Banner Graphic, Greencastle, Putnam County, 31 August 1974 — Page 3
Saturday, August 31,1974
Banner-Graphic, Gf ncattle, Indiana
Cougars Snap Cub Win Streak
With Straight Ahead 13-12 Thriller
Pandemonium reigned in Cougar Country Friday night, as North Putnam took the football straight at the Greencastle Tiger Cubs for
48 action-packed minutes to end the Cubs’ victory streak at ten games with a heartstopping 13-12 season opening win.
“I knew we had to have control from our line up front,” panted an ecstatic Cougar head coach Don DeBoer in the steamy victor-
NORTH Pl’TNAM’S Jim Brothers pulls during the first quarter drive that led to a in a pass from quarterback Steve Bullerdick Cougar touchdown. North Putnam won the that netted five yards as Tiger Cub Bob season opener 13-12. Gammon upends the Cougar tight end (Banner-Graphic Photo)
Cloverdale Defense
Sets Up 16-8
Cloverdale’s defense held the host Fountain Central Mustangs to a lone first quarter score and set up two Clover touchdowns, as the Clovers rambled to a 16-8 victory, Friday night. Fountain Central got on the scoreboard first, as quarterback Bell went in from the five on a keeper. Quigle went off left guard for the Mustang two-pointer. The Clovers came back in the second quarter to knot
the score at 8-8, as quarterback Rick Anderson threw a 28-yarder to haltback, Tom Alexander for the TD: after a Kelly Bailey interception and thirty-two yard run back. Haltback Greg Smith swept around right end for the two-point conversion. Defensive Tackle Tim Conner recovered a Fountain Central fumble on the Mustang six yard line in the third quarter to set up the final score by either team.
Win That one came on a Rick Anderson keeper around right end. Greg Smith swept the left side for the twopointer. This might have been a costly win for the Clovers as linebacker Dale Smith suffered a knee injury in the third quarter. The extent of his injury could not be determined at press time, although Assistant Coach Mike Parks said “it could be serious.” First
Eagles Claim
Varsity Victory
The lights went out at turned them back on at South Putnam High School Dugger-in style-as South football field: but the Eagles Putnam trounced the Clover Harriers Win First Meet Easily
“We had a relatively easy time of it" was the way Cloverdale cross country * coach A1 Tucker described his squad’s season opening meet at North Salem Thursday afternoon. The Clovers, led by Gary Neese’s 13:55 clocking over the two and half plus mile course, swept the first five places to score a perfect 15 to the host Blue Devils’ 48. Clover Jack Galloway was running first with a comfortable margin when he took a wrong turn in the course with less that 3 4 of a mile to go. By the time he got himself straightened out he had fallen back to sixth place, and was able to make up only half the margin to the front to finish in third at 14:15. Jerry Chestnut took second with a time of 14:04, while Wayne Galloway finished on the heels of his brother at 14.16 to capture fourth place. Ed Raney come
in at 14:18 for the fifth position, nosing out North Salem’s Thompson by one second. Wes McClure. Mel Jones, and Tim Ford finished seventh, eighth, and ninth for Cloverdale, while the hosts' Cannon took tenth at 15:29. “The winning time wasn’t that bad considering the course was wet and ran slow," said Tucker. “Plus it was a little long.” The Clovers can expect a tougher test Wednesday when they host South Putnam in the Eagles' first meet of the fall. “They’ve got three of their top five runners back from last year,” the Clover mentor recalled. “It will be a good meet, the first of about five meetings we’ll have with them this year.” The meet is scheduled to begin at 4:15 Wednesday afternoon at the Clovers’ home course.
Duggerites, 20-8, to give South Putnam its first football victory in three seasons of gridiron competition. The Eagle’s first score came in the first quarter as Dugger attempted to pass on its own 15 yard line, and Eagle defenders broke in to pick up a safety. The Eagles made it 5-0 at halftime on a 15-yard field goal by Mark Holderfield. Bryce Smith scooped up a Dugger fumble in the third period, and raced thirty-five yards for a TD; as quarterback Brad Booe connected with end Wayne Erwin for a two point conversion, making it Eagles-13. Dugger-zip. A 15-yarder from Booe to end Mark Holderfield with the extra point eonversion booted by Holderfield, rounded out the Eagle scoring in the final stanza. South Putnam’s hard nose defense held Dugger scoreless until with 30 seconds left in the game, fullback Sluder scampered for a fifteen yard score-this with the Eagle bench emptied. Coach Larry Stanley was obviously enthralled about collecting his first win in two seasons with the Eagles. “It really feels good." It was a good football game: the boys are really exhilarated about winning this one.” The Eagle mentor said the keys to the victory were good ground rushing and good defense which he said “really put the pressure on.” Stanley cited outstanding individual performances by Holderfield and fullback Tim Thomas on offense; and defensive backs Darrell Mendenhall and Scott Coffin on defense. Punter Wayne Erwin consistently booted the pigskin over 40 yards.
