San Francisco State University - Franciscan Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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FirsT row: Lionel Marcus, Roy Burns, Jack Mervin, John Tash, Henry McMillan. Second row: Jack Freeman, AI Jayvee WiTh only Tour men showing up Tor pracTice aT The beginning of The season, The Jayvee TooT- ballers goT oTF To a poor sTarT wiTh The same iinx hovering over The squad ThroughouT The whole Term. ln The season's opener, Coach Freeman's grid- ders meT some oi The ToughesT opposiTion in The area when They wenT up againsT The Commerce High reserves. ThwarTed in The TirsT halT when The whisTle blew as The GaTers prepared To drive over Trom The Tive-yard line, The game ended in a scoreless Tie. FEW RESERVES WiTh only Tour spare men on The bench, The baby GaTers were Trimmed by Lincoln High. ln spiTe oT The brillianT playing oT CapTain Harry Cox, The STaTers were swepT oTi The Tog-covered Tield To The Tune of 7-O. Coming back despiTe iniuries, The Tide Team ran up againsT an immovable wall in The guise oT Sacred HearT. Early in The game, The loss oT Dave Maybe, Bogo Keller, Bob Policlori, Jim Hoxie, SccTT. Third row: VicTor Rossi, .lack Flemmer, Bob Nelson, Harry Cox, Dave Hendry. Football 'k22 Hendry who dropped ouT wiTh a sprained arm, ruined any chances The Team mighT have had. Weakness of The Jayvee's passing deiense was exploiTed by The CaTholic boys and in a series OT sizzling aerial aTTacks They piled up The poinTs by which They won, I2-O. STill TighTing Tor Their TirsT vicTory The up-and- coming junior varsiTy squad was beaTen by The Mission High Bears in whaT amounTed To a moral vicTory Tor The GaTer eleven. UNCROSSABLE GOAL The STaTe passes clicked Time aTTer Time buT each Time The crucial momenT arrived The lads Tailed To cross The whiTe line and in The Tinal Tally losT by The score oT 6-O. Winding up The season was a closely-ToughT Thriller againsT The year's Triple-A champs Trom PolyTechnic. IT was STaTe, STaTe, STaTe all The way buT The TaTal iinx was sTill on The C5aTers and no maTTer how close They goT To The goal, iT was uncrossable Tor The Jayvees who wound up in The hole, 6-O.

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:1 The Gridiron Varsity Football Winding up a hoT-and-cold season, Coach Dick BoyIe's gridders Tinished wiTh a ToTaI OT Two wins. one Tie, and Tour deTeaTs ouT oT seven hard-ToughT sTarTs. In The season's opener, The GaTers IosT a phoTo- Tinish baTTle To San Francisco Junior College by a score oT 7-6. In This, The annual grudge game oT The season, The nimble Turk Terzian oT Jaycee Topped Dick Chin's scoring pass To Lorbeer To give The Rams The winning poinT. In The second encounTer oT The schedule, The Golden Tide ebbed againsT The I-IumboIdT Lum- beriacks. ATTer holding The norTherners Through The TirsT haIT, STaTe made iTs lone score oT Two poinTs when Ray Lang smoThered a I-IumboIdT Tumble in The end zone. AIThough The rule book gives six poinTs Tor This play, The decision oT The oTFiciaIs was The lonely dueT of scoring digiTs. In The lasT haIT, The boys Trom ArcaTa clicked and wiTh a Tlashy aerial aTTack, wound up The game, I4-2. SOLDIERS HELD SCORELESS Climaxed by a lasT-minuTe Try Tor a Tield goal, The S. F. STaTe gridders could do no beTTer Than a scoreless Tie wiTh a powerTuI buT unorganized IvIaTher Field eleven in The nexT epic baTTle oT The season. PeTe Mirande and Jack Gilkey proved To be The mainsTays in averTing a ivIaTher landslide. 