Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 57, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 November 1984 — Page 7

The Twisters captured the under-16 title in Putnam County Youth Soccer League play this season, finishing the regular season with a 6-0 record before winning the post-season tournament. Twisters this season have been: front row, from left, Cory Johnson, Chris Martin, Bill Martin, Robert Hensley, Aaron Judy, Darrin Cox and Max Pipes. Back row, from left, coach Steve Judy, Scott Sharer, Jennifer Greenburg, Becky Ward, Don Leek, Charlie Marcum, Chad Helmrick, Hugh Martin and coach Jim Martin. (BannerGraphic photo by Lynda Durham).

DePauw ties flaq-football series 1-1

There is life after Monon Bell

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor The Monon Bell Football Game between DePauw University and Wabash College means so much to those who play and have played in it. It’s the oldest continuous rivalry west of the Allegheny Mountains and Saturday’s 1:10 p.m. 91st meeting between the two schools will be as heated as any. Alumni really get involved in this game. Normally they show up for the Old Gold homecoming game, and that’s it. But for the Monon Bell game there are parties around the country and special television and radio broadcasts in places like Dallas and San Diego. THIS YEAR THE contest to break the 41-41-8 series tie will be broadcast by SPN cable television, the first national broadcast of the game. ABC’s 1977 broadcast was only regional. Still for some of the younger alumni war stories of past Monon Bell games, the electronic media, wagers over a brew or even standing on the sidelines just isn’t enough. Not even the printed word can satiate the former gladiators. There has got to be life after the Monon Bell Game, right? “This is a great rivalry, why does it have to end when you get out of college,” 1981 DePauw University graduate Don Popravak said Thursday morning from his Chicago office at Seltel, Inc. DePAUW AND WABASH alumnae have taken the Monon Bell series beyond the annual clashes in Greencastle or Crawfordsville, beyond the roasts put on in Indianapolis and Chicago. The two-year-old “Little Monon Bell Game” is now even at 1-1 after a 28-6 DePauw victory in the flagfootball game in Chicago’s Lincoln Park last week. Wabash won the first game a year ago 20-14, but this year Popravak did a better job of drawing the Tiger alumni.

Until state finals tradition goes with Hobart

By STEVE HERMAN AP Sports Writer Hobart’s Brickies have a state record they’d rather forget the most appearances in a state championship football game without ever winning the title. Hobart was in the final game in 1979, 1980 and 1982 and lost each time. And the Brickies, ranked N 0.2 in Class A AAA and unbeaten in 11 games this season, are two victories away from another chance for the crown. “Their aggressiveness, and the fact they

GHS puts tickets out Greencastle High School basketball season tickets are now on sale at six locations for the 10 home games in the 1984-85 season. Tickets may be purchased at the three elementaries, the Middle School and in both the Greencastle High School’s principal’s office and athletic director’s office. Adult season tickets are sl2 and student season-tickets are SB. This year’s home schedule includes games with Plainfield, Terre Haute South, defending sectional champion South Putnam, Edgewood and firstyear consolidation Northview. S.P.fans get 'em now South Putnam High School basketball season tickets are now on sale at the high school principal’s office. Adult season tickets are sl2 and student season tickets $lO for the nine home games. Fans may still purchase the “Eagle 10” ticket which is valid for any 10 home athletic events in grades seven through 12. The adult “Eagle 10” ticket is sls and the student ticket $lO. This year’s South Putnam home schedule includes Danville, Cascade, Tri-West, Southmont, Cloverdale and North Putnam.

