back into the game in the closing minutes of the play and almost got away for another touchdown jaunt.

Neither team gambled with passes. The field was not muddy, but it was slippery and the ball was always wet and often greasy. The Tigers tossed but two passes and both were grounded. The Tygers tried two and had one intercepted.

First downs were 16-12 in Massillon’s favor and the locals gained 225 yards from scrimmage to Mansfield’s 175 yards.

Just how superior the offense of the two teams was to their defense is seen in the fact that the Tigers never punted all evening while Mansfield only punted twice. The one time the locals should have punted, they lost the ball on downs on their 35 by failing to gain a yard on fourth down.

The Tigers lost the ball a couple of times on fumbles but on all other occasions they did not have to punt because they always managed to march the ball down deep into Mansfield territory where it was not advisable to kick.

For the second time this season the Tigers won the toss and elected to receive. On their very first ball carrying effort they lugged the pigskin into Mansfield territory only to lose it on a fumble that Mansfield recovered on its own 48.

The Tigers only permitted Mansfield to hold it for one play, however as big Jim Young tore through and tossed Ollie Cline so hard he fumbled the ball. Young not only made the tackle but also covered the fumble. The Tigers marched the leather to the 20-yard line where a five-yard offside penalty set them back when otherwise they would have had a first down. As a result they tried to pass on fourth down, failed and Mansfield took over.

With Majors and Horvath doing most of the lugging the Tygers banged their way 55 yards to the Massillon 25 where they lost the ball on downs.

Massillon charged back and moved to a first down on the Mansfield 38. Then came the boner of the evening and one you seldom see in football. The local team got in one play before the end of the quarter as Zorger grabbed off two yards at left tackle. They only ran two plays the second period, Zorger making two yards on one and Byelene grounding a pass when the officials ruled the ball had been lost on downs. The lineman carrying the down marker, showed fourth down instead of third, on the pole and the officials failed to note the error. In fact it went by without any protest from the Massillon team until the halftime intermission when Houghton voiced his complaint.

The error cost the Tigers another down with the ball on the 33-yard line.

Mansfield was forced to punt on the next series and the Tigers lost the ball on their own 35 when they tried to carry it a yard on fourth down and failed to do so. Mansfield’s efforts ended with Merle Darrah intercepting Cline’s pass and running back to the Mansfield 31 before being tackled.

That sparked the Tigers to their first touchdown march. Giloff immediately whirled away to the 19-yard line. It took four downs to move it another 10. Then Giloff on a quick opener shot through for five more and Zorger went around his left end to the one yard line. It took two more cracks at the line for Giloff to get it over.

Brown missed an attempted kick for the extra point but Mansfield was offside. He tried it again and missed.

The Tigers forced Mansfield to punt after the following kickoff and had just made a first down on the Tyger 30-yard line when the half ended.

Mansfield didn’t wait to get rolling in the second half. Cline brought the kickoff back to the 31-yard line and in three plays, Majors and Horvath ran to a first down on their 47. Majors moved it up with another dash to the Massillon 33 and Horvath’s plunge combined with a five-yard penalty inflicted on Massillon for offside moved the leather to the 20-yard line. The Tigers had Mansfield stopped on the 13-yard line, but a five-yard penalty gave it a first on the nine. Horvath carried the leather four times in succession, going over on his last effort. Frisbee’s attempted kick for he extra point was blocked.
Tigers Score Again
Massillon took the following kickoff, Zorger carrying the ball back to his 40. Four successive first downs with Giloff and Zorger doing most of the carrying, took the ball to the 16. Brown staggered through center for 11 yards and a first down on the five. He then made an unorthodox but sensational sweep around his right end for a touchdown. Getting the ball, he started to his right but ran backward as three Mansfield tacklers bore down on him. He ran from the five back to the 20, where he turned on a burst of speed that caught the Mansfield gridders flat-footed. Running in a big arc, he went over for the touchdown, but was injured as he crossed the goal line and had to be removed from the game. Zorger tried to sweep left end for the extra point but was bottled up.

The six points in no way discouraged Mansfield. The Tygers rushed right back with the ball after the kickoff. Three successive first downs advanced it from the Mansfield 37 to the Tiger 30. The Tigers would have held for downs but again an offside penalty gave the Tygers the necessary extra yardage and they carried up to the five-yard line where Majors caught Massillon napping and swept his left end for a touchdown. Frisbee’s kick went wide of the goal.

Zorger took the following kickoff and nearly got away with it. He was down to the Mansfield 43 before being tackled. The Tigers moved the ball to the 23 where an offside penalty set them back. A fumbled lateral was recovered by Mansfield on the 36 but Majors fumbled for Mansfield on the next play and Bill Ceckler pounced on the leather for Massillon on the 35. Massillon was penalized five yards for delaying the game, but Brown got them back and more as he reentered the game and ran to the 15-yard line. Zorger took it up to another first down on the three and Brown was thrown without gain as the game ended.

Not Too Good
Massillon Pos. Mansfield
Zeller LE Henke
Young LT Rondy
Uliveto LG Richards
Darrah C Wentz
Brooks RG Gross
Wittmann RT Boals
Eberhardt RE Beard
Byelene QB Frisbee
Giloff LH Cline
Zorger RH Majors
Pedrotty FB Horvath

Score by periods:
Massillon 0 6 6 0 12
Mansfield 0 0 6 6 12

Substitutions:
Massillon – Schludecker, re; Byelene, qb; Edie, rt; Ceckler, rt; Badarnza, rh; Tackas, fb; Johnston, le; Bishop, re.
Mansfield – Sinerson, re; McKee, rh; Emerson, c; Marth, rt; Amsbaugh, le.

Touchdowns:
Massillon – Giloff; Brown.
Mansfield – Horvath; Majors.

Referee – Zupp.
Umpire – Smith.
Head Linesman – Landrum.
Field Judge – Grant.

Statistics
Massillon Mansfield
First downs 16 12
Passes attempted 2 2
Passes completed 0 0
Had passes intercepted 0 1
Yards gained rushing 225 175
Yards lost rushing 6 16
Net yards gained 249 159
Times punted 0 2
Average punt (yards) — 23
Fumbles 3 3
Lost ball on fumble 3 2
Yards penalized 35 21


Merle Darrah

Massillon Tigers Black Letter Logo

1946: Massillon 19, Alliance 0

Tigers Down Alliance 19-0 Before Crowd Of 12,000
Massillon Gridders Win Hard-Earned Victory On long Run And Good Punt

By LUTHER EMERY

The Alliance “dreamboat” crashed in the Tiger jungle Friday evening and whatever visions the plucky crew of Aviators harbored of handing Massillon its first defeat by an Alliance team in 14 years, were buried under a 19-0 score.

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Ever since 1932, Alliance has “dreamed” of a victory over the Tigers, and many thought that with Mel Knowlton, a Massillon boy, at the helm, this was the year.

With a record crowd of 12,000 fans (6,000 sitting and 6,000 standing) looking on; the Aviators made an exciting takeoff, but their big machine sputtered when it approached the Massillon goal and was unable to buck the Tiger Tornado.

A long run, a good punt and a blocked punt, one coming in each of the last three periods, downed the Alliance hope and brought a hard earned but deserving victory to Massillon as both score and statistics reveal.
Knowlton Surprises

Knowlton, always known for pulling surprises when he coached successfully in the Massillon junior high schools, met the Tiger offense last night with a 5-3-2-1 defense. It wasn’t exactly what the local coaches had expected.

In the pre-game guessing in which coaches try to outsmart the other by anticipating in advance what type of defense the opposition will employ, the Tiger staff had figured Knowlton would resort to a seven-man line. Their eyes popped when they saw Alliance lineup with only five-men on the forward wall and they knew they would have trouble. They did – and plenty of it.

The Alliance team went after the Tigers as though they were out to get their first meat in weeks, and employed the five-man line to real advantage in the early minutes of the game.

Nobody was able to do anything with anybody during the first series of plays run by the two teams and it was obvious that the football game of the week was being played.

It was a game Alliance wanted to win every which way and one the Tigers did not want to lose, so the chewing went on from the opening whistle to the final gun, with casualties strewn over the field in Bombay riot fashion. Not that players of either team were guilty of dirty playing, for the injuries were the result of the hardest kind of rough and tumble football and the impact of some of the tackles could be heard in the stands.

