1950 Cedrus Yearbook

_700dall CEDARVILLE COLLEGE OPENED ITS FOOTBALL SEASON AGAINST A POWERFUL MOREHEAD ELEVEN AND MANAGED TO HOLD ITS OWN, TRAILING BY THE SCORE OF 7-6 AT THE HALFTIME. SIZE BEGAN TO TELL IN THE THIRD QUARTER AND WHEN THE FINAL GUN WENT OFF MORE.. HEAD HAD SCORED 22 MORE POINTS TO DEFEAT THE MUCH SMALLER CEDARVILLE ELEVEN BY THE SCORE OF IN THE NEXT GAME OF THE SEASON CEDARVILLE WAS AGAIN OVERPOWERED BY A MUCH LARGER OHIO NORTHERN TEAM, SCORING ONLY 2 POINTS IN THE FIRST HALF AND HELD SCORELESS IN THE SECOND HALF, CEDARVILLE WAS ON THE SHORT END OF THE 422 SCORE. IN THE THIRD GAME OF THE YEAR CEDARVILLE AND GEORGETOWN, KENTUCKY FOUGHT A VICIOUS BATTLE BUT NEITHER ONE WAS ABLE TO REACH PAY DIRT. THE GAME ENDED IN A 00 DEADLOCK. ASHLAND WAS THE OPPONENT FOR THE YELLOW JACKETS IN ITS FIRST MID-OHIO CONFERENCE GAME. CEDARVILLE PLAYERS LOOKED IMPRESSIVE IN THE FIRST HALF AS THEY JUMPED TO A 14..7 LEAD AT HALFTIME. A GREATLY INSPIRED ASHLAND TEAM TOOK THE FIELD AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND HALF AND THIS COMBINED WITH THE BOGGING DOWN OF CEDAR- VILLE'S DEFENSE ENABLED THEM TO TIE THE SCORE AT I4.14 AND THEN GO ON AHEAD TO A 32.14 LEAD. A TIRED CEDARVILLE ELEVEN FOUGHT BACK AND SCORED ONCE AGAIN BEFORE THE GAME ENDED BUT THIS STILL WAS NOT SUFFICIENT AND WHEN THE GUN WENT OFF THE SCORE READ 32...21. CEDARVILLE TOPPED OFF ALL THE HOMECOMING ACTIVITIES IN GRAND STYLE AS THEY SCORED AN IMPRESSIVE 3440 WIN OVER THE BLUFFTON BEAVERS. NO ONE WAS IN DOUBT FROM THE FIRST KICKOFF TO THE FINAL GUN AS TO WHO WAS GOING TO WIN THE GAME ESPECIALLY IN THE CEDARVILLE STANDS, IT WAS HOMER BURTON WHO DID MOST OF THE SCORING DURING THE AFTERNOON BEHIND THE HARD BLOCKING AND TACKLING OF HIS TEAMMATES. THIS WAS CEDAR VILLETS INITIAL VICTORY IN THE MID-OHIO CONVE R ENCE AS WELL AS IN THE 1949 SEASON. FINDLAY, THE MID-OHIO CONFERENCE LEAGUE WIN- NERS FURNISHED THE OPPOSITION FOR CEDARVILLE'S THIRD LEAGUE GAME AND OPPOSITION IT WAS, THE YELLOW JACKETS WERE NEVER IN THE BALL GAME. THEY FOUGHT A HARD BUT LOSING BATTLE BUT THEY COULD NOT COPE WITH THE TRICKY OFFENSE AND HARD DEFENSE OF THE OILERS AND FINALLY BOWED TO A 42.0 DEFEAT, THE WORST OF THE CURRENT SEASON. PLAYING THEIR SECOND GAME ON THEIR HOME FIELD THE YELLOW JACKETS MET AND DEFEATED THE MUCH HEAVIER HUNTINGTON, INDIANA TEAM BY AN IMPRES- SIVE 28-14 SCORE. IT WAS A HARD FOUGHT BATTLE BY BOTH TEAMS WITH BURTON, WAGNER AND COE TALLY- ING THE POINTS FOR CEDARVILLE AND STANLEY, KING, AND BLATERIC CARRYING THE BLUNT OF THE DEFENSIVE PLAY, THE YELLOW JACKETS EMERGED 7HE VICTORS FOR THE SECOND TIME THIS SEASON, BOTH ON THEIR O WN GRIDIRON. ON OCTOBER 29 CEDARVILLE MET THEIR BITTER RIVALS, THE QUAKERS OF WILMINGTON, IN AN "AFT ER OF EVERYTHING" BUT FOOTBALL, WHERE THE OFFICIALS PACED OFF MORE YARDAGE THAN EITHER TEAM GAINED. IN THIS GAME WHERE EMPHASIS WAS PUT ON ROUGHNESS INSTEAD OF FOOTBALL THE YELLOW JACKETS MANAGED TO SCORE BUT ONE TOUCHDOWN WHILE THE QUAKERS TALLIED FIVE TIMES WITH TWO EXTRA POINTS TO HAND THE YELLOW JACKETS THEIR FIFTH LOSS OF THE SEA- SON. THE YELLOW JACKETS OF CEDARVILLE JOURNEYED TO TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA TD PLAY THE ENGINEERS OF ROSE POLY. THE HOST CLUB PROMPTLY TOOK THE LEAD BUT ONLY BY ONE POINT 7...6; THEN ROSE POLY SCORED THREE TOUCHDOWNS TO CEDARVILLE'S ONE TO MAKE THE SCORE AT THE HALFTIME 27..12 IN FAVOR OF ROSE POLY. A NEW AND INSPIRED TEAM TOOK THE FIELD FOR CEDARVILLE IN THE SECOND HALF AND QUICKLY SCORED THREE TOUCHDOWNS TO GO AGEAD 32.27,. THEN WITH BUT FIVE MINUTES REMAINING IN THE GAME ROSE POLY SCORED ONCE MORE TO SECURE THE WIN FROM CEDAR- VILLE BY A 34..32 SCORE. IN THE FINAL GAME OF THE SEASON CEDARVILLE MET DEFIANCE TO DETERMINE THE THIRD PLACE POSI- TION IN THE MID-OHIO CONFERENCE LEAGUE. IT WAS A NIP AND TUCK GAME ALL THE WAY WITH THE TEAMS MATCHED ABOUT EVEN ON OFFENSE AS WELL AS ON DE- FENSE, BUT BY THE END OF THE SECOND QUAR TER CEDARVILLE HAD REACHED PAY DIRT ONE MORE TIME THAN DEFIANCE AND WERE AHEAD 1913.. IN THE THIRD QUARTER DEFIANCE SCORED TWICE TO CEDARVILLE'S ONCE AND THE SCORE WAS ALL TIED UP GOING INTO THE FOURTH QUARTER. THEN DEFIANCE WITH THEIR BACK TO THEIR OWN GOAL ATTEMPTED TO PUNT, BUT THE KICK WAS BLOCKED BY KENNY WOODS AND THE BALL WENT OUT OF THE END ZONE FOR AN AUTOMATIC] TWO POINTS FOR CEDARVILLE. THIS WAS ALL THEY NEEDED TO WIN AS THE FINAL SCORE WAS 28-26. CEDARVILLE FINISHED THE SEASON IN THIRD PLACE OF THE MID-OHIO CONFERENCE AND A SEASON RECORD OF 3 WINS, 6 LOSSES; AND I TIE.