The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 25, 1954, Page 5

~ South Dade Falls, 28-7, To Powerful Key West Offense By JIM COBB Citizen Sports Editor The Key West Conchs clobbered the South Dade Rebels, 28-7 last night, but while they were inflicting this bit of mayhem in Homestead, the Miami Beach Typhoons THE YARDSTICK FIRST DOWNS YARDS GAINED RUSHING YARDS GAINED PASSING PASSES ATTEMPTED PASSES COMPLETED PASSES INTERCEPTED FUMBLES ‘OWN FUMBLES RECOVERED PENALTIES onsets essetsesesiensmeamson were eking ou a 6-0 victory over the Miami Tech foot- ballers, a development which spelled finis to the slim hopes that the locals had of gaining a tie for the Gold Coast Conference championship. The Conchs will have to wait for another year to gain the conference title, and it seemingly angered them to. the point. where they climbed all over the Rebels last night. The Red and White dominated the game to a de- gree not indicated by the score, It was the final game of the sea-—————-____-"_ _______ for both clubs and the last wit of efidivon action of their ¢a- reers for 13 senior football play- efs — some of whom are a college spects. There were ai feastetee, maior college stouts in the stands last night looking over the . ne named Red Stickney, , will be back for more next year, was the big gun Conch assault last night, for three TDs and setting | his other score ae the evening. In addition, the senior - Key West line, played its usual rough and tough game to pave the for the Key West backs. it wasn’t all one - sided — ;igsue was in doubt up until ‘third quarter after South Dade had fought themselves into a 7-7 ie, shortly before the half. key to the situation was Key West’s alert pass defense which al- lowed the Rebels to complete but five of 17 pass tries and pulled off four interceptions. Meanwhile, the Conchs Black Bean Brigade, Julio Henriquez, Ralph Garcia, Wayne Brantley and Frank Hood was manhandling the South Dade forward wall and pav- ing the way for Key West’s Mike Cates, Stuart Yates and Stickney. The Conchs required just eight plays to drive to pay. dirt after receiving the kickoff. Frisky Gene Favors had electrified the fans by taking the kick on his own 12 and driving 67 yards down to the South Dade 31. Cates, Stickney and Yates then alternated to drive to two first downs to the one yard marker from where Cates went over for the score. Stuart Yates ran the point to make it 7-0. But the Conchs could score no more in the first half as they con- sistently generated drives which fell short. The first half. action was marked by the defensive work of Joe Russo who intercepted a pass and recovered a Rebel fumble. A blocked Key West. punt which ‘was recovered by Bill Brooks on the Key West 15 provided the break which gave South Dade their score shortly before the first half ended. South Dades’ Ben Shivers tried & pass from behind his own goal KEY WEST 10 298 SOUTH DADE 5 119 67 17 5 0 7 3 20 0 6 0 4 3 2 50 line which was intercepted b Johnny DeMerritt on the 10 and the threat appeared to he ended, But |. South Dade took possession mo- ments later when Stickney fumbled on a sloppily executed buck lateral play and Marshall Van Landing- er Tecovered, ere was time for bi as Picken ended, 5 Rapa Coach Ed Beckman ‘must have given his charges the word during halftime oration. They looked Cin a new a in the second — complet dominati Ag pletely dominating the Three plays after the kickoff, Key West took over on a fumble on the South Dade 20 and on the next play Stickney went off tackle, cut to the right and was loose to score standing up. He ran the point and it was uw? Joe Russo intercepted a Rebel bass on their 29 and drove to the South hee ne yard line shortly ie Conch had kick » but se failed to Lo tea Cane fumbled on the goal line. Two 15 yard penalties forced Key West to make their third score the hard way. Stickney scored it from the 25 when’ he faked a pass and went off left tackle. He went around right end for the point. Scoring for the evening wound up just before the final whistle when Stickney went over from the seven to climax a 65 yard Key West match. He again ran the point to make the score 27-7. GRIDIRON GLEANINGS: All of the action last night was not on the football field. A group of eager Conch fans started working on the South Dade goal post with four minutes to play. The result was | considerable fisticuffs and a delay of the game. . .More than a thou- | sand Key West fans swelled the attendance to 3,500, a new record for Homestead. . .It was their home coming tilt, but Key West staged one of their own. . .Among the spectators last night were these mem! of the crack ‘53 squad: | Glynn Archer, home from the Uni- versity of Florida for the holiday; Biff Salgado, who'll perform to- morrow .night with the U-M frosh; Tommy West and his new bride. . .