The Tigers were continually pouring back to the first aid station on the bench and two of them, Gene Yost and Gene Krisher, received injuries that will put them on the sidelines the next week or two. Yost, who sustained the hardest blow of all, was left in the Alliance city hospital last night. He was believed to have suffered a slight concussion.

He was only in the game a couple of minutes when he sustained a blow on the head. He was immediately removed from the contest and was apparently all right until he got a dizzy spell in the dressing room. An ambulance was called and he was taken to the Alliance city hospital where X-rays failed to reveal any fractures. His condition was reported as good today, and he will be brought by ambulance to the Massillon city hospital today for several days of rest and observation.

Krisher slipped a cartilage out of place in his knee. It was not believed to be torn and was put back in place after the game last night.

However, the injury will keep him on the bench this week and possibly one or more additional weeks.

Several other players were likewise shaken up. Gene Zorger got two wallops on the head that put him out of the contest but before the end of the game, he had ceased seeing stars and was coaxing to get back into the fray. Early in the contest Tom Brooks bloodied up a couple of towels when socked on the nose.

Knowlton counted casualties too on his Alliance team. They included Dick McFall whose accurate bullet passes were too hot for his teammates to handle.

Coach “Bud” Houghton was happy to pull through the game as well as he did and without any more injuries to his squad.

It seems that someone is seriously injured in every Massillon-Alliance game, and it was Krisher’s lot to be the first victim of the jinx. In fact, Alliance is one team he will always remember. He broke an arm against the Aviators two years ago and last year had several teeth kicked out.

The Alliance victory was not wrapped too securely until the final stages of the game when the Tigers scored their third touchdown. The margin of victory might just as well have been two touchdowns and with a little more luck, the Aviators might even have succeeded in holding the locals to a scoreless tie.

For one and one-half periods it appeared that the game was headed for just such a result when lightning suddenly struck the left side of the Aviator line in the form of Al Brown, and the Tiger quarterback raced 61 yards to a touchdown and added the extra point to give the locals a 7-0 lead at the half.

The importance of good punting was revealed on the scoreboard in the second half when the Tigers chalked up their last two touchdowns of the game.

It was a well placed punt by Dan Byelene that rolled out of bounds on the two-yard line that set up the second touchdown. Hurried in attempting to return the punt from behind his own goal line, Dick Strait booted the pigskin out of bounds on his own 19 and five plays later Alex Giloff went over from the four for the Tigers’ second score.

The fourth quarter was waning when they got their third and last. Rushing a weakening Alliance line, they threw Paul Varley for a 22-yard loss on two consecutive plays and then blocked Strait’s attempt to punt. Morrie Eberhardt, who had had his hands in blocked punts in other games, broke through the Aviator line, smeared the ball as it came off Strait’s toe and cleverly followed it over the goal line where he pounced on the leather for a touchdown.

Brown missed both attempted placekicks after the last two touchdowns.

The Tigers got down to the 11-yard line again before the end of the game.
Lots Of Thrills
Brown played only a few minutes of the game, and never went back into the contest after his long touchdown run, except to try for points after touchdown.

Zorger got away for several long runs before being kayoed in the fourth quarter and Ben Roderick sparkled with two good dashes in the last five minutes.

The game was a good one to watch because it was filled with the spectacular. Knowlton provided some of it with his aerial attack but McFall’s passes with the slippery ball were too hot for his receivers to handle and they dropped several that were in their arms. In fact Alliance’s only successful pass effort resulted in a loss of 13 yards. Other thrills were provided by Earl Johnson with his shoe string catch of Byelene’s fourth period pass; by Byelene himself in a dash that would have been a touchdown had he not run into one of his teammates; by Jim Young on one occasion when he hauled down Alliance’s George Balogh with a one-handed tackle; by Jerry Thorpe, son of Jack Thorpe, former Mt. Union college coach, who gave Alliance fans something to cheer about the last quarter with his classy dashes. He was the fastest man on the field last night, and only sits on the bench because he is a sophomore while Strait, whom he is understudying, is a senior and an inspirational leader for the Aviators.

Despite the fact that it made as many first downs as the Tigers, Alliance actually only threatened the Tiger goal on one occasion. It came in the closing minutes of the first half, when the Aviators marched the ball 45 yards to the Tiger 18. The threat ended when McFall, attempting to pass was chased back toward midfield. He finally got the ball away to Plum, who didn’t have any business catching it, for a loss of 13 yards on the play. The Aviators never threatened the last two periods though Thorpe on several occasions was within a few steps of shaking himself loose.

The Tigers as a whole resorted to straight football. They never threw a pass until the fourth quarter and then attempted only five, two of which were completed for 30 yards. Alliance pitched 14, completed the one for a 13-yard loss and had two intercepted.

While first downs were even, yards gained reveal the Tigers’ superiority. The local team made 216 yards rushing to Alliance’s 163 yards, and gained a net total of 246 yards to Alliance’s net of 131 yards.

The Tigers were victims of 60 yards in penalties to Alliance’s 15. One of the penalties, a five-yarder may have cost Massillon a first period touchdown. It had worked the ball from its own 15 to the Alliance 23 (thanks to a 30-yard run by Zorger), only to lose the ball partly as a result of the penalty.

The local team had the edge in punting despite a couple of poor Massillon boots in the early stages of the game. Byelene’s out of bounds effort on the two-yard line was the classiest kick of the evening.

Though threatening skies confined their efforts to a mere drizzle of rain a couple of times during the game the field was wet from heavier rains earlier in the evening. Despite the soggy condition of the turf, there was little slipping on the part of ball carriers and each team fumbled but once.

The Tiger line, which was patched up often because of injuries, gave a good account of itself during the night and frequently threw Alliance ball carriers for losses.

The Alliance team is one of the best that has represented that school for years. Players showed more pepper than any Aviator team since the days of Dr. George Wilcoxon and played their heats out for Knowlton. In fact several of them were groggy on their feet towards the end of the game which probably accounts for the Tigers’ third touchdown.

There’s a good spirit in Alliance and the fans are back of Knowlton 100 per cent – as they should be.

“We are going in the right direction now,” one Alliance fan was heard to say after the game, and the comment of others could be summed up in one word.—Amen.

Victory No. 3
Massillon Pos. Alliance
Zeller LE A. Macciolo
Young LT Welbush
Uliveto LG Reese
Darrah C Plum
Brooks RG Cobbs
Krisher RT Edwards
Eberhardt RE M. Macciolo
Byelene QB McFall
Giloff LH Balogh
Zorger RH Strait
Pedrotty FB Russ

Score by periods:
Massillon 0 7 6 6 19

Substitutions:
Massillon – Wittmann, rt; Brown, qb; Schludecker, re; Schumacher, rg; W. Krisher, c; Johnson, le; Ceckler, rg; Edie, t; Roderick, lh; Yost, fb; Badarnza, rh; Tackas, fb.
Alliance – Varley, qb; Clayton, fb; Merrill, lh; Vernon, g; Thorpe, rh;
Nixon, g; Myers, t.

Touchdowns:
Massillon – Brown; Giloff; Eberhardt.

Points after touchdown:
Massillon – Brown (placekick).

Referee – Jenkins.
Umpire – Schlemmer.
Head Linesman – Schill.
Field Judge – Zimmerman.

Statistics
Mass. Alliance
First downs 9 9
Passes attempted 5 14
Passes completed 2 1
Had passes intercepted 1 2
Yards gained passing 30 -13
Yards gained rushing 216 163
Total yards gained 246 150
Yards lost rushing 23 19
Net yards gained 223 131
Times penalized 6 1
Yards lost penalties 60 15
Fumbles 1 1
Recovered own fumbles 1 1
Times kicked off 4 1
Average kickoff (yards) 47 45
Kickoffs returned (yards) 15 80
Times punted 4 6
Average punt (yards) 32.7 23.1
Had punt blocked. 0 1

Tickets On
Sale Monday

In response to an increasing public demand, Washington High School Monday afternoon will sell season tickets for the remaining four home games on the Tiger schedule. The four are Warren, Dayton Chaminade, Toledo Waite and Canton McKinley.

The school has had so many requests from fans who would purchase season tickets for the last four games, that it has decided to place them on sale at 3:30 p.m. Monday. A limited supply of reserved seats for next week’s Mansfield game will be sold at the same time.


