Rider University - Shadow Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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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

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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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BUT AS WE WO , WE LEAR ED Iouchdowns in ihe Iirsl guarler onslaughi. In Ihe second slanza, John Kusma and Frank Siall- ings scored on passes from Coslill, and The Broncs led 33-O al lhe half. Play in Ihe second hall closely resembled Thai of The previous half wiih McLane, Millard and Joe Reilly scoring on sensalional plays. Once' again, The Beholmen rolled, bowling over a sirong Easi Slroudsburg eleven I9-7 posif ing Their Iourih conseculive win. The previously once-beaien Warriors were no malch for The Broncs after The opening whislle. Behind The cheer oi loyal fans, Coach Beho'l's boys siaried off wilh a bang when Babe Chiemingo scored on a pass play from Cosiill. Slianche rhen carried The ball over on a neaily execuled pilchoul and scooled lor 'Ihe second ially. A slow, muddy field hampered Ihe Rider grid machine as Ihey headed for 'iheir final score laie in The Iorih guarler wiih Slianche noiching his second Iouchdown of The day. The peak of The season was reached on November 5, when The Broncs mel ihe high Ily- ing, undeiealed Colonels ol Wilkes College. The Roughriders played Iheir besi brand of Tool- ball Thai nighl, avenging lasl' year's upsel by LOWER LEFT: John Slianche eluding enemy 'faclrler on one of his long gains. LEFT: Jack Millard, offensive ace geiiing sei fo bring down Willres College back. I JI Behoimen mapping sfraiegy for Bowling Green Irip. FIRST ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Bob Curran- FIigh+ Engineers. 'BACK ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Joe Behoi, Walf Carfer, Allan Cosfill, and Tuffy Fraulino. LOWER RIGHT: Official calling a clipping penalfy againsi' a Bronc lineman 'fo wash ouf SIiancI'1e's long gain. RIGHT: Plenfy of acfion in The Willres College game ai Wilkes- .' n 1:--' ' ' '---1 .