University High School - Tower Yearbook (Carbondale, IL)

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SAUERWEIN PATTON ROBERTSON Swofford, and Canada were given honorable mention. At the close of the season Harry Canada and Albert Patton were chosen captains of the line and backfield respectively. A night game against the Thoroughbreds of Murray Teachers of Kentucky, fur- nished the first win of the year. The Maroons featured as their particular punch a smashing drive off-tackle or over-guard. Dago Eovaldi especially showed up well in ripping through the Murray defense. A passing combination from Martin to Swofford was uncovered and it accounted for two Maroon scores. The final score was 25-6, the Thoroughbreds having scored on a fifty yard pass, Mayhew to Brodie. At Cape Girardeau the Southern Teachers aided in the dedication of the new S1S0,000 Hauck stadium with a 12-6 win over the Indians. Before a grand assemblage Our' Ilnndrcd Tbirly-fi ve

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EOVALDI CANADA D01-y he 1930 Southern Illinois Teachers football team experienced the most successful season in the history of the school's athletics. Victors for the season, and champions of the Little Nineteen Conference the eleven brought to the institution a prestige unsur- passed by former teams. In but one Conference game were the Maroons scored on and that in the final conflict with McKendree, Two hundred seventeen points were amassed by the Southerners while they restricted the opposition to twenty-four. Six of the games won by the Teachers were shutout affairs, only three teams, Murray, Cape Girardeau, and McKendree being able to cross the Maroon goal line. Recognized by a majority of conference coaches as champions, the team crowned the season's play by placing two men, Eovaldi and Doty, on the press' mythical all-star eleven. Martin, One Hundred Thirty-four

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Fox Fouav McKINN1s composed of the elite of two states, the Maroons ran rough shod over the Cape eleven. A major portion of playing time, the ball was in the possession of the Carbondale players who twice worked their way down the field to score. Featuring the game were the two blocked punts by Hippo Brown and Bob Doty. Only in the last few minutes were the Southerners really threatened. Witli but four minutes to play, the Indians wrought a very effective aerial attack that netted their lone touchdown and promised another which failed by feet. The win over S.I.T.C.'s strongest rivals was especially pleasing since it kept the record established by the Maroons in not losing to the Missour- ians in the last six years. With the home game against the Scott Field Aviators the Southerners, inaugurated l Our Huudnwl Tlzirfy-tit