Out of the Past • By Lyle W. Nash Pasadena Independent Columnist Weber College of Ogden, Utah, will always live in the memories of Pasadena City College football fans! Tonight marks the fifteenth anniversary of the beginning of the four-game series. It is a series shrouded with unusual angles. For instance: Weber has never scored an "earned" touchdown against PCC! Weber has only scored seven points in the series so far! The series stands at two wins for PCC, a tie and one win for Weber! Little Weber College gained ever-lasting fame in 1939 as the team that upset the mighty Bulldogs from Pasadena Junior College after the Crown City players had established a seventeen- game winning streak. But let's take a look backwards and see if we can reconstruct that night so long ago. The Bulldogs started their winning pattern in the last days of the 1937 season. Compton played them to a scoreless tie and then the Mal- lorymen defeated in succession, the Loyola Frosh, 25-7, Chaffey, 26-0, and the Caltech Engineers, 12-0. Then came the Golden Age of PJC (and PCC) football! The 1938 season was solid and sheer glory. An eleven-game schedule opened with Santa Ana and closed with Caltech. Before the curtain rang down the PJC gridders scored 369 points while holding five opponents scoreless and four to a lone touchdown each. Jackie Robinson scored 131 points and gained more than 1000 yards from scrimmage. Came the 1939 reign. Santa Ana drew 20,000 to the Rose Bowl and fell, 12-0. Pomona JC was crushed, 32-0, but San Francisco JC scared the Bulldogs before bowing, 7-6. Now it's Weber at Ogden the night of October 5, 1939! It was quite cold that night. Weber was not too tough but the Utah men held the PJC line three times—once on the 17, again on the 14, and finally held for downs on the 11 yard line. Both sides were penalized heavily. The game was rougher than usual. The second half kickorT rolled into the end zone and became a free ball. Various PJC players yelled instructions to the nearest PJC man. The captain of the Weber team fell on the ball for six points and a conversion try made it seven! Jake Leicht, although he was suffering a sore ankle, then sparked the bewildered PJC team to a touchdown but the point try was good—and thus ended some of the great gridiron glory of PJC. PJC went on to win the next six out of seven games, losing only a heart-breaker to Compton, 9-7, via the kicking toe of Ben Agajanian— who went on to become one of the great place- kickers of all time. But where are the men that made those PJC days the great ones? Coach Tom Mallory is now a crack physics instructor at PCC and an assistant varsity coach with John Thurman. Jackie Robinson has gained even greater fame as a baseball player. Frank Spratt, who served as captain of the 1938 team, lives in Monrovia and is a popular young business man. Robert (Red) Robinson lives in Oceanside and is doing well in Junior Chamber of Commerce circles. Clem Tomerlin, who went on to gain fame with the 1940 Stanford team, coaches at a Southland high school. Ray Bartlett is now a member of the Pasadena police department. Two team buddies, Pat Geyer and Pete Pappas, still have a hand in football at John Marshall Junior High School. They teach physical education. Louie Spelts is a real estate executive in Pasadena. Jake Leicht, who went on to fame with Oregon, was last reported coaching football in Eastern Oregon. Keith Palmer lives in Los Angeles and is a telephone expert while Herschel Patton flies for a Peruvian airline. Chuck Parry is a Pasadena city fireman. But that is but ten of the great men of the 1938-39 era. Others whose names evoke happy football memories include Dick Sieber, Don Winder, Torrey Smith, George Good, Charlie Gibson, Bob Hammond, Tom Collins, John Brewer, Al Sauer, Art Reid, George and Al James, Wes Bowers, big Joe O'Laughlin, Chuck Byram, Bill Holden, Bud Booth, Melvin Gant, Don Winton, big Leonard Swartz, T. D. Floyd, Herb Sagerman, Bill Murray, Kendall Stanger and Morris Jackson. Morris, who always claimed that Uvalde, Texas, was the center of creation, never returned from the Big Game of World War II. Morris was killed in the air action in the Pacific. Page Eight The Huddle Players of the Weeks JIM MERCER GEORGE BUNDY Letterman Jim Mercer received Player of the Week honors for sterling play in the 33-7 win over the La Verne Leopards. "Merc," a 6', 200-pound letterman, started in the right guard spot for Pasadena and came through with a brilliant defensive game. Former All-Navy gridder George Bundy nabs the player award for fantastic line play in the Boise tussle. Bundy is Coach Mickey Anderson's regular left guard and is one of the most consistently fine members on the team. A corduroy jacket and slack ensemble will be awarded to this Pasadena duo by Jack Cathey's Men's Store. to 5 out of 5 students P..UEWS Here's your favorite California-styled slack —wide knees, tapered bottoms, continuous waistband with deep pleats ...in a grand new color selection of Sanforized washable denims. Sizes 26-36. 4.50 459 East Colorado Street Thursday, November 18, 1954 Page Nine