The Independent-News, Volume 102, Number 15, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 16 September 1976 — Page 16

SEPTEMBER 16, 1976 - THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS

Falcons Fall To Fairfield For Ist Season Loss The John Glenn Falcons invaded the nest of the Fairfield Falcons Fridas night and as was the case two years ago w hen the trip to Fairfield was made, the underdog Fairfield birds came out on top of the Glenn team to hand the Falcons a big loss in Northern State Conference play. It looked again this year as if some complacency had set in the Glenn campo after opening with two nice w ins over Bremen and North Judson and the Falcons that really were hungry and wanted to win Friday night was the Fairfield Falcons. The loss. Glenn's first, also puts them down in their conference with the 0-1 record, a real serious blow in the six-team scramble where often the winner has to have an unbeaten record. It will necessitate winning the rest of the conference games if any hopes of an outright title can still be had. The Fairfiled victory was their first in three games and raises their NSC mark to 1-1. having lost their opening game to Jimtown. JG Statistics F 12 First Downs 12 146 Rushing 227 43 Passing 110 13 Passes Attempted 6 4 Passes Completed 5 0 Had Intercepted 0 12 Return Yards -2 Punts 4 27 Average Yards 33 5 Fumbles 3 1 Fumbles Lost 2 35 Yards Penalized 25 63 Offensive Plays 55 The Glenn team received the opening kickoff and shortly thereafter the realization that Fairfield was for real with their 0-2 mark. Failing to gain a first down, they punted to their hosts for the night and after Jim Speicher hit the line for 4 yards, Brian Snider took a handoff, got through the Glenn front wall and then on some fine running and good speed, worked his way into the clear and a foot race with this speedster means only defeat. He covered 60 yards in all and with just over three minutes gone the Fairfield team had a 6-0 after an unsuccessful pass for two

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extra points. However. Glenn showed the old drive that had been seen in the early games this season as they took the football on the 40 after Fairfield kicked out of bounds. An 11 play drive ate up the 60 yards using both the air lanes and the ground to sustain a solid effort, twice converting fourth and one situations. The final 25 yards was in one hunk, a Paul Groves to Ed Beasley pass for the touchdown. Paul Groves then drilled the extra point with his foot to make it 7-6 Glenn with 4:42 left in the opening stanza. Little could one realize at this point that the Glenn Falcons would be done scoring at this point, but that is what happened as the offense. often gaining good for a few plays, suffered from their own mistakes as much as they did the Fairfield defense. The ball then started changing hands, Glenn getting a real break just three plays after the kickoff when Snider fumbled the ball and Beasley recovered. This followed a 36 yard scamper by the Fairfield speedster, but things looked up for Glenn getting the possession back that way. The glory was short lived and a punt followed one first down on their part, but the Fairfield team entered a punting game with them as neither team could sustain a drive. With 5:38 left in the first half, Fairfield had just taken possession on the Glenn 47 following another punt and on first down, Bob Rink hit Snider with a pass good for 26 yards. Then from the 21. six running plays found the Fairfield team going in to regain the lead on a Rink quarterback sneak. They then passed to Dee Collins for two points and the Elkhart County crew had taken a 14-7 advantage with just three minutes left and they easily held that until the halftime. The crushing blow to the Glenn Falcons came the first time they had the ball in the second half. After kicking off and forcing Fairfield to punt to the Glenn 23, an apparent march began. David Groves. Len Jaske and John Briggs all shared in the ball carrying duties, two first downs were picked up with one big 26 yard gainer by Jaske putting the Glenn team well into Fairfield territory. Then on a big third an one play at the 27 yard line, an apparent easy gain of the

yards was made only to find that a fumble had occured at the line of scrimmage and Fairfield's Mark Baker covered the errant pigskin stopping the drive cold just as it was really going good. Fairfield then picked up two first downs of their own before punting to put the Falcons well back in their own territory. Things remained about even until Friafield took possession once again on one of seven Glenn punts in this game about four minutes into the final period. Then from their own 45 yard line, a 6 play drive unfolded that carried the 55 yards with Snider getting his second score of the night on a 26 yard scamper. Speicher kicked the extra point and with just 6:01 left in the game and Glenn still not functioning well on offense, it became apparent that their early season perfect record was going to be stopped. In fact, failing to gain a first down, they turned the ball over to the Fairfield crew on the Glenn 38 and with a high floater, poorly thrown pass that was hauled in over a Glenn defender’s head for 30 yards, Fairfield was able to run the ball in again, the final three yards coming on another Snider sprint around the right side. The kick by Speicher was again good and the final score had been posted when the 28-7 count hit the scoreboard. In this rather poor showing by Glenn, the offense never really clicked good and especially the wide plays and pitchouts were bad as a total of 10 offensive plays for Glenn lost 50 yards. These losses in any set of downs were critical as the big play just wasn't there Friday night. The Scoring FAIRFIELD: Brian Snider, 60 vard run: PAT: pass failed JOHN GLENN: Ed Beasley. 25 yard pass from Paul Groves; PAT: Paul Groves, kick FAIRFIELD: Bob Rink. 1 yard Myadec'Capsules had no equal—until they made a tablet High-potency vitamin formula with minerals (STOWE NAME)

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run; PAT: Dee Collins, pass from Bob Rink FAIRFIELD: Brian Snider. 26 yard run; PAT: Jim Speicher, kick FAIRFIELD: Brian Snider, 3 yard run; PAT: Jim Speicher, kick Score By Quarters John Glenn 7 0 0 0 —7 Fairfield 6 8 0 14 28 PLJ Enrollment Down 9 Students From Last Year The Polk-Lincoln-Johnson School Corporation reports that the total school enrollment as of September 3 for grades kindergarten through twelve was 1,326. Enrollment figures show that this time last year there were nine more students. This was announced at the board meeting, a regular session, Tuesday, September 7, in the superintendent’s office, Walkerton. Superintendent Harold R. Muncie announced that the John Glenn High School dairy judging team comprised of Dennis Dolph, Dean Dolph, Mark Burch and Nancy Peterson have won the State Dairy Judging Contest and will be granted permission to participate in the National Dairy Judging Contest to be held at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on September 20-21. The superintendent also announced that the fact-finders report will be sent to the corporation around September 20. A factfinding hearing was held August 25-26 between the Polk-Lincoin-Johnson Education Association and the Board of School Trustees in an attempt to resolve the differences

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that exist between the Association and the School Board over the 1976-1977 agreement. The fact finders report will only be used in an advisory capacity. Application to participate in the Work-Study program for 1976-197" was approved. Conference requests granted included one for Malcolm Stauffer, Financial Aids Congress, September 23-24 at Pur due University; also Susan Kralo vansky, National Coaches Confer ence, October 22. at Ball State Um versity; and for Larry Taylor and Nancy Hindman, Business Educa tion Conference at Ball State Um versity on October 8 and 9. A special meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 28. at 7:00 p.m. in the administration build ing, Roosevelt Road. Walkerton, to take final bids on the sale of the Tyner School property. The next regular scheduled board meeting will be held on Tuesday. September 21. at 7:00 p.m. in the administration build ing. MEMBERSHIP TEA The Woman’s Community Club of Walkerton will meet at 1:00 p.m on Friday, September 17 for their annual membership tea in the Community Building. Hostesses for the day are Helen Bowman, chairman, Lucille Dick son, Virginia Waldron and Ellen Brede. The membership commit tee is in charge of the program. If you live in the state of lowa, you're a Hawk-eye! kAAAAA AAA A AAAAAA A A A AA A A