SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1949
Four Seasons of Drazenovich
Wiff End With Game Today
Among the seventeen senior gridders who’ll trot onto the De Sota
Street ereensward this afternoon will be one of the greatest brother
combinations ever to represent the? Blue and White in football circles,
the two Drazenovich’s, Chuck and Joe.
Both Chuck, the hulking quarterback, and Joe, the standout
quard, have played four complete seasons for the Lions. Joe, whose
iersey number 66 has spelled trouble for more than one opposing
ball-carrier, participated in 34 contests since enrolling at State in
1 1944.
Blocking back Charlie, since • coming to the Nittany institution
in ’45 has taken part in 32 outings, sitting out two. games this year
with a badly sprained ankle. But he well made up- for those two
missed games when he played full 60-minutes of • football against
Michigan Stat
Penn and Pitt lai
year.
And speaking
Pi«, both of thi
Draz boys are ver
confident of vit
tory today, "noli
ing will stop us,
chimes Joe whii
Chuck adds, "wi
have a very gooi
chance of lickini
them."
But well do boi
of them remembi
last year’s stui
nine 7-0 setbacl
“I still think w<
had them beatf
all. the way, i
every departmei
except’ scoring
Joe states, recal
ing last year
game.
"We outplay
them, but oi
freak play g.a
them a score. Thi
really had no bu:
ness beating us
Chuck adds.
When Chu
after the final gun today, it will mark the end of an era. the
Brownsville era. •
For the past five years that little Pennsylvania community
has well been represented in the Lion lineup, in fact two years
ago, at one time, five Brownsville-reared boys Chuck and Joe.
Shag Woloski, John Potsklan and John Simon appeared m the
starting eleven.
In high school, Joe was a quarterback until his senior year when
he was switched to guard while Chuck learned his first grid ABC s
at center.
■But when Chuck, came to State in '45, Coach Bob Higgins,
then short on blocking backs switched the 210-pounder to the
signal-calling spot.
He performed so- ably there his freshman year that he was
selected to play in the East-West shrine game at San Francisco on
New Year’s Day. .
While playing for the Nittany grid forces, the Drazenovich s
.helped the. Lions rack up 27 wins, 7 losses and two lies. One of
f'those lies hieing that memorable 13-13 Colton Bowl duel at Dallas,
Tex. last year.
After their freshman season both left for the Army. Joe quarter
backed the Lechfeld Army Air Base team, playing along-side of
tailback Bill Luther, and Chuck put his pigskin ability to good use
at Fort Warren, Wyo.
i After discharge from the service the two brothers were re
united at State.
“They. are. an exceptional brother act,” says Coach Joe Bedenk,
“I never saw two brothers together so close. They really fight for
each other and the school. Both of them have the College at heart,
they,,are true Penn Staters,”
" Chuck : won football honors
All-Ameriga blocking back team
all-east honors at guard. This ye
tabbed Joe as all-American mate:
Altogether Chuck has earned"
six varsity “S” letters and he ex
pects three, more before this year
is over. Joe played varsity la
crosse last year and should be in
line for a starting position this
coining spring.
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Pitt # s Rebirth
Spells Trouble
For Nittanies
Future Pitt University alumni,
looking back on the grid cam
paigns of 1948 and ’49, can’t help
but associate their little guy with
big-time football and Pitt’s re
birth into the ranks of the na
tion’s top elevens.
After a deflating' ten-y ear
drought of gridiron successes it
took a mite, . 160-pound Lou
,(Bimbo) Cecconi, to wipe away
the “dp” from in front of em
phasis. and raise the Blue and
Gold to some hint of its former
glory.
Cecconi, who makes Pittsburgh
fans forget that Donora is also
famous .for Arnold Galiffa, Stan
Musial and smog, hasn’t accom
plished all this alone, of course.
An ■ awakened Pitt athletic de
partment that imported Tom
Hamilton from the Navy, a re
membering alumni and .spirited
student body have battled for a
team now having material that
reflects at least some of the talent
of Pitt teams in the thirties.
There are Nick Bolkovac and
Bob Plotz, 210-pound tackle vet
erans, and Bernie Barkouskie and
Milke Boldin, guards—the solid
heart of a line that hastes to' give
an inch.
Penn Slate lans won’t soon
forget Bolkovac who kidnapped
one of Elwood Petchel’s passes
last season and lumbered for
the only score in Pitt's 7-0 win
over’ State.
And Philadelphia wastes little
love on Barkouskie who blocked
the punt three .weeks ago that
gave the Panthers a 22-21 verdict
over Penn.
At the terminals Pitt Coach
Mike Milligan has replaced two
of the best ends in the business,
last year’s Bill McPeak and Leo
Skladany, with two pretty fair
pickets, Nick Deßosa and Earl
Sumpter. They’re Cecconi’s pass
receivers. Deßosa has nabbed ten
aerials for 222 yards and Sump
ter, twelve for 140.
Center Len Radnor rounds out
a frontwall that Frank Patrick,'
who scouted Pitt for Lion Coach
Joe Bedenk, calls “sturdy on of
fense and tough as all-get-out on
defense.” .
Jimmy Joe Robins.on, Negro
wingback flash and a fourth-year
man, is a natural for the reverses
and break-away running from
Pitt’s single wing; Bobby Lee and
Bob Brennen are defense-leveling
blocking-backs, and fullback Carl
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Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive during
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Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934, at the State College,
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George Vadasz.
DePasqua is the workhorse on
plunges.
Pitt’s punter, and a good one,
is Bill Hardisty.
But Cecconi, diminuitive cap
tain, has been the sore-spot for
Pitt rivals this season, in fact for
three seasons. The 5-foot, 7-inch
Pre-Dental senior, who also
doubles as basketball star for
Skyscraper U., has personally
rolled up 838 of Pitt’s 2450 of
fensive yards, 373 yards rushing
and 565 on 31 completed passes.
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Last year, Cecconi was voted
most -valuable player in Pitts
burgh by the Downtown Quarter
backs there, and he’s well on his
way to the title again this season.
He starred in every contest the
Panthers • played against eight
opponents. He runs, passes, anc
rounds out nearly 60 minuter
every game by acting as one ot
the best safety men around.
Pitt will be counting on Cec
coni to lick State today and if
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