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Clash To Be Anniversary For Columbia Coach, Lou Little The Columbia-Navy encounter here on Saturday will mark the 160th time Coach Lou Little has sent a Lion football team into an intercollegiate fray. Little is cur rently in his eighteenth season as held football coach at Morning side Heights. Probably the best way his foot bball charges can celebrate the coach's “anniversaty” will be to re peat their string performance against the middies last year. Surging forward in the second half, Columbia scored two touch downs and a field goal to win, 23-14. Many Lions Back Most of the Lions who contri buted to that victory will be on hand again on Saturday. Lou Kush (SevoW, Who scored Conmbia Ss Arse” touchdown in the fourth play of the game and yan to another in the third period, will be flanked in the backfield by two other starters of a year ago—Gehe Rossides and Ventan Yablonski. Yablonski ac counted for the winning scor.7: his 15-yard line plunge put the , 20-14, and his 15- Obun, leading replacement last year, will round out the Light Blue quartet on their side, the middies will pit several carryovers who figured prominently in the 1946 action. They include Pistol Pete Williams, who ran 23 yards for one score and contributed vital passes to the other, as the spark of the Navy backfield. He will be joined in the “probable starting lineup by Reaves Baysinger, Alvin Menily and Bill Hawkins. Of these, McCully will be especially remembered by the fans for his repeated receptions fat Williams’ passes at Baker Field. Columbia Team Barring injuries, Columbia will | Probably start the same seven linemen who saw service in the opener against Rutgers. This means that Bill Schack and Bruce Gehrke will be in at the ends Werner Hasselman and Hank O'Shaughnessy at tackles, Joe Karas and Charles Kremovich at guards and Gene Shekitka. center. Cisée Hampton, whose pre season injuries kept him out of m major action against Rutgers, will probably be trady to holster the
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Capital Gazette
Annapolis, Maryland, US
Mon, Sep 29, 1947
Page 7
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Charlie B.
