Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 246, Decatur, Adams County, 17 October 1964 — Page 6

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The Season’s Final Road Trip The Trip, The Tape, The Huddle, The Game

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Photo Serie* by Mac Lean • ■ '■*</. WHHK.i z » ■ V ?-/-r*. ,'>> iH '' «■ if H jJB /•..,. 1 '£x 4jr Vpß LOADING UP— Players board the bus,.ready for the long ride to the Kendallville field. , • . - .- /<; ; - "' • ’ ' '" x> z 4.* . ’ 'i ' ’ t , J»* *>w. -g* -LUS. ■. W-. «. ..ifcjt-i./ ». «' » - - - •>..'■ •.<•■-■

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raefl A VlCTOß— Halfback Bill Blythe, hero of the evening s activities by 1 virtue of a97 yard runback,of an intercepted pass, relaxes after the game.

ON THE BENCH, watching the action and awaiting their turn to go , in, left to right, Steve Beavers. Sam Blythe. Max Elliott and m' Dave Smith — "

From Beginning To End - - - A Long Evening

The story of a football game does not all lie between the opening kickoff and the final gun. It’s a story of preparation, of details, .of work, often of travel, always of many people.

THE DECATUR DAILT DEMOCRAT, DECATUR. INDIANA

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For a road game, it’s a story that starts early. Players, coaches, and managers meet early. They go over strategy. After the preparation the buses are loaded. Sometimes it’s a long

sWWfeti.^.. i, ; ■ ddfll Mh. SHBy* T 1 j UmSHk. 8.1 i fI W MMft—l iiW~ ' j> y.VBHHHHHB STRATEGY— Coach Wally Yeoman gives final instructions to the Yellow Jackets before they go on field.

n’l . ' ' trip, sometimes short. On arrival there is equipment to unload, ankles to tape and more talk, more strategy as players suit up. Then warm-up, the return to the dressing room, the pre-

DETAILS— Coach Wally Yeoman and fullback Sam Blythe go over plans for the evening’s attack.

game talk, the charge out to the field, the f nal s sideline huddle and the kickoff. . s After- the game the undressing, the untaping, the showers, the repeat of the loading process, a meal andlthe long trip home. ■■?'■ ': • ■ ' 7 ■ r . -

Jack Ely - The Guy With The Clipboard BWrjj o * ■ 1 T' Kt'■ «■ ' 1 r" J/* lwi H j frl (■■few if! lIMI ’{.ifl'B £BL ''tuHiXvfe rk 't M JACK ELY (The Stats Man)

by Mike Thoele If you've noticed — and wondered about— that tall guy who wanders up and down the sidelines at Yellow Jacket football games and spends more time writing on his clipboard than watching the atcion, then wonder no more. His name is Jack Ely — manager of the Decatur office of Local Loan company and keeper of Yellow Jacket statistics for the Deactur Daily Democrat sports department. Ely, a former Hartford City high school athlete, has worked in Decatur for two years and comes well qualified for statistical endeavors —for two years he was a top-ranking football statistician for the United States Army in Europe. He graduated from Hartford City high in 1957 after posting two sucessful seasons on the Ai edales’ football and basketball rosters. Playing end, he was the team’s second-high scorer in his junior year. On the hardwood he filled a forward slot. Into Army ■ < After graduation Ely joined the army, taking his boot training at Fort Knox, Ky. and attending camera repair school at Ft. Monmouth, N. J. before being assigned to a permanent duty station with the Seventh Army in Mannheim, Germany. After a few months he made the base football ■ team, the Mannheim Barons. A service athlete’s life is a good one, and his selection for the team ruled out many of the more boring aspects of doing “straight duty.” • , But an injury removed him from the football lineup and seemed to destine him for a return to normal duty. Preferring the gridiron to KP, he volunteered for the job of football statistician and was selected for the post. * A full-time Army athletic supervisor taught him the complicated records-keeping system

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which is used to plot all the statistical aspects of the game ' while it is in progress. His job ' included supplying halftime sum- ' maries to the coaching staffs. Receives Honor ! Army football in Europe is played in several highly-contest-ed leagues and numbers thousands of servicemen and a good number of European civilians among its followers. After one season as statistician for the Barons Ely’s record-keeping efforts merited him recognition and he was selected as head statistician for the European playoffs. In the championship game, played in a huge stadium between Munich and Bonn with “all the generals in Europe” present, he kept, statistics for both teams. Besides maintaining records for the coaches, he prepared reports for Seventh Army athletic fed the army newspaper, Stars W3T Stripes. The tallies he kept at all games included individual and team rushing yardage, passing attempts, completions, interceptions and yardage, scoring, pickoff yardage and return yardage, punt yardage and return yardage, number of carries, and fumbles, all on a play-by-play record. _These figures were then recorded on standard army athletic record sheets, which were maintained for each team. Besides his duties as statistician, Ely’s army athletic record included a stint as boxing trainer, a term as coach of Little League team and a season as leading scorer in the Ft. Hood, Tex. flag football league. His statistics for the Yellow Jacket contests are based on the system he learned in the service. He often works until well past midnight on the night of each Decatur game, tallying team and individual statistics for the next day’s paper.

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