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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2082649, member: 289"] THE AFTERMATH A headline said “Rice offers no excuses: Raiders beaten but not out-fought”. Bud Vander Veer: “It is difficult to describe the heartbreak that filled the quarters of the Colgate football team following its all-out losing battle to Syracuse here at Archbold Stadium yesterday. Exhaustion as well as disappointment marked the scene.“ Al Jamison “fought to hold back tears of disappointment”. Captain Al Antone told Coach Fred Rice Rice “I’m sorry. We wanted to win this one for you very badly.” Rice admitted his team was out-manned but “we hit with them, anyway. We’ll get them one of these years.” (We’re still waiting) Colgate’s lack of depth told. They had Jamison playing tackle on defense and fullbacks filling in at ends. Syracuse was well rested because, for the first time since Biggie Munn was coach, they didn’t spend Friday night in a dorm. “A top secret operation got 24 Syracuse players and coaches out of the city Friday and into a near- bye community (which head coach ben Schwartzwalder kept nameless).” Schwartzwalder: “They got some sleep last night. We’ve got to do the same thing for all our home games next year. Living in the dormitories where there are non-football players like our kids do they always have a hard time sleeping the night before a game. There’s always someone around to make noise.” That may be one reason why SU did so well in the late 50’s- they got a lot of sleep the night before the game. Ed Reddy had an article entitled “Orange Jubilant after victory: “We had the winning punch!” Mike Bill said “They gave us an awful good game for the first half. But we had the winning punch in the second half. We had more manpower and a great determination to win… We really gave our all- the sophs came through. Last week had a lot to do with it. We felt awful about that, (losing by a point to Holy Cross). Our double lines really wore them down. They tired and all we had to do was run wide after that….Colgate gave it all they had as far as they could go.“ Ben was pleased with the play of the second team, who had scored four times. (Kuczala, the senior, started the game over Zimmerman). He especially liked Jim Anderson. “That little guy can really run, can’t he?” He seemed to have a bright future but Schwartzwalder was a recruiting a kid from Elmira who could also really run – and was a much bigger. “Syracuse’s defensive backs said the Colgate pass patterns didn’t fool them. “We were just going to give them the short pats and trying to prevent the long one. We didn’t want them to get behind us, as Holy Cross did”, they said.” Schwartzwalder: “You don’t like to to ever let them complete a pass. But with the kind of defenders we’ve got, you’ve got to give that other guy the short pass over the long pass.” “The touchdown pass Schwedes threw his first in a game but it was no surprise to his coach. “He’s been throwing that long one in practice all along.” He would keep practicing it. Reddy: “Gerry Schwedes, who had been used as a second string fullback, was moved to right half for this game to give the orange more power from that spot and the moved paid off in strange fashion. It moved Anderson, rather than Schwedes who helped break the Raider defenses wide open.“ Jim Anderson was voted the outstanding back of the game while Colgate’s Al Jamieson was the top lineman. SU retained possession for the “Golden Horseshoe” that the winner of the SU-Colgate game was presented with each year. Arnie Burdick’s old friend, The Old Scout, “was in a jubilant mood. He bounded out of his car at his usual early hour, raced up the front lawn and didn’t even bother to stop to ring the bell. He was in a holiday spirit, as his ruddy face revealed. It looked like he’d been out carousing but, evidently, there were things about the 58th Syracuse-Colgate affair that he wanted to discuss before the book was closed.” The O.s. told him “After last year’s one-sided affair this was very enjoyable. After all, Colgate battled every inch of the way. They put up a real good fight until Syracuse’s greater manpower had them whipped physically. It was actually two teams beating one. And the Raiders have some freshmen…The Colgates have some budding football players. They are going to be a real help next fall. The rabbit hunts are over.” “It sure was a a hittn’ affair out there, wasn’t it? The Colgates hit the Orange all day and that’s the kind of football that will pay off. And it was the kind of a game that is fun to watch., especially the first half….You know I can’t remember seeing a game recently where a lineman played such a prominent part in the offensive pattern of play as Al Jamison did. Usually it’s a back or two backs who run the sweep. But