Cats Lose to Bradford 21-0

 

MINSTER – An inspired Bradford Railroader football team, paced by a pair of halfbacks, defeated the Minster Wildcats 21-0 in a game played here last Friday.

 

The Railroader onslaught was paced by halfbacks Charlie Bunnell and Jerry Besecker with Bunnell crossing into paydirt twice and Besecker gaining the payoff stripe once.  A safety late in the opening stanza accounted for the total tally.

 

The battle of the two league favorites saw the Railroaders succeed in keeping the ball in Wildcat territory the larger part of the battle.  The Railroader offensive was aided by good blocking.

 

A Wildcat fumble set up Bradford’s first touchdown when R. Canan recovered on the Wildcats’ 22.  Straight forward carrying scored with Besecker going over from nine yards out.  Two points were added on a safety when Minster’s Dave Wetzel took a punt on his own ten, but in attempting to evade tacklers ran back into his own end zone and was dropped.

 

After several abortive attempts to gain yardage, the Railroaders put on a sustained drive from the Wildcats’ 41 to add the marker with Bunnell circling right end from the six for the tally.  The speedy halfback took the other route, around left end, to add the lone extra point of the evening.

 

The final Bradford touchdown came late in the third quarter after a Minster fumble on the Wildcats’ 18.  A pass from quarterback Paul Smith to Kneisley netted 14 of the remaining yards and Bunnell plunged the final three for the score.  An offsides penalty canceled the extra point try.

 

The Wildcats travel to Lima Friday of this week for an engagement with Lima Central Catholic, a combination of the several parish high schools in that city.

 

Scoring by quarters:

Bradford                       8     7     6     0          21

Minster                         0     0     0     0           0