Intra-College Football

This decisive game established a new record for an overtime, sudden-death football game, in that the issue was not decided until the sixth quarter. Quarterback Brueckner of B-P played a magnificent game, however, the H-L, Metzger-coached line led by Russell, Knipper, and their colleagues held B-P to about 50 yards net. Linebacker Dick Bell confounded the B-P Oklahoma-type offense with a series of well-called and executed defensive stunts. Offensively the H-L team gained some 170 yards rushing and Quarterback Tom Borders passed for a total of 60 yards to ends Lynyak and Byrne. In spite of this impressive yardage, some fine defensive play by B-P at crucial moments and an H-L propensity towards donating the ball by fumbles, prevented a score in the contest until the second overtime period. The H-L final drive began when a fake kick-pass play by B-P failed to yield a first down. Having previously set up the B-P defense by a series of pass plays, Borders executed the draw play and fullback Bell gained some twenty yards. Following substantial gains through guard and tackle, H-L's Jim Grace carried the ball to the B-P one-yard line, from which point Borders sneaked over for the winning TD. A social hour followed at the Carberry household. I'd like to conclude this report by asserting categorically that I do not intend to resign as coach of Howard-Lyons in order to accept a position as head coach at the Staley College of the Spoken Word. While we did not score as much as we would have liked this season, H-L's talented team did the best that could be done with the available coaching.

Preseason

• Overtime is introduced to interhall football.

  • The "sudden death" overtime replaces the rule of first downs as the primary method for determining a winner in post-season games.

Postseason

• Howard Hall wins their very first interhall football title! They played as part of the consolidated Howard-Lyons team.

  • Howard: first title since 1925. Broke a 37-year curse.

  • Lyons: first title since 1946. Fourth title overall.

  • Howard-Lyons becomes the first of four teams to win an interhall championship in the Mod Interhall era.

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