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1956 Otterbein College vs. Hiram College Football Film (Homecoming) (1 of 2)
Otterbein University
Otterbein HOMECOMING
Otterbein wearing white jerseys with tan pants; Hiram wearing dark jerseys and white helmets.
First reel is #18, beginning at 2:05 band, cheerleaders and crowd shots interspersed with game action. Second reel is #8, at 2:04 the game ends with view of scoreboard, teams shake hands and leave field and crowd leaves stadium.
Hiram’s coach, Bill Hollinger (April 27, 1921 – April 9, 2011) earned his BA degree from Hiram in 1943 was student president, and captained the football and basketball teams. In WWII, as an Army lieutenant, he won a bronze star for taking over a ravaged
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1956 Otterbein College vs. Hiram College Football Film (Homecoming) (2 of 2)
Otterbein University
Otterbein HOMECOMING
Otterbein wearing white jerseys with tan pants; Hiram wearing dark jerseys and white helmets.
First reel is #18, beginning at 2:05 band, cheerleaders and crowd shots interspersed with game action. Second reel is #8, at 2:04 the game ends with view of scoreboard, teams shake hands and leave field and crowd leaves stadium.
Hiram’s coach, Bill Hollinger (April 27, 1921 – April 9, 2011) earned his BA degree from Hiram in 1943 was student president, and captained the football and basketball teams. In WWII, as an Army lieutenant, he won a bronze star for taking over a ravaged
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1956 University of Mount Union vs. Otterbein College Football Film
Otterbein University
Otterbein wearing dark jerseys with tan pants; Mt. Union wearing all white.
Mount Union homecoming. Halftime and homecoming festivities 10:20 to 11:00 into film.
Mount Union’s victory broke a 10-game losing streak and ended Otterbein’s three game winning streak.
Mount Union coach “Eugene ‘Duke’ Barret participated in football, basketball, and track and field at Mount Union. Prior to attending Mount, Barrett enlisted in the Army out of high school. After being discharged Barret earned four varsity letters in football and basketball and one in track. He earned a total of nine letters. In football, Barret played tight end and earned
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1956 Otterbein College vs. Oberlin College Football Film - (Film 1 of 2)
Otterbein University
Otterbein wearing gold helmets, shoulder stripes with tan pants; Oberlin wearing yellow helmets, Northwestern stripes and light pants.
Reel #25 – first video, pre-game warm-up first :30; Reel #20 – second video, at 5:16 begins end of game, scoreboard showing final score, teams shake hands and leave the field.
Tan & Cardinal recap, 10.05.1956, pg. 3.
References:
Columbus Sunday Dispatch game report, 09.30.1956
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1956 Otterbein College vs. Oberlin College Football Film - (Film 2 of 2)
Otterbein University
Otterbein wearing gold helmets, shoulder stripes with tan pants; Oberlin wearing yellow helmets, Northwestern stripes and light pants.
Reel #25 – first video, pre-game warm-up first :30; Reel #20 – second video, at 5:16 begins end of game, scoreboard showing final score, teams shake hands and leave the field.
Tan & Cardinal recap, 10.05.1956, pg. 3.
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1955 Otterbein College vs. Capital University Football Film
Otterbein University
Otterbein wearing light jerseys, dark numerals with tan pants; Capital wearing all dark uniforms with white winged helmets.
The game saw 338 yards of penalties – Otterbein had 203 yards, Capital 135 yards,
Tan & Cardinal recap, 11.18.1955, pg. 1.
References:
Columbus Dispatch game preview, Friday, 11.11.1955
Columbus Sunday Dispatch game report, 11.13.1955
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1955 Otterbein College vs. Marietta College Football Film - Film 2 of 2 (Homecoming)
Otterbein University
Otterbein wearing white jerseys with tan pants; Marietta wearing blue jerseys with blue pants.
Otterbein HOMECOMING
First 3:47-minutes of reel #12 shows pre-game – Band entrance, parade of floats, band marches down field, cheerleaders, flag raising, team warm-ups. The first 1:38-minutes of reel #21 shows presentation of Homecoming Queen and Court. Captains kissing queen. AFROTC marches in review.
Otterbein trailed the Pioneers the whole game until three minutes in the game when they went 57-yards in three plays to win 12-7.
Tan & Cardinal recap, 10.28.1955, pg. 3.
