My Greatest Day in Football by Goodman Murray;Lewin Leonard;Cook Beano;

Author:Goodman, Murray;Lewin, Leonard;Cook, Beano;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Kent State University Press

Courtesy of Jack Tanzer

One of the game’s standout centers—Mel Hein.

After walking eight yards, the field ahead looked like a lot of invitingly open territory to me. I didn’t bother to wait for the ends to move up but started running full speed. The Bears’ safety man, Molesworth, caught on and started for me. Not having the ability of a Tuffy Leemans to give an opponent a leg and take it away, I was tackled about 15 yards from a touchdown after gaining about 30. We never did get the ball over on that sequence and it proved the difference later.

To make my embarrassment for not scoring even greater, though, I took a verbal beating from Ray Flaherty and Red Badgro. They were the two ends who vainly tried to get ahead of me and take out Molesworth.

How important that touchdown would have been is emphasized by the course of the game and the final score. You see, it had been ding-dong all the way.

Six times the lead changed hands. Automatic Jack Manders gave the Bears a 3-0 lead in the opening period with the first of three field goals, a boot from the 16. Manders made it 6 to 0 with a 40-yarder in the second quarter before Kink Richards ran 30 yards and Newman passed 39 to Badgro for a 7-6 Giants’ edge. It almost was wiped out just before halftime when Grange sprinted 17 yards around end to set up a field goal try which Manders missed from the nine.

Manders didn’t miss, though, when Gene Ronzani raced for 15 yards and Carl Brumbaugh took Molesworth’s pass to the Giants’ 13 early in the third quarter. Jack dropped back to the 19 and put the Bears ahead, 9 to 7. But Newman started flinging passes like pennies in an arcade, hitting Burnett, Richards and Krause to put the ball on the one, from where Krause ended the 61-yard drive with a touchdown plunge.

Back bounced the Bears to regain the lead at 16 to 14 as the game entered the last quarter. A 67-yard pass play, Corbett to Brumbaugh, placed the ball on the eight whereupon, on third down, Nagurski unleashed his famous fake-buck, jump-pass over the line to Karr in the end zone.

We marched 74 yards with the ensuing kickoff, behind New man’s sensational passing, to take a 21-16 lead. That touchdown was scored by a display of brilliant and spontaneous thinking that probably will never have its equal. The play started out as an ordinary reverse from the Bears’ 25, with Strong sweeping across from his left half post to take a reverse from Newman. Ken headed for the sideline, found himself trapped and turned and flipped a lateral to Newman, who had been trailing the play.

Now, Harry started back for the other sideline, only to be hemmed in. So, back again he came, frantically trying to figure out what to do with the ball. Suddenly he spied Strong standing alone in the end zone and let fly a pass.

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