Rider University - Shadow Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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N F pun H.:-.-.x . - ' Q' J. Y T .gif ay 1 ,gt f -, l 1- h fy f Q if .rw 7 . f .g T '- . T A A ' - 'M df!! Q . . -N, T - .- 1 4 ' vt hrs- L TTTLW 5' P Qui! iff, Tk The Roughriders opened The season againsT a well co-ordinaTed Bowling Green aggregaTion and were Trounced 47'I4. A poor pass defense anda case oT Tumble- iTis gave Coach Joe BehoT a disasTrous debuT. Scoring Twice Through The air and once on The ground, The Falcons Took a 20-O lead in The TirsT quarTer. The Broncs ToughT back in The second sTanza, held The Greenies, To six poinTs, and Tallied once on a 38-yard pass Trom Allan CosTill To George ArvaniTis. John STianche place kicked The exTra poinT. l-lowever, in The second halT oT The game, The BehoTmen held The Bee-Gees To a virTual sTandsTill, and Trom ThaT poinT on were an enTirely diTTerenT Team. The Tollowing week proved This when The Broncs bounced back To Trim Adelphi, 25-T3, in Riders iniTial home game under The lighTs aT Dunn Field. A CNG THE WP' Adelphia jumped in The driver's seaT when They scored on sTraighT- power plays aTTer The Broncs Tumbled, To go ahead aT The end oT The TirsT quarTer, 7-O. The Roughriders reTaliaTed when Nich Spadaccihi snared a TlaT pass Trom Bob Maschal and sfreaked down The side lines Tor 40 yards beTore hiTTing pay dirT. STianche split The uprighTs To even The score 7-7. The PanThers hTT back and scored on a neaT 70-yard iaunT To go ahead, I3-7, Tor The second Time aT The end oT The TirsT halT. Then, on successive SaTurdays, The Purple KnighTs OT ST. Michaels were beaTen 39-7, Panzer meT The wraTh oT The Purple and Gold gridders and were soundly Trounced, 53-O, and EasT STroudsburg Tell by The wayside To The Tune oT I9-7.

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BRINGS THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENT TO TEST every confesl a differenf player was lauded for his greaf line or baclcfield play. Three lads responsible for mosl of fhe of- fensive power of The Purple and Gold grid ma- chine were Niclc Spadaccini, John Sfianche, and Jack Millard. Spadaccini carried 60 fimes for an average of 6.9 yards. Slianchc had 72 fries in carrying fhe pigslcin and averaged 6.2 Newly elecled caplnins who will lead The Rough- riders Through The I950 campaign. LEFT TO RIGHT: Dick Bubien, Coach Joe Behol and Allan Coslill. yards, and Millard ran The ball 46 limes and challced up a I0.I average for eighl games. These lads gained l,365 yards on The ground, more Than half of lhe Roughrider lolal of 2,228 yards. They scored l55 poinls belween fhem. Slfanche headed The scoring punch wilh six Iouchdowns, 20 exlra poinls, and one field goal for a 'rofal of 59 poinls. Spadaccini and Millard were fied for second honors wilh eighl fouch- downs. Two field generals fhal made The Behof af- faclc Click were Allan Coslill and Bob Maschal. Coslill, lasf year's M.V,P. award winner, Tossed fhe pigslcin 36 fimes and cornplcfed I7, while Maschal heaved 40 passes and connecfed on I4. These complefions folaled 665 yards. In The defensive deparfmenf, fhe forward wall held Iheir opponenfs To 75 firsf downs and forced fheir opposifion fo fhrow I I7 passes. Thus, in his firsf year as head coach. Joe Behof has done a remarkable job. l-le and his aides are fo be congralulafed for a piece of work well done. If' an gil

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An ouTclassed ST. Michaels College squad, oT Winoski Park, Vermonl' was The Third vicTim oT The BehoTmen. A crowd oT 2,000 waTched The Broncs click Through The air and on The ground Tor a ToTal oT 36I yards. The Purple and Gold moved quickly and scored on a pass Trom CosTill To Bob McLane. WiTh Bob Maschal and CosTill alrernafing aT The quarierloaclq sloT, The Roughriders scored Tour more Times To go ahead aT The halT, 32-0. The Roughriders coasTed in The second halT wiTh The reserves playing mosT OT The Time. Jack Millard, speed me-rchanT, scored on a neaT 24- yard scamper Tor The Tinal Tally. The' Roughriders coniinued Their winning ways when They Trounced Panzer, 5350, To break The TwenTy4year-old record esTablishod by Clair Bee's Tearn. Playing beTore 2,500 enThusisTic Tans, The Broncs don'1inaTed Throughoul a sTruggle which was no conTesT Trom The oufselr. The PanThers were compleTely sTynnied in Their ground aTTacl4, being limiTed To Sl yards rushing. EighT Rider gridders scored TD's in This game. Rider's oTTensive plaloon wasled liI'Tle Time in scoring as They drove 95 yards wilhin The TirsT Three minuTes of play To gain a 6-0 lead. CosTill, Siianche, and Bill Wairlce scored N E CHARGED A W -if-f WON ,yu A . .Q , ., W' f - 'N-wily I 1, hp if A 2 1 L I 'TT T, T S ..,, an vi ffgx