8--THE PRoGResS Gridiron forecas÷ also ra÷es Blanche÷, Bellarmine"
Friday, Sep÷. 13, 1963
Coaches concede Prep is stronger in NCA scene
By Fred "Cordova
John Michael Goodwin's opposing Catholic high
school coaches unanimously think Seattle Prep is so
loaded with talent and experience that the Panthers
are the team to beat in the 1963 football race of the Northwest
Catholic Association.
And deviating from his usual pro-season crying-towel act,
Goodwin himself has conceded that this unavoidable fact could
be so. Prep and Blanchet shared the NCA title last year.
The prospectus of the four
member NCA teams could go
like this:
SEATTLE PREP--awesome-
ly loaded.
BLANCHET--young but more
than willing to win the title
undisputedly.
BELLARMINE--fastest back-
field with a new head coach.
O'DEA- 11 inexperienced
seniors may spring some sur-
prises.
The 1963 campaign gets un-
derway this Friday on all
fronts, including St. Martin's
with the Rangers hosting
Rochester on Olympia's
Stevens Field before embark-
ing in the Central League's BILL GILMORE
Class A competition.
All NCA m e m b e r s are Most problems
Double-A schools with Seattle Prep and Blanchet also engaged
in the rough-and-tumble Western Conference. These two gridiron
rivals class in a King's X feature at 7:30 p.m. this Friday in
West Seattle Stadium. (See Column One for the complete
schedules.)
In Tacoma Bellarmine's fortunes rest on the strategies of
Aberdeen-born James Michael (Mike) Sllvey, 25, the Lions'
new head coach.
Lettering in football and swimming at Aberdeen's Weather-
wax High, Silvey played two years on the gridiron and the golf-
ing green for Grays Harbor 3C before enrolling at Western
Washington College of Education in Bellingham. He lettered
again in football there and was graduated in 1960.
His playing position has always been at center.
PRIOR TO COMING to Bellarmine, Silvey was head line
coach and JV basketball mentor at South Kitsap High in Port
Orchard. His appointment last spring came also with the return
of Father John V. Sneeringer, S.J., as Bellarmine's athletic
director.
Silvey suceeds Norman Diebel, who in two years at Bellar-
mine compiled a 5-11-0 won-lost-tied record. Diebel has accepted
a teaching position in California.
The Lions' new boss is married to the former Bebe Rehm of
Aberdeen. They have three children, Grog, 3; Cathy, 2; and
Laurie, 10 months. Their family home is at 1819 N. Highland
in Tacoma's Holy Cross Parish.
As an added service this season, Seattle Radio Station
KETO (1590 ke.), the station farthest to the right of the dial,
will carry live the play-by-play action of all Prep, Blanches
and O'Dea games from West Seattle Stadium. George Cooper,
• KETO's sports director, will call the games.
HERE'S HOW the football picture looks at the NCA schools:
Seattle Prep Panthers
Head coach--John Goodwin, athletic director; 15-year record:
77 wins, 44 losses, 12 ties.
Adding his ninth child--now making the count five boys and
four girls--to the Goodwin household Saturday, Goodwin still
has 11 major problems on the gridiron to solve.
But being one of the state's best mathematics teacher also
has not left him perplexed--not when all the possibles are re-
turning senior lettermen.
The Seattle Prep litany is headed by 1962 NCA.AII Opponent
Team members Larry Cook, Steve Conklin and Mark Bow
langer.
The backfield, averaging a light but explosive 170 pounds,
includes Cook, Conklin at quarterback, Boulanger, Grog Caputo,
Mike Larson and non-letterman Jim St. Germain.
Averaging another light 173 pounds, the formidable line
• pits at ends Mark Clark and Dennis Dorratcague, at tackles
Bob Pigott and Dave Ruoff, at guards Dick Sandstrom and Bob
Geraghty and at center Hugh Bangasser.
The hint to weakness is complacency. Goodwin says the
Panthers are "solid but not great."
From past experiences that is always the case in the begin-
ning of the season with the phrase changing at the end, "solid
and great."
Assisting Goodwin are John Miller, Mr. David Sprague,
S.J., and Paul Dempsey.
Blanchet Braves
Head coach--John (Mickey) Naish, athletic director; four-year
record: 17 wins, 18 losses, 1 tie.
