Coldwater 56 – Minster 25

Minster’s injury-riddled Wildcats were buried under an avalanche of touchdowns as they bowed to Coldwater 56-25. The cavaliers scored a pair of touchdowns in each of the first three quarters and added three more in the final session while the Wildcats were scoring single TDs in each quarter.

Two new names were added to the Orange and Black injury list as Virgil Huelskamp and Bob Tebbe were not in uniform for the contest. Pat Kuhn has also been advised to quit the gridiron sport due to a back injury.

Coldwater scored its first touchdown after intercepting a pass on the Minster 45. Drees raced around end to the 16 and then drove over tackle for the score.

The WIldcats tied the score on Ed Garman’s 53 yard jaunt around end midway in the first quarter.

Coldwater then unveiled little Danny Harris, a speedy little freshman scatback. Harris took the kickoff on his own 15, headed for the sidelines and went all the way for the score.

After a Wildcat punt, Coldwater used a series of line smashes to put the ball on the one yard line. Shaffer dove over for the score on the first play of the second quarter to give the Cavaliers a 18-6 lead. Minster fumbled on its own 40 to set up another Coldwater touchdown drive climaxed by Hartings’ one yard plunge to make it 24-6.

Minster scored in the second stanza as Hartings fumbled Garman’s long punt on his own 14 and Schmitmeyer recovered. Froning passed to Garman to the eight and a pass interference play put the ball on the two. Schmitmeyer then bullied his way over and Seger converted to make the halftime score 24-13.

Minster got as close as it would get as Dave Seger recovered a Coldwater fumble on the Cavalier 31 as the second half began. Froning then threw a strike to Garman in the end zone to make the score 24-19.

Coldwater then scored two touchdowns in procession to stretch the lead back to 37-19.

The Cats began to move the ball in the closing minutes of the quarter. A fourth down pass from Froning to Garman put the ball on the Cavalier 22. Wente drove over tackle for five yards and another Froning to Garman pass was good for six more as the quarter ended. Wente picked up another yard before Froning passes to Schmitmeyer for the score.

Coldwater scored the last three touchdowns of the game on an 11-yard run by Harris, a 32-yard sprint by by Brockman and a one yard sneak by Desch, to make the final score 56-25.

Bob Wente ran very well from the halfback post and sophomore Joe Bornhorst and freshman John Boerger looked good in the line. Don Schmitmeyer, besides scoring twice, played a whale of a defensive game.

But the really outstanding performance of the contest was turned in by Ed Garman. He started the season as left halfback and linebacker on defense. In the Covington tilt he was moved to the defensive left guard spot and Friday night he scored on a fine 53-yard run and then moved to left end where he caught every pass thrown to him, one for a touchdown. Besides this he plays safety on expected punt plays and does the Wildcat punting. In fact, Ed does everything but park cars and sell popcorn.

Scoring by quarters:

Coldwater 12 12 13 19 — 56

Minster 6 7 6 6 — 25