Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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The nexT gcime vvos ci big one Tor Wobosh. Fronklin, undeTeoTed in Tour sTc1rTs, l-lomecoming, ond The Governors Goime were The ingredienTs needed To TTre up Red Tor iTs TlrsT TosTe of vicTory. Wobosh drove Tor The TlrsT score behind The brillionT ouTside running of Moy ond Skip Croske ond The pile-driv- ing Torce Through The middle by Anderson. Ander- son coirried The boll over ond Moy odded The poinT ond iT vvcis 7-O Wobosh oT The TlrsT sTop. Fronklin Then possed ond ron To The Wobosh 3 vvhere The Covemen held Tor 3 downs unTil The Grizzlies Tinolly puT iT ocross on TourTh ond l TooT siTuoTion. Wcibosh vvosTed no Time in scoring ogoin os Rich Vozel hiT Jerry Boyer Tor 27 yords ond John Moy corried The finol 3 Tor The score. l-le odded The exTrc1 poinT giving Red o T4-7 edge oT holT Time. Fronklin monciged To hiT poydirTmc1king iT l4 oll oT The end of The Third quorTer. AT The sTorT oT The TourTh quc1rTer, Frcmklin foiled on The TourTh ond l siTuoTion ond Wobosh hod The boll on The Grizzlie 4l. Five ploys puT The boll on The nine vviTh Ander- son supplying The power. Moy Then sTreoked over ond odded The exTrc1 poinT. Fronklin sTc1lled cigoin ond The big boy combinc1Tion oT senior Tullbock Dick Weiss ond Toilbcick Anderson blosTed Their wciy Tor onoTher score wiTh Anderson corrying. Moy's kick vvos good, os usuol, ond The gcime ended 28- l4,Wobosh. Agoiin Red losT on Their vvoy To Their TirsT '64 vic- Tory. Senior vvingbock Tom Zimmers injured his shoulder ond vvcis ouT of ocTion Tor The nexT Tew gomes. The Tollovving vveek oT Ohio Wesleyoin proved To be one oT The mosT ouTsTc1nding Ccivemon vicTories os Cooch Keuicfel cleored The bench in The 2l-O romp. Things looked bod in The TirsT quorTer os OWU sTrec1ked 80 yords on ci punT reTurn ond gove The LiTTle GionTs The feeling ThoT They moy well Tcice Their 7Th deTeoT in os mony yeoirs ogoinsT The Bish- ops. BuT red flogs vvere in order ond They were Torced To punT. LcaTe in The TirsT quorTer, The Tire- Works sToirTed os iunior Rich Vozel Threvv ci bomb To Jerry Boyer good Tor 48 yords ond ci Wobosh TD. Moy's poinT mode IT 7-O, hrsT quoirTer. Wesleyon vvos piled up on 4Th down c1T The 5 by iuniors Mike l-loll cind .lon Hesser. Wobosh's Anderson-lvloy com- binoTion Then moved To The Bishop 45 ond, WiTh ci 4 ond l siTuoTion, CopToin Anderson vvenT To his righT side Tor on elecTriTying 45 yord Touchdovvn. In The TourTh quorTer, Toilbock Skip Croske hiT The Flo- mingo Rich Chilousky on cm ll ycird poss ploy ond

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BuTler proved To be The usual formidable foe buT Wabash played one of iTs besT games of The year in The 7-7 lron Key 'conTesT. The firsf half was all Wabash as The LiTTle GianTs, sparked by senior speedsTer Tom Zimmers' 35 yard run off The reverse, marched down field and scored wiTh Anderson driv- ing over on The Wedge and May adding The exfra poinT. The second half found Wabash on The de- fensive and a highly TouTed goal line defense sTopped The Hinklemen Time and again deep in Big Red TerriTory. OuTsTanding play by The cenTer of The defensive line plus heads-up ball-playing by sopho- more Mark lvlader, iunior Jim Roeder and Anderson in The secondary kepT The Bulldogs sTalled unTil They finally managed To plunge over from The one yard line making iT 7-7, The final score. The game, one of Red's besf, failed To gain The Iron Key buT The moral saTisfacTion was greaT considering The LiTTle Gianfs played on even Terms WiTh The bigger Bull- dogs wiThouT four sTarTers.

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John Moy odded his 9Th sTrc1ighT PAT Tor The 21- poinT ToTc1l. The vicTory vvos ci svveeT one Tor The Cove- men os The I-lomecoming crowd oT Ohio Wesleyon sovv Their Teom lose To The LiTTle Gic1nTs Tor The TirsT Time in 7 yeors. The following week, Wobosh Troveled To l-lonover in vvhoT could hove Turned ouT To be o very emborross- ing gome Tor The LiTTle GionTs. l-loving Thumped The l-lillToppers 55-O The previous yeor, The Sco1rleT had iTs honds Tull os iT pulled ouT o norrovv 2l-T3 vic- Tory ogoinsT on Tired up PonTher squod. The gome looked os Though iT mighT be o repeoT of The previ- ous yeor's rouT os Wobosh corried The opening kick- off 59 yords in 8 corries Tor The oTTernoon's TlrsT 27 score by Anderson ond ci PAT by Moy. ATTer on exchonge oT punTs, The l-lonover Tullbock Tound o roTher lorge hole in The LiTTle GionT line ond skipped 33 yords Tor ci PonTher score. In The second period, o bod quick kick Tound The hosTs in good scoring posiTion os They monoged To corry iT ocross on o l yord plunge. The exTro poinT vvos sTopped by sopho- more deTensive sTondouT lvlork lvloder on o super- loTive ploy moking The score T3-7 in Tovor of Hon- over. Glory vvos shorT lived os 8 ploys loTer senior Toilbock Skip Croske vvenT 2 yords oTF-Tockle Tor o T4-T3 WC. leod. As The holT closed, The PonThers ThreoTened buT couldn'T peneTroTe The TrodiTionolly Tough Wobosh gool line sTond. lvlidvvoy Through The 4Th quorTer, The Big Red mochine sTorTed To move ogoin os Anderson punched off Tockle Tor ci T2-yord score ond John Moy odded his l2Th consecuTive PAT Tor The QT-l 3 vicTory. Ped hosTed The il roTed smoll college Teom in The noTion on The Tollovving weekend. The Tigers oT WiT- Tenberg soundly deTeoTed The LiTTle GionTs 42-7 wiTh The oid oT Their LiTTle All-Americon QuorTerbock Chuck Green ond his hord-hiTTing bock Tield.