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Browns; Bears Lead Pro Ball .National Knot Im 11 league By the Aitocieted Pro*« Kastern Conference W L T Pet. Cleveland 7 2 0 .778 Washington .0 3 0 .067 Pittsburgh 4 5 0 .444 New York 4 5 0 .444 Chicago Cards . 3 5 1 .375 Philadelphia 3 5 1 .375 Western Conference Chicago Bears 6 3 0 .667 Loh Angeles 5 3 1 .625 Green Bay. 5 4 0 .555 Baltimore 4 4 1 .500 Ban Francisco 3 6 0 .333 Detroit 2 7 0 .222 By Orlo Robertson Of At Attociatvd Pratt Chicago's astounding Bears wrapped up their sixth straight victory to take undisputed pos session of first place In the West ern Conference of the National Football League Sunday while the battle for the Eastern Con ference lead remained a nip and tuck tussle between Cleveland's defending Browns and Washing ton's surprising Redskins. The Bears turned back the De troit Lions 24-14 to post a 6-3 record as the Los Angeles Hams lost a chance to keep pace by playing a 17-17 tie with the Bal timore Colts. The tie left the Rams with a record of 5-3-1. Cleveland rebounded from last week's defeat by the Philadelphia Ragles by romping over the Pittsburgh Steelers 4-14. But the Redskins remained only a game back as they shut out the Chi cago Cardinals 31-0. Giants Move l.'p The New York Giants jumped .Into a third place tie with Pitts burgh in the Eastern section with i» surprise 3-7 whipping of the Eagles. Green Bay remained in contention for the Western title by edging the Han Francisco 40ers 27-21. In posting their seventh vic tory in nine games, the Browns broke open a close game in the last half on a great display of passing by Otto Graham and George Ratterman and some flashy running by Curly Morri son. Banquet Formally Ends Grid Season Football at Oregon comes to an official close tonight when the Hoffman award for the most out standing senior player Is given during the Oregon club banquet in the Student Union ballroom at 6:3a Gen. Don Zimmerman, dean of the faculty at the Air Force Acad emy, will he the guest speaker on, the program. President O. Mere dith Wilson will also speak and track coach Bill Bowerman will be the master of ceremonies. Five senior gridders will be in line for the coveted award given each year by Vcrn Hoffman, local jeweler and a former Oregon ath lete. Halfback Dick James, tackles Jim Potter, Lon Stiner and Harry Johnson and center Art Weber arc eligible. A stag attair, the Danquet will be opened later in the evening to allow womefi and children to wit ness the presentations. Tickets, priced at $2.75, will be available at the door. Last year's winner, determined by vote of the team, was Balti more Colt quarterback George Shaw. He received an engraved wrist watch'. Former winners in clude the late Ken Sweitzer in '53, Monte Brethauer in '52, Dick Pat rick in ’51, Hay Lung in '50, Wood ley Lewis in '49 and Brad Ecklund in '48. Harlon Hill, an elusive end from little known F I o r e n c e Teach era College of Alabama, twice fooled Detroit pass defend ers in the third quarter an the Beam moved into first place. He picked off tosses of 20 and tO yard* from Kd Brown for hi* Hcventh and eighth touchdowns of the Henson to bring the Bears from a 14-10 halftime deficit. Two long passed from Bobby Layne accounted for Detroit's two touchdowns. The first went to Doak Walker and covered 70 yards and the second to Dave Middleton. It was good for 77. Graham, although tossed for a 52-yard loss on attempted pass plays, tossed two touchdown aerials to Dante Lavelli, one for 6 yards and another for 41, and scored another himself on an end run. Groza String Ends Other Cleveland touchdowns came on a 15-yard pass intercep tion return by Ken Konz, a 3 yard plunge by Ed Modzelewski and a 5-yard plunge by Maurice Baaaett. But Lou Groza's string Of conaecutive conversion* was halted at 29 when his fourth at tempt was blocked. The Steelers, who trailed only 2-14 at the half, first tallied on a 16-yard paaa from Jim Finks to Klbie Nickel and again on a 30-yarder from Ted March) broda to Nickel. Both were set up by Graham fumbles. George Shaw, rookie Baltimore quarterback, was alternately the star and the goat in the tie with Loa Angeles. His 28-yard pass to Jim Mutsehcller in the last quar ter put the Colts ahead 17-10. But then he fumbled on his 16 and the Kama went for .the ty ing touchdown. The Giants, leading only 10-7 at the half, poured across three touchdowns in the third period against the Eagles as they held Philadelphia's vaunted attack to