Mickey Naish sizes up his Blanchet's fortunes with the fol-
lowing quotes:
"The NCA title is up for grabs . . . Blanchet likes to play
Prep . . . I have a little fear of O'Dea . , . Bellarmine has
the fastest backfield . . ."
Still flushed with the basketball state tournament victory,
Blanches football-wise has a balanced ball club with a backfield
averaging 175 and the line 180.
Six seniors and five iuniors will be called upon to carry
the big load. Among them are halfback Jim Bourgette and
tackle Bob Ortblad, both seniors.
The Braves' returning star is senior tackle Nick Kenny,
another NCA All-Opponent selectee.
Backing up the Blanchet brain-trust is Pete Klein, head
assistant; Tom Merrill, JV; Ed Thenell and Jerry Reidinger,
fresh; and George Morrison, who in basketball is head coach.
Bellarmine Lions
Head coach--Mike Silvey; first year at Bellarmine.
Athletic director--Father John V. Sneeringer, S.J.
The Lions' multiple offense of a combination split T and
single wing will be manipulated by an all-lettermen backfield,
reputed to be the fastest and possibly best in the league.
At fullback is Ralph Riden; at halfbacks, Joe Lynn to the
left and Pat Kennedy to the right; and at quarterback, Gary
Ruffo. Riden is a junior and the rest, seniors. Their average is
173 pounds.
Bellarmine's heralded name on the roster is Lynn, one
the most popular NCA All-Opponent picks last year. He
three-year letterman.
A few lettermen switches have been made in the lineup
with John Kiley going from center to end; Dennis Brennan
from halfback to guard. Stand-outs also include Tim Fuchs at
guard and Rick Milasich at tackle. Kiley and Fuchs are seniors
and the others are juniors.
Silvey will be assisted by basketball coach Ran Urquhart;
Mr. James Tracy, S.J., JV; Mr. Anthony Jahner, S.J., form
Bellarmine star Bill Wynn; and Charles Bozdog, fresh.
O'Dea Irish
Head coach--Bill Gilmore, athletic director; three-year record:
9 wins, 15 losses, 2 ties.
Athletic moderator--Brother John F. O'Keefe.
Brighter days had been forecasted for O'Dea last season
and the Irish went out to try and keep them. They almost
suceeded with a commendable 5-4 won-lost record with wins
against "name" clubs like Fort Vancouver (33-0), Federal Wa
(13-0), Ferndale (7-6).
It is conceivable that is why Fort Vancouver is not in
1963 O'Dea schedule.
The victory string was also strung at the expense of Bellarmino
(19-6) with the Irish almost downing Bellingham before losing, 3-0.
The Irish will try again.
With 11 inexperienced seniors, the heavy duty must fall on
ends John Callan and Rick Terracino, who rotated one side of
the end slots last year; halfbacks Gary Susak and fullback
Wayne Ambrose. •
Says Bill Gilmore about Seattle Prep:
"The three (Blanchet, Bellarmine and O'Dea) of us couldn't
beat Prep!"
But the most interesting of all the Catholic inter-school
rivalries--NCA or none--is still the colorful Prep-O'Dea serids.
This year's classic comes November 1.
HELPING GILMORE are Dick Naish, the basketball .....
and younger brother of the Blanchet Naish; Tom McConville,
JV; and Brother John B. Jones, fresh.
Your 1963 I i s still St. George s
football n soccer t' '
spectacles Perennl champion St. games this Weekend. Two Papini brothers for St. SEMIFINALS
St, John's midgets, coached George's were the heavy guns.
Here are the complete 1963
varsity football schedules of
the Catholic high schools in the
Archdiocese.
Home field for all of the
Blanchet, Seattle Prep and
O'Dea games is West Seattle
Stadium. Home base for Bel-
larmine is its Lions' Memorial
Field in Tacoma and for St.
Martin's, Stevens F i e I d in
Olympia.
