East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1950-10-19
Shaw Off
ToFreemont
This Friday
Ry Bob Keefer

Seeking it's third victory of the
season, a plucky Shaw football
team will play on foreign soil"
for the first time this fall when
it invades the Fremont Ross grid
iron tomorrow night for the fourth
and last independent game on the
local schedule.
The Ross eleven, which is tabled
the "Little Giants" because of its
ability to field big teams every
season, has another typically heavy
crew ready to welcome the East
Clevelanders in the first meeting
in the athletic history of the two
schools. Coach Nal Mackey's host
team will average 1886 lbs per
man on the line while the starting
backfield will considerably out
quartet with a 1884 average.
Although the current Little
Giant record is not too impressive,
the host team is, nevertheless, a
tough opponent for the Cardinals.
The Mackey-coached eleven got
off to a very auspicious debut by
walloping Norwalk, 51-7. They
were then held to 6-6 tie by a
still-undefeated Lorain team and
then came back to bury Fostoria by
a 42-0 score. In their last two
outings, however, Ross was de-
feated by two powerful teams
which are still listed among the
states undefeated ranks. Findlay,
a challenger for statewide supre-
macy, took a 14-0 victory while
Sandusky registered it's fiji h
straight win by licking the Giants,
29-7 last Friday night.
Leading the Fremont attack are
pair of experienced senior half
backs, Charlie Glover and Bob
Markley, who last season aver
aged 9.3 and So yards per try in
their ball-carrying efforts. In the
newly-adopted T-formation which
Coach Mackey has installed in this,
his first season as the Ross
mentor, the Giants have had some
trouble in switching from the
single-wing system which brought
them 26 victories in 80 games over
a three-year period. The big line
has three starters who exceed the
200-lb. mark-End John Allen, PIT;
Tackle Phil Keller, 211; and Guard
Bob Biggs, 210.
The 1949 Ross eleven was ranked
fifth in the state scholastic grid
ratings, winning nine of it's ten
contests and scoring 384 points.
After two successive losses, the
host team will be anxious to get
back on the winning track but
they won't have an easy time with
the scrappy Cardinals.
Coach Bob Cawrse has announced
that Joe Roman, rangy junior end,
will start in place of Bob Gibson,
senior right end, who aggravated
an ankle injury in last weeks Lake
wood game. Gibson's injury is
described as a severly pulled ten
don and it is possible that he may
be through for the remainder of
the season. Gill Sanford, bull-doz-
ing fullback, has shown rapid re-
covery from his shouler disloca-
tion and is ready to go at top
speed again.
Tomorrow nights game is con-
sidered a toss-up with Fremont's
power being offset by strong
Shaw aerial attack and a better
than-average running game. Robert
Louis, Shaw faculty manager, has
announced that reserved seat
tickets are available at the Shaw
Ticket Office for one dollar and
that general admission seats will
be sold at the Fremont gate. Those
of you who expect to drive to the
game, and I hope there are a good
many-Fremont is 81 miles from
downtown Cleveland and can be
reached by taking either Route 20
or Route 6, both Of which are main
highways. After last weeks re-
markable comeback against Lake
wood, the team certainly deserves
the full-hearted support of both
the student body and community.
Let's follow them to both Fremont
and Elyria which will be next
weeks opponent on THURSDAY
night. October 26th.