almost a complete standstill. Eagle Offense Stopped Philadelphia completed only 15 of 37 passes nnd the Eagles’ ground attack was limited to 54 yards. The Giants intercepted six Eagle passes and set up their first touchdown with a recovered fumble. Bert Zager's 55-yard return of a punt for a touchdown the first time Washington had possession sent the Redskins off on the right foot against the Cardinals. The Packers tallied 14 points in the final period in their come from-behind triumph over the 49 era. Tobin Rote set up the decid ing touchdown by taking a later al from Breezy Reid and carry ing the ball 49 yards to the 49 era' 6. Howie Ferguson went over from there to settle the issue. Rote also had a hand in two other Green Bay touchdowns while Y. A. Tittle, San Francis co's veteran quarterback, pitched two to Carroll Hardy, the plays covering 33 and 58 yards. BEAD EMERALD CLASSIFIED Bruins Halt Coast Race By Al Johnson Emerald Aii'l Sport* Editor Pair!fie Coast Conference Team W L T Pet. ! UCLA 6 0 0 1.0001 Oregon Htate 5 2 0 .714 i Stanford 3 2 1 .600 ; Oregon 4 3 0 .571 Washington . 4 3 1 .571 U8C . 3 3 0 .500; 1 California 1 5 1 .200 VVSC . 15 1 .200 Idaho . 0 4 0 .000 The Coast conference season is at last linished and dreams of Purse Bowl contenders have all faded under the relentless record of the winners, UCLA. With their weekend win over Southern ^California by a decis ive 17-7 count, the Bruins moved into the host spot in the Bowl where they will face a Michigan State team that got the nod from the Big Ten conference. USC fell to sixth place in the final standings with their loss, the third for them in the confer ence campaign. Last year's Tro jans represented the coast in the Bowl and were beaten by Ohio State, who captured the Big Ten title again this season. In the other traditional games, California lost to Stanford for the first time in several years, 19-0; Oregon walloped Oregon State, 28-0; Idaho bashed Mon tana, 35-0; and Washington blanked Washington State, 27-0. Probably the weekend's moat spectacular play was in Los An geles, where USC’s Jon Arnett ran the opening kickoff back 97 yards for a touchdown, only to have it nullified by an offside penalty by his own front line. Suspension on Santee Lifted KANSAS CITY OP-The Mis souri Valley AAU board of man agers Sunday decided to lift the amateur suspension of Wes San tee. this country's fastest miler. The managers voted 21-7 to re ject the decision of the Missouri Valley AAU registration commit tee which suspended Santee on Oct. 30 on grounds he had accept ed excessive expense allowances for three California track meets last month. Santee’s suspension will be lifted automatically if no one ap peals Sunday’s decision to the board of governors of the National AAU within 10 days. Santee, former University of Kansas star who now is a ma rine lieutentnt stationed at Quan tico, Va., was unable to attend Sunday's meeting but was repre sented by Bill Easton, his former coach at Kansas. Told by The Associated Press of the lifting of the suspension, Santee said "I’m very pleased, na turally. Now at least I'll have a running chance in the Olympic Games.” The suspension would have barred Santee from participating 'in the 1956 Olympics in Australia. He had said previously that he would hate to miss that contest. UCLA Bruins; MSU Spartans Bound for Pasadena; Roses By Jack Stevenson Of tt.« Aitociated Proit Official selection Monday by j the Pacific Coast Conference of UCLA to meet Michigan State | is a foregone conclusion likej taxes. After the Bruins whipped Southern California 17-7 Satur day it appeared a waste of time and money to poll the conference members on the bowl situation. The Uclan* finished with their third straight PCC championship and unbeaten in loop play. Their only setback in two years was the 7-0 one by Maryland early this season. A surprising Oregon State out fit, coached by Tommy Prothro who last year was a UCLA aide, : finished second in the conference with a 5-2 record compared with the Bruins’ 6-0. But OSC com pleted its season on the short end of a 28-0 count against tradition al rival Oregon. Stanford finished in third place and had a happier ending by beating its traditional foe, California, 19-0, the first victory for the Indians over the Bears since 1946. Stanford had a 3-2-1 PCC mark and an early season non-conference victory was a 6-0 count over Ohio State, the Big 10 champion. In order came Oregon, Wash ington (winner 27-7 over Wash ington