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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1380764, member: 289"] THE AFTERMATH SU clubhouse manager Al Zak had fired up the team beforehand with an impassioned speech urging them to remember Frank “Doc Hugo”, who had been the school’s head trainer for 25 years, (1925-50) before Julie Reichel. Hugo had died at age 78 the day after the Iowa State game, after along illness. “It was the only time the kids ever saw me cry”. He told them. “I wantta tell you about one of the greatest guys ever to represent Syracuse U. , my best pal I ever worked with- Doc Hugo. Don’t cheer goin’ outa here now…Just say a prayer for yourselves and one for Old Doc’s soul- and win the game for him.” When the players came back into to the locker room after the victory, “meeting each and every player at the door was Zak. “Thanks a lot for Hugo” he told them all. “Thanks a lot for the speech” was the general reply.” You wonder how inspirational such a speech, (for a former employee many of the players had never met) would goe today. Dan (“Chuck”) Fogarty “said it was no problem mastering plays at two positons, (he played halfback and quarterback with equal brilliance and was a demon on pass defense). “I had been working on both all week.” Another thing you’d never hear of today. Ben Schwartzwalder “liked little Fogarty. “He’s very imaginative and had a good day.” But he also had nice things to say about Gerhard Schwedes and Dave Baker, among others.“ He felt it was “our best game. …we made our usual errors in that first quarter. it took us a while to get going but we really jelled in the second period….I guess we were a pretty good ballclub today. The boys looked the best they have to date…Our backs are running much better….we just had a good day.” Lefty James “had a hard time finding words. It was only natural. His first thoughts were of his players. “They were really up for this one. They don’t feel very good now. And that second period, their 26 points came so fast. We were more surprised than anything else. It knocked us off our feet. It was hard to get them ready to go back out for the third quarter. “ He was disappointed with his pass defense. “Syracuse has a very strong team. They have an excellent passing attack. We thought we had it licked from scouting reports but we just stood there watching when they passed.” The paper reported that “Syracuse’s ground game didn’t show Lefty much” but didn’t elaborate. Syracuse had started the game in a no huddle offense but was unable to move the ball. James: “I was hoping we’d call a time out, (it would have to come from a player on the field in 1957), but the boys were ready for them . My boys surprised me as much as the Syracuse series did.” Then as now, it’s not the pace of your play that counts. It’s the consistency of your gains. Ed Coffin was again SU’s rushing leader with 54 yards. Fogarty had 42, each in 8 carries. Bob McAnnif led Cornell with only 25 yards. Bo Roberson was held to only 4 yards rushing in 7 carries but had that long pass play, which came to nothing. He totaled 58 yards on two catches. The Orange ran for 151 yards and passed for 171 more on 7 completed passes. Chuck Zimmerman had more passing yards in three games than he did in the entire 1956 season, (336-278). Cornell mustered only 51 yards rushing and 155 passing on 10 for 19. Syracuse lost 4 fumbles and threw an interception but Cornell lost two fumbles of their own and the Orange picked off 4 Big Red passes. The Herald American sports page had a triptych of Fogarty’s second period interception. Dan, (which he preferred to Chuck, according to the Herald), reaches forward to collect and obviously errant throw at his knees at the Syracuse 14. He has three SU defenders, now blockers, out in front of him. He starts to his right but cuts left at the 20, taking advantage of what becomes a wall of blockers until they run out and he’s tackled at the SU 47. Syracuse is in their traditional orange helmets and pants and white jerseys with blue lettering and trim. Cornell is in red jerseys with two narrow but separated stripes just above the elbow, white pants and lettering and those red helmets with the wide white stripes over the top where the padding is. A full page of photos was entitled “”Sequence Camera Catches Syracuseans on a Tear at Ithaca”. Five pictures entitled “Tom’s pay dirt jaunt” showed #44 scoring on that screen pass in the second period. “Tom Stephens, Orange halfback, turned screen pass from Zimmerman into a 33 yard scoring play. No. 1 shows Stephens, arrowed, starting his run after catching pass. In picture No. 2 white shirted George Stock moves in to help block path. Sot No. 3 shows Stock partially blocking a defender while No. 4 Stephens is seen crossing goal line. At right official signals 6 point play.” The play got pretty crowded as Stephens neared the goal line, with an escort of three SU blockers and 5 Cornell defenders, which he knifes through to tumble into the end zone. Below that are three vertically placed pictures marked “A”, “B” and “C”. “This started it”, read the caption. “Chuck Fogarty, (I thought he preferred “Dan”), arrowed, No. 29, found Ed Coffin leading the interference path on his way to first Syracuse score against Cornell. In scene B of sequence Coffin, No. 36 blocks Terry Wilson, last Big Red defender, to permit Fogarty to spin into end zone for tally.” In the first shot, Fogarty has been given the ball, only to be confronted with three Cornell defenders. I don’t see Coffin in the first shot but someone is making the left-most red defender disappear in the second shot and Fogarty, doubled over but alone except for another Syracuse player to his left, is marching into the end zone in the final shot. It looks like the Cornell players were so intent on penetration that once an opening revealed itself, Fogarty, with one move, was able to walk into the end