La Salle College High School Football: Chronicle 1926
Game 1, October 2, 1926: La Salle 19 – Norristown 7
Philadelphia Inquirer
Norristown – La Salle Prep’s big Blue and Gold clad gridders proved too much opposition for Norristown High here today, the final score reading 19 to 7. Francis Linus, La Salle’s star half-back, twice crossed Norristown’s goal line in the first half, giving the locals their first setback since the middle of last season. Clarence Brehm, full-back on La Salle, made the other touchdown for the victors in the third quarter, Bausch kicking the extra point. In the last period Norristown tried to stage a come-back and succeeded in scoring a touchdown by Pizzano. Carl Helbling dropped the extra point between the uprights.
Blue And Gold Yearbook
After weeks of strenuous conditioning, the combination traveled to Norristown. With Captain Gilligan, Brehm, Linus, and Bausch, all well experienced men, in the backfield, and the strongest line seen in the city for a long time, Norristown’s wonder team could do nothing. A fighting few minutes at the beginning of the second half barely eked out a touchdown for them, but against our three it looked small. The game ended with the score 19-7.
Game 2, October 9, 1926: Salesianum MD 9 – La Salle 6
Philadelphia Inquirer
Salesianum Jolts La Salle Prep, 9-6 Salesianum High yesterday scored a thrilling win over La Salle Prep in a Catholic High League tilt staged at the Phillies Ball Park, 9 to 6. Connell’s field goal was the winning margin. O’Neil and Shelley were the scorers.
The Sunday Morning Star
Salesianum Defeats La Salle Prep 9 to 6; Joe O’Neil Catches Forward Pass and Makes Touchdown In a most thrilling battle at the Phillies ball park, Salesianum team defeated their Catholic League rival in the second half of their football game yesterday. In the opening half La Salle held the advantage, there hidden ball attack keeping them well in Salesianum’s territory. In the first quarter Shelley, La Salle center, broke through the Sallies line, blocked Connell’s kick, scooped up the ball, and ran thirty yards for a touchdown. Bausch’s kick failed to go over on the point after touchdown. Receiving the kick again, La Salle started one of the offensives that featured the game. Gilligan, the La Salle captain, made a thrilling forty-yard end run in La Salle’s march down the field. However, a La Salle forward pass was grounded behind the Sallies goal, ending the attack. O’Neil Catches Forward Early in the second half Joe O’Neil, the Sallies brilliant tackle, intercepted a forward pass just as it left Bausch’s hand and ran 40 yards for a touchdown. Connell failed on the point after touchdown.
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Receiving the kick Salesianum started a brilliant aerial attack, Connell passing to Smith, and Herlihy gained forty-five yards in three passes. In all of their passes the Sallies were unsuccessful in but one. Salesianum rushed the ball another ten yards. Seeing that the intense attack was waning, Connell kicked a field goal from the 25-yard mark. The rest of the half was featured by one brilliant attack after another by both teams. But the defense of each stiffened at the critical moment and a counter-attack was started. So hotly was the battle waged that at one time a few-for-all started between the teams, but quick action by the officials ended the tense situation. In a last desperate attempt La Salle opened an aerial attack. They completed many, but Herlihy intercepted three and Connell two. Hahn knocked one down behind the Sallies goal. The game ended with the ball in La Salle’s possession in midfield. Every man of the Sallies team played an excellent game but Connell stood out on both the offensive and defensive.
Blue and Gold Yearbook
The second game was a League fray. Salesianum being our opponents. “Judge” Shelley, our center, recovered a blocked punt and made the first score. The Sallies scored when O’Neil intercepted a pass and crossed the last white line. Late in the third quarter they again scored, via Connell’s educated toe and the game ended 9-6. This was quite a blow to our high hopes.
LA SALLE SALESIANUM Gavaghan L.E. Tosca Sturm L.T. J. Kane Bodo L.G. D. Kane Shelley C. Mackey Wheeler R.G. Fahey Kueny R.T. O’Neil Leaming R.E. Walsh Bausch Q.B. Connell Linus L.H. Hahn Gilligan R.H. Herlihy Brehm F.B. Bauer
LA SALLE 6 0 0 0 6 SALESIANUM 0 0 6 3 9
Touchdowns – La Salle: Shelley. Salesianum: O’Neil. Field goal – Salesianum: Connell. Substitutes – Salesianum: Smith for Butler, Hollahan for Walsh, Manlove for Fahey. Referee: Barron. Umpire: Fite.
