DeLaWarr High School - De La Warrian Yearbook (New Castle, DE)

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o u brakes jinx It all started yesterday the S ball and ended with a 26-13 vic- By BOB MELDER ghad been working all day buti LION ROARS-The crowd ot De La Warr High's touchdownlwasllil fHC,kiU8 UD many P0iI1tS,l4,000 was the largest at Gar- df0UehfaHd10SiHg 5t1'93kiUif5 Struck qmck' 01' fourth downifieia Park since William Penn traditional Thanksgiving Day and two Yards 10 80.20 the Wlkland De La War, played before game with William Penn islllam Penn 44, HOPPSF turned l over. jg lthat many in 1962 . . . Colonials' ambler and the Lions were cratching their manes. Told t0lH0PPef attempted 23 PHSSCS, hort pass De La Warr did iust and had three intercepted Second time the Ligng got thowatch for the draw play or the completed 14 for 225 net yards It - . . x . . I field Park. l- many other ways, too. It fin- ished De La Warr's first win- second place in the Blue Hen Conference, the highest spot the since the 1950 team had a 2-till mark. THE FIVE scoreless years against William Penn came to a conclusion on one swift ef-1 1 fort by Rufus Barnes. The 5-i 1 foot-9 senior halfback turnedt U the corner at his own 25 on the. vial on D' LG Worlds lLions' third play of the game, tcarried his 140-pound body pasti l 'the last defender at the Colon-4 ials' 45 and went untouched tot 1 complete a 75-yard scoringl dash. t'That's what beat us. Speed. i said William Penn Coach Billl Cole. t'We didn't have anyone who could run like Barnes. And we didn't have anyone to defend T sm: Photo by sm Snead 1 001' auled off . . . When the against that kind of speed. F finally tufngd their alt- Now all that remained for to Gladden he was out-'Coach Paul Gladdents Lions was, . to halt the losing streak. The ut they spotted mm and Lions had their momen I . . ts try-4 lfefllllmf Eqeslslancev fofc' ing to do that. However, a stout lsfm 'H S5 ki? was earned Lion defense, plus three inter-l ,Ugg LSU :ai 'Singing ceptions and a recovered fumble ' , , by De La Warr's Bill Pote that ,QHVQB mt fglsfhppfgntid was practically pulled out of the ,fe Ssvgmg 0 l e gaihands of Colonial Tom Green 'lme eean ' ' I one 03 on De La Warr's 9-yard line in the second quarter, shored the got on the field when 1 it fell off. All that week's William Penn driveq , for nothing. l Penn. . 0 6 0 7-13 Varr .,., 6 014 6-26 i Warr-Barnes 75, run. ri Penn--Leonard 15, pass from WarrfMcCalIion 1, run lBarnes, i Warr-Burns 24, run tWiIIiams,i tm McCalIionJ. 1 Warr-McCaIlion 1, run. I n Penn-Awindish 56, pass from tMitcheI!, kickl. , tgry befgre 4,000 fans at Gay. hat while Colonial halfback Barnes carried the ball 14 times erry Windish sped down the,for De La Warr for 169 net The game was notable iolsidelines, caught a Hopper passlyards. on the run and turned it intolwiiiam TPenCriY io 's'7iii1'5 ,a 56-yard scoring play. Ron kivffa--el-4-'446,l-633 De La Warr-Barnes 75, run. ning season Q6-2-13 and clinched Mitchell booted the extra point. , wunam Penn-Leonard is, pass from ,Happen l De La Warr-McCnIIion 1, run tBarnes, Five minutes later, the Lionsifuro, had gomething to be thankfuli De La Warr--Burns 24, run twilllarm, . ' 1 M C mont. Lions have reached. And it, , ,pass rom c a A stuck the Colonials with a 4-Smgggerlxegixiiswas Over and Soi ilffiinhiwwsgfmiififililiin i8.rLf:rL'5s from record, the first losing seasonl J ' Hoppe' fM C 'f 'C'f THE COLONIALS, marching deep into De La Warr territory the entire game, went non-stop for the first time early in the second quarter when quarterback Doug Hopper threw 15 yards to Tom Leonard for a tally. With both teams failing on their extra points, the score remained 6 to 6 until midway in the third quarter when the Lions began to get more serious. Bruce Dally picked off a Hopper pass from his linebacking position to halt a Colonial drive on De La Warr's 16. Two plays later, Barnes had gained 55 yards to the Colonials' 20. Quarterback Chuck McCallion, who finished as the leading scorer in the conference with 74 points, completed the drive by going over from t.hc one for the first of his two touchdowns. Barnes ran for the extra point. Minutes later, Bob Burns, the Lions' 6-foot-1, 195-potmd fullback, rambled 24 yards to score and McCallion passed to Ken Williams for the extra point to make the score, 20-6. A 37-YARD march by the Lions ended midway in the fourth period with McCallion scoring from the 1. Then, the Colonials' passing attack, which had been working all day but wasn't tacking up many points, struck quick. On fourth down and two yards to go at the William Penn 44, Hopper turned gambler and the Lions were scratching their manes. Told to watch for the draw paly or the short pass, De La Warr did just that -- while Colonial halfback jerry Windish sped down the sidelines, caught a Hopper pass on the run and turned it into a 56-yard scoring play. Ron Mitchell booted the extra point, Five minutes later, the Lions had something to be thankful for. The game was over and so were the jinxes.

