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Waynesville Township High
, School's Mountaineers opened their
1950 football season Thursday night
by crushing Sylva's Coldon Hurri
cane, 42 0.
Approximately 2,800 fang saw
the latest edition of the local
eleven score in every period in the
local stadium.
Fullback J. C. foeweese rammed
the Sylva. line three times for
touchdowns, averaging 8.2 yards
each of the five times he carried
th ball between the end zones.
, Wingback Carroll Swanger scor
. ed on a 28-yard dash with an intir
.cepted pass. His cousin. Terry,
rammed over for anolhtr !;ix-point-cr,
and a pus; from Jim Kuyken
. dall to Harold Metcalfe covered 40
yards and the other touchdown.
.Wingback James Moss averaged
Band Added Color To Tho Opening Game Thursday
Statistics
WTHS Sylva
, First Downs 10 3
'.Yds. Hush 1411 56
Fwds. Alt 0 5
'..Fwds. Comp 2 0
Yds. Fwds. 58, 0
'Fwds. Inter 2 0
Yds. Inter 28 0
Fujnbles 4 2
"Opp. Fumbles Recc. 2 0
I'unt Av. 50.6 37
Punts Yds. Ret. B3 12
KickolT Av. 48 0
Yds. KO Ret 0 84
Yds. Lost Penalties 90 55
Laterals 1 0
Yds. Gained Lat. 8 0
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eight yards each of the five times
he carried the ball from scrim
mage, and Carroll Swanger gained
19 yards in two rushes.
End Rill Sutton, playing for the
Mountaineers for the first time
since 1948, punted three times for
an average O'G.6 yards per boot.
His longest travelled 73 yards from
the line of scrimmage.
Except for two Instances. Syl-(
va s onensive game was limited to
Its own nide of the 50-yard line.
Late in the second, the visitors
reached the Mountaineer 48.
In the third period, they drove
to the 14.
The Mountaineers scored the'
first time they got the ball after
the opening kickoff.
Deweese drove over from the
five, eliding a 65-yard march- four
minutes after the game started.
A few minutes later, Tackle Bob
by Setzer recovered a visitor fum
blejon the Sylva 23.
Deweese skirted end for 16, and
drove over from the one a few
plays later,
Carroll Swanger turned In the
third Mountaineer touchdown with
his Interception of a Charlie Cun
ningham pass In the second period.
The Mountaineers resumed their
scoring again after intermission,
when Kuykendall turned In his
touchdown pitch with four minutes
gone in the third period.
Toward the end or the frame,
Sylva made its bnly serious scor
ing threat. Cunningham and Fur
man Dillard piloted the Hurricane
about 50 yards, with Dillard's 23
yard dash accounting for mdst of
the gain.
,.VI(aynesvilo : scored its' , final
'tbihdownMn '-si 30yard march; af-.
terjj Wang ovoV on a short Sylva
puirt I Deweesc bucked over from
the' one-foot line.
The Mountaineers lost four more
touchdowns, all during the first
half, on penalties.
A 23-yard Moss-to-Sutton pass
play, a 45-yard forward-lateral,
James Fugate's 65-yard punt re
turn, and Kuykendall's 62-yard
dash with an intercepted pass all
were cancelled by infractions.
Reserve Fullback Gerald Ross
scored three of the points-after-
touchdown on line bucks, and Sut
ton accounted for the three others
Just prior to the beginning of the second lialf.'tha 65-piece Waynesville Military Rand formed a
double rainbdw and the Mountaineers ran through as the band played a stirring victory song. Bill
Sutton, No. 60, can be seen going through, as Drum Major Mark Rogers directs the band.
(Staff Photo).
Deadline Set For
Sept. 27 On Game
Hunts In This Area
Clyde P. Patton, Executive Di
rector of the North Carolina Wild
life Resources Commission, today
reminded big game hunters that
applications from persons wishing
to participate in wild boar and bear
hii;nts in National Forest aivas
must be in the Raleigh office of
the Commission by September 18,
and applications for organized" deer
hunts must be received by Septem
ber 27.
Complete details of dates, hag
limits, areas, and fees are available
from the U. 'S. Forest Service,
Abbeville, the Wildlife Commis.
sion's temporary office at 141 Lin
den Avenue, Asheville, field per
sonnel of the Wildlife Resources
Commission and the Raleigh office
of the Commission.
with placements.
