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Defensive Play Lecids PSottsmouth HE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE EIGHT Monday, November 11, 1957 r O ver uienwooa, Defensive alertness and Full back John Konfr.st's power run ning featured un 13-0 Platts mouth Mali football victory in the Frost Bowl at Olenwood Fri day nit;ht. Konfrst ran for all three of his teams scores, the topper a A. wmiM NEED A BETTER RIDING CAR? Test-drive a "58 Studebnker, Discover for yourself the ex clusive Luxury-Level ride of Studebaker's variable rate frout coil springiag. Studebaker Packard WIYSEL AUTO SERVICE 98-yarder in the first quarter to give Plattsmouth the upper hand and make Olenwood's effort an uphill one. Olenwood tied the score In the second period but Plattsmouth retaliated on a l'2-yard Konfrst plunge after Gary Horan's 52 yard run to the 6. It was 12-G a halftlme. Tom Martin intercepted a Olenwood pass in the 4th quar ter to get Plattsmouth rolling but a 14-yard loss on a doubl" reverse interfered and Olenwood forced a punt. Konfrst, however, stepped in to the picture again to intercept a pass after Plattsmouth's line had rushed star Gene Ward and hurried his throw. Two plays later, both Konfrst runs, Plattsmouth had its insur ance touchdown and there was only 1:23 left to play. Despite thP chill of tempera tures in the freezing range, or perhaps because of it, tempers grew short as the game length ened. Two players from each side were sidelined by the offi cials after flareups. There was no serious incident, however. The game was one in which Plattsmouth appeared to have the upper hand most of the time but Glenwood always managed to fight back to threaten until the Blue Devils managed their third TD. Plattsmouth kept Gene Ward, Glenwood's good halfback, bot tled up throughout the game. His longest run was 17 yards in 3rd quarter. Glenwood had 3 first downs to K. P. PENCE 222 So. Gth rhone 3269 only one for Plattsmouth the first period but all Plattsmouth needed for its lead was the Kon frst 98-yarder on a quick open er, lie had good downfield block ing and ued it well. Plattsmouth gained 135 net yards rushing to only 19 for Glen wood the first quarter. Things tightened up in the sec ond quarter as Ward intercep ted a pass and ran it to the Plattsmouth 34. Joe Coons got 24 yards to the 7 before Blaine Lundgren lefthanded a pass on third down to End Gary Spra gue for the equalizing TD. It was a 4-yard play with 9:37 left till the half. It took the Blue Devils 6U, minutes to co ahead. Defensive alertness again was the payoff. A rushing lineman deflected a Glenwood pass and Larry Cundall intercepted at the line of scrimmage. It was Horan then for 52 and Konfrst for the last 6 on two plunges. Plattsmouth wound up the quarter with 44 net yards to 59 for Glenwood but led 12-6 at the half. Glenwood had the ball all but 4 plays the third quarter. It pushed to the Plattsmouth 4 yard line at one point, aided by several encroachment penalties against a Plattsmouth lineman too eager to charge. Then with 3rd and goal from the 4, Glenwood drew an off side penalty and the pressure eased. Two incomplete passes completed the threat and Platts mouth took over to stay in con trol the rest of the way. It was a good team victory for Plattsmouth, giving it a 3-6 won lost record for the season. The statistics were fair'y close if you add it gains (or subtract losses) from penalties. Platt mouth drew 115 yards including 5 of 15 yards. Glenwood drew 25 yards, one 15-yarder. A few hundred chilled specta tors were on hand to support the chilled players. Platts. 6 5 0 1 . . . . 315 Glenw. 11 First downs rushing passing penalty Yards rushing . . . Yards lost rushing ... 48 Yards passing 0 Total net yards ... 267 Passes 4 Passes completed 0 Passes intercepted by 2 Fumbles 4 Ball lost fumbles 2 Penalties 13 Yards penalized ... 115 Punts 5 Average yards punts 30 Scoring: Plattsmouth TDs, Konfrst 3. Glenwood Sprague. Score by quarters: Plattsmouth 6 6 0 618 Glenwood 0 6 0 0 6 8 3 0 165 14 31 182 19 4 3 4 3 3 25 1 34 v t i 4 -.sr ' ... .ft., if- j. ... k I- M f It Football Scores Twin Rivers Teams Plattsmouth 18, Glenwood 6. FalLs City 26, Fairbury 6. Crete 32, Beatrice 0. Cass County Waverly 14, Weeping Water 12. Louisville 26, Omaha St. Jose ph's 14. Waterloo 39, Nehawka 19. Mean! Hagerstown, Md. A 13-year- old boy, who had been thrown out of a drive-in theater because he slipped in without a ticket slipped back in later and smash ed all the windows in the pro jection building, snack bar and ticket booth, broke the lights in the theater driveway, smashed a big sign at the entrance and cut the wires to the sound sys tem. EXPANDING f1 i1-- i" t.: LI ! I" 1 I I IV itl IvvAi Sk a ''V -"'1 t1". .;' A - f f ...... v, i , ' RELIEF IN SIGHT The door of opportunity was open, and Plattsmouth was relieved of an uncomfortable situation a moment after this picture was taken Friday night at Glenwood. The blur of players before the