Union College - Garnet Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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Dutchmen opened the scoring in the initial minutes of the tussle as a 40-yard Enstice- Tony Coppola pass set the ball on the visitors' eight yard stripe. Enstice carried the 'ball off tackle for a touchdown and Al Wade kicked the extra point to put Union ahead 7-0. Rochester powered through the Garnet de- fense in the next three quarters to gain an 18-7 advantage as the final quarter got under- way. The home forces rallied to the cause and gamely fought an uphill battle as Chuck Duggan stopped a Yellowjacket threat with a pass interception on his own five yard line. Duggan's interception placed the pigskin on the Rochester 47 and in two plays Enstiee had smashed his way through to a second touchdown. The kick for the extra point went wide and the contest ended as Union was vainly striving to tally the winning points. The Dutchmen came through with one of the biggest upsets in small college football as they tangled with heavily favored Vermont and emerged with a 20-7 triumph, their first under McLaughry's tutelage. The echoes of the opening whistle had barely died away from Alexander Field when Enstice broke through the Vermont line and raced 70-yards to the payoff stripe. Al Wade converted to give the Garnet a lead it never relinquished. Coppola snared a pass from Ken Whalen for a score in the third period and a few minutes later Enstice pitched to Jack Brisson for the Hnal tally. Wade again made the extra point good. Vermont blasted through for its lone touch- down late in the Final stanza after Union had already sewed up the game. In the 45th 'battle of the 61 year old rivalry with R.P.I. the Garnet took it on the chin for the third time in the season as the underdog Engineers copped a 33-24 win. Union has won 32, lost nine, and tied four of the 45 matches. Union looked like the victor in the opening minutes of the tilt as Whalen passed to Enstice to set the ball on the Cherry and White's five yard stripe. I-Ial Lundstrum blasted through center to score. However, the rough-riding Engineers sidelined Enstice with an injury 'before the game was five minutes old and the Dutchm-en greatly felt the loss of their sparkplug. Dave Strauss took over Ensticels passing duties and did excep- tionally well in that department but the Union eleven was somewhat lost without the great defensive playing of Enstiee. Coppola went around end in the second quarter to olllset a brace of R.P.I. touchdowns, but the halftime score favored the Engineers l3-12. Strauss pitched a 42-yard pass to Wade for a marker in the third, hut an R.P.I. spurt of three touchdowns gave them an imposing 33-18 margin as the tussle entered its final The football team stands in the dark for a picture after completing a fairly successful season under new coach McLaughry. Page Twenty

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Top: Hal Ensticc, one of the foremost figures in Union gridiron history. Middle: Coach MeLaughry, a new and talented coach. Bottom: Tony Coppola, fast-developing pass-receiver and scorer. Napcar, Shaefler and Crone approach tackled foe. Dutchmen faced a strong St. Lawrence aggre- gation in the season's opener with high hopes of victory. When the smoke had cleared from the 'battlefield a series of bad breaks and boners on Union's part had made it the victim of a 27-6 drubbing. The call back of Charlie Snow's 70-yard touchdown run in the initial quarter was the straw which broke the camel's back, for after that point'it was a demoralized Garnet squad which did battle with the Larries. Union played haphazardly until the closing moments of the game when it finally started rolling. Eight passes were completed in the space of a few minutes as 'Captain Hal Enstice unlimbered his pitching arm. Roy Westland snared one Enstice pass and galloped into pay dirt to prevent the Dutchrnen from being whitewashed, but the Garnet score came too late to prevent defeat. Union played gamely in its second contest of the year and its 42nd meeting with the Uni- versity of 'Rochester eleven, but was unable to upset the Yellowjackets, 14- point favorites, as the visitors won 18-13. The victory gave Rochester a record of 21 wins, 18 defeats and three ties in the series. The Yellowjackets made full use of a sub- stantially heavier line and a confusing HT formation in bettering the Garnet. The The Band forms a Block U in halftime maneuvers Page Nineteen

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phases. Strauss passed to Busino in the final frame to bring the score to 33-'2L1'. Playing listlessly and lacking any of the power or ability it had displayed in the Rochester, Vermont and R.P.I. contests, the Garnet eleven dropped a lifeless 6-0 match to the Hobart gridders. Hobart scored in the second quarter and the impotent Dutchmen never seemed to threaten this lead in one of the poorest exhibitions of football ever writ- nessed on Alexander Field. Coach Mclsaughry decided that something had to 'be done and overnight he developed a T formation and a tricky 8-2-l defense to employ against Williams. The offensive and defensive formations worked like charms and the Dutchrnen rnacle history as they defeated the Eplnnen for the second season in a row, the hrst time that had been done in the 39 game series. The most remarkable part of it was that the triumphs had been by identical scores, 14--0. George Best, substitute back, shown for Union as he took the ball on the sixth play of the game and raced 40 yards through the bewildered Purple and Black for a score. Best tallied again in the second period as he went 10 yards through center for a touchdown. Wade converted both times. Williams buckcd against a stubborn line of Dutchmen and never got beyond the Union 4-0 yard stripe despite its 'best efhorts. A cold rain and high winds hampered the Garnet aerial attack as it engaged Middlebury and lost to the Panthers 26-12. The Blue and White opened the scoring in the second quar- ter only to have Enstice knot the count at 6-all as he raced to the goal line a minute later. Middlebury scored late in the second stanza to gain a I2-6 halftime advantage. Whalen heavecl a flat pass to Lundstrum on the Middlebury 28 yard marker and the latter seampercd into pay dirt to again tie things up. The Panthers burst forth in the third and fourth periods with scores which the spluttering Garnet ma.cl'1ine could not match. The Dutchmcn ended their season on a triumphant note as they bested Hamilton 18-0 in the 52nd contest of the 60 year old friendly rivalry. The victory put Union ahead in the series with 21 wins, 20 defeats and 11 ties. Enstice, in his last appearance for Union, led the rushing attack. The Garnet scored early in the tilt as Coppola swept the end on a reverse. Strauss passed to Wade for a second counter before the game was a quarter Top: Wade off on one of his long runs Bottom: Enstice stops opponent's attack old. Wade slashed off left tackle in the second period and dashed 52 yards for Union's final score. All three kicks for' the conversions were wide. Partially lblocked punts on several oc- casions placed the Continentals in threaten- ing positions, but the Dutchmen held them from scoring. Three stalwarts of the team, Enstice, Torn Grone and Pete Spezzano, wound up their gridiron careers for Union in the Hamilton tilt. Loss of Enstice, -backfreld ace for three seasons, will be deeply felt if Coach Mc- Laughry is unable to find a capable substitute. 1948 prospects are 'brightened however by the fact that the bulk of the squad will return intact and that several of the 1947 Freshman team's stars will be reporting for varsity com- petition. Page Twenty-one