Starting Lineups:
Sylva
LE T, Cabe
LT R. Dillard
LG D. Dillard
C Ensley
RCi Crisp
RT Elders
RE -Moon
QH Fricks
LHB F. Dillard
RUB -Quern
FB 'Cunningham
Waynesville
Sutton
Nichols
llipps
. Boyd
McCracken
Setzer
Francis
Fucate
... ... Moss
C. Swanger
.. Deweese
Haywood CDP Softball
Tourney Closes This Week
The semifinals of the first Hay
wood County Community Develop
ment Program Softball Tournament
will be staged Thursday at Cham
pion I'ark in Canton.
The survivors will meet at Can
ton Saturday nlRht tor the county
rhamploithips4na
The Morning Star and East pig
eon girls will open the semifinals
rounds at 5:30 I. M.
The Hominy boys will meet the
Stamey Cove boys at 6:30 P. M.; the
Upper Crabtree and Aliens Creek
girls will play at 7:30 P. M., and
the Upper Crabtree and Aliens
Creek girls will wind up the semi
finals round with their game stall
ing at 8:30 Pi M.
f-On Ssrlurdityf the -'clash for thH
girls' championship will open at
7:30 P. M and the boys title game
will be the nightcap, statrlng at
8:30 P. M.
Abbott, Moore,
Rhymer Lead
Way In Debut '
Canton High Schools Black
Bears opened their 1950 grid sea
sou Friday night on a 27-6 victory
over itutherfordtoii-Spindalc.
A near -capacity partisan crowd
watched the season's inaugural in
the Cantou High School stadium.
Jimmy Abbott, 145-pound Can
ton tailback opened the scoring
with an 83-yard dash shortly after
the opening kickoff.
Tailback Bobby Moore passed
to End Jim Hardin lit the end zone
20 yards away in the second period
Shortly after intermission, t lie
third touchdown was set up by a
Rutherfordton fumble, recovered
by Canton on the Rutherfordton 4.
Moore went over on the first play
after the recovery.
Rutherfordton's only touchdown
came in the final period on a 27
yard pass from McClure to Crotts.
The Black Bears wound up the
scoring a few minutes later with
an 81-yard drive.
Neil Rhymer tallied from the
seven.
Charlie Poindexter, Jr., tallied
Canton's four post - touchdown
points with placements.
Many Waynesville people attend
ed the game.
Among those present were Bob
by Setzer, James Moss, Jerry
Evans, Tommy Boyd, James Fu
gate, Alden McCracken, William
Sutton, Henry Nichols, J. C. De
Weese, and Terry Swanger.
Notre Dame Team To Beat
This Season -Of Course
Subs: Sylva Bcasley, Harris,
Rogers, Coggins. H. Cabe.
WTHS-GUIiland, Owen,-. Kuy
kendall, T', Swanger, PoWers', Mil
ner, Ross, Styles, Metcalfe, Evans,
Gibson, J. Davis, W. Davis, Howell,
MfedtSKa.Hanjec- Iik-Clure,. No
&8fcM(HKtt7.tvtutejS . Calhoun,
Buchanan.
Touchdowns . Deweese 3, C.
Swanger, T. Swanger, Metcalfe.
Pts. after TD Ross 3, (plunge),
Sutton 3 (placement).
Referee Mundy. Umpire Grif
fin. J1L Morris. Field Judge
Nockow.
Score by, periods:
Sylva 0 0 0 00
WTHS 14 14 7 7-42
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP)
They'll have to catch Notre Dame
surging out of the chute this foot
ball race because once the rebuilt
Irish start rolling, it may be to a
fifth straight unbeaten season.
Gone are -All - American Leon
Hart, Emil- Sitko and Jim Martin,
along with seven, other first string
ers who helped Notre Dame slam
to the No. 1 spot in the 1049 As
sociated Press poll.
But from the wreckage of last
graduation day, Coach Frank Leahy
has. salvaged. a super quarterback,
a dozen listed .performers and a
batch of swift, sturdy lads whose
anonymity may be short-lived.,
"This squad should get better
every seven days," significantly ap
praises Leahy, Who likes his first
eleven but wonders about reserves.
It's then a race of time for Notre
Dame opposition to reach tho glory
road by shattering bne of the
greatest streaks ever wrought by a
Collegiate eleven. Since the be
ginning of the 1946 season, Notre
Dame has won 36 and tied two for
a defeatless string of 38.
North Carolina, whipped by the
Irish last season, 42-6, after a furi
ous start at New York's Yankee
Stadium, opens Notre Dame's sea
son Sept. 30 tl South Bend.
