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October 8, 1958

THE PAP E R

Page 4 PIONEERS 2 UP, 1DOWN By DON GWALTNEY

USD OPENS WITH 20-6 WIN OVER MEXICO

New Mexico

They looked like flamboy- ant Ivy Leaguers attired in four-button Hickey-Freemans at a beach party. They were overdressed. Although Coach Bob McCutch- eon's sexily clad USD Pioneers in- augurated 1958 football with a 20-6 win over the University of Mexico, they weren't impressive, over- whelming or deserving of the glamour that surrounded them in doing it. Victory wasn't secured until the last seven seconds of the game, when freshman halfback Joe Gray streaked 68 yards to score. Until then, USD play was lusterless and lackadaisical. The undersized and under-rated UM Pumas forced the fight all evening and drove deep into Pio- neer territory on five different oc- casions. One of these drives went all the way, halfback Luis Rodri- guez throwing over the last five Ollie's Top XI Team Points 1. Notre Dame ................ 39 2. Oklahoma ... .............. 38 3. Auburn (tic) .. ..... 34 Army (tie) .. .... 34 5. Ohio State .... ..... 33 6. Pittsburgh ....... 18 7. :Michigan (tie) _..... 16 .·avy (tie) .. ... .... 16 \J. Mississippi .. 13 10. Wisconsin ... .. . 9 11 C. 0. P. ... .... .. 5 Substitute of the Week 12. Air Force Academy

For the Pioneers' second game the crowd was unde- serving of the glamour. The Junior Pioneer Band, the pul- chritudinous new College for Women song leaders, a sprink- ling of cowbells and pompons, the Booster Club's pre-game publicity, John Bowman's skin-cut, the addition of Dean of Admissions Irving L. Par- ker to the Pioneer bench, the cigar-smoking Rooster: these Balboa Stadium program en- trees were all gauged for attendance of at least 50,000. Instead, less than one thousand sat and watched USD eke out a 13-10 win over New Mexico WP-st- ern on Sept. 27. And aside from pre-game, interim and post-gam.:l activities, the game itself was suf- ficient for this hardy group.

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and Ken Cook were eager competi- tors but outclassed by the Mon- tana linemen. Most of the Pioneers' offensive potency was lost in the second quarter when Walker and halfback Vic Gausepohl were injured and had to leave the game. Walker gol a knee in the chest, and Gausepohl tore ligaments in his left knee. The Pioneers got their lone tally when only 28 seconds remained in the game. Tom Gates took a later- al from Chapman and plowed through from the six-yard line. After the game, a Pioneer fan said, "If it hadn't been for those breaks against us in the first half, we would have won." But Mccutcheon gave his recipe for success when he replied, "A good team makes its own breaks. Then it capitalizes on them." Mon- tana State had a very good team.

Late in the third quarter, Pio- neer quarterback Jan Chapman again sent his backs repeatedly into holes opened by M:ulitgan and Franklin. He then pitcb"d out to Gausepohl who went eight yards around the other end to score. Larry Tessary converted, and the Pioneers were in fro,1t to stay,

alley Freshman football at USD got off to a good start last week when the Junior Pioneers dropped Los Angeles Valley Junior College 18 to 12. The game, played at Los Angeles, was a limited scrimmage contest, each team having the ball for four 10-minute periods. USD's scoring was dominated by the running of fullback Chuck Williams, who accounted for two of the three tallies. A Billy Bourque pass to right end George Coggins made up the final six points. Valley's main trouble was a bad case of the fumbles. Drive after drive into Pioneer territory was stopped by loss of the ball. '

After a sloppy 13 minutes of play, highlighted only by an exotic sideline toe-dance and hurdling a;,..- hibition by Pioneer end Conrad 13-10. \"lalker, Coach Bob McCutcheon's boys started to make the game interesting. They spotted 1','MW fullbo.ck Juan Vasquez to score from the one-yard line. seven points, allowing

Montana State USD "looked better in los-

ing to Montana State than The most screeching cheer of we have all year," declared tM second quarter camcJ after the Coach Bob McCutcheon after announcement of the Notre Dame- his Pioneers lost to a well- Indiana score. 1 • . The half ended with NMW in coached and hard-h1ttmg Bob- front 7-0, and disillusioned boosters cat eleven, 31-6, last Saturday sweated out the interlude by mute- \ night in Balboa Stadium. ly counting the 49 fans on th'l Although Mccutcheon was im- east side of the stadium and the pressed, the Pioneer mascot Jack three sailors sprawled ac1·oss the Burro, an Abyssinian donkey bor- end-zonc section. rowed from a booster, evidently USD roared back in the third was not. After watching Montana quarter and permitted the Mus- fullback Rocco Perciavalle power tangs to enjoy a 10-0 lead by vi r- into the end zone after only three tue of an 18-yard field goal by minutes of play, Jack turned his Ron Darnell. back to the whole thing, com- early. Cashing in on every ad- ceeding gains between th\s pair by vantage, the Bobcats capitalized halfbacks Bob Keyes and Vic on a blocked punt, a pass intercep- Gausepohl enticed all 11 Mustangs tion, a fumble and a Pioneer pen- to this danger area. Gausepohl then alty to roll to a 24-0 halftime lead. sped around the opposite end 55 Besides Perciavalle, other first-half yards for a TD. The conversion at- scorers for Montana were fullback tempt was wide, and NMW Jed Diel{ Nawotczynski (one -yard 10-6. plunge), halfback Tom Molen Meanwhile, back on the bench, (three-yard end run) and quar- Dean Parker, looking conspicu- terback George Lucas (one-yard ous without his helmet and not quarterback sneak). realizing tha,t l\lcCutcheon was USD'S Gardner, tackles John not going to play him, was try- Mulligan and J. D. Trily, ends C. G. ing to blackmail student-coach Walker, Wayne Bourque and Ray Frank Murphy. Yoast and centers Jack Garofono Then, behind the titanic blocking pletely disinterested. of Franldin and Mulligan, the Pio- Montana showed its superiority neers started to move. Fo:.ir sue-

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yards to end Ismael Encinas. Brilliant defensive play by USD halfbacks Vic Gausepohl and Gray stopped the rest of the drives by intercepting a pair of passes apiece. Offensively, halfbacks Tom Gates and Bob Keyes and fullback Ava- lon Wright played most of the time and were leading ground- gainers for the Pioneers. Keyes scored once on a one-yard plunge. San Diego standouts up front in an outcharged line were John Mulligan, Rick Novack, Jack Trily and Conrad Walker. Walker caught a seven-yard pass from quarter- back Jan Chapman to score the Pioneer·' first touchdown. Mccutcheon has gathered and developed a fine '58 Pioneer squad but be needs greater performances than the one his me.n gave him in the first game.

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