Occidental College - La Encina Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

Page 17 text:

could get hopeful over Occidental chances in the coming Pomona broil. But in the two weeks preceding the game Coach Anderson's features took on a noticeable Horatiofatfthef bridge appearance. The complex spread and by game time, Occidental was enjoying the position of the determined underdog. The game itself was something the Alumni will ref count to their grandchildren. Power tells the story of the hrst half. A relentless Tiger line uprooted the Pomona forwards to allow Messrs.McMillan, Cosby, andWinterburn to seep through for monotonous first downs. A forward pass merging into a lateral and a fourfyard plunge sent Ernie Punaro over for the opening score. In the second half, be' fore the Sagehens could revive hope, quarterfback Cosby let the lid off a collection of dazzf ling plays concocted by maestro Anderson, resulting in an unsurpassed demonstration of laterals and hidden ball plays which completely baffled the Sagehen. When the last satis' fied alumni had left the field, the score was found to be 19 to O. The linesmen have es' caped mention to this point. Linesmen have a knack for escaping mention. This season's machine was uniformly good and had a pleasing propensity for goalfline stands. Andere son will miss next season, fohnie Rowland, Marsh Beebe, Ray Gough, Bob Cleland, Dan Hammack and Walt Woods from the line, Dumpy Winterburn, and Captain McMillan from the backfleld. Compensation for this loss is looked for from the frosh, a gutty pack, and, who knows, perhaps a few more usable transfers can be spirited through the scholasf tic barriers. The frosh downed Vifhittier and Pomona, showing flashes of future great' ness. Dunn, Ingels, Huddleston, Holland, Benioff, fohns, Stierle and Irish should see an occasional play next season. Mythical gold basketballs were envisioned by the stalwart crew of cassaba tossers when they gathered each night in the locker rooms, after grueling practice sessions. But high up in the mystic sycamore grove, the Sybil foretold evil omens in the flight of ten black crows who winged their way across the Occidental Campus, and were last seen one March night hovering over the Gymnasium at San Diego. The season opened with a hopeful win as the Pomona Hens were sent home shivering as cold winds fell upon featherless rears. Chief pluckers were Bill MacDougall and Hersh Lyons. Next in line were the Bulldogs from Redlands, who sank a last secon-d shot to seriously damage Oxy's title hopes. Two games with Arizona followed, but the Wildcat proved more than a match for the Tiger, and the locals wrote the whole thing off as good experif ence. Messrs. Hagen, Beebe, Gemmell, and Packer with support from the rest of the squad scratched Pomona and Santa Barbara out of the running, and the future again seemed rosy. But the Leopard from La Verne split the next two game series in spite of the efforts of Hagen, Lyons, and Topping. The next conference game wasareturn match with Redlands and sweet was the taste of revenge. Ruffner, Gough, Hagen, Packer and Lyons completely dazzled the Bulldog, and Occidental now had a mathematical chance to win the bunting if Whittier and San Diego were defeated twice. The Poets had been setting the pace for the conference, but Occidental turned on the heat, and the Quaking Quakers were completely routed two in a row. With two games to go for the Pennant, the Bengals poured it to the Aztecs for a hotly contested victory the first game. The last game found Oxyls fine edge worn away. The Aztecs were hot, and despite a desperate rally led by MacDougall and Hagen, the result was a heartfbreaking loss for Andersonls team. The championship went to Whittier, and Occidental took a good second. Next year Occidental should again be a potent contender for top honours. Gemmel, Packer, Lyons, Hagen and MacDougall will form a nucleus for an exceptionally strong squad. The Frosh, coached by Swede Dennis, turned out to be a scrapping outht, and took second place in the conference. Though the late and lamented track season brought its measure of defeats, an-d did not return the championship to its traditional home, Coach Pipal's men dominated half the events in the Southern Conference. CofCaptain Vincent Reel

Page 16 text:

gen, supervising the staging and costuming, Mr. Swan directed the chorus, and invaluaf ble backstage and technical service was rendered by Parkhurst and Sattler. The lyric so' prano voice of Cora Burt, the limpid tones of tenor Kenneth White, with excellent sup' port from Herb Daniels, Irwin Beadle, and Dorothy Shaw, brought thunderous acclaim of Hillside Theater audiences. The distant howling of dogs added a whimsical touch. OPES FOR RESTORINC Occidental athletic virility to its peak of Aff1Q Q- forgotten years were moderately justified at the opening of the 1934 all cqfqb Y football season. A large squad, featuring beefy linesmen and inexperi- ,9 enced backs gave the Tigers more prefseason publicity than has fallen to them in some years. Bill Henry was characteristically subtle in col' oring his column with Tiger tidbits and occasionally the Examiner and 57'-75 -' the Herald departed from precedent to the point of accepting a Curtis publicity blurb. Like lambs to the slaughter the team ventured into the Coliseum against U.S.C. in the season's opener, emerging with a respectable 2OfO loss. The press noted a strong defensive line, an absence of clever backfqeld men and a leaky pass defense in the Bengal performance, while intimating a dark future for U.S.C. The team entrained for Brigham 'Young modestly hopeful. But the long Provo trip and the altitude gave a lop' sided and not indicative victory to the philogynists. Members of the team consoled them' selves with a stopover at Las Vegas and an approval of the Boulder Dam on the return trip. Conditioned to defeat, the team boarded aTanner relic to San Diego, brooding over injuries incurred in the preceding week's practice. The Aztecs invoked the gods of athf letic luck, conjured up a firstfmi-nute touchdown, repeated on a wide reverse, and scored a third time later in the game on a series of short passes. The Tigers came back with a thirdfquarter touchdown, parented by a long pass from Marsh Beebe to Bob Cosby. A scoreless fourth quarter and the game ended 2097. The better team played the poorer ball, and no one from Occidental attended the San Diego homecoming dance. Next week a squad of imported behemoths from Vsfhittier blundered into a 12fO win on Patterson field. Marsh Beebe fireballed his way into the admiration of the spectators and the respect of the .Quaker Cargantuas. Brilliant play and dogged fighting kept the Poets in hot water and the fans in a frenzy, but luck gave the Roman veto to Occidental bids for touchdowns. The Redlands expedition the following Friday night was a small college classic. Thor' oughly outgeneraled the first half, the Tigers were greeted by a twentyfyard placefkick in the third quarter which sent the Bulldogs into a threefpoint ascendency. Playing stub' born ball throughout, the team finally embraced Dame Fortune when Walt Woods set' tled on a Redlands fumble late in the fourth quarter. Bull McMillan furrowed his way to within two yards of the goal line. At this point Marsh Beebe emphasized the superior scholastic quality of his institution by calling a sneak play which untangled to find Cap' tain McMillan clutching victory over the goal. The Bulldog fought to pull the game out of the fire, but an airftight pass defense, led by Ralph Nichols, repulsed him, and Oxy retired to the dressing rooms with the satisfaction of having spoiled a rivalls homecoming day and dethroned the Conference Champions. Intrigued by the feel of victory, the club bussed to Santa Barbara and spoiled another Homecoming day. It was a bruising game, in which B-ull McMillan, abetted by a powerful Tiger line, made himself an allfconference candidate. Nichols scored after McMillan in the second half. Santa Barbara, in a plucky lastfquarter rally, used a Warrier reverse to score and Occidental followers caravaned home satisfied with a 12 to 6 victory. Deep in the Rose Bowl next week, a convention of Calculus Majors from Caltech Houdinied out a 7 to 6 decision. Not even Dr. Hardy

