Stockton College - El Recuerdo Yearbook (Stockton, CA)

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ST. MARY'S . . . 0 PACIFIC ..... 0 Old grads wandered loaclc To Bax- Ter STadium To see an inspired Tiger Team rise To The peak, play a big, Tough ST. IvIary's eleven To a s+ands+iII Tor Three periods, Then aImosT win in The Tinal sTanza. The enTire PaciTic line performed nololy in TighTing The Gaels To a scoreless deadlock. MarTinovich's line- backing was again The Ice-ysTone oT The rugged deTense. ST. IVIary's never goT closer Than The I I, while in The TourTh period The Bengals marched To The Ivloragans' Tour-yard line, mainly Through The passing oT AI George and Ben Alexander. There Tour line aTTempTs Tailed and Tinal score read: PaciTic O, ST. IvIary's O. Greenblali' Avery Cooper KienTz snags one in The TlaT againsT The Gaels. ci I90I

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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

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Soper sTops ThaT ST. Mary's and-around. r CAL. RAMBLERS . . 7 PACIFIC . . . 4 C. O. P.'s lasT home game proved To be a nighTmare. The CaliTornia Ramblers, composed oT Bear second sTringers and ineligibles, came To Town and wenT To Town wiTh The lisTless Bengals, who seemed To be suTTering a leT-down aTTer The ST. Mary's pinnacle. BeTore The specTaTors had seTTled in Their seaTs, The Ramblers had seven poinTs by virTue oT a 55-yard gravy sprinT by Eddie l-lopkins plus a conversion. ThaT was all The invaders needed, Tor despiTe TranTic second-halT aTTempTs To equalize The counT, which neTTed only Two saTeTies, The Tigers never really goT back in The game. lT was disTincTly an oTT-nighT Tor The Orange and Black men. AcTing CapTain Doug Silva was The lone sTandouT in The sagging Tiger line, while Al Soper's kicking and Alexander's plunging and Tackling were consolaTion TacTors Tor The backTield. PaciTic's besT ball-ToTing was done by Bob KienTz and Emrys Lloyd, The laTTer making his debuT as a halTback. The pair oT saTeTies, C. O. P.'s only conTribuTion To The scoring column, came in The Tinal quarTer: The TirsT on a Tumble ThaT hopped ouT oT The end-zoneg The sec- ond on a direcT giTT Trom l-lopkins. who inTenTionally ran ouT oT The playing Tield To prevenT a possible blocked kick. AT The end, The STaggmen were raging, buT impoTenT. Final weird Tally: Ramblers 7, Pacific 4. Trembley Lloyd BenTley T911