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THE HERALD
Thinking Out Loud
With BYRON HAWKINS
With BYRON HAWKINS
Through the mails the other day a letter from the former Writer of this column, Don Murphy, who is, at present, matriculating at the University of Notre Dame. Don, as usual, is enthusiastic about the prospects of the South Bend school. Quote Mr. Murray:
"the N.D. football team, they look invincible. With a little tightening up on pass defense, no team will be able to touch them. Dipry Evans is quite a kid; he can to either side on a dime. Jusvik merely boles them over. Brutz and Ills look good in the line, but Ziemba, the boy they converted from a guards looks like a million at center. He makes alwul half the tackles.
"In fact, Notre Dame will win the Big Ten no matter what those Maywood guys think. Stop and think. By. If a team whips the champs, they are champs themselves. That's what I meant when I said Notre Dame would win the Big Ten title. If this all comes true, I will have the last laugh. If not, it wouldn't be the first prediction I made that didn't come true."
McKinley high of Canton, Ohio, the squad that will furnish the opposition for Oak Park in the Parker finale when the Orange- and-Blue travels to Ohio, November 15, was the only team to score on Coach Paul Brown's Massilion high last year. Brown, who this year made the jump from prep coaching to head of the Ohio State staff at Columbus, had a powerhouse aggregation at Masslllon last season. Boiling up points to the opposition 6, Brown's outfit played to over 175,000 spectators last year.
While Maywood, to say nothing of Forest Park, Melrose Park, Bellwood, Westchester, or any other of the local communities, has a population of 26,648, Massillon draws its participants from a town of 26,644, four less than Maywood.
Spending $7,000 a season on football equipment, Massillon outfits every player with three playing uniforms and a practice suit. Among the colleges, only Minnesota and Columbia are better equipped. Massillon, which is, incidentally, the home town of Yankee star. Tommy Henrich, has provided the high school with a stadium that seats some 22,000 people; for the big games it is sold out months in advance. With a stadium that more than triples the seating capacity of the Proviso stands, and a following that compares even less favorably for Proviso than do the stadium seating capacities, the Massillon, Ohio, high offers something at which Proviso might well aim if it intends getting anywhere in the prep football world.
In addition, it looks as if Oak Park has taken on quite a load this fall, meeting, on consecutive Saturdays,, Proviso, and McKinley high of Canton, an outfit in the game class as this Massillon aggregation.
Dots and Dashes-Orval Grove, back from the Texas league with a record of 17 wins as against 7 defeats, pitched for the Spencer Coals, Chicago semi-pro team against a combined major-minor league squad at Spencer Coals park last Sunday, but was beaten by Dutch Leonard, Washington Senators knuckleball artist. . . . Incidentally, Grove will leave soon on a trip to the Pacific coast with Don Kolloway, White Sox second baseman. . . . Glenn Johnson is first string quarterback on the freshman team at Marquette. . , . Harry Horst, sports editor last year on the Proviso Pageant, played the entire second half for Elmhurst against Aurora last Saturday. . . . Sometimes sports editors do know what it's all about . . . but "it can't happen here."
The Herald Sports News
Evanston Meets Mr. Puplis and Team--Yes, Indeed!
Pirates Lose Bobby Schulz, Star Halfback
Bobby Schulz, one of the most important cogs in the Puplis machine to retain the Suburban League football crown, will be lost to the Proviso Pirates for the remainder of the season.
Bobby was operated on early Sunday morning at the Oak Park hospital for ruptured muscles in his back, apparently suffered from the Evanston-Proviso football game the previous afternoon. However, he didn't feel anything wrong until late Saturday night, and didn't complain much even then. The family doctor rushed him to the hospital early Sunday morning. He was given a blood transfusion Sunday afternoon and rested comfortably in the evening.
In the five games that Proviso has played so far this fall Schulz has been either a threat to score or has scored. He toted the ball over twice in the Moline game when Proviso triumphed 25-0; once in the Marinette fracas when the Pirates won 20-6; and twice last Saturday afternoon when Coach Pupils' 1940 Suburban League co-champs began the defense of their title by humbling the Evanston Wildkits 14-0.
