Upsala College - Upsalite Yearbook (East Orange, NJ)

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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-

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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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THE BASKETBALL SQUAD The 1940-1941 basketball season at Upsala may be distinguished not by the record in the won and lost column, but by the great improvement which a predominately fresh- man team showed in late February and March. When Coach Lou Spinelli issued his flrst call for candidates he found Captain Jack Becker, Bernt Opsal, and Seymour Yano- Witz to be his only lettermen. Stade Carl- son and the Kuczynski brothers, Vic and Walt, were holdovers from the squad roster, while Bill Anderson, regular center in 1940 was unable to report. Sid Rothbard, a transfer from Panzer, would be able to play in non-conference One Hundred Twenly-eigbl games, while Spinelli saw a great deal of promise in the freshmen, Bob Drum, Bob KARL OTTOSON, Manager JACK BECKER, Captain