McGill University - Old McGill Yearbook (Montreal Quebec, Canada)

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Intermediate Football Team You can all depend on the fact that the men who represent you in football at McGill are the finest type ot boys on the campus and are not the kind to let you down willingly. Losing a ball game is certainly not to their liking and they do everything they can not to lose games by very hard training and conditioning and great desire to succeed and excel. I'd like to thank all the members of both the Redmen and the Indians, the coaching staff and managers, the trainers, the doctors, the various people behind the scenes such as Mr. Finlay, the business manager, Mrs. Hendrie, the ticket manager, and all of the others who make up the Intercollegiate Football organization. They did a wonderful job and I hope that this fine co-operation continues which I feel sure it will. It takes a big organization to run Big Time Intercollegiate Football. McGill is now in that category because you must realize that con- sistently drawing gates of over 20,000 puts McGill University in the upper 545 of University teams on the whole continent including the United States. I won't conclude with the worn- out cliche from Brooklyn wait till next year but I will say that as long as the football is the type of spheroid it is with the many funny bounces it can take anything can happen. I might say take a look at the 1950 Army, Notre Dame and Oklahoma teams. Thank you for your support and enthusiasm and encouragement in the past years. I can assure you that plans are well under way ev- en at the writing of this article for the 1951 McGill Senior Redmen and the McGill Indians. Jnnibal 27

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Senior Inter Collegiate Football Team M-....,..: ffj-v--..,. . aw.. Z Z : ':,.y--.....3.Lg' The 1950 Football Season by V. F. Obeck As they say in the jargon of the Carnival close but no cigar applies to the McGill Senior Football Season once again as it did in 1949. We finished on top of the regular Intercollegiate League but lost the play-off game to Western and there- fore no cigars or no Yates Cup. The Intermediate Indians, on the other hand, once again completed a very successful season, their second undefeated one in a row, and took the crown in the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Football Conference. I realize that the end of the 1950 Senior Season was a great disappointment to a great many students, graduates and fans in general. I'm sure it was no more dis- appointing to them than it was to the players and coaching staff themselves. Many armchair specialists have advanced theories on why this happened. Though closer to the situation than any of them I find it very difficult to give a specific reason for the ending of the last two seasons thus. There is certainly no truth to the idea that the boys were over-trained. Anybody who knows anything about athletic condition- ing will agree on this. I believe that we had a very bad Saturday afternoon in London, Ontario, after running through seven games when we played pretty good football, that is the five previous League games and the two exhibitions. In losing the game at London we lost the championship because to go into a play-off in the condition we were in the following week with two of our first-string centres and three other first-string line men out didn't give us a very good chance of coming through. It was the biggest year in McGill football for spectators that we have ever had and there is no doubt that a new interest along football lines has evolved in the last two years. I hope that in 1951 we can bring the season to a just culmination with the securing of the Yates Trophy. With the men that we have back from this year's team plus some of the outstanding ones who are coming up from the McGill Indians I'm sure that we will have a strong contender for the Cup in 1951. Cont'd page 27. 26

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McGill 22 - - - - Western 6 The 1950 Football season opened at Molson Stadium in blaze of glory on that afternoon of Oct. 7 before a crowd c 21,000 fans. lt was the age old rivalry between the Wester Mustangs and the McGill Bedmenethe same yearly battle c wits and strategy between Vic Obeck spoiling for revenge an lohnny Metras designing to forestall him. At the end of the 4th quarter the score board read McGi 22 Western 6. The Redmen in the main showed a hard charging line and fast back field, evidences of good conditioning. The Mustang were shaky and somewhat unsure of themselves. They fumble eight times, recovered only three, a fact which weighed heavil against them. The Redmen gained three hundred yards on th ground, eighty-one yards in the air, and completed six out c twelve passes. The Mustangs gained only two hundred a three ground yards and sixty-four air yards, tried seventegl passes only four of which were completed. Twenty three firt downs were rolled in by the Bedmen against Mustangs three. A rouge for a single point to McGill was all that came out c a fairly even first quarter. Towards the middle of the secon the Bedmen scored their first major through Irving in a driv from the forty-eight, propelled by fleet-footed Pete Robinso Wilmot converted. The Mustangs scored their first T.D. ear in the second half. In a drive from the fifty Bob McFarlane scor on a double reverse and converted himself. In a march start on the 37 McGill scored a second T.D. through Gene Robillag Wilmot converting. A kick by Tomlinson followed by a fie goal-attempt added two more points. A rouge and a T.D. Wagner ended a highly successful afternoon for the Redmen. 28 F sf