The Bold, Brave Men of Archbold 1956: Holy Cross

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In the days of old, when knights were bold
Every city had its warrior man.
In the days of new, when fights are few
You will view them from a big grandstand.
In our college town one has great renown
If the game of football he should play.
With his pig-skin ball he is cheered by all,
He's the Saltine Warrior of today.
Chorus: The Saltine Warrior is a bold, bad man,
And his weapon is a pigskin ball,
When on the field he takes a good, firm stand,
He's the hero of large and small.
He will rush toward the goal with might and main
His opponents all fight, but they fight in vain,
Because the Saltine Warrior is a bold, bad man,
And victorious over all.


We are early in a new era in SU football- the Scot Shafer era. 64 years ago, another era began- the Ben Schwartzwalder Era, during which SU rose from its greatest depths to its greatest heights, and then all the way back down again. It was the era into which I was born, the one I remember from my youth. I can still recall listening to the games on the radio and waiting until Tuesday to see the grainy black and white films of the previous Saturday’s games on the local news. The music played over these highlights was not “Down, Down the Field”. It was “The Saltine Warrior”. My Dad thought he knew the beginning of it and would sing “The Saltine Warrior was a bold, brave man”. I later found that the line was “bold, bad, man”. But that’s not the way I learned it and it’s not the way I like it. My heroes were not “bad” men. They were “brave” men. They were the “Bold, Brave Men of Archbold”.


(My primary sources for this series is the Post Standard Archive, which also includes the Herald Journal, various publications I have collected, including Street & Smiths and the NCAA Guide, Ken Rappoport’s The Syracuse Football Story and The Nittany Lions, The Terrapins by Paul Attner, Syracuse University Football by Michael Mullins and various internet sights, as noted.)

 

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THE BUILD-UP

This past season, (2013), before we played Wagner, I heard several newscasters repeat a statement that “Syracuse hasn’t lost to a Division 1AA team since 1958.” They were talking about Holy Cross, the only team to beat us during the regular season that year, (by one point). But there was no such thing as Division 1AA back then. There was a concept of major colleges and small colleges but the Crusaders were not considered one of the small colleges. They were a respected major eastern independent . They had been to the Orange Bowl in 1945, losing to Miami on the last play of the game. They were coached by Dr. Eddie Anderson, who had played for Knute Rockne at Notre Dame and won 201 games in a 40 year coaching career and was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971.


In 1956 they came into the Syracuse game with a record of 3 wins, 2 losses and 1 tie, (they would finish with a solid 5-3-1). They’d beaten Colgate and Boston U., (two other schools who were major independents at the time and wound up in D1AA). They’d also beaten the Quantico Marines, a respected service team, tied Dartmouth and lost to Penn State. That game was a 0-43 debacle, which made the Orange a heavy favorite. “Because Holy Cross suffered at 43-0 loss to Penn State, beaten by Syracuse last week, fans may have a tendency to under-rate the Crusaders. However, Holy Cross bounced back from that loss to defeat Colgate 20-6, which means that they’re capable of beating any team in the East on a given day.”


Bill Reddy reported: “Holy Cross, next objective of the Hillmen, apparently has come a long way since its sophomore-studded squad lost by 43-0 to Penn State. The Crusaders beat Boston University Saturday in a real bruiser and reports from Boston indicate that HC dominated play against the Terriers even more that Syracuse could against the same BU array. The Orange pass defense is in for a real test this week, too, because Bill Smithers, top quarterback with the Crusaders, not only is a fine passer but he can run well, too. Best bet of the week is that HC will flood the air above Archbold Saturday and the Orange will have to be alert every second.” Smithers had completed had completed 30 of 62 passes for 436 yards and 5TDs. But interceptions had been a problem for the Crusaders. Smithers had thrown 13 of them. His back-ups Tom Greene and Tom Roberts had thrown 7 more. 20 of their 94 pass attempts had been intercepted. “Smithers, a 22 year old senior, is the lad Schwartzwalder fears the most. The 180 pound back is an elusive running back who is always a threat to run the ball if there is an opening.”