Syracuse’s defenses had to concentrate on this big pass catcher. They tried to hold him up But only Dick Aloise seemed to be strong enough and big enough to be effective in this deportment of play….There was a lot of talk last evening as to whether Jamison or Syracuse’s Dick Lasse is the better is the better end. That’s a hard decision to make for they’re two different types and they both fit nicely into the scheme of play that their coaches use. Lasse can’t catch passes with Jamison, but who can? Jamison can’t block with Lasse and there are few harder blocking ends around. I’d say defensively, it’s about a tie. Both are hard to move but each can be swept. I guess that if you were a coach you’d like both of them. ..” “Gosh, that buck-lateral sequence that Schwartzie has is a tough chestnut to defense. And the best thing about it is, it keeps the other fellow from keying off of the Orange quarterback all afternoon. It slows up his charge. I wouldn’t know what the record books show but I’ll bet that, percentage-wise, Syracuse has scored more touchdowns off its buck-lateral series than from any other formation, if you consider the few times it’s been sued. The pass play that worked Saturday clicked for scores against Maryland and Colgate two years ago. It wouldn’t surprise me if Schwartzie shows his old college chums a lot more of the buck-lateral Saturday at West Virginia.” “I can’t remember seeing a game recently where the winning team didn’t have one or two boys who stood out above the rest. But it sure was hard to pick out Syracuse’s top players, which could be a real tip-off. They had so many good ones. They still carried out their assignments in a workmen-like way. It seemed that things were set up for the positon, not the individual and that it just happened to be a matter of luck as to who was in the game at the time, as to who did the running, passing or scoring. This si the stamp of good team play, good coaching, depth: it’s what makes good football teams click. “ The O.S> noted that both Dan Fogarty and Tom Stephens nearly got away for scores on punt returns. “If Don had gotten by (Zimmerman), it would have been the first punt returned for a touchdown in the nine years that Ben Schwartzwalder has bene at Syracuse.” On Monday Bill Reddy wrote: “People are starting to talk. When Syracuse beat Colgate 34-6, coming atop last year’s victory, 61-7, there were many who expressed the opinion that this traditional series, renewed for the 58th time last week, has seen its best days, gate-wise Sportswriters who have bene coming here for years to cover the annual “big game” in Upstate New York were among those who left Archbold Stadium disappointment. Said one of them, with several others nodding agreement: “This used to be a great game but the edge is gone. It looks now as if Syracuse and Colgate are in different leagues. It’s a shame but it’s not the game it used to be.” Reddy pointed out that Colgate still led the series 31-22-5, (it wouldn’t be tied up until 2016). The response: “Sure Colgate won all those games but there was never a game in the series when Syracuse didn’t have a chance. Those were good games, generally speaking. These last few games have seen Colgate outclassed.” Reddy blamed it on Colgate’s courting the Ivy League “too avidly”, by adopting some of their de-emphasis policies, such as abolishing spring practice. He wondered if the Colgate Frosh’s 42-13 win over the Tangerines “was an augury of closer competition”. But he felt without spring practice, they’d be going in ‘cold’ in the fall and be at a disadvantage compared to the SU frosh, (who would play in three more wins over Colgate by a combined 164-6). “Syracuse, playing virtually the same rugged schedule in ’58 that it is finishing out this week, needs spring practice to cope with the likes of Pitt, Penn State, Nebraska and the newcomer to the ’58 slate, Boston College. Colgate, its schedule dotted with Ivy league teams, which forgo spring drills, doesn’t need early work to be on a par with the Ivies. But it most assuredly needs as much work as it can get to mix with the lights of Army, Illinois and Syracuse. The Orangemen can’t go backwards. Committed to future schedules which include many of the current foes plus tams like Army, navy, Maryland, Miami and Oklahoma, they have to continue building as strong as possible. The Raiders, trying to please the ivies and still play some of the nation’s stronger teams, can’t keep a foot in both camps successfully.” Ben Schwartzwalder ended his post-game address to the team by saying “Don’t forget boys- we’ve got another game next week!” And that may have been the problem- playing another game on the road against a tough team the week after the emotional peak of the Colgate game. [/QUOTE]

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