Alma College - Scotsman Yearbook (Alma, MI)

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The nexT opponenT on The schedule was a highly Tavored YpsilanTi Normal Team. The game was wiTnessed by a number oT Tans in aTTendance aT The FiTTieTh Anni- versary exercises oT The college. Coach MacDonald sTarTed his reserves, who im- mediaTely proved To be anyThing buT push-overs Tor Ypsi. ATTer The Teachers had scored a Touchdown in The TirsT quarTer, The reserves shoved Ypsi To The 25-yard line Trom Where an aTTempTed Tield goal by Don SmiTh wenT wide. The ScoTs be- wildered Ypsi wiTh numerous passes while The Teachers resorTed To baTTling spinners, Takes, and reverses. APT SmiTh kepl- The air Tilled wiTh his passes, and his many shorT Tlips To l3uTch GilberT accounTod Tor :much oT The ground gained by The ScoTs. The Tinal score was I2 To T2 and The Tic enabled Alma To conTinue her record oT noT being deTeaTed on The home Tield since TQ34. Playing againsT an inspired OlivoT Team, The ScoTs were barely able To eke ouT a I2 To 6 win over The CongregaTionafisTs on GcTober 23. Two alerT Alma linesrnen, l-larold Dean and Cash Lea, accounled Tor fTX.lma's Touchdowns. Dean Tell on The ball aTTer he had blocked an QliveT punT and downed iT on OliveT's goal line Trom where iT was carried across on The nexT play: Lea scored his Touchdown when he blocked an OliveT punT and Tell on The ball behind The goal line. The ScoTs reserves sTarTed The game and allowed OliveT a Touchdown beTore The varsiTy Took The Tie-ld and The game Trom OliveT. Taking The ball on The opening kickoTT, OliveT carried The ball 78 yards on a susTained drive Tor a Touchdown. The reserves Took The ball and marched Toward The OliveT goal, buT aT This poinT, The varsiTy, who had been senT in, Tailed To make The be-sT oT This scoring opporTuniTy presenTed To Them by Their undersTudies. OliveT used Tew subsTiTuTions during The game, and proved To be The scrappiesT Team ThaT The MacDonaldmen had encounTered so Tar This year. 1

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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.

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CarTer, Tangalakis, Fraker, BurTraw, A, SmiTh, NeTzorg, Fcllis, SeaviTTe, l-lulTman, Elder. Alma dropped a closely conTesTed game To Kalamazoo, I5 To IZ, beTore a Home- coming crowd oT 5,000. This loss dimmed The Maroon and Cream TiTle hopes Tor This year. Alma ouTgained and ouTplayed Kazoo, buT were unable To make use oT The breaks. The ScoTs scored TirsT in The TirsT period when ArT SmiTh reTurned a Kazoo punT To The Kazoo 32-yard line. Then a pass To Devaney, and Two ThrusTs aT The Tackles by 6inTher and SmiTh neTTed ZI yards. CapTain GilberT drove Tor 9 yards on The nexT play and Then crashed The line again Tor The remaining disTance. Kazoo scored her TirsT Touchdown in The Third period as a resulT oT a number OT passes. Also in The same period, The visiTors scored Their second Touchdown. Dalla kicked a Tield goal To give Kazoo The necessary margin OT vicTory. ln The lasT minuTes oT play, Alma scored a Touchdown aTTer OTis had passed To Don SmiTh on Kazoo's 28- yard line and Then Tossed one To Devaney on The ll. OTis swepT around The end Tor a Touchdown aTTer a penalTy had moved Alma To The 6-yard line. Don SmiTh's educaTed Toe provided The winning margin Tor Alma on November 6, when he booTed a Tield goal Trom The I8-yard sTripe To deTeaT l-lope 3 To O. The Two Teams baTTled Tor second place in The conTerence sTandings. lvlosT oT The game was played beTween The 20-yard lines wiTh Alma having a sIighT edge over The DuTchmen. The Tield goal came laTe in The Tinal quarTer, and l-lope Took To The air To score, buT The alerT pass deTense oT The lvlacdonaldmen sTopped all ThreaTs. On The Third play OT The game, GilberT was Torced To The sidelines because oT a rib injury. The back- Tield combinaTion oT Don SmiTh, Floyd BoaT, ArT SmiTh and Bill 6inTher played ex- cepTionally Tine ball, while The line opened many holes in The l-lope line Tor The ball hawks.