Arnie Burdick on Smithers: “Two of the most exciting athletes to ever perform on athletic fields, Billy Smithers and Bob Cousy, will hog the center of Syracuse stages in Archbold Stadium tomorrow afternoon and the War Memorial Sunday evening. Smithers, a senior from Somerville, Mass, has been threatening to give the Holy Cross Crusaders one of her best football machines for several years. Only a gimpy knee, received in a high school gridiron accident, plus a propensity to operate in an erratic manner, has prevented Billy from living up to his pre-Worcester promise, when he was the talk of the tough Boston schoolboy league. Smithers is a genuine triple-threat in every sense of the word and his ability to take a pass, then run, stamps him as the key to Crusader hopes in tomorrow’s big Orange-Purple clash. “ Arnie compared him favorably to Penn State’s Milt Plum, who had a 33 yard run against the Orange the previous Saturday. “Plum is a good runner but Smithers is a great one….Its’ a good bet that every eye in Archbold will be on Mrs. Smithers’ boy, Billy, tomorrow. His efforts figure to make or break the Crusader team. ”


“The other members of the Crusader backfield are fellows who will around to plague Syracuse in the future. In the process of rebuilding, Anderson is expected to start junior Jack Ringel at left half, soph Ed Hayes at right half, and sophomore Joe Stagnone at fullback. Dale Hohl, a senior who has his brother, Ken as a competitor as well as Ringel, is also a possibility at left half. A hard runner, Dale is one of the Cross kicking specialists. ” Dick Archand and Dave Stecchi were the ends.


“Crusader fans are reveling in the opportunity the team has to erase memories of the loss to Penn State by beating Syracuse.” Eddie Anderson: “We realize we’re walking into the home dugout of the eastern champions but we are going to try to make it an interesting afternoon.“ The Herald-Journal said “Syracuse must alter its defensive alignments to cover a wide variety of offenses used by the Crusaders. Orange scout Bill Eschenfleder reports: ‘They use 11 different types of offenses and with Smithers in the game it’s difficult to forecast just what play will develop.” Ben Schwartzwalder: “We’re not taking Holy Cross lightly. We know that they are a continually improving outfit and a team that has a mighty big forward wall.” Billy Reddy called the Crusaders “the biggest team Syracuse will face all season, considerably heavier than the Syracuse eleven.”


Syracuse came through the Penn State game relatively healthy and was getting some players back, which was welcome news for players such as Jim and Bill Brown and Jim Ridlon who had to play most of the 60 minutes due to the lack of available replacements. Guard Rudy Farmer was expected back and so was end Chuck Strid who had to leave the Penn State game when he was “shaken up”, (a term frequently used in those days for a non-specific injury). Don Althouse, who had seen limited service vs. the Nittany Lions, was expected to play more against Holy Cross. “A sprained ankle has kept Big Don inactive most of this fall with Nick Baccile and Dick (Moose) Aloise filling in for him. This latter pair has showed a lack of game experience in recent tests.”


The search for a quarterback who could complete a pass continued. “The Hill passing game, which showed a record of no completions in seven tries against the Nittany Lions, does not show the three or four times that a pass was called and the passer had to eat the ball. There’s work to be done here and it’s a good bet that Schwartzie will give sophomore Dan Fogarty a chance to show what he can do this week. The latter, pressed into offensive action late in the first half Saturday when both Chuck Zimmerman and Ferd Kuczala had used up their substation eligibility, sparked the club to their only TD of the opening half, (and the game).” The situation was so bad that Jim Ridlon was even being given some practice snaps at quarterback to see what he might accomplish. “Several times the 6 foot 187 pounder has passed well from the right half position and he pitched for touchdowns against Army and West Virginia from that spot last year.” Schwartzwalder: “If we could complete a pass, it might upset our kids so much that we’d lose the game. But we’re going to have to take that chance.”


Syracuse had risen to #11 in the coach’s poll, #9 in the writer’s poll and #8 in a poll quoted in the Herald Journal put together by the International News Service. An article suggested that the Syracuse-Penn State game was an elimination game for a Cotton Bowl bid but that Navy, was still in consideration. Like Syracuse, they were 5-1, having beaten William & Mary, Cornell, Cincinnati, Pennsylvania and Notre Dame but losing to Tulane. They still had difficult games coming up against Duke and Army and a game against Virginia.


Thursday’s Herald Journal had a photo of Ernie Jackson, Jim Ridlon and Jim Brown listening to Roy Simmons explain the Orange “battle plans”. Jim had accumulated 687 rushing yards, 4th in the nation. The three men ahead of him had all played 7 or 8 games. Jim was going for the Syracuse single season record of 805 yards, set by George Davis in 1949, Ben’s first year.


