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Mount Carmel Item from Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania • Page 5

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Mount Carmel Itemi
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MOUNT CARMEL ITEM. MOUNT CARMEL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1928. PAGE FIVk TOD 1 SPOR TS In the four-cornered rice for the muslin the Wolves stand out over football at Mount Carmel High, Joined the Holy Cross college fresh No Uniforms For The Other Good Ones Atlas Wolves Made the pack like a tent covrrs a circus. I eleven Eddie Menapact, ox Yale the four- Here's the alfalfa on cornered fight: outplayed and outsmarted, but managed to star off defeat, la a sensational duel, the game'endlng in a 0-0 tie. Vlotorles were chalked up over the Locust Oap Buffaloes, SI to 0, and the Shamokin Iron Men.

it to University, a crack center in his high school days, jere started in whore Mascfontonlo left off. Eddie spent many hours with the team and his fins coaching urea W. T. L. Pet Wolves 1 1 .831 Indians I 1 2 ,500 Wonderful Record During Season 0, before the Wolves went down to defeat at Kulpmont.

tha Oranra Orange Buds 1 1 .150 Slabtown 1 0 .150 The Wolves beat the Indiana BwiA "Jl twice, Slabtown twice aud the tlcally "made" the Wolverine line, a wall that has been tested under fire la fifteen torrid battles, and punctured for the Insignificant Sam of only three touchdowns. In eleven of these battles the Wolves were Buds lacing them, 20 to 11 The Wolves then subdued Marlon Heights Indians, 7 to beat Slabtown, 6 to 0, and won from the Kulpmont Orange Buds Into sub Exchange War Horses Won 12 Games, Lost mission, 19 to 0. They more than not scored upon and In Ave of these games ths opponents were l4 avenged the defeat Kulpmont gave One and Tied Two During Hectic Battles of 1928 Season RECORD think they are marching. Ditto: held without a first down. Orange Buds once.

They" played one tie with the Indians and lost one game to the Orange Buds. Marion Heights licked Slabtown once; Kulpmout once, tied the Wolves aud the Orange Bads and lost two games to the Wolvea. The Orange Buds licked the Wolves, drew with the Height, anI lost to the Wolves, Indlaot and Slabtown. Of the six touchdown scored against the Wolves this year, one (Volvet opponent! teams play football ami think them a fortnight before. Kulpmont did not make a first down in defeat, being completely outplayed and outclassed.

Marlon Heights went down for a second time, as did Slabtown, the came via the air, one the result of a blocked kick and one by a fumble. Carmel Maroons .0 they are champions. s-Brady Tigers 0 whjr lh, Wq, Clipper 'brilliant. Minnrun. The Wolves rolled up 271 points in fifteen games, averaga of IS fc-Shamokln Bunker Hill ra not ciaimln.

the foo Slabtown beat Kulpmont and Wolves winding up the season with a scoreless draw against the In :1 points per game, proving that they I 5-Shamokln Farvlewa 0 1 ball championship. But they ara o-Shen. Clover's Hill 0 wI11(ng t0 stand or fa by thejr ll-Locuat Gap Buff aloe record of a irue greatness, so it is said. Is Mamokln Iron Men OiramM and n. ni.r, A.t i decisive 26 to 0 victory over the 4 ft -1H A I ineasirred ly what a team accom l-" I deed a mnilt rvinvlnHnp.

I'hlawa. Mount Carmel Maroons. The Brady -Kulpmont Orange Buds. Tigers were chewed up, SB to 0, r-M. Heights Indians dians la Mount Carmel Park.

In three attempts to "take" the Wolves, the Indians got nothing better than a draw game. The team, under the able guidance of John Paddy Kulick and Jake Menapace, who took the reins In mldseason, produced quite a few "finds," young gridders who Then can the titanic struggle S-Slabtown -A. C. I-Kulpmont Orange Buds t-M. Heights Indians Slabtown A.

'itnent. -J It any titular honors are being passed around, the Wolverine steam roller la moat descrying. A I championship Is only a scrap of paper, anyway, but If any regional with the Shenandoah Clippers, which the Wolves won. It to Shamokin Bunker Hill was over whelmed, 33 to and the Fairrlew fc-M. Heights Indians plishes on the football field.

The Wolves are sure their record speaks for itself. The Wolves, a comparatively young and Inexperien-ced team, owe much of their success to Albert "Flash" Maaciantonio, Mount Carmel High's All-State halfback, who coached the outfit In the early days of the present campaign. After Masclantonlo, perhaps the greatest and surely the equal of win do sensations when they ao A. of Shamokin, was annihilated quire the experience that comes 25 to 0. SI only with years of campaigning on team can produce a niftier report card than the "Wolves, tfcem that Then cam the big game with the gridiron.

