r iHK SPUKTS rAGtH Of The Vayaesviiie MOiiiiianieer Monday Atieruoou, October 31, 1949
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Can ton,
Fight
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Hendersonville
Waynesville
Hands Maroons
First Defeat
Of Season
li OI.1VK1! YOI'NT
The Wajiie-wile Mountaineers
extended their !! .ik to
six straii lil name-, l i hI.i night as
they rolled v i a but (un
manned li..i.d 1. 1 Swam l!i"h t'.rid
ders by a 2d In (i -niiv on the rain
soaked Way in--wile lli.nh fiiduon.
Some 2Uu t..ii- hiaved the cold fog-
Tech Fumbles In Loss Tp Duke
F.v nifdil
twee II 1
eleven.-'.
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and eli ( !
game Tif
first lew
ill" e.ii h ol
laiiue:- j
same v In :i
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il.rh be-llli.ieieated
ii.,laie.i r. wen the loss
il in kuk-ml in upen the
I ,'. u e!i i "Pent the
unu't - i.l ! he same feel
.ll.i i eiit and the Mnun
r. the lii"-. break of the
:i a i-iippint penalty set
h; tk to their own 17.
Maroon tailbaek, sot
off a hi I'util'ul 39 yard kick with a
sojjgy bal! that tolled out of bounds
on 'he Wayne--' i'le -i-i.
Don hiscnhunt. J. C De
.lar.v.s Moss and Charlie
l i':irru!i; the mail, the lo
ved to the visitors 17. The
.s highlighted by a 12 yard
ei left ta.kle by Whisen-
W:.s
ueee.
Wo mac
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drive v
sma-h
hui I
Ui'i
on thi
third 'low p and four to go 1
i7. H:i!!'b-ick James Moss
hand..:! tior.i Womaek and
Statistics X BC
I'll"! J..'.Un 10 7
Yard" pi-hiii.: 146 56
Fa"M " atleinpted 7 8
Paw-" innipleled 3 4
Yards, pacing 82 31
Passes intercepted 2 2
I'untin;.' average 33 27
Kick-off average 30 21
Yds kick-olt nt. 20 59
Yds. penalized 25 20
passed into the end zone to Left
End Sam Jones who made a sensa
tional leaping catch for the touch-
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Bali larruwi bounds on ground after fumble by Ga. Tech Quarterback Jiiti Soull'.ard .right, white jer
sey. w!io dropped the ball as lie was tackled bv Blaine Earon nuke end Sooth.ii-H h.-,r.t t rvOOI
when Earon. a defensive
der Sherrill (not shown i.
standout of the game, smacked into him. The
Duke guard. Action was in IJie firpt quarter.
bobble was recovered by Zan-
Ouke defeated Tech, 27-14.
(AP Wirephoto).
down. His Don Whisenhunt
rammed hi. way through tackle for
the extra point and the locals had
drawn first blood.
The two teams battled on even
terms until mid-way the second
period when Mac Hyatt intercepted
a Moss pass on the locals 29. Hyalt
and Ensley alternated in carrying
the ball and moved to the Moun
taineer 3 The Hi Wajnesville line
threw back the vi.itors for two
downs but on third down, Hyatt
jumped high and passed to End
Charles VVoodard in the end zone
for the Maroon's, touchdown. Hyatt
hit right tackle in his try for the
point but again the forward wall
of the locals proved to be stone
wall near the goal line.
One of the highlight plays of the
game came on the following kick
off. Charle.v Womaek took the kick
on the local s 19 and raced back to
the 39 where he laterakd to Bob
Davis and on a beautiful run down
the side lines. Davis carried to the
uryson Lily il before he was
ground.
In three tries J. C. Deweese
bulled his way to the two yard line
and from there Don Whisenhunt
hit left tackle for the touchdown.
The try for point failed and the
score remained 20 to 6 with the lo
cals out front.
At this point a complete new
team took over for the Mountain
eers and held the visitors at bay
the rest of the ftair.e. Coach Carle
ton Weathtrby, of the locals, con
tinued to substitute freely in the
games and his reserves JirovexLvtry
capable.
The Mountaineers held an ad
vantage in every department of the
game. They racked up 10 first
downs to the visitors 7. 146 yards
rushing to ;"6. and 82 yards Dasc-
ing to 31 tor Bryson.