Home games are in capital
letters:
St. Martin's
Sept. 13--ROCHESTER
Sept. 20--Whlte Pass
Sept, 2r--TUMWATER*
Oct. 4--Yelm
Oct. 11--RAYMOND*
Oct. 19--ELMA*
Oct. 2S--Chehalls*
Nov. 1--Mentesano*
NOV. 8--Eatonvllle
*central League
Bellarmlne
Sept. 13--Grld-Ge.Roond at Lincoln
Sept. 20.-O'DEA*
Sept, 27mSTADIUM *"
Oct. 4--seattle Prep"
Oct. 11--BLANCHET*
Oct. iS---Lincoln**
NOV. I--WILSON**
NOV. g--Mount Tahoma °°
NOV. IS-WEST BREMERTON •
*Northwest Catholic Association
**Tacoma City League
OeDea
sept. l--Surllngton-Edlson
Sept. 20--Seilormlne*
Sept. 27TAHOMA
Oct. &-Lakeside
Oct. 12--FEDERAL WAY
Oct, iS--BLANCH ET*
Nov. 1--Seattle pcepO
Nov. --Ferndale
*Northwest Catholic Association
Blancher
Seattle 13---Seaflle Prep
Sept. 20---Wenatchee"
Sept. 28.-CASCADE"
Oct. 4---aelllngham*
Oct. 11--eellurmine*"
Oct. 18---O'Dea °*
Oct. 2,,--Everett"
NoV. 2--Stadium
Nov. g--SEATTLE PREPS
*western Conference
.*Northwest Catholic Association
J'WC--NCA
Seattle Prep
Sept. 13-.ELANCHET .
Sept. 20-.-MOUNT VERNON
Sept. 27--EveretP
Oct. 4--BELLARMINE**
Oct. 11aELLINGHAM*
Oct. 19--.CASCADE*
Oct. 26--Wenatchee*
Nov. 1.--O'DEA'*
Nov. g--Blanchet-
*western Conference
**Northwest Catholic Association
"tWC,--NCA
George's, performing as
if its players never had
won a title in their lives, domi-
nated the CYO Soccer Jam-
boree Sunday at Georgetown
Playfield.
St. George's midgets, coached
by Jack Jones, beat St. John's,
2 goals to I corner.
St. George's cadets, coached
by Jim Tomkins who is also
the CYO soccer commissioner.
swamped Our Lady of Fatima,
6-0.
Some 306 spectators
watched under a bright sun
the opening CYO soccer ac-
tion for"1963 which gets un-
derway in regular league
by Hugh McArdle, entered the
jamboree finals by snuffing St.
Assumption A's, l goal and 2
corners to 1 goal, Saturday
before 250 persons, watching
the northern division finals
Saturday at Lower Woodland.
St. George's midgets took the
southern division title before
400 persons at Georgetown the
same day.
Other Saturday cadet finals
saw Hank Van Houton's Our
Lady of Fatima beat St.
Anne's, 1 goal and 2 corners
to 2 corners, in the northern
finals and St. George's edg-
ing St. Jose.ph's, 3 corners to
1 corner, in the southern
finals.
Nick Papini scored a goal for
the midgets along with Steve
Van Gaber. Luciano Papini,
the elder of the two, kicked in
three goals for the cadets along
with fellow wingman Wayne
Gonzales who had two goals
and Robert Vance with one.
Shining defensively in the
fullback slot was St. George's
Terry Della.
Saturday scores follow:
Midgets
PRELIMINARIES
St. George 3, St. Bernadette 0.
ariscoe 1, St. Francis 0.
St. Lady of Lourdes 1-2, St. Louise 0.
Assumption A's 4, St. Matthew 0,
Blessed Sacrament 2-I, Assumption B's
O.
St. George 1, Briscoe 0.
St. Joseph 1, Lady at Lourdes 0.
Assumption A's 2-3, St. Anne 0.
St. John 1-2, plessed Sacrament 1-I.
FINALS
St. George 2c, St. Joseph tc.
St. John 1-2, Assumption A's I.
Cadets
PRELIMINARIES
St. Francis 1c, St. Francis 0 (forfeit
win).
St. George 1, Brlscoe O.
St. Catherine 2, St. Margaret 1-3.
St. Anne 1-2, Blessed Sacrament O.
SEMIFINALS
st. George 2c, Lady of Loerdes 0.
St. Joseph 1-:, St. Bernadette 0.
Lady of Fatima 3-2, St. Calherine 1.
St. Ann 1-3, Assumption 0.
