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4:
1946 FOOTBALL
BOILING GREEK STATE UNIVERSITY
Bowling Green, Ohio
F. J. Prout, President
.1945 RESULTS
(won U, lost 3)
1946 SCHEDULE
Sept. 27 - at Central Michigan (night)
(Mount Pleasant, Michigan)
5 - BALL STATE
Oct.
Oct. 12 - MIAMI
Oct. 19 - at Kent State
(Kent, Ohio)
Oct. 25 - at Canisius (night)
(Buffalo, New York)
2 - OBERLIN (HOMECOMING)
Nov.
9 - at St. Bonaventure
Nov.
(.'Glean, New York)
Nov. 16 - XAVIER
t.G.
OPPONENT
OPP,
15
19
13
0
6
0
26
Alma
Central Michigan
Baldwin-Wallace
Miami
Ohio University
Oberlin
Case
0
6
14
26
0
28
7
79
81
STAFF
Athletic Director: W. Harold Anderson (Otterbein T24) .
Head Coach; Robert Hs Nhittaker (Miami '29)
Line Coach:
George Muellich (Michigan Normal T3l)
Freshman Coach: Fred Marsh (Bowling.Green !33)
Ass't Line Coach: Charles Maag (Ohio State)
Ass't Backfield Coach: James Whittaker (Bowling Green)
Trainer: Allan Sawdy (Michigan Normal '30)
Student Trainer: Gordon Herwig
Ecjiipment Manager: Ray whittaker (Bowling Green)
Student Managers: Henry Donnell, Robert Shaw, Douglas Smith
GENERAL INFORMATION
Colors: Orange and Brown
Nickname: Falcons
Enrollment: 4,000
Stadium Capacity: 3,148 (permanent)
TELEPHONES
Athletic Office: 5661
News Bureau: 2631
Press Bozi°,
5661
i. .uU\jrriiii'.i : ^iisiioxji'-
Ivan E. Lake
NE-S BUREAU
Director: Paul W. Jones
Sports: Dick Herring
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from Dick Herring, Sports Publicity
News Bureau, Bowling Green State University
ROBERT H. WHITTAKER, HEAD COACH
Robert H. (Bob) Whittaker has entered his sixth year
as head football coach s.t Bowling Green (0.) State University,
His previous Falcon teams won 27 games, lost 12 and tied 3,
totaling 714 points to opponents 380.
Whittaker coached at Sandusky (0.) High School
11 years before going to Bowling Green in 1941.
His high
school squads won 87', lost 20 and tied 2, outscoring opponents
2625 to 639.
From 1932 to 1936 Sandusky won 38 consecutive games.
Five teams were undefeated*
At Miami University, from which he was graduated
in 1929, he was a halfback.
Paul Brown, the former Ohio State
coach now directing the Cleveland Browns, was a teammate.
Whittaker
threw the javelin to a college record and ran the dashes.
Born in Greenville, Ohio, 42 years ago, he is married and
lias two daughters, Jean, 15, and Joan, 13.. He is a member of
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
His hobbies include sailboating, ( he won the
Intcr-lako Regatta at Put-In-Bay,c0hio in 1940) ice skating,
skiing and handball.
Whittaker' s coaching record at Bowling Green is:
YEAR
'JON
LOST
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
7
6
5
5
4
1
2
3
3
3
Total
27
.
12
TIED
1
1
1
0
0
OPP
AVG.
173
135
194
133
79
22
55
104
118
81
.875
.750
.625
.625
.571
714
380
.692
BG
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from Dick Herring, Sports Publicity
News Bureau, Bowling Groon State University
ASSISTANT COACHES
Head coach Robert H. Whittaker is aided by six
assistants in football at Bowling Groen (0.) State University this
season.
George Muellich is in his sixth season as Whittaker's
No. 1 assistant and line coach.
high schools for 11 years.
He previously coached in Toledo
Muellich was an all-conference
end at Michigan State Normal.
After four years in the Navy, Fred Marsh has
returned as Bowling Green "B" squad coach.
He was an all-conference
guard for two years as a Falcon player.
Charles Maag, a Whittakor-coachcd star at Sandusky (0.)
High School, is assistant lino coach.
Maag gained football
fane at Ohio State as a goal kicker and won All-Big Ten tackle
honors.
Bob V/hittakcr1 s youngest brother, Jin, who quarterbacked his IS36 Sandusky
team to an undefeated season, is assist-
ant backfieid coach.
In his third season as Falcon trainer, Allan Sawdy
is a former conditioner for Fostoria (0.) High School and the
Detroit Lions of the National Professional Football League
He
was a tackle and a tcannate of Muellich' s at Michigan Normal.
Ray Whittaker, equipment manager and another of the
Whittaker brothers, issued 206 suits during the first .practice
week for an all-time Bowling Green record.
-30-
from Dick Herring, Sports Publicity
Hews Bureau, Bowling Green State University
PREVIOUS RESULTS WITH 1946 OPPONENTS
The longest gridiron
rivalry of the 1946 season
for Bowling Green (0.) State University will be the 15th meeting
with Kent State University.
