Ventura College - La Revista Yearbook (Ventura, CA)

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I El I. I V 1: 1 1 171 ■I Villanova Prep that staged .1 scrappy but ineffective attempt to stem tin- Pii onrush. Villanova looked against Ventura as Ventura had looked against ' halt — lots of fight and a perfect willingness to mix things up but not enough powei 1 put over their intentions. The final score was 27-0. Orange ami Black fans began to have hopes lor a really good eleven when Coach Mathews took his men to the desert in the first county tilt and put over a 20-0 win on Lancaster. In the Mojave scrimmage the Buccaneers seemed to have snatched some real profit from the three previous games, and functioned like veterans. A touchdown in the first three minutes oi plaj started the Antelope- 1 n the run and they stampeded all afternoon to the complete delight ot Ventura. The precision exercised by Mathews ' backfield men in running their plays gave onlookers a chance to see what the Warner system can accomplish against a team ot equal strength as far as material is concerned. A somewhat overconfident Pirate team journeyed to Oxnard the week follow- ing their desert triumph and lost 6-0 to a Yellowjacket outfit that was supposedl) on its last pegs. Characteristic Oxnard fight and determination plus some sloppy execution of tactics by Ventura gave the Sugar City players their one touchdown margin of victory. The battle was too even throughout to call decisive one wa or the other. Santa Paula ' s rambling Saints scored on the kickoff against Ventura after the Oxnard game, and thereby annexed the only counter ot the tussle. A surprise play that centered around a fleet Saint halfback caught the enturans napping in the first three seconds of play and that was that. Santa Paula was newer able to get near the Pirate coal again during the game, but Ventura couldn ' t quite muster enough stuff to cross the Saint line and the score stood where it was at the fend of the first quarter. 7-0. Fillmore rolled up three touchdowns and 18 points on the Poinsettia field before our men of might got organized. A strong rally in the last period gave the Buccaneers 14 points, not enough to win but enough to throw a strong scare into the Indians. The Pirates fought throughout, but couldn ' t get their plays working until the closing minutes. r

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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

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I El I. I CI: 1 1 171 ■I Kenneth Deck Captain LIGHTWEIGHT FOOTBALL Some 45 midget Buccaneers turned out at the first of the 1930 football season in answer to Coach Eric Kolberg ' s call for material. Cutting this squad to 35, the lightweight coach retained a bunch of ambitious youngsters who developed into one of the fightingest pigskin elevens ever seen around these parts. The Pirate babes outscored both the varsity and Jaysee aggregations from their ship to ramble through a schedule in a highly creditable manner. In the season opener Taft sent a strong lightweight team south that managed to trip the Pirate Bees 6-0 after a nip and tuck fracas that made spectators register more enthusiasm than d id many a varsity game. Coming back strong after a week of hard practice, Kolberg ' s mites rambled out on the desert with blood in their eyes and came tripping back home with a 40-0 win stuck under their belts. Lancastei was the unlucky victim of the en- turans ' ire. Oxnard, traditional Pirate jinx, stretched its varsity hoodoo to cover the light- weight situation and eked out a 12-0 victor} ' after three and a half quarters of scoreless see-sawing. A beautiful 95 yard run to a touchdown from kickoff ac- counted for the first touchdown, and frantic Ventura efforts to score through the air which resulted in an intercepted pass, handed the Yellowjackets their second six points. Kolberg worked in five days of hard scrimmage after the Oxnard disappoint- ment, and did it so well that the Orangemen came back again to thump Santa Paula, 20-0. Nice passing from Orr to Morrison, and line plunging that would have done credit to a heavyweight, by Captain Deck, spelled disaster to the Saints. A 54-6 swamping of Fillmore gladdened Yenturan hearts the week after the Santa Paula tussle. Hitting their full stride, and functioning like a well oiled ma- chine, the Brigand lighties kicked dirt in Indain eyes to a fare-ye-well. Coach Kolberg substituted everyone but the waterboy in an effort to give everyone an opportunity for experience. Santa Barbara wound up the season for the Buccaneers by setting them back 1-7. As in the Oxnard duel, the game was much tighter than a casual glance at