Miss Sonia Dalrymple, a seventh grade English teacher at the Lincoln school, asked her pupils to write an essay on the person they admired the most. Several of them chose Jim Brown. Some of their comments: “He is the bread and butter player…He has overcome criticism of his color to become a great football star….He has the best personality I know. Down at the recent Chiefs rally, he appeared to make a speech. After a few words, he went backstage. After about 15 minutes, he was going home. Everybody swarmed around him. He waited patiently until everybody’s autograph was signed….I think he has a nice personality. If I ever play football, I would like to play like him. It’s sure going to be tough next year without him. Nothing can stop him. They tear his shirt or do anything, but they can’t stop him. Ever since he was number 44, it became my favorite number….I admire him, for in a game he wouldn’t get mad or blow up because one of his fellow players fumbled or misses a pass. He would probably say ‘Let’s try again.’” The Herald Journal named Jim it’s “athlete of the week”, which got him a new suit of clothes at a local store. I guess it was OK with the NCAA.


Arnie Burdick got a letter from one John Arndt “who wants to know if the sequence run by Syracuse when the quarterback, calling signals, turns around and the ball is snapped, is legal. Syracuse first started to operate in this fashion in 1952 as a change-of-pace. Pat Stark, who was the T quarterback of that team, whirled 180 degrees, counted at least one full prior to the ball being snapped. Coach Schwartzwalder has used this formation sparingly the last four seasons, operating an interesting buck-lateral series from it. It has never been ruled illegal the way Syracuse has operated it, though several opponents, including Maryland’ Jim Tatum, have complained. The officials have ruled that the quarterback is a legal man in motion, as long as he doesn’t make a quick or jerky motion. Syracuse scored with it last year at Worcester against Holy Cross on a beautiful, multiple ball-handling 60 yard maneuver …Ditto, Maryland. It was a perfect play. Quarterback Eddie Albright whirled and the ball was snapped directly to full back Don Laacksonen, who bucked into the middle of the line, slipping the ball to Albright. Eddie flipped to pigskin back to right halfback Mark Hoffman, who was circling to his left. Hoffman then threw a left-handed strike to end Jim Ridlon, who raced the final 30 yards unmolested. Who says the Orange had no pass plays?” And who says that football back then was “primitive”, with no imagination?


But when were we going to really bust out and score a lot of points against someone? Syracuse had a sterling 5-1 record but had out-scored their opposition by only 101-62, (17-10 per game.) Don’t good teams dominate their opponents? Could SU continue to win so many close games?


23,000 tickets had been sold for the game, (which would be played at Archbold), “the largest crowd ever to see Holy Cross play”. Holy Cross arrived Friday and went right to Archbold for a practice session as some light snow flurries were headed into town. A tarp was then put over the field, which was expected to be a bit muddy. Bill Reddy: There are those who figure will it be more dangerous if today’s game is played on a dry field because the visitors have been at their best with a passing attack. Yet, if it comes up mud, the Holy Cross weight may make the visitors even more formidable in a low-scoring contest.” The Orange was a 14 point favorite.


Bill Reddy: There’s no trace of a defeatist attitude in the Holy Cross squad which flew into Syracuse yesterday. The Crusaders have a long line of scores to settle with Syracuse and they’re up for this game. No Holy Cross official would predict a victory for the visitors but Dr. Eddie Anderson, gentlemanly coach of the Crusaders, admitted that “If we play the best football we’re capable of playing for the whole game, we could be in there all the way.”

 

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THE GAME

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Only 17,000 fans actually showed up on the 29 degree day with the 10MPH wind blowing across Archbold from the north and occasional light snow flurries. The game turned out to be proof of a statement various attributed to Woody Hayes or Darrell Royal, (or others): “When you pass, three things can happen. And two of them are bad.”


Jim Ridlon returned the opening kick-off to the Orange 35 but SU couldn’t move the ball and Jimmy punted to Bill Smithers who returned it to the Holy Cross 23. Smithers completed a couple passes for first downs to the SU 49. But then he was sacked on consecutive plays and a short punt gave the Orange the ball on their 42. Ridlon “passed down the middle to (Ernie) Jackson” for 31 yards”. But then three plays gained 5 yards and a fourth down pass was intercepted at the 5 by Smithers who returned it to the 13.


