Tyrone (6-1) had moved into the fourth place spot in the Western Football Conference Class A race in the last week of October, 1964, with 442 points, behind Punxsutawney (483 pts.), Windber (477), which was ineligible lacking enough games to be considered, Lock Haven (470) and Chief Logan (460).
State College, the Golden Eagles opponent for this week in 1964 was tied with Hollidaysburg for seventh.
In the World Series, Mickey Mantle belted a tape-measure home run which gave the New York Yankees a 2-1 win in Saturday’s game. On Sunday, the Yanks were leading 3-0 behind fastball pitcher Al Downing, when the Cardinals Ken Boyer, with just one hit in his 13 previous at bats drilled a grand slam home run and relief pitchers Roger Craig and Ron Taylor tossed eight innings of shutout baseball to even the Series at 2-2.
Game Five returned to St. Louis with Tim McCarver’s 10th inning homer giving the Cards a 5-2 extra-inning win. Tom Tresh had banged a ninth-inning home run that tied the game an 2-all and sent the game to the 10th. Raw power decided the sixth game with the Yankees’ M & M twins, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle drilling back-to-back homers to break a sixth-inning 1-1 tie. Joe Pepitone connected later for the Yankees with the bases loaded and Jim Bouton, recipient of the power display picked up the win.
With the tone set for game seven, Bob Gibson, working with only two days rest, set a new strikeout record for the Series with 31 and Lou Brock and Ken Boyer led a 10-hit Cardinal attack that gave St. Louis the World Series championship with a 7-5 win. Mantle added a three-run homer in the sixth inning, his 18th of his career in the Fall Classic.
John Henry Johnson, hard running fullback of the Pittsburgh Steelers, set two club records in the Steelers’ 23-7 upset win over Cleveland. Johnson’s 30 carries and 200 yards rushing broke records set by Joe Geriwik’s 29 carries and 182 yards rushing John Henry had against the Philadelphia Eagles in 1960.
A trio of Russian Cosmonauts, Col. Vladamir Komarov, scientist Konstantin Frocktistov and space surgeon Boris Yegorov returned safely after a day in space. The “space bus” was the first space ship in history to carry more than one man. The huge “Voakhad” (Sunrise) landed in the preassigned area after making 16 orbits.
Negro voter registration in the South topped the two million mark for the first time with most of the votes expected for incumbent president Lyndon B. Johnson.
Southern states were viewed as critical for Rep. candidate Barry Goldwater, whose campaign committee felt he needed the 43 Southern votes the party received in the Nixon-Kennedy election of 1960.
In the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Billy Mills, the slender 26-year old U. S. Marine with Indian ancestry, gave the U. S. a historic Gold, becoming the first American ever to win the 10,000 meter race. Aquatic stars brought the U. S. four more gold medals, including a 1-2-3 sweep in the men’s springboard diving led by 19-year old Ken Sitzberger. Cathy Ferguson swam to an upset victory in the women’s 100-meter backstroke and Don Schollander anchored the 1,000 meter free-style relay team to a world record. Al Oerter captured his third discuss title for the Americans.
For farmers in the area, there was the Cove Farm Bureau, 1504 Lincoln Avenue, “owned by those it serves.” Fineman’s, next to the Post Office offered girls corduroy slacks for $1.39 sizes 7-14 and ladies madras jackets sizes small-medium-large, regularly $10.98 on sale for $6.98. You could go for your photo needs to Cohens Photo Service, 42 West 10th Street. David’s Ladies Wearing Apparel, 1008 PA Avenue, proprietor Dave Goldberg and The Squire Shop Quality Men’s and Boy’s Shop, 1058 PA Avenue were shops you could go to for clothes. Garman’s Department Store, 1014 PA Avenue featured Clearfield furs- “Your best buy always, complete fur service.”
Ex U. S. president Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st president of the U. S. died. He was 90, having served as president from 1929-1932. A succession of ailments had weakened the former president and he ha d been stricken with bleeding in his upper gastro-intestinal tract which had caused an accumulation of toxic products in his blood stream.
In the AFL (American Football League), Jack Kemp and Darryl Lamonica passed the Buffalo Bills into first place with 83 completions for 1,526 yards between them. The Bills also have the AFL’s leading rusher in Cookie Gilcrest who has 856 yards on 205 carries. The Bills also lead in pass defense and are second in run defense.
After recording their first shutout since 1962, the Golden Eagle defense registered their second consecutive super performance allowing State College just one score and 145 yards total offense and the offense managed just enough to pull out a 7-6 win over the Little Lions at State College’s Memorial Field on Oct. 30, 1964.
Tyrone, decked out in appropriate Orange and Black for Halloween was able to brew up a little black magic on offense to do the trick scoring an early second quarter touchdown that provided the Eagles with a come-from-behind win.
Employing a bit of razzle-dazzle, senior quarterback Terry Turnbaugh flipped the ball back to halfback Bill Gearhart, who then rifled the ball downfield to end Max Schnellbaugh who grabbed the ball at about the SC-35. Schnellbaugh fought his way into the clear with the help of a crunching block from Bob McNeal and scooted the rest of the way for a 62-yard TD pass. Schnellbaugh then split the uprights with his PAT kick to give Tyrone a 7-6 lead and the Eagle defense made sure it stayed that way.
Tyrone won for the seventh time in eight tries on the 1964 season, while stopping a five-game win streak for the Little Lions (5-3).
Following State’s initial series, which the Tyrone defense halted at the T-18 with McNeal breaking up a fourth-down pass attempt, The Eagles moved the pigskin al the way to the State College-19 with Tony Singer hauling in a Turnbaugh pass along the sidelines, but a penalty brought the ball back to the SC-45 and Tyrone quick-kicked into the endzone.
State College took over at their own 20 and mounted what was to be their only scoring drive of the game. The first quarter ended on a 44-yard run by State that ended at the T-19. Chuck Hickes stopped the Lions’ runner at the goal line four plays later, but momentum carried the play into the endzone for the TD. The PAT effort was low and to the right to give State College a 6-0 lead.
Tyrone’s Dave Langenbacher returned the kickoff nine yards to the T-26. Tyrone got five yards on a State College penalty on the first play and Tony Singer bulled for two yards on the next. Following an incomplete pass, Singer picked up a first down with a gain of five to the 38. On the next call, Tyrone went to the trick play and Schnellbaugh’s extra point kick put the Eagles in front for good.
After the two back-to-back scores, the game turned into a punting contest, including a 47 yarder by Tyrone punter Terry Turnbaugh that rolled dead at the State College-5. Following a short Lion punt, Tyrone threatened with Gearhart getting six on two running plays and then taking a pitch from Turnbaugh and lofting a pass to the SC-5 where the pass slithered through a wide-open McNeal’s arms.
State College tried to go to the air to move the ball, driving to the T-20 near the end of the game, where Gearhart intercepted a pass to stop the threat.
