Lop-sided victory gives 'Cats second title
Hilliard put the icing on its second Mid-Eight championship cake Friday with an impressive 60-22 lacing of an inept Marysville eleven that was never really in the game.
The victory gave the Wildcats a 6-1 conference record tying them with London for the league championship. Last year’s Hilliard squad won the school’s first loop title by sailing through its schedule undefeated.
The Big Blue’s overall mark matched last year’s 7-2 standing giving Hilliard its most successful two years in history. It brought Coach Norm McElheny’s lifetime coaching record to 44-38-4 in nine seasons.
High scoring Dick Gray again applied the knockout punch for the winners by scoring four times. Jack Schreiner, who along with Gray proved the circuit’s 1-2 punch, added two more.
Rounding out the scoring were Bill Rundio, Tim White, and Duane Shively with one touchdown apiece.
The Wildcats jumped into a commanding 22-0 first quarter lead, then set a pace of two markers per period for the remainder of the game.
Gray’s four touchdowns gave the Big Blue Senior first place among the areas high scorers with 110 points. His 17 touchdown production for the season breaks the mark he set last year at 14. Also getting in on the record breaking act was Duane Shively who tied Dick Love’s scoring pass reception mark of four set in 1956.
Marysville, which wasn’t able to win a single league game this season, finishes with an 0-6-1 record in the league and 1-8-1 mark overall. The tie was played with Mifflin.
This year’s unit was a far cry from the Marysville’s aggregate that ran up a 26-0 count on Hilliard in 1957 on its way to the Mix-Six championship.
The Wildcats, which will lose 10 players off this year’s squad via graduation played the final minutes of the games with a player short all-senior team.
According to the report in the Columbus Dispatch (11/12/60), the Hilliard offense amassed 446 total yards, 316 yards on the ground, 130 yards passing. Dick Gray made 6 tackles in the game.
The victory gave the Wildcats a 6-1 conference record tying them with London for the league championship. Last year’s Hilliard squad won the school’s first loop title by sailing through its schedule undefeated.
The Big Blue’s overall mark matched last year’s 7-2 standing giving Hilliard its most successful two years in history. It brought Coach Norm McElheny’s lifetime coaching record to 44-38-4 in nine seasons.
High scoring Dick Gray again applied the knockout punch for the winners by scoring four times. Jack Schreiner, who along with Gray proved the circuit’s 1-2 punch, added two more.
Rounding out the scoring were Bill Rundio, Tim White, and Duane Shively with one touchdown apiece.
The Wildcats jumped into a commanding 22-0 first quarter lead, then set a pace of two markers per period for the remainder of the game.
Gray’s four touchdowns gave the Big Blue Senior first place among the areas high scorers with 110 points. His 17 touchdown production for the season breaks the mark he set last year at 14. Also getting in on the record breaking act was Duane Shively who tied Dick Love’s scoring pass reception mark of four set in 1956.
Marysville, which wasn’t able to win a single league game this season, finishes with an 0-6-1 record in the league and 1-8-1 mark overall. The tie was played with Mifflin.
This year’s unit was a far cry from the Marysville’s aggregate that ran up a 26-0 count on Hilliard in 1957 on its way to the Mix-Six championship.
The Wildcats, which will lose 10 players off this year’s squad via graduation played the final minutes of the games with a player short all-senior team.
According to the report in the Columbus Dispatch (11/12/60), the Hilliard offense amassed 446 total yards, 316 yards on the ground, 130 yards passing. Dick Gray made 6 tackles in the game.