SUNY College Cortland Digital Commons @ Cortland Football Documents Football 1954 1954 Program, Football State University of New York College at Cortland Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/football_documents HOMECOMING 1 Saturday, October 16,1954 2 p .m. 1 ( College F ield 25 cents COMPLIMENTS OF The First National Bank Of Cortland STUDENTS' CONVENIENCE CHECKING ACCOUNTS CORNER MAIN STREET AND CENTRAL AVENUE "A GOOD CORNER TO BANK ON" Member of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation PtHONE SK 6-2831 PAYNE BROTHERS OFFICE EQUIPMENT INC. Compliments of Typewriters — Adding Machines Bought, Sold, Rented, Repaired — School Supplies — CORTLAND STATE 14 MAIN STREET Phone SK 6-9933 TEACHERS COLLEGE -' BOOKSTORE Irlli • SHAW & BOEHLER FLORIST N. MAIN STREET PHONE SK 6-7121 1954 Varsity Football Squad First Row—Chase, Cannella, Soldwedel, Quinn, Hoppey, Brusger, Smith, Arcaro, Pettinelli, Trainor Second Row—Powell, Clarke, Piatt, Decker, Hall, Snyder, Burns, Mosior, Wood Third Row—Davis (Head Coach), Conti, Nicklaus, Emmi, Nagle, Kane, Brentnall, Lynch, Williams, Burroughs, Bub (Student Coach) Fourth Row—Zegler, Glinski, Johnson, Brown, Skimin, Wilson, Gollwitzer, Allison, Campbell, Osterhaudt Top Row—Weber (Line Coach), Sendker, Finnegan, Dyer, Perrone, Wright, Louclts, Braunor, Cellan, VanValkenburgh, Kelly (Mgr.), Bosse (Backfield Coach) 1953 CORTLAND FOOTBALL RECORD Cortland 6 Springfield College 34 Cortland 12 University of Buffalo 12 Cortland 0 Alfred University 1!) Cortland 32 Ithaca College 0 Cortland 62 Brockport State 0 Cortland 0 Hofstra College 18 H2 "83 Won 2 Lost 3 Tied 1 This Program is Sponsored by the Men's Athletic Association David G. Miller, Director of Athletics (Acting) Robert Brown, Student Director of Athletics * v *• • A '•<1 • ., —3— 'po&t&all J 954 /It @witi<z*tct We welcome the "old-timers" back to Cort­ Alfred showed a fine offense and a rugged land on this 1954 Homecoming Day and we dedi­ defense as they walloped the Red and White by a cate this program to the old grads who come 32-12 score. Cortland was never in the ball game back to meet old friends, to talk over the "good as the Saxons scored through, around and over old days" and to see a football game (those who the Cortland defense. Stellar line play by the Al­ can make it up the hill). fred forward wall stalled the Cortland ground game while rushing Bob Hoppey so effectively Your day will he complete if the Red Dragons that he was unable to throw effectively on passes. can tie a defeat on the Ithaca College Bombers. Today's contest promises to be a typical Cortland- Riddled with injuries, with the loss of Lou Ithaca game with neither team favored on their Pettinelli at tackle for the season and A1 Emmi at record. Cortland has lost their last two games to fullback after the Bufalo game hurting the most, Alfred and Bloomsburg (Pa.) Teachers after win­ Cortland found a predominately veteran Blooms- ning their opener against Buffalo while Ithaca has burgh (Pa.) Teachers College a rough, tough team dropped their only two games to E. Stroudsburg who stayed on the ground for the most part to (Pa.) Teachers and Wilkes College. grind out a 26-13 win. In their opener the Red Dragons scored a Cortland scored first with a pass Powell to 20-6 win over the University of Buffalo "Bulls". Bentley good for 24 yards and the touchdown, Cannella, Cortland Guard, set up the first score as and again in the final period when Powell tossed he recovered a Buffalo fumble on the Bull s 25 a 12 yard pass to Chet Pelsan who scooted for 65 yard line. Six plays later A1 Emmi, hard-running more and the counter. Powell converted. fullback, scored from the one yard line. Coach A1 Watrel's JY footballers are unde­ Cortland scored again in the first period with feated to date with wins over St. Lawrence JVs Don Quinn running off tackle from the 10 yard and Ithaca College JVs. All the JVs have seen line for the tally and Bruce Allison converted to considerable action in both games and are hope­ make it 13. ful of compiling a winning average for the first Buffalo scored their lone six-pointer early in time in many years. the final quarter on a nice pass play, Kennedy to The remainder of the Varsity schedule lists Nero which was good for 12 yards. Brockport away, Hofstra away and E. Strous- Cortland made their final touchdown on a burg (Pa.) Teachers at home. All these teams Powell to Burns pass with Hugh Bentley con­ have strong squads and the locals have no breath­ verting. ers for their remaining games. 