Long Island University at Brooklyn - Sound Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Thu: 1.3g Q... n? - birds. However, C111 your comparative scoreSt and all your opinions were so much trash When little Tom Colello grabbed King's opening kick-otf on his own 15 yard line. The hot K'nish bock twisted omd turned and spun through the entire Long Island defense to register six points. At least five Beemen had clear shots at the flying Colello. The Blockbirds quickly tied the count but Colellct went to work again, intercepting 0 pass and throwing CI thirty yord touch- down toss to upset the dope, 14-7. LIU's nineteen first downs to the victors, three failed to equalize Colello's scintillating ploy. Dizzy Deon, who spearheaded the Blackbird attack, suffered a severe neck injury in the second half omd wos cotr- ried from the field. A three week rest sent the Beemeri into the Louisville tray in perfect con- dition, and the Kentucky eleven never was in the boll gome. Another sopho- more, speed-boy Tom Kretz, mode his debut by streaking forty yards on a touchdown jaunt to leotd the offensive to o 29-6 victory. The tinole-ogoinst Toledo University, 0 rival of long standing both in basket- ball and football. The Blackbirds out- pointed the Rockets, 13-12, in their first meeting in Ohio, and staged c1 repeat performance at Ebbets Field this year, winning 19-7. Bill King, great end, took two flott posses from Trocolor and went titty omd thirty yards to tally twice. Lou Coppola added the final score in the lost minute of play, intercepting c1 desperate Rocket pass and going twenty yards to pay dirt. Toledo has never beaten LIU in five tries on cage court and gridiron. But the football season cannot be passed over by merely mentioning the six games played. There was the in- imitable Took Miley's annual HBlockbirds to the Rose Bowl column in the New York Post otter LIU had won its first Here's the squad: First row, left to righte-Anthony Colonori, Alfred Lout, Louis Coppola, Iohn Gitsos, Iohn Decker, Bill Byrne. Seoond row-Dizzy Deon, George Powell, lorry Cooper, Allie Goldberg, Dick Skwuor, Leo Loinott, Bernard Kopitonsky, Mike Rizzo, Louis Friedenthol, Victor Rosen- blumt Third roweloe Zucconi, Bob Trocolar, Dick Shellogg, A1 F181SC'hmGITI, Bondy Iohnsen, Albin Zdonevich, Rush Metling, Tom Kretz. What time 1s it now? , .. , rv: v1- i a'.'i.. a 1'.'. ' Ti 0 9.! 3 J3. 'oq 5-1;: 4 .i 24.97 1r. L. L: t? ht In. 3:? q- .. . 3 J t 1.115;: t, ' :03 :an

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EXTRA! The lowinq herd winds Three lines from NGUnqa Dmnand 3 BmmKLYN-L. l. U. slowlq o'er Hue lea r Brahms concerTO ?or q00d 0'6 psyrhologisl would use J ' '9' a o 00 GObllf-SROUJSRLI ! t t O ,. o .2 , sail music and poetry Where was 6 thaT's noT qounq Iadq Tram QUITE +he Yon hers -. who thouth Shea. gr lzowskw So Ends 0ur Fight... The Blackbird eleven opened its 1940 and possibly its last season Ctt Brooklyn College, September 28, under a warm Indian summer sun and played to CI slow-motion 6-0 Win before 4000 fans. . It was a distinct disappointment, both The red, Whlt? and blue Ibusf-erexttlers financially and competitively. The Bee- from Sen Antomo, St Marys 0d dextis, men were sluggish, and handicapped by drove m.to New York. and HOG e th e lack of practice. For fifty-four minutes mettopohtan pgpers Wlth blurbs on. en the Kingsmen's little Lenny Raff punted ablhty and thelr-c-oach, Ole Mose Slim?