Merle Darrah

Massillon Tigers Black Letter Logo

1946: Massillon 13, Steubenville 6

Tigers Hand Big Red 13-6 Defeat Before 21,000 Fans
Massillon Gridders Win Hard Fought Battle With Fourth Period Touchdown

By LUTHER EMERY

The Tigers of Washington high school dammed the Big Red surge from Steubenville Friday evening and turned back the wave from the Ohio River city by a score of 13-6 in a hard fought game in Tiger stadium before a near capacity crowd of 21,000 fans.

Massillon spectators who like to see them close, saw their second home game in a row that way, and were glad to settle for the seven-point margin of victory. In fact at the end of the scoreless first half they had reached the point where they wouldn’t have been too disappointed with a tie score.

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Hard To Crack
Not that Steubenville has the greatest football team in Ohio. It hasn’t, but it has a scrappy eleven that caught the Tigers on a night when the latter were jittery and the victim of a bad case of fumblelitis.

No team could have had any more hard luck happen to it at the wrong time than that which plagued the local eleven throughout the game. But in spite of all the bad, there was enough good in the Tiger team to pull through to victory, and the crowd stuck to the end.

A terrific first half which saw a lot of vicious tackling, and goal line threats thrown away with fumbles, prefaced the second half when the two teams scored all of their points.

The third period was five minutes old when Al Brown, Tiger sophomore quarterback, raced around his right end for the first touchdown of the game, and the fourth quarter had hardly begun when Querino Lelli tossed a 29-yard pass to Bob Stratton of the Big Red to tie the score at 6-6.

The Tigers roared back magnificently after the Steubenville touchdown and went 85 yards to score with Gene Zorger lugging the leather over from the one-yard line and Brown placekicking the 13 and final point.

That in brief tells the story of the scoring, but it does not tell the whole story.

Howard Brinker, former Massillon Ed. Jones junior high coach who went to Steubenville as assistant to Mel Knowlton in 1941 and became head coach when Knowlton entered the navy, brought a heavy, experienced team to Massillon and as expected by those who were in the know, gave the Tigers all they cared to handle in one evening.

In the early stages of the game, Brinker’s eleven outplayed the orange and black, but in the last three periods the Massillon eleven was distinctly the better team and not only the score but the statistics bear out this point. They made 11 first downs to Steubenville’s five and gained a net total of 263 yards to the Big Red’s 149. Hard luck cost them two possible touchdowns the first half and they were on the three-yard line when the game ended.

In fact fate was so unkind the first half it appeared as through the books were closed on Tiger scoring. The local boys handled the Big Red defense nicely after the first period, but muffed every scoring opportunity.

No wonder then the Massillon spectators went delirious with joy when Brown finally worked his way over the Stubber goal line. As far as the spectators were concerned they would just as leave had half a dozen bombs shot off for that one, for it looked big for the moment. Then along came Steubenville to tie it up at 6-6 and folks again were talking about settling for a tie. But their visions of a duplication of the 1945 score were soon eased when Zorger took the following kickoff and raced straight up the alley and through the Steubenville team, only to be hauled down from behind on the visitor’s 35-yard line and have a 15-yard penalty slapped on for clipping.

The fans greeted the clipping charge with a terrific boo, since from the stands it appeared that Al Brown had safely driven his body in front of the would-be Steubenville tackler.
A Great Run
Zorger’s run on the kickoff return was one of the finest of the day and one of many contributions on his part to the spectacular phase of the evening.

One two other occasions he almost got away for touchdown sprints, but was hauled down by the safety man. His running was just as outstanding for the Tigers as was that of slippery Preston Robinson for the Stubbers. The latter, who has a lot of knee action, put the Big Red in position for their fourth quarter touchdown when he dashed 28 yards to the Tiger 29-yard line from which point Lelli executed his perfect peg to Stratton. The latter all evening had the knack of eluding the left side of the Tiger secondary and had it not been for his own butter fingers, the Big Red might have had an even better showing for its efforts.

The one Steubenville touchdown actually was the Big Red’s only serious threat of the game, although fans at all times feared that Robinson or Pete Polovina would break away for a sprint to the oats bin.

The Tigers, on the other hand, were threatening right up to the end of the game. Ben Roderick late in the fourth quarter, intercepted a Steubenville pass and raced for what looked like a touchdown, but his foot slipped out on the 30-yard line and the ball was called back to that point and put in play. Then too at the end of the game, the Tigers were hammering for what appeared to be a sure touchdown on the three-yard line.

The Massillon line again played a great game. It took a beating the first period when it appeared unable to handle the Steubenville backs or open holes for the Tiger runners, but it arose to the occasion from there on and moved the Big Red players around constantly. Big Jim Young played a bear of a game and Tony Uliveto was in on plenty of tackles. Likewise, Gene Yost and Tom Brooks grabbed their share of legs during the night.

Steubenville operated almost completely from a single wing. The Tigers started with a T offense but couldn’t make it click to get openings for ball carriers. They lost no time getting back into a single wing.

The Big Red played a 5-4-2 defense throughout most of the night. It confused the local team during the early minutes of the game but once the players and coaches figured out a way to go through they often penetrated it for sizeable gains.

The loss was Steubenville’s second in four games this season and the victory was the Tigers second in three games.

Steubenville had previously beaten East Liverpool, 19-0 and Weirton, W. Va., 13-7 and had lost to Steubenville Central Catholic, 2-0. The Tigers in their two previous games had defeated Canton Lincoln, 29-0 and lost to Cathedral Latin at Cleveland, 14-7.
A Vicious Game
The teams went at each other with a vicious spirit from the start of the opening whistle and tackled for keeps. Neither team threatened until the closing minutes of the first period when the Stubbers launched a drive that carried them to the 8-yard line where, on fourth down, Don Joyce tried to pass and was thrown for a six-yard loss by Gene Krisher, Tom Brooks and Gene Yost.

The Tigers made their first serious threat midway in the fourth when Zorger got loose for a 22-yard run that took the ball to the 27-yard line and moved it on to the five in another dash. On first down, the ball was dropped in a reverse, Zorger to Byelene, and Dwight Bauman recovered for the Big Red.

Stopped in their efforts to return the ball, the Stubbers elected to punt, but Joyce’s kick was blocked and it would have been Massillon’s ball on the five-yard line had not a Massillon player been offside. That ended another possible threat and the last of the first half.

The Tigers came out after intermission with the idea of taking the kickoff and going for a touchdown but it didn’t work out that way. The Big Red stopped them and forced them to punt. The third period was about half over when the local team got its first break of the day. Joyce had dropped back in an attempt to pass but was smothered as he drew back to fire. The ball popped out of his hand and the Tigers covered on the Big Red 25. A series of plays gained a first down on the 12-yard line and put the ball in position for Brown’s wide end sweep for a touchdown.

He tried to placekick the extra point but punched the ball into the backs of his own players.

Steubenville struck back with fire in its eyes and on the first play of the fourth quarter got the ball through a punt on its own 38-yard line. Robinson danced his way to the Tiger 29 from which Lelli launched his touchdown pass. Polovina’s kick was blocked.

With the score tied at 6-6 the Big Red kicked off to Zorger who caught the ball on his 15 and ran straight up the field behind fine interference. He was in the open at the 50-yard line and had a one step lead on the nearest Big Red tackler when Brown took off with a dive in an attempt to lay a block into the Big Red player. The officials called it clipping and instead of the Tigers getting the ball on the 35, they got it on the 50. It took nine plays to get over the goal, Zorger lugging the ball across from the one-yard line . This time Brown kicked the extra point which looked very precious for the moment.

That ended the scoring although the Tigers’ nearly had another on Roderick’s fine run after interception and Byelene’s long pass to Johnson for a first down on the nine-yard line. The Tigers had moved it from the nine to the three when the game ended.

Massillon’s passing attack was ragged. The Tigers’ completed two for 48 yards and had two intercepted. Steubenville wasn’t any better although one of the two passes it completed went for a touchdown. The Big Red tried 11 and had two intercepted.

Massillon’s superiority can be read in the ground gained by the local team. The Tigers gained 27 yards to the Big Red’s 166.

Numerous penalties, many inopportune moments, slowed the game. The Tigers were penalized four times for a total of 65 yards while Steubenville was penalized seven times for 75 yards.