Although playing on a field soak
ed by an all-day rain, neither team
was guilty of a fumble and only
twice did the ball carriers slip and
fall. The Mountaineers certainly
proved that they were much differ
ent mudders than in the opening
game at Sylva.
Outstanding flayers for the visit
ors were Charles Cope, Bill Dehai t
and Charles Woodard in the line
while Jim Ensley and Mac Hyatt
turned in excellent performances
in the baekfield
Bethel Eiigh, Waynesville
IV's To Meet Wednesday
The Waynesville victory could
not be credited to any single player
shoved out of bounds. However the ! f.S ttle , e team turned in spal k"
Dlav was rAllprl ha,k u,Ho it FCiioi induces, me ueiensive
ruled that the forward motion had
stopped at the Waynesville 39.
The fans were hardly in their
seats, w hen Womaek connected on
a jump pass to Gene Yarborough
for seven yards and as Yarborough
was going down he laleraled to
Howard MehafTcy. 210 lb. guard,
who rambled 34 yards to the Bry
son City 20. With less than seven
seconds remaining in the first half,
Moss connected on his second scor
ing toss of the half when he hit
Co-Captain Bob Owen in the end
zone. Owen broke into the clear
behind the Bryson City safety man
and made a beautiful running catch
on a perfect strike from Moss. De
weese skirted left end for the point
and Waynesville led 14 to 6 at the
half.
Bethel High School's Blue De
mons will seek their first victory
and their firs! touchdowns of their
inaugural season next Wednesday
night against the powerful Waynes
ville High School junior varsity.
The kickoff is scheduled for 7:30
p in. at Waynesville's stadium.
Coach Terry Johnson has been
concentrating on defense in the
tough drills his husky gridders
have been undergoing since their
20-0 loss to Cherokee High School
October 21.
The Demons, sadder but con
siderably wiser after being shut
out twice in the first two starts
are trying to figure out methods
to stop the Little Mountaineers'
powerful double-wing ground a-
lack which rushed the junior var
sities of Christ School and Canton.
Canton's Bear Cubs spoiled
Bethel's football debut last month
I with a 2G-0 beatintf. aided l:n-yelv
I by typical errors generally commit-1 HT
led by unseasoned gridders. i HE
But the Junior Bears in turn ', E '-owe
were whipped 25-7 bv the Wavn,.. ! LHW. Allison
! play of the Mountaineers forward
, wall, sparked by Bob Setzer and big
Howard Mehaffey, stood out from
end to end. During the last half,
the Maroons lost a total of 16 yards
from scrimmage due to the savage
play of the local forward wall.
I The Mountaineer backs came in
I to their own also. The line plung
j ing-oiPewx'.cse and Whisenhunt,
: thej-.liird, . runpins of Davis and
J Gaiirsft, the sling-shot passing of
I Mojs and the quarterbaeking and
I defensive olay of Charlie Womaek.
whfl ronlinncw t. r.-.'.L-,. .w.i,i- r.
, . lu i,,une laeiif dliri
tackle at the line of scrimmage
from his halfback post, all com
bined to give the Mountaineers a
wetl deserved and hard earned vic
tory.
.cxt Saturday afternoon the lo-
Th . i wul meet one oi tneir b g foe;
The third quarter was scoreless of thp SMCn tt.hon
. . ""v-il il l VuLVIU ( IIL
as the rugged forward wall of the
Mountaineers hurled every effort
of the Maroons back.
The entire third period was
plyed deep in Bryson territory as
James Fugate. reserve back who
has been handling kicking since
Davis was injured in the Canton
game, got off several excellent
punts. On of his kick'; rolled out
of bounds on the Bryson one yard
line .and several plays later he
booted the pigskin out on the six.
He also punted the slippery ball
for 44 yards on one kick and al
though kicking from inside Bry
son territory durin? the last half
he averaged 33 yards for four boots
during the game.