Game 3, October 16, 1926: La Salle 45 – Ocean City NJ 0
Philadelphia Inquirer
La Salle Prep Jolts Ocean City Eleven Ocean City – La Salle Prep, Philadelphia, outweighed and outplayed Ocean City High School eleven here today, scoring in every period, the final score being 45 to 0. 2
La Salle College High School Football: Chronicle 1926
LA SALLE OCEAN CITY Gavaghan L.E. Donnelly Sturm L.T. McCarter Kieffer L.G. Taccarino Shelley C. Willis Wheeler R.G. Carey Kueny R.T. Rau Ounsworth R.E. M. Lueke Bausch Q.B. Broadley Linus L.H. Brownmiller Tague R.H. Camp Brehm F.B. Adellizzi
Touchdowns – La Salle: Brehm 2, Bausch 2, Tague, Ounsworth, Linus. Points after touchdown: Bausch 2, Linus. Referee: Cornog, Swarthmore. Umpire: Dr. Charles H. Vail, Oberlin. Head linesman: Phillips, Western Maryland.
Game 4, October 22, 1926: St. Joseph’s Prep 13 – La Salle 6
Philadelphia Inquirer
St. Joe Prep Wins First League Tilt; La Salle Eleven Bows to Old Rivals In Exciting Fray By 13 to 6 Count St. Joe Prep School’s football team staged a brilliant second half rally yesterday afternoon at Shibe Park to win its fifth straight contest of the year, and its first Catholic League victory when it beat La Salle Prep 13 to 6. La Salle scored first in the second quarter, and at half-time the figures read 6 to 0 with St. Joe on the short end. Displaying a varied attack, Murray, St. Joe quarterback, led his team to triumph. It was forward passes and penalties that felled La Salle. A quick pass after consistent gains through the line gave St. Joe its first score, and Captain Bill Morris sent his team ahead when he added the extra point. A twenty-five yard penalty, half the distance to the goal line, for unnecessary roughness placed St. Joe in a scoring position again. Mixing his plays well, Murray soon had the ball on the one yard line and four downs to make a touchdown. Captain Morris finally went over on the third attempt and the game ended after the kick-off. The La Salle boys scored first when Brehm, their plunging full-back, crossed the St. Joe goal-line in the second period. A La Salle offensive drive brought the ball to St. Joe’s seven-yard line. Here the Crimson and Gray held on downs and Morris punted out of danger. Taking the ball again, the La Salle boys opened up a successful aerial and line attack advancing the ball to St. Joe’s four-yard line. From this point, Brehm smashed over for the first tally of the fray. Bausch’s try for the extra point was blocked. The La Salle score brought the preppers back fighting for, in the very next period, they scored and made good the try for the extra tally. Standing on his own thirty-yard line a North Broad street back fumbled. An alert St. Joe line-man recovered and the league leaders were started. A pretty forward heaved by
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Murray and caught by the speeding Bodo brought six points to St. Joe. Bodo dashed then yards after his catch for the touchdown. Captain Morris added the extra point on a drop-kick. The second St. Joe score came in the final quarter when an intercepted pass and a penalty for roughness placed the ball twelve yards from La Salle’s goal-line. Line plunges by Morris and Bodo carried it to the one-yard mark, from where Morris finally carried it over. That proved to be the final score for La Salle, in an attempt to even the score, was thwarted in her last minute aerial attack.
Blue And Gold Yearbook
We awaited the St. Joe game with avid interest. La Salle scored in the first half and after a fighting, smashing twenty minutes they went to the dressing rooms with no further score. St. Joe came back after the rest and scored two touchdowns in quick succession. For some unknown reason the spirit seemed to have left the wearers of the Blue and Gold and they were unable to even it up. The final whistle blew with the figures 13-6 on the scoreboard.
LA SALLE ST. JOSEPH Gavaghan L.E. McNally Kieffer L.T. Dooling Sturm L.G. Filmeyer Shelley C. Murphy Wheeler R.G. Farron Kueny R.T. Kreig Ounsworth R.E. Trainor Bausch Q.B. Murray Linus L.H. Bodo Tague R.H. Pierce Brehm F.B. Morris
LA SALLE 0 6 0 0 6 ST. JOSEPH 0 0 7 6 13
Touchdowns – La Salle: Brehm. St. Joseph: Bodo, Morris. Extra point – St. Joseph: Morris. Substitutions – La Salle: L. Bodo for Kieffer, Fitzgerald for Ounsworth, Ounsworth for Gavaghan. St. Joseph: Farley for Trainor, Worth for Dooling, Barrow for Bodo, Rider for McNally, Haughton for Filmeyer. Referee: Morris, State. Umpires: Jacobs, Penn; Kelleher, Georgetown. Time of periods – 15 minutes.
