Loras College - Purgold Yearbook (Dubuque, IA)

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sent Ennes around right end for the touch¬ down. Guter s kick was low. The Sioux City outfit got its counter midway in the fourth period after a surge down the field which ended with Coach Saunderson’s boys plunging over for the score. The kick was no good. The game was played in midfield for the most part and play was definitely slowed up due to the muddy gridiron. The slippery ball made passing hazardous and shortened the punts. The North Central conference team made only a nine yard aerial gain against a well-working Loras pass defense. LaBarge came out of the melee with an in¬ jured arm which hampered his play for the rest of the season and which a post-season examination disclosed to be a broken wrist. Loras 7 —Central 22 Two intercepted passes enabled Central’s Flying Dutchmen to score a 22-7 upset vic¬ tory over the favored Duhawks at Pella, Saturday afternoon, October 12. The game was the first Iowa Conference encounter for the Loras team and was played before a huge homecoming crowd. Loras had no difficulty in getting its first score, a 14 yard end run by Linehan in the opening minutes of the game. Guter kicked the placement. Central picked up two points when La Barge was dropped behind his own goal line in the second period. The Pella boys immediately added six more points when Menning scored after an intercepted Loras pass was returned to the three yard line. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE F Tim Linehan and Larry Guter, 1940 Co-Captains

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FOOTBALL (continued) Turnstiles Clicking Hand at Half-time Loras 22 —St. Mary s 13 The 1940 football squad neatly unveiled itself in the opening game by taking a 22 to 13 victory from St. Mary’s of Winona, Minnesota on a sunny Sunday afternoon, September 22. This game was played be¬ fore 2,5 00 people on old Loras field and marked the last time that Loras College gridders trod upon that hallowed sod in an inter-collegiate contest. St. Mary’s scored first with a series of passes and runs by Fullback Weimer, a be¬ spectacled husky. Loras bounced right back in the second period with two touchdowns and a safety to lead 15 to 7 at the half. Both scores were made on passes from Line- han to Cavanaugh. Loras grabbed its third touchdown in the third quarter on long runs by Larry Spook” LaBarge, flcctfooted freshman prospect, who sparked the Duhawks all during the second half. Guter kicked both points. The hard blocking of Engel, along with the stellar line play of Corcoran, were im¬ portant factors in the Purple and Gold’s opening victory over the Redmen. Loras 7 — Rockhurst 6 With LaBarge returning a punt for a touchdown with but two minutes remain¬ ing in the ball game, the Duhawks nosed out Rockhurst College at Kansas City, 7 to 6, Sunday afternoon, September 29, in the first non - conference game of the schedule. Rockhurst drew first blood by scoring on a long pass early in the second quarter. They failed to make the extra point. Loras threatened twice in the second half, once getting up to the Rockhurst five yard line but losing the ball on downs. Just before the end of the third period, Goodwin ran 60 yards on an off-tackle spinner to be brought down on the Hawk 20 yard line. Here the Kansas City aggregation tightened and Loras again lost possession of the ball. Then LaBarge’s last minute run saved the day for the Dubuquers. Guter’s conversion was the point that meant the game for the Duhawks. Loras 6 — Morningside 6 In their third game of the year, the gold- cn-clad Duhawks were held to a 6-6 deadlock by a powerful Morningside College team in a driving rainpour Saturday afternoon, Oc¬ tober 5, at Sioux City. The Loras gridders scored first when they marched from mid-field to Morningside’s eight yard line in the third quarter and then 22

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FOOTBALL (continued) Again in the same quarter, the Dutchmen scored on a 40 yard drive which gave them a half-time lead of 15 to 7. After a scoreless third quarter, in which Loras lost a good scoring opportunity due to fumbles, a Central back intercepted a Duhawk pass and ran 5 8 yards for the last score of the game. The game ended with Loras in possession of the ball on the Dutch 12 yard line. Loras 29 —Simpson 0 Still smarting from the Central upset, the Duhawks scalped the Simpson Redmcn in their second conference game, 29 to 0, played under the lights at Municipal ath¬ letic field on Friday night, October 26. Except for a brief moment early in the game, Loras kept the Redmen back on their heels throughout, piling up 276 yards to 95 from scrimmage. Loras scored on the first play in the second quarter when Grommcs smashed through center. The stocky Beloiter, driv¬ ing low, bowled over three tacklers and raced 3 5 yards to a touchdown. Guter kicked the extra point. On a 3 5 yard pass from Linehan to Sensor in the end zone, Loras again scored in this period. Linehan placekicked the point. Loras added eight points to its total in the third quarter. Sensor blocked a punt on the Simpson goal line and then he and Swerinsky caught a Simpson back, who re¬ covered, behind his own goal line for a safety. A bit later, with the ball on their own 3 0, Loras started another touchdown drive. Linehan and Got to made it a first and ten on the 40 with two end runs. On the next play, Goodwin broke off right tackle for 20 yards and then picked up four on a spinner. After failing to connect on a long pass, Linehan latcralled to Gotto who smoothly reversed his field and went over the goal line standing up. The kick missed. The last Loras tally was registered in the fourth period on a sustained 60 yard march which culminated with Gotto duck¬ ing his way to a score from the 12 yard line. Linehan made the point. Gotto blossomed out in this contest, turn¬ ing in the best running performance of the season. Subsituting in the last half, Gotto, on elusive and speedy runs, threaded his way neatly through a host of tacklers. Line- han’s punting was his best for the season, getting off many coffin-corner kicks. There were numerous changes in the Loras lineup due to injuries in the Central game. The Redmen, coached by Bob Waldorf, former All-American from Missouri, played much better ball than the score indicates. Sensor on KncI Run in Upper Iowa Tilt 24