Ringel ran off left tackle for 11 yards but a subsequent a holding penalty put the ball back on the 12. Then Smithers faked a pass and swept for 33 yards to the Holy Cross 45. But then the tide turned- twice.

Smithers passed to Ringel who bobbled the ball into the arms of Fred Kuczala who then handed the ball to Gus Zaso, who ran it back to the Orange 46. Then Kuczala threw an interception and Holy Cross had the ball back on its 42.


From there they drove to the first score. It wasn’t Smithers’ passing that did it: it was Tom Greene’s. The pay-off was a 28 yarder over Ed Ackley’s head to Dick Bernadino. The kick was deflected wide but the visitors led 0-6. It was the last play of the first period.


Chuck Zimmerman then returned “Massa’s flat kick-off” to the SU 38. He hit a leaping Jim Ridlon with a pass to the HC 37. Then Jim Brown “took a pitch-out from Zimmerman and threw a perfect strike to (Nick) Baccile, who took it on the Holy Cross 15 and romped over from there.” Brown kicked the extra point to make it Syracuse 7, Holy Cross 6.


It didn’t take long to add to the lead. Ridlon intercepted a Smithers pass at the Holy Cross 37. Two running played netted 7 yards. Then Zimmerman made a perfect throw for 30 yards to Ridlon at the 7. He took two steps into the end zone. Brown again converted and it was 14-6. Holy Cross drove to the Syracuse 32 but another interception by Gus Zaso ended the threat and the half.


Holy Cross got the second half kick-off but had to punt to the SU 42. Ridlon ran the ball to the Holy Cross 42 on a reverse but fumbled. Smithers tried to pass the ball but Jerry Cashman tipped the ball and Ed Bailey grabbed it out of the air and ran 40 yards to paydirt. Brown again converted and it was 21-6.


But the Holy Cross Crusade continued. They penetrated to the SU 36 but had to punt to the 16. They forced a Don Althouse punt to the Cross 42. From there they went 58 yards for their second score, highlighted by Green’es 34 yard pass to Turrin. The capper was a 9 yard pass to Archand, who got his hands on the ball, was leveled by Jim Brown and dropped it. But it was ruled a catch by the head linesman, one Worthington Surrick. They didn’t have to “complete the play” in those days, although Holy Cross did after a fashion by kicking the extra point to make it 21-13.It was still anybody’s ball game.


But Jimmy Brown made it his ball game. Held to only 13 yards rushing to this point, He ripped off consecutive runs of 17 and 18 yards on sweeps and then charged up the middle, “shaking off tackler”, for 30 yards to the Holy Cross 6. Three plays later Brown took a pitch-out and ran it in from the 4. He then kicked the point to make it 28-13.


Ridlon intercepted at the Holy Cross 41 but Syracuse was forced to punt. Then came the clincher. “Smithers dropped back to pass, was chased hard, fumbled the ball and the ball bounced into the end zone. There Strid was the first of three Orange-clad linemen to leap on it for the easy score.” This time Brown missed the conversion but Syracuse still had a three touchdown lead at 34-13.


But Holy cross refused to give up. They drove 56 yards, mostly through the air, Greene hitting Ringel from 27 yards out for the score. The snap on the conversion was fumbled but “Hohl made the 20th point when he when he scooped up the bobbled pass and dodged, dipped, did the fandangoed and ricocheted into the end zone.” To make it 34-20.


There were three minutes left and the Orange worked the clock in a long, grinding 11 play drive that culminated in a pass from Kuczala to Baccile for the final score with 2 seconds left. It’s interesting that Syracuse didn’t simply let the clock run out. Was there some bad blood involved? Whatever the situation, Brown kicked the point, his 5th in 6 tries to make the final score Syracuse 41 Holy Cross 20. We’d finally scored some points!


