Woodward High School - Treasures Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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a pretty good ball club We out-played Hamilton Garfield, except that there were just those mistakes. After the game, we were coming home on the bus. Coach Campbell said there's only one thing worse than the other team beating you and that's when you beat yourselves. And that kind of summed up the whole game. We beat ourselves with our mistakes, We out-played them, but we beat ourselves. SEPTEMBER13 Last Monday in practice we were running punt coverage. One time, I got down there pretty fast, and the ball went through the punt receiver's arms and bounced up right to me. If it had been a game, I probably would have gone for a touch down. So after practice I was thinking that I should have saved something like that for a game because it would probably be the only time I'd ever score a touchdown. So in the game last night, which we lost 12-6, Elder was on about their own thirty yard line and they ran a pitch-out to the opposite side, So I was supposed to trail the play and the halfback fumbled the pitch-out and I picked it up and ran for a touchdown. When I scored that touchdown, it was the line- man's dream, because he rarely has the oppor- tunity. Somebody remarked to me after the game that I looked like a halfback running with the ball, and that's because once I finally got the ball, I wan't going to let anything stop me from scor- ing thetouchdown. Last night was Rosh Hashonah, theJewish New Year, and fortunately my parents let me play. Mr. Campbell expected me to play, and before the game he said to me, Well, let's try to make it a happy New Year. And when I came off the field after scoring my touchdown, he said, Happy New Year! The stadium lights blacked out for about forty- five minutes, so while the lights were out, my morn decided to take my brother to get a hot dog at the refreshment stands Well, the lights came on while they were still over there, and that's when I picked up the ball and ran for a touch- down. So my mom missed it. SEPTEMBER 20 During the week, I thought I'd really be up for the game because I have a personal thing against Aiken's quarterback, Barry Dotzauer. I know the kind of guy he is. He likes to brag a lot. I learned this about him from baseball. During the baseball season, he was pitching for Aiken and I was bat- ting against him and he hit me twice in one game I really didn't appreciate that too much Because of this, I thought I'd really be able to get up for the game, but come Friday, I just couldn't that much Well, I got Dotzauer once. I got him when he was returning a punt. I hit him pretty good, right in the chest with my helmet. Then about four or five other guys came over and they hit him pretty hard too, William Brooks ran back two punts for touch- downs, but both were called back because of penaltiest After each of Brooks' touchdown runs, he did a little cartwheel and then a back-flip in the end zone. When I first saw it on the game film, my jaw must have dropped about an inch because I've never seen anything like that on the football field before. Even a guy doing it in full uniform is something, but there isn't really that much place for that kind of thing on a football field, because even though it might not mean much to the game, football is a team sport and there isn't any place for showboating on a foot- ball field at all. During the game we did have a lot of penalties and at times it seemed they might have ham- pered us, even though we won, 20-0. One time, Doug McCray jumped 50 early that he got up to the line before the ball was even hiked. So he was up there talking to the quarterback, Pete

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paying attention to the scrimmage like they should be. When you have an atmosphere like that, it's almost impossible to get mentally pre- pared for a scrimmage or game. Still and all, the first team looked pretty good on offense. Shuttlesworth ran well, and in the last play of the game, Sam Mays broke around left end for a touchdown. Coming home, everybody was joking around; the scrimmage didn't mean anything We were coming home on the Cross County highway and when we were practically home, Campbell looked up, and he saw the new Rockdale Tem- ple, and he said that the thing looked like a big birdhouse. So I told Mr. Campbell that my father would be glad to hear that because he's on the board of trustees of the Temple. The score of the scrimmage was Loveland 12, Woodward 6. AUGUST30 m e . I mag. We beat Purcell in a scrimmage today, 6-0. Coach Sharp said I had a few good blocks today. The coaches never say that much to me. I guess Illl have to start worrying when they start yelling at me too much instead of not saying anything. During the week, the coaches have already started to talk about Hamilton Garfieldt Camp- bell mentioned how he knocked Boxcar Bailey out of the game up there one year. The whole team seems to think that this is kind of a myth, that there really isn't a Boxcar Bailey. 1 was talking to my dad a couple nights ago about this, and I found out that there really was Boxcar Bailey and that he was quite a back at Miami University. I was really surprised because I thought it was just a funny little story that Campbell made up for every Garfield game. But there's really a Boxcar Bailey. SEPTEMBER 6 Our14-12 loss to Garfield was a gift. There weren't that many penalties, but we did have an awful lot of fumbles. Being a lineman, I couldn't really pinpoint the trouble. Anyway, we found that we have the halfbacks that can run with Ed- die. That will take a lot of pressure off him. The linebackers won't be able to key entirely on the fullback now; they'll have to watch the halfbacks too. If we can eliminate the mistakes though, the fumbles, missed assignments, and a few things that we did wrong on defense, I think we'll have

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Andthe official . . . sa'd, 'Shut up!' and Mr. Gray looked around real innocent, you know, as if to say lWho me?! II Murdockv He was saying to him, Where's the ball? Where's the ball? Why wasn't it hiked? We had all our yardage rushing and as long as we can keep going offensively that way, itls safer to keep the ball on the ground, especially in high school. But one of these days we're going to run into the nine-man line and such, the way they played against Clem Turner when he was on the team And we'll just have to start throwing the ball some then to keep 'em honest. So we do have to work on the passing game, but right now itisnlt goingto hurtus ifwe don't have it. SEPTEMBER 27 Even though we beat Withrow, 12-0, it does seem like therefs a Woodward Stadium jinx, al- though I don't think it's just a jinx. I never liked playing football in the afternoon. For one thing, early in the season it's usually pretty hot. And when you're playing in the afternoon, you come onto the football field straight from school. There's no way you can get mentally prepared for a game, because while walking around with the rest of the team, you see all your friends and all your girlfriends. At lunch before the game, a lot of the team members made the mistake of eating the lunch- room's macaroni and cheese, It'll settle in your stomach It didn't affect me but before a game you ought to have a decent meal. 50 for the rest of our afternoon games, 1 might start packing my lunch instead of taking a chance on the school food On one kickoff there was this especially funny play. They had this big huge guy that kicked off for them. He was about six-four or so and he weighed three hundred pounds. He kicked off and Bill Stith tried to block him. The film this morning showed Bill lying on the ground and the big guy lumbering down the field towards the ball carrier. So two seconds later you see John Sebron run up towards this big guy and John hit him and the big guy's feet flew about two feet up in the air. We ran that part of the game film over and over. It was just unbelievable. This guy was about twice as big as John and John just upended him like he was nothing. I haven't heard anything directly from scouts yet and I probably wonlt until the end of the sea- son, if J do then. But Mr. Meloy, who was up in the press box at the Elder game, said a guy from West Point was asking about me. I hope they dont get into contact with me until the end of