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    Army Retains
First Place
In UP Poll
: . By icARL WRIGHT
-. United Press International
NEW YORK (UPI)-Army was
No. 1 in the United Press Inter
national college football rating
week hut Ohio State replaced Au
burn in second place in the. wake
of a wave of upsets.
Of the first 10 'teams, only
Army remained in the position it
held last week. Iowa and Okla
homa moved back into the select
group and Northwestern made its
first appearance of the season in
the top 10. They replaced Wiscon
sin, Michigan State and Navy
three victims of Saturday upsets.
. Army, a 35-6 victor over Vir
ginia, received 23 first-place votes
and a total of 330 points from the
35 'leading coaches who rate the
teams for UPI. Ohio State ad
vanced from fourth to second
with eight first-place .votesv and
295 points as a result of its- 49-8
victory over Indiana. Auburn,
held to a 7-7 tie by Georgia Tech,
slipped to third with a first-place
vote - and 201 points.
, Texas and Louisiana State con
tinued their steady rise in the
ratings. Texas was fourth with a
first-place vote and 174 points and
Louisiana State was fifth with
two ' first-place votes and . 170
points.
Iowa was' sixih with. 158, Mis
sissippi .seventh with 122, Oklaho
ma eighth' with 103, Notre Dame
ninth with 90 and Northwestern
10th with SO.
Clemson headed the second 10
group. Wisconsin, Purdue, Colora
do, . Michigan State, Texas Chris
tian, the ' Air Force Academy,
Pittsburgh, Oregon, and College
of the Pacific rounded out the
top 20 in . that order. Georgia
Tech, Navy. and Tulsa were the
only other teams mentioned on
this week's ballots.
NEW YORK (UPI) The United
Press. International . major college
football ratings (first-place votes
and' won-ldst 'records in paren
theses):' .
Taam
Points
1. Army (23) (4-0) ' ; 330
2. Ohio -State (8) (4-0) . 295
3'. Auburn (1) (3-0-1) 201
4.Texas (1) (5-0) 174
5. Louisiana State (2) (5-0) ' 170
6. IOWa (3-0-1) ':'':. 158
7. Mississippi (5-0) 122
8. Oklahoma-(3-1) .103
9. Notre Dame (3-1) 90
l6.: Northwestern (4-0) 80
: l,'..eiemson,' 56; 12, Wisconsin,
44; 13, Purdue, 37; 14, Colorado,
22! 15, 'Michigan State,' 14; 16,
Texas. Christian,. 0; 17, Air Force
Academy,, 5; 18 (tie), Pittsburgh
and. Oregon, 4 each; 20, College
of Pacific, 2. ,
Gillman Says
'No Alibis'
..' ""' By ' ALEX KAHN ')'
ii.iurf. Prui International V
. '. LOS ' ANGELES' (UPI -Coach
Sid.. Gillman of the Los Angeles
Ram's,--refusing to take"'nn easy
way out. t6 account for his team's
31-10 loss , io the Chicago Bears,
said Monday he wanted to forget
alKiut charges of wire tapping and
excessive pena.llies. '
''Gillman said at a Southern Cal
ifornia Football Writers Assn.
meeting that lie did not plan to
protest .the alleged wire tapping
or the officiating at the Chicago
game in which the Rams were
penalized 100 yards in the first
half, and the Bears penalized only
five yards
All r can say about the pen
alties is that we were penalized
more in that first half than wc
were. in oiir first three pre-season
games," '.Gillman said. 'But I'm
not the protesting type so I'm go
ing to. forget ji,"
, The coach, refusing to hide be-
hind the penalty controversy as a
means of explaining the teams
loss, said, "In my opinion we did
n't' play good football. Whether or
not' the penalties had anything to
do. with it is opeii to conjecture."
. However, he did suggest that the
National Football League adopt a
plan-in which coaches could grade
and ultimately reject officials be
lieved to be doing an unsatisfac
t'ory job.
. "There are 12 coaches in the
league," he said. "If a majority
of coaches grade an official bad
ly, it ought to be clear that
there's something wrong with
him." f- --The
wire tapping allegations
were voiced by assistant Rams
coaches Bill Swiacki and Bob Wa
tcrfield.'who said they saw two
phones on a table near the Bears'
bench and that a member of the
Bears' coaching staff picked up a
headset whenever the Rams sent
instructions to their bench.
As' a case in point, Swiacki said
it was signifcant that when Del
Shofner went back on a fake punl
the Bears seemed to know he in
tended passing and didn't rush in.
