Stockton College - El Recuerdo Yearbook (Stockton, CA)

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ohn Rohde Ken Johnson Pacific 45 . . . San Jose State 7 QQ- 'a M-sf ,'w-- T X5 N, 7 yi T . . C K, A Lf P' ' H A l A , Qi: I ' Y fd' ' 1 f sl- Q ...qi - V S, Qi Game Capfain Player of The Week P h f I 0 r f e Z Player of The Week Speared The SparTans And They didl The Sorcerer's ApprenTice, pinT-sized Eddie LeBaron, spun his way Through The San Jose STaTe de- fense To lead The TiTanic Tigers To Their overwhelming 45 To 7 vicTory over The SparTans. LeBaron's Triclcery, added To The Tremendous spiriT of The cornpleTe Tiger uniT, broughT The worsT deTeaT To San Jose in The Two schools' arch rivalry. There was noThing 'slow abouT This win, eiTher, as LeBaron s un, handed The ball OTT To l-lalfbaclc Don l-lardey who wenT 49 yards To score on The Tigers' TirsT offensive play. The crowd gasped, buT There was more To come. Eddie Macon, TleeT l-lalfbaclc, scored The second Touchdown Trom Tour yards ouT aTTer rambling 53 yards around The end To seT iT up. Don Brown Taked his way over Tor The nexT score as he sTucl4 ouT a hip and drew iT back leaving Two SparTan defenders TlaT on Their Taces as he scrambled over Trom I8 yards ouT. WalT Polenslce coun- Tered nexT on a pass from LeBaron in The end zone. Passes To Polenske and Phil OrTdz seT iT up. Brown goT anoTher one on a slcirT around righT end Trom Ten yards ouT. BoTh San Jose players in The Tiger Told, End John Rohde and Guard Kenny Johnson goT Their TirsT Touchdowns againsT Their home Town Teams. Johnson's came TirsT when PeTe GambeTTa blocked Gene Menges' pass inTo his arms on The SparTan 30 where he legged iT over. Rohde saved his score 'Til The end. LeBaron Tossed a 47-yard aerial inTo his waiTing arms in The end zone. This was sweeT regenge Tor lasT year's I4 To 7 seTbaclc. All alone To be my own . .- . Donnie Brown skips merrily over from I8 WalT Polenske Talres a LeBaron Toss and goes over sfanding up yards ouT againsT The SparTans as he leTT all oT The defenders bewildered againsT The San Jose eleven To score The TourTh Tiger TD as Phil w1Th his l::eauTiTul Taking. Orfez l70l was also looking for a pass in The end zone -S

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V il Pacific 62 . i. . San Diego State 14 Ernie Bobson l Game CapTain SF:-. X .f ' i'-59.8 Eddie Macon - , Player of The Week Anchored The AzTecs A weakened San Diego STaTe eleven leTT STockTon in sad shape The day aTTer Their 62 To I4 loss To The Bengals who showed Them no mercy. San Diego was a sadly ouTclassed ballclub which never goT sTarTed againsT a TasT-charging Tiger line and an even TasTer Bengal backiield, which romped inTo The end zone nine Times. Walf Polenske broke The ice early in The TirsT quarTer, scoring Trom nine yards ouT aTTer Player of The Week Eddie Macon inTercepTed a pass ThaT seT up The score. Don T-lardey sprinTed around The end Tor 52 yards and anoTher score behind some beauTiTul blocking. A piTch-ouT To Al SmiTh was good Tor The Third Tally as he sped 47 yards inTo The end zone. Don Brown came nexT wiTh a Ten yarder oii The Tackle sloT. Williams broke Through The line and ouTdisTanced The secondary Tor 33 yards and number Tive oT The evening. Game CapTain Ernie Bobson bounced over from The Two and Macon swivel-hipped his way Through pracTically The compleTe San Diego clan on a Tre- mendous 6l-yard punT reTurn ThaT had all eyes gaping. Doug Scovil, capable LeBaron replacemeni, Tossed To Al SmiTh To The Three Trom where Bruce Orvis wenT over unscaThed. Tennessee Williams ripped oTi eighT yards for The final score of The evening, seven in Two games Tor him. Doug and Dick Breien blocked a San Diego punT which wenT ouT of The and zone Tor an auTomaTic Two digiTs. Bill McFarland added six exTra poinTs To compleTe The scoring. Move aside, l'm coming by. ThaT's whaT Eddie Macon, sensaiional Give The ref an assisT. Doug Snarky Smifh is shown on The, receiving Tiger haliback, says To Two San Diego men as he leaves one lying on The end of a Doug Scovil pass Thaf picked up I3 yards againsf San Diego ground and passes The second on The lesT leg of his bl-yard punT reTurn. Sfafe. '

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1 r 4 M 'P , 3' l Pacific 45 . . . Utah 6 gs.. Z T .--ll , -...z .,', 'a 3 ',-is ,' .g , , -f'.',i .- ,Mf,v,- . Oriel Don -l-lardey DON Campora ,me Calalaln Player of ihe Week Pl Y9r of fl-ie W G eek Undid +he Ul'es Universiiy of U+ah's Uies had To come all ihe way +o Lodi io lake iheir worsi rrimming of ihe season, as ihe College of The Pacific Tigers rolled on io 'rheir 'rweliih slraighi viciory and iheir eighlh slraighl Triumph of The I949 season in a walkaway, 45 +o 6. Excellen'r Eddie LeBaron again engineered 'rhe Bengals io a win, lhrowing lwo iouchdown passes, kicking, like Frankie Albert going 28 yds. himself, and playing his usual greai defensive game. Don l-lardey scored firsir from ihe one, afrer he had rambled I8 yards io sei if up. LeBaron rhen passed diagonally io End John Rohde who made a sensarional caich in ihe end zone. LeBaron lhen hir l-laliback Jim Price on rhe goal line for anoiher Tiger ially. Eddie Macon opened ihe second half by our-spriniing ihe whole Uie aggregaiion for 36 yards and score number four. Bruce Orvis again broke info ihe scoring column by finding a hole ihrough The middle for I I yards and pa dirl afier a LeBaron 'io Al Smiih pass had sei il up. Paul Williams gol lhe nexl' ially from 44 yards oul as he sliced oil-'rackle and cur back behind beauriful blocking. Fullback Don Lipeh' scored ihe lasi TD on a plunge from lwo yards oui. The Tiger linemen were superb in lhis confesi, especially John Rohde, Harry Kane, Sid l-lall, Don Campora, Ken Johnson, Bob Franceschini, Bob Moser, and Duane Puinam. Don Hardey goes for IB yards io sei up The lirsl' Tiger score in The Ufah LeBaron lakes ihe bail for Il yards againsl' ihe Uies E game as Ken Johnson l79l and Phil Orrez l7Ol are well our in 'fronl of celleni' Eddie is piclured romping around his own righi lhe play lo block for fha Fleer back. end as The Tigers demobilized lhe Universiiy of Uiah L1 Y