California State University Chico - Record Yearbook (Chico, CA)

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CALIFORNIA POLY O - CHICO 30 In this, the final game of the season, the Chico Varsity continued the stride started in the Oregon game and overwhelmed the strong Cal Poly eleven in true Wildcat style, 30 to O. Never once did Poly threaten to score. Their line was torn like so much paper by the plunges of Spencer, while Thomasson and Olker kept the ends and secondary defense plenty busy trying to catch them on end runs. Jimmy Thomasson, acting captain in place of Captain Allinger, displayed grit seldom witnessed, when he refused to leave the game although injured so badly he could hardly walk. Louis Olker, the Wildcat speed king, received a badly wrenched knee on a long end run when it looked almost certain that he would score. Unsuccessful as the season may have been, the Chico Varsity ended in a whirl of glory and prospects are ever so bright for next season. Letter winners of the 1928 football Varsity are: Captain Elmer Allinger,,--.,.. .... Delphin Manwell ---VT Philip Herbert. ........c......,t ..,.. . E Louis Olker ........,...... -..- ..-W-Q Norman De Vol ..i...,..,, ..... . E Harold Thomasson. ....v,I I 4,.... .... - .H Harry Skelly ...... L ..rt,.t .... . E Herbert Carey ..,..t .. .c.V ----. .w.... Dan Farmer .,...... L ,,,... -. ,,,... C Wilbur Johnson ..c.... r 4---- H Arvid Pauly .,,,,,,,, ..... G Steve Vugrenecz ........ Lowell Nugent ....,.. --.. tt.. G Rockwell Blondin ------- Kenneth Palmer .,.. ,- ,,-,.,,.-,T Harold SpeI1C6r .....A.A - --Q----E Cliff Squier ,,,,,M.,-,, .W ,... T Leo Barceloux ........ -. -... 'P' -we 58 ie--

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SAN JOSE 12 - CHICO 6 Chico won this game in everything but the score. To explain, the Wildcats piled up more first downs, gained more yardage from scrimmage, and completed more passes than did the Spartans, but poor tackling enabled Hubbard, San Jose safety, to run back a punt seventy-live yards through the entire Chico team to a touchdown, thereby cinching victory for the Spartans. Offensively, Chico worked with the regular old Acker zip and fire, but defensively, the horse changes color. However, the defensive work of Farmer and Carey was one of the shining lights of the day. San Jose's win gave them the first victory over the Wildcats in eight years. Although strong in basket ball and track, the Spartans have been in rezent years rather a weak sister in football, but this past season they put a team on the field that would do justice to any college. CALIFORNIA AGGIES 22 - CI-IICO O In the roughest game ever witnessed on the local gridiron, the California Aggies of Davis massacred and slaughtered their way to a 22 to O victory over the Wildcats. They hit the Chico men with everything but the goal posts and the water bucket. and as a result the Wildcat was crippled unmercifully for future contests. It was in this game that Captain Allinger received the side swipe that ended his college career. Just why teams should be allowed to play this way is difhcult to say, but in defense of the officials it must be said that when a whole team elects to play with the win at any cost idea, no man can see everything that happens. As it was, the referee carried the ball more than any- one else did. Now that Chico State is to enter the same conference with the Aggies we hope there will be no more such games. 57

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FROSH FOOTBALL ITH Carrol Buck Bailey as coach, the Freshman football squad had a valuable if not successful season, When school opened in September some thirty to thirty-five frosh reported to test their ability as pigskin artists, but because prep school indifference still prevails in the tactics of most of these all- wise frosh, only eight received their numerals. There seems to be a natural reluctance on the part of some to give to football the necessary time and effort. However, a few of the boys sensed the real football spirit: gave all they had and were rewarded by service on the Varsity. These men-John Brown, 7ADot Clements, Paul Byrne, Jack Rannells and Delphin Manwell-were soon severed from the frosh squad by Coach Acker and placed on the Varsity reserves. Al- though Manwell was the only frosh to make the block letter, the other four all saw intercollegiate action, and it is largely on these few men that Coach Acker must build his team a few years hence. To make a Block C the Hrst year is not an every day occurrence, and Marysville can well be proud of her native son, Delphin Manwell. Among the prep teams played by the Kittens were Red Bluff High, Chico High, Oroville High, Orland High, Willows High and Pierce High, with the frosh winning exactly half their games. The hardest work for the yearlings comes in furnishing scrimmage opposition for the Varsity and it is in this stage that the Freshman determines both for himself and the coach whether he is a good future Varsity prospect. Besides the few men above mentioned, Harry Nichols, Leland Phillips, Les- ter Turner, and Warren Jones complete the list of Freshman numeral Winners. --aff 59 Ee--'