| It was a time for nostalgia for | old Coast Cro wn ‘Cornell Can Clinch The Ivy League Title With Victory Si tBine 6 HOMETOWN BOY —Joltin’ Joe Pineda, former Key West High School great, will be calling the signals tomorrow night when the North Carolina State freshmen meet the Miami University freshmen in Shrine Bowl game here. Pineda has completed 12 of 24 aerials for State, good for 221 yards. turkey dinner at Benny's Cafeteria. Thursday, November, 25, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 5 Texas Coach May Get The Ax Today AUSTIN, Tex. #—Texas and Texas A&M meet for the 6ist time in the most storied football rivalry of the Southwest today but the game means nothing except that it might get Coach Ed Price’s job at Texas. If the Longhorns fail to beat a Texas A&M team that has won only one game all season “the pressure will be terrific,” said Col. D. Harold Byrd of Dallas, presi- dent of the powerful Longhorn Club and one of the most ardent backers of the university. This club, which has no official standing but wields influence wth the Board .of—Regents of the uni- versity, meets today and Byrd ad- mitted that the football. coaching situation “probably will be. dis- cussed.” : “Price has been under fire of the alumni since his team, heavily fa- vored to win the Southwest Con- ference championship and rank Conch rooter Freddy Edwards, too. Freddy ran tinto an old school friend, Bobby Lance, now a Home- stead insurance man. They gradu- ated from high school in Webster, Klorida — wherever that is. . . Again the Key West victory was the result of team. effort, and as a result, some of the béys who played key roles in the situation won’t show up in the headlines. That’s the way the ball bounces. John Carbonell, heavy handed Conch end was in on plenty of tackles and accounted for a good- ly percentage of the 78 yards the Rebels lost from scrimmage. . . The Conchs might have scored more if they could see what they were doing. The Homestead park is woefully under-lit. But you can be sure the South Dade Boosters Club | will do something about that. . . They’ve financed the two-year-old football program there and are out of debt for the first time. . It looks like the start of, a spirited rivalry. high nationally, went through one of the worst seasons in Longhorn history. It lost to Oklahoma and Notre Dame and won only one game in conference - play—from Texas Christian. The team was racked by disciplinary troubles, however, as “Price. penalized a number of the players for vio- lating training regulations. Some 60,000 will turn out today as A&M tries to break the jinx of Memorial Stadium—no Aggie team ever has won there in the 28 years of the stadium’s existence. J. Neils Thompson, chairmar of HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL ByTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jacksonville Landon 39 Daytona Beach Mainland 12 Gainesville 41 P. K. 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It calls for’ $12,000 a year and can not be voided with- out his consent, Maryland Is Choice Over Missouri In TV Feature By ED CORRIGAN The Associated Press While no gold-studded bowl bids awaited the winner, the 61st meet- ing between Cornell and Penn at Philadelphia today was perhaps the most important game of the season for the Big Red from Lake Cayuga. A Cornell victory would enable the Ithaca, N. Y., team to tie Yale for the mythical Ivy League foot- ball title. Cornell was favored by two touchdowns. This was the most ancient grid rivalry of the day. Actually, there were few college football games, but one big National Football League game was on tap along with some horse racing, a full slate in the National Hock League and four games in the Na- tional Basketball Association. The NCAA’s television game of the day was Maryland vs Missouri at College Park, Md. The Terps were a heavy choice, having taken all four games in the series that goes back to 1950. They hope to get the Atlantic Coast Conference bid to the Orange Bowl when a vote is taken Saturday night. Although this was a nonleague game, Maryland was particularly eager to make a good showing in the event that Duke, its only Orange Bowl rival,‘ stumbles against North Carolina Saturday. The game was schedule for 1:55 p.m. (EST) over ABC TV. Vitginia Military Institute, still hoping for a bid to one of the smaller bowls, took the field against Virginia Tech at Roanoke, Va. VMI has only a 7-7 tie with | William and Mary against its rec-| ord. | Two of the smaller bowl games| also were on tap. The Burley Bowl | at Johnson City, Tenn., brought | together Appalachian (NC) and | East Tennessee, while the Mineral Bowl at Excelsior Springs, Mo., | pitted Hastings (Neb.) against the | College of Emporia (Kan.), Other games had Colgate at Brown, Utah State and Utah at! 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