FINALS
St. George 3c, St. Joseph 1c.
Lady of Fatima 1-2, St. Anne 2c.
CYO football rapidly approaches
crossroads: 'flag' or 'tackle'
By Ray Ryan
(Third in a series o archdiocesan CYO athletics.)
A well-known California politician once made
the profound ohservatbn that "ahead of us lies the
future." Far be it from us to quibbld with such im-
peccable logic'; however, we greatly prefer to cling to the present
in our perusal of flag football, a sport rapidly approaching the
crossroads as a factor in the CYO sports program.
This is not to say that flag football's immediate future is the
least bit dim. Soccer, the gridiron sport's cOmpanion feature on
the fall sports menu for boys, gets off the ground a week earlier.
Otherwise. the scope of the two sports is remarkably similar.
BOTH SPORTS PRY the lid off the season with a jamboree,
then swing into a round-robin schedule to produce northern and
southern sectional champions in the cadet (eighth grade) and
midget (sixth grade) divisions.
Both sports wind up the local slate with playoffs between
sectional winners to determine the deanery championship in
each division.
Both provide an inter-city postseason event fdr the cadefs.
Commission chairman 3ack Jones expects about 30 teams
with a total of 750 players--figures closely approximating those
of soccer--to test the turf of West Seattle Stadium, Sunday,
Sept. 15, in the inaugural jamboree. Starting at 1 p.m., cadets
and midgets from the south wiN collide--and we use the word
advisedly--with their northern counterparts in a series of 10-
minute gamelets lasting until around 6.
Following the deanery playoffs in late November, the
Seattle cadet ehampioas will face the Tacoma titlists for the
Ray Segale Memorial Trophy, symbolizing the archdiocesan
crown.
6 0f;h Western-
PUYALLUP • SEPT. 14-22
Last year's finale saw CYO athletic director Pete Hupper-
Son's Holy Rosary club climax an unbeaten, untied and unscored-
on season with a 20-0 triumph over Visitation of Tacoma.
JONES LOOKS FOR a new champion this season. Asked
for the customary pro-season appraisal, Jack fingered St. Mon-
ica's in the south and St. John's in the north to battle it out
for Seattle's slot in the post-season match, with St. Joseph's,
Our Lady of the Lake, and Christ the King as the most likely
contenders should the favorites falter.
With little or nothing to go on in the way of past perform-
ances, Jack declined to predict a successor to Christ the King
as midget champion.
Jones heads a five-man commission which also includes
oe Byrne, Ken LaRue, Jerry Calabrese and Lou Segle.
Unlike soccer mentors, football coaches tend to be younger
men with at least high school, and often college experience.
Jones himself is a former Bothell High fullback whose career
at Everett 3. C. was cut short by a shoulder injury. Hupperten,
West Seattle's answer to Yul Brynner, was an interior lineman at
Washington State in the early 1940's.
Flag football is bY no means to be confused with touch
football, despite the social desirability presently attached to
such a connotation. True, there was a distinct resemblance dur-
ing the ghme's early years on the local CYO scene, when play
was characterized by endless sequences of passes and desultory
line blocking.
THE IDEA SOON spread, however, as the caliber of coach-
ing improved, that the surest route to victory in any kind of
football lies in habitually depositing one's opponent on his back-
side. As played today, CYO flag ball differs from the high school
or college brand in but one respect: the ballcarrier is stopped
not by tackling but by dislodging one of the flags which are
loosely attached to each hip.
Even this difference appears at times to be only theoretical.
As a matter of convenience, defenders often prefer to render
the ball carrier horizontal, hence relatively immobile, as a pre-
lude to the de-flagging process. When intentional, such tactics
are discouraged to the tune of 15 yards per decking, but the
habit persists.
There is one other minor difference between flag and tackle
|ootball. In flag bail, the players do not wear pads. It is the
very virility of the game that leads to its uncertain future.
Plans to introduce tackle football to the Seattle picture in
1964 are on the drawing board. Since what we have now is
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essentially tackle football without pads, the step would appear
a logical one. Moreover, the move figures to be hailed by local
high school coaches, who prefer to have their players schooled
in the art of applying a solid tackle.