. Gillman, sticking to his decision
of not pursuing the duel contro
versy, said as far as he was con
cerned the game with the Bears
was finished, - .
Right now the Rams would con
centrate on getting in shape for
Sunday's game with the Detroit
Lions here Sunday, he said.
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Garden. The glistening game is off on another long championship run, extending to Mar. Z2.;-
California Takes
Favorite Role; Play Oregon
SAN FRANCISCO (UPi)-Wh'at
happens when a football team loses
eight games in a row and then
comes back to win the next three
against tough competilion? 1 '
Coach Pete Elliott's University
of California Bears have done just
that and all of a sudden are
playing the role of favorites to go
io (he Hose Bowl.
California finished off the 1957
season by losing five games in a
row, the only victory out of 10
games last year being a 12-0
triumph over Southern California.
Gimmicks
Take Over
On Gridirons
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) ' It
takes a brain trust to run a ma
jor league college or prodfoot
ball team these days.
If the coaches aren't Phi Beta
Kappas, they at least should have
Masters degrees in psychology,
skull-duggery'and chicanery.
Every week some coach comes
up with whatjie thinks is a new
gimmick thafwill throw the law
of. averages r-abovc and beyond
good tackling and blocking to
his side. - : - '
Next week; for instance, coach
Bill Barnes of UCLA has "some:,
thing .special", planned , to , use
against Stanford. Last, week
Barnes introduced a flanker
with the single-wing formation
and in addition spread the ends;
which was also something new. .
"We got something new in mind
ourselves," replied coach Jack
Curtice of Stanford, "but it is a
secret. .. off the record stuff."
The, coaches all are putting out
"teasers", and then slipping in
in something different. Last week
coach Bob Titchenal of San 'Jose
State' said he was going, to use
Ray Norton,, one of the worlds
fastest sprinters, as a decoy", flank-.
er But Titchenal crossed , up Ari
zona (Tempo) State by putting1 a
good pass-catcher out in lonely
territory and using Norton as a
regular ball-packer.
Such, old timers as Amos
Alonzo Stagg and the late Glenn
S. (Pop) Warner used to claim
that everything being tried these
days had been used before. '
Last iyunday, for instance, the
Los Angeles Rams claimed that
the Chicago Bears were "wire
tapping" their telephone to the
Ram bench. And it was only a
few years ago that one of the pro
teams installed a short-wave set
to its quarterback. This sounded
fool-proof until the other team
tuned in on the . wave-length and
also was receiving the signals.
The biggest "something new" in
the. last quarter century; however,,
came the day coach Clark Shaugh
nessy of Stanford installed Fran-
kie Albert at quarterback leaning
against the center. It was the
birth of the T-formation and' was
to result in the-biggest revolution
in the history of football.-';
.However, claimed the old-tim:
ers, even that wasn't new.' . :-
But you can bet your bottom
dollar, wherever there is football
played this weekend some coach
has come up with something ; he
considers to be completejy but- of
this world. '. ,, . . .;-
ELECTED LEAGUE PREXY
A'',
BUFFALO, N. Y.- (UPI) Vin
cent M. McNnmara of Buffalo
was reelected Sunday to. another
two-year term as president of I he
lew York - Pennsylvania Base
ball League. The league also, an
lounccd it is adopting, a 120-
ame schedule for 1039.'
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Rose Bowl
The club opened the 1938 cam
paign still in a slump, losing to
College of Pacific and Michigan
State in its first two games, and
1 hen catching fire to knock over
high-flying Washington State,- 34-
14; Utah, 36-21, and USC, 14-12. :
"Part of the difference," says
coach Elliott, "is that you get the
breaks when you are winning."
But observers of the Golden
Bears believe that Elliott finally
has 'got the split-T formation
which he installed when he came
to- Cal at the start of last year,
clicking to perfection or at least
enough ' of each game to score
some touchdowns.
And Elliott has come: up with
one. of the finest all-round football
players in the west in quarterback
Joe Kapp. When Kapp is clicking
the. Bears are rolling. Against USC
last . Saturday,- for instance,' he
completed six out of nine pass at-
temns for 75 yards; and he picked
up ;another. 47 yards net running.
Kapp is every inch an All-Am
erican, .. said coach Kay .Nagel of
Utah after his club, was trounced
by; California. ,; '
Kapp,-a 6-2, 205-pound senior,
(s :-.the . lad . who .has. to do the
quick-thinking and magician-like
bail-jiandling that the split-T cans
for in the ': backfield. A former
straight-T, quarter, it may bp that
it has taken him this long to get
the' hang of it. ,. '. ;
Anyway," Kapp and the rest of
the Golden Bears run into their
stiffest Rose Bowl test of the year
on Saturday-when they take on the
tight , defense of coach .Len Casa
nova's Oregon Webfootsi Oregon
has played four games this year
and there have been four shut
outs. The Webfoots beat Idaho
27-0 and Southern California, 25-0.
