Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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The following weekend found The LiTTle Gionfs hosTed by The Beors of VVoshingTon of ST. Louis in ci gome ThoT proved To loe cx cosfly one. On oi dismol roiny cloy, Red ond The Beers foughf To oi lO-lO Tie. Affer ci 3-O holf-Time deficiT, Wobosh showed ci complefely differenf sTyle of ploy from The Hrsf half. IT seemed os Though The squod hod finolly ielled os They boffered Their vvoy down The muddy field To Their firsf score vvifh John Moy doing The honors ond odding The exfro poinT. ln The fourfh period, The Red ground iTs woy To The 2 ycird line buf couldn'T supply The punch To puT The boll over ond hod To rely on lVloy's Toe for on i4 yord field gool. The finol score wos i0-lO buT Red poid cz high price for This one. Senior sTondouTs Augie Doesener, Rolph Mich- no ond Sfeve Bdbic suffered iniuries Thof kepT Them ouT of The Bufler gome while junior field generol Bob Adams injured his knee ond wos sidelined for The resf of The yeor.

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II.-ll Size, speed, ond experience, odd o liTTle of The quolify people polifelyl refer To os 'inTesTinol forTi- Tude' ond you've gof o prefiy good sTorT Toword o winning fooflooll Teomf' IT is unfoi'Tunc1Te Thof Wo- bosh hos hod To rely moinly on The loTTer quolify when fielding o Teom ond This yeor wos no excep- Tion. The loss of losf yeor's seniors including Triple- ThreoT Lynn Gorrord lefT The squod wiTh severol lorge holes To be filled by yef unTried men. Need- less To soy, iT didn'T Toke long for The unTried To ploy like hordened veferons os The seoson moved on. Under The oufsfonding leodership of copfoin ond lvlosf Voluoble Ployer Allon Anderson, ond o group of defermined seniors, The lighT ond youfhful squod wos oble To puT Togefher o very respecfoble 3-3-2 seoson ogoinsf such opposifion os Bufler, il ronked Wiffenlourg, ond olwoys Tough, unforTunoTe- ly, DePouw. Big Red opened of home ogoinsf Volporoiso buf nofhing seemed To go righf for The Teom os They fumbled five Times on Their woy To o i3-O defeof. Bofh of Volpo's Touchdovvns resulfed from The loose foofbolls, one eoch in The firsT ond fourTh quorfers. Wobosh led The Crusoders in The rushing deporf- menf buf Volpo's possing kepf The Scolrlef vvifh iTs bock To The woll mosf of The offernoon.

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BuTler proved To be The usual formidable foe buT Wabash played one of iTs besT games of The year in The 7-7 lron Key 'conTesT. The firsf half was all Wabash as The LiTTle GianTs, sparked by senior speedsTer Tom Zimmers' 35 yard run off The reverse, marched down field and scored wiTh Anderson driv- ing over on The Wedge and May adding The exfra poinT. The second half found Wabash on The de- fensive and a highly TouTed goal line defense sTopped The Hinklemen Time and again deep in Big Red TerriTory. OuTsTanding play by The cenTer of The defensive line plus heads-up ball-playing by sopho- more Mark lvlader, iunior Jim Roeder and Anderson in The secondary kepT The Bulldogs sTalled unTil They finally managed To plunge over from The one yard line making iT 7-7, The final score. The game, one of Red's besf, failed To gain The Iron Key buT The moral saTisfacTion was greaT considering The LiTTle Gianfs played on even Terms WiTh The bigger Bull- dogs wiThouT four sTarTers.