Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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It takes two Wildcats to bring clown one Owl Acting Captain George Heil shakes hands with Captain Al Postus before the Villanova game The cheerleaders in action

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The kick-off A quick kick surprises Villanova VILLANOVA The sixteenth game of the traditional series between Temple and Villanova found the Owls the underdog as not one writer gave the Broad Street boys a chance to pull out a victory in their last game of a not too happy season. For once the experts were right as the Templars went down once 34-7. As in two former years, it was a back named Al Postus who spelled doom for the Owls as he figured in every scoring drive of the Main Liners. Villanova scored in every frame but the third. In the first minutes of play the Cats went for 33 yards in eight plays and Al had the ball for six, reaching the two from which Kaslin scored. Postus took the ball over on a series of drives for the second and third goals. The final two tallies wer e made by Ed Burns who took the ball over after Postus, by passing and running, reached deep into Owl territory. The lone Temple score was made in the second period when Hubka took a punt and returned the ball to his own 34. Another short run, a 16-yard pass to Lipski, and a two-yard pass to Cooney took the ball to about the midstripe. From there Tony heaved the ball to the Wildcats ' 15 where Marco Papi tucked it to him and crossed the stripe for six points. Jimmy Wilson converted for the last marker to be scored that afternoon. The start of a long run

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Basketball Back Row: Weinberger, Rosen, Bramble, Kiszonas, Budd, Roche, Sukonik, Stratton. Front Row: Schorza, Peitzman, Blumenthal, Cody (Coach), Ingerman, Hubka, Bernstein Starting with only two men from the previous year, Josh Cody ' s 1943-44 Cherry and White basketball team reached heights reminiscent of the 1939 National Temple quintet. Excepting their four-game, losing slump, the Owls tacked together triumphs in groups of five, four, three, and one , while losing eight games, to total thirteen victories, and won an invitation to the National Collegiate Athletic Association as representative of District 3. Big Bill Budd, lanky center from Merchantville, N. J., and Marvin Red Blumenthal, scrappy from Trenton, N. J., formed the nucleus of the all-civilian five. They joined with Albie Ingerman, High ace and holder of the Public High scoring record; Marvin Sukonik, Overbrook High star; footballer Jack Burns, whose fighting spirit kept the team going; Ridley Park ' s Long John Kiszonas; West Philly ' s Norm Rosen; and Dick Koecher, Dave Fox, and Jimmy Joyce, who joined the squad at mid-season; to defeat Penn State twice, jolt several top-flight teams, including St. John ' s and Western Michigan, only to lose the season ' s finale to St. Joseph ' s. Coach Doggie Julian ' s V-12-manned Muhlenberg team spoiled the debut of the 1943-44 Temple five by running up an 18-13 halftime edge, pulling further ahead, 27-17, and then staving off a brilliant closing rush by the Owls to win, 34-32. Ingerman scored 11 to pace the loser ' s attack. Budd and Ingerman collaborated for twenty points as the Templars scored their first win by downing Lafayette, 36-25, but the Oklahoma A. and M. lads, featuring seven-foot, goal-tender Bob Kurland, downed the Codymen, 42-37. Temple led the Aggies, 20-16, at but Snuffy Smith ' s 16 second-half points turned the tide.