Stockton College - El Recuerdo Yearbook (Stockton, CA)

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CALIFORNIA . . 20 PACIFIC ..... 0 On Ihe basis of early-season show- ings, Bay area spor+s scriveners Iagged Jrhe Bengals a junior college squad. 'I'haI was before Ihe dog-IighI aI BerI4eIey. Showing Iine sp-iri+ and dejrerminalrion, The Sraggmen held CaI's gorgeous Golden Bears, Rose Bowl champs, Io a respecrable 20-O coun'r. Courageous Iine-play wiih FuIIbacIc Mike Marlrinovich as spearhead of Jrhe defense, forced I3oI+ari, Meek, Chapman, eI aI, Io pui' ouI exlrra sIe-am. Swagerlry and O'I-Iare were sIandouI forwards. AI Soper rnaIched ing Ihe B'ars aI bay. Hedges McWilliams BonnifieId I I TuIIoch and Grubbs reach, bui Chapman maices II good. Ihe redoub'rabIe Sam Chapman booI for boor, a big Iacror in hoId- 88

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4,11-flffycii' jf .1.,7J'i I- 65-.. . ,,.f. was l in I if .. ,', . .5 V ,, M .. ' r - I.. . ig.. . , ' v. --' . gf . '.q.wy w y ' I , ' fl ' D Ii- . ' Q -' 1: -A 'ff -2 ' -1 W Soper and Koehler close in a pack of Bears. CHICO STATE . . I 0 PACIFIC ..... 7 In anoTher BaxTer STadium mazda-IiT nocTurne, The Bengals walTzed Through a weak Chico eleven To a mild I3-O vicTory. RepresenTing The Tigers' TirsT win oT The season, iT did noT represenT Their besT perTormance. The up-sTaTe WildcaTs Turned ouT To be very Tame upsTarTs, buT PaciTic showed lack oT drive, was, unTiI The Third quarTer, incapable of cashing in on evidenT superioriTy in all phases oT play. Al George was The big noise in The noT-Too vicious Bengal snarl. scoring The TirsT six-poinTer on a swing around end Trom Twelve paces ouT and passing To AI Soper in The TourTh Trame Tor The oTher Touchdown. The odd poinT came Trom lviar- Tinovich's Toe. Doug Silva was The keyman oT The Tiger Torward wall which over- powered The Chico line in The second halT aTTer The scoreless TirsT-halT TighT. Avery and I-ledges Turned in good iobs aT Tackle and end, respecTively, while George's alTer- naTes aT rearback, Bob KienTz and Kip Bralye, had liTTle diTTiculTy in p-uncTuring The CaTs' line Tor ample yardage. QuarTerback Joe Siegicried and MarTinovich appeared To oTTensive advanTage, averaging beTTer Than Tour yards per crack. Al Soper's work aT wingback leTT liTTle To be desired, boTh on oTTense and oleTense, where his hard Tackling sTood ouT. IT was The Bengals' nighT To howl Ihowever TainTlyl because Chico had liTTle else Than TighT. B. Parsons Silva Campbell I 87 I I If-A I 1 x

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AI George Beared-down on aT Berkeley, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA . 3 PACIFIC ...... 7 PaciTic challced up Far WesTern conTerence vicTory No. 2 in an alTiTudinous Thriller aT Reno, when The ersTwhile Blue Bombers oT Nevada were knocked OTT by a TourTh- quarTer Bengal march oT 65 yards To sTriped TerriTory and vicTory. Joe SiegTried buclced iT over Trom The Two-yard line Tor The Touchdown, IvlarTinovich converTed and seeming deTeaT was Turned inTo a 7-3 PaciTic Triumph. Nevada's score came aTTer a 94-yard run-baclc oT The second-halT lciclcoTT, only AI I-ledges' magniTicenT diving Tackle averTing a Touchdown. The lanlcy end's TeaT was one oT The season's highlighTs. ATTer The Bengaline sTopped The Wolves cold, EaTon place-kicked a Tield-goal To send The RenovaTers inTo The lead. DespiTe having To come Trom behind, The Bengals consisTenTly ouTmaneuvered The WolT-pack, compiling more Than 200 yards Trom scrimmage and driving deep inTo Nevada TerriTory a halT dozen Times. FeaTuring The game-clinching aTTacl4 ThaT moved 65 yards in Twelve plays were George, SiegTried and MarTinovich. OTher nice ball-packing was done by KienTz and BonniTield. Up TronT, where The baTTle raged hoTTesT, I-ledges. Silva, O'l-Tare, Tulloch and McWilliams were Top-noTchers. The laT- Ter was parTicularly alerT on pass deTense, once almosT geTTing away wiTh an inTercep-- Tion. Thus did The Tigers spoil Nevada's Homecoming. Kei Swagleljy ' Tulloch wi