Game 5, October 29, 1926: La Salle 20 – Brown Prep 0
Philadelphia Inquirer
La Salle Defeats Brown Prep Eleven; North Broad Gridders Score Three Touchdowns and Subdue Old Foe Battling against odds and apparently outweighed by a much heavier team, a gritty Brown Prep football machine surrendered its colors in defeat yesterday afternoon to a fearless and well-balanced eleven 4
La Salle College High School Football: Chronicle 1926 which sported the colors of La Salle Prep in an annual contest waged over the emerald turf of Dobson’s Field. The final score was 20 to 0, compiled by three touchdowns and two points after a like number of touchdowns. This victory speaks well for the husky La Salle eleven, for it was the first time in a long while that the North Broad streets humbled yesterday’s opposition by such a score. With the captain, Chick Gloeckner, one of the most valiant athletes that ever wore a Brown Prep football outfit, playing with two broken ribs, the vanquished team displayed a brand of courage and fight that cannot be given too much credit. Gloeckner, although a member of the defeated team, was, incidentally, one of the stars of the contest. Time and again he tore through the enemy line for a big gain, and more than once made a daring tackle that won for him the plaudits of the some 500 spectators who witnessed the conflict.
LA SALLE BROWN PREP Murphy L.E. Verna Kieffer L.T. Booth O’Connell L.G. Adams J. Dougherty C. Aronson Brennan R.G. Scatterwaithe Reed R.T. Boon Fitzgerald R.E. McDonald Bausch Q.B. Elgart Tague L.H. F. Gloeckner Kueny R.H. George Curran F.B. Reapheal
LA SALLE 0 7 0 13 20 BROWN PREP 0 0 0 0 0
Touchdowns – La Salle: Brehm, Wheeler, Tague. Points after touchdown: Bausch 2. Substitutions – Brown Prep: Palise for Reapheal. Referee: Rankin. Umpire: Brown.
Game 6, November 6, 1926: La Salle 14 – Catholic 0
Philadelphia Inquirer
Catholic Beaten By La Salle In Surprise; Pownall’s Crew Submerges Purple and Gold Gridsters in Big Catholic League Surprise; Five Thousand See Stiles Streeters Win, 14 to 0 An alert right-end and four back-field men who performed valiantly throughout the course of hostilities. These are but five of the eleven good reasons why La Salle Prep is celebrating a wonderful 14-0 win over Catholic High. This tilt was the first league battle annexed by the Pownall-coached eleven. The battle, for truly it was that from beginning to end, was staged at the Phillies Ball Park. Five thousand jammed the third base line grand stand to witness one of the season’s scholastic grid upsets. The Catholic lads entered the fray favorites. They were expected to meet little opposition in that La Salle eleven which had bowed twice before to league members. That the “underdog” would win was totally unexpected. 5
La Salle College High School Football: Chronicle 1926
La Salle jumped into the lead in the very first quarter on the individual brilliancy of her right-end Ounsworth. This lad, a former Northeast High basketball star, edged into the spotlight in the first minutes of play when he threw a Catholic back-field man for a loss on the Purple and Gold’s first offensive drive. A Brehm boot sailed over the head of Catholic’s safety man. It rolled over the last line and a touch-back followed. With that Catholic attempted to end run the oval out of the danger zone. The plan was okay but not the execution. For in his anxiety, a Purple and Gold back fumbled. That was the “break” for which La Salle had been waiting. Quick as a flash, Ounsworth scooped the oval, tucked it under his arm and was off for the remaining fifteen yards and La Salle touchdown. “Dutch” Bausch added the seventh point with a pretty drop kick. Catholic Fights Trailing, Catholic put up the fighting exhibition for which she has long been famous. Another Brehm punt sailed down the field. This time Catholic’s safety man attempted to run it back. Before he could get started he was brought to earth on his own 16-yard line. Down the field, like the Purple and Gold elevens of yesteryear, they marched. With the brainy Dailey leading the attack, the Oberst boys marched from their own 16-yard mark to midfield. Aerials and off- tackle slashes were the plays used. Not content with their success, those Catholic boys again resorted to the air for yardage. That they succeeded can best be seen when Catholic marched to the Blue and Gold 16-yard mark. Quigley, Dougherty, Mickelsewicz and Daily, the “shock troops” sent into action by Gene Oberst, were well on their way to a tie score. For from the 20-yard line Quigley stepped back to heave a forward. Expecting a forward, La Salle’s forward line hesitated. That was the thing Quigley wanted, for, instead of chucking the oval, he dashed around left end to place the ball on La Salle’s 3-yard line. Catholic Forward Fails One try and no gain. Another and a four-yard loss. A third attempt and the ball was on La Salle’s 5-yard line. A forward pass, the big punch of the Cahill field boys, was used. It was chucked only to fall over the goal line without a Purple and Gold lad touching it. That ended Catholic for the day. Try as they might, a La Salle line would not budge. End runs with Mickelsewicz, the stocky Catholic lad, carrying the oval, were of no avail. It was a case of “Mick” being a marked man. On numerous occasions did he get started only to be yanked to earth by Linus, the great defensive back of the winning clan. Quigley and Dailey did find holes on some occasions. They, however, could not cope with a strong enemy line backed by such a great defensive back as Linus proved himself. On the occasions when a Purple and Gold back did see an opening, he could not take advantage of the opportunity. For Linus dashed through it to send a Catholic man backward. While La Salle held so did Catholic. As a result there was no scoring in the second and third periods. Brehm, Linus, Tague and Bausch – that combination solved the Catholic line in the closing minutes of the final period and La Salle scored again. In possession of the ball on their own 35-yard line, Bausch, a savage line-plunger, was entrusted with the oval. He found a hole made by his right tackle, Kueny, and dashed through it for a gain of thirty-five yards. That put the ball on Catholic’s 20-yard line. From this point Bausch smashed his way to the 15-yard mark. Here Brehm took the oval and by a head- first dive landed on the 2-yard mark. Bausch was again called upon, and again he did his duty, taking it over the last chalk mark. He also kicked the extra point. That was the beginning of the end, for in the remaining minutes the team fought on an even-stephen basis.
