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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1934
Page
2
Chicago heats take on New York Giants for the professional football championship with a 2 PM broadcast. Warren Dragons plan a 26 game schedule opening with Youngsville. Other notes cover Corry High sports, bowling standings, and local prep banquets.
Corry High School basketball coach William Myers has led a month two weeks of intensive practice to ready the Beavers for the opening game against the Faculty. The team, featuring Roeloff Fitch and Paulson, aims to rebound from a poor football season with a disciplined, hard hitting style. Curtis and Taylor compete for wing positions while seasoned guards and forwards push for starting roles as practice intensifies ahead of Friday’s matchup versus Wesleyville.
Discussion at the Big Ten gathering in Chicago covered Harvard’s next football coach and Minnesota transfers. Harvard rumors named Patsy Clark or Charlie Buell as options, with Harvard athletics chief Willem Bingham coordinating the search. Minnesota players Bevan Rostken and others faced possible freshman eligibility rules.
A revised point system for league standings was adopted by Class B scholastic officials at Wesleyville. Beginning next season, teams earn two points per conference win and one for a tie, with one point deducted for a loss in conference play. Each team will play seven conference games in 1885 as the conference grows, with Wattsburg and Gerry planning to join.
Henry Swelemore profiles Willis Smith, a 145 pound Boise quarterback who rose from college football to the New York Giants. Despite doubts from coach Steve Owen, Smith survived the NFL grind, dodging bruisers and scoring an early 80 yard TD while detailing his evasive methods against massive linemen.
Yale’s six key players will depart after the 1985 season diminishing the team’s strength. Coach Raymond W. Pood plans to rebuild with a mix of returning veterans and a large incoming freshman class. The Elis face a tough 1985 schedule including New Hampshire, Penn, Navy, Army, Dartmouth, Brown, Harvard, and Princeton.
A garbled account notes an eastern team agreeing to participate in a charity game at San Francisco on New Year's Day. Dick Hanley selects a seventh player from the Midwest for Northwestern. The text references Monta and others in unclear phrases but centers on cross regional roster choices for the charity event.
Fifty thousand or more fans will watch Notre Dame clash with Southern California in a late-season showdown. Notre Dame enters as a two to one favorite as USC seeks momentum after five defeats, with lineup details and officials listed for the high-profile game in Los Angeles.
Bethlehem High School and Altoona High meet at Taylor Stadium to decide the state boy’s football title. Altoona seeks a fourth try with two prior western championships and a 6-0 tie in 1929. Bethlehem aims to defend Bethlehem’s strong eastern title lineage and an unbeaten season. The contest marks Bethlehem’s first titular bid in the central Pennsylvania inter scholastic league.
incoherent draft mentions Chicago retaining Cuyler and names like Charlie Grimm and Angie Galati. references to infielders Stan Hack and Charlie Root, with vague plans for pitching and managerial actions.
A fragmentary wrestling results item lists fighters from various locales and odd names. The text reads like a garbled roster with locations such as Germany and California and names including Mehhek Maldok Turkeys Melisasek Everall Wesiratatly Les Hunt and Wimnw Tom Gobb, but clarity is limited.
John Rickerson, returning to his Baker Hill home near Corry, spotted two deer in a field and brought down an antlered buck from the yard using a rifle he retrieved after considering a discussion with a hired man. The incident occurred within sight of his residence.
Clymer High handed Arcade a 32 to 26 defeat in a hard fought game. Vandershaal led the visitors with 14 points and Te Culver added 11 as Arcade faltered early and could not rally in time. The Orange and Black squad stays upbeat for a return engagement.
Mrs L Baker topped the women’s bowling tournament last night with 172 for first prize of 1 dollar. Mable Larson scored 150 and Helen Woley 146 to win second and third prizes, each receiving a candy box. In Rockville Conn during a non packing campaign Shorit ret Vinton and Justice Fitch Jones fined eight dollars for steering wheels left in cars.
At the Miami convention. leaders urge AAU to keep the United States out of the 1936 Berlin Olympics due to Nazi discrimination. Six national championships awarded to St Louis boxing, Nebraska outdoor track, Oklahoma A&M wrestling, with senior women outdoors and men indoors swimming assigned to New York and Chicago venues. A foreign relations panel invites Australia Sweden Japan Tanganyika for various events. A activist pair pressure AAU president to oppose participation in Berlin Games. A major raid uncovers a 250 gallon illicit fuel stash at a residence in Farrell.
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