camera was Plattsmouth's Flyin John Konfrst being: brought to earth after a 44-yard 4th quarter run. On the next play, Konfrst plunged for a TD from the 2 to out distance the threatening home team and insure an 18-6 football victory. The scoreboard showed 6-12 in the 4th with 2nd and 10, the situation before Konfrst began his run. Louisville Beats St. Joseph's Of Omaha, 26-14, Eyes Title LOUISVILLE Louisville High's Lions warmed up for their Southeast Eight Conference football championship showdown Nov. 15 here against Syracuse by whipping Omaha St. Joseph's 26-14, here Friday night. The Lions showed little effect of a three-week layoff due to flu and bad weather which post poned games with Peru and West Point. They scored in every quarter and responded to pres sure after St. Joseph"s had scored in the 1st two quarters and converted each time for a How NPPS provides plenty of low-cost electricity to help towns reon the line" attract industry Cities connected to Nebraska's statewide transmission system have no power shortages . . . they know they can call on the tremendous hydroelectric and steam generation plants operated or controlled by the Nebraska Public Tower System at any time for more power for expanding and new industries. Interconnec tions with other large systems back up this power supply. They know that the electric rates, paid by industry in Nebraska, are much lower than the mtional average . . . and businessmen know that large interconnected generating plants provide the most economical operation, the greatest guarantee for abundant power at lower rates at all times. Nebraska public power agencies will spend more than 50 million dollars in the next three years to expand and improve the state's elec tric power supply. This means that Nebraska will become even more attractive to new and expanding industry. Nebraska Public Power System pledges continued effort in its program to attract in dustry through abundant low-cost electricity. osket Plattsmouth High's initial basketball squad of 60 or 70 players, including about 20 freshmen, today officially start ed the basketball season with its first practice. Head varsity coach John Ad kins expects to go Tues day and Wednesday with the full squad and announce his var sity squad selections Thursday. He'll be working with a squad including 7 lettermen of last year and one player who letter ed at another school. Preparations are for the op ener here Dec. 6 against West side that begins an early slate of four games in eight days. After Westside, the Blue De vil varsity plays at Glenwood Dec. 6, here against Tecumseh Dec. 10 and at Fairbury Dec. 13. In all, there are 16 games on the schedule, plus the Ak-Sar-Ben Conference tourney Jan. 21-24 at Bellevue and the cage year's end tourney playdown. Lettermen back here are for wards Larry Cundall, 6-1, Bob Hutton, 6-2, and Al Dasher, 5 11; center Tom Martin, 6-3; and J Producer of Low-Cost Power PU f for Nebraska's Expanding Needs Nebraska Public Power System . 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Celio KXwpi . 0 TiilTIES Kuner's ' ft 1 ; Quality r n MH Mi! ! 17 - Ox. I ,U' 4V.W-W ! PI FC i 8? K.., J PUP Cans ly IP l ll I w m m 14-12 halftime lead. Louisville stormed back iii the second half for a TD and con version in the 3rd quarter. They adoed an insurance TD in the 4th. Louisville's scoring: Orville Robbins on a 20-yard run, Jim Yanek on a 22-yarder, Doug Al frey on a 40-yard run and again on a 3-yard plunge and Robbin.s two extra points on a plunge and on a pass from Dan Workman. The score by quarters: St. Joseph's 7 7 0 014 Louisville 6 6 7 72G Devils Start ! bo IS Todcsvi guards Ken Dasher, 5-8, and Jim Shown, 5-10. An eighth letterwinner, Tom Winscot, is still laid up with a broken leg suffered in football but is hoping to play before the season ends. J. C. Draper 6-4 center who transferred from Nebraska Ci ty, was a letterman there and an all-conference choice at Un ion as a freshman before going to Nebraska City. Adkins expects help from some others but admits he is on the lookout for some scoring, punch to replace that lost from last season through graduation. Gone are Bob Beverage, the 6-5 center who scored 321 points to fall shy of a school mark by 4, Larry Long who tallied 24G. Mike Lewis (regular last year) and (temporarily I Winscot who was third high scorer with 242. Today's schedule was a work session with the lettermen and I a few others for an hour and a general workout from 4 to 5:30 for anyone wanting to try out. The varsity of about 25 play ers will work out in the old gym Thursday and Friday because of the junior class play whi.-h is to use the new gym. Reserves, freshmen and 7th 8th squads all .ave s;'li dul"s of their own and will be prepar ing for the start of their seasons. Nehawka Bows In 4th, 39-19 Nehawka nlavrd Watf'l'-" even terms for three quarters nt Waterloo Friday but then yielded to superior manpower. 39-19. 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