Click here to see Game Program
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1955 Otterbein College vs. Marietta College Football Film - Film 1 of 2 (Homecoming)
Otterbein University
Otterbein wearing white jerseys with tan pants; Marietta wearing blue jerseys with blue pants.
Otterbein HOMECOMING
First 3:47-minutes of reel #12 shows pre-game – Band entrance, parade of floats, band marches down field, cheerleaders, flag raising, team warm-ups. The first 1:38-minutes of reel #21 shows presentation of Homecoming Queen and Court. Captains kissing queen. AFROTC marches in review.
Otterbein trailed the Pioneers the whole game until three minutes in the game when they went 57-yards in three plays to win 12-7.
Tan & Cardinal recap, 10.28.1955, pg. 3.
Click here to see Game Program
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1955 Otterbein College vs. University of Mount Union Football Film
Otterbein University
Otterbein wearing white jerseys with tan pants; Mount Union wearing purple jerseys.
Mount Union coach Nelson Jones was the head coach and athletic director at the university of Findlay from 1940-1948 compiling a record of 24-10-2. In 1949 he moved to Mount Union in the same positions. During his six-years in Alliance he had a record of 18-29-3. The Purple Raiders’ upset victory over the Cardinals would be their only win of the season (1-5-2).
First year for legendary Otterbein coach Robert “Moe” Agler (March 13, 1924 – September 16, 2005). “Graduating from Otterbein in 1948, Moe was an all-conference
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1954 Otterbein College vs. Hiram College Football Film
Otterbein University
Otterbein wearing white jerseys with tan pants; Hiram wearing dark jerseys with white pants.
Otterbein HOMECOMING - 9:48-10:05 halftime, Otterbein band, cheerleaders, ROTC. Floats in background throughout film. Attendance recorded as 2,000.
Hiram coach Edward Alexander Chupa (August 8, 1918 – October 30, 2013) grew up in Lorain, Ohio and earned a football scholarship to Murray State University (KY) where he was an all-league guard. After serving in the military from 1942-46 he became head football coach at John Adams High School in Cleveland and earned a master’s degree from Case Western Reserve University. From 1954-1955 he was head football
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1954 Otterbein College vs. Oberlin College Football Film
Otterbein University
Otterbein wearing white jerseys; Oberlin wearing dark jerseys.
Oberlin upsets favored Otterbein scoring most of their points in the first half. Otterbein athletic department information claims score was Oberlin 28 – Otterbein 14. Oberlin records and newspaper reports list score as 27-14.
Oberlin coach Lysle K. Butler (1903-1973) earned numerous laurels as a student at Oberlin - basketball team captain as a junior, captain of the football team in his senior year and named All-Ohio football in '23 and '24. Butler coached the Yeomen football teams for 28 seasons (1930–1957) guiding his teams to 83 wins, number one on the
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1953 Otterbein College vs. Marietta College Football Film (Homecoming)
Otterbein University
Otterbein wearing white jerseys with tan pants; Marietta wearing blue jerseys with blue pants.
Otterbein HOMECOMING
First 3:58 of film in color. First 1:54 are pregame festivities, band marching down the field, homecoming floats, homecoming court, cheerleaders, national anthem, rain begins. At 11:54 (black and white) halftime ceremonies, band marching on field, homecoming court escorted across 50-yardline, queen crowned, kissed by both Marietta and Otterbein football captains, Otterbein AFROTC unit and color guard marches down field in review, very strong winds, homecoming court go back across the field and watch game from cars.
Tan & Cardinal recap, 10.30.1953, pg. 3.
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1953 Otterbein College vs. Ohio Wesleyan College Football Film
Otterbein University
Otterbein wearing white jerseys with tan pants; Ohio Wesleyan wearing black jerseys.
At 1:10 into the film is the new electronic scoreboard erected as a gift from the Otterbein classes of ’50, ’53 and ’54. The poles were donated by the Ohio Department of Highways. Detailed article on the scoreboard on page one of the Otterbein Tan and Cardinal, September 25, 1953.
Robert “Moe” Agler, former Otterbein great and professional football veteran, joins the Otterbein staff as an assistant coach. Later he would become head coach of the Cardinals. Tan & Cardinal recap, 10.02.1953, pg. 3.