WILLIAM G. “BUD” HOUGHTON
— 1946 —
Game 3: Steubenville (Big Red)
Head Coach: Howard Brinker
Date: Friday, Oct. 4 (8:00 p.m.)
Stadium: Tiger Stadium
Attendance: 21,000
Referee: Titus Lobach
Umpire: O.V. Boone
Head Linesman: Denny Schill
Field Judge: Carl Brubaker

Massillon Starting Offense Steubenville
(22) Jack Zeller LE Robert Hess (15)
(25) Jim Young LT Dwight Baughman(35)
(11) Tony Uliveto LG George Ossio (10)
(50) Merle Darrah C Art Deleonardis (26)
(98) Tom Brooks RG Eugene Quinn (19)
(42) Julius Wittmann RT Jim Miller (37)
(45) Morrie Eberhardt RE Stanley Giffs (25)
(35) Al Brown QB Don Joyce (33)
(33) Junior Pedrotty LH Pete Polovina (22)
(65) Gene Zorger RH Preston Robinson(31)
(10) Gene Yost FB Bob Stratton (12)

1 2 3 4 Final
Massillon 0 0 6 7 13
Steubenville 0 0 0 6 6

3rd Quarter
Mass TD#1 – Al Brown runs 12 yds around RE on 1st & 10 to end 25 yd drive. The drive starts after a fumble recovery. PAT kick by Brown is too low and hits the backs of his own players.
4th Quarter
Steub TD#1 – Bob Stratton takes 29 yd pass from Querino Lelli to end 62 yd drive. The drive starts after a punt reception. PAT kick by Polovina is blocked.
Mass TD#2 – Zorger runs 1 yd to end 9-play 50 yd drive. The drive starts after the kickoff return by Zorger. PAT kick by Brown is good.

M STATISTICS Opp
11 First downs 5
2 of 10 Passing 2 of 11
2 Own passes intercepted 1
48 Passing yardage 41
228 Rushing yardage 125
276 Total yardage 166
13 Yards lost 17
263 Net yards gained 149
4 for 27.7 Punts & average (yards) 6 for 25.8
38 Punt returns (yards) 21
3 for 47 Kickoffs & average (yards) 2 for 49
3 of 5 Fumbles & lost 1 of 3
7 for 65 Penalties & total yardage 7 for 75

Game Info
Substitutions
Massillon: Byelene, qb; G. Krisher, rt; Bishop, re; Eberhardt, re; W. Krisher, g; Johnson, le; Badarnza, rh; Roderick, fb.
Steubenville: Hess, le; Wells, rg; Lelli, lh; Sogan, rh.


Merle Darrah

Massillon Tigers Black Letter Logo

1946: Massillon 29, Canton Lincoln 0

Tigers Show Power As They Crush Lincoln Lions 29-0
Zorger Sparkles Behind Brilliant Line Play And Fine Downfield Blocking

By LUTHER EMERY

A snarling Washington high school Tiger met a vicious Canton Lincoln Lion before a record throng of 24,000 people in Fawcett stadium, Canton, Friday evening and the Tiger won 29-0, after 48 minutes of the roughest football that has been played on a Stark county gridiron in a long time.

The Tigers ended Lincoln’s undefeated string at 16 games, while chalking up their first victory of the season, but they lost the services of two quarterbacks; Chick Cary and Al Brown, for possibly one or more weeks and had two other players jolted out of their senses.
Important Victory
It was give and take all the way with both teams doing plenty of both, the Tigers winning the ball game but sustaining more casualties for their efforts.

The victory was important from a Massillon standpoint. The Tigers needed it to bolster their own morale as well as that of their public after suffering their first defeat in an opening game in 16 years to Cathedral Latin last week.

Lincoln wanted a victory as the 17th link in its undefeated chain and to press its claim for another state championship which it had a hand on last year.

That’s why the game meant much to both teams and that’s why it turned out to be the kind of hard-fought battle everyone expected — a revival of the old knock’em down, drag’em out contests of the roaring ‘teens.
Surprised Followers
The Tigers surprised the most optimistic of their followers. Few conceded them more than seven points in the betting, but they won by 29, through spirited line play and excellent down field blocking.

The Massillon linemen tore up the Lincoln forward wall like the best teams did in the Tigers’ state championship years, and it has been a long time since fans of either school saw blockers cutting down would-be tacklers in the open field like the Tigers did last night. They saw their men quickly and got them.

The score does not tell how thoroughly Lincoln was outplayed. Neither does it give any hint of the general roughing both teams handed out to each other.

Massillon’s superiority can be found in the statistics: 14 first downs to the Lions’ eight; 335 net yards gained to the Lions’ 133 and one blocked Lion punt.

It was evident from the first couple of minutes of play that the game would be rough and that Massillon had the heavier wallop.

On second down of the first series of Massillon plays, Cary was forced out of the game with a puffed right knee, and Brown took his place.

Brown did an excellent job of calling plays until an injured right ankle put him on the bench with a third of the second period remaining to be played. Dan Byelene, himself suffering from injuries sustained last week, finished the game at the signal barking post.

Looking like an entirely different team from the one that faced Latin last week, the Massillon gridders scored in every period. From the T or the single wing, it made no difference, the ball carriers raced to long gains, but it was a 52-yard return of a punt for a touchdown by Gene Zorger that really brought the spectators to their feet and put a sprag in whatever hopes Lincoln had of keeping pace with the local team.

A safety in the first period and a touchdown by Zorger from the five-yard line combined with a placekick by Brown for the point after touchdown, had the Tigers leading 9-0 when Ray Keck booted the ball to the Massillon 48. The ball was rolling dead, and Byelene was making no effort to pick it up. Neither were two Lincoln players who were standing behind it as it rolled slowly toward the Massillon goal. Then up came Zorger to gamble on a running scoop up of the ball, right from under the noses of the two Lincoln players. He had tried the same stunt against Latin on the Tiger five-yard line last week and almost got away with it. Last night it worked. Zorger’s teammates immediately sensed their duties. As the Tiger halfback raced laterally in the field, his blockers went to work. They cut down Lincoln tacklers and Zorger reached the goal without a hand being laid on him. It was a great run and the suddenness of it all left the spectators gasping in just as much surprise as the Lincoln players.

It was the best of several runs turned in by Gene last night, his greatest night as a Washington high football player. Once he broke through from scrimmage to race 69 yards to the Lincoln 11 before being downed. On another occasion he was away to what would have been another touchdown dash, but his blocker missed the last Canton tackler who had a chance to get him and get him he did.

But while Zorger’s long runs stood out offensively for the local team, the Massillon eleven as a whole from end to end and from back to back played hard-nosed football.
The Line Was The Difference
The difference in the teams to a great extent was the Tiger line. From the time the Tiger forwards rose up to smite down Ray Keck’s attempt to punt from behind this own goal, blocked the ball and gathered two points on an automatic safety, the Massillon linemen were charging and ripping the Lion forward wall to pieces. It was the kind of charge Massillon fans used to smile at with satisfaction in the state championship years and the kind that makes an offense and a ball carrier look good.

The players showed the effects of it too. Julius Wittmann, starting his first game at right tackle, got such a wallop on the last play of the first half that he passed out in the dressing room and was out cold for 45 minutes. It was late in the fourth quarter before he completely regained his equilibrium.

His mother couldn’t have done a better job with a paring knife than a Lincoln gridder’s shoe did in taking the skin off Jim Young’s nose.

Three of the four members of the Tigers’ starting backfield were knocked out of the game. First came Cary, then Brown and finally Junior Pedrotty got such a wallop that he went haywire for a moment and began swinging at members of his own team. Zorger was the only backfield starter to come out unscathed.

Lincoln had its casualties too and its great little halfback, Ray Keck, who was forced to run laterally most of the time last night because of the charge of the Tiger line, was knocked out of the ball game on one occasion but, like Pedrotty, reentered following a rest.

Despite the roughing, only one player was tossed out of the game. Gordon Young, Lincoln right end was caught taking a swing at Pedrotty in the fourth period and was sent to the bench. His team was penalized half the distance to the goal line but it only meant five yards for the Tigers were within 10 yards of a touchdown when the fisticuffs occurred.

All in all, the Tigers scored a safety, four touchdowns and three points after touchdown. Quick on the takeoff, they were penalized many times for being offside or in motion, and that’s just as good as it is bad, for it indicates the anxiety to get the jump on the opposition. They lost 50 yards on penalties to Lincoln’s 40.

