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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 885807, member: 289"] THE GAME Instead of 30,000 only 12,182 people showed up for the game and the Syracuse team didn’t initially seem to be among them. “A Syracuse team which got hot just long enough to wrap up the decision and which got a lot of bad football out of its system notched a 21-7 victory over battling Boston University at the old and dilapidated ball park formerly owned by the Boston Braves today….The Terriers, gaining well between the 30 yard stripes and particularly effective against the Orange second team, notched 15 first down to 9 for Syracuse. The losers gained 121 yards on the ground and 122 yards on eight pass completions in 17 tries. In contrast, Syracuse gained 125 yards on the ground and 37 through the air. The winner tried five passes and completed two. ” Basically, both teams tried to give the game away to the other team and Syracuse took better advantage of their opportunities. “On the game’s first scrimmage play, Boston fumbled and Cashman recovered on the BU 42. But, after Al Cann plunged for 13 yards, Ridlon politely fumbled back to the Terriers….Fiorino promptly hit wingback Fitzgerald for a 36 yard gain, brown and Ridlon bringing him down. Fiorino to Regan made it a first down on the orange 19. But Syracuse stiffened but grounded two passes to take over on its own 14.” Syracuse was forced to punt and Jim Ridlon’s boot “fell dead on the BU 43”. The Terriers went 57 yards on 14 plays to score. On one of those plays Fitzgerald fumbled and Ernie Jackson recovered but Syracuse was called for holding- an odd call since the ball was in neither team’s possession at the time of the infraction. “Hill turned Syracuse’s left end for the score, (from the 3) as the quarter ran out.” Pat Sullivan kicked the extra point to make it BU 7 SU 0. Syracuse drove to the BU 49 where Cann fumbled the ball away again. But the Orange defense forced a punt and SU got a big break when the snap to the punter sailed way over his head. Hill got a hold of it at the 25 but was “swarmed over” by SU defenders. Jim Brown swept to the 10. An offside penalty pushed the ball to the 5. Brown closed out the drive with a one yard plunge and then kicked the point to tie the score. The winning score was soon to follow. Bill Brown blocked a BU punt and Jerry Cashman “scooped up the ball and took two strides before slipping” on the 8 yard line. Ridlon ran it to the 4 on a sweep and then Jim Brown “dug for the score” and “cracked over” from the four. His conversion gave SU a 14-7 lead at the half. Big Jim returned the second half kick-off 30 yards to the SU 37. After running the ball for 5 yards Jim took a pitch-out and tossed a log pass that seemed to be over Dick Lasse’s head. “Lasse jumped high for Jim’s high toss and took the ball away from Boston’s Chuck Fiorino on the Terrier’s 31.” #44 got the ball three more times in six plays, the last a three yard plunge for the game’s final score, aside from Jim’s third conversion. And that was it: Jim Brown 21 Boston University 7. He’d scored all three touchdowns and every point. He’s rushed for 87 yards in 17 carries, completed a 32 yard pass and returned an interception for 40 yards. ‘Brown’ was named both the offensive and defensive player of the game- although the defensive POG was Bill Brown, not Jim. What can Brown do for you? One headline read “OFFICALS LOSE CONTROL OF GAME SEVERAL TIMES”. Bill Reddy: “This was a roughly-played, bruising scrap, in which players on both sides were carried off regularly while the officials let the game get away from them several times. It was the most poorly officiated game I’ve seen this season, although the indecision and mistakes by the whistle-blowers apparently had nothing to do with the outcome.” Arnie Burdick: “The game was marred by inefficient officiating, which resulted in several injuries to both squads. Charles P. Kelly of Cranston, RI, a new referee in major eastern football circles, continually used a slow whistle which resulted in a good deal of piling on and roughness after the ball carriers were obviously down.” Among the wounded were Joe Krivak, with a dislocated shoulder, Rudy Farmer, “who was jumped on by two Terriers after making a vital tackle” with an injured ankle and tackle Dick Anderson for Syracuse. For Boston, Chuck Fiorino, tackles Art Krozy and Ed Pautauskas and Chuck Wanosky, who hed been responsible for the bad snap that got SU going, were all injured. [/QUOTE]

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