Then the Irish take on, in order,
Purdue, Tulane, Indiana, Michigan
State, Navy, Pittsburgh, Iowa and
Southern California. The finale
against the Trojans, who may be
Notre Dame's toughest foe, conies
after an Irish open date,
Leahy's worries over the North
Carolina opener stem not so much
from a Tar Heel team which has
lost Charlie Justice and Art Wein
er. but form the wrinkles in his
own reconditioned machine.
Bob Williams, a slick quarter
back of the Lujack stripe, is the
balance wheel around which Notre
Dame's -victory drive must purr or
sputter. Williams, who is 20 one
year older than the Irish squad
average last season completed 83
of 147 passes and was a daring
strategist.
Williams, tackle Bob Toneff and
Center-Captain Jerry Groom may
prove as mighty a trio as were
Hart, Sltko and, Martin last season.
Toneff at 235 and Groom at 215 are
savage performers, ahead or be
hind.. . .
.Williams' ball-feeding will be
mainly to Billy Barrett at right
half, Bill Gay or John Petitbon at
left, and John Landry or Fidel
Gander at fullback. A defensive
star In 1949 as a sophomore, Flet,
190-pound Petitbon may be a real
trouble-maker for Irish, foes this
Fall. Barrett, a stumpy streak of
speed, still Is regarded a comer af
ter a gond sophomore season.
The Irish have nine sophomore
halfbacks. There ore names like
U:ilph Paolone, 195, New Castle,
Pa., and Johnny Whclan, 180, Mi
ami, Fla which may be fresh dead
line meat.
The ccntcfof Notre Dame's line
seems well-fortified with veteran
guards Paul IUirhs, 20a, and Fred
Wallner, 212, flanking Groom,
Sharing line-backing with Groom
will, be . Byron' Boji, 1911-pound
junior lisled as a guard.
Excepting Toneff, the tackles and
ends seem considerably below 1949
caliber. Chet Ostrowski and Jim
Mutscluller, at 198 and 192, in
herit the wing jobs of Hart ' And
Dill Wighlkin. John Helwig, 1949
line-bntking guard, has been shift
ed to end. Another switch puts Bill
Flynn, 197. a three-letter winner
at end. at left tackle.
Top sophomore ends are Bob
Kelly, Duluth, Minn., and Vincent
Mcschievitz, a 215-pounder from
Chicago, Guard Tom Seaman, Can
ton, O., and tackles Walt Czaja,
Niagara Falls, N. Y.. Virg Bardash.
Gary, Ind., are other strapping
first-year prospects.
The Irish don't look invincible
right now but if North Carolina,
Purdue or Tulane don't stop them,
Leahy's forces could jell into some
thing pretty terrific again. :
Of the other Midwestern Major
Schools, only Michigan State and
Marquette are operating independ
ently. MSC'S Spartans, marking
lime as a big ten member until the
1953 season, get a whack at Notre
Dame on Oct. 28 at South Bend.
The Spartans pressed the Irish be
fore losing, 34-21, last season, but
that fine eleven graduated such
stars as halfback Lynn Chandnois,
and- guards Don Mason and Ed
Bagdon.
Bigie Munn, however, has the
makings of a sound Michigan
State club with a nucleus of tackle
Don Coleman, a 180-pound Bear
cat, end Bob Carey, and backs Al
Dorow and Everett Grandelius.
Michigan, Maryland and William
and Mary are among five Spartan
foes before the Notre Dame clash.
On Nov. 11, Munn sends the Spar
tans against his alma mater, Min
nesota, for the first time in MSC
history.
Lisle Blackburn makes his debut
at the Marquette helm Inheriting
23 letlermen and a stout schedule
from retired Frank Murray. Black
burn has three veteran quarter
Ex-Mountaineers
StarlnWCTC '
JayVee Victory
Two of the boys who' starred for
tho 1949 Waynesville Mountaineers
also played starring roles In their
debut in college football last Satur
day night.
Charlie Womack, the Mountain
eers' ex-eo-captain and quarter
back, scored one of the Western
Carolina Junior Varsity's three
touchdowns from his fullback spot
in lte victory in the opener
against Ashevllle-Biltmore.
Howard Mchaffey, ex-Waynes-ville
guard, drew the praise of the
fans for his work in the Kit ten
line.
Lenoir Licks
Cherryville
Lenoir's Bearcats whipped Cher
ryville, 34-12, Friday night at Le
noir. Lenoir Halfback Monty See
born's 70-yard dash was the long
est scoring run of the game.
TIPSY CYCLIST FINED
LOUISVILLE. Ky.-Vivian H.