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have no weaknesses,” is what worries Michigan City Elston Coach Ken Bye, whose Red Devils meet Coach Don Howell’s Brickies in Friday night’s playoff regional at Hobart. Elston, 10-1 and ranked seventh, is in the playoffs for the second straight year. The Red Devils upset defending AAAA champion Penn during the past season, but Bye knows they’ll have a tough time at Hobart, where the Brickies’ home winning string stands at 46 in a row. “High school kids have to go to Brickie

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Fields' Findings

DePauw's roster this year included many players from the 9-1 team of 1981. The Tigers were quarterbacked by Randy Wells, a 1977 graduate and he threw touchdown passes for ’Bl grad Alan Hill, 'B4 grad Greg Spedic, 'Bl grad Rich Friedlen, 84 grad and former career touchdown pass record holder Fran Lolli. Popravak pulled in a pass for a two-point conversion. THE TIGERS LED all the way this year, building a 14-0 halftime lead and going ahead 22-0 before former Wabash All-American Dave Harvey threw a 25-yard touchdown pass to John Barry. This game is great. Where else can Spudic, who played center for the Tigers last year at 185 pounds, or Friedlen, a tackle who was a high school quarterback before coming to DePauw, catch touchdown passes? “We had a great time,” Popravak said. The group played for about two hours then partied for three or four more after the game. “A good time was had by all.” DePAUW HAD AN all-star cast this year, including players like Scott Fencik, Alan Hill, Bob Klupchak,

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Bowl with a mature attitude,” said Bye. “They have to block out the crowd. The game is won on the field. You have to block out everyone but the 11 guys you’re facing.” Three AAAA teams are in the playoffs for the first time top-ranked Warren Central, which puts its 11-0 record against unrated Indianapolis North Central, 8-3; N 0.3 Fort Wayyne North, 11-0, which goes against three-time state champion Carmel. ranked ninth with a 9-2 mark; and N 0.13 New Albany, 10-1, which plays at

Kurt Guinn, Kurt Jones, Marshall Reavis, Bob Cathcart, Jim Underdown, Brian Kluever, Bill Lockhart, Dave Loekie, Fran Lolli, Dave Parrish, Randy Wells, Bruce Burkhiemer, John Burdyl, Tom Zulanus, Bob Dunbar, Joe Trimble, Craig lorio and Popravak. lorio coached the Tigers, while Chicago Bear punter David Finzer, kicked for the 9-1 team of 1981, cheered from the sidelines. No, the Bears wouldn’t let him play. Something about needing him for an NFL game Sunday. The extension of the Monon Bell series between DePauw and Wabash friends and rivals is great, but the way it came about is even better. Popravak and Jack Ruddy played against one another in the Chicago Catholic League high school games and yet never met. Popravak played at St. Francis DeSales and Ruddy at St. Rita’s. "POP” CAME TO I'ePauw as a fullback and Ruddy went to Wabash as a linebacker. Ruddy continued to tackle Popravak for four more years. The two met at a “Monon Stagg” roast and began recruiting their alumni. It’s growing in interest. This year Cathcart, a 1981 DePauw linebacker, came from Madison, Wis., to play, Hill drove up from Indianapolis and Wells from Martinsville. Wells, who earned 12 varsity letters while competing in football, basketball and baseball for the Tigers, quarterbacked the team for lack of one. Rob Doyle, quarterback of the ’Bl team, had another commitment in Indianapolis, coaching a team. So Wells, who led the DePauw defensive backs with six interceptions as a junior and seven as a senior, quarterbacked the Tigers to the series tying victory. Popravak and Ruddy are already working on next year’s team.

N 0.12 Martinsville, 9-2. All but two of this week’s games are on Friday night, with the Saturday matchups of unranked Kankakee Valley, a first-time playoff participant, at N 0.4 Fort Wayne Dwenger, the defending Class AAA champion; and Class AA’s N 0.4 Evansville Mater Dei at N 0.6 Lawrenceburg, a former two-time champion. With Penn’s 34-30 sectional loss to Fort Wayne North last week, two of last year’s four state champs are still alive going into the regionals.

