The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-11-23
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Hail to the champs: Immacu-
late Conception in the Heavyweight
league, Holy Family in the Middle
weight division and the trio of
lightweight crown wearers, st.
Dominic, st. James and st. Aga
tha's. These teams wound up at
the top Of their respective leagues
when the oath elementary school
football season came to a close on
last weekend.
The teams were to appear in the
annual All Star contests on Thanks
giving Day and then hang up the
togs for another year. All squads
were real champs, there's no
doubling this. The fact that the
final statistics showed three of the
lightweights finishing tog ct h er
gives us an indication of the battle
that was waged during the season.
The boys, their coaches and their
schools are to be congratulated.
Anyone who has witnessed an
elementary school game has seen
some good football. We would say
that this was the case in most in
stances but we are sure that 1t was
so for those who saw st. Thomas
and st. Augustine battle it out in
the final game of the season last
week.
There was no championship at
stake but the boys played like
there was. st. Thomas won by an
10 to IA count, scoring first on
seventy-yard run by their left half
Joe Hoffman. But the outstanding
work was done by little Jake Spar.
Jake can pass football with more
poise than many college players.
We are of the opinion that that
arm has a future after seeing him
toss very accurately right down
the center to end Tom Waters for
touchdown.
Bob Foreman and Jerry Vogel
did the blocking and defensive
work for the team. Even with this
excellent performance st. Thomas
had its work cut out for it due
to a fighting and game st. Angus
tine squad. The team wasn't par
ticularly outstanding until the Sec
ond half when it called for an end
around handoff. On this play, a
young man by the name of Dale
Doodle came by and took the hand
off and streaked down the sidelines
for some As yards to touchdown
territory.
We we're actually breathless
watching him go. That seemed to
catch the team on fire and only
time prohibited them from doing
more. We were told by the coach
es that Dale wouldn't play in the
backfield because he was too mod
est so naturally we figured that
ST. Augies main play was an end
around. Jim Wilson ran twenty
five yards to set up a pass play to
end Eugene Doone for the other
touchdown.
On the other field at Goodale
center, st. Peters was an 8 to o
forfeit winner over st. Francis.
The game was called after the first
half because St. Francis. which has
been plagued by injuries all sea-
son, was short of men.
Speaking of st. Thomas and ST.
Francis we were reminiscing with
some of the fans on the sidelines
and recalled the time when St.
Thomas made headlines in the dali
ly press for outstanding work. 1t
happened in 1923 or 30 when I'M
Scored-on st. Thomas was playing
unscored-on and favored st. Fran
els for the parochial School city
/ title.
With the score tied in the third
quarter st. Thomas's Captain
Spdnner picked up the ball and
announced that he was penalizing
st. Francis for offside. The latter
team stood and looked on in
astonishment as Spanner walked
off five yards. Suddenly he started
to run and broke off into the clear
for 55 yards and n touchdown. st,
Thomas won 18 to 6-that's real
football.
Christ the King school didn't win
this year but they get the vote for
producing a r, al star heavy
lightweight Thomas KesSler who
weighs all of sixty pounds.