The Tigers scored their first two points on a safety in the first five minutes of the game.
Score On Safety
Neither team gained on the first exchange. The locals, in fact, wound up with fourth down coming up and 19 yards to go when Zorger was called to punt for the first time in his life. He got a good one off to the Lincoln 18-yard line, and it was here the Massillon line stepped into the cage in the role of Lion tamer. Keck carried twice and wound up 13 yards back of where he started. He dropped behind his goal line to punt and the Tiger line crashed through, Eberhardt knocking the ball before it went over the end zone for an automatic safety for Massillon.

Pedrotty brought the following free kick back to the Lions’ 45-yard line and the Tigers took off on a 55-yard touchdown march and had to overcome four different five-yard penalties to do it.
Brown hit right tackle for six and Zorger broke through for 18 more only to have the ball called back and a five-yard penalty inflicted for offside. It didn’t discourage the Tigers however and after Brown’s pass to Giloff traveled over the latter’s head. Zorger was again turned loose for a first on the Lion 32. Giloff made nine yards at guard and on a second attempt chalked up what would have been a first down on the 15, but again the Tigers were set back five yards for being in motion on the play.
Zorger Goes Over
That didn’t stop them, however, for on the next play, Brown tossed a lateral to Zorger who swept his left end for a first down on the 15. Pedrotty bucked through to the six and Brown was held for no gain but again the Tigers lost five yards for being offside. It didn’t stop them though, for Zorger banged his way through to within a foot of the goal. Brown went over but Massillon was called again for being offside and the ball was put in play on the five-yard line. Giloff picked up two yards and Zorger finally took the ball over for a TD that couldn’t be denied. Brown placekicked the extra point to put the Tigers ahead 9-0.

The Tigers’ second touchdown came in the opening minutes of the second quarter on Zorger’s long runback of Keck’s punt, the story of which has already been told. The Lions had the ball on their own 31 when they kicked it to Zorger who picked it up on his own 48 and reeled off 52 yards. Again Brown placekicked the extra point.

Neither team threatened until the closing minutes of the half when the Tigers drove 37 yards to the Lincoln 20.

The local eleven received the kickoff at the start of the third period and hammered its way 92 yards for a touchdown without surrendering the ball.

Giloff started with three yards and Zorger made it first on his 34. Byelene bootlegged for six yards. Zorger picked up three and Giloff made it first down on the Lincoln 46. Zorger went for nine yards at center and a five-yard penalty for offside moved the ball to a first on the Lincoln 32. Giloff made five at center and Zorger on a reverse ran to the 18. Byelene passed to Zorger on the goal line but the ball was called back and the Tigers were penalized five yards. Zorger and Giloff made it first down eight yards short of the goal. Zorger took the ball to the five-yard line but a five-yard penalty set the Tigers back on their heels again.

The Lincoln line appeared to brace as Giloff was held to two yards so Byelene tossed a well aimed pass to Zorger in the end zone for the Tigers’ third touchdown. This time t he ball was passed to Giloff who carried it over for the extra point.

The locals’ last touchdown came in the first five minutes of the fourth period. The quarter opened with the pigskin straddling the 50-yard line, and fourth down coming up for Lincoln. Keck punted and Zorger was downed on the 25. A five-yard penalty pushed theTigers back to their 20, and it was from this point that Zorger was turned loose for a dash to the Lincoln 11. He wheeled through left tackle, dashing forward for 15 yards before reversing his field and heading out to his right. He got by all the Lion players until Dwight Beatty hauled him down 11 yards short of a touchdown. Zorger made a yard at center, and Lincoln was penalized half the distance to the goal when its Gordon Young was caught taking a poke at Pedrotty. Byelene lost three yards, but tossed a strike to Jack Zeller on the next play for the final touchdown of the game. An attempted plunge for the extra point failed.
Lincoln’s two best offensive efforts came in the last period. The Lions shot the works after the kickoff as Beatty flipped a pass to Ted Resler who tossed a lateral to Ted (Thunder) Boldt, who raced 45 yards to the Tiger 16 before he was hauled down. The Lions only moved the pigskin three yards nearer the goal before the Tigers took it away from them on downs.

On the following series of plays, Ben Roderick, sophomore fullback got away for an
18-yard dash, but the Tigers lost the ball when Jack Stiner intercepted a Byelene pass on the Tiger 48. Lincoln managed to get back to the 14 before the game came to an end.

Lion Tamers
Massillon Pos. Lincoln
Zeller LE Mase
Young LT Seaman
Uliveto LG Little
Darrah C Gellenbeck
Brooks RG Rosenberry
Wittmann RT Rich
Eberhardt RE Young
Cary QB Mallett
Giloff LH Keck
Zorger RH Resler
Pedrotty FB Boldt

Score by periods
Massillon 9 7 7 6 29

Substitutions:
Massillon – Yost, fb; Schludecker, re; Johnson, lg; Brown, qb; Angstadt, g; Roderick, fb; Dowd, c; Badarnza, lh; Farris.
Lincoln – Griffith, lg; Norris, fb; Wayne, rg; Beatty, rh; Frank, qb; Baxter, re.

Safety – Massillon

Touchdowns:
Massillon – Zorger 3; Zeller.

Points after touchdown:
Massillon – Brown 2 (placekicks); Giloff (carried).

Referee – Earl Gross.
Umpire – Verlin Jenkins.
Head Linesman – Augie Zimmerman.
Field Judge – Dwight Peabody.

Statistics
Massillon Lincoln
First downs 14 8
Passes attempted 7 13
Passes completed 3 5
Had passes intercepted 1 0
Yards gained passing 27 79
Yards gained rushing 351 80
Total yards gained 378 159
Yards lost 23 26
Net yards gained 355 133
Times punted 2 6
Average punt (yards) 29 25
Returned punts (yards) 93 11
Had punts blocked 0 1
Times kicked off 5 1
Average kickoff 48.4 60
Yards returned kickoffs 6 80
Fumbles 2 1
Lost ball on fumbles 0 0
Times penalized 10 6
Yards penalized 50 40


Merle Darrah

Massillon vs. McK - Throwback (Large)

1945: Massillon 0, Canton McKinley 0

Tigers And Bulldogs Battle To Scoreless Draw In Mud

Morningstar’s Warriors Hold Edge In Statistics, Twice Threaten To Score

By FRED J. BECKER

Last Friday was a swell day – lots of sunshine and a balmy temperature that made you want to be outdoors. Sunday was another fine day – bright sunshine and enough snap in the air to make it just right for a football game. But Saturday was a lousy day – positively lousy. And of course that had to be the day the Washington high school Tigers and the Canton McKinley Bulldogs got together at Fawcett stadium, Canton, to stage their annual football rumpus – the 50th meeting between the two schools since 1894.

Program Cover

And who won! Why the weatherman with his showers and overcast skies and the ankle deep mud that covered most of the Fawcett stadium gridiron. As far as the Tigers and the Bulldogs were concerned the weatherman’s soaking showers that turned the gridiron, shy of grass between the 25 yard lines, into a sea of mud and water put quite a check on their best offensive efforts with the result that neither team was able to score and this 50th meeting between Stark county’s traditional scholastic football enemies ended in a scoreless draw.
Five Victories and Five Ties
For the Tigers that 0 to 0 encounter with the Bulldogs gave them a unique record for the 1945 campaign – five victories against five ties – but it wrote into Massillon’s football history the chapter of another undefeated season for the orange and black. For the Bulldogs it was their second tie in 10 games with seven victories and a lone defeat at the hands of Warren Harding.

Despite the rain, which turned the gridiron into a mass of slippery mud and water this annual encounter between the Tigers and Bulldogs was fought with all the intense rivalry that has marked past battles and a capacity crowd of more than 22,000 partisan spectators braved a drizzling rain and murky atmosphere to be on hand for what has become one of the country’s outstanding schoolboy football games.
Typical Tiger – Bulldog Battle
Although the lads out their on the field, were put at a disadvantage by the elements and poor condition of the gridiron it did not keep them from battling their hearts out in true Massillon-Canton fashion. Soaking wet and covered from head to foot with a generous coating of mud after the first few plays the Tigers and Bulldogs battled it out in 48 minutes of intense warfare and then trudged off the field tired and dirty but with honors even as far as the score was concerned.

It was too bad the game could not have been played in good weather and on a firm, fast gridiron. A much different and much more spectacular encounter might have resulted for both the Tigers and Bulldogs were primed for Saturday’s melee and despite the handicaps they faced they still put on tap a performance that will rank with other Massillon-Canton McKinley football scraps for hard, determined fighting.