The final score of the came came
early In the fourth period follow
ing Fugate's out of bounds on the
visitor 8. Enslev got off a beauti
ful kick from his own end zone
which Bob Davis gathered in on
the Bryson. 40 and with several
key blocks thrown by the Moun
taineers. Davis raced all the way
back to the 0 yard line. It looked
s though Davis would be stooped
on the 15 but. he just lowered his,
head and carried two ticklers to
the 9 before they hauled him to the
ftsnevuie uiues at Asheville in a
contest that will ao a lnm wnv to
ward deciding the championship of
me lilue Kiage Conference.
Carol Swanger, reserve back,
who has seen lots of defensive duty
recently, missed the game due to
in injury suffered this week in
ptacticu. Ju Kuykendall also sat
out th? game due to injuries.
The lineups:
Waynesville Bryson City
LE Yarboroush Bradley
I'T Atkinson b. Hyatt
LG McCracken Arkansas
C Boyd Calhoun
RG Mehaffey Cope
T Setzer Dehart
RE Owen . Woodard
QB Womaek Ensley
HB Davis Brown
HB Garrett Lambert
HB Whisenhunt M. Hyatt
Subs Bryson City Freeman.
King, Messer, Anderson, Sherrill,
Angel; Waynesville Terrell, Mes
ser, Deweese. Nichols. HIdds' Mok
Jones Metcalfe, Evans, Kerley,
Styles Carver, Mills, Fugate, Mil
ner, Francis, T. Swanger.
Bryson City 0 6 0 0 6
Waynesville 7 7 0 620
I ville jayvees.
Comparative scores would make
Waynesville 44 points better than
I Bethel.
But Canton committed some of
the same costly blunders that the
Demons had made in their open-
! er.
: Coach Johnson put his boys to
I work particularly to strengthening
I the tackle spots against Waynes
Iville's powerful 180-pound Fresh
man fullback, Gerald Ross.
Operating against Canton's
j juniors. Ross gained six yards al-
most every time be blasted through
i the guards or tackles.
However, the Littie Mountain
leers will face a line that is much
i Heavier man any they have run
i atjain.st in their two previous
' games. i
meyii also have plenty of
trouble With fletht.rc hio r,o,l ri
. .J .h h"UI 14, U.
li f:i t .....
u. i.iuMiii vvno nasn t yet given up
a yard through his position. On the
same side of the Bethel defensive
line, will be Tackle Jerry Gibson
another hefty. The Gibson boys'
have more than half thp t.-irkW i
the Demons' previous two games. I
Johnson also is trying to find an I
effective bunch of rerelvwrc t, I
Quarterback Edwin Lowe's bullet
passes.
The Demons will have to concede
the punting edge to the junior
Mountaineers. But so have all the
other Waynesville opponents
Freshman Halfback James Robert
Moore of the Little Mountaineers
can boot the ball CO yards against
a strong wind. His 70-yard punt
against the Canton Jayvees was
the longest one kicked in a high
school varsity or iunlnr
college game in Haywood County
mis season.
For the Little Mountaineers, It
will be their first
atins against the potentially dan
gerous spm-T lormation, as well as
their first acinst a srhnlaii ur.
sity.
The Blue Demons
ing by three and four touchdowns
in each of their outinsn a far
have showed flashes of brilliant
power which will develop with ex
perience into sustained scoring
drives.
Their blocking and tackling has
been ragged, and the offensive so
far has shown lack of coordination.
But man for man, they match the
other county varsity teams in size
and baekfield speed.
Fullback Buddy McDowell Is de
veloping into a first-rate line crash
er, pass receiver, and line-backer.
I.owe has stood out principally as
a long, accourate passer. But he and
Halfback Bobby Fore both showed
evidence of develpping into fast,
dangerous broken-field runners.
ihe probable starting lineups:
W'ville.JV
M. Hoagland
R. Carver
E. Inman
J. Boyd
K. Corbin
. R. Powers
D. Maney
H. Reece
B. Gilliland
T. Noland
Bryson or Ross
Pos. Bethel
LE W. Howell .
LT T. Howell
LG--F. Mease
C V. Browning
RG-D. B. Gibson
J. Gibson
R. Holland
RH- R
Fli G
Fore
Franklin
FOOTBALI
SCORES
Bryson City 6.
Waynesville 20.
I.ee Edwards 18. Hieht Poinl 12
Sylva 32, Robbinsvifle 0.
Christ School 12, Tryon 0.