References
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Columbus Dispatch
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1952 Otterbein College vs. Capital University Football Film - (2 of 2)
Otterbein University
Otterbein wearing Tan & Cardinal; Capital wearing Purple and White with winged helmets. The first 2:23-minutes of the first reel shows the pregame celebration for Capital’s Homecoming – the coin toss, captains’ photos, presentation of the CAP-OTTER Trophy.
CAP-OTTER TROPHY: The trophy was an outgrowth of unpleasant incidents which occurred between the two schools in 1948. Relations became strained and each school’s student councils drew up the CAP-OTTER AGREEMENT which forbade any “decorating” or other types of defacing either school’s property. Part of this agreement was the trophy which is awarded to the school having the majority of victories over
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1952 Capital University vs. Otterbein College Football Film - (1 of 2)
Otterbein University
Otterbein wearing Tan & Cardinal; Capital wearing Purple and White with winged helmets.
The first 2:23-minutes of the first reel shows the pregame celebration for Capital’s Homecoming – the coin toss, captains’ photos, presentation of the CAP-OTTER Trophy.
CAP-OTTER TROPHY: The trophy was an outgrowth of unpleasant incidents which occurred between the two schools in 1948. Relations became strained and each school’s student councils drew up the CAP-OTTER AGREEMENT which forbade any “decorating” or other types of defacing either school’s property. Part of this agreement was the trophy which is awarded to the school having the majority of victories over
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1952 Otterbein College vs. Hiram College Football Film
Otterbein University
Otterbein wearing dark jerseys and pants. Hiram wearing white helmets white pants.
Rosters in Tan & Cardinal wrap-up 10.02. 1952, pg. 3, and Columbus Dispatch game report, 09.28.1952. Also roster in game folder in archive.
Hiram coach Al Pesek (’49 – ’53, 16-31-2) was preceded at Hiram by Steve Belichick, father of legendary NFL coach Bill Belichick.
“Hiram is too big for my little boys to try and run through, and our passing hasn’t shown anything spectacular, so I guess we’ll have to try and run around them,” commented Coach Harry Ewing of Otterbein. (Columbus Dispatch, 9.26.1952)
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1952 Ohio Wesleyan University vs. Otterbein College Football Film - (2 of 2)
Otterbein University
Opening game of the 1952 season. Otterbein wearing dark uniforms, Ohio Wesleyan wearing white uniforms.
Otterbein coach and athletic director Harry Walter “Buck” Ewing returned to the sidelines in 1951 after George Novotny resigned to further is graduate studies. Ewing’s extensive coaching experience started after his graduation as an assistant at Nebraska, then as head football coach at Morningside College (Iowa), South Dakota State University, Ohio Wesleyan, Miami University and finally at Otterbein. Known as “Mr. Athletics” at Otterbein he coached football coach from 1935-1938, 1942-1945 and 1951-1954. Besides football he coached basketball, track and served as athletic director.
Ohio
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1952 Ohio Wesleyan University vs. Otterbein College Football Film - (1 of 2)
Otterbein University
Opening game of the 1952 season. Otterbein wearing dark uniforms, Ohio Wesleyan wearing white uniforms.
Otterbein coach and athletic director Harry Walter “Buck” Ewing returned to the sidelines in 1951 after George Novotny resigned to further is graduate studies. Ewing’s extensive coaching experience started after his graduation as an assistant at Nebraska, then as head football coach at Morningside College (Iowa), South Dakota State University, Ohio Wesleyan, Miami University and finally at Otterbein. Known as “Mr. Athletics” at Otterbein he coached football coach from 1935-1938, 1942-1945 and 1951-1954. Besides football he coached basketball, track and served as athletic director.
Ohio
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1950 Denison University vs. Otterbein College Football Film
Otterbein University
Otterbein is in dark jerseys, Denison is in white.
Denison coach Jack Carl (Denison ’41) was a member of coaching legend Bo McMillin’s staff at Indiana (1946) before moving to Hanover College (Indiana) as head coach for the 1947-1948 seasons. During his tenure at Hanover his teams led the country in total offense. In 1949 he returned to his alma mater replacing another coaching legend, Woody Hayes, who had moved on to Miami University.
The game was played in extreme heat. Two Otterbein players would go on to make their mark on college athletics. Senior quarterback Fred Martinelli (#55) would
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