Sewanee Military Academy - Saber Yearbook (Sewanee, TN)

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Mercke. On defense Tommy Briscoe aT riqhT end helped hold B.G,A. To a sTandsTill wiTh his besT game OT The year, S.M.A. 20: Memphis UniversiTy 0 ATTer suTTering an eiqhT poinT deTeaT by Memphis lasT year, The Tiqers avenged This deTeaT by deTeaTing and being The TirsT Team To score over Memphis in Two years, The TirsT score came in The TirsT qLiarTer when Bob Mercke romped 55 yards Tor a TD. Moravek made The conversion To give S.M.!'X. 7 poinTs. The second and Third quarTers wenT scoreless buT noT unevenTTul as Louis Walker kicked Three punTs ThaT landed wiThin 5 yards of The Memphis goal line. The TourTh quarTer showed The lasTing drive oT The cadeTs, Jackie Munal inTer- cepTed a Memphis pass on The Memphis 42. and Louis Walker ran Tor a 36 yard TD. on The nexT play, ATTer S.M.A. kicked oTT, Memphis, in lasT desperaTion, sTarTed passing. Again Louis Walker showed his skill by inTercepTing one oT Their passes deep in Memphis TerriTory and ran all The way To puT S.M.A. ahead by I9 poinTs. Moravek kicked The conversion To end The game aT 20 To O. The ouTsTandinq players were Walker, Mercke, Sneed, and Coe, in The backheld, and HiTT, Johnson, and MaTheny on The line. S.M.A. I4: McMinnville 2I The Tigers firsT oT only Two deTeaTs came Trom The Mc- Minnville CiTy Rebels, who edged ahead in second half drives To end The game wiTh a very slim 2I To I4 vicTory. The cadeTs who held a I4-O lead aT The halT Tried, buT could noT hold back The Rebels in The second halT. S.M.A. walked away wiTh The firsT halT, Louis Walker passed To Moravek on The Rebel 40 yard line on The second play oT The game. On The nexT play Walker sprinTed around The Tiqer riqhT end, l Walker around end Top, LeTT To RighT: Walker, Wynne BoTTom, LefT To Right Munal, Bull

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2 . A, sy if if mix 'rw slam 4 as Top, Leff fo Rigluf: Briscoe, Hiff Boffom, Leff fo Rigluf: Meflueny, Miller Make fluaf poinfl lualf came wluen Bancroff received a 35 yard pass from Joe Bruce, Tlue second lualf sfarfed off like flue firsf. Tlue cadefs fook flue kickoff and drove 65 yards fo luave Roberf lvlercke rip off fackle from flue l5 for flue fiffln score for flue Tigers. Baxfer's one score came in flue fliird quarfer on a fiffy yard screen pass. Oufsfandinq defensive players for flue Tigers were: Harrold Maflueny, Henry Jolunsoru, Pefer Hiff, and Bil' Wynne, Backing fluern up were Long, Sneed, and Monal, Oufsfanding backs were Louis Walker, Joe Bruce, Mikey Long, Bob lvlercke, and Kevin lvloravek. S.M.A. I8g B.G.A. I4 Cne of flue besf games of flue season was flue one wiflu BGA. af flueir Homecoming ending wiflu an SMA. vicfory of l8-I4. BGA. opened wiflu a score in flue second quarfer affer a long drive downfield. Tlue cadefs fock flue B.G.A. kickoff and drove 70 yards fo flne BGA. one wluere Bob Mercke scored wiflu only one minufe leff in flue lualf, Tfue lualf ended wiflu flue score BGA. 7AS.lv1,A. 6. Lafe in flue fluird period S.M.A. made ifs second and fluird foucludowns. Roberf lvlercke scored from flue B.G.A. l5 for one and Louis Walker followed wiflu a fwenfy yard sprinf for flue second. B.G.A. made one more TD. in flue lasf oguarfer on a pass, buf flue qarne ended wiflu flue score S.M.A. lB-B.6.fN. l4. Onfslandinq players for S.M.A. were Harrold Maflueny, Harry Jolunson, and Bill Ball, wluou played a fine game as cenler, Tlue backfield was led by Louis Walker and Roberf

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Upper, LeTT To RighT: Johnson, H., Sneed BoTTom, LefT To RighT: Bancro'FT, Bruce Mercke Ploughs Through STicking dose Tc The s'de'ne 'c crcss Ter The TirsT TD. Mcrayek bccTed The exTra-poir'T. In Tne seczvrd gearTer Mikey Long inTercepTed a pass deep in RebeT Terrirory To seT up ocr second TD. Morayek shiTed TeTT end Tor T5 yards and a score. Louis WaTTcer passed To BancroTT Ter The exTra peinT, Ddring The second haTT The Tigers were n:gT able To geT QTT Their TeeT, The RebeTs scored Two T.D.'s in The Third guarTer and one in The TourTh To win 2-I4. The ouTsTanding pTayers for S.M.A. were WaTTcei' BancroTT, Leng and Mcrayek. S.M.A. 4Ig Riverside 7 S.M.A., aTTer being deTeaTed by Riverside Tor Tlye con- secuTiye years, and wanTing To reTease Their Tury on somebody Tor losing To McMinnyiTTe The previous game, pTayed an exCeTTenT baT game againsT Rfyerside. On The second play OT The game WaTker Tossed a 40 yd, pass To Morayek who ran across Tor The TirsT TD. Riverside carne back and scored To Tie iT up aT 7-7. S.M.!fN. Took over in The second g,iarTer and Wa'Tcer scored on runs oT I2 and I5 yards respecTiyeTy. Morayek conTinued To b0oT over The exTra poinTs. The haIT ended aT 2I-7. The Tigers during The Third quarTer marched down The TieTd1o SCOFE WaTTcer going oyer Trorn The six. The TasT Two T,D.'s were made in The TasT qsarTer. The TirsT was seT up by a pass To BancroTT, who was sTopped aT The 5, buT Mercke biicked over Tor The TD. The IasT TD. was seT up by a rcn by TaiTbacTc, BiTT BuxTon, and again iT was MercTe who made The score, The garne ended in a wahoping vicTory boTh r'noraT wise and score wise aT4-T-7. OuTsTanding pTayers in This garne were: T-Tenry Johnson, Bob Mercke, RL.sTy BancroTT MaTQoTrn Owen, PeTer T-TiTT, BiTT