Jack Stricker

LANGHORNE– With Harry Schuh and Jack Stricker, Neshaminy’s great one-two running attack, finishing their high school careers by scoring a pair of touchdowns each, the Redskins won a hard fought 32-13 victory over Bensalem High and captured their ninth consecutive Lower Bucks League championship Saturday at Neshaminy.

Before a standup crowd of 7,000 Neshaminy battled back from a 13-13 halftime tie, after they had held a 13-0 edge by virtue of Schuh’s two first half scores, to win its 16th straight game.

SCHUH SCORES TWICE

Harry SchuhSchuh dove over the Bensalem line twice in the first two periods to score two TDs and give the winners their early edge. But with time running out in the second period, Bensalem hit pay dirt twice, the last coming as the half ended, to deadlock the score.

Quarterback Bob Mudie went over from the one, after a 45-yard pass play to Bill Schreiber had set up the score, then Mudie passed to Bob Glose good for 34 yards and the tying touchdown. Glose took the pass on the 10 and went over unmolested.

TAKES LEAD FOR KEEPS

Harry Schuh

Neshaminy came right back in the third period to take the lead for keeps. Stricker went off tackle for a yard and a TD. Six plays earlier Neshaminy’s Rich Lauther recovered a Bensalem on the losers’ 26.

The score remained 20-13 until midway in the final stanza when Fran McCollum fell on teammate Schuh’s fumble in the Bensalem end zone for a Neshaminy TD. Then with the clock running out Stricker hit off tackle for two yards and the final score.

Neshaminy finished its season with an 8-0 league log, 10-0-1 overall, and Bensalem wound up with a 7-1 league record, 8-2 overall.

1960 Neshaminy Redskins

Editor’s Note: When you think of the 1960 team all the superlatives that can be called upon seem to fall short. Blessed with talent on the field and on the sidelines too – players and coaches – this was a group that had everything. From the fact that it was the initial graduating class of players that had gone all the way through the school’s new physical plant on Old Lincoln Highway – both Neshaminy Junior High and Neshaminy Senior High – to the team’s “location” almost in the exact middle of the great period from 1952 through 1965 when the ‘Skins seemed virtually invincible, it’s hard to say enough about the ’60 squad. For instance, the 436 total points they scored wasn’t eclipsed by another Tribe team until the 2004 club put up 466 while their “per game” scoring average of 39.6 has never been topped, still standing as the gold standard to this day. As to LBC league play, the average score of 43-3 became the conference benchmark that was also never bested. Additionally, the overall margin of victory throughout the season of 35 points a game – based on the full season average game score of 39.6 to 4.6 – is another “best ever” for an Indian Nation club. Stocked with players like Harry Schuh and Jack Stricker, who collectively scored 99 touchdowns during their 3 year careers, along with Jack Currie, John Carber, Rich Bonsall, Rich Held, Ed Kaminski, Fran McCollum, Allan Rell, Jerry Hertz, Brian Baker, Rich Boerckel, Stan Cantor, Dick Blodgett, Bruce Evans, Bobby Barr, Rich Lauther, Robert Cummings, Tommy Preno, Milt Rassier, John Rothrock, John Vosburgh and others, it’s hardly an overstatement to say that the 1960 Redskins rank right at the top of any “best ever” Neshaminy and southeastern or statewide Pennsylvania list of schoolboy grid squads.