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Wabash has a secret weapon

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor Like DePauw University, Wabash College enters Saturday’s 91 st annual Monon Bell Football Game known more for its passing prowess and good defense than its ability to run the ball. But after nine games the Little Giants might just be ready to unveil its primary weapon of the future in the 1:10 p.m. SPN nationally televised contest at Crawfordsville. WHILE SENIOR QUARTERBACK Steve Hoffman and senior receivers Tony Altaville and Nick Crnkovich have earned most of the headlines in the 7-2 season, sophomore running back Bill Kaiser has quietly run for a team-leading 578 yards and nine touchdowns. “Kaiser has got the ability to break the long run, he’s done so a few times during his first and second seasons,” second-year coach Greg Carlson said of the 5-11, 170pound Jasper High School product. Even though this is only Carlson’s second year as head coach and first coaching offense in seven years, he knows one back alone can’t take on a defense ranked nationally in rushing defense. Senior Roger Grabner averages a teamleading 4.9 yards per game. .game. NEITHER KAISER’S 4.2 yards per carry or Grabner’s 4.9 per carry get them among the national leaders, but it’s a step in the right direction “We think we’ve made strides from last season, but we’ve got a ways to go before we’re anywhere near where we want to be with our running game,” Carlson said. The improvement shows up in a more balanced attack. The Little Giants have scored 14 touchdowns rushing this season and 16 passing. Also while they’ve run for 1,066 yards, the locally known “Cavemen” have thrown for 1,801 yards, the majority of which came from Hoffman. Wabash hasn’t needed to run the football this year. It’s only been a play to open up the pass for Hoffman to Altaville or Crnkovich. “We really feel like our receiver corps has had a good year. We think we’ve got as fine a corps of receivers as we’ve ever had here at Wabash,” Carlson said. THE 5-10, 175-POUND Altaville became Wabash’s all-time leading receiver this

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year, catching 50 passes for 831 yards and six touchdowns. However, according to Carlson, the wide receiver might miss this game because of a partial ligament tear in last Saturday’s 35-12 win at Kentucky Wesleyan College. “We're just not sure whether he’s going to be ready Saturday," the coach said If he’s not in the lineup, which is a near unpardonable sin for any breathing senior at either Wabash or DePauw. Hoffman will just have to throw to the 6-3 Crnkovich more often. The tight end has caught 21 passes for 207 yards this year and three touchdowns. With Altaville and Crnkovich pulling in 71 passes between them it’s no wonder Hoffman has completed 60 per cent of his attempts. The 6-2, 170-pound Delphi High School product connected on 132 of 220 attempts this year for 1,716 yards. He’s been intercepted 13 times, but four of those came against Dayton and a couple more against Hope. CARLSON POINTS OUT that while Hoffman has been intercepted 13 times, he's also thrown for 15 touchdowns. “That’s one of the variables we try to keep at least 5050 and he’s moved above that with touchdown passes,” the coach praised. Wabash has hurt its opponents most in the first and third quarters, outscoring them 73-23 in the first period for the year and 75-37 in the third. Carlson isn’t so sure it points out the offense scores when its rested. “I think, number one, our defense has provided us more opportunities with turnovers in the first and third quarters,” Carlson said. In nine games the veteran Little Giant defense has allowed an average of only 16 points per game and an average of 255 yards of total offense per game. Carlson is quick to point out offensive turnovers have inflated the scoring average, somewhat, especially the 34 points scored by Hope and 37 by Dayton. “WE THINK WE’VE improved each and every week in our secondary,” Carlson said of the pass defense. “We feel we should have a good defensive football game Saturday.” Carlson was able to hold senior linebacker Bill Bradey and defensive back Ron Bigler out of last week’s game to allow injuries to heal

pion and opens the season in possession of the Putnam County Bucket Athletic Directors and coaches met Wednesday and ironed out the final tournament details. One change from the past, fans will be allowed to bring signs, banners and noise makers. However, they must be kept in or behind your respective seating sections. COACHES WERE INFORMED, as in past years, that any player who plays in the Putnam County Classic is not eligible to play in the Putnam County Junior Varsity Tournament in December or the freshman tournament in February, regardless of the amount of playing time he might get.

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