Clarion University of Pennsylvania - Sequelle Yearbook (Clarion, PA)

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Homecoming day at Clarion was featured by the annual Clarion-Edinboro grid battle. The game was played in a steady downpour of rain and on a very soggy field. With these conditions prevailing, the teams battled to a scoreless tie. Clarion ' s Hat Wolfe punted 14 times and the Red Raiders kicked 15 to feature the game with long high kicks. The fourth game on the Clarion schedule found the hilltoppers in Charleroi for a game with California Teachers College in which the Tippinmcn rolled up a 28-0 score on an under-manned opponent. Freshmen scored the four touchdowns in the game with Turk Johnson going over twice and Gordon Sills and Chuck Shaner once each. Sills ran 70 yards for one six-pointer and threw a 35-yard pass to Shaner for another score to feature the one-sided game. Clarion fell before Indiana ' s Indians by a 12-0 score at Indiana. Indiana with a big line held down Clarion ' s ball carriers but were able to score their two touchdowns only after long marches down the field. The Golden Eagles closed their season by running up an all-time record score over Kutztown Teachers College here on November 8. The record score was 46-0 and eight players scored. ALLIANCE THIEL 26 EDINBORO CALIFORNIA INDIANA 12 KUTZTOWN 38 CLARION 35 CLARION CLARION CLARION 28 CLARION CLARION 46 109

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1 1 TIk ' goldL ' n nutumn dnys turned the minds of the students nlmost immedi- .ilely from freslimnn initiation to our footb.ill team. During the season, Clarion State Teachers College ' s Golden Eagles turned in a record of three wins, two losses, and one tie for the 1941 football season. I he three victories added to the ones registered in the four previous seasons ran the Tippinmen ' s record to twenty triumphs in five campaigns. The first scheduled game with Grove City college was cancelled due to the polio epidemic that postponed the openings of all state teachers colleges. On October 4 the Blue and Gold opened with Alliance College after but twelve pre-season practice sessions and defeated the up-staters handily by a score of 5-0 at Clarion with five players chalking up touchdowns. The second game was with strong Thiel college in Greenville. The Teach- ers fell by a 26-0 score before the Jack Stoeber coached team that was undefeated in seven games. Clarion ' s line led by the brilliant Irwin Fall at left end out- played the Thiel forward wall but the Golden Eagle backs were no match for the hard running Thiel backs. iack Row — Mr. Tippin. Shancr. Cyphcrt, Snyder. Martin. Wilhclm. Third RoiC — Johnson. Wiberg, Newell, Jcwart. .Stewart. Elder, Buzard. Sills, McKin- ley, McCandless, Second Row — Mohney, Pence, Miith, Strickler, Weidt, Mulligan, Fichter, Hunter, McGinnis, Wonell. Front Row — Fall, Wetzel, Sheridan, Sevok, Kovalyak, Bole, Wolfe, Solonchak, Siar, Wallace.

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CLAUDE BOLE — Buck the line Bole was the buckincst fullback ever to come out of Rimers- burg High School and the most dependable ball carrier on the Golden Eagle squad. JAMES BUZARD — Bu z. (he baseball outfielder from Strallonvilk. won his first varsity letter as a junior. He should be a regular in the next campaign. IRWIN FALL — Number one defensive end was the classification given P-all by his mates The 185-pounder from Fairviiw is set for a better season as a junior. JOHN HUNTER — This 160 pound Altoona lad went great guns for the Tippinmen in tite last part of the season. JOSEPH JEWART — A New Bethlehem hoy in his second letter winning year was this season ' s most versatile player. ERNEST JOHNSON — Johnsonburg ' s Turk was the number one backfteld replacement who scored on several occasions. Ereshman Johnson is a bright prospect. STEPHEN KOVALYAK — Steve, the popular singing guard, was always there with a bang-up game. We remember him as the extra-point kicking specialist of the Golden Eagles. FRANK MOHNEY — The Brookville boy who played four years of brilliant ball without sustaining an injury was always ready at the blocking back post last season. WALTER MULIJGAN — Scat back Mulligan was a hard man to bring down. He should be better as a sophomore although the armed services may annex him before then. ROBERT MUTH — Tiny was 215 pounds of 1-A football player. What more need we say: ' CLYDE PENCE — Senior Squadman Pence was 215 pounds of tough tackle, difficult to move during his four seasons on the Golden Eagle squad. ANDREW SEVOK — Andy, the backfield handy man. was a great offensive threat in his last campaign, and as an aviation cadet in the Army Air Corps, he will carry on as a handy man in the great offensive to keep the American way. CHARLES SHANER — Oil City ' s pride on the Clarion team is Shaner, 180 pounds of brilliant running back, probably the best prospect for next year. JAMES SIAR — In his second year of football. Jim made the starting lineup, giving to Clarion a great end. GORDON SILLS — One of the flashiest and fastest players on the team was Sills, who broke away for many long runs as a freshman and should repeat as a sophomore. (Tip hopes so.) WILLIAM SOLONCHAK — Starting as center, Scilonchak of Stowe Township played a good steady game in every Clarion contest this season. MERVIN STRICKXER — Strick. the Sophomore trickster from York Haven, held down a reserve post at tackle after playing at center in his frosh season. PHILIP WALLACE — The pass catching end from Brookville proved valuable time after time in his freshman season as a Golden Eagle. JOHN WETZEL — Coach Waldo Tippin ' s own words. You ' re a great tackle, boy, best describes Muggs, the New Bethlehem sensation, who in four seasons has won more all-Stale Teachers honors than any other player in Clarions history, ROBERT WIBERG — Big Bob of Altoona was a varsity guard last season. Wiberg, a sopho- more, is set for two more big seasons, HARRY WOLFE — A senior star in his fourth starring year was Hat Wolfe, the team ' s number one punter last campaign, WILLIAM WORRELL — ' Willie is a Clarion junior who served as guard for the Golden Eagles as they drubbed three opponents last season, MANAGERS — Wayne Snyder and Laird McCanna — They didn ' t run the ball through enemy territory for a first down, nor did they score a touchdown, but to them goes the appreciation of the team for the services of comfort and efficiency which they rendered on trips and for the encouragement which they freely gave at all times.