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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1369051, member: 289"] [I]Aftermath[/I] Cancro gained 169 yards on both scrimmage plays and returns and was named the game MVP. BU outrushed SU 100-148 but SU held a 173-110 passing edge as Ben finally had the passing game he’s wanted for years. Chuck Zimmerman completed 6 of 10 passes. Dean led all the rushers with 80 yards. BU Coach Steve Sinko said that he had “overestimated Syracuse’s running attack and under-estimated their passing attack”. He called Zimmerman’s long pass to Fogarty that set up SU’s second touchdown “one of the most finely executed plays I’ve seen this year.” The Post Standard said it had been years since Syracuse had gained more yards through the air than on the ground. Asked about the screen pass that was decisive in the game, Sinko said he’d signaled in a “prevent defense to eat up the clock but the signal got in too pate and the Terriers instead put on a hard rush with SU was able to take advantage of. Ben said “Their ends were rushing in constantly. In fact, they did an excellent job for the Terriers. But they left the flanks open and gave us the opening for the screen pass which turned out to be the turning point in the game. “ Sinko called the game “”one of the most exciting in our series”. Someone suggested the game was full of ‘breaks’ and that it was decided “by the way the ball bounced”. Sinko replied “That’s true but it’s nice when you get a victory because of the way the ball bounced.” And SU had that victory. Ben said “We played a scattered game. We had some good plays and then right on top of them some bad ones. I am very happy with our line play. Preising played a good game and so did Lasse. Coffin had a good day and I think Boston’s Hill is some ball player…. Boston’s Canrco looked like a dandy back. The Herald Journal had a series of photos on the front of the sports page of the pass interference on Dick Aloise that set up SU’s second score. Syracuse is in their by now routine orange pants, white jerseys and orange helmets, which would be their regular uniform home and away for the next decade. Boston U. is in white pants and helmets with scarlet jerseys with a Baltimore Colts like double ring around the shoulders. The ball is on Aloise’s fingertops as he reaches forward for it but Leon Hill has inserted his arm between Dick’s arms as he is running by and pries Dick’s right arm away from the ball, which drops to the ground. It looks as if Hill’s arm got there before the ball. Good call. A dark shot on page 62 shows Mautino’s pick six, a classic “step in front of one” down the sidelines, timing it perfectly. The fact that he was a guard was a sign of the times. Linemen weren’t sumo wrestlers in those days. They were more like free-style wrestlers and they could move. A full page of pictures is entitled “Sequence camera captures aerial artistry”. The various captions tell the story: “Orange forward wall keeps Terriers away as ball leaves fingertips of Quarterback Chuck Zimmerman….Ball in flight (circled, upper right, heads toward uncovered receiver Chuck Fogarty, (Zimmerman was chucking it to Daniel Charles Fogarty)….Fogarty, who had to halt forward progress and backtrack upfield, begins to fall as he awaits pigskin…..On one knee and about to collapse to the turf, Fogarty makes catch as teammate Dick Lasse looks on. “ Then “Final Terrier touchdown is in air as pass from Len Hill to Johnny Maio sails over heads of linemen….Orange defense, caught unaware, now recognizes danger as Maio stands free in the end zone…Syracuse makes belated and fruitless attempt at pursuit as Mayo, still alone, awaits pigskin…and doubles over making fourth period catch that gave Boston a temporary 20-20 deadlock.” These shots were taken from the top of the stadium from what appears to be either the northeast or Southwest corner of the stadium, (I can’t see the opposite top of the stadium to determine which but it’s from an angle behind the end zone and much higher than the field. The Post Standard had a shot of Mautino’s pick six on the front of the sports page. Lou has classically timed the sideline route and stepped in front of the receiver. The ball, marked by an arrow, is on its way to him and his hands are outstretched in anticipation. On the next page they have two pictures: Dean’s 36 yard scoring run for Boston and another of the 26 yard pass to Cancro, all alone in the end zone. Dean seems to have run through the whole team and is being chased or followed by every player from both squads, none of whom have a hope of catching him. The picture of Cancro, taken from just behind him, shows him still running in the end zone but turning to catch the ball. On the third page was a picture of Len Hill recovering the muffed hand-off between Zimmerman and Ed Coffin. He’s crouched down like a shortstop fielding a ground ball. On the photo page, among shots of the world series between the Yankees and the Braves, where two more shots of the game, one of Hill interfering with Aloise and one of Zimmerman scoring the winner two plays later, entitled “”Zimmerman wraps it up”. Chuck is leaping over a submarining Charlie Wink (#58) and into the arms of a BU defender who is helpless to stop the score as he is standing in the end zone. On the front page of the paper, there was a shot of Ed Coffin diving over in the second period. Ed si having a harder time of, as a BU defender has grabbed him from behind. But Ed’s forward momentum was enough to get him into the end zone. In Monday’s columns, Bill Reddy quoted Ben Schwartzwalder: “We played a better game against Boston University and BU had a better tam than Iowa State”. It’s a relevant point: people look back at SU’s old schedules and conclude they “weren’t playing anybody back” because they played Colgate, Cornell, Holy Cross, Boston University, Fordham, etc. and they forget that in the one-platoon, limited substation era, it was more possible for middle-sized and private schools to be competitive, (actually, schools like Syracuse). We weren’t playing bad teams when we played those schools. Reddy reported that Syracuse had gotten out of the game without any serious injuries and players who had come in hobbled like Tom Stephens, Dean DeAngelis, Chuck Fogarty and Ernie Jackson, all played well. “The line looked strong and the improvement behind the line was heartening.” The Old Scout hadn’t gotten much sleep before he talked to Arnie Burdick. “Still playing over that ball game….guess my nerves are shot. …Despite what most people are saying, it wasn’t a bad defensive ball game that Syracuse played. If you can wipe out a few plays here and there- the boys seemed to lapse badly when something went against them and it usually cost them. Like after the Baker fumble: four plays later Boston had its first score. Or after Cancro shook free near the end of the first half, when it looked like he was trapped at the line: two plays later, BU tallied again. But on only two occasions was Boston able to put together two or more first downs: pretty good work. And aside from those lapses, Syracuse’s pass defense looked a lot better than it did a week ago. …they intercepted two passes, which scored a touchdown and set up another. And they put some real heat on passer Hill on a good many plays. Eight completions out of 12 is not a bad pass defense against an artist of Hill’s caliber.” Then the O.S. registered complaints about not “sticking to the receivers like glue” some bad pursuit angles and letting BU “off the hook” on third and fourth down too many times. Arnie got him some aspirin. “When the Old Scout was asked about the Orange offense, he began to sputter and stumble and fume.” He moaned “It’s about time that some of the criticism be taken off the Hill halfbacks, and put on the blocking up ahead of them. Everyone knew that without Brown and Ridlon, Syracuse halfbacking wasn’t going to be super this fall. But there’s no law against giving them some help, opening some holes for them. Even Brown ran better when he had help.“ Syracuse had gotten only three rushing first downs, “a frightening low”. The O.S. acknowledged that “Zimmerman did a fine job throwing and faking and there’s no question he had theNnew Englanders upset plenty.” But he wanted him to run the ball more. O.SD. praised the refs for not playing “Drop the Handkerchief”, noting that there were no 15 yard penalties in “a rugged game…it seems to me the fans enjoy it more this way.” The Terriers would be obliterated by future SU opponent West Virginia in their next game, 6-46 and later to future SU rival Boston College, 2-27 but they won all their other games to finish 5-3-0 after a 1-5-2 record the previous season. [/QUOTE]

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