Since they first not in 1920,
each team has won five games, lost five and tied four.
Kent
edges Bowling Green in scoring, 103 to 95.
w
hcn the Falcons open their season at Central
Michigan, it will be the seventh contest with the Mt. Pleasant
gridders.
Since winning the first game in 1924, the Chippewas
have lost the remaining five.
Bowling Green has scored 94 points
to 46.
Miami-Bowling Green rivalry started in 1941 when
Bob Whittakor (Miami * 29) became Falcon football coach.
Bowling
Groen won the first two games, but for the last three years the
Redskins have overpowered the Falcons to load in scoring 105
to 29.
In 1942 Bowling Groen played at Ball State and won 26 to
14.
This year the Falcons arc hosts.
The star-studded Marine-Kavy-Civilian 1943 Falcon
team swamped Xavior's teen-age civilians 40 to 0 in Cincinnati.
The Musketeers play at Bowling Groen this season.
Last year Oberlin's Ohio Conference championship
team smothered Bowling Green 28 to 0.
Their second clash will
be at Bowling Green's homecoming, Nov. 2.
Canisius and St. Bonaventure arc newcomers to
the Falcon foctb;.ll schedule.
-30-
from Dick Herring, Sports PublicityNews Bureau, Bowling Green State University
OTHER BOWLING GREET SPORTS
Bov/ling Green (0.) State University's basketball tean
played in the Invitational Tournanont at Fadison Square Garden
last spring for the third consecutive year.
They lost to Rhode
Island 82 to 79.
The Falcons, coached by W. Harold Anderson (Otterbein '24)
and his capable assistant, George Muollich (Michigan Normal '31),
won 27 games and lost five.
They totaled 202? .points to opponents'
1340 for an average of 63.3 points a game.
The 1946 baseball team under Warren E. Stellcr
(Oborlin * 23) won nine and lost two to score 95 runs to
opponents'
27.
Joe Glandcr1s (Ohio University '34) cindermon won
two and lost five.
367.
The opponents outscored the Falcons 453 to
T
ho highlight of the season was the record breaking
discus heave of 145' 1" by Don Otten, All-Anerican basketball
center.
Varsity tennis after a four-year absence was coached by
Dr. Emerson Shuck (Otterbein '39).
lost four.
The netters won three and
They were outscored 37 to 27.
After a break of three years Bowling Green has a
cross country tean coached by Samuel Cooper (Obcrlin '35).
als-o will guide the swimming
team.
Bob Whittaker (Miami '29) will again coach track
and Dr. Shuck tennis.
Frod E. Marsh (Bowling Green '33) will coach the
first Falcon golf toan since 1941.
-30-
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1946
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BCFLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL ROSTER
Antonelli, Anthony
Augenstien, Melvin
Babcock, Joseph
Baldwin, George
Barnes, Roland
Baxter, James
Bellard, Bruce
Berry, Joseph
Bertsch, Robert
Bloker, fiayne
Bordner, Wayne (C)
Catanese, Joseph
Carver, Herbert
Crump, George
Curcillo, Ernest
Dunham, Donald
Dunham, Vernon
Foley, Gene
Franks, Richard
Freitas, Jack
.Grasiotti, Leroy
Hall, Robert
Harris, Donald
Hersland, John
Horvath, Robert
Inman, Thomas
Knierim, James
Krotzer, Paul
Jeremiah, John
Larson, Ralph
Lowry, Richard
Maples, Russell
Marazon, Daniel
Martin, David
Mason, Robert
Matron, Robert
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Minnich, Max
Netz, Robert
Niehm, Raymond
Raether, Harold
Randels, Robert
Reis, Richard
Rideout, Lester
Rousey, Norman
Scha-etske, Howard
Schmidt, George
Schmidt, Peter
Schnelker, Robert
Sheldon, John
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Rochester, N. Y.
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Philadelphia, Fenn,
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Marion, 0.
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Sandusky, 0,
Detroit, Mich.
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Toledo, 0.
Toledo, 0.
Mansfield, 0.
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Gibsoaburg, 0„
Parma, 0,
Akron, 0.
Leipsie, 0.
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Toledo, 0.
West Salem, 0.
Bellefontaine, 0.
Ravenna, 0.
Napoleon, 0.
Perrysburg, 0.
Sandusky, 0.
Toledo, 0.
Toledo, 0.
Perrysburg, 0.
Toledo, 0.
Athens, 0.
Toledo, 0.
Valley City, N. D.
Bluffton, 0.
Upper Sandusky, 0.
Louisville, 0.
Elyiia, 0.
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BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL ROSTER
Snindler, Al
Shuck, John
S immons, Edward
Smith, Vernon
Tabler, John
Van Atta, Richard
Walker, Ennis
Wirick, William
Welker, Mark
Woodland, John
Yoder, Stanley (6)
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Bucyrus, 0.
Cleveland, 0.
Toledo, 0.
Liberty Center, 0.
Green Springs, 0.
Lima, 0.
Toledo, 0.
Fostoria, 0.
Bowling Green, 0.