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Blue and Gold Yearbook
We trotted on the field the following week with Catholic High as our opponents. After a memorable battle with a stand for four downs on the three-yard line by the La Salle cohorts and two touchdown, by Ounsworth and Bausch, the Blue and Gold topped them for the first time in Catholic League history. Score 14-0.
LA SALLE CATHOLIC Sturm L.E. Tanseer Kieffer L.T. Conley Wheeler L.G. Torpey Shelley C. McGee Bodo R.G. Garrett Kueny R.T. Dowd Ounsworth R.E. Connelly Bausch Q.B. Dailey Tague L.H. Hickey Linus R.H. Doyle Brehm F.B. Burgoyne
LA SALLE 7 0 0 7 14 CATHOLIC 0 0 0 0 0
Touchdowns – La Salle: Ounsworth, Bausch. Points after touchdown – La Salle: Bausch 2. Referee: Barron, Penn State. Umpire: Fite, Bowdoin. Head linesman: Geiges, Swarthmore.
Game 7, November 19, 1926: La Salle 26 – West Catholic 3
Philadelphia Inquirer
Burrs Bend Knee To La Salle Eleven; Stile Street Warriors Humble West Catholic Gridmen for First Time As slippery as an eel and as tough as the leather of the soles of his shoes, Frank “Dutch” Linus, one of the hardy half-backs of the La Salle Prep football team, yesterday afternoon played a big art in his mates’ 26 to 3 victory over their traditional rivals, West Catholic High. The game was played on the Drexel Field, Forty-sixth street and Haverford avenue. This victory was the fifth one of the current season for Billy Pownall’s stalwarts of the chalk-marked arena, and it marked the first time that La Salle had triumphed over the Burrs from across the Schuylkill since the Catholic League was organized. Linus was the youth who sent La Salle’s adherents into a sudden convulsion of joy in the first period when he ran through he Burrs’ defense for the first touchdown of the game. Bausch’s kick for the extra point was blocked. Never before this season did this reporter see a scholastic athlete elude his pursuers in such a manner to make a touchdown as the small but plucky Linus did yesterday. He seemed to be unstoppable, and
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La Salle College High School Football: Chronicle 1926 when a few of his rivals did manage to get their hands upon his feet and shoulder and neck, their hold was never secure, for Linus broke away from their grasps numerous times for sumptuous gains. In the fourth quarter, Linus one again astounded the spectators when he ran through the Burrs’ defense, shaking off two would-be tacklers, straight-arming another and boring through two more foes to carry the ball behind his opponents’ goal line. Right then and there is appeared as though Linus had scored his second touchdown of the contest, but the referee said nay. He had detected a couple of the Preppers holding their foes while Linus was carrying the ball. The arbiter did not allow the touchdown, and he inflicted a 15-yard penalty on the North Broad streeters.
Blue And Gold Yearbook
Our cup of joy was filled to the brim when we gained revenge on West Catholic to the tune of 26-3. Truly our prayers for success were favorably heard by the football gods.
LA SALLE WEST CATHOLIC Tague L.E. McCarthy Kieffer L.T. Smythe Bodo L.G. Werner Shelley C. Barrow Wheeler R.G. Mattson Kueny R.T. Fellenz Ounsworth R.E. Fratz Bausch Q.B. Jordan Linus L.H. Casey Leaming R.H. Quinn Brehm F.B. McNabb
Touchdowns – La Salle: Brehm, Linus, Leaming, Ounsworth. Points after touchdown – La Salle: Bausch 2. Field goals – West Catholic: Casey. Referee: Wheeler. Umpire: McGill.
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