Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1952-10-31

A succession OF must games
for Oak Harbor finally took their
toll last Thursday at Fremont and
the result was a humping 35.7
defeat for the Rockets at the hands
of St. Joseph's. The loss toppled
Oak Harbor from first place to
second place in the Sandusky Bay
Conference with record of four
wins and one defeat. The victory
kept St. Joe's slate clean at 40.
Everybody was keyed up for the
contest but the Rockets. Fans and
coaches expected a close battle
st. Joe went to work fast, putting
together twin Ia point first and
second quarters for a $50 half
time lead.
Coach Dave Martins lecture at
intermission revived his charges
and they held their own for the
rest of the game.
The green helmeted visitors put
across their lone touchdown in the
third stanza and the Crimson
Streaks tailed with one minute
remaining before the final gun.
Both came via the aerial route.
A St. Joe tumble by Widman
set up the Rocket points. Bob
Browder recovered on the St.
Joe 10. Madison hit for 10 yards
and first down on the nine Cass
rammed for two. A five yard Off
side penalty against the defenders
moved the ball to the two. Ap-
ling connected with Mylander for
a payoff pitch and Oak Harbor's
first successful pass of the game.
Tom Krieger booted the extra
point from placement.
Widman scored the Streaks' first
I'D from two yards out. Hamilton
accounted for the next three on
runs of 35, II, and seven yards
before the half ended He was
on the throwing end of the con-
Guiding marker in the fourth
period, good for A yards to Klisz.
All of Hamilton's scoring iaunts
were around the Oak Harbor
flanks on wide pitchouts from
Godfred. Mosser aced all of his
PAT trys from placement.
St. Joe took advantage of My
lander'S tumble of punt on his
own SO where John Darr recover
ed to produce its second touch
down. With time running out be-
fore the half and the ball on OBS
Is, Mosser failed on field goal
attempt
Early in the third quarter God
fred stalled a Rocket drive that
had reached the host teams 30
with a pass interception. The Red
and Green began another march
on its own SO in the same period
that didn't halt until the st. Joe
II. Figuring prominently in the
/ series of plays was a fourth down
shift into punt formation that
! drew the opposition offside. The
| resulting five yard penalty gave
F, the Rockets first and ten.
From the st. Joe 81 Apling arch
ed long pass that Bob Browdel
dropped in the clear on the five
On the next play Bob speared {
toss from Apling on the II. The
next four plays resulted in me-
loss of 18 yards and St. Joe took
over on its own 35.
Mylander pilfered Streak aer
ial as the third frame was ending
on his own 40, struggling to the
43 before being downed An Is
yard toss from Apling to Burdine
and nine yard Williams to My
lander overhead connection ad
vanced the Rockets to the st. Joe
SO where a fourth down pass wen
incomplete
From this point Hamilton tool
off on a "a yard dash into the
end zone but one of his mates wa,
detected holding and the play wa.
called back and Is yard penalty
assessed.
Oak Harbor, besides revealing {
costly mental and mechanical
sluggishness for a greater portion
of the game, also was handicapped
by losing Ron Depner and Law
renee St. Clair in the second quar-
ter. Depner, who has been plaeu
edw by bad ribs practically al