But we really didn’t dominate the play in this game by as much as the score indicated. Holy Cross gained more yards, 323-340 and first downs 13-18. They also ran 67 plays to 49 for Syracuse. Syracuse had the edge in rushing, 179-103, (Jimmy Brown rushed for 102 yards in 15 carries, 70 of them on the scoring drive that produced the fourth touchdown. He now had 789 yards rushing and needed only 17 more to break George Davis’ 1949 season rushing record. Holy Cross won the aerial battle, 144-238. But it was a scoop that Syracuse did that well in the air. The Orange completed 6 passes in 11 attempts for an average of 24 yards a catch and three touchdowns, (thrown by three different players: Brown, Zimmerman and Kuczala). The 6 completions were as many as Syracuse had had in their previous 4 games. The three touchdown passes were the first the Orange had since they got two in the opener vs. Maryland. The Crusaders attempted 31 passes, completing 18 of them for their 238 yards, (13.2 per catch). But they were playing with fire. SU intercepted five passes, one for a touchdown, got five sacks and forced that fumble into the end zone for another score. Tom Greene vastly outplayed Bill Smithers, completing 13 of 22 for 181 yards and all three HC touchdowns.


The Orange had now won five games in a row since the loss to Pitt in the second game. It was their longest winning streak since 1942, when they’d opened with five straight wins. That steak had included games against small college teams like Clarkson and Western Reserve. Looking back through the scores in the SU Media Guide, the only other five game winning streak against schools then considered to be “major colleges” that I could find prior to 1956 was in 1917 when the Orange beat Brown, Bucknell, Colgate, Michigan State and Nebraska.

 

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THE AFTERMATH

The Herald-American had two pictures on the front of the sports page. One is captioned “Look Ma, No Hands!” after the old commercial. A second period Holy Cross pass went over Ed Hayes’ head. Of greater import, (and size) is the shot of Chuck Strid, Jerry Cashman and Ed Bailey racing to see which would be the first to pounce on Billy Smithers’ fumble in the end zone for the clinching score. This one was called “Linemen’s Delight”. SU players are all in orange from helmet to pants, (it comes out as nearly black in the pictures. Four pages later there was “Unique Numbers Game”, two shots showing SU’s #16, Jim Ridlon, chasing Holy Cross’s #16, Jack Ringel, across the goal line and then Holy Cross’s #85, Dick Bernadino chasing Nick Baccile, #85, across the same goal line on separate plays.


The full page 65 was devoted to pictures of the game. The top picture, “One for Jim”, showing #44 sweeping to the right to score SU’s fourth TD. The picture is not too clear but someone is blocking the nearest Crusader and Jim has plenty of room to waltz into the end zone past that block. Three other defenders are running toward the play but they are just spectators. Below that Jim Brown, (with that mysterious large white stripe on his helmet: other players have narrow blue stripes- SU had game captains that year so that’s not it), leaps with and Al Cann leap simultaneously to try to intercept a pass to Dick Bernadino. Neither got this one but the pass was deflected. The shot of Bernadino shows off Holy Cross’s uniform: purple helmets with double white stripes and the number on the side, rings around the shoulders on the white jerseys with large block purple numbers and purple pants with double white stripes down the side.


Next to that shot is “Backfire”, Ed Bailey going 40 yards with the interception that gave SU its second touchdown. The last possible tackler is sprawled on the turf, five yards behind him and he is galloping, knees high, toward the end zone. Linemen in those days were not much bigger than backs so Bailey didn’t “lumber” like today’s 300 pounders would have. He ran. Below that we see Jim Brown jumping into the back of Dick Archand in the end zone as the pass that Archand “caught” for the Crusader’s second score, arrives. That’s a close-up shot from the back of the end zone. Next to that is a broad shot of Bill Smithers on his 33 yard fake pass and bootleg from the HC 12 to the 45 in the first period. He’s holding the ball far out from his body and he takes evasive maneuvers, as well he might. There’s one defender immediately to his left and three more right behind him. He’s on the 20 yard line and got to the 45 so the evasive maneuvers worked.


The Post Standard had a shot of Jim Brown being tackled after a 30 yard run in that drive where he gained 70 and scored his only TD. It’s taken from the front and HC’s Gordon Massa is hugging his hips while Jim tried to push him away with one of his famous straight-arms. But he can’t quite get it straight on this occasion. The Post Standard shots are lighter than the Herald’s and it can be more easily seen that the Orange is in orange.


