Alma College - Scotsman Yearbook (Alma, MI)

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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.

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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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Now in second posiTion in The conTerence as The resulT oT Their deTeaT by Kazoo, The ScoTs meT Hillsdale aT The laTTer's home Tield To baTTle Tor he undispuTed posiTion oT runner-up in The conTerence. The ScoTs were unable To cope wiTh l-lillsdale's un- orThodox sTyle OT play and as a resulT, were rushed and passed OTT Their TeeT by a 20 To 6 score in Tavor oT The 'Dales. Alma knocked aT l-lillsdale's goal line a number oT Times, buT iT wasn'T unTil The remaining second oT The game ThaT a pass Trom Ken OTis To Bob Adams, neTTed The ScoTs Their only Touchdown. The Michigan Jayvees scored Their TirsT win oT The season when They deTeaTed The ScoTs I8 To O on hisToric old Ferry Field on The UniversiTy oT Michigan campus aT Ann Arbor. The game was played in very cold weaTher and snow, and ball handling was hard. Alma ThreaTened only once during The game, when They goT possession oT The ball on Their own 40-yardi lineg SnfiTh quick-kicked To lVlichigan's 4-yard line. The Jayvees punT came ouT To -Their own 28. Cn The second play aTTer This, ArT SmiTh carried The ball To The 16, buT The ScoTs bogged down and losT The ball on downs. WiTh only a Tew minuTes remaining To play, The ScoTs drove The ball Tor Three suc- cessive TirsT downs, buT were unable To geT inTo scoring disTance beTore The Tinal gun. AlThough The ScoTs ended up in second place in The M.l.A.A. conTerence sTandings, They made a Tar beTTer showing on The myThical all-conTerence Team by placing Tour men on iT. These Tour ouTsTanding players are CapTain John l3uTch GilberT, Tullback, Bob Devaney, leTT end, Cassius Lea, righT guard, and STan CaTer, leTT Tackle. GilberT was The unanimous selecTion aT his posiTion as was CaTer, who was recognized as The mosT ousTanding lineman in The comference. Devaney had liTTle Trouble in being se- lecTed as one oT The TWO wingmen, and Cash Lea was Torced To share his righT guafrd berTh wiTh an Albion player. lSToppeTTl. ArT SmiTh was The only ScoT To land on The Second Team. Devaney was chosen by his maTes To lead Them Through nexT year's grid campaign when They elecTed him capTain aT The TooTball banqueT.