Upsala College - Upsalite Yearbook (East Orange, NJ)

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Hold that lineh BILL ANDERSON, end uIZZYn VALLORANI, center Jimmy Kee. The visitors pushed across a rapid first quarter touchdown before the crowd had settled in its seats. They missed the extra point, and this proved costly. McKinley and Johnson started ripping Northeastern Wide apart and in the second period Kee passed to Schaffer for an apparent touchdown Which was ruled illegal. Not to be denied, Kee passed to Mercog- liano in the third period and Robinson booted the all-important extra point. The score ended, 7-6, although McKinley and Johnson twice advanced the ball to scoring position only to have fumbles halt the march. JOHN PANDOLFE, halfback BUCKY WALTERS, guard

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and furnished a colorful setting for a bril- liant game. Woerner had nominated Co-Captain Mer- cogliano and Don Schaffer to start at ends, Vernon Doudt and freshman Harold Ar- nold, tackles, the veteran, Ed tBuckyi Walters and Marty Freedman, guards, and Izzy Vallorani, center. Jack Becker, also Co-Captain, was the CO-CAPTAINS BECKER AND MERK quarter back choice, Johnnie Pandolfe and Frank Tivenan, halfbacks, and Tom Stanley, fullback. After an early sparring period Upsala started hustling late in the first quarter as Pandolfe tossed two completed passes to SchaEer to place the ball in scoring position. As the second quarter started, Mercogliano took the ball on an end-around play to score from the four-yard line and then kick the point. It was 7-0, and the score stayed that way during the remaining 45 minutes. The Vikings had plenty of anxious mo-n ments in the second half but Pandolfe was playing the greatest game of his college COACH PAUL WOERNER career, and it seemed that, single-handed, the sturdy little senior could repell any Muhlen- berg thrust. He intercepted five passes, punted us out of danger on several occasions, and was given a brilliant hand when the game ended. An open date furnished Woerner with two weeks in which to drill his squad for the Boston University game at Boston, but unfortunately injuries removed several of the Viking stars from the line-up. Jimmie Robinson, who had played brilliantly as a blocking back in 1939, had completely re- covered from a knee operation and would be ready to play, but his return only slightly compensated for the loss of several other men. Upsala started out like a cyclone against B.U., faded to a zephyr in the second and third periods, then came back with a short- lived rally, and lost, 15-6. The Northeastern game followed and in this affair several backfield newcomers made the grade, but definitely. They were: Johnny Edack, Nate Johnson, Ken McKinley, and One Hundred Twenty-fiw

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Mt. St. Marys, victorious last year over the Vikings by a 28-9 score, was handled with ease the following week. Playing heads-up football all the way the Vikings captured the fray, 14-0. Johnson and Edack scored the touchdowns. The final two games were rather unin- teresting to watch as Upsala lost to Lebanon Valley, 27-13, and defeated Panzer, 26-0. Both were one-sided. Kee,s passes to Schaf- fer and Bill Anderson netted scores against Lebanon Valley, but Upsala was out of the game when these tallies came. A brilliant 91-yard run by Chavies fea- tured the drab Panzer affair while Edack added two touchdowns, and Merc one, in the season,s finale. The big event of the football season didnit really happen until after the playing sched- ule had closed. Coach Woerner, a member of the US. Naval Reserve, was called up to active duty late in November and the fol- lowing month his assistant, Bob Meyer, was nominated as his successor until Paul is dis- charged from duty. Pat Tortorella, an Up- sala grad, will assist Meyer. Meyer received his sheepskin from Notre Dame where he was tutored by the memo- rable Knute Rockne. He intends to use the famous Til formation as an offensive weapon, shifting right and left. The new mentor is well acquainted with the gridiron sport, serving as an assistant coach at Upsala and Brooklyn College Tom Stanley will captain the 1941 eleven, succeeding Becker and Mercogliano, who completed four years of brilliant varsity It takes plenty of this to win careers last season. In addition to the co- captains, two ends, Schaffer and Anderson; a guard, Walters; center, Vallorani; and halfback Pandolfe, wound up their Upsala competition. Mercogliano was nominated by a com- mittee of Eastern sports writers to play with the Eastern-Collegiate All-Stars in their annual Milk Fund battle with the New York Giants to be played late in August, 1941. THE VIKING SQUAD ulLK; e ,is-