1 tvA, i (the Glover Hill Buffaloes, of Shen The development of "Battering By Dan M.rnell take of "scrap of paper." They can have Tbt Parade goes on: Some mentn, Jugt for ths aski who Ram Deromedl was perhaps the andoah, 1127 Class football champions of the lower aathraclte regions. These mighty champs were most rapid. As a tackle he bad no ke time with their feet and cares, anyway? any safety man In the history of; superior in Class ranks. In the The University of Florida, one of the finest football teams of the year, boasted of the best and fastest backfield squad in the country. There were twelve backs en the squad.

Six of them can do the hundred in 10.1 seconds. Bight of them ar tin punters and ea of them are great passers. And al lot them are good receivers. The ace of the squad is "Can-nonball Clyde" Crabtree, from 'Cicero, 111., who was mentioned as a quarterback on several All-America teams. In ths group picture above are shown, left to right, Capt.

Ernest Bowyer, Tommy Owens, Rainey Cawthon, Crabtree, Royce Goodbread. Carl Brumbaugh, "Red" Bethea, Wilbur James, "Red" McEwan, John Allen, Ed Sauls and Broward McClellan. And they all weigh better than 170 pounds. (HHMDIr backfield he was a terror. He cracked the line and skirted the ends with equal facility.

He's got the management in the "hole." They don't know where to play him next quarterback position. Both signal barkers proved to be real assets to the team. Bortney, a good passer, defensive player, and a heady quarterback. Is more experienced Aan Polltus, his understudy. Poll-tus, by the way, shows much promise of becoming a good ball carrier, Both of them should be finish COLORED CLUB TO PLAY THE HEIGHTS SUN.

year. In the line or in the back-field he's a coming star. Victor "Wop" Direnzo was per haps the flashiest. A fairly good ed products next year. punter and forward passer, but my how he could carry that ball.

Andy "Gumps" Bortnichack, Off tackle slants and sweeping end whose nom de battle is AuJv Moore mm was used in the backfield, in the runs wero nis louaest suootm crackers. He played tha last half line and on the flanks. Andy could fill In any place and play a steady game. He Is a great favorite with the "shemale" rooters of the team. tanny Coveleskie, nn excel of the season under a handicap, a pulled tendon slowing him up.

Only IS years st age, Direnzo should be a dazzler next year. For consistency, Frankie Domu-lewicz ranked with the best ball carriers on the team. Blessed with triangles Keady ror uamo with Colored Collegians at Maysville Tomorrow Marion Heights Triangles, claim ants of the 192S football chain pionship in the lower Anthracitt coal field, today await the shrill of the referee's whistle that will send them into action toinonow af ternoon against the Colored Colleg ians of Philadelphia. The opening kickoff is scheduled lent forward passer, and "Quack" Gedrich, a powerful line bucker, showed plenty of promise. Another campaign under their belt ind they will show stuff that is expeeted of with the New more than ordinary speed and lots of power, Domulewicz always got his yardage.

He went around the ends, slid off tackle or ploughed through the center of the line game in and game out. It can truthfully to go on at Maysville Park a 2:30 p. m. promptly, Nick iigro them. They should make good.

"Squire" Serowicz, Pat Direnzo and B. Coveleskie worked at the pivot position. Of the three, istrats" Serowicz was the best defensive player. He roamed behind be said that he starred in every game. He a "plugger.

that line of scrimmage like a cat "Mlque" Dngan started off like a manager of the Triangles, has an nounced. With an enviable string of "vie lories to their credit, the billsid eleven, Manager Sgro stated, will strive ijfl hardest to add the scaif of the fast-stepping colored grid Florida hurricane. He pulverized Trnip CCdDMTTIRKlDIL licking his chops just before devouring a canary. Direnzo was in a class by himself as an accurate snapperback. Coveleskie was tho every line in- front of him until in-1 sub extraordinary.

He has lots to tiers who also boast a clean slatt thus far this season, according ti report. juries took their toll. One of his "props" went bad otherwise he would have retained his region-wide reputation as a line bucker par excellence. He surely has got the drive In his legs and the spirit of a fighter. Dugan was never lick-j OVER-FATIGUE learn but he's a gamester.

"WlnV Zahar and "Flick" Walsli were considered the equal of any two guards in the region. Zahar, the most spectacular of the two, gave the enemy backs many uneasy moments. On many occasions el. i Housewives who find themselves Until his serous Injury in the I very tired in the afternoon can buoyed up tremendously if the.i second game against Kulpmont. Johnny Pluta, fleet back, showed sensational form.

Pluta does not Zahar broke through the line and tackled the enemy ball carrier for a loss. Walsh flashed a good game throughout the season and was a will try sipping a glass of hot mill' and resting a half hour after wards. have the change of pace that is Dl-renzo's, but he certainly has got a more rugged physique and a hard very important cog tn the Wolverine football machine. J. Kogue was another lineman of more than or- er drive.

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