Port Byron High School - Echo Yearbook (Port Byron, IL)

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Red a 50-yard punt which was promptly returned 6O yards uncor for a touchdown by Fischer of Hillsdale. Wake, of Hillsdale missed the drop kick. Score: Hillsdale 6, Port Byron O. Port yron received and was stopped again. Hillsdale came back gain with a 55-yard run by Wake for another touchdown. Wake drop Kicu was blocked by Johnson of Fort Byron. Score: Hills ale 12, Port Byron O. Port Byron received again and af- ter a exchange of the ball, Johnson received a pass from Warre and galloped 35 yards for our first score. Warren S drop ich was good. Scores Hillsdale 12, Port Byron 8. Hills- dale' Fischer again tcom off for a 45-yard dash to end the half t 18-5. The second half was somewhat difierent.' A long run by Atkin- son a d a plunge by Johnson gave Port Byron 6 more points. Warre.'s Kick was blacked. Score: Hillsdale 18, Sort Byron 14 Long, uns by Warren set Port Byron up for a plunge by Tohnson and a lateral tc Atkinson who carried it over for another six poinls. Uarrens kick was good. Score: Hillsdale l8, Port Byro 22. In the lest quarter Warren tore loose for what turnk out to be the winning 75-yard touchdown run, for it gave sort Byron a lead of 12 points. Hillsdale's Fischer came back 'ith a 55-yard sprint to close the gap to 4 points. The game ended with the ball in Port Byron's possession. Final scor : Port Byron 28, Hillsdale 24. Touchdowns for Port Byron by J hnson 2, Warren, and Atkinsong points after touchdowns by Warr n 4. Port Byron substitutes for this game were Wuehle, Bull, To t the 3 ningl S985 scor Prop 25, Cong Devi fere seas thin his ents Earhart, and Whitesides. all 1946 Conference games and the further distinction of win-' also, all non-conference football games played during the n. Competitors were Hillsdale, Prophetstown, and Annawan, in the game Hillsdale on October 4--was 44 to 275 with etstown on October ll, 26 to Og with Annawan on October l to 12. e distinction of winning ootball Trophy was added atulations to Coach Hoff and his scrappy undefeated Red s who hold the Championship for the 1946 Two-Rivers Con- ce football season. Congratulations for a successful n of clean competitive sport in which nthe play's the U yet victory to be desired. Orchids to Coach Hoff and ootball squad---Congratulations from the Staff, the stud- principal and faculty.

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There night from llHey , back stant The l The 1 there haps with. It is line as we in t THE FELLOW IN THE GRANDSTATD was Hone of those fellowsn at the football game the other T It was the night Beloit High School took a shellacking iacine Rorlick. e iwhat the hell! this fellow would yell when 3 big asain tame tearing through an outweighed Beloit line for a sub- al gain. NThere's that line?u ne was flat on its face and not enjoying the experience ne wasn't flat on its face by choice. It was pushed It was flattened by force and superior weight and per E little more aggressiveness than it expected to meet up E 't much fun being a lineman, esp cially an outweighed n, fen the enemy is on the march, and maybe it's just l the Purple lineman couldn't hear what that fellow high stands was saying. They wouldn't have enjoyed it. This Eellow was a strategist, too. nDon't pass nowu, he'd yell when llN'0mvl woul lous eloit took over. Beloit would pass for a first down. s the time to passn, he'd shout a moment later. Beloit try a poke at the line, not too successfully. nOh, the expurgatesu, he'd scream. nThey can't do nuthin' rightn. NWhere's the interference?N this guy would bellow. The inter- fere smacl inte that But for suff and half foot At t worl Ther cept But foot a tr ce was picking itself up from the places it had been ed down. Youfd think this grandstvnd Cicero believed the ference was getting itself up-ended on wurnose and because is the way to engoy yourself on the gridiron. he loudest Bellows and the choicest epithets were reserved muffed catch by a pass receiver. Ah, the pain that guy red, way up there in the stands. He'd yowl and he'd moan c'd scream and he'd cuss. All because a boy who raced way down the field to take the pass hzd let a wet slipeery all get away from him. at precise moment there wasn't any unhappier boy in the than the kid who had let the ball slip through his hands. was nothing he had wanted more to do than make that re- on good. he fan in the stands-this raucous guy who knows just how all should be played-didn't see it that way.f The kid was mp and a lout and a loafcr. So was the Coach and so was