Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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Homecoming: Day arrived with the enemy, Miami ' s Redskins, a highly regarded favorite. For three quarters IMiami was just that. At the conchision of the third stanza the scoreboard read : Miami 28, Ohio 0. Suddenly the Fighting Bol cats caught fire. Captain Quinn Stumpf sped thirty-two yards for OU ' s first score of the afternoon. Minutes later Haug passed to Davis for six more points and Bill Bevan ' s conversion made it 28-14. With time running out the gridders. headed by Bob jMarchi, again marched downfield to score making the final tally read 28-20 in favor of Miami. The comelsack was one of the greatest in Green and White history liut the clock had outsped the batt- ling Bobcats. The Migration Day trip proved futile as OU bowed 23-0 to a powerful Cincinnati eleven. The Bob- cats piled up the statistics but the Bearcats gar- nered the points. OU picked up two hundred twenty yards rushing and made eighteen first downs to Cincy ' s thirteen. Stumpf carried a phen- omenal thirty-seven times for one hundred seventy-three yards. The Bobcats second air trip of the year was a fruitful one as they topped Buffalo University 22- 13 at Buffalo, New York. The game was the second and last in the series between the two schools. In the Western Michigan tilt only four minutes remained and OU trailed 7-0. However, Fabis struck paydirt from one yard out and Bevan tied the game at 7-7 with his conversion. The game appeared destined to end in a deadlock, but with just forty seconds left, Bevan booted a dramatic fifteen yard field goal to give the Fighting Bob- cats a thrilling 10-7 victory in their last Mid- American Conference start of 1950. Dick Davis Dick Phillips Al Scheider PAGE ticenty five

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Showing their liest offensive form of the year in their first home game, the OU eleven roared to a 35-0 trouncing of Western Reserve. Tom Anderson put on a brilliant passing exhibition. He threw three scoring passes, two to Dick Davis and one to end Nick Fogoros. Dick Phillips and Ed Roberts brought the crowd to their feet with two electrifying touch- down scampers. Phillips repeated his Butler performance, this time returning a punt seventy-three yards to score. Roberts ran eighty-eight yards fi-om scrimmage for the TD. With three victories already tucked away the Bobcats jour- neyed to Kent State confident of suliduing another foe. The Golden Flashes, however, led by their great Jack Mancos, had other ideas. The Bobcats returned home smarting from the resounding 35-13 loss. Gene Knuxhall PACE twenty four Red Davis i;d Roberts

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i r iP IJi ' van ' s field Roal breaks the dead- lock in the Western Michigan tilt ■ - ' -■ ' • m.T:fijLrjElU The closing game of the moderately successful season saw OU stop Marshall 14-6 on Thanks- giving Day at Athens. Bob Haug opened the scoring with a fifteen yard dash to put the Bob- cats ahead early in the initial period. Marshall threatened later in the first half. However, Dick Phillips came through once again as he returned a punt thirty-five yards to set up the final OU touchdown. Fabis did the actual scoring on a five yard plunge. PAGE twenty six