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ious locker room afterward, where blue frosting from a victory cake found its way to players and coaches faces alike. And control up front is exactly what the Cougars got from the starting offensive line of John Corbin, Trent Hopkins, Brad Ades, Bud Page, and Mike McBride, who simply blew out the Cub defense in straight ahead dive plays that made up in fierceness what they lacked in subtlety. The dive plays, with Mike Greene. Rod Zimmerman and Jerry Miller carrying the mail, were the basis for a clock eating Cougar drive that began with 4:03 left in the first quarter on their own 32 yard line and ended at 10:02 of the second quarter in the Cub endzone to break the scoring ice in a game that had been dominated by hard hitting defense up to that point. The paydirt play, however, came through the air, with quarterback Steve Bullerdick finding end Rex Call wide' open in the left corner of the end zone on a fourth down and goal to go situation from the seven yard line. The pass was only the second of the drive, the other being a quick lookin' to Jim Brothers that the Cougars used successfully numerous other times with Brothers, Call, and Dirk Wagner on the receiving end. “We saw in the jamboree that the lookins would be open against Greencastle,” related DeBoer. The Cubs came storming back after the Cougar score and conversion by Ron Brothers (on a low trajectory kick that cleared the crossbar with no more than a foot to spare) to rack up two first downs in a drive that threatened to erase the 7-0 deficit, but were stopped on the North Putnam 30 by two incomplete passes. With no more scoring in the first half, the Cubs came out driving after the intermission to put the Cougars' backs to the w ! all at their own eight yard line, but a fumble there gave the hosts a temporary reprieve. After the Cougars failed to move the ball. Jeff Cantonwine took Steve McGaughey’s punt from the goal line at midfield, sliced through a pair of North Putnam defenders, and raced to the five yard line, where McGaughey made a saving tackle. Three plays later Stacy Spencer followed a Phil Fisher block at right tackle to put the Cubs on the scoreboard. but their try for a two point conversion was stopped on an option right play by Gerald Noll and David Tippin. The second half of the third quarter did nothing to change the 7-6 score, but at
the outset of the final frame the Cougars once again got a time consuming drive going which ate up more than four minutes in moving the ball from their own 33 to paydirt. The big gainer on the drive was a 17 yard run around left end by Miller, who took to the sidelines when the Cubs’ attentions were diverted to stopping up the gaps that had been forming in the middle of their line, going out of bounds on the Cub 16. From there it was straight ahead again, as Greene took it in on a dive from the two plays later. The clock read 7:09 when Brothers' conversion attempt was off left. Terry Saunders gave the Cubs good field position when he returned the Cougar kickoff up the middle to midfield, but three plays later the Cubs were faced with a fourth and 8. Cub quarterback Kent Frazier then hit Cantonwine with a pass to the Cougar 25, and four plays later found him again with an "up for grabs’ pass at the one yard line. Frazier snuck it in from there with 2:23 remaining in the game, but once again the Cubs went for the two point conversion, this time running the option to the left side where Frazier lost his footing with absolutely no place to go, as at least five Cougars were bearing down on him. Hopkins fell on the ensuing onside kick for North Putnam, and the Cougars once again powered straight ahead for one first down to run out the clock at the Cub 38, unleasing a wild victory celebration. While the Cougars and their fans were going wild, a somber Cub head coach Gary Cassells stood by the team bus and quietly said “it hurts to lose when you haven’t lost in a long time.” “It was pretty obvious how our injuries hurt us, how much better the club moved when Spencer was in there, and that we didn't have anybody to kick.” Injured halfback Stacv Spencer played only sparingly in the second half, while place kicker Grant Stuart did not play at all, leaving the Cubs without anyone to kick their extra points. 1 he two point conversion attempts were mandatory in the face of this situation. The Cougars were also hit with injuries, as Harold Roe did not sec any action in the defensive secondary, where Lester Miles was hurt in the second half, loosening up the area for the late Cub passes. But injuries were not the dictating force in the game. It was more like what DeBoer shouted as he nearly stumbled off the field amid congratulations from all sides. “Desire did it for us!”
J < / A . V NORTH PUTNAM’S Jerry Miller and Greencastle’s Kent Frazier dive for an incompleted Cougar pass while Tiger Cub Mark Vaughan closes in on the action last night in the season opener for both clubs. (Banner-Graphic Photo)
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