But they have lost to Oklahoma
and Washington State by identical
6-0 scores. They have allowed two
touchdowns m, four gomes.1 ' V,
:.1fc other "Pacific, Coast Confer
ence, games' thiS week,' Stanford
travels "to UCLA, Southern Cal
ifornia' meets Washington State1 at
Spokane ; .and Washington battles
Oregon State at Portland. Idaho
goes outside thfe ' conference to
take on Arizona. ,y ,
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Game Cancelled
' By United Press International
'One Oregon- college football
teatn added another game to its
schedule today while a n o t h e.r
dropped, a game. : .
Willamette, ranked fourth in the
nation- in 'the ,NAIA ratings this
week, announced it had scheduled
a;? game .with Arizona .. State of
Flagstaff a.t Yuma, Ariz., Nov. 15.
lt will be a night game. :
The -contest . between the North
west Conference leaders and Ari
zona State was made possible be
cause Nevada cancelled a game
with .the latter team. '
Oregon Tech, leader of the Ore
gon Collegiate "' Conference, an
nounced that Malslrom Air Force
Base..' hasJ cancelled. 'its.;' game
scheduled for- Saturday because of
personnel t r a n s f e r s and other
changes dt the base. ,-
GIFFORD IN HOSPITAL
,. NEW'. YORK (UPI) -4 Frank
GifforoY' 205-pound all National
League selection -the last two
years, is in St. Elizabeth s .Hos
pital, with torn ligaments in his
right' knee and will be lost to the
New York , Giants for two or
three weeks.' Gifford suffered
the Injury in ' Sunday's 23-6 loss
io the Chicago Cardinals.
Daugherty
Puzzled By -
Teams' Play
By ED SAINSBURY
United Press International
OHTCAOO UIPD Michisan
State's Duffy Daugherty admitted
iiis puzzlement to United Press
International's coaches "wailing
wall today. ; -
"I wish I could put the finger
on what's wrong with this ball
club, he said. It s hard to fig
ure why this team doesn't roll,
Our : inability to move the ball
against Purdue gave them the
ball more times. Our defense was
all right. We had plenty of .oppor
tunities, and couldn't do it. :Wc
couldn't get going." j.
. Purdue's Jack Molleiikopt , said
his club was "good . enough rHo
overcome its mistakes. We ,weje
in. hot water from fumhles:,ajid
two bad passes that didn't fallow
us to ..kick. Our own mistakes
seemed to kill us,' but we did;: a
real fine job on offense Vijnd
moved better than I expected;"'
"The breaks evened up' in': the
second half," Iowa's Coach Forest
Evashevski said of the Wisconsin
game, "and our kids came back
pretty well. We made some mis
takes, and our kids were a little
tight, but we bounced back. ''It
would have been pretty close any
how. Wisconsin's a pretty good
ball club." ' ,;
Wisconsin's Milt Bruhn paid the
same compliments to Iowa, and
said "their halfbacks are tremen
dous. They matched us in depth.
I thought we started out well, but
our offense bogged down, and we
didn't capitalize three times when
wc went in. Our defense was ade
quate. Iowa was a little higher
than we were and wc didn't play
our best game. y:
Michigan's "own mistakes pitt
us in the hole quickly,. Bonnie
Ooslerbaan said of the Northwest
ern match, "and when we lost
Bob Ptacek, we lost 1 our leadership-on
the field. Their offensive
nattprn shouldn't have fooled us,
but it certainly was effective.
Northwestern played a " great
game and we were flat'
Ara Parscghian of the Wildcats
said Michigan "made so . mny
mistakes, and we capitalized . on
every mistake they made Every
time they gave lis the ball , we
took it in, and we had -another
touchdown on a pass intercepted
called back. But this ball, club has
surprised . everybody, - including
me." . . . -
Ray 'Eliot of Illinois was satis
fied that in winning over Minne
sota, the Illlnl. also found a quar
terback n Bob Jlickey. ':; :
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Baker Ties
For Seventh
In UP Poll
PORTLAND (UPI) Powerful
Jefferson, averaging ,47 points per
game so far this season, again
headed the list of Oregon's prep
football teams in this weeks'
Journal coaches' poll.
