Hungry Horse news., 1955-11-04

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Welcome, sports fans of Columbia
Falls and the Flathead. This marks
our initial appearance in the Hun
cry Horse News and we'll do our
best each week to provide you with
timely information on Western Mon
tana sports.
Well, the Whitefish Bulldogs are
football champions of the North
western class B conference, by vir-
tue of their 1876 triumph over the
Mission Bulldogs Friday. Whitefish
went indicated, winning eight
straight, rolling up 27O points to 80
for the opposition. Coach Russell
Giesy has quarterback Jim Baker
and fullback Gary Smith returning
next season and that's good start
for another top grid squad.
Seeking comment on the Mission
Whitefish championship game after
wards, we talked with Quincy Moss,
former editor and publisher of the
WhitefiSh Pilot and incidentally, one
of the first football coaches of the
Great Falls Bisons. Moss commented
! on the rock 'em, sock 'em football
displayed by both teams, thought
possibly Mission should have thrown
the ball more as Whitefish seemed
unable to stop their aerial attack.
Also an interested spectator at the
championship game was Charles
Peck, Columbia Falls high school
graduate and letterman and former
basketball coach at St. Ignatius high
school now the athletic director at
Choteau high. Peck likes the setup
at Choteau, his football squad con-
cluded seasons play with wins,
8 losses and l tie, whipping Fairfield,
a bitter rival, for the first time in
seven years.
The final Northwestern class B
football standings look like this,
showing wins, losses and ties in that
order Whitefish, 700; Mission, s.
10; Poison, $40; Thompson Falls,
3-3-1; Roman, $40; Libby, ISL;
Columbia Falls, 0-6-1.
Anaconda Central are winners II
the Southwestern class B division
and there is not a playoff any more
between the division winners fol
the Western class B title.
Most schools in the conferenc,
will plunge into basketball drill
: next Monday, for the coming sea
son. The board Of control ruling i
: that no basketball games are per
mitted until after Thanksgiving
. Some schools will see action tn
next day, Nov. Is, with non-con
ference foes, the divisional round
robin schedule starting in December
The divisional tournament in Fet
= ruary will be played in Whitefish'
. new, spacious gymnasium. The stat
class B basketball tournament com
e March will be played somewher
j in the Western division, the board {
control now receiving bids fror
q schools in the Western part of tn
" state for the tournament.
Saturday, is the annual footba
4 clash between the Montana Stat
4 University Grizzlies and the Stat
4 College Bobcats at Cation Field j
Bozeman. The first game was pla.
\ ed in 1897 with the Grizzlies winnin
% 10 to 6. Since then they have playe
q each other So times with the Gri
! lilies winning 50 of the games, tt
= State College, 10; and there wei
- ties. They did not meet during tt
n war years of 1912, 1943, 1914, and A
Coach of the Bobcats is Wal
Lemm, AZ graduate of Carroll
Wisconsin and one of the backfiel
aces for the Cats is Frank LandC
of Kalispell. They have practical
!, their entire team back from la
u season which won 8, lost l, tn;
!. single loss to the Grizzlies.
IS Thompson Falls grid coach, Wal
!: IS Dobbins, was patient at Mis-
II oula hospital Wednesday for trea
ment of severe arm cuts Suffere
"a after the game with Columbia Fall
Is Dobbins was injured when he rar
med his hand through a pane
NJ glass in a door he was attemptir
to enter to avoid being pushed in
a shower by boys desiring to eel
brate the victory over the Wildcat
He suffered loss of considerab
blood from the severed artery in h
10 wrist. The accident happened
~ the school dormitory where he I
ds sides.
N Montana's pheasant hunting Sc
" son opens this Sunday, Nov. 6,
!, noon, ends at sunset Nov. 20. Aft
or opening day, pheasant hunting hou
~ are the same as for ducks al
7 geese. Resolve now to respect t
&c rights of property owners.