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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 374658, member: 289"] THE GAME The Terriers had passed SU crazy the previous year, scoring 4 TD passes in the first half to take a 6-34 halftime lead on the way to a 19-41 win. They tried it again this year but the plan backfired. Ken Hagerstrom, who had plagued the Orange a year before with a couple of long scores and an interception in the end zone, returned the kick-off 33 yards to the Boston 40. But Len Hill’s first two passes were incomplete and the third was intercepted by Don Althouse and returned to the BU 24. Six plays later, Fern Kuczala snuck over from two yards out. Jim Brown kicked the point to put SU up 7-0. The terriers came right back. Hagerstrom again found a seam and returned the kick-off to the 39. This time they stayed on the ground, finding holes in the Orange wall. Seven straight running plays, three of more than 10 yards resulted in Frank Chiera going over form the four. But Jim Ridlon, playing one of his best games, blocked the point to keep SU ahead. They would quickly extend the lead. Billy Micho caught a shot kick-off at the 18 and returned it 29 yards to the SU 47. Kuczala hit Althouse for 11 yards and Althouse and Laacksonen both had 9 yard runs before Jim Brown “took a handoff, cut wide and sung back into the secondary. He shook off one tackler and raced the rest of the way to pay dirt, a 24 yard gallop.” Big Jim then kicked the point to make it 14-6. Chiera fumbled on the second play after the kick-off and Ron Tyler recorded for SU at the 34. It was the turn of SU’s second team and John Pannucci dropped back and floated a pass to Harvey Healy in the end zone for the score. A classic “sudden change” score. This time Jim’s conversion attempt didn’t make it past the line of scrimmage but the Orange led 20-6, after one. Syracuse dominated the second quarter but couldn’t score. A 54 yard punt return by Brown was topped by a 40 yard scoring run by #44. But it was called back for holding. Syracuse wound up faking a punt form the BU 39 but a pass fell incomplete. On it’s next possession the orange went on a grinding, penalty filled drive that ended with a failed fourth down plunge by Tyler at the BU 2. The home team got back to work in the third quarter. On the second play after the kick-off Jim Brown “swept to his right got a good block at the line of scrimmage and out-ran two Boston defenders on a 66 yard scoring jaunt. Jim made it a seven point play” and the score was a commanding Syracuse 27 Boston University 6. The Terriers awoke, too late. Hagarstrom had another good kick-off return to the 35. Boston drove to the Syracuse 31, where it was 4th and 9. An offsides penalty made it 4th and 4. Hagerstrom “burst into the secondary, got a good block from George Speneas and shook off a pair of tacklers at the 20 before going all the way to score. They try was wide and the score was 27-12. There was no more scoring but there was till excitement. An exchange of interceptions, the latter by Jim Ridlon set up the other Jim for a long but pointless romp. He “took a pitch-out and, with good blocking, reeled off a 54 yard run into the end zone.” The blocking was a little too good and the play was called back. Boston had one more threat, getting three straight first downs to the SU 30. But then Ridlon ended the threat with an interception and the Orange ran the clock out. Syracuse rushed for an impressive 293 yards in this game and passed for 57 more while holding the Terriers to 265. But that was evened out by the penalty yardage. Syracuse was called for 94 yards in penalties, (not counting the positive yardage that was negated). BU had a single offside penalty. But of course, if a play is created by an illegal block it’s best to pretend it never happened. Jim Brown had 129 yards that counted on only 10 carries. Ken Hagerstrom led the Terriers with 80 yards on 16 carries. The two teams combined to misfire on 18 of 27 passes, of which 4 were intercepted, three by Syracuse, two of them by Jimmy Ridlon. The visitors also lost the games only fumble. There was again a dearth of pictures in the paper, possibly because the game was played on Saturday night. Jim Brown was shown running over quarterback Len hill on this called back 40 yard run form the second period. Hill dislocated his shoulder and had to leave the game, as did his back-up, Tom Lerario shortly afterwards. SU’s started, Eddie Albright, as it turned out, was unable to play a down himself. That clearly contributed to the bad passing numbers. There were two shots of Fern Kuczala’s one yard run for SU’s first score. He’s falling forward across the goal line in the arms of two BU linemen. The first shot was in front, from the back of the end zone. The second was from the side and says it was a one yard run but Fern looks as if he’s more than a yard away from the goal line when the picture was snapped. Syracuse was in white jerseys with orange helmets and pants, BU in white helmets and pants with scarlet jerseys. 　 [/QUOTE]

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