The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 6, 1954, Page 12

onchs Impressive In 20-0 Win Over Tenn. Team Well-Rounded Attack Gives Key West Victory Over Bears By JIM COBB Citizen Sports Editor “Key West played like pros. Just when they’d start to loaf and we thought they were petered out they’d come to life and sock us with another touchdown.” THE YARDSTICK Fireworks To Mark Douglass Homecoming Game Noy. 13 Aerial Display Planned For Page 12. THE KEY WEST ciTiz EN = Saturday, November 6, 1954 Key West Jackson FIRST DOWNS YARDS GAINED RUSHING YARDS GAINED PASSING PASSES ATTEMPTED PASSES COMPLETED 18 8 ze Halftime Show | VPI Bids For Bowl yi = The Tigers of Douglas Game With Win Fri. | are anxious to prove that | they are not clawless on the | PASSES INTERCEPTED FUMBLES OWN FUMBLES RECOVERED PENALTIES 70 That was the rueful comment last night of Tury Omen, former Wisconsin gridiron performer who has coached the Golden Bears of Jackson, Tennessee for 26 seasons. His Bears fell victim to the Key West Conchs, 20-0, on the high school gridiron in a game that redeemed the Conchs in the eyes of the fans after their 14-7 debacle in Miami Beach last week. Key West presented a well-round- ed attack to drive the Bears back to their den. It was straight power football, with the exception of a single pass completion that set the stage for the first touchdown in the second quarter. On both offense and defense, the Conch forward wall performed with aplomb to push the Bears, who were somewhat weak offensively, up and down the field. It was a big evening for a quar- tet of Key West backfield perform- ers including Red Stickney, Bill) Haney, Mike Cates, and Stuart Yates. All of these boys contribut- ed plenty of football to the win- ning cause. é And Joe Russo, playing his first game on offense in the blocking back slot, turned in a fine perform- ance. He replaced the ailing | George Reese who could manage| hut one play because of a bruised hip. Meanwhile, the Conch line, spark- ed by Julio Henriquez, (who play- ed the full game), Wayne Brant- ley, Frank Hood and Ralph Gar- cia turned in a sterling perform- ance. Hood was the only Conch cas- ualty for the evening after beng- ing heads with Jackson’t big Jim Poteete, He was replaced by Ray Bazo midway in the third perivd. It took awhile for the Conchs to get moving last night. The first period was played about even. The Golden Bears won the toss and elected to receive. Joe Cough- lin took the kick on his own ten and battled back to the 22. Then the Bears threw fear into the hearts of Key West supporters when they marched to two succes- sive first downs with Bobby Cas- tleman and Coughlin onrrEee the | ball. But the Conch defenders dug in at this point and forced the visi- tors to kick out of danger. But the Conchs could go nowhere PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, a world-wide struggle is now going on between the forces of Democracy and Totalitarianism, and WHEREAS, ‘our *Government is engaged in ection with other peace-loving nations of the world to preserve the democratic way of life, + WHEREAS, it is appropriate and most for all of our schools to emphasize the important posi- tion that education plays in the People, and WHEREAS, this year the schools of Monroe County, in cooperation with the National Education Association, the American Legion, the United States Office of Edu- cation and the National Congress of Parents and Teach- ers, is making a special effort to emphasize in our schools the responsibilities and obligations of which is indeed an appropriate program at any time in our schools. NOW, THEREFORE, the city of Key West, Responsibility ,”” minds the true significance and the true meaning of “Government Of, By and For the People.” (s) Attest: VICTOR LOWE, City Clerk. and fourth down saw Red Stick- ney punt down to the Jackson 15. A five yard offside penalty set them back to the 10 but then Castlemen shook loose on two off tackle slants that took him up to the Jackson 38. But again the Conch line rose to the occasion and held tight, for- cing the Bears to punt out of bounds on the Key West 37 yard line. Mike Cates, drove through cen- ter on the first play from scrim- mage and broke loose going all the way down to the Jackson 45. Stick- an end run but the Conchs were ney then drove down to the 37 on| THAT'S ALL, RED—The Conchs’ Ray Stickney is stopped by a duo of Golden Bear tacklers after short gain last night at the new. High School Stadium. Adam Gay (98). Pinder. socked with a 15 yard clipping pen-| alty as the quarter ended. An exchange of punts gave Key} ; West the ball on the Jackson 42 jfrem where the Conchs launched their first touchdown drive. Stick- ney and Cates probed through the | line for nominal yardage. Then Haney tossed one of his aerial bombshells that Gene Fav-! ors gathered in on the Jackson 10/ yard line and was immediately hit } down by Jim Wallace. | \"'Stuart Yates moved the bali down to the five yard marker andj Cates bulled to the one foot line and a first down for Key West. Cates drove over on the next play and it was 6-0 Key West. The try forthe point, Haney’s run, was no good. Jackson got their passing attack moving shortly thereafter high- lighted by Castleman's 36 yard toss to-Coughlin put Red Stickney’s in- terception shortly before the half- time whistle put an end to that. Key West required just 14 plays to drive to a touchdown as the second half got underway. eccasions.