Saint Joseph Academy - Guardian Yearbook (St Augustine, FL)

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5 Plaster Jax Maranatha, 67-0 Friday September 2k, 1970 ! strength. nalha made its debut in man football last week ik a somewhat less solid ning. 63-0. at the hands Interlachen Rams. ier team was really try- you do when nearly every first posing quarterback carried a ber of penalties which cost the down is a touchdown and the kickoff into his own end zone Jacksonville academy 83 yards opponents move backward fast- and dewned it. er than they move forward. Maranatha- goj two first Out of St. Joe ' s total of 11 downs, 21 yards rushing and 11 fust downs, 9 were for tallies, yards passing on one connection Besides that, the Flashes scored in eight tries. It was pretty well run it up, but what. can three safeties, one when the op- negated by a prodigious num- mostly for delay of game. St. Joe made 426- yards on the ground, a good part of ifr in long TD sprints, completed one pass in one attempt .for 1£ yards and- notched another suc- cessful completion for a two point conversion. Preston did most of the extea point -damage with accurate jayvee Terry Drozd and a l2- ' boots on three occasions and handled the kicking chores in .£ high ..fashion for the Flashes. End Jimmy Young and hall- back Doug GrisEom forced safeties. The Flashes made their six- point tallies on a 17 yard run by Crutchfield; a 45 yard jaunt by Robshaw; runs of ■ 25 and 4? yards by Grissom ; a 34-yard sprint by Robshaw; a 40 yard runback on an interception by yard Paul Thomas to Martin toss. Thomas also made good on ' i pass to Drozd for two extra points on the first TD of the fourth period. Coach Drozd expects a better game from Bunnell when the Flashes meet the Bulldogs here next Friday despite Bunnell opening loss to Umatilla. The meeting is set for 8 p.m. Oct. 2 at St. Augustine High stadium. good part of the Maranatha Academy defense, St. Joseph Academy fuUback Al Crutchfield plunges touchdown in a high scoring evening. The Flashes went on to crush Maranatha after Crutchfield ' s

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St. Joseph Flash By DAVE CONOYER Sports Editor Al Crutchfield and Mike Rob- maw scored in the first quar- er: Sandy Preston and Crutch- ield. again, scored in the sec- nd; Doug Grissom scored twice in the third; Robshaw, Terry Drozd and Archie Martin scor- ed in the fourth. Poor little Maranatha. The St. Joseph Academy Flashes won 67-0 over the hap- less Maranatha crew and it might have been worse than that had coach Ed Drozd fielded THE ST. AUGUSTINE RECORD Weekend Edition. Sept. 19-20, 1970 Page ? Flash Stars Glitter By BILL SANDERS Record Correspondent The night was full of stars over Keystone Heights Friday night, but the biggest star of the evening was a 180 pound defen- sive end by the name of Jimmy Young who pounced on a fumble in the end zone to score the only touchdown of the game as coach Ed Drozd ' s St. Joseph Academy Flashes won their opening game of the season 6-0 over Keystone. STATISTICS St. Joseph Keystone 15 First Downs 8 300 Yards Rushing 61 Yards Passing 15 120 Yards Penalized 40 The Flashes once again prac- ticed their fantastic hex on Key- stone as Drozd ' s valiants won their fourth consecutive game over their rivals. All games between the two teams have been thrillers, but Friday ' s hard-earned victory was probably the toughest opener for mzny years. St. Joe received the opening kickoff and marched 65 yards to the Keystone 1 before a fumble caused the Flashes to turn the ball over. Al Crutchfield had a run of 40 yards and sensational sophomore Steve Hubbard dashed for 25 more on the drive. Neither team could get their offense going in the first quarter and the ball changed hands frequently. As the second quarter opened, Crutchfield, Hubbard, Doug Grissom and Jimmy Colee alter- nated running to take the ball down to the Keystone 5, but a number of penalties forced the Flashes to give up the ball again. With three minutes remaining in the third quarter, the fear- some trio of Bobby Thomas, Marion Williams and Greg Vac- caro tackled quarterback Strick- land and caused him to fumble the ball. That ' s the point where Young fought off three Keystone backs to recover for a Flash TD. Keystone threatened the Flash goal line with 13 second remain- ing in the game, but four plays after taking possession, Strick- land ran a quarterback keeper and was stopped at the one yard line by the bruising tacl Thomas, Norman Her and Williams as the gam ed. Archie Martin, 190 pou fensive end, picked up a stone Jumble late in the qarter and dashed 52 yai a Flash TD that brought th capacity crowd to their feet, bu the effort was called back on i penalty. It ' s hard to imagine that oui offensive backs ran for a tota of 300 yards to only 61 for Key stone and only scored su points, coach Drozd said aftei the game, but any victory ovei Keystone is a great one. The 17 penalties hurt us, bui the defensive team won the game. If we can get both team: together, we will have one whah of a ball team. Crutchfield led St. Joe ' s grount gains with 145 yards in 23 ear ries, followed by Hubbard witl 92 yards in six carries and Gris som with 59 yards in 11 carries Outstanding defensive per formers were Sandy Preston Carl Thomas, Bohby Thomas Jimmy Colee, Bill Creech, Ar chie Martin and Ricky Hall. TD PLUNGE-After sidestepping a for the goal line for the Flashes first 17 yard scoring run, 67-0.