Faced with treacherous footing and a ball that was as slippery as an eel, neither team took many chances with tricky plays or forward passes. Straight football predominated throughout, both teams resorting to this type of warfare to guard against fumbles which would give their opponents a break and a scoring chance.

Although the game ended in a scoreless draw and supporters of the Tigers and Bulldogs must be content this year with a division of the spoils, there are still many who believe that on a hard, dry field the Tigers might have proved themselves superior to their old rivals. Even in the mud and water the Tigers impressed their followers by their hard driving offense and their stonewall defense which very effectively bottled up a much heavier and more powerful Canton McKinley outfit.

The game ended in a tie but the statistics once again favor the Tigers as they did in all their four other ties with the exception of that 6-6 encounter with Cleveland Cathedral Latin.
Statistics Favor Tigers
Statistics, however, do not win ball games but it is satisfying to know that the Tigers outplayed the Bulldogs last Saturday afternoon even though neither team scored.

In first downs the Tigers had a 10 to 7 advantage over the east enders.

In yards gained the Tigers also held a decided edge. Coach Augie Morningstar’s fighting youngsters had a gross yardage of 200 with a loss of 16 for a net of 184 while the Bulldogs had a gross of 143 with a loss of 20 for a net of 123.

Neither team took many chances with the forward pass. Massillon tried three and completed one for 12 yards. Canton completed one for four yards. Fumbles were at a minimum in despite the slippery going. The Tigers fumbled twice and both times lost the ball. McKinley also fumbled twice but recovered each time.

The Tigers dominated play in the first half and twice drove inside McKinley’s 15-yard line but each time the Bulldogs stiffened and checked the Massillon scoring threat. The Bulldogs held the upper hand throughout a large part of the second half but they made only one serious bid to score, that coming in the fourth quarter but the Tigers were equal to the occasion and took the ball away from the red and black on downs on the Massillon 19.
The Bulldogs might have become tough to handle in the third period when they completed a long forward pass that took the ball to the Tiger 20 but the play was called back and the gain wiped out because McKinley’s backfield was in motion.
16 Tigers See Action
Sixteen Tigers got a chance to soak up some of the mud and water that covered the gridiron while Canton McKinley made but two substitutions, Pete Spera at an end and Bob Jordan at a guard.

Alex Giloff started the game at right halfback for the Tigers but was hurt in the first period and replaced by Don McGuire. Steve Tomasevich and Tommy Brooks alternated at right guard. Jim Young went in at right tackle late in the game when Merle Darrah was hurt and Gene Krisher moved over to center. Jim Bishop replaced Captain Fred Bonk at right end with less than two minutes of play remaining. Dan Byelene was in the game a short time, replacing Webb for a few minutes.

Although the Bulldogs had two work horses in their backfield – Duane Fondren at left halfback and Ralph Pucci at fullback – who gave the Tigers plenty of trouble throughout the afternoon, the orange and black defense as a whole was magnificent throughout the entire game.

Fondren and Pucci ran and plunged their way for most of Canton’s yardage but they were slapped around plenty by the Tigers who gave another outstanding exhibition of brilliant defensive play and hard, accurate tackling.

Offensively the running of Bert Webb high lighted the Tigers’ bid to score. Although he had been in the hospital most of last week with a severe cold, Webb was by far the fastest man on the field Saturday and despite the sticky mud he ran the legs off the Bulldogs in addition to playing a stellar defensive game in the Massillon secondary. His speed several times enabled him to nail Canton ball toters who managed to smash their way through the line and seemed headed for plenty of yardage until Webb caught up with them and dumped them into the mud.

Sharing offensive honors with Webb were McGuire and Gene Zorger, both of whom hammered their way through the Canton line for many gains. Each of them broke loose for at least one long gain and they might have turned the tide of battle had they been on firmer footing.

The Tigers had plenty of fine blocking and interference for ball carriers Saturday with Virgil Edie doing a lot of fine blocking. Giloff also cut down his share of Cantonians while he was in the game.

The entire Tiger line from end to end played its usual stellar game. True the boys were so smeared with mud it was difficult to recognize them but this did not keep them from doing a good job of smearing the heavier and bigger Bulldogs.
Tiger Line Shines
Captain Fred Bonk, playing his last game for the Tigers, and Jack Zeller, starting his first game since he broke a toe three weeks ago, were in the ball game every minute, playing their usual steady and highly efficient game. Bernie Green, another senior, and Gene Krisher, sturdy junior, had a lot to do with stopping the bullet rushes of Pucci and Fondren while Tony Uliveto, a junior, played the entire game at left guard and turned in a fine afternoon’s work. Steve Tomasevich, a senior, and Tommy Brooks, a junior, handled the right guard berth in good shape and Merle Darrah, another junior, played his usual brilliant game at center until forced to the sideline late in the struggle with an injured leg.

Jim Young, a junior, who went to right tackle when Krisher took over Darrah’s duties at center, also got his share of tackles. In the backfield the game was the last for Webb, McGuire and Edie.

Fondren and Pucci were Canton’s outstanding ground gainers while Bill Messenheimer at left end, Bob Cobbet at left tackle and Clarence Snyder at right guard played fine defensive games.

With Saturday’s game a tie, the fourth played between the two old foes in 51 yards, the series stands at 24 victories for McKinley and 22 for Massillon. Saturday’s scoreless draw was the first played since 1926. Other ties occurred in 1913 when they battled to a 13-13 deadlock and in 1907 when the game also ended in a scoreless deadlock.

The Tigers made the first of their two bids to score early in the first quarter when after receiving the kickoff they reeled off four first downs in succession and drove to Canton’s 13 before being halted.

Zorger took Bob Lilly’s kickoff and raced it back to the Massillon 41. On a weak side reverse Webb picked up seven yards around left end before being run out on Massillon’s 48. Zorger then crashed through the line to Canton’s 48 for a first down. Webb came right back and skirted his right end for 11 and another first down. Meacham nailed Giloff without gain at left end but Zorger picked up three through the line and then Webb broke through left tackle and scampered to the Canton 27 for another first down. He picked up another two yards through the same spot and then Giloff reeled through left tackle and smashed to Canton’s 14 before being downed. This gave the Tigers their fourth first down in a row.
Bulldogs Held On 13
But here this Bulldog defense stiffened. Webb was thrown for a three-yard loss on another attempted weak side reverse and Giloff was stopped without gain but Zorger smashed through for give to get up to the 13 before being downed. With fourth down coming up and eight to go Webb was smeared for a five yard loss and the Bulldogs took over on their 17.

With Fondren and Pucci lugging the ball the Bulldogs smashed right up the field for a pair of first downs before the Tigers succeeded in checking them and Fondren punted.

The Tigers made little progress but Webb put the Bulldogs in a hole from which they never emerged during the remainder of the first half by getting off a quick kick for 56 yards to the McKinley nine yard line.

Fondren then gave the Bulldog fans something to cheer about when he clipped off a 20 yard gain before being nailed by Webb.

The Tigers braced and Fondren got off a poor punt that only went 13 yards before going out of bounds on the 50. Webb ripped off a five yard gain before the quarter ended and Zorger put the Tigers into scoring territory on the first play in the second quarter by streaking through right tackle and racing to the Canton 24 for a gain of 31 yards. It was a beautiful piece of footwork in the mud. McGuire and Webb picked up nine yards in three smashes but on the fourth down Webb was inches short of the required yardage and Canton once again stopped the Tiger scoring threat, taking over on its 14. Neither team threatened after that during the remainder of the quarter.

The Bulldogs, however, stirred things up in a hurry at the start of the third period. They received and drove into Massillon territory. Fondren then heaved a long pass which Meacham caught on the 20 where he was knocked out of bounds. McKinley rooters cheered lustily but their cheers died quickly when the officials called the ball back and slapped a five-yard penalty on the red and black for backs in motion. This forced the Bulldogs to punt.

A short time later they secured another break when Webb fumbled in attempting a double pass behind the line to McGuire and Messenheimer fell on the ball on Massillon’s 28.
Bulldogs Stopped
Hammering at the Tiger forward wall the Bulldogs picked up nine yards in three plays but on fourth down with one yard to go Tucci tried a quarterback sneak and was promptly buried in the mid by an aroused Tiger line. He gained an inch and the Tigers took the ball on their 19 to wipe out Canton’s most serious bid to score.

