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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 94971, member: 289"] [I]The Game[/I] The Orangemen never knew what hit them. Whether it was the train ride, the box lunch on the train that was their only meal the day before or just the high-powered BU offense, the visitors were out of the game early and never quite got back into it. Syracuse kicked off and on the first play from scrimmage Sam Pino “burst through the center of the line, cut slightly to his left and raced 61 yards to the one yard line where he was caught from behind by Sam Alexander“. Pino was allowed to finish off the drive by “bumping” into the end zone and the conversion put SU down 0-7 in just two plays from scrimmage. A holding penalty, the first of 10 accessed against the Orange, stalled SU’s first possession. After an exchange of kicks, SU tried a trick play that turned out to be a treat for the Terriers. On fourth and 2, with Don Laacksonen back to punt, the ball was snapped directly to Mickey Rich- who promptly dropped it. He recovered but it didn’t matter. Boston drove in for their second score, aided by an interference call vs. Jimmy Brown that gave BU the ball on the SU 20. From the 18, Tom Gastall floated a pass just over the head of Brown to John Brodice in the end zone. The conversion made it 0-14. A couple more penalties forced SU to punt again. Eleven seconds into the second quarter, Gastell hit Ken Hagstrom in stride at the SU 45 and he “outlegged Mickey Rich to the goal line”, a 58 yard play that made the deficit 0-21. The game Orange responded with a 59 yard scoring drive, including another fake punt. This time Rich passed to Tom Richardson for the first down. SU then went to the running attack and Sam Alexander went the final yard. Ray Perkins’ conversion attempt was low but it was no longer a shut-out, 6-21. On the third play from scrimmage, Gastall again found Hagerstrom behind the SU defense. This time he went 56 yards. The kick was missed but it was 6-27. A clipping penalty ruined another SU possession and Art Trolio went back to punt. A bad snap forced him to retreat to the end zone to retrieve the ball. He actually managed to get a kick off but it only went to the SU 28, where it was downed. Three plays later Gastall tossed a three yard pass to Bodice for his fourth TD pass of the first half. The teams went in at halftime with BU way ahead 6-34. Syracuse didn’t give in and kept attacking with a strong running attack. The Orange also managed to fix the pass defense, so much so that Gastall, after going 8 for 12 in the first half, was 0 for 5 in the second half. But the deficit was just too much to overcome. Paul Slick picked off a Gastall pass early in the third and the Orange scored in three plays. Don Laacksonen ran for 13 and then 15 yards. Ray Perkins then bolted another 15 yards into the end zone, carrying two guys with him. He then kicked the point to make it 13-34. Then Sam Alexander intercepted another pass at the SU 27. Speedy Art Trolio set up another score with a 51 yard run, taking a pitch-out, and using a block by Pete Schwert to make it all the way to the BU 10. Trolio then ran it to the 7. On the next play, braced for a likely run up the middle, the Terrier defense failed to react to a pitch-out to #44, who walked into the end zone. Jimmy Brown had scored his first touchdown for Syracuse. The newspaper says that “Brown faked a kick and (Eddie) Albright tried to pass for the point after but Hagerstrom intercepted the pass in the end zone.” There was no two point conversion until 1958, so I assume there was a bobbled snap, unless Ben didn‘t have confidence in Jimmy‘s kicking. It was SU 19, BU 34. Syracuse made one more long drive, starting form their own 23 and going to the Boston 4 yard line, where a fourth down pass was batted down. A couple plays alter, with the Terriers simply trying to run out the clock, Frank Chiera, with 10 seconds left in the game, broke away for an 87 yard touchdown run that capped the day at 19-41 in Boston U’s favor. That run gave Boston more rushing yards than Syracuse, 251-259. But it was the 184 passing and the four first half touchdown passes by Tom Gastall that decided the day. Syracuse completed only 4 passes for 53 yards. It was a game full of big plays- five of them for over 50 yards. Pictures in the Post Standard showed Pete Schwert leaping with one hand to try to pull in a Mickey Rich pass in the first quarter. He failed. Art Trolio is shown being tackled for a five yard run, also in the first period. Sam Alexander bulls over for SU’s sole first half score. The same play was in the Herald-American and we see that Sam was upside down as he crossed the goal-line. It still counts. Trolio was shown making an 8 yard run in an adjacent photo. SU was in it’s white jerseys with orange helmets and pants and blue lettering and trim. BU looked like Penn State except their jerseys were scarlet, not blue. The Terriers went on to have one of the best years, going 7-2, with one-point losses to Holy Cross and Boston College and outscoring their opponents 256-93. They remained a major college team for another ten years but with decreasing success. (28-54-5). They never had another team like their 1954 bunch. SU would never lose to the Terriers again and the series would end in 1960. BU became a small college team and eventually gave up football. Boston College, (a school half the size of Boston U.) would become SU’s Boston rival, in a series that began with a 1958 game and became a permanent part of the schedule in 1961. SU fell to 1-2 and there was no doubt some grumbling about having such a record in the sixth year of Ben Schwartzwalder’s tenure. Did we have the right guy? 　　 [/QUOTE]

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