The Miami times., 1952-11-08
NORTH Says
By CHARLES C. NORTH

There was rejoicing in the
Wild Cats lair in Voluchia Coun-
ty on Saturday. The Bethune-
Cookman's football team had that
day defeated their arch rivals, the
Florida A and M College Rattlers
and removed the sting out Of
their claim for national cham
pionship honors by close but
decisive 81 victory.
This defeat was the first in the
last ten games played by Jake
Gathers boys from the "hill" all
of which helped to make the de-
feat a delectable dish for Coach
Bucky Matthews boys, some OF
whom were still remembering the
ignominious $40 humiliation
suffered two years ago to the
hour. It was a great day for the
alumni of Bethune Goodman COL
lege.
Students, alumni and friends OF
the college burst forth with un-
controlled jubiliation when the
final whistle sounded that ended
the nip and tuck battle that was
hanging by mere 81 lead Tor
more than 20 minutes of playing
time. The strain and stress must
have been much too much for a
female rooter seated on the Fla.
A and M side of the field for sec
onds after the game ended, she
was a stretcher caSe-the lady
had tainted.
The occasion was Bethune-
Cookman's homecoming and 1t
seemed all Florida was partlcl-
pating in this gala and colortui
event. More than 1000 football
fans squeezed and edged their
wav into the $500 capacity
Welch Memorial stadium. It was
highly publicized and generally
accepted that BCC had a good
football team and Coach Bunky
Matthews and his board Of STRAIT
egy were burning the midnight
oil studying the scouts reports on
Jake Gathers Rattlers.
Those in the know up in the
press box declared that as a re-
suit of the scouting reports the
Rattlers chalked up only one
completed pass all afternoon.
This seemingly unexpected but
alright pass defense executed by
BCC stymied the effective pass
ing of Akin Hepburn, the great
Famcee quarterback from Miami
and put the Indian sign on the
Rattlers' offense.
Except for occasional Splurges
the game was a titantic defensive
struggle with two tough forward
walls. Here was the spectacle OF
two teams: the one ranked NO. l
with prestige and Swagger and
the other ranked 9th with determ-
ination and an overpowering de-
sire to win. Determination won.
The stands groaned from the
jumping and the yelling in the
second quarter when Wallace
Rasberry, a BCC defensive back,
knitted his way through the
strong RattlerS' forward wall to
upset halfback Johnnie Arnold
who was running wide around end
with the ball and threw him into
the end zone for a point safety.
The aroused and obviously up
set RattlerS struck back and
could not be halted in their rs
yard march from their 0wn II to
the Wild Cats 8 where Jimmie
Moore avenged the 2 point set
back, by romping over via right
end dash for Famcee'S first and
only touchdown. Charlie Herout,
the Miami boy with the seeing
Eye toe, booted the extra point
and had to do an encore on it
when the first was nullified on a
holding penalty. But the result
was the same. He split the up
rights each time.
Nearly midway in the third
quarter BCC had their big mo-
ment when Mike Ardis, the eagle
eyed quarter back for the Wild
Cats Tipped a forward pass to
Jack McClairen, the elongated left
nd, who stood with out-Stretched
arms that looked like the ten
tacles of an octupus and then ran
like an elk on the loose and went
over standing up for what re-
NAMED to be the margin of vic
tory. The extra noinr was outside.