Several minutes later Webb carried a Canton punt back to his 32 and Mickey McGuire electrified the Massillon rooters by slamming through the line and racing 21 yards to Canton’s 47 before being tackled. This Massillon uprising, however, was short-lived. Webb fumbled on the next play and Sterling Winn covered for Canton on the Bulldogs 45.

After several punt exchanges the Tigers gained the ball on their 29. With the clock running out McGuire tossed to Zeller for 12 yards to complete one of the three passes attempted by the Tigers during the game. Webb hit the line twice, picking up nine yards and when the final gun sounded the ball was right smack on the 50-yard line in Massillon’s possession with the scoreboard still showing Massillon, 0, McKinley, 0.
The Windup
Massillon – 0 Pos. Can. McKinley – 0
Zeller LE Messenheimer
Green LT Cobbet
Uliveto LG Bourquin
Darrah C Lilly
Tomasevich RG Snyder
Krisher RT Winn
Bonk RE Stevenson
Edie QB Tucci
Webb LHB Fondren
Giloff RHB Meacham
Zorger FB Pucci

Substitutions:
Massillon – McGuire, rhb; Brooks, rg; Young, rt; Krisher, c; Byelene, lhb; Bishop, re.
McKinley – Spera, le; Jordan, lg.

Officials:
Referee – Reese.
Umpire – Lobach.
Head Linesman – Shafer.
Umpire – Brubaker.
1946 Schedule
Sept. 20 Cathedral Latin here.
Sept. 27 Canton Lincoln at Canton.
Oct. 4 Steubenville Wells here.
Oct. 11 Alliance at Alliance.
Oct. 18 Mansfield at Mansfield.
Oct . 25 Warren Harding here.
Nov. 1 Dayton Chaminade here.
Nov. 8 Toledo Waite here.
Nov. 16 Youngstown East at Youngstown.
Nov. 23 Canton McKinley here.
6 Big Home Games For 1946 Tigers
Washington high school’s 1946 football schedule, announced this morning by S.E. Ackley, faculty manager of athletics, calls for six home games with four battles on foreign fields. It also provides three new opponents for the orange and black next fall.

Schedule details were completed early today and the 1946 card was arranged through the combined efforts of Faculty Manager Ackley and W.G. (Bud) Houghton, head coach, who will take charge of the Tigers during spring practice after more than three years service in the U.S. Navy.

Coach Houghton returned to the Washington high school teaching staff several weeks ago, following his discharge from service, and since that time he and Ackley have been working together selecting the schools to appear on the 1946 schedule. Once agreements were reached with schools on dates, contracts for the games were negotiated by Ackley.

The six home games, which have been booked for next year will be standout attractions and two of them will be with schools not on this year’s slate. Toledo Waite, which has not been on a Massillon schedule since 1942, will play the Tigers here Friday night, Nov. 8. Waite this year has had an undefeated season and will play Canton Lincoln’s Lions at Canton Dec. 1 in a post season game.

Dayton Chaminade, which this fall became one of southwestern Ohio’s outstanding scholastic powerhouses, also has been scheduled for 1946, coming to Massillon Nov. 1.

Third new school to gain a place on the 1946 slate is Youngstown East and this game will be played at Youngstown, Saturday afternoon, Nov. 16, the week before the annual battle with Canton McKinley which in 1946 will be played here.

It will be the first time in several years that the Tigers have played a daylight encounter prior to the McKinley tussle but Coach Houghton desired at least one daylight encounter for his 1946 Tigers before they stacked up against the Bulldogs. He believes the daylight game will be of great value in preparing the Tigers for their all-important tussle with the east enders.

The 1946 season will start off with a bang on Friday night, Sept. 20, with Cleveland Cathedral Latin as the Tigers opening game opponent. The Tigers and Latin played a 6 to 6 tie in the Cleveland municipal stadium last Nov. 9 with more than 52,000 people in attendance.

Other home games next fall will be with Steubenville, Oct. 4. Warren Harding, Oct. 25, Dayton Chaminade, Nov. 1, Toledo Waite, Nov. 8 and Canton McKinley, Nov. 23. All are Friday night games with the exception of the McKinley clash.

The Tigers will take to the road Sept. 27, meeting Canton Lincoln at Fawcett stadium, Oct. 11 at Alliance, Oct. 18 at Mansfield and Nov. 16 at Youngstown East. All are Friday night games with the exception of the Youngstown East duel.
Statistics
Mass. McK
First downs 10 7
Yards gained rushing 188 139
Passes attempted 3 1
Passes completed 1 1
Yards gained passing 12 4
Gross yardage 200 143
Yards lost 16 20
Net yardage 184 123
Number of kickoffs 1 1
Average distance of kickoffs 48 38
Average return of kickoffs 19 23
Number of punts 7 9
Average distance of punts 28 26
Average return of punts 7.2 6.3
Times fumbled 2 3
Times ball lost on fumbles 2 0
Times penalized 3 6
Yards lost by penalties 15 30

Fred Bonk
Massillon Tigers Black Letter Logo

1945: Massillon 26, Cleveland East Tech 6

Tigers Romp Over East Tech 26-6, For Fifth Victory
Morningstar Uses Flock Of Players As Bengals Play Final Home Game

By FRED J. BECKER

And now, folks, the Bulldogs are next.

Turning loose a lot of potent power on the ground, some effective strafing from the air, along with their usual high class performance on defense, Coach Augie Morningstar’s Washington high school Tigers Friday night kept their 1945 record free of defeats by shellacking a rather formidable Cleveland East Tech aggregation 26 to 6 at Tiger stadium in their final home appearance of the current campaign.

Program Cover

By turning back the invading Clevelanders, the orange and black comes up to its all-important battle a week from today with Canton McKinley’s Bulldogs still in the unbeaten class with a string of five triumphs against four ties. By conquering East Tech last night, the Tigers notched their fifth 1945 victory, the win coming after they had been held to tie scores in their last two battles, one a scoreless deadlock with Warren and the other a 6-6 shindig with Cleveland Cathedral Lath.
Sixth Defeat for East Tech
For East Tech the defeat was its sixth of the season with but a single victory to brighten an otherwise dismal fall.

Using at least 25 players, regulars and reserves, and starting off with a lineup that was generously sprinkled with second team performers, Coach Morningstar last night was able to give some of his key regulars a much needed rest which should do them no harm as the Bengals Monday begin their final week of practice in preparation for the clash with Bulldogs.
Tigers Romp To Second Period
Held scoreless in the first quarter, the Tigers unleashed a devastating ground and air attack in the second period to tally three times and they added their fourth set of counters in the third period. East Teach chalked up its lone marker in the final period on a long aerial that was good for a 50-yard gain and their points.

With off tackle thrusts as their best ground weapon, the Tigers picked up a lot of yardage through a determined Cleveland team that battled hard all the way but was not quite equal to the task of stopping Massillon’s power plays or halting the Tiger aerial attack. Some fine work by the Tiger line, which opened plenty of gaping holes in the East Tech forward wall, and some equally fine blocking and interference paved the way for many nifty gains by Tiger ball toters.

The visitors were rather badly outplayed by Morningstar’s warriors, the Tigers making 16 first downs to four for East Tech. Three of East Tech’s first downs came on forward passes while another brought them their lone touchdown.

The Tigers completed three of seven passes for 51 yards and two of them were good for touchdowns. East Tech took to the air 15 times, completing five for 116 yards. Tech had three intercepted, one interception bringing a Tiger score.

The forward pass was by far the visitors’ best ground gaining weapon as they made but 44 yards on ground plays with a loss of 16. They had an overall yardage of 160 and a net of 144.

How badly they were outclassed is revealed by the Tiger yardage. The Tigers romped to 385 yards on the ground and made 51 through the air for 436. They had a loss of 35, giving them a net of 401, not a bad evening’s work.

The Tiger line, regulars and reserves, played a steady, bang up game until late in the contest when the Massillonians began to miss quite a few tackles. The backfield also performed in a highly efficient manner with regulars and reserves sharing the spotlight when it came to ground gaining.
Flock Of Good Ground Gainers
Of the regulars Bert Webb and Mickey McGuire did a lot of ground gaining with MdGuire showing as much, if not more, drive than at any time this season. Webb left the game in the second quarter after Massillon had tallied its first touchdown. Gene Zorger, regular fullback, also only played a short time.

