Riverside College - Tequesquite Yearbook (Riverside, CA)

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PROGRAM-Who is No. 28? The program will tell you. Joel Moss accepts a dime in exchange for lineups. football in R. eview OF ALL MAJOR SPORTS football still draws the largest crowds and provides the most subject matter for morning- after re-plays. Riverside College experienced an unusually good season, with only a couple of disappointments, as the following pages will disclose. We should like to introduce the section by applauding the troupe that sell the tickets and the programs, along with the peanut and popcorn brigade. They furnish added touches hard to do without. Then, too, when there ' s a letdown on the field, the pom-pon girls take over with their flashy routine. Half- time parades and queen crownings add their share of color. Yes, football, has a full share of added touches. TICKETS, PLEASE-Rachel Diaz inspects student body card extended by Norman Katz and smiles approval. Rachel was a chief of staff for the ticket taking squad. Scoreboard Santa Ana John AAuir Hartnell Chaffey Orange Coast Fullerton Mt. San Antonio Santa Ana San Bernardino Conference Games. We They 13 21 14 20 38 6 6 13 6 13 26 13 7 13 13 20 V Qf Wi TIME-Tigers file onto field for kickoff in the well-timed photograph at right, taken just before Thanksgiving Day festivities began with San Bernardino. Any extra seats you see in the picture were soon taken.

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ELUSIVE-Richard Cox, a consistent ground gainer, etudes tacklers in first game against Santa Ana. ACTION AND REACTION JUST MADE IT-Joe Rodarte, former Coachella flash, takes 25-yard pass from Tom Linane against Orange Coast. St ron f WITH THREE WINS and a tie against two losses in Eastern Con- ference play, the Riverside Tigers were in the flag race almost all the way. Loss of the closing game to San Bernardino, however, spoiled chances for second spot behind Fullerton. Riverside closed the season third in the six-team standings. Head Coach De Francisco, assisted by Paul Roby, Tony Steponovich and Bob Moore fielded a team that was a constant threat, and with a relatively large number of lettermen returning, the 1954 season has great promising. Santa Ana (practice) Against Santa Ana in a pre-season practice game. Riverside gave the curious first-nighters a real treat. Ricketts scored the first touchdown of the season in the first quarter. With only eight seconds left in the game, Jim Jordan also scored and Joe Rodarte kicked the extra point. Final score. Riverside 13, Santa Ana 0. John Muir (practice) Riverside next took John Muir to camp, 24-14. Phillian scored once in the second quarter and Linane twice in the fourth. Rodarte converted for three points. Muir scored in the first and fourth quarters, taking the lead each time. Phillian, Reed, Miller, Stevens, Flint, and Guercio were strong on offense. Hartnell (practice Hailed as one of the top junior college teams in the nation, Hart- nell came to Riverside expecting a somewhat easier time than the final score, 38-20 in their favor, would indicate. For the Tigers, Cox scored in the third quarter, Ledfors and Reed in the fourth. Tommy Ricketts did some great passing. Chaffey (Conference) Somewhat disappointingly, the Bengals emerged from the Con- ference opener with no better than a 6-6 tie against Chaffey. Losing the ball four times on fumbles and having a 31 -yard touchdown pass play called back, Riverside players and rooters alike had something of a bad night. The lone score came late in the third quarter after Ricketts shook loose for 32 and 14 yard gallops to put the ball on the Chaffey 10. On the fourth pass attempt he hit Phillian in the corner of the end zone for the TD. A Linane to Phillian pass netted grossed 63 yards in the third quarter, but the threat bogged down inside the 10. Orange Coast (Conference) A 13-6 win from Orange Coast was the Tiger ' s first over the pirates since the two schools began their rivalry in 1948. This also brought the Tigers back into the Eastern Conference race as a definite threat. Linane, Cox, Phillian, Miller, Rodarte, Martinez, and Guercio played a strong game, with Martinez scoring in the second quarter to make it 6-6. The Tigers broke the deadlock in the third quarter when Cox put on a beautiful display of broken field running, scored from 30 yards out. Freeman kicked the extra point. Fullerton (Conference) Fullerton ' s first win over Riverside since 1948, cleared the title path for the Hornets. The game could have gone either way. Linane tallied the first Tiger touchdown on an 1 8-yard spurt around 30