1960.10.22 - OTTERBEIN 54 vs HIRAM 34 (Homecoming) - NO FILMS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE

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OTTERBEIN 54 vs HIRAM 34

Homecoming

(No Films Currently Available)

Saturday, October 22, 1960, 1:30 PM

Memorial Stadium, Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio

Attendance: 3,000

Film #1: NO FILM AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME

The Otterbein Cardinals host the Terriers of Hiram College for Homecoming 1960. Unfortunately, there is no film available currently.

It seems that anytime Otterbein has a close game, heaven help the team they play next. Earlier in the season Otterbein and Heidelberg played an epic game with the Cardinals coming up short 7-6. The next week the Cardinals easily handled Kenyon 55-21. Last week Otterbein was on the winning side of a 22-21 game against Oberlin. This week the trend continued with the packed homecoming crowd enjoying a 54 to 34 victory over winless Hiram.

The Cardinals didn’t waste time getting the Oberlin game out of their system. On the first play from scrimmage quarterback Larry Cline broke the 10-year-old league record for touchdown passes, 33, with a completion to end Ron Jones who went 56-yards for the first TD of the game, followed up with a two-point conversion by passing to halfback Bill Messmer. Within 38-seconds the Cardinals were up 8-points. With four-seconds left in the first half Hiram finally scored, bringing the score at the end of the first half to 41-6. Otterbein played second and third stringers during the second half until Hiram scored 28 points in the fourth quarter. With less than a minute left in the game, Otterbein coach Moe Agler put the first string back in and after three Cline pass completions scored one final time bringing the score to 54-34. As the dust settled Cline had set a new touchdown pass mark of 36, and end Ron Jones extended his touchdown pass receptions record to 19.

HIRAM College

Location: Hiram, Ohio

Colors: Union Blue, Infantry Blue, Crimson

Conference: Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC), (Currently Hiram is a member of the Presidents’ Athletic Conference [PAC]. In 1982 Hiram joined several other OAC members to form the North Coast Athletic Conference.)

Coach: Mike Koval, 2^nd season: 0-8 (1958-1960, 3-seasons, 1-22-1, .062)

Nickname – Terriers.  Athletics at Hiram began in the 1880s but no mascot was chosen until 1928. In that year two mascots, Farmers and Mudhens, were discussed but neither caught on. During an athletic banquet at the end of the ’28 season head coach Herb Matthews compared the temperament of the football team to a “little bull terrier that holds on to the end.” The name stuck and from then on, the mascot has been a bull terrier.

University Background – Hiram was founded in 1850 as the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute by Amos Sutton Hayden and other members of the Disciples of Christ Church. On February 20, 1867, the Institute incorporated as a college and changed its name to Hiram College. James A. Garfield, who had been a student at the institute from 1851 to 1853 and then returned in 1856 as a teacher was one of the early principals. Garfield expanded the institute's curriculum. He left the Institute in 1861 and in 1880 was elected the 20th President of the United States.

OTTERBEIN College

Location: Westerville, Ohio

Colors: Tan and Cardinal

Conference: Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC)

Coach: Robert “Moe” Agler: 6^th season, 8-1-0 (1955-1965 & 1970-1974, 16-years [11-years + 5-years]: 73-63-5, .539)

Nickname: Cardinals, the mascot is “Cardy.” Initially, as with most other universities, the athletic teams were referred to by their colors. In Otterbein’s case it was either the Tans or the Cardinals. When the State of Ohio officially adopted the cardinal as the state bird the term Cardinals started catching on. It wasn’t until after WWII that the nickname Cardinals became prevalent through the efforts of coach and athletic director Robert “Moe” Agler. However, there has been a long battle between using the term Cardinals or changing the nickname “Otters,” which is unique by any institution in the NCAA. The media frequently uses “Otters” so as not to be confused with other local teams using the Cardinal nickname. Both nicknames are used interchangeably.

University Background: Otterbein University was founded in 1847 by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ and named for United Brethren founder the Rev. Philip William Otterbein. After the merger of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church, in 1968, Otterbein has been associated with the United Methodist Church. It was Otterbein University from 1847 to 1917, when it changed to Otterbein College. In 2010, with the increase in courses and graduate degrees it reverted to its original name, Otterbein University.

1960 Otterbein Football Results (8-1-0)

09/17   A          45        Findlay                         7

09/24   H          55        Defiance                     18

10/01   H          6          Heidelberg                  7

10/08   H          55        Kenyon  (Dad’s Day)  21

10/15   A          22        Oberlin                        21

10/22   H          54        Hiram              (HC)   34

10/29   A          44        Marietta                      20

11/05   A          21        Ashland                       0

11/12   A          50        Capital                         12

352                                          140

Game Date

Fall 10-22-1960

Game Score

Otterbein 54 vs Hiram 34

Coaches

Hiram Coach: Mike Koval, 2^nd season: 0-8 (1958-1960, 3-seasons, 1-22-1, .062)

Otterbein Coach: Robert “Moe” Agler: 6^th season, 8-1-0 (1955-1965 & 1970-1974, 16-years [11-years + 5-years]: 73-63-5, .539)

Game Location

Memorial Stadium, Otterbein College, Westerville, OH

Comments

It seems that anytime Otterbein has a close game, heaven help the team they play next. Earlier in the season Otterbein and Heidelberg played an epic game with the Cardinals coming up short 7-6. The next week the Cardinals easily handled Kenyon 55-21. Last week Otterbein was on the winning side of a 22-21 game against Oberlin. This week the trend continued with the packed homecoming crowd enjoying a 54 to 34 victory over winless Hiram.

            The Cardinals didn’t waste time getting the Oberlin game out of their system. On the first play from scrimmage quarterback Larry Cline broke the 10-year-old league record for touchdown passes, 33, with a completion to end Ron Jones who went 56-yards for the first TD of the game, followed up with a two-point conversion by passing to halfback Bill Messmer. Within 38-seconds the Cardinals were up 8-points. With four-seconds left in the first half Hiram finally scored, bringing the score at the end of the first half to 41-6. Otterbein played second and third stringers during the second half until Hiram scored 28 points in the fourth quarter. With less than a minute left in the game, Otterbein coach Moe Agler put the first string back in and after three Cline pass completions scored one final time bringing the score to 54-34.

            As the dust settled Cline had set a new touchdown pass mark of 36, and end Ron Jones extended his touchdown pass receptions record to 19.

Recommended Citation

Wilson, Rusty, "1960.10.22 - OTTERBEIN 54 vs HIRAM 34 (Homecoming) - NO FILMS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE" (1960). 1960 Sports Films. 3.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/sports_films_1960/3

Keywords

College Football, Football Programs, Football Films