Alma College - Scotsman Yearbook (Alma, MI)

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Coach Gordon Macdonald began his second year as coach oT The Alma TooTball Team wiTh The Task oT rebuilding a Team wiTh only seven veTerans Trom lasT year's squad and a handTul OT hopeTul sophomore aspiranTs. BeTore being deTeaTed by The champion Kalamazoo Team, The ScoTs loomed as sTrong conTerence conTenders when They deTeaTed Three Teams oT The M.l.A.A. conTerence. Wins were scored over Adrian, Albion, OliveT, and l-lope. One Tie game Was played wiTh YpsilanTi Normal, and losses were suTTered To Miami UniversiTy OT OxTord, Ohio, l-lillsdale, Kalamazoo, and The Michigan B Team. As The nucleus oT his Team, Coach Macdonald used ArT SmiTh aT guarTerback, CapTain John GilberT aT Tullback, STan CaTer aT leTT Tackle, Bob Devaney aT leTT end, and Cassius Lea aT righT guard. The oTher reTurning leTTermen were Floyd BoaT and Ken OTis, halTbacks. The season opened wiTh The ScoTs aT OxTord, Ohio, where They meT Miami Uni- versiTy. WiTh considerable weighT advanTage againsT Them, The Team was deTeaTed 27 To O. Miami's allfconTerence guarTerback, Jake Wagner, was held aT The ScoTs' goal line on numerous occasions by Alma's lighTer line who played inspired ball. The weT and muddy Tield made ball handling quiTe impossible, and Two oT Alma's Tumbles resulTed in Miami Touchdowns. CapTain BuTch GilberT, Bob Devaney, and STan CaTer marked Themselves as ouTsTanding players on The Tield, while Don SmiTh, sopho- more guarTerback Who replaced ArT SmiTh, did a Tine iob OT signal calling, alThough burdened wiTh The Task oT passing, punTing, and praying. l Top row, leTT To righT: Geyer, l-lulTman, Nunn, MaThews, Le Claire, CarTer, NeT2org. Middle row: Coach Macdonald, Bainbridge, SeaviTTe, Purdy, OHS, CuTler, Follis, Bendall, Adams, D. SmiTh, Walker, Devaney, AssisTanT Coach Ewer. BoTTom row: AThleTic Manager Mann, Dean, BoaT, Lea, A. SmiTh, Fraker, Tangalakis, Elder.

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HEAD COACH GORDON A. MACDONALD VARSITY FOOTBALL . I

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Bendall, Adams, OTis, Le Claire, GinTher, D. SmiTh, Nunn, Dean, BoaT, Purdy. Floyd BoaT's 84-yard sprinT Through a broken Tield proved To be The necessary margin oT de-TeaT handed Adrian by The ScoTs in The Two Teams' TirsT game in many years, The Tinal score being 7 To O. Alma Tailed To cash in on many scoring oppor- TuniTies, and noT un+iI laTe in The Third quarTer did l3oaT Tind his way Through his own leTT Tackle Tor a clear Tield To a Touchdown. Devaney and lvlel l-lulTman held down The Tlanker posiTions, and Adrian Tound iT a diTTiculT iob To circle eiTher end. OTher players who played Tine ball were Cash Lea and Sam SeaviTTe aT The guards. l3uTch Gilbe-rT played The TinesT game OT his TooTball career as he Tore The Adrian line To biTs and sTopped The Adrian ball carriers Trom going Through his TerriTory. On The same play ThaT won The Adrian game, Floyd BoaT again broke Through The cenTer oT The line To run 44 yards Tor Alma's lone Touchdown To deTeaT Albion 7 To 6. CapTain GilberT kicked The exTra poinT which laTer proved To be The necessary mar- gin oT vicTory. ln The pasl' Two games, BoaT had carried The ball sevenTeen Times Tor an average oT IO yards per Try. The run came immediaTely aTTer The opening OT The second sTanza aTTer ArT SmiTh had broke inTo The open To ToTe The ball To Adrian's 44-yard sTripe aTTer carrying iT Trom his own 20. Albion's score came in The TourTh guarTer aTTer a 49-yard march down The Tield. QuTside oT The Two Touchclowns, mosT oT The game was played around midTield. ATTer an cxTensive gain, The Team on ohfense seemed To leT down, and The deTensive Team usually punTed ouT oT danger. As The resulT oT his long run, his Tine showing on blocking, Tackling, and pass deTense, BoaT sTamped himself as The individual sTar OT The game.