Jefferson got all eight first
place votes and piled up 80 points
to 70 for second , place Medford.
ttoseburg moved ahead of North
Bend third place after, beating the
Bulldogs lost Friday night. North
Bend dropped to ninth. ;
The rankings: -
1. Jefferson 80
2. Medford ' .. 72
3. Iloscburg ' , .57
4. Astoria 43
5. Nottth Salein : y . 37
6. Marshfield . ' 31
7. (Tie) Baker ' : 29
8. Grants Pass ' 29
S. NorthBend 27
10. Roosevelt ' - 11
Others: McMinnville 10, Red
mond 6, Vale 4, Gresham 2 and
Cleveland and Madison 1 each.
Army's Daw kins
May Play
WEST . POINT, N.Y.' ' (UPI)
Pete DatrkMsY' Army's '"bread
and-butter" . halfback who' is re
eeiving injections for a "severe
and painful" Charley horse, may
be In the lineup Saturday when
the Cadets tackle Pittsburgh. .
Coach Earl Blaik said that he
wouldn't know, for sure whether
Dawklns would be able , to play
until "at least Wednesday. The
coach also revealed that fullback
Harry Wqliers was hobbling
around on crutches and it .was
highly improbable that he would
be able to make thd trip' to Pitts
burgh, ' ' : " , '-,---, .-. '.-.' ..:
Dawklns suffered Ids injury
during the second quarter while
charging up the middle against
Virginia last .S a t u'r day.;. He
crashed head on and .injured, his
left thigh. Walters, who also, stars
on "defense for the Cadets,
sprained his left ankle when' his
cleats caught as he was stopped
in the fourth quarter, of .the same
game. '..; "' ;- ...)'. '.-. -,
"Since we are not-very deep
(in players), losing Dawkins and.
Walters both ' will . leave us. in- a
tough .spot against. Pitt,". Blaik
said. "But therevis..,a cbance
Dswklris might he ready."-,
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Kansas Coach
In 'Dirty Football' Charge
COLUMBUS., Ohio (UPI) -
Coach Woody Hayes of Ohio
State, obviously plensed that his
"dirty football" - charges have
brought officials under public
scrutiny, had a companion today
in Kansas coach Jack Mitchell.
The Javhawk coach Monday
charged the officiating in Satur
day's Oklahoma - Kansas game
was "pathetic." Lnst weeK nayes
blasted the officials for permitting
Ihe defense to play "dirty foot
hall" while watching the offensive
team too closely. .
Mitchell said "never in my
Army-Pitt. Game
Important In East
NEW YORK (UPI) Next Satur
day's Army-Pittsburgh game could
settle the race for the Lambert
Trophy, symbol of Eastern foot
ball supremacy,
The unbeaten Cadets once again
wore the ! unanimous choice for
first place in this week's ballot
ing while Pitt replaced Navy in
second place. The Middies slipped
to third following their defeat by
Tulane.
Syracuse held down fourth place
and was followed by Pepn State,
Holy Cross, Rutgers, Princeton,
Dartmouth and Villanova in that
order.
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Backs Hayes
playing or coaching days have I
witnessed -such an exhibition."
Oklahoma beat Kansas, 43-0.
II a y e s, meanwhile, said he
thought he was "on the way to
getting it straightened out." He
said he was "encouraged" by the
officiating in the Big Ten last
Saturday, with the possible ex
ception of the Inriinnn-Ohio State
game.
During his own game, the fiery
ayes rushed onto the field to
protest alleged roughness on the
part of the Hoosiers. The officials
quickly marched off a 15 - yard
penally against Ohio Stale. Ohio
State downed Indiana, 49-8.
Mitchell was backed up in his
charge by Bib Eight Commis
sioner Reaves Peters, who said
he had heard the "officiating was
apparently lousy." Peters told
Mitchell to give the officials who
worked the game a "zero" in his
report and they wouldn't be back
next year.
Hayes said "officiating last
Saturday on the whole was pretty
good with possibly one exception
He didn't single out the exception
but it was apparent lie meant the
Ohio State-Indiana game.
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La Oranda't junior and sap
homora footballers rompad avar
the juniors and sophsmeres from
Baker in a game played here
last night under the lights, 33-a.
Both clubs used all men- on their
varsity squads, excepting seniors.
PORTLAND, Ind.-, (UPD-Port-land
High School football Coach
Glen Bryant walked 21 of the 22
miles from Hartford pity home
Sunday and rode the last mile on
a burro to fulfill a promise to his
players when they finished their
schedule undefeated Saturday. ',
Bryant said he'd been plied by
sandwiches by local farmers and
"had a ball. But I'm sore and
stiff all over."
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