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THEY SHALL NOT SCORE-Guard Bill Pote of De La Warr High C625 stops the hands of a William Perm drive inthe second quarter of yesterdays game at Gar- 9-yard line. field Park. Pote recovered a fumble that was practically pulled out of De Lo: Warr Precedent They Couldlft Lock By BOB MELDER ldidn't touch me I knew I could'yard scoring pass from quar-t ,. it hith tfth . tbkD H tT Rufus Barnes wish came truetou um m eras 0 eway lliohasrd jsughe Zggghd aerial? yesterday, t It sent the 4,000 fans at Gar-t , p . -1 The ohty thought the De Laifleld Park-largest crowd sincellgul the Llons Came slormmgl wan High haifbaek had before'l3h? 1962 C010Hia1-Lion game-lback With two fouchdowljs in l the game With. Wtthaht Penni-lI'lt0 astate of shock. This hadtmialthiigdl iigihgrbgckoneglyggldt was to score his school s firsttbeen the first Play 00 the I-i0US thhchdowh ever against thetsecond serieslof downs. And, fullback Bob Bums' . We started sending Barnes loff-tackle instead of around end tin the second half, De La Warri ,Coach Paul Gladden said. 'tThat worked and so did our decoy. By his decoy, Gladden was re- McCallion and a 24-yard run by Cotohtatsl tup to that point, William Penn UI thought ah night ahoutihad been the aggressor, march- thatvfv he athhtttedl ing to De La Warr's 21 and 25 The 5,g00t,9, 140,p0hhd Senior before losing the ball on downs. halfback's wish came true ont The victory 3150 Q0mp1etedDe the third play of the game. ItlLa Warr's first winning season WHS 8 75-y31'Cl dash lil the fil'Stit6-2-lj, Qlinghed Secgnd place i ferring to the G-foot-1, 195-pound Burns. Instead of handing off to Burns, McCallion would keept fthe ball and ended up with twoi touchdowns. He topped the con- ference with 74 points. His sec- ond one was the Lions' last, a one-yard run in the fourth period. quarter that ignited a 26-13 vic-lin the Blue Hen Conference, the tory - first against the New highest plateau the Lions have Castle team in six Thanksgiving reached, and handed William Day contests. Penn 14-53 its first losing season f-1 KNEW i had a touchdownlslnce 1950' when I got io their 45, Barnes COACH BILL Cole's Colonials explained. The last guytwere plucky in defeat. They reached out for me and when hetcountered Barnes' TD with a 15- Colonial Tom Greene Con t- 311168 We planned that before th gamef' Gladden said. W know William Penn would b gunning for our big boy afte watching him run wild agains P. S. du Pont. THE COLONIALS centered their attack on the passing o Hopper, who attempted 28 completed 14 for 225 yards in cluding a 56-yard TD pass play to halfback Jerry Windish ir' the final period. Three of Hop perts passes, however, were in tercepted. LION ROARS: De La was not only sharp in the out was hard to fool after, it came time for tossing the. coaches into the shower . . Coach Paul Gladden stood quiet ly in the dressing room whili assistant John Meccariello Wa. War gam whe

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T M Callion ei oop By BOB HERTZEL Chuck McCallion, De La Warr High's running and passing quarterback, set a Blue Hen Conference scoring record this season, eclipsing the mark es- tablished last year by Conrad's Ernie Anderson. McCallion, who paced De La Warr to a second-place finish in the conference, registered 11 touchdowns and eight extra points for 74 points. Anderson, scoring foiu' touchdowns against Dickinson Thanksgiving Day, 1963, held the record of 73 points. FRED YOUNG, P.S. du Pont's bulldozing fullback, fin- ished second with 67 points on 11 touchdowns and an extra point while Newark's Charley Hayman was third with 11 touchdowns for 66 points. Anderson holds the season record for touchdowns, 12. The 5-foot-10, 165-pound Mc- Callion started his football ca- poini mark reer at fullback. However, wheni Penn, 26-13, on Thanksgiving Gil Jackson transferred to Day. Dickinson, the quarterback post ' , was left open and in moved Mc- MCCAI-I-I0N'S PFOSFCSSIOU at Callion. quarterback can be directly Early in the Year the,SeH10r,seen in the won-lost column. claimed fullback was his first While he was still getting ad. love- 1 d0U'i5 know HHYTUOF?-H justed to the new surroundings, McCallion said after scoring De La War, lost two and tied two touchdowns to break the One. De La Wan. finally broke record and help defeat William into the win column with ia 7-6 victory over Dickinson. i For the next five games there iwas no stopping the Lions ol lMcCallion. They won all five igames, scoring 163 points for a l32.6 average per game. lt happened in the second half of the Mt. Pleasant game, said McCallion, referring to the turn-about of De La Warr's foot- ball fortune. t'We were losing by two touchdowns but came iback to tie the game, 13-13. The iteam knew then it could score.' McCallion proved himself ,more than just a running quar- terback, throwing for nine touch- downs. I passed a lot morei than I expected to at the be- ginning of the year, he said. , A -1- l S P . 1 226 ig Siaff Photo by Bill Snead LET'S,SEE NOW-De La Warr High Coach Paul Gladden talks things over with quarterback Chuck McCallion, who set ,record in winning the Blue Hen Conference scoring titleihis season.