University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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Named captain of the Badger football team three times last season, Ralpli Moeller, a Watertown product, was chosen honorary captain of the 1939 squad. Moeller turned in a steady hard plugging game Saturday after Saturday, even taking able care of the punting duties besides his already loaded task at the left end position. Besides his football exploits, Moeller has won two letters as a dash man on the track team. He plans a coaching career when he graduates in June. Jarrin ' George Paskvan, unanimous selection for the most valuable player award, is another In the dynasty of Wisconsin fullback stars that includes Eddie Jankowski and Howie Weiss. Third in the net rushing gains in the Big Ten last year, Paskvan ' s battering tactics earned him a position on almost every All-Conference team that was picked. Ralph Moeller, Captain and star end. Back Row, left to right — Jannes Riorden, John Meloy, Ralph Moeller, Ralph Clapp, Don Peterson. Clifford Phillip, Al Lorenz, Rex John, Edmund Wegner, Jack Murray, Robert Grinde, Elmer Tornow, Don Miller, Fred Ladewiq, Al Dorsch, John Loehrke, Robert Peterson, Tom Farris, Harold Lubnow. Second Row — Howard Kaermer, Ray Kreick, David Jones, Ted Damos, Donald Frey, Russell Nowak, Nic dacque, Robert Eckl, Harry Knicklbine, Fred Gage,Orvilie Fox. Gordon Gile, Bill Schmitz, Tom McGuire, and Robert Cone. Front Row — Harold Rooney, Eric Fagerstrom, Donald Kol- busz. Ken Sauter, Burt Conley, Dick Emblck, Claude York, Ro- bert Halloway, Robert Wilding, Anthony Gradlsnik, John Ten- nent.Orvllle Fisher, and George Paskvan. 381

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FOOT 1939 Upon the assistant coaches falls a large part of the burden of coach- ing football. Stuhldreher has been fortunate in having three men as competent and thorough as coaches Jordan, Reagan, and Fox. hlolding down the center post under the famous Knute Rockne in ' 23 and ' 24, Robert Reagan is thoroughly schooled in the Notre Dame style of play, hie came to Wisconsin with Harry Stuhldreher after serving several years at Villanova. The credit for one of the tew bright spots in the 1939 Badger football season goes to Reagan for the brilliant performance of the line. Previously a quarterback on hiarry Stuhldreher ' s Villanova elevens, Frank Jordan coached high school football in Montana, before re- joining his former teacher as backfield coach on the Wisconsin foot- ball faculty four years ago. Jordan also conducted the majority of the popular Union football forums. George Fox was graduated from Villanova In 1937 after playing several seasons at end, and he joined Harry Stuhldreher here at Wisconsin in the fall of that year as end coach. Being at a wing position under his present boss. Fox knows just what was expected of him during his playing days, and gives that valued experience back to Badger candidates. Coach Stuhldreher talks things over with his able assistants, coaches Jordan, Fox, and Reagan. The stentorian bark of signals bite into the crisp autumn air . . . forty-two thousand exultant tans rise to their feet as a flash of cardinal streaks down the green and white gridiron — that ' s Camp Ran- dall on a Saturday afternoon. Long the historic site of army training barracks, football sea- son now finds Camp Randall pulsing to the twentieth cen- tury touch of the great in- ter-collegiate sport — football. 380

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Paslvan, Junior fullbacli. Grie. Junior tackle. Lorenz, Junior end Tornow, Junior tackle . . . The BaJ rrs were uniinpTCisitc in r c ory, anil ihc heit thty descried — has a lie. . . . Henry McCormicIt— Wis. State Journal. Wildlnq off-tackle. A toucHdov n pass to Gage. Wisconsin Marquette First downs 7 8 Forward passes 14 16 Completed 4 6 Intercepted 4 Punts 30 yds. av. 35 ' 2 yds. av. Punts returned 7 for 70 yds. 5 for 142 yds. Penalties 3 for 25 yds. 6 for 40 yds. Fumbles 2 5 Fumbles recovered 3 4 Yds. from scrimmage. 87 yds. 76 yds. WISCONSIN 14 MARQUETTE . 13 The 1939 season, which proved to be one of Stuhldreher ' s sorriest campaigns at Wisconsin, started inauspiciously with a victory for the Badqfir(Sp i »»f(TC Hllltoppers. Out- played throulpl oi t,,o« ft1 ' ' ' aT the battle, Wisconsin resorted to the air to scQCfiJjpth it Hl and won the game principally on t headyflnflc of »i ftFfS?itz who ran a fumbled pass from center o r Jhfi goal linejfor the first extra point. The blo nq and tocUlng of hldreher ' s eleven left much to (je d4sirea, art rne majority were of the opinion that the Wisconsin victory was a moral win for the Golden Avalanche. 382