This diminutive halfback has been the elusive, shifty player best adapted to the Proviso system of football introduced by Andy Puplis last year. Weighing less than 145 pounds, he bobbed and weaved his way through the enemy defense for substantial gains whenever necessary. His loss will be keenly felt by the whole heavyweight team.
Senior Walther League Meets
The Senior Walther League of St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran church, 11th avenue and Lake street, Melrose Park, will have its regular monthly meeting Sunday. The meeting will begin immediately after the special festival service which will be conducted on that afternoon.
After the meeting the members will join the Ladies' Aid in a supper given by the organization in celebration of the Harvest Festival. Young people are urged to join in the work of this excellent 1 organization.
Led by Bobby Schulz, who scored both touchdowns, Coach Andy Puplis' Proviso Pirates swamped a scrappy Wildklt eleven, 14-0, on Evanston's field Saturday afternoon to open the defense of its Suburban league crown. Pictured above is Billy Fowlkes, elusive ball toter, as he sweeps around end. (Hollahan photos)
Gridiron Sketches
By BYRON HAWKINS
Bob Brust, this week's candidate for gridiron sketches, sends the beam bouncing to 170 pounds and the tape measure skipping to 5 feet, 11 inches. Bob, who is in his second year as a member of Coach Andy Puplis' backfield corps, is hereby tagged "Woo- Woo" by reason of his actions in last Saturday's game against the Evanston Wildkits. Midway in the third stanza, Kwasniewski, Orange-and-Blue star halfback, came swinging around left end. Five seconds later, his task on the particular play having been completed, Brust picked himself off the ground, glanced toward Coach Puplis, and let out a "Woo-Woo," somewhat in the manner of one who had been knocked slap- happy.
However, one should not get the idea that Bob Brust is slap-happy, save perhaps after a play such as the aforementioned. What with
Playing on a field swept by a strong south wind. Proviso took advantage of scoring opportunities by line plunges and end runs. Most of the passing was left to the Evanstonians.
Schulz scored first in the opening quarter by sweeping through right tackle from the 11-yard line. Bill Lloyd kicked the extra point. Again in the fourth quarter, Schulz drove 17 yards through left tackle to cross the enemy line. Lloyd again converted the extra point.
The final score failed to indicate the real defeat at the hands of Proviso. Once in the third quarter, Jim Fahey intercepted a pass on Evanston's 25-yard line, and with a clear field ahead charged into the center of the enemy interference on his left. Fumbles were prevalent during the game, each team recovering about on equal terms.
Evanston threatened in the first quarter, toting the ball to the Proviso 13-yard line, but the line held. In the second quarter, the Wildkits threw pass after pass in an effort to score, but four unsuccessful attempts ended that threat. Outstanding was the kicking of the Evanston left end. White, who, with the wind, kicked the ball 85 yards.
the recent loss of Bobby Schulz, all the heavier burden will fall on fullback Brust. Whenever an extra yard or two is needed, it is (Continued on page 31)
Morton Invades Pirate Lair Friday Night
Probable starting lineup:
Proviso- Morton-
Gallagher L. E. Vydra
SerDico L. T. Kounovsky
Archei- L. G. Seeman
Maczulaltis C. Schwetz
Aiuppa R. G. Bolek
Herzog R. T. Olmsteaa
Tye R. E. Tonsovlc
Lloyd Q.B. Young
Fowlkes L. H. Self
Burton R. H, Davela
Brust F. B. Mollison
After opening Suburban League play by whipping Evanston decisively last Saturday 14-0, Coach Andy Puplis' Proviso Pirates have been drilling all week for Morton Maroons' invasion tomorrow (Friday) night under the arcs of Proviso stadium at 8:15 p.m. Preliminary game between the fresh- soph team will get underway at 6:30.
Although defeated soundly by New Trier in its conference opener last Saturday, 27-6, Morton on last Saturday, 27-6, Morton can be counted on to give the Pirates one of their toughest battles of the season. To the Maroons of Cicero, the Proviso-Morton game is much like the traditional Oak Park-Proviso affair. As evidence of this, witness the score of the 1940 battle: Proviso, 14; Morton, 0. For thrills and excitement last year's fracas highlighted the year, with Morton threatening dangerously as the final gun sounded.
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