Hayesville G, Andrews 0.
Brevard 13, Bessemer City 0.
Canton 19. Hendersonville 19.
Tennessee 35, North Carolina 6.
Duke 27, Georgia Tech 14.
N. C. Slate 14, Virginia Tech 13.
Wake Forest 34, Clemson 21.
Bearcats
Come From
Behind
3 Times
The Canton Black Bears and the
Hendersonville Bearcats battled to
a 19.-19 tie Saturday night in a
Blue Ridge Conference thriller al
Hendersonville.
A Homecoming Day crowd of 2,-
000 tans silting in th? foi; saw tlu
Bearcats come from behind three
.hues to gain the deadlock.
Tailbacks Bobby Moore and Nei'
rihyiner scored all the Black Beai
louchduwns on long runs.
Moore took off around end or
he first play alter liie second
eriod opened end raced 49 yard."
'or the first Canton touchdown
Rhymer added the extra point wit!
a plunge.
But the Bearcats : horliy after
ward started a di ive from Ihcii
own 21 that did 1 1 t slot) until F. C
Hendrix crashed over from th
.hree-yard line into the end zoiu
79 yards away. The try for the poin1
failed, and the Black Bears wid
ened their margin shortly befon
half time.
Moore took off on a 65-yard dash.
that put Canton in front. 13-6, al
intermission. ,
But the Bearcats stormed back
shortly after the third quartci
opened.
Halfback Bobby Flemming, bot
tled up on the ground by the alerl
Black Bear line, took to the ail
and connected with a pass to Tom
Smith for a 66-yard gain to th(
Cantpn four.
Then Flemming broke through
on the next play for the touchdown
Then he took a pass from Bud
dy Burnette for the extra point to
tie the score, 13-13.
The Black Bears went ahead
again in the final period when
Rhymer dashed 32 yards to the
end zone. But the try for the poinl
that would have meant a victory
failed.
The Bearcats again started driv
ing. Herb Osteen's .plunge from the
one-yard line tied the score. But
the Bearcats had to settle for a tie
when the Black Bears smothered
the try for the conversion.
The game originally was sched
uled for Friday night, but was post
poned by the heavy rains, and Ihe
two teams battled i t o o I in t h f .
mud.
Hendersonville made 14 first
downs to seven for Canton, but the
Black Bears rolled 256 yards on the
ground while holding Henderson
ville to 148.
The Bearcats, however, gained 66
yards through the air on two pass
completions in nine attempts. For
the first time this season, the Black
Bears failed to complete a pass.
They tried six, and all of them were
grounded.
Reversing form again, the Black
Bears took punting honors, aver
aging 41 yards per boot, while Hen
dersonville collected a 39-yard
average. ,
Black Bear receivers returned
Hendersonville, punts a total 34
yards, while the Bearcats brought
back the Canton nunts 25 varH nil
together.
Both teams paid relatively heav
ily in penalties Canton lncf A;
yards by infractions, while the
Bearcats were set back 40.
The Black Bears will continue
their Conference campaign next
weekend, meeting Christ School at
7:30 p.m. Saturday at Black Bear
GUESSING GRID WINNERS
4 II
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Win,
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By FRANK ECK
.Nevvsfeature.s Sports Editor
EAST
iimy to crush Fordhain.
io.slon U. to halt Temple.
'ol'wle to ede Holy Cross.
'ornell lo rout Syracuse.
JartiiiouUi lo nip Columbia.
luckiiell to top Gettysburg.
vlaryland lo trim Geo. Washington
.YU to crush Kings Point.
enn to beat Virginia.
Vnn Slate over West Virginia.
Princeton to edge Harvard.
iulgers to trample Lafayette.
i"ale to nip Brown.
MIDWEST
llinois to beat Indiana.
ovva Stale over Drake.
Kansas lo beat Nebraska.
Vlichigan to route Purdue.
Minnesota to crush Iowa.
S'orUiwesteni over Wisconsin.
Voire Dame easy over Michigan St.
Jhio Slate to upset Pitl.
Oklahoma to trim Kansas State.
Oklahoma Aggies over Tulsa.
South Carolina over Marquette.
SOUTH
uburn over Mississippi State.
Boston College over Clemson.
