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Centralia Here TomorrowOrphans Are Ready -Rams Patched UpWith a steady rain falling today, it appeared that the weatherman was doing his part to set the stagefor a typical Mt. Vernon-Centralia football battle tomorrow night on VernoisField.For many years when the Vernois and Orphans played their annual game on Thanksgiving Day. it was cold weather or a thawing field which usually made for slow' going. Since the Ram-Orphan game date was advanced, gridirons soaked with rain have often been a factor In the traditional meetings.If a slow field tomorrow’ night favors either club, the advantage should go to the Rams who have demonstrated defensive potential this season while showing little in the offensive department.Centralia. with five ball carriers averaging over five yards per carry, has relied more on its scoring punch than on its defense. A muddy field tomorrow night might serve to bog down the Orphan ground attack.Centralia’s chief threat is fullback Rich Zgol. a 180-pounder. who tallied all three of the Orphans’ touchdowns in last year’s 20-6 win over Mt. Vernon. Zgol has carried 76 times this season, gaining 485 yards for 6.3 per carry.Halfback Rich Langin has gained 434 yards in 75 tiies for Coach Jimmie Evers’ varsity. Mike Zibby and senior tailback Van Bell are the other active Orphan backs. Van Bell does the passing. He has completed 14 of 56 tosses for 283 yards.Tomorrow marks the 39th meeting of Mt. Vernon Centralia in a grid series which started in 1925. Centralia has 27 victories, the Rams have won nine and there have been two ties.Mt. Vernon is 2-5 for the Reason while Centralia is 3-3-1. Neither team has a shot at South Seven Conference honors this year.The Orphans have had their share of injuries this year but Coach Evers has announced his dub should be near top strength for the Mt. Vernon clash. Ram Coach Frank Chomak can’t say as much.Zgol was handicapped by a sprained ankle, Zibby had the flu, senior center Grant Bailey w'as hurt in practice, end Larry Nichols was kayoed at Marion and another end Mike Mahlandt, was sidelined by a foot infection—but Evers said all the Orphans would be at Mt. Vernon and ready to go.The Rams, meanwhile, got a piece of good news when it was learned that Tom Henry could return to action against Centralia. Henry, defensive ace and Mt. Vernon punter, was sidelined with a concussion after the Marion game.But the Rams have lost Lanny Shaw', Jack Crocker, Roger Glasco and Leon Peacock from the front, line. Last night substitute fullback Bennie Edwards twisted a knee inscrimmage.Charles Gunnell will replace Peacock at right half, andNever Too Late Says Jack KempBuffalo QB Wouldn't Quit, Wins AL StarOf Week,By MARVIN R. PIKEBUFFALO. N Y. (AP) - Jack Kemp’s confidence may be the reason he's the Player of the Week in the American Football League.Like most of the 29,243 persons in the stands, Kemp figured he had blown the Buffalo Bills’ chance to beat the Boston Patriots last Saturday night.Hadn't the Patriots driven him from Boston's 11-yard line to the 40 with about two minutes left in the game? And didn’t Mack Yoho miss a 47-yard field goal attempt that would have broken a 21-21 tie?But Kemp, chosen by The Associated Press, recalled today that he had not given up hope.“I thought we’d make it,” he said. “We’d at least get close j enough for a field goal if not a touchdown.”That view, he said, came when Buffalo regained the ball on its 28-yard line with 28 seconds to go.“We had set tip the play on the sideline,” Kemp said as he described how Charle Ferguson, a former Minnesota Viking, was instructed to sprint downfieldand then cut to his left while Kemp made his throw’.Ferguson, a 6-foot-5 end filling in for Bill Miller, reached out, gathered in the ball on the Boston 20 and raced across the goalline untouched for Buffalo’s28-21 victory.Earlier, Kemp scored three touchdowns, each on one-yard line smashes.Ram Freshmen At FrankfortMt. Vernon’s freshman foot-hall team will attempt to snap a four-game losing streak tonight when they challenge the West Frankfort frosh at WestFrankfort.The w’inless Vernois. after being blanked by West Frank-! fort and Benton, managed to score seven points against Centralia in a losing effort and tallied 13 points when Harrisburg beat them by a single marker. |Walter Pogue will take over for Glasco at a linebacking post.Other defensive starters for Mt. Vernon will be Wendell MeReynolds John Stur-devant. Lowell Rue, Arthur Ellis, Gordon Rhine, Eddie Edwards, Ron Simmons, Tom Henry and Jim Carter.Larry Kite will start at offensive quarter. Bob O’Dell and John Wielt will go at ends, j with Barry Dodson and David Settle at offensive guards.
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Mt Vernon Register News
Mt Vernon, Illinois, US
Thu, Oct 31, 1963
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