Prldsy. October 23, I954 Gridders To Play Bucs Fight To Stay In Race The Pioneers and Beloit’s Buccaneers, both r an k e d among the Midwest Confer- ence’s elite on defense, will be battling to stay in the cham- pionship race when they collide on the Eeloit gridiron Saturdayi It's Belolt‘s Homecoming, with the game scheduled for 2 pm. The two clubs currently share third place with Coe, all having 3-1 marks and trailing co-lead— ers Grinnell and Ripon by a game. While the winner will retain a shot at the title, the loser almost certainly will be relegated to the “spoiler" cate- gory. The spotlight will be on de~ fense as the Bucs and Pioneers currently rank first and third, respectively, in the loop in that category. Beloit has allowed an average of only 161 yards per game with Grinnell being touched for but 176 yards. Both outfits have also been extremely s tin g y pointwise, Coach Edd Bowers‘ Pioneers have allowed 25 markers and have not had their goal line crossed since the opening day of the season. in their last three outings, the Pioneers have whitewashed Knox 160, Mon- mouth 42-0, and Lawrence 21-0. Opponents have managed 28 points against Beloit. Only once, in a 15-13 loss to St. Olaf, have the Bucs surrendered more than one touchdoWn. Both crews compliment their strong defenses with potent offenses Grinnell has an edge in this department with 94 points and an average of 292 yards per contest. Though its point pro- duction of 40 is less than half of Grinnell's, Beloit has moved the ball well all year and is averaging 226 yards per en- gagement. Bowers sees Beloit as by far the toughest team his Pioneers have faced since dropping their opener to Ripon, 25-l4. Though his Grinnellians have Collected 79 points in their last three games, Bowers is still far from satisfied with the offense. Poor blocking, both in the inter- ior line and backfield, has been the Chief Villain. Because of an inconsistent in s i d a running game, the Pioneers have had to rely on end sweeps more than Bowers likes. He also 1a- mented the inconsistency of the passing game, but feels it is now beginning to come around, Because of Beloit‘s powerful forward wall, the Pioneers al- most certainly will stress going around and over rather than through. Passing will play a big role in the outcome of the game, the Grinnell aerial game will keep the Bucs honest. One major Pioneer lineup change may have halfback Elston Bowers fullback because of a leg injury to Marty Ringo in the Lawrence game last week- end. Ringo joined Dave Imes on the injury list, leaving sophomore Nord Erue as the only healthy fullback, Bowers, who lead Pioneer ball carriers with 309 yards in 63 attempts, mentor, feels, and hopes the Pioneer. shifting to 1 saw some action at fullback in 1962 as a sophomore. If Bowers goes to fullback sophomore Bob Watt will take over at the left half with John Shierholz at righ half. Shierholz has netted 226 yards in 40 car» ries and Watt has scooted for 130 in 19. The latter has ac- counted for all but two of his yards in the last two games. Quarterback Barry Anderson will complete the backfield. He's completed 31 of 89 aerials for 384 yards and four TDs, The starting offensive line will have Dave Gauger and Mike Dewitt or Al Peterson at end; Rein Saral and Eric Mil- ler at tackle; Jeff Lewis and Rick Anderson at guard; and Morgan Michel at center, Defensively, the number one unit will look like this: Dewitt and Tom Hill or Chip Kinsey at end; Skip Weyrsuch and Denny Homerin at tackle; Pete Staben or Mike Miller at middle guard; Tom hannom and Paul Thurs— ton as linebackers; and Watt, Denny Hanssen, Chip Clarke, and Dave Synhorst 'in the back- field, In tackle Bob Stewart and guard Jan Dill, both 205 pound- ers, Beloit has two of the con- ference's outstanding linemen. Both were first team all-loop selections a year ago, Stewart being named on both the offen- sive and defensive units, Tackle Rusty Mitzner, guard Dick Stewart, and center Henry Eck» stein are other Buc line main» stays. Sophomore quarterbacks Rick Stutz and Mike Phillips direct the offense. Butch Ranallo, who received all-loop honors as a linebacker in 1963, and Frank Meci, are other top backs. ) Gridders Continued from Page 8 Grinnell took over on the Law- rence 41, Anderson then hit Gauger with a 14 yard pass. Bowers and Watt took over and carried the ball down to the Lawrence one. After two at- tempts, fullback Marty Ringo bulled his way over from the one to make the score 12-0. The Pioneers then used their favor- ite play, faked the place kick, and Anderson hit end Mike De- witt with a pass to make the score 1+0. This play has worked for the Pioneers in their last SCARLET AND BLACK Wabash Runs Here For Second Meet Coach Dick Young’s small band of Pioneer cross country runners will return to intercol- legiate wars Saturday by host- ing Wabash in a dual meet. The meet will be run on the Pioneers' 3-mile course begin» ning at 1:30 p.m. Grinnell will again be going with four runners and thus will have to forfeit 10 or more points to the Indiana team, Running for Grinncll will be Bruce Beck~ ord, Clyde Smith, Steve Brint— nall and Andy Bushnell. Still sidelined are vGrinnell’s two aces—Rod Brown and Paul Patterson. Patterson, who has been out of action since the initial meet of the campaign with a leg in- jury, has started running again, but is still bothered by the in— jury and is far out of condi- tion. Young still doesn’t know , when—or ifvhe will be able to run competitively again this year, The defending Midwest Con- ference champion, Brown is re- covering from a siege of mono- nucleosis and Still isn’t run- ning. He now appears to be out for the season. The Pioneers and Wabash met once earlier in the year, at the Wabash Invitational. Patterson and Brown, in their only joint appearance of the year, came in third in that meet, with Brintnall and Smith placing fifth. Wabash Zrman units in the firmile race fin- ished second, fourth, and ninth. two games and should lose its effectiveness s o o n. Doesn’t anyone scout in the Midwest Conference? Lawrence kicked off to start the second half and the Pio- neers marched 73 yards for the final touchdown of the game, Anderson hit Gauger and De- Witt with passes to move the ball to the Lawrence 4. Elston Bowers then carried over from the one, Gauger made the con- version good and Grinnell led 21-0. snmsrics - Lawrence onmmil First down is Rushing yardage Passing yardage Passes . . Passes iiilu'cepted by Pilnts ,. Fumbles losr Yards penalized . sconlNG Lawrence 0 a Griiiiiell . o u o—zi G.»B:\rry Anderson la, rim (kick railed) o.-Mnny Ringo, boss) 6 -Elston flowers. 1. I, run (Anderson run lGaiiger kick) COWLES .. 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