Southern Branch Tigers Humble Junior College Broncs by 25 to 6 Count

Saturday, November 24

Boise, Idaho

2 p.m.

Boise State

Idaho State

Southern Branch Tigers Humble Junior College Broncs by 25 to 6 Count

11/25/1934 10:11:00 PM | Football

Box Score

Visiting Football Warriors Tally Three Touchdowns in First Half

By: Idaho Statesman

BOISE, Idaho – Boise Junior College Broncs found Saturday a poor day for Tiger hunting and took an unmerciful 25 to 6 clawing form the Bengal tribe of the University of Idaho, Southern Branch, of Pocatello.

With the victory the Pocatello Tigers won the junior college championship of Idaho.

A blocked punt early in the game paved the way for the first Tiger score. After their first taste of Bronco meat, the Pocatello eleven refused to be stopped and added two more touchdowns in the second period and another in the third to pile up their score.

With Dale Cantlin in the lineup near the end of the first half, the sleeping Broncos suddenly came to life and scored one touchdown and headed down the field for a second score when the half brought proceedings suddenly, to a close.

With the exception of the brief flash in the first half and a gallant goal line stand early in the third period, the Boise team was unable to show any great power. The Broncos' passes, for the most part fell incomplete, and running plays were usually wasted with the Tiger linesmen flooding through to stop the ball carriers.

In the fourth quarter of the game both teams filled the air with passes, which helped to make the final moments interesting, but resulted in little real damage.

Reynolds and Smith, Pocatello halfbacks, took turns charging through the Bronco line for steady gains. But it was the good right arm of the fullback, Hoggan, that caused irreparable damage to the Boise Junior college cause. Two of his passes were directly responsible for touchdowns, and at any stage in the game he was apt to drop back and throw the pigskin 40 or 50 yards, usually about where he wanted it to go.

For Boise, Cantlin and Shaw broke away occasionally for good gains. But the running attack was inconsistent and it was from passes, with these two doing the heaving, that the Broncos kept the Tigers on their toes. Nalley, halfback, was on the receiving end of most of the Bronco passes and the Boise touchdown came as a result of a 20-yard toss from Cantlin to Nalley.

The big difference in the two teams was in the manner the lines performed. The Tigers tore the Bronco line to shreds and were constantly rushing the punter and passer, making running plays largely a waste of time.

The Southern Branch kicked off to open the game, and the Junior College discovered too much line opposition to gain. Urresti dropped back to punt. It was blocked by Fellis, Pocatello end, and the ball recovered by the Southern Branch on the 11-yard line.

Smith, halfback, ripped off four yards and on the next play Wagner, the quarterback, was held for no gain. Hoggan took the ball through center and made yardage, being pulled down on the one-yard line.

Hoggan failed to score on the first play but on the next Reynolds went through the right tackle for a touchdown. Wgner missed an attempted drop kick and the Tigers had a six-point advantage with the game only a few minutes old.

For the rest of the quarter the two teams exchanged punts, neither able to make yardage through the line, and at the end the Tigers jumped into the advantage when Reynolds made a nice run back of a punt to the Boise Junior College 33-yard line.

Two plays were ineffective and Hoggan dropped back to shoot a long pass to Smith who romped across the goal line without being touched. Wagner drop kicked for the extra point and Pocatello had a 13-point lead.

The junior college received the kickoff but soon was forced to punt. At this stage of the game, the Tigers refused to be stopped and a 50-yard drive, helped along by two completed passes, ended with Hogan plunging over the goal line for the third Tiger touchdown.

Coach Felix Plastino of the Tigers began to send in subs and one of them, Loosi, a halfback, made good account for himself by intercepting a Bronco pass in midfield. The Tigers were held and punted toward the goal with Cantlin, who had replaced Shelton as quarterback for the Broncs, coming back to the 20-yard line. Cantlin tore through a tackle for a first down, the first made by the junior college. He then flipped a pass to Nalley who ran to the Southern Branch 42-yard line for another first down.

After two ineffective running plays, Cantlin shot another pass to Nalley which advanced the ball to the 26-yard line. Gus Urresti plowed through the center for seven yards and Cantlin topped off the march by throwing the third successive pass to Nalley who scored.

An attempted place kick was blocked and the score stood 19 to 6.

The Broncos kicked off but soon got the ball on a punt which Cantlin ran back to his own 35-yard line. An off tackle play and two passes gained 25 yards as the half ended halting what appeared to be the second junior college drive toward paydirt.

Early in the third quarter, Smith of the Tigers intercepted a Bronco pass and romped to the junior college 32-yard line before he was hauled down. Smith shot through left tackle on a reverse which was good for yardage and three plays later Reynolds broke loose to advance to the 4-yard line.

With four downs to make these four yards, the Tigers suddenly found the Broncos had arched their backs. They lacked inches of making a touchdown after four savage line plunges.

Urresti punted out to the 40-yard line. A reverse gained five yards for the Tigers and then Hoggan threw a long pass to Hale, end, who caught the ball on the goal line and jumped across for the final Tiger score. The try for an extra point was missed.

Open Passing Attacks

From this point, both teams depended almost entirely on passes, with most of them going incomplete. Twice, however, the Tigers came close to scoring, marching to the t30-yard line when an interception by Taylor stopped the fun and again to the 13-yard line when an incomplete pass into the end zone on fourth down gave the ball to the Broncos on their 20-yard line.

Occassionally Shaw, who was now quarterback for the junior college, made long gains with passes, but the performance was too spotty to bring results. The major Bronco drive ended within 18 yards of the goal when Hoggan intercepted.

During the game the junior college made 10 first downs while the Southern Branch was making 12.

It was the next to the last game of the year for the Boise school. A contest Thanksgiving Day with Gooding College winds up the season.