State) and Southern Cali fornia. Cal and WSC managed to win only one conference game each and little Idaho didn’t win any. The Vandals did whip Mon tana 31-0 in Saturday’s finale. The champions, UCLA, scored 285 points to 57 for opponents in their 10 games this season. Coach Jess Hill of USC per haps put it correctly when he said the Bruins this year are the 1 weakest in the past three sea sons. But the men of Coach Red Sanders managed to come up with the knockout blow when it was needed. For instance: Against Washington a week ago. senior wingback Jim Decker' booted a field goal in the last 18 seconds to win 19-17. He hadn’t kicked a three-pointer before, either in high school or college. Saturday he booted his second, a placement that traveled 29 yards. Also against Washington, passing star Ronnie Knox broke a bone in his leg. Saturday the Bruins passed only twice, both times by halfback Sam Brown and both completed, one for 21 yards and the other for 29. Both kept scoring drives rolling. Brown also had a field day running against the big Trojan defenders. He gained 150 yards making his 10-game total 829 for a new school record. Sanders had troubles at the start of this season. He's lost nine of 11 starters from his unde feated 1954 outfit including the line, the blocking back and the tailback, the latter being the fel low largely responsible for mak ing the single wing move. Brown filled that slot and Hill says, with some regret, “he can run rings around Primo Villanue va.” Primo was last season’s all conference tailback. Sanders also has fullback Bob Davenport, a hard runner and blocker who knocks ends on their ends so Brown can continue his travels. Players Jubilant After HC Victory If a person entered the Uni versity of Oregon football player's dressing room just after Satur day's "Civil War" classic, he would have seen a jubilant bunch of Web foots. Written across the dressing room blackboard was "We beat them Aggies! and how, 28-0!” Per haps no team has been much hap pier than those six seniors who wound up their Duck gridiron ca reers in the “only way.” A pende monium followed Coach Len Cas anova’s announcing of Senior halfback Dick James being se lected to play in the East-West shrine game at San Francisco. The "old pro” James said after ward that he would like to go on and play either professional base ball or pro football. He says that he is still undecided, but that if he does go into professional athletics it will probably be football. “I think that I would have a better chance at pro football, because my injured wrist is still pretty weak,” said the rugged Webfoot. James said that his weak wrist would hinder his baseball performance more than it would his football. Commenting on Oregon State’s playing James said, “I figured those Beavers would be pretty tough, and at half-time I was still worrying; we only had seven points on them. In the second half, like the first, after we slapped them around a bit, they seemed to stop driving. Trey weren’t as rug ged as I thought they’d be.” Happy and smiling, senior cap tain Lon* Stiner said that there would be no professional football for him. Tackle Stiner explained, "Thr* Army comes first; I’d like to get in and get my two years over with." The Duck captain added “I plan to go on to law school as soon as possible, though. That's what I came to school for, and that’s what I'm going to do.” Stiner commented on the Beaver’s defeat by admitting he didn’t know what was wrong with them. He said, “Oregon State played like we did against Stanford; I can’t quite understand it.” Big senior tackle Harry John son simply said, “Oregon State just didn’t want to win as bad as we did.” When asked about wheth er his future plans included foot ball, Johnson said, “This—today— was it!” The giant Johnson of a relatively small Oregon line said that he intends to try to get into the UO dental school. He doesn't know how he stands with the draft. Perhaps no one was happied than “workhorse” Don Sullivan. Sullivan, senior team manager, plans to return to Los Angeles where he has been offered a couple of jobs. Like the others, “Sully” really doesn’t know how he and Uncle Sam stack up. $fARLfcK$OJDICK , by AL CAPP I LL BASH IN NOUR HF:AD, AN' WIN A l PRIZE AT TH' £ ^ SAME TIME, FOSDICK'/ HM.'t-e.w DEFLAT/NG ONE OF MV LUNGS unm MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.? NO DOLL,THANK YOU.?-I'LL TAKE WILDROOTl CREAM OIL AS MY PRIZE? 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