Grey, 38, paid a $20 fine in police
court, He was convicted of drunk
en driving on a bicycle.
backs, headed by Frank Voln, and
a brace of strong ball-carriers,
Norm Rother and Stan Wojcik. The
Hilltoppers' schedule includes Wis
consin, Kansas State, Michigan
State, Santa Clara, South Carolina,
Holy Cross and Indiana.
CARDINAL CASTOFF
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RIPON, Wis. New York Yanks football coach Norman (Red)
Strader knew his tricky T formation quarterback George Ratterman
could perform sleight-of-hand stunts with a football, but he regis
ters amazement when George pulls a large rabbit out of a very
small helmet. Strader hopes Ratterman will produce TDs with the
same magical ease. Tricky George and the rest of the Yanks are
training at Ripon College.
Slingin' Sam Has Been
'Through' Since '38;
But He's Still Going
and gone since that day in 1937
And Sammy isnt' a large man. lie'!
By JOE IVES
AP Newsfeatures
WASHINGTON One sunny
August day in 1937 a lean anil
lanky newcomer from Texas am
bled onto the practice field as
Coach Ray Flaherty was outlining
a new play to his Washington Red
skins. "Tear down the field about 15
yards, then button hook around
In back of the defensive center,"
Flaherty told Wayne Milluer,
former star end from Notre
Dame.
"And you." the coach harked at
the rookie, "hit him in the eye
with that ball."
"Which eye?" asked the un
perturbed recruit.
That, according to legend, was
the debut of Slingin' Sammy
Baugh into professional football
13 years ago.
Since then the kid from Texas
Christian University has gone on
t4 carve an immortal niche for
himself in gridiron history, piling
up more individual pro records
than any other player.
And when the leaves turn
brown un north and the nights
cool off down south, Mr, Forward
pass will be out there pitching,
airain confounding sports writ
ers, physiologists, chiropodists,
statisticians and psycholoRlsts.
Pro football is a rough game,
and many a heralded star has come
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1938, it has been reported he was
through. Manv a successor has
been named
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puiH'her's walk keeps coming back
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for "just one more year" he'll in-
ivnaiiiy ,sei new anu nigger records
for stars of the future to shoot al.
ror example, he already holds
the record for the most passes
thrown in a lifetime 2,fG3. He
also holds the record for the
most passes eompelted 1,532 '
and most yards gained in pass
ins; l!i,(i!l!l. So, when he com
pletes one of his passes, he'll
break three records. If one of
the tosses scores a touchdown, it
will break four records, for he
also has the most touchdown
passes 1C8.
There are cmvm ulio 4V,n
- - .v ,,,,, aaj mat
Sammy is being used as a draw-
uis wiu, i lit i ne uoesn t nave thai
old magic any more.
The answer lies in Ihe record
books: Back in 1937 he attempt
ed 171 passes. He completed 81
for a percent aire of 47rt fm- 1 197
yards gained. He tossed seven
touchdown passes.
In 1948, when he was held to
gether with baling wire and
adhesivv tape and criticized, as
being too old for the game al 34,
he attempted 315 aerials, connect
ed with 185 for a percentage of
.5!S7. Those heaves gained 2,599
yards and accounted for 22 touch
downs. He had a few off games last
year, but he also turned in some
brilliant performances. One sports
writer, after "retiring" him for
years, finally gave up with the re
mark that Sammy seems to im
prove with age.
Owner George Preston Mar
shall and Sammy himself know
he can't go on forever. They've
conferred at length on his suc
cessor. Sammy chose hurlin'
Harry Gilmer from the Univer
sity of Alabama.
Gilmer missed active service in
1948 through injury and last year
didn t quite measure up to expec
tations. 1
Last winter, Marshall,- Baugh
and Redskin head coach Herman
Ball picked out little Eddie Le
baron from the College of the Pa-
HC,rrTt,me LittIe A11-America,
and Charlie (Choo-Choo) Justice of
Wh Carolina. But Lebaron. a
! :ine reservist hs. - ...i.j
toactive duty and Choo-Choo did
not choose to run with the ball in
the major pro league
tncGi1Tur is back again In the
rl Vh'S Season with s rie
'om Indiana, Nick Sebek, In no
three neither an adequate re:
Placement for Sanvmy.
Maybe Lebaron or Gilmer will
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Sr if toCOme- BnMWHthoos.
new ,tv CWSSor ls noUin8
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Indiana, Jack Jacobs from Okla-
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quarterback Dan
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scored the third luuclidoii
winners.
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