The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-10-09

Gu Tie Dal backwards to one of hi
Team mates, who ran about IS ward
on the play. =
I Note to Cliff Olson of PIC
Those eWapato Wolves are stealth,
some OF your stuff. Those $1,000 VIII,
shouted and howled when PIC
! passed their way through Gonzag.
several weeks ago would have ais.
aooed handSprlngs to their curricu.
ium OF activities if they had seer
TINS Ellensburg -Wapato game las,
Friday night.
Figure it out for yourselves bows
three passes for Wapato and three
touchdowns. That's the story of the
wolves dazzling victory over the
Ellensburg Bulldogs. The plot un-
travelled like the story of the Rover
Boys at old Eewash, and the Wolves
reached the climax at Just the right
time-60 seconds prior to the END
OF the ball game.
You can write down three names
IN your scouting book, Coach
Coates, and they are: Bob st. Marys.
VINO runs passes and receives passes.
Don Patterson, big fullback, who
hits the line and also passes-and
httle EllenSburger, named Steve
Perotti, who weighs 1877 pounds with
an anvil in each hand. He personally
mace three-fourth of the Wolves
tackles against Ellensburg. He likes
ms eX team mates, too!
What stopped the Bulldogs. if thew
had the ball three-fourths of the
time? Why a little guy, PLAYING
guard named Perotti, who was Ell
lensburg's fifth back all evening only
ne wasn't playing for the Bulldogs.
The Ellensburg boys were old pals of
his for he took his grade school
work in that city. He didn't spare
the horses. Ellensburg worked the
ball to the Wapato in the first two
minutes of play, but Perotti threw
Bunger back on the IL on fourth
down to end the threat. A few
minutes later he nailed Carmody
when the latter was almost away. In
the second quarter he broke through
and recovered Burgers tumble. |
which set up the second Wapato |
touchdown. Wapato likes to tell how !,
the little guy made the first team
IN four days. He stayed one, dav
With the third string, two with the
second string, and the next day he
moved up to the varsity to stay.
The fellow behind the scenes last
friday night was the Studious. gen.
al, al Learned, the Wapato Coach.
Hes the smart young man who has
lone wonders for the Wolves. He's
PROBABLY all the more famous be-
;ause OF the fact that his team prac-
ices four hours and forty minutes
DER week, because of bus Schedules
The finesse of the Wapato attack
vas tribute to Learnd'S coaching.
0ne would never think that this was
ne same club that finished in the
econo division last year. It only
'oeS TO prove that about 80 percent
i the battle is material and the rest
he coach. Many coaches have con-
lded that the boys are the ones that
eserve the credit when a team
this column wants to
I've the coaches a break also-not
ven Rochne, Phelan or Shaughnessy
IN every year-ask Clark Shaugh-
essy what he did two years ago at
'hlcago - yes, readers, material
ounts, too! This conclusion of the
fapato teams success may sound
omeWhat contradictory, but the
ritter had to add an extra point or
70. - - :
Bill Sterm-the Announcer Ill
Last Saturday night this writer
card the Bill Stern program from
outh Bend, Indiana, where the all
merican announcer introduced
rs. Knute Rochne, who in turn
elcomed Frank Leahy, the newt
o0e Dame coach, in one of the
ost humanl story sports fan
build want to hear. Mrs. Rochne
ated, that she desired to forget
e past, and wished Coach Leahy
the success in the world in the
ture; also, she remarked, .that
bach Rochne would have been
oud Of him, meaning Leahy. This
liter is confident that the immor-
Rochne would have been too.
'ahy played for the Great Rock"
Just a word on the behalf of BiIlfI
ems work if you haven't heard
m announce a sports event as yet,
u have missed something. He has
e ability to enable the hstner to
t only see the game through his
ldSpeaker, but he also enables
u to understand the tension pres
I, and the human element which
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