4 I STaTe's I94I gridiron heroes: Top row: Cali, STeinbach, HaIsTead, and Hanson. Second row: Muller, Lorbeer, Miranda, V. Gomes, Keller, Hourcade, K. Gomes, and Shinn. Third row: Head Coach Dick Boyle, Doer, Horner, Hinze, STine, Leydecker, Perry, Bonner, Lang, and AssisTanT Coach Ray Kaufman. FourTh row: Line Coach Bill STein, Magaran, Larin, Chin, Gray, Forbes, Gilkey, and Pivnick. Individuals show Hinze, Lang, Chin, Mirande, Gray, K. Gomes, Lorbeer, and Doer. CenTer: Coaches Boyle and Kaufman meef. Below: The band gives supporT and bench waiTs 'for acfion during Chico game. 'k2I OuTweighed Trom The very sTarT, The Ticle wenT down To a baTTIing deTeaT aT The hands oT San IvIaTeo J. C. in The middle OT The season. Even The sTarring play oT George Lorbeer could noT sTop The sTrong Bulldog squad who managed To pile up 26 poinTs To a STaTe goose-egg before The Tinal gun sounded. Sparked by The dynamic play oT Bill I-Iorner and PeTe Perry, The squad snapped ouT oT iTs season- Iong slump To hand La Verne College a I3 To 7 shellacking on The IaTTer's home Tield. CapiTaIizing on a blocked punT in The TirsT quar- Ter, STeinbach and Dorr broughT The ball down To The seven-yard line Trom which poinT Dorr carried iT over. In The second haIT The Leopards came inTo The lead Tor a shorT Time, buT a scoring line buck by Bill Horner broughT The Tinal score To I3-7 in Tavor oT The Purple and Gold. CAL POLY TRIUMPHS Driving ThroughouT The whole game and obvi- ously The superior Team, San Francisco STaTe's squad was neverTheIess beaTen by Cal Poly To The Tune oT I4 To O. From The sTarT The GaTers seemed conTused by Cal Poly's Tricky T-TormaTion and all Too soon had six againsT Them on The scoreboard. Coming back sTrong, The GaTer's employed The shorT punT sys- Tem and Time and Time again advanced The IengTh oT The Tield only To Tail aT The crucial momenT. In The lasT game oT The season STaTe rallied To wind up The card in a bursT oT glory by downing The WiIdcaTs oT Chico STaTe in a specTacuIar I2 To 7 win Tor The GaTers. The Chico boys came back in The Third quarTer wiTh 7 poinTs buT in The lasT Ten minuTes OT play Lorbeer recovered a Chico punT blocked by Ivlirande and Tore over The whiTe line To end The game in The GaTers' Tavor.

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Purveyors of Pep Headed by Ivor Calloway, STaTe had some OT iTs besT rallies in hisTory during The pasT year. Calloway sTarTed The year as yell leader, buT was promoTed To rally commissioner when Norman Crain was inducTed inTo The armed service. Calloway was assisTed during The Tall by Gordon Mailloux and AI Maybe, buT neiTher managed To reTurn Tor The spring. leaving all rallies To Ivor. OuTsTanding were The ouTdoor TunTesTs in The Rally Bowl, honoring STaTe's aThleTes, clubs, and classes. MonumenT To The success of The year's rally schedule was The aTTendance which averaged over 200, and oTTen exceeded 400 aT cerTain evenTs. Chief conTribuTors included George Ruge, BeTTie Williams, The Chicken SisTers, and The Music DeparTmenT. In addiTion To The usual sTring oT rallies, noon- day dances, and pep builders, The yell-leaders goT TogeTher and haTched ouT a new idea which will probably become an annual evenT. This was The TirsT annual paiamerino. Con- cocTed as a sTunT, The idea spread unTil iT became schoolwide wiTh a greaT maioriTy oT The acTive sTudenT body showing up in pajamas on The day oT The Paiamerino. During The dance in The women's gym, which highlighTed The aTlair, a conTesT was run OTF To decide which male appeared besT in his bedTime aTTire. FinalisTs included yell-leaders Maybe and Mail- loux along wiTh Red Gillcey, Mario Vasquez, Sancho GupTo, Larry Sullivan, Paul ScholTen, and Johnny Tash, while Hal Keller copped TirsT place. Yell Leader Calloway and AssisTanTs Maybe and Mailloux pose .... FinalisTs in Paiamarino line up for popular ac- claim .... Crowd siands, lounges, acclaims. f. T i T X. im. 5, aw' ' i, ,nr- pr'