- and rcm the legs Off his heavier foese BM Q11 the'pubhc1ty was to no m.fw' Sr then blitzkrieg struck in the shape of C1 the ,BlGCkblrdS were red hOt behmd t1: spread formation, Bob Trocolqr's pitching tossmg Of Tr-ocolar emd LOU cagpfeo arm, cmd Bill King waiting on the good and. the CGtChmg Of DlZZY Dean cm ored line for the lazy pass that resulted in RQVlnSkY' The Pearl Street gangdSC tter six points and the bcdl game two qu1ck tOUCthWDS, converte CI ' both, and won 14-7. ' Y Q ;,. .1 z b . '3: W e. . . s. .- u . . 2. ha: a 0 3.. Q .N .3 T V. . x hN .97 .9: Q . t . Q; ti 5; 1T; 1. k00 6:. n .. i 13 l c: t 3.1 W- 'V .. v ' ,?,t,g-:.4 0. . o,!,n'2n.1 twinkling feet of sophomore Johnny Git- sas and the powerful line play of another second year man, Rush Methng, and repeated its 1939 win, 6-0. 'l'Jl'f..,,'.'ln... ? T4 0' ' e'P I A ' .fg'ofvlv. ' v! u; - 4 Ida'ff'h. A week later the eleven faced CI sup- Came the soft touch of the campaign, posedly sterner task When the Providence F . . Canisius College. The Griffins from Buft mars moved mto Ebbets Field to battle fglo had dropped c1 few, and were OUt' Long Island. However, LIU unveiled the manned by the Rose Bowl bound Black- 1 1 .IA 04 11W?- Y: ' ' t ' . . . . .. ..... .t. . . , , ., . . . , . , -.'A,, - .,- . --.., .. t , gr. ..A n. 1 LLttc . t . ml :qu. v .' r 1.; v.-.. mum. .mxthquznt-afnce$ceo cM.-L$r.u g-.J-uL;-, -ru. L t n -

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A five yard gain for first down. three times out. Miley termed the Long Island squad Hundeteated, untied, un- sung, unbelievable, and unconscious. Then there was the long awaited air- plane trip to Loretto, Pennsylvania which would have made the Blackbirds the first metropolitan eleven to fly to a ball game. The trip is still long awaited. Probably the highlight of the season was Dr. Richard C. Paynter's poetry and sott music conditioning process for foot- ball players. The good doc proposed that the pigskin toters, to enter a game relaxed and unworried, be steeped in the strains of Classical music and soothed ' by poetry reading. We don't know the actual psychological value of such an experiment, but we acknowledge the publicity value. Every paper picked it up. Stan MacGovern, Post, turned it into a comic cartoon, and Jack Miley tossed off another gem. And the news reels grabbed a few hundred feet of A1 Lauf's poetry recital added to shots The head man. of the Blackbirds, inspired by HO blithe newcomer , mauling St. Mary's. Individually, the Long Islanders were no All-Americans, but there can be no denying the brilliance of King, Ioe Koons, Trocolar, and Cappola. King, possibly the finest pass receiver since Don Hutson and a deadly open field tackler, rated and exceeded his rave notices. Koons, shadowed by the glory of Ford- ham's Lou DeFilippo and Columbias Don Snavely, was the proverbial tower of strength, Rock of Gibraltar of the line. It would be a poor day for Joe it he didnt make a dozen solo tackles and intercept a couple of passes. Trocolar, for the second successive year, was the standout back, triple- threat, and signal caller. Troc completed over 5070 of the passes he threw and punted over 40 yards per boot. Lou Cappola, sophomore, who under- studied Trocolar at the start of the cam- paign, came into his own as the season progressed. t ball player, CZ: excelled in his quick kick, w: powerful offer Italian lad me: Add to this the DIUCkY dTiY mg and place and the line p; Zdanevich, cm The Blackb; ' seasons, Were . the upper strut been planned . chided Comes: I - mm St Y's mom and St .t Was here With a. Was gone. 11! :thletiq eCisi . ' sionqtzn' and n