Page 18 text:

won national recognition in the 220 low hurdles, and with Gerald Isett swept the 100, and 220 sprints. Whitey Rogers was by far the best man in the half mile. Ralph Nichols took the conference high hurdles, and was a scoring threat in the pole vault and the low hurdles. Bill Parkhurst, Occidental's strong man, was a sure winner in the discus and barely failed in the shot. The season opened with the college relays at San Diego, where Oxy's four man 880 team took a great first, coming within a tenth of a second of the conf ference record. Two weeks later, the medley relay team of Reel, Isett, fohnson, and Rogf ers running two 220's, a 440, and an 880 took first, and brought back a handsome trophy. fourneying next to Pasadena, the team swamped Caltech and Santa Barbara, scoring 74 2X3 points to Caltech's 44 2!3, and Santa Barbara's 42. In this fray, Nichols and Reel performed iron man feats. Nichols took first in the pole vault, low hurdles, high hurdles, and a third in the high jump. Captain Reel breezed home an easy winner in both sprints, and then won the broad jump. Tuttle, Rogers, and Parkhurst, took firsts in the quarter, the 880, and the discus. By virtue of such a decisive victory, the Tigers were heavy fav' orites to down Redlands. With nearly every member of the team hitting his stride, the Bulldog was sent home on the short end of an 81V2 to 49V2 score. Reel took the hundred, the quarter, and the broad jump. Nichols swept both hurdles, with his teamfmate Clever running second, and also hung up a first in the pole vault. Isett took the shot, the 220, and ran second to Reel in the 100. Rogers ran away from the field in the half, and Park' hurst repeated in the discus. Pomona was next. The meet was the most sensational of the entire season, and a nightmare to the judges. The shot was won by an eighth of an inch, the mile by seven inches, the quarter by less. Three men bit the dust in the two' mile, and Gerry Ehmann ran the last 100 of that event in 10 flat. A 21.7 220 by Reel smashed the conference record. Irecl by his first conference defeat in the 880, Rogers came down the home stretch of the mile, and nosed out Smith of Pomona by inches. Parkhurst turned in a double win in the shot and discus, Powell took the twofmile, and Nichols won the vault, and ran second to Newman of Pomona in both barrier events. Sensing chamf pionship, the boys bussed home on the winning end of a 75 2X3 to 55 U3 count. In spite of the brilliant performance of Reel, Isett, Rogers, Tuttle, and Wheatley, the superior numbers of the Aztecs and their uncontested strength in the distance events, gave the championship to San Diego. Reel turned in his best feat of the year by running the 220 lows in 23.4, twofhfths of a second from the world record. Isett collected ten points with a 21.8, 220 and a 9.8 century. Rogers again showed his heels to the field in the 880, and Dick Wheatley surprised with a winning toss of the discus. Final score: San Diego 70, Oxy 61. San Diego's strength in the allfconference meet was unquestioned, but in spite of injuries and ill luck, Occidental took second against a strong field. Rogers made track history when he got out of bed to run a winning 1:5 9:4 880. Vincent Reel, who might have won the meet for Oxy, pulled a muscle in the century, and was unable to compete in any other event. lsett came through in the 100, and took second in the 220. Nichols won the Iron Man cup by collecting ten points with a first in the high hurdles, second in the pole vault, and third in the lows. Final score: San .Diego 57 213, Oxy 35V2. The frosh had a thin season, but will help the depleted varsity that will report next year. Pipal will miss: Reel, Nichols, Parkhurst, Asa, Tuttle, Sourke, and Clever who will hang up their spikes this year. The Great American Sport of baseball brought a measure of glory to Occidental, as Coach Anderson's club repeated last year's conference win. Heavy slug' ging, tight yielding, and exceptionally good mound work was too much for the weak conf ference competition, as the Tigers lost but one game, and that to Whittier, a team the lo' cals had previously swamped. McMillaii and Lyons kept wouldfbe Babe Ruths swinging at empty air. Rowland caught most of the balls in his big catcherls glove. fakel, Villard,