Virgil Edie, regular quarterback, played most of the game and put on tap his usual steady performance and broke into the scoring column for the first time when he intercepted a Tech pass and scampered 32 yards for the points.

Sharing ground gaining honors with Webb and McGuire were Alex Giloff, Bill Gutshall and Dan Byelene, all of whom made life quite miserable at times for the Tech forwards.

Gene Krisher, shifted from his regular right tackle berth, played center while Merle Darrah watched most of the game from the bench, getting a much needed rest. Jim Young was in the right tackle slot while Steve Tomasevich and Tom Brooks alternated as right guard. Captain Fred Bonk was at right end with Bob Richards at left end, replacing Jack Zellar, laid up with a broken foot. Bernie Green was at his regular left tackle post while Tony Uliveto and Bob Waltz took care of the left guard chore. Gene Yost and Milan Chovan saw action in the backfield while Schumacher, Ceckler, Dowd and Bishop saw duty on the line.

East Tech, coached by Humphrey Harmony, who starred for Canton McKinley 25 years ago, brought a big, rangy team to Massillon with several outstanding performers. Defensively Lou Strnad at right end played a fine game while John Hrasch, Al Jicha, Dosio Ginnerini and Tee Chapman did some good work in the backfield with Hrasch as their best ground gainer and passer.
Three Long Marches
Three long, sustained marches gave the Tigers three touchdowns while the fourth came on a pass interception. In their scoring spree the orange and black turned loose marches of 83, 81 and 77 yards for points and were hammering at the touchdown door when the game ended, having the ball on the visitors’ eight-yard line.

But once again an unfortunate offside penalty robbed Coach Morningstar’s charges of an early touchdown and nullified a beautiful 58 yard run by Bert Webb.

Webb took the opening kickoff and was downed on his 35. Giloff and Gutshall hammered the line for six yards and then Webb streaked through a big hole at right tackle, reversed his field and raced 58 yards without a hand being laid on him for what looked like a touchdown.

But the officials were waving their arms frantically down around midfield as Bert was showing a clean pair of heels to the East Teach lads and the ball was called back and a five yard penalty slapped on the Tigers for offside.

That halted their offensive march for the time being and East Tech narrowly missed scoring a touchdown, when Chapman heaved a beautiful long pass to Strnad who dropped the ball on the Massillon goal line.

After getting out of that hole the Tigers buckled down and went to work. Jicha punted to Krisher who was downed on the Massillon 17. Zorger and McGuire cracked through for nine yards in two plays and then Webb found a hole at right tackle and scampered 52 yards to Tech’s 25 before being brought down by Hrasch.

That thrilling dash set the stage for Massillon’s first touchdown. Webb picking up five more in another off tackle thrust just as the first quarter ended.
Webb To Bonk For Score
On the first play of the second period Webb tossed a neat pass to Edie, good for 10 yards and the Tigers were knocking on the touchdown door. An offside penalty on Tech took the ball to the five but Webb was tossed for a five yard loss on his next attempt. He then caught the visitors flatfooted on the next play, tossing a pass to Bonk who took the ball in the end zone with not a Cleveland lad anywhere near. Webb failed in his attempt to plunge the ball over and the score stood 6-0 Massillon.

It did not stay that way long. East Tech received and Ginnerini was dumped on his 34 by Zorger and Giloff. Bonk then tossed him for a loss of four and the invaders took to the air with disastrous results. Attempting a screen pass, Chapman cut loose a heave and the ball sailed right at Edie, out in the open. The Tiger quarterback tucked the leather under his arm and with a clear field ahead raced 32 yards for Massillon’s second touchdown. Darrah came in at center as Krisher dropped back to try his hand – or rather toe – at place kicking and the hefty Tiger lineman booted it squarely between the posts for the extra point.

Now all steamed up and going places, the Tigers were not long in manufacturing their third set of counters and a beautiful McGuire-Richards pass for 34 yards climaxed a march of 81 yards.

Massillon gained the ball when Chapman punted to MdGuire who was tagged on the Tigers’ 19. With McGuire spearheading the drive by some beautiful plunging and running the Tigers traveled right down the field. Giloff ripped off seven at right tackle and McGuire made it a first down to Massillon’s 34. On the third play in the next series McGuire again went to town for another first down to Massillon’s 46 and came back to hammer his way through the visitors for nine more.

Then Giloff took a hand in the proceedings and flashed his way down the field for 18 to Tech’s 34. McGuire made three at the line and on the next play faded back and heaved a long pass right down the alley to Bob Richards who was far out in front. Bob sailed across the goal line without hesitation and the Tigers had struck pay dirt for the third time in the period. Krisher again tried a place kick but it failed.

That was all the scoring until the start of the third quarter when the Tigers again unleashed another power attack during which they marched 77 yards for their fourth and final touchdown. Again it was McGuire and Giloff who powered the drive with Gutshall lending a hand and Giloff finally going over.
Another Touchdown March
Tech received but found the task of denting the Tiger forward wall a bit too stiff. Chapman punted and the ball was downed on Massillon’s 23. McGuire smashed for five and then Giloff took off on a spectacular run that was to net 42 yards before he was stopped. Ginnerini finally brought him down on East Tech’s 30.

For a moment the Tiger attack sputtered but a five-yard penalty on East Tech for being offside helped and then McGuire roared through the line to the 15 for a first down. Massillon, however, drew a five yard penalty for backs in motion but Giloff picked it up and more by lugging the leather down to the six on a neat driving play. Then he smashed right through the line and over for Massillon’s fourth set of counters. Krisher tried another place kick but failed, East Tech, however, was offside and he got another chance. This time he rammed through the line to make the extra point.

East Tech’s passing attack looked threatening all night and it finally began to pay off dividends in the fourth period when the visitors, taking a leaf from the Tigers’ book, rambled 66 yards on the ground and through the air for their lone set of counters.

It all began when Byelene punted to Hrasch who was downed by Richards on Tech’s 34. Hrasch flipped a pass to Strnad for 11 but the visitors lost this gain when they were handed a 15-yard penalty for illegal use of hands. But Hrasch came right back to toss an aerial to Champman for 16 yards and then heaved another long one to Al White, substitute end, who took the ball deep in Massillon territory and raced over for the touchdown, gaining all told 50 yards and six points. Chapman’s attempted place kick fizzled.

With Byelene doing some neat dashing through the tackles and Gutshall smashing through the line the Tigers were deep in East Tech territory as the watch ran out. A ripping sprint of 32 yards by Byelene took the ball to East Tech’s six-yard line where Dan was chased out of bounds. The Tigers tried hard to put the ball over but were checked by an offside penalty and they had the ball on the eight with fourth down coming up when the final gun popped.
Bulldogs Next
Massillon – 26 Pos. East Tech – 6
Richards LE Edge
Green LT Selavko
Uliveto LG Malsano
Krisher C Froelich
Tomasevich RG Stalzer
Young RT Goldfarb
Bonk (c) RE Strnad
Edie QB Jicha
Webb LHB Hrasch
Giloff RHB Chapman
Gutshall FB Ginnerini

Score by quarters:
Massillon 0 19 7 0 26
East Tech 0 0 0 6 6

Touchdowns:
Massillon – Bonk; Edie; Richards; Giloff.
East Tech – White.

Points after touchdown:
Massillon – Krisher 2 (place kick and plunge).

Substitutes:
Massillon – McGuire, rh; Zorger, fb; Brooks, rg; Darrah, c; Waltz, lg; Gutshalll, fb; Yost, qb; Byelene, lh; Ceckler, lt; Bishop, re; Schumacher; Chovan, rh (unreadable line).
East Tech – Sarkisian, rg; White, le; Gahagan, rg; Kustich, re; Semala, rt; Vecchio, c; Strnad, re.

Referee – Gross.
Umpire – Lobach.
Head Linesman – Boone.
Field Judge – Pfeiffer.

Statistics
Mass. Tech
First downs 16 4
Yards gained by rushing 385 44
Passes attempted 7 15
Passes completed 3 5
Yards gained by passing 51 116
Gross yardage 436 160
Yards lost 35 16
Net yardage 401 144
Number of kickoffs 5 2
Average distance of kickoffs 37 39
Average return of kickoffs 18 16
Number of punts 3 1
Average distance of punts 34 33
Average return of punts 4 6
Fumbles 5 1
Times ball lost on fumbles 1 0
Times penalized 3 6
Yards lost on penalties 16 39

Fred Bonk