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Flashes Top Dragons, 32-6 By DAVE CONOVER Sports Editor St. Joseph Academy coach Ed Drozd used to worry about long runs. Not anymore though. The Flashes used three of them Saturday to achieve a 32-6 victory over the Florida School for the Deaf Dragons and set even a record which has been faltering this season. The cross-town win in the St. Johns River Conference made St. Joe ' s mark 4-4. FSD has won but one game so far. Despite the Flashes turning the tables and using one of their defensive weaknesses to their of- fensive advantage, Drozd has not dismissed the long run as a weapon against his charges how- ever. Florida Deaf ' s sole TD for the evening was set Up on a 67-yard dash by halfback Robert Fields, fresh back from a long recovery period after an injury in the game against Aalabama Deaf early this season. Fields picked it up from quarterback Andy Lanning on the Flash 24-yard - line and hauled it down to the Dragons ' 27 before being stopped by Carl Thomas. Halfback Danny Watson toted the ball 17 yards for the tally. Watson had also packed an 11 yard per carry rushing average during the first half. No extra points were made on Charles Rachel ' s unsuccess- ful running attempt, but the Dragons had a six-point advant- age which they were able to hold for the remainder of the half. Things took a swift and deci- sive change after intermission however, and the shift in direc- tion still has Dragon coach Ed Gobble as well as several FSD fans scratching their heads. After holding St. Joe ' s high velocity running backs to an tin- pectedly mediocre 95 yards dur- ing the first half while the Dra- gons rushed for 146 yards, the Dragons folded (or the Flashes exploded) during the second half. Whichever it was. it caught fans on both sides of SAHS field unprepared. St. Joe uncorked three scor- ing runs in the 50-yard-plus cate- gory to accumulate a whopping total of 220 net rushing yards during the second half, and forc- ed a fumble deep in Dragon ter- ritory for another TD. The Flashes found they could break through late in the third period and capitalized en the ability from there. After a ho-hum session be- tween the Dragon 25 and Flash 40, St. Joe took over possession on a punt to their own 43. From a second down on the line of scrimmage Doug Grissom broke loose on a 57 yard trip to score St. Joe ' s first TD. Paul Thom- as passed to Jimmy Young for the extra point and the Flashes led 8-6. With startling swiftness on the Flashes ' next possession, new found tailback Sany Preston took the handoff and shot 60 yards into paydirt. Mid-way in the fourth period in a pair of back-to-back defen- sive dazzlers, Rick Hernandez nailed Lanning ten yards in the hole and then pilfered one of the Dragon quarterback ' s pas- ses to give St. Joe ownership on its own 24. Eight plays and ten yards lat- er Preston jitterbugged through the Dragon line from a third down and sped 66 yards into the Dragon diagonals. St. Joe put it on ice just sec- onds after the kickoff. JV Mark Bouseman pounced on a Dragon fumble on the ten setting up a six yard run for Young and a four - yard scor- ing plunge for Robshaw. Besides his successful conver- sion toss to Young on the first Flash tally, shot caller Paul Thomas connected with Gris- som aftr the second and with Steve Hubbard after the fourth. Young ran through the two- pointer on the third TD. Clay Campbell had recover- ed the Flashes ' sole fumble of the game, and Bobby Thomas had covered a Dragon miscue for St. Joe. It will be homecoming for the Dragons Saturday when they play host to South Carolina Deaf at SAHS field. St.. Joe en- tertains Pierson Taylor here Thursday.