Butler Community College - Grizzly Growl Yearbook (El Dorado, KS)

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jnF $•% GRIZZLIES BIG SUCCESS Grab your bearskin coats, derbies, and pennants and let ' s amble out to the grid- iron where the Grizzlies are racking up another victory. Ah, yes, ' tis the time of year when that good old American sport of FOOTBALL reigns supreme, and this year finds E.J. C. emerging from another successful season. Although we finished third in the conference, we lost only three games, two of which, as luck would have it, were to conference foes. The Grizzlies started the gridiron season off slowly with a 24-24 tie with the All-Stars, a team composed of former E. J. C. players. Two weeks later they came back with a thumping 29-0 victory over Emporia B, avenging last year ' s defeat. Ark City was the next victim of the Grizzly attack to the tune of 13-7. The next week, though, our hard-fighting team went down to a 21-12 defeat at the hands of the Chanute Ravens, but quickly rebounded by subduing Pratt 16-7 and rolling to a hard-fought 13-12 decision over Independence. When the fellows went West to Dodge City, they found that the Law of Averages had finally caught up with them, and they emerged battered but unbroken, on the short end of a 21-6 count. The clash at Hutchinson found the Grizzlies outplaying the Dragons until the fourth quarter, when the Dragons ' long- line of reserves proved to be too much, grinding out a 26-7 victory. But the team show- ed that it wasn ' t down and out by routing Garden City the next week end by a lop-sided score of 65-13, to end the 1949-1950 football season. Coach Bob Douglass proved once again that he is an extremely capable m aster of the gridiron, and in doing so was ably assisted by Assistant Coach Lee Casida. Al- though he did not have a large squad this year, Coach Douglass rounded the boys into an outstanding ball club that died very hard indeed. For the first time since the war, veterans were noticeably few this year. Although we are losing a lot of the team this year, Gruffy T. is confident that E. J. C. will have a still more successful season in 1950-1951. 19

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. FOOTBALL SCHEDULE Date Opponents We They 16 Sept. All-Stars 24 24 30 Sept. Emporia B 29 7 Oct. Arkansas City 13 7 14 Oct. Chanute 12 21 21 Oct. Pratt 16 7 28 Oct. Independence 13 12 5 Nov. Dodge City 6 20 11 Nov. Hutchinson 7 26 18 Nov. Garden City 65 13 Total 161 106 Statistics E. J. C. Opponents Times Ball Carried 415 340 Net Yards Gained Rushing ' 1863 1056 Yards Average per Game 233 132 Yards Average per Play 4.5 3.1 Passes Attempted 103 118 Passes Completed 40 38 Passes Intercepted (by) 14 16 Yards Gained from Passes 566 591 Yards average per Game 70.75 73.87 Yards Average per Play 14.8 15.5 Total Offensive Yardage 2429 1647 Total Yardage per Game 303.6 205.8 Times Kicked 25 46 Yards Gained from Kicks 815 1314 Yards Average per Kick 32.6 28.5 Times Penalized 39 29 Total Yards Penalized 295 235 Times Fumbled 29 16 Opponents ' Fumbles Recovered 13 20 Touchdowns Scored 24 16 Extra Points Scored 14 10 Field Goals Scored 1 Total Points Scored 161 106 20