Allegan High School - Echo Yearbook (Allegan, MI)

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9 4 M05 an evous Zuma The Allegan Tigers took their opener by a score of 30 to 0 over Wayland. The gridders were slow in getting started but succeeded in drawing first blood on a punt return by Ray Flynn. Scoring by Ken Welle, Jack Mclntire, Mickey Spidel, and Dean Ferris helped to make the 30 points. The local team was out-weighed,but they made up for it in spirit. All the conversions failed. Dowagiao won their game from us on the first play from scrimmage. After this distressing occurrence Allegan played a different brand of ball until the second quarter, when the Dowagiae Chiefs marched 53 yards for another score. But later in the same cento, Gearhart pounc- ed on a blocked punt to make the score l2 to 7 at the half. With the opening of the third period another score for the Chiefs raised the count to 18 to 7. Later in the same stanza a pass from Ferris to Molntire was good and the fray ended 18 to lb. In Allegan's third tilt of the season, with Plainwell, their second victory of the season was acquired. A 69-yard run by Spldel gave the Tigers a 6 to 0 triumph. Neither team threatened in the sec- ond or third quarters but Allegan, in the fourth, reached Pla1nwell's 12-yard line before being stopped. This was a hard-fought battle throughout. Allegan won a moral victory, O to O, with South Haven for their fourth contest. South Haven was favored by at least two touchdowns but the inspired Tigers offset prediction. We had eight first downs to South Haven's six. The closest the opponents came to the Tigers' goal was the 27-yard line, and the Otis outfit's best effort toward the Rams' goal was their 30-yard line. This was by far Allegen's best performance of the season. Our gridders lost their second conference game to Otsego by the score of 7 to 6. It necessitated just eight plays for us to tally in the opening quarter. But this wasn't enough--Otsego registered their touchdown and secured their crucial point shortly after the Tigers had scored theirs. The rest of the game was a grueling conflict with both teams contending for that 'extra yard.' On the Hastings field, Allegan turned the tables with a victory of 7 to 6. Hastings scored in the first half and dominated play throughout. With the start of the next period we returned, all keyed up, and operated like a different team. In the third quarter, Allegan

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The Allegan Tigers accomplished their next conference gtg: J. Miller, J. Gilpin, R. lince, L. Seibert, D. Jennings, D. Bishen, A. Foote, A Page, V Merchant, L. Foster, L. Kitchell. lggz Coach Mulreedy, L. Gearhart, I. Garrett, D. Ferris, K. Welle, J. Mclntire, H. Flynn, B. Mankin, N, K. May, C. Woclf C Peet, Spidel, Conch Ctls nd J. Beckers, J. Engels, D. Nichols, J. Dannenberg, D. Wedge, D. Weston, C. Wells, R. I lccx, L Johnson, R. Gates, E. Whitney, C. Allen, Assistant Coach Ray Floate, lst: E. Fiscock, L salters, T. Calkins, R. Pierce, K. Gates, L. Terry, P. Jensen, D. Lyon, G, Trina, E, Hiller, C, pathaway, N. Webb, N. Webb, M. Swanty. succeeded in garnering a touchdown, mostly on line plunges. play the Tigers achieved the extra point to make the score tussle ended with the Tigers on Hastings' 9-yard line, and another score. On a Qfreaku 7 to 6. The driving for victory over Zeeland to the tune of 7 to O at Hollond. The first half of this game was ngive and taken with neither team in a good position to score. hut Zeeland reached our 20-yard line in the early stages of the engagement. with the start of the second half, we grabbed the lead when Wells ran A3 yards for the Tigers' only touchdown. Spidel kicked the extra point, with Ferris holding. Lousma, of Zeeland, broke away and it looked as if he were cer- tain to score, but Ferris knocked him out of bounds on our 20-yard line. Here, after four downs, Allegan received the ball and started a march which was halted by the final gun. Allegan copped their last tilt of the season from Paw Paw by the score of 7 to b. During the first half of the game the hedskins were on the warpath. Our boys weren't able to do much, they just started. As a result, quarter but failed to at the intermission. quarter but they were ever, they scaled the Wells and Ferris, and Paw Paw struck pay dirt about midway make the conversion, but they were out Allegan appeared a little stronger still unable to score. In the fourth height of glory. A reverse by Ken May a line smash by Mickey Spidel into couldh't get in the second in front 6-O, in the third session, how- , end runs by the end zone knotted the count. Spidel kicked the extra point, with Ferris holding, so the Tigers forged ahead,7 to 6. The classic ended with Paw Paw filling the air with futile passes, for none of them were completed. And so we summarize the most successful season in quite a few years for an Allegan football team, with five wine, two losses, and one tie, and second place in the Allegan-Ottawa league conference. TH6 Tigers will lose five linemen, Bud Mankin, Leroy Tooker, George Peet, Stanley Brokus, and Jack Mclntire. They will also carry on without three backfield men, Ray Flynn, Dean Ferris,snd Ken Wells. But with all the other fellows available next year, Coach Otis should experience another glorious football season.