Duke to nip Wake Forest.
Georgia to beat Florida.
Georgia Tech over Tenn.-M,.
Kentucky to crush Xaviei
Mississippi over Chattanuuga.
North Carolina over Win. & Marv
No. Carolina St. over Hichnioml'.
Tulane to nip Navy.
Vanderbilt over LSU.
VMI over Davidson.
Wash. & Lee over VIM.
SOUTHWEST
Rice to trim Arkansas.
Texas over Baylor.
SMU to beat Texas Aggies.
Texas Tech over Texas Western
ROCKy MOUNTAIN
Arizona over New Mexico.
Utah to beat Colorado Armies
Missouri to trim Colorado U.
Utah State over Brighain Young.
Wyoming over Colorado State.
FAR VyiOST
California to trim Washington St.
Montana over East Washington.
Oregon to nip Washington.
Oregon State over Idaho.
St. Mary's to beat Denver
Stanford to edge Southern ( 'al.
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RECORD TO DATK 141 Wins
49 Losses, 8 Ties. 1'CT. 742.
Plans Shapina Up For
Canton Paper Bowl Game
The two teams which will plav
the 1949 Paper Bowl Game at Can
ton may be announced about No
vember 12.
The game, originated and spon
sored by the Y's Men's Club of
Champion YMCA, will be played
November 30 at Canton s Blaen
Bear Memorial Stadium.
Ralph Goforth, again serving as
g( neral chairman of the Paper
Bowl committee, and the other
numbers of his group met last
week with other officials to launch
work on the plans for the .second
annual event.
However, the committemen have
been watching developments ever
since the football season ooened
They have been paying particular
attention to the results in the
Blue Ridt;e and the Western Class
A Conferences.
The approximate date of the an
nouncement follows by a week the
Waynesville-Asheville School eame
scheduled for Asheville School the
preceding Saturday.
Asheville is the last litirdl
the Mountaineers' way to their suc
cessful defense of their Blue Hiilne
Conference title.
Asheville has lost to Brevard and
Canton in Blue Ridge Scraps hut ! .
Memorial Stadium in Canton.
The lineups:
Pos. Canton Hendersonville
LK Scruggs Burnett
LT Pless Case
LG Brookshire Ponder
C Amos Edmundson
RG Ingle Long
RT Stiles Steppe
RE Phillips Smith
QB Carter Hendrix
1.11 - Moore Flemming
RH Rhymer Osteen
I'H Coman Gilreath
Tennessee Touchdown Bid Halted
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'L k ferv Wwo than meets th.
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couia inrow tne race into a tangle j i j pp.,
by upsetting the Mountaineers, who
have won all lour ol their league
games so far.
A loss would give the Mountain
eers at best only a share in the
loop title. It would also bung a
few other teams into consideration
as the Blue Ridge representative in
the Paper Bowl.
Speculation as to the Class A
team has mentioned Moi gantoii
most prominently. The Wildcats
have already performed before a
Canton audience. On that occasion
thev edced Canton 14-H by a very
smooth last-half rally.
Lenoir's unbeaten, untied power
house, which defeated Canton by
37-0 and Morganlon by only "i"'
touchdown, is apparently headed
for a perfect season and the West
ern championship.
But the Western wmnei
mitted to another post-.se;
game at Hickory.
Another possibility looms in u'
Smoky Mountain Conference. How
ever, if the Paper Bowl commit
tee Dicks one from that loop, it
can't be thq champion.
The Smoky Mountain champion
will play in a bowl game al Bry
son City.'
tj.. v. pQnr Rnu'l neoole
ouwcvci, me
are considerably more interested in
mstiino a Dnnrl match tliail ill ar-
" "O " f.
ranging a tournament of champions,
fienomiiv cnpakini? their idea of
Curium High si
sit V will meet
i juniors at Memo!
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straight Barnes II
to the Wajnes
WaynesMlli last
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chairmen:
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mi'.lee: J- Sec1
cornmiltec: G.
sales: Grant S'
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goal line aa he lunge.' for pay dirt In fin quarter at Chapel Hilt. Nortn Carolina Fu llback Blily Ty".
(center) makes the atop. Tennessee mauled the Tar Heels, 35-6. (AP Wirephoto).
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