—Citizen Staff Photo, they went down to the Key West 30 before big John Carbonell man for a nine yard loss and gave It was straight power football, with Cates through the middle, Stickney around the ends and Ha- ney all over the ball field as the Conchs moved into high gear. | Stickney supplied the clincher as he went 11 yards around right end | for the score. Haney took the same route for the extra point and it was 13°- 0 |for the Conchs. Key West the ball on downs. Key West launched their touchdown drive from their own 17 with Stickney, Cates and Yates supplying the punch. The. drive was marked by a 35 yard run by Yates around right end to the Jackson 18 yard line. Bill Haney then broke through left tackle to up. He took the other flank to score score stand. final | Florida, do hereby proclaim the week of November 7th to 13th, 1954, as AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK, the general theme of which is “Good Schools Are Your and do call upon all of the citizens of this community to join with the teachers in our schools in the ceremonies designed to impress firmly It was a passing game for Jack- | son once more that nearly re- sulted in a score, With two successive completions, the extra point easily and it was 20-0. Coach Ed Beckman |the Key West reserves into the __|fray and the Jackson gridders lar nearly scored. They went all |the way down to the Key West |nine yard line before Key West could stop them. But the Conch defenders dug in and took over on downs and then ran the clock out with a series of line plunges GRIDIRON GL NINGS Coach Omen allowed how his boys | might have beer tired out b |fore the game ase they nt the day graph hunting among the movie stars at the Casa Mar. ina “That number 14 (Car bonell) hurt us plenty. He held up the entire side of the line and that's {the only side we run well,” com mented Omen. He singled out his own Adam Gay for praise The | Conchs have an invite to play in Jackson next year, but it's doubt ful if they'll make the trip. | Jackson seemed hampered by lack of a passer. Despite the fact that they completed a few ae weren't good for mu Key West fans are bitter about th local band. “The kids try but they just don't play the right n a football game,” is the There was about as m them as you'll find morgue. The Jacks although they have never pla them, say “watch out fc nooga. The dents heard near came from 2n as yt field piece set up to mark seores and kickoffs. then threw and imperative Government Of, By and For itizenship, Cc. B. HARVEY, Mayor of in our of the American Way of Life Your Grocer SELLS That Good STAR * BRAND) AMERICAN COFFEE and CUBAN — TRY A POUND ToDay — C.B. HARVEY, MAYOR. Don Pinder. The defenders are Chuck Allison and Conchs won their first big intersectional tilt, 20-0—Citizen Staff Photo, Don | on a pregame show. So if the Tig-| PUNT RETURN—Gene Favors, Key West safety man, is brought to earth by Jackson's Jim Kuy- kendall after returning Jim Poteete’s punt 27 yards last night. Favors nearly broke loose on two By RALPH BERNSTEIN | PHILADELPHIA # — Big Bob | Baker had confession to mak in a nationally televised 10 ro fight at the Arena “It pays to tr, e Pittsburgh Ne room table accep’ ms on his 36th vict said day for two months, I was really NEW YORK who In 2 a crack at about n pack with ar imos lievable 511 wins. followed by ter Johnson with Mathewson and Alexander each 3 326 and le 300. Fe vault e 270, Eppa Rixey, 266, and d Red Ruf Wal ‘Baker Says It Pays broke. through and spilled Castle- | To Be In Shape jin shape, aad it showed in my performagce.” | Even the opposing camp, jand his manager Al Joyner, to agree with Baker. Slade | had | Down the yn {| hall in Slade’s dressing quarters, Joyner said he thought Baker was in the best shape of his career. “They isolated the big guy for two months. He did nothing but shape in four years,” Roundup By Gayle Talbot fing, with whom he is t into the seventh spot be ed at 262, nd Grove. Rocky Marc ton, D.C id a Washing- he thought light-heavy- ht be the k at that” him next defense of the unlimited “m to oppose > will name the Al Weill, hasn’t ake since any- business can choice will be Nino large Cuban who Ezzard es in Florida last spring. over of bra to transfer t leties to Kansas City bet too heavily on it sed upon his recent form, a guess might be that the em- bedy will wrangle and through another session a ing at a clear cut de- If s should happen, an- inspired guess is that Com- Ford Frek will finally h a club im his hand ow he has been waiting ifor an invitation. ¢ Philadelphia but don’t led sweat | gridiron this season. | lads of the Green and White are not trying to rationalize | | their losses — no, not a, single member of the team has assumed this attitude. The | By ORLO ROBERTSON The unbeaten but dnce-tied Gob- bler of Virginia Polytechnic Insti- tute put in a bid for a bowl game today hours before the nation’s | top-ranking college football teams swung into action in contests that could go a long ways toward de There's a good reason for the so-;.ciding the lineups for the Jan. 1 | ber outlook by the Tigers for past | to Homecoming on Saturday Nov- defeats. They are looking forward | games, VPI defeated George Washing ton 20-13 in one of last night's top jton Bowl, ember 13 at the New High School | games for its seventh victory. The Athletic Field. On this night, the |only -blot on the Gobblers’ record Green and White will play host /is a 7-7 tie with William and Mary. to Blanche Ely High of Pompano.