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

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r TOP; Who is it? Th« opposition, of course, Walt Dromond bites the dust in the Cal Poly game. State lost 45- 1 4. 1

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Inaugurating the season in a fashion that would make any team look destined for high laurels San Francisco State aerialed past Cal Tech 52-0. Maury Duncan, Gator quarter- back, engineered the victory by completing 7 of 1 1 passes for a net gain of 1 78 yards. End George Wehner accepted most of Duncan ' s passes for three of the eight touchdowns. When Duncan wasn ' t passing, Harry Bre- mond was putting on a sparkling display of open field running. Bremond ' s paydirt runs of 50 yards in the second quarter and nine and 22 yards in the fourth quarter helped him gain 125 yards for a 20.1 average and put the final touch on Cal Tech. A 15 -yard pen,ilty against Moffett Field m the last minute of play gave S.F. State a first down on the Flyers ' one-yard line from which Duncan went over on a quarterback sneak to break a 13-1. tie and give the Gators a 2 0-13 victory. Cal Poly, who gained league championship, gave the Gators heir first taste of defeat, 45-14. Behind a staunch forward wall Cal Poly backs gained 592 yards rushing. Al- though Duncan passed for 260 yards his efforts could only be placed together in the first quarter for one touchdown. Three pass interceptions at crucial mo- ments helped Chico State defeat the Gators, 13-0. Duncan was hampered by an alert de- fense and gained only 89 yards passing while backs Walt Gomez, Harry Bremond, and Rudy Smith were held for 6.2, 2.3, and 2.3 averages respectively. Although outgained in passing and rushing Chico ' s alert defense insured their victory. In the first quarter Frank Ferraulblo intercepted Duncan ' s pass on Chico ' s twenty and went 60 yards, from which Hal Higgins passed for the first and only needed touchdown. Duncan ' s passing gave the Gators then- third win of the season over Pepperdine, 13-6. Midway into the first period Duncan flipped a 30-yard pass to Wehner on the ten, George ground the rest of the way for the first score of the game. With both teams playing a de- fensive game the Gators didn ' t score again until the third quarter when Harry Bremond climaxed an 80-yard drive by plunging over from the five-yard line. Substitute halfback Littleton Cook went for three touchdowns and quarterback Maury LITTLETON COOK Back GEORGE WEHNER End TONY FARDELLA End BOB FOOTE Tackle ROY NONELLA Tackle DON SLATES Guard JERRY HARPER Center

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Duncan booted four for four conversions which was just enough to give the Gators a 28-27 victor) over Nevada. It was a nip and tuck battle all the way. After Dick Nave bucked over from the six, Nevada ' s quarter- back, Ed Jesse, passed his team to the one and tied the game on a quarterback sneak. Two minutes later, Rudy Smith took a 14-yard pass from Duncan and lateraled to Cook who went all the way. Nevada had a 20-14 lead going into the fourth quarter but Cook ' s runs of 24 and six yards and Duncan ' s toe were enough to edge the Wolfpack. Fresno State outclassed the Gators, 41-27. George Fisch and Winston Beasley led the Bulldogs ' running attack. Leading 20-14 at the half Fresno State put the topper on in the third quarter with runs of 47 and 69 yards by Beasley and Fisch. Harry Bremond scored the Gators ' first two touchdowns in the sec- ond quarter via a two-yard plunge and then gathered in a S2-yard pass from Duncan for the other. Rudy Smith had some fun for him- self in the fourth quarter with runs of I 3 and 65 yards for the other two touchdowns. S.F. State climaxed the season with a 26-13 celebration of homecoming at the expense of Santa Barbara. The situation was never in doubt as the Gators grabbed a fast 13-0 lead and were never seriously threatened there- after. Harry Bremond started things off early by returning the kickofF 89 yards for a touch- down. Duncan passed 21 yards to George Wehner for the second touchdown before Santa Barbara got on the scoring column. Wehner scored the final two touchdowns on an 11 -yard end around and a pass from Duncan. Maury Duncan and George Wehner copped All-Coast honors for the season. DICK HODGE End JIM BUNGER End RICK KRAFT Quarterback SAM HIONA Quarterback JESS JONES Guard RUDY SMITH Back JIM McELROY Fullback HARRY BREMOND Back LARRY CONOVER Center MIKE SAUNDERS End BILL RUDOMETKIN 18