TACKLE FOOTBALL will also lead to more wide-spread
Western deanery elects officers
THE FORTUNES of the CYO western deanery fall on the shoulders of these newly
officers and chairmen. From left they are (first row) Fran Demon, St. Edward's, Shehorb
secretary; Janette Polhamus, Our Lady Star of the Sea, Bremerton, social chairman; Sally
Hartman, Shelton, spiritual, and Dianne Bye, St. Frances Cabrini, Tacoma, cultural; (second
row) Mike Arney, Bremerton, athletic; Paul Bader, St. Frances Cabrini, vice president; Tom
Fleming, Holy Cross, Tacoma, treasurer, and Jim Doerty, Shelton, president. Doerty, 17, is
a senior at Shelton High School and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Doerty, 326 S. 5th
St., Shehon.
Holy Hour is
September 22
The CYO central deanery's
fourth annual Holy Hour will
be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday,
Sept. 22, in St. James Cathe-
dral.
All teen.agers in King
County, whether they attend
Catholic or public schools,
are requested to attend.
Prayers at the Holy Hour
will beg God's blessing on
the Catholic youth of the
deanery during the school
year and to pray for the suc-
cess of the Ecumenical Coun-
cil, announced Father Gerald
Moffat, archdiocesan CYO di-
rector.
• --at St. Matthew's
St. Matthew's CYO Chi Rho
Teen Club, a dance from 8:30
to 11:30 p.m. this Saturday in
Lake City Youth Center, 12531
28th Ave. NE. Music by the
Counts. Admission, $1. Chair-
man, Eileen Pendergast, as-
sisted by Mark Mrkvicka and
Margie Edmundson.
Elgin Baylor,
Wilt Chamberlain
To Play Here
Basketball's two most tabu-
lous stars, Elgin Baylor, for-
mer Seattle University star,
and Wilt Chamberlain, will
face each other in the cage
highlight of the year when the
Los Angeles Lakers meet the
San Francisco Warriors in the
Seattle Center Arena Sunday
afternoon, October 13.
The announcement was made
by Walter A. Van Camp, man-
competition throughout the Archdiocese. Parochial schools in aging director of Greater Seat-
Everett, Port Angeles, Bremerton and Olympia currently field tle, Inc.
St. John's ladies
initiate new
bowling league
Add another to the list of
Catholic women's bowling cir-
cuits-St. John's Ladies Bowl-
ing League, being sponsored
by the parish mothers' Club.
Tentative site is the Leilani
Lanes, according to Mrs. Clif-
ford Lyons, Mothers Club ways
and means chairman. Bowling
dates will be fixed when league
bowlers are secured.
Free instruction will be pro-
vided for beginners and others.
Balls and shoes will also be
provided. Mrs. Lyons will
register interested ladies at
SU 4-0409.
St. George's
ladies will open
bowling season
Women Friends of St. GeOrge
Parish School b e g a n their
fourth year of bowling in Sky-
lane Bowl.
Anyone interested can
Mrs. Victor Evans, PA. 3-3404
or Mrs. James Reno, MA: 4-
1859, so she can be assigned to
a team.
The weekly fee is $2 plus $1.50
for lane fees with the rest for
the school, secretary, banquet
and prizes.
Baylor and Chamberlain have
virtually re-written basketball
record books and in their game
here last year scored a total
of 91 points between them. The
Stilt poured through 55, and
Baylor 36, but Los Angeles de-
feated the Warriors 132-127.
Mail ticket orders are being
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Tickets are priced at $4.00 and
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tackle teams, although not under CYO auspices, whereas Seattle
and Tacoma are the only centers of flag football.
Jones and several of his commissioners expect to devote
their energies to tackle ball. It is Jack's ambition to develop
the finest tackle league imaginable, one that will overshadow
Little League ball.
The big unanswered question thus arises--how many par-
ishes will take up tackle football, and how many will remain
with the flag game? Flag ball will definitely be retained for
the dual purpose nf providing competition for parishes and/
or individuals unable to assume the extra expense of tackle
football, and of permitting greater expansion o[ the overall
CYO program
For Hupperten estimates that only 12,000 out of 65,000
youngsters in the Archdiocese are currently engaged in CYO
activities. Pete won't be satisfied until 53,000 more are play-
ing ban.
Be sure to keep up with the
latest in CYO news. Read
The Progress each week.
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