| Only unimpressive Waynesburg Ely High of Pompano is sporting | and traditional rival, VMI, remain a dandy record for this ‘33 cam-|to bar VPI’s first undefeated sea paign and without a single syllable | son in the school’s modern history. of pessimism will give the boys| The underdog Boston College from Fort and Petronia an eve-|Eagles uncorked a fine running ning long to be remembered. | attack to whip Marquette 13-7 in Ely of Pompano and Douglass | near-freezing weather at Milwau have had common foes this season | kee and Kansas State romped over and the scores of both these games | Drake 53-18 in: other leading con- do not reveal any true Desens tests last night. picture. Two teams that Ely and | Of the nation’s top 10, Ohio State Douglass have encountered are Ft. | and Arkansas — both undefeated | Pierce and Stuart. Both of these | and bowl-conscious—face the big were soundly trounced by Ely of | gest problems today. A defeat by | Pompano, while Douglass racked | Pitt's surging Panthers wouldn't up a good score on Stuart. They | injure the Buckeyes’ Rose Bowl of Ft. Pierce. | went down to defeat at the hands | chances but it would be mighty | humiliating for the Big Ten team, | The boys in Green and White | ranked second nationally. | figure this to be an opportunity of | But Arkansas, ja life time as they have all to | ‘ | gain and nothing to lose in sully- | Porkers, jing the record of Pompano. Homecoming '54 style at Doug- jlass will have a novelty feature |that will be a first for the Keys. | Aerial fireworks will be the half | time attraction. The fireworks will | be put on by the Pyro Display | | Company, professional exhibitors of | pyrotechnics. The Douglass band will be on hand with the majorettes to put | }ers in Green and White can Pull | their ranks together there yet may | be cause for rejoicing. | Football, aerial fireworks and marching bands will be on tap the night of November 13 at the New High School Athletic Field as Dou- glass engages Ely High of Pom- pano. The Tigers have not packed the punch at the proper moments so far this season but with the fes No, 4, has a game with Rice. The aiming to represent the Southwest Conference in the Cot a BASEBALL GAME SLATED SUNDAY Tomorrow at 2 o'clock at Wickers Field the Cuban Club will meet the Junior Conchs in @ baseball match. George Lastres will pitch for “must” Lewis for the Cuban Club. Lions Favored To Whip The Colts BALTIMORE, —The mighty j to the cannot afford to lose this conference fray. They are primed to stop Rice’s Dick Moegl Baylor, still in the Southwe Conference title picture, is a 4- point favorite to take Texas in the nationally televised game of the day. There may be plenty of fire- works in this traditionally wild and’ wooly encounter Only Purdue of the other teams in the top 10, figure to have any difficulty. The No. 8 ranked Boil ermakers face lowa's tough line at lowa City No, 1 ranked UCLA, with a pow- erful point-making machine geared to Primo Villanueva, is 2 three- touchdown choice over Oregon at Los Angeles. Oklahoma's No. 3 ranked Sooners should romp over Iowa State, as should the Irish of Notre Dame, No. 5, over winless Pennsylvania Miami of Florida, ranked sixth and one of the fading group of un- beaten major outfits, is a slight choice over Auburn at Birming- ham Once-beaten Army, undefeated since losing to South Carolina in its opening game, and Yale, un- beaten but tied by Colgate, play before 70,000 at New Haven, It's the first time since 1937 that the Yale Bow! has seen a sell-out. Off comparative scores, the seventh. ranked Cadets should have no trouble Mississippi, No. 9, has a breather against Memphis State and South- ern California, No. 10, shouldn't find Stanford any barrier to a trip Rose Bowl. JOHNNIE'S PLACE (City & Commercial League Bowling Champions) 320 GRINNELL STREET We Serve SCHLITZ DRAFT BEER Exclusively SANDWICHES Watch Sport Page for Bowling Results Detroit Lions, kings of the National tive air of Homecoming this cou!d | Football League, invade Baltimore | be the one. tonight for a game with the lowly | | Colts, winners of only one game} lof Pittsburgh Bob. “‘He’s a good | in six outings. fighter.” | But Coach Webb Ewbank’s play- As for Slade, the New York State | ers feel they have a chance against champion was disgusted with his | the conference champions who took | work. He said the seven month | them in Detroit earlier in the sea layoff hurt him. Slade hadn't | son, 35.0. fought since last April 26 when| The New York Giants invade he fractured his left hand beating | Pittsburgh and the Philadelphia A Guaranteed HESTER BATTERY said Joyner | Tommy (Hurricane) Jackson. Slade simply was overpowered. At 179%, Slade gave away 31% pounds to Baker. The aggressive New York Negro had to punch at long range and get on his bicycle to keep out of range of the power. ful Baker counters. While Slade was a moving, bob- bing, weaving target, Baker kept plodding around the ring, shooting strong right and left hand counters | that shook Slade to his toes, | Detroit | Eagles will be hosts to the Chicago Cardinals in games involving .the Eastern Division lead in the NFL. The Giants, Steelers and Eagles have identical 4-2 records atop the Eastern Division. 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