zone. He’s probably doubled over anticipating contact that never came. The other two shots on the page are of Dave Baker’s first quarter fumble, (he’s falling to the ground with the pigskin slipping below his elbow), and Zimmerman’s long pass to Fogarty just before the half ended. “Chuck” has gotten past three Cornell defenders and has turned, with his arms open, to receive a perfect pass, (complete with those arrows I love), from Zim. The caption is “Bullseye”. Indeed. The Post-Standard had a large picture of the same play on the front of their sports page. Theirs was taken from the back of the end zone and identifies the three Cornell defenders as Phil Taylor, Bo Roberson and Tom Skypeck. It also has a helpful arrow showing us where the goal line is. The ball is also pointed out, still high above the players. Zimmerman must have used a nine-iron. On the front page there was a picture entitled “Chuck Fogarty Charges Across Goal Line for First SU Touchdown”. I guess Dan played like he was two men: Dan and “Chuck”. (Our current media guide lists him as “Daniel C. Fogarty” so I assume his middle name was Charles. ) This, again is taken from the back of the end zone and shows Dan hunched over and running through a hole that looks a lot bigger than it did in the other photogrpahs. I wonder if a “trap” play was involved. Their pictorial page had a shot of Stephens’ touchdown off the screen pass, with Tom chugging right toward the photographer who again is at the back of the end zone. Glenn Preising is turning to cut down at least one of the pursuers. Next to that is a shot from the same perspective of Ernie Jackson wedging his way through and opening for the final score. Ger Schwedes is the lead block, shoving a Cornel player to the side to create the opening. Below those shots is Preising waiting to catch a 28 yard pass that set up the first score and Tom Skypeck stepping in front of Gerry Skonieczki to pick off a Zimmerman pass at the goal line, one of the few Cornell bright spots. On Monday, Bill Reddy reported that Ben Schwartzwalder was over the euphoria of the big win and starting to see the warts that were on it. “It was our best game to date but we’re going to have to get better. We can’t afford to lose the ball as many times as we did against Cornell and not expect to get hurt badly.” He did elaborate on his admiration for Dan Fogarty’s play: “We knew he had talent, which is why we moved him to right halfback. He’s imaginative and he’s quick, although he’s not a speed merchant. We’re happy about his defensive play, too.“ There was a picture of Fogarty on the page, taken on the practice field, sans helmet but with a football in his arms and he saunters calmly toward the camera. . Dan’s a handsome-looking fellow with a calm, confident look to him. Reddy marveled at SU’s new found passing attack. “Minus the power of the ’56 team, when grinding it out seemed like the best bet, this ’57 array has been forced to take to the air and had done well. By completing 7 out of 11 against Cornell, the Hill passers made it 21 out of 35 for the three games so far. That’s a 60 per cent average of completions, considerably higher than most teams can expect. Ben praised his defense: “Our cornermen and ends played well. They had to in order to keep Cornell from running us out of the park. We had an extra man assigned to Roberson, just like everyone used to do again Jim Brown last year. And that’s how we happened to keep him from going wild.” Arnie Burdick waited until Noon for the Old Scout to show us but he didn’t materialize so “the only thing to do was to shuck the peejays and hop over and see him”. Arnie found him in his front lawn, “raking leaves faster than the explosive Orange scored touchdowns”. “Glad you dropped by. This will give me a chance to loaf a little…Well, it was quite a day for the Orange, wasn’t it? Though, outside of the second period, when they blasted for four, it wasn’t a glittering performance. I’d say the best thing about the game was that Syracuse really threw the ball. Nothing will help open Syracuse’s powerful ground attack quicker than a strong forward passing game. I’m sure that Syracuse’s future opponents got quite an eyefull at Ithaca Saturday. And they’re going to defense the Orange quite differently…..Most teams have played Syracuse with eight and nine-man fronts. Saturday’s passing performance should force some realignments. You know, I may be too much of a perfectionist, but I think the Orange has got a quirk in its center snap. I’m not sure that the quarterback is getting the ball correctly or on the right count and that’s what causing so many fumbles. And, speaking of perfection, the Orange did mess up three of five extra points. These extra points will be quite a factor in some future contest. “ “However, play in general was improved. In addition to the forward passing phase of activities, there were a lot of other splendid features of Syracuse’s showing. The line looked faster and more mobile and they seemed to pick up steam as the game went along. Syracuse’ backs ran a lot harder and wi9th more finesse than they have in the two previous games. …I also like the one play that the Orange ran from the buck-lateral formation, without the lateral. That’s going to raise a lot of havoc in the future and the other teams are going to have to defensive it, too. Also, I enjoyed Syracuse’s opening game gimmick whereby they ran their plays without a huddle, even though they didn’t move at all. It will also give the other fellow something to think about. “ “if the ball had bounced a little more favorably for Cornell during the afternoon, I believe that it would have been a much closer game, though Syracuse made a lot of its own breaks because of aggressiveness and its strength and hitting ability. And when the Orange seconds met the Cornell seconds, it wasn’t much of a contest.” [/QUOTE]

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