Ventura College - La Revista Yearbook (Ventura, CA)

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I El I. -I CI: 1 1 171 ■s ™- SI .tt Robert J. M vthi - Dolph Lowe Capt Coach VARSITY FOOTBALL Finishing on the short end of a good many scores, yet always giving customers their money ' s worth in hard fighting, clean playing performance. Ventura High School last year put a varsity football team through a schedule that established the Pirates as undisputed possessors of plenty of scrap, if not of any silver trophy. Brigand fans have seen more powerful aggregations than the 1930 machine proved to be, but it is doubtful if they ever saw any eleven that worked harder. Inexperi- ence and green materi al cut down chances for a strong showing on the tally chart but it didn ' t ruin the fighting spirit symbolic of Buccaneer playing. About fitteen candidates came out at the first of the season, most ol whom I P f f t 4 I f ?; Jt Sf $fS S A Footb i.i. Ti wi Top row: J. Arnett, ( i. Nielson, M. Jones, E. Gallagher, ( i. Hewston, R. Stock, E. Hickerson, B. Homer, Coach Mathews. Second row. Manager O. Haas, E. Abbott, I!. Steele, M. St in macher, Captain J). Lowe, C. Hall. R. Carlin, . Poplin, T. Meilandt. Thud row. . Scott, H. Pool. B. Hopkins, S. Di Rosa, C. Woolley, II. Ormsbi E. Beckett, C. Ni vl,

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I El ■.ft PI: 1 1 171 SI I 1. Moore J. Martin bunch from Loyola ' s frosh squad to put over a 20-6 win the following week. In this game the two teams were far more evenly matched than the score would indicate, a last minute touchdown bringing a 13-6 score up to 20 for the Lions. en- tura looked far better in its 14 point loss to Loyola than it had in its 12-6 defeat by Oneonta. In an Armstice Day game at Oxnard the Orangemen whipped the Ventura Count} - Amer- ican Legion squad, 12-0. Buccaneer fans had little hope of seeing their players top the Legion eleven but again McAllister refused to be frightened by a dope sheet and shoved his gridmen over the top in no uncertain fashion. Some string line plunging by Kenneth Shannon, long gains over tackle and around end by Joe Martin, and an efficient Martin to Guzman passing combination spelled the Legionnaire downfall. Moran and Taft Junior Colleges wound up the Orange schedule with rather impressive wins over what was left of the Ventura squad. In the Moran game the knee injury which kept Joe Martin on the bench eliminated the Pirates ' scor- ing threat and a dogged defensive game was the best and only resort left to McAllister ' s charges. A nice aerial attack uncorked by the visitors was responsible for all the Moran touchdowns. Only fourteen players were physically able to make the Taft trip and the lineup change necessitated by such a cut in the original squad played havoc with the McAllistermen. The drillers swarmed over the revamped Pirate wreck to put across a 33-7 win.

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I El I. I E 1:1 1 174 ■s ■- S! were starting their first attempt at mastering the gridiron pastime ' . Graduation the year before had robbed the squad of a raft of veterans, and with the excessively green material remaining on board things looked pretty glum for Mathews in his initial experience with the game in our hamlet. The few boys on deck worked like the proverbial Trojans during the comparatively few days of practice prior to the first encounter of the year, and made a surprising showing against a team that boasted a reputation for established power. After this first battle enough interest was aroused to send thirteen more athletes into suits and it is especially note- worthy that the squad of twenty-eight brought out after that initial tussle stuck to the end. There weren ' t any quitters on the 1930 Pirate varsity. A large squad from Taft High School swarmed down out of the foothills in that first game and jolted Ventura 20-0. outplaying the Orangemen but never outscrapping them. The drillers boasted a heavy, veteran organization that had plenty and knew how to use it. Mathews ' small band of 15 worthies managed to stave off the northern assault for quite some stretch of time but finally succumbed to superior reserve power and experience. It was a game that Ventura had little hope of winning and in that light the Taft win came as no disappointment to Orange students. Rather, it served to heighten interest among the Pirates who marvelled that the small Buccaneer squad had contrived to hold the drillers to three touchdowns. Loyola Prep, of Los Angeles, sent eleven Lions roaring over the Pirate ship the next week and it was a disheartened crew that rowed that Ventura wreck home, flags drooping under a 40-0 murder. The same causes that spelled defeat against the Taft aggregation — lack of material and reserve power to stand opposing second half attacks, ran up the score in the Loyola fracas. Ventura could not have beaten the Lions last year but the score would have been considerably lower if material had been higher in quality. Coach Mathews ' effort to distribute experience by in- jecting green substitutes against the crack Loyolans was responsible for at least two touchdowns. entura ' s first victory came one week later against a weak eleven from n t R. Reed H. Ormsb . Hopkins