The PS sports page had a classic shot that I’ve looked at for years without knowing what game it was from. It appears on page 195 of Ken Rappoport’s “The Syracuse Football Story”, which I got when it came out in 1975. There the caption reads “A game of the 1950’s and two Syracuse players are on the ball- Chuck Strid and Ed Bailey.” I’ve spent four decades wondering which game of the 50’s it was. It was this game. The picture shows the Smithers’ fumble into the end zone. This one is taken from behind the goal line but to the side, (the Herald shot is from the top of the stadium and behind the paly, also a bit later in the play). The ball is out and has bounced across the goal line. Strid and Bailey see it and are just starting to react, (Cashman is obscured by a referee who is the only thing between the three players and the ball.) The picture has those wonderful additions the paper always added including the inevitable “goal line” sign. We see a dotted line from where the ball was fumbled into the end zone, an arrow at the end pointing to a circle with the bouncing ball inside of it. Strid and Bailey have their own signs identifying them.


Below that is a shot of Jim Ridlon, racing directly toward the camera, which is behind the end zone, on his second period TD reception. He looks like a very determined fumble and I wouldn’t have wanted to try to tackle him. On Page 34 We see Dick Bernadino turning to take Tom Greene’s pass over the head of Ed Ackley for their first score. The next page is another shot of Jim Brown scoring on that sweep. We can now see that the man being blocked was Dale Hohl, who is on the ground here as Tom Greene runs along the goal line to try to stop Brown but Jimmy is just a step away.


The famous Sports Illustrated cover shot of Chuck Zimmerman, which was on their 10/27/58 cover is actually a cropped version of a picture taken from the 11/10/56 Holy Cross game:

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Bill Reddy’s Monday column told a story about Ben Schwartzwalder. Holy Cross’s Dr. Eddie Anderson had played for Knute Rockne in the 20’s and Ben had nearly played for Rockne, too. The great man had heard about Ben’s play in high school in west Virginia and came to see him play. Ben was only a 148 pound, (I kid you not) lineman but Rockne, who’d based his teams on speed, rather than size, wasn’t concerned. He offered Ben an opportunity to come and play for him at Notre Dame. “After Rock’s visit, I was walking on air”. But Ben’s father died shortly afterwards and he wanted to stay closer to home. So he went to West Virginia and started for three years. But he never forgot his meeting with Knute Rockne.


Reddy reported that Avatus Stone had been in attendance at the game. He’d become a star in Canadian football, largely due to his exceptional punting. But an old leg injury he had first sustained at SU had flared up and he was here to get it examined.


Arnie Burdick helped the Old Scout put up his storm windows while they discussed the game. The OS was pleased with the improved passing attack. I thought Chuck Zimmerman looked looser and more confident yesterday… he looked more like the boy who riddled the Maryland defenses with his passes in the opening game of the season.“ Part of it was Dr. Anderson’s decision to put seven men on the line of scrimmage to try to stop Jim Brown.


The Old Scout continued to be impressed with Jim Ridlon. “It looked to me , too, that Jim Ridlon was having his best day. He did so many things well. He threw passes, caught them knocked them down, intercepted them . He punted dead to the 12, which set up our fifth TD and almost broke away for a long touchdown run early in the second half, when he fumbled with what looked like a clear field ahead. He was changing the ball from one arm to the other, when he was about to cut back and got hit.” A San Francisco 49er scout, Joe Ventrano, was in attendance and “was talking to himself about Ridlon”. The 49ers would draft Jim in the 4th round of the 1957 NFL Draft and he played for them for 6 years.


He also praised the other Jim, Brown. “His fourth quarter performance yesterday looked like a repeat of his late rush in the West Virginia game. Something seemed to snap inside of him when they ruled that the Holy Cross end had held the ball long enough in the end zone for a score. Jim just seemed to step up the pace another notch or two and say “Give me the ball- I’ll run right over ‘em ‘till I score.” On his longest jaunt on that surge – 30 yards – the Syracuse blocker who was supposed to take the end forgot to pull. That didn’t bother Jimmy: he just blew him right over. Maybe that’s what we ought to call him, especially with all of this cold weather and snow that’s on the way: THE BROWN BLIZZARD, THE WIZARD OF ORANGE.”


The Scout was pleased with our opportunistic pass defense but felt that it’s biggest challenge would be against Colgate’s Guy martin the next week, whom he rather above both Milt Plum and Bill Smithers because of his accuracy and deft ball-handling. “It should be a high-scoring, action-packed game, the kind the fans like to see.”