Stockton College - El Recuerdo Yearbook (Stockton, CA)

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Pacific 75 . . . Hawaii 0 Eddie LeBaron fn and 'fini'- ?' Bill McFarland A if Conversion Experfs .. T A 1, 1 X i , x A,.,....--X . np: f ' i Eddie LeBaron in Game Ca pfain PlasTered The Pineapples The Universify of Hawaii's Rainbows sfuclc Their necks ouT and goT Their heads chopped off by anoTher College of The Pacific offensive onslaughf beifore The largesf crowd ever To wifness a gridiron fracas in The Hawaiian lslands, 75 To O, running The season Tofal of Pacific poinfs To 575 in eleven games for a 52.3 average per game. Eleef-foofed Eddie Macon, brillianf baclcfield speedsier, led The parade wiTh four long Touchdown runs, Three of which were over 35 yards. Macon ran wild on punT refurns and had The lslanders ouT of Their seaTs during mosf of The fracas. The oiher Touchdowns were had by Jim Price and Don Brown, who each hiT pay dirT Twice. and Bruce Orvis, Phil Orfez, and Doug Scovil. Greaf defensive play was feafured by WalT Polenske, Kenny Johnson, Harry Kane, Sid Hall, Duane PuTnam, Jim -Price, and Eddie LeBaron. Thus ended Pacific's greaTesT foofball season. Long remembered will be The TiTanic Tigers of '4-9. lT's nice, buf bring The ball back. bub. Rohde scores a Tiger Wilbur Sifes wide oben affer receiving an Eddie DLSBGFOU TD alone on a Le Baron aerial in The Hawaii TilT, buf To no avail A aerial againsf The Rainbows. This parhcular play picked up as a penalfy broughf The ball back To The line oi scrimmage. 24 yards' and sei' up a Bengal score.

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Pqeific 88 . . . Cal Poly 0 J o e R i h n , GameCapfain B o b K l e i n Player of ihe Week Massacred +he Musiangs Going info 'This game The College of ihe Pacific Tigers had a season Jroial of 4I2- poinis and needed 88 digiis 'io reach +he charmed 500 circle, having +wo games Iefi 'io do ir, buf amazingly enough ihey reached if wiih an overwhelming 88 io O win over 'rhe California Polyiechnic Musiangs. l-low exacf can you gei! ln an unbelievably offensive show, The Tigers boomed across I3 iouchdowns. Don McCormick, Don Lipeli, and Doug Smifh each garnered iwo rallies apiece, while single iouchdowns were had by Joe Rihn, Eddie Macon, Bruce Orvis, John Rohde, Eddie LeBaron, Jim Price, and Don l-iardey. Tremendous, charging line play again feaiured Jrhe Bengals' offense as Don Campora, Sid Hall, Duane Pufnam, Bob Eranceschini, Kenny Johnson, Robin Rush, Bob Klein, John Rohde, Bob Moser, Dick Breien, Doug Breien, Peie Gambeiia, Phil Oriez, and Doug Snark Smiih all played greai games. Too bad Peanufsl Don Brown was nailed from behind while Ken John- He's off again. Eddie Macon on anoiher ianializing run. 'this 'lime agalnsi' son 83 and Bob Moser l8ll are ready To peel off blocks on 'ihe Cal The Musfangs. Behind The blocking of Phil Orfez i70l, Bob Moser BI Poly men who mighi gel in fheir way. and Bob Franceschini i49l, while LeBaron, Hardey and Campora look on

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LeBqrons 9' 7 . . . Celeris 99 6 J o h n P o u l o s Oufsfanding End . dis -5-1' 'Eff' I J I m P r r c e Oufsfanding Halfback Shackled fhe Celeri's Foofball in February, who would have believed if? Seffing a complefely new precedenf for foofball all over fhe nafion, fwo represenfafive 'reams from fhe Universify of California and 'rhe College of fhe Pacific mel' on fhe gridiron fo answer fwo greaf quesfions . . . which was fhe beffer feam, fhe I949 Tigers or fhe Rose Bowl Bears . . . and which was fhe belfer quarferback, Eddie LeBaron or Bob Celeri? Acfually neifher quesfion wascomplefely answered. The LeBaron's annexed fhe 'rilf 7 fo 6 in a sfellar defensive baffle which saw a sogg furf holding mosf of The vaunfed run- ners in check and keeping fhe expecfed -aerial baffle down fo a walk. Celeri fhrew plenfy of passes, some of which were dro ped by his flankers and LeBaron had an iniured shoulder which allowed him fo foss ouf only six pass- es, 'rwo of which were caughf. Celeri had more complefions buf if was fhe fremendous line play of bofh aggrega- fions fhaf was The fine poinf of The game. The Celeri's probably fielded a sfronger defensive unif in fhis game 'rhan 'rhey were able fo musfer in fwo Rose Bowl games, adding such defensive sfalwarfs as Frank Van Deren and Norm Pressley 'fo fheir rosfer from 'rhe '48 Bear eleven. Bronco Bruce Orvis scored The LeBaron fally affer seHing up fhe score wifh fwo rambles which led fo fhe one-yard line. Wayne Hardin converfed our of LeBaron's fingerrips earl in fhe firsf period, giving fhe Sfockfonians a lead which fhey never relinquished. The Celeri's scored in fhe finalhalf buf were unable fo converf, fhe difference be- fween fhe fwo unifs. Lil Ed comes fo fhe rescue. Eddie LeBaron moves in fo block a possible Bob Celeri, vaunfed Bear quarferback, shows his defensive prowess as he gap in his All-Sfar line as Harry Kane l25l and Kenny Johnson move hauls down Wayne Hardin of fhe LeBaron All-Sfars affer Hardin refurned over fasf on fhe play. Number 53 for fhe Celeri's is End Dan Bagovich. his kick 3I yds. behind blocking of Rohde, Franceschini, Johnson. Poulos