Millersville University - Touchstone Yearbook (Millersville, PA)

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out ot Millersville in the post four years witnessed the homecoming gome. In the initial gome of the season, Millersville clashed with Bloomsburg and after a slow start in the first half opened up and won the game by a 19-7 score. Millersville kicked off to Bloomsburg and after an exchange of punts, a pass put the ball on Millersville's 12-yard line. On the next ploy Hucknecht ran 12 yards around end to score. The extra point was good and Bloomsburg led. 7-0. The second and third periods were featured by the punting duel staged by Pincovage and Lehman. Millersville set three touchdowns up with aerials in the fourth quarter. Torok carried the boll on the first two 6 pointers and Wiest tallied the last one. Reese kicked an extra point to moke the score 19-7 in favor of Millersville. In the second gome the Block ond Gold traveled to Slippery Rock, where they spent the entire first half in being slowly battered up. With the key men of the line out with injuries in the second half, the Rockets taking advantage of the breaks and Millersville's patched up forward wall, ran up a 38-0 score. In this game Millersville out-rushed Slippery Rock 15 first downs to II. Taking to the road the following week, the Black and Gold invaded Montclair. New Jer- sey. With Eddie Weist carrying the pigskin, Millersville ron roughshod over the Indions in the first period. In the second period the break of the game occurred. Weist broke a collar bone and from this point on everything was Montclair. The Indians scored a touchdown in every period from this point on. In the closing moments of the game the Black and Gold passing attack began to work and Reese's pass to Smith gave Millersville her 6 points, which fell short of Montclair's 18. The Stehmanmen ptayed their best game of the year against the Mountaineers of Mansfield, who held the State championship. Mansfield kicked off to Millersville and the Black and Gold 23

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LETTERMEN John Adorhold Roymond Bo tolot R ob« rt 0 vefy Vinconf Hanley Chorlos Meolo Don M iller Doan M Silo r John Pincovago Bernard Reese Ellwood Srr»»tK J a met Smith Donald Shinglor Prank T homo i Front Torok James Vermychuck Walter Woetjen Edward Worst Jock Youtzy Merle Jonty William Martin Elwood Banks Woy c Fornwolt. Senior Manager M illersville’s football team was again guided by head coach John Pucillo. Directing the play on the field was head coach Ivan Poss” Stehmon. who was ably assisted by Edward ' Eddie'’ Haller. Wayne Porn wait was the senior manager. The season began with the brightest outlook in many years for M illersville. Reporting to the veteran coaching staff were no less rhan twenty-five veterans along with a host of new material from the freshman class. In the pre-season drills the Block and Gold looked like a world beater with a big. heavy, rangy, veteran squad. But as chance would hove it Lady Luck forgot to smile on Millers-vilfe with the exception of two times because at the end of the season the victory column read two and the defeat column read five far M illersville. The outstanding reason for the bad season was the fact that half of the Millersville squad was on the injured list the entire season. The record shows that the scores were close and it was a bad break that spelled defeat for the Black and Gold. More interest and spirit was displayed this year than has been seen an the campus in many years. Millersville sported a fine cheering squad that kept the fans cheering continually, and much credit must go to this fine organization. The largest crowd that has turned

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put on o 55-yard sustained drive that ended with Bernie Reese tossing a pass to Martin in the end zone. In the second period a bad kick set up the first Mansfield score. The remainder of the second period and most of the third period were featured by beautiful kicking by Pin-covage and Mansfield's Locke. A freak break late in the third period spelled defeat for Mil-lersville. A fumbled Millersville ball was caught by Mansfield's right guard. Taylor, who raced 50 yards to score the winning touchdown. Mansfield 12. Millersville 6. Playing in the mountains of W. Virginia. Millersville won its second game in a 6-0 victory over Shepherd. The game, played on a very muddy field, was featured by punting, neither team's backs could get started on the slippery gridiron. Late in the fourth period. Reese passing to Eshback carried the ball to Shepherd's two, where a pass into the end zone was caught by Pincovage to give Millersville a 6-point margin. Ploying before the largest crowd of the year, made up of many old grads home for Homecoming. Millersville put on a show of great strength in the first half to lead Shippensburg and then do an about face and collapse in the second half and drop a 20-19 score game. With eleven seniors playing their last game for Millersville. the badly battered Black and Gold team dropped the final game to Kutztown by a 21-0 score, at Kutztown. In the game Millersville outplayed Kutztown 18 first downs to I I for the Golden Avalanche. SCHEDULE Millersville. 19 Bloomsburq 7 Millersville 0 Slippery Rock .... . 38 Millersville ..... 6 Montcloir (N. J.).. . . 18 Millersville- 0 Mansfield . 12 Millersville 6 Shephords (W. Va.) . 0 Millersville 19 Shippensburg (Homecoming) 20 Millersville 0 Kjtrtown 21 24