Stockton College - El Recuerdo Yearbook (Stockton, CA)

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Pacific 34 . . . Cincinnati 7 Wal+ Polenslce Game CapTain and Player of The Week ' r J l ,f .N ln Ni D o n B r o w n 1. OuTsTanding Tiger Halfbaclr Blas+ed The BearcaTs One oT The besT games wiTnessed in BaxTer STadium lasT year was The beginning oT a new inTersecTional rivalry beTween The College of The PaciTic and The UniversiTy oT CincinnaTi which showed The Tigers blasTing Their way Through a well coached, hard TighTing BearcaT eleven, 34 To 7. The BearcaTs simply couldn'T maTch The power puT up by The SToclcTon uniT and aTTer iusT Three minuTes had passed, LeTT l-laliback Don Brown sprinTed over Tor The TirsT oT Tive Pacific Touchdowns. A beauTiTul caTch by John Rohde oT a pass Trom Eddie LeBaron which wenT Tor 34 yards To seT up The score. Brown also wenT over Tor number Two and Then Rohde snared anoTher LeBaron Toss in The end zone To puT The Tigers ahead 2l To O aT The half. Fullback Don l-lardey scored number Tour Trom eighT yards ouT and Then LeTT l-lalTback Don McCormick Tallied The lasT one on a brillianT caTch oT a LeBaron Toss behind all oT The CincinnaTi secondary. CenTer Sid Hall, Tackle Bob Klein, and End John Rohde all played ouTsTanding games in addiTion To l-lalfback WalT Polenske who was named The Player of The Week via his greaT oTTensive and defensive performance. MoJo McFarland banged Through Tour more conversions during The encounTer. WalT Polenslze l4-bl and Robin Rush l58l puT The pinch on a BearcaT de- NoT so TasT. Tella, says Big John Poulos To This CincinnaTi back as he is Tensive bacl: as Don Hardey l63l rips around his own righT end Tor eighT nailed To The ground,on a' play ThaT losT Two yards. Don Halrdey 63 yards and a PaciTic Touchdown. righT on The play while Dick Breien l7Il is coming up To aid.

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Pacific 47 . . . Nevada 6 K e n J o h n s o n GameCapTain ,',.x . Q- Eddie LeBaron Player of The Weel: Walloped The Wolf Pack Probably The greaTesT oTTensive and deTensive show TogeTher came againsT a bewildered UniversiTy of Nevada eleven who leTT The TurT on The shorT end OT a 47 To 6 counT. Marlcedly high Tor This +iI+, The Tigers rolled up Their TourTh sTraighT win oi The T949 season againsT a highly-TouTed Reno aggregaTion which couldn'T seem To caTch up wiTh The Pacific Team. ATTer being held scoreless Tor The TirsT period lThe only Time oT The season This happenedl, Coach Larry Siemer- ing's charges broke loose Tor Tour Tallies in The second sTanza in a ripping, charging, and blasTing Tlurry oT offense. l-lalTback Jim Price wenT over from eleven yards ouT early in The second quarTer aTTer a passing show by Eddie LeBaron had seT up The score. ThaT sTarTed The fireworks. WaIT Polenske inTercepTed an Eddie Jessie Toss and ram- bled 47 yards in a beauTiTul exhibiTion of broken Tield running To score number Two. Then The amazing Mr. Macon wenT Tor 6I yards around end behind Ken Johnson's vicious block Tor The Third Tally. Number Tour was really -a whopper. WiTh TourTh and Twelve To go aT midfield, LeBaron Talced a punT and passed ouT To John Rohde in The TlaT who looked like a halfbaclc hipper-dippering iT Tor paydirT. Bob Moser and Bob Franceschini paved The wa wiTh Two slashing blocks. Bruce Orvis was nexT wiTh a Tour-yarder and Then Jimmy Price hiT paydirT .again on a dazzling 82-yard iaunT. The lasT Touchdown was also a whopper. Player OT The Week l.eBaron inTercepTed anoTh- er Jesse pass and weaved 84 yards Through half oT The WolT Paclc To sew iT up. WhaT happened? says a Nevada pass receiver as ExcellenT Eddie grabs ForgeT iT. Budl Warren Brady, Nevada quarTerbacl:, Tries in vain To geT oTT an Eddie Jesse aerial. Wal? Polenslce lparfially hidden --461 speeds pasT John Rohde lhead hiddenl and Harry Kane l77l and is really up To block Tor l.eBaron on his eighTy-yard reTurn of The inTercepTion. nailed. WalT Polenslce T4-bl comes up from The back To aid.