4- BETA PHI SIGMA SIGMA E P S I L O N SIGMA FRATERNITY SORORITY SIGMA TA U T HE T A PHI GAMMA SORORITY FRATERNITY ARETHUSA DELTA KAPPA SORORITY FRATERNITY NU SIGMA ALPHA DELTA CH I SORORITY SORORITY —5- The Coaching Staff Davis Bosse Weber Bub Coach Carl "Chugger" Davis has held the versity of Iowa, Weber played football as an reins as head football coach at Cortland State undergraduate and on service teams. He coach­ Teachers College for twenty years. His record ed and taught in the public schools of Iowa up to this season has been close to the .650 and at the University of Iowa. Last spring percentage in the win column as his teams have he coached the Cortland State golf team to a been victorious in 74 games, while losing only fine season's record. 42 and tieing 10. One of the outstanding rec­ ords of college football was made by bis 1932- Ed Bosse, backfield coach, is no stranger 1935 teams Avho tasted defeat only once. In to the football fans of Cortland. A 1951 grad­ 1948 his team lost only one contest. Chugger uate of Cortland State Teachei's College, he has been a consistent winner in baseball and turned in some fine football as a back for his 1954 undefeated nine was only one of his Sampson and for three years at Cortland. He year-in-and-year-out representative small col­ also saw considerable service with the varsity lege teams which have always been good. The basketball team. Since 1951 he has taught and basketball teams which he coached until 1950 coached at South Huntingdon High School on played and defeated some of the outstanding Long Island. His football and basketball teams small college teams in the East. Coach Davis have gained prominence and for two years his graduated from Springfield (Mo.) College and golf teams were county champions. Ed served did his graduate work at Springfield (Mass.) on a destroyer during World War II. College. He was an outstanding performer in high school and college athletics. Robert Bub, a senior at Cortland, is assist­ ing as a student coach. He has played on Robert (Doc) Weber is working with the Cortland's varsity football spua ds and was a line for the third year. A graduate of the Uni­ member of the wrestling team last year. —(y- Senior Dragons Front Row: Brusger, Cannella, Chase, Pettinelli, Trainor Back Row: Arcaro, Hoppey, Quinn, Soldwedel, Smith Manager and Trainer Pierce, Trainer Kelly, Manager SMITH CANNELLA PETTINELLI CHASE —8— 1 c0croMD S* " ;PJ r .i J i. - r. ®i fit Mf' • t£0 /<r ^4*7V^*% *2 p*®»%» 3*g 1' #- m B 1?RA6 ' • 'fc: A* » • _ r . v . •\. v"'.":M:' :K:>< I' f 1 If V - ' -Jrl • * * * •* * • TRAINOR BRUSGER 'Y i 9. S tf ^ - " ZEGLER W40i36^S3^ I . 1 h «-S^r |t h*f'W rq 1- .1 *• i,| 'r, & c ••- 1 ,:? : ||| LYNCH BRENTNALL AAOSIOR BURNS &B&E& * • m! 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Home Town 57 Allison, Bruce T Jr 24 205 6'2" Penn Yan 27 Arcaro, John HB Sr 21 147 5'9" Elmira 65 Brauner, Otto T Fr 17 230 5'10" Patchogue 94 Brown, David C Fr 18 170 5'9" Hilburn 29 Brusger, Frank T Sr 21 195 6' Richmond Hill 23 Burns, Roger E So 23 185 6'2" Riverhead 59 Burroughs, Jack .. E So 20 182 6'1" Waterloo 37 Campbell, Don T Jr 21 202 6' Hudson Falls 52 Cannella, John G Sr 20 180 5'9" New York City 41 Cellan, Roger FB Fr 17 195 6' Lindenhurst 45 Chase, A1 C Sr 21 190 6' Oceanside 24 Clark, Jay E Jr 24 171 6T" Syracuse 51 Conti, Dick G Fr 18 188 5'10" Yonkers 43 Decker, Ed ..... HB Jr 20 155 5'8" Vestal 24 Dyer, Dan E Fr 24 185 510" Groton 42 Emmi, A1 HB So 18 190 511" Auburn 61 Finnigan, Joe T Fr 18 210 610" Y onkers 28 Glinski, Bill E Fr 20 178 61" Seneca 93 Gollwitzer, Ed T Jr 20 190 6'2" Hamburg 58 Hoppey, Bob Q Sr 22 155 5'9" Port Jervis 48 Kane, Dave G So 19 170 5'8" Cleveland 56 Lembo, Tony T Sr 23 190 510" Richmond Hill 40 Lynch, Corky HB So 20 158 5'8" Binghamton 96 Loucks.