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Glimpses of Grid Action on Saturday's Football Front
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By BILL BOOT
NEW YORK, Dec IHJPh
Mlnnesota's . Golden Gophers
capped off a. tremendous season
Monday by 'finishing' at -the toD
of the list in the final Associated
Press football ranking poll of the
regular campaign.
' Bernie Bierman's powerhouse,
never worse than second and that
jonly once in the eight weeks of
the poll, drew 84U first-place
yotes out of a total of 96 in this
tabulation.
Only 12 of the country's grid
iron experts did -not place the
Gophers at the head of their
ballots,, and one , of them split
the honors between Minnesota
and second-place Duke, an
other of the season's three ma
jor all-winning teams and Ore
gon 8tate's selection as its Rose
Bowl rival on New Tear's day.
Minnesota, in retaining the po
sition it won in 1940 and leading
the poll for the third time since
It was established on its present
basis in 1938, did so by sweeping
all before It in, an eight-game
schedule. The Western conference
titleholders opened with an inter-sectional-triumph
over the Uni
versity of Washington, followed
up by beating Illinois, Pittsburgh,
Michigan, Northwestern, Nebras
ka and Iowa, and concluded with
a smashing 41-6 rout of Wiscon
sin that gave the Gophers a record
of 17 consecutive victories.
One of the most remarkable
features of this performance
was that Minnesota did. so with
Its captain and brilliant . all
around back, Brace Smith, on
the sidelines for most of three
key games. Smith set up the
touchdown that beat Michigan,
bat hobbled to the sidelines Just
before It was scored; played
only a- few minutes and couldn't '
be much help against North
western; and didnt play against
Nebraska. -
He returned1 to action against
Iowa and Wisconsin and in each
game was th big gun in the
Gopher off ensive.
. Puke's Blue Devils, best
equipped i on attack of any team
Coach Wallace Wade .has devel
oped, gave the Gophers' their only
serious contention in this week's
poll. With nine and a haif first
place votes, they got a total of
725 points to 945 for Minne
sota (out of a possible 960).
Third place went to Notre
Dame, which finished undefeat
ed but once-tied In Its first sea
son under Frank Leahy and got
675 points. The only other un
defeated team in the balloting
the all-conquering Duquesne
eleven slipped from-fifth place
a week ago to eighth, possibly
. because the Dukes lost some of
the limelight through finishing
' their regular season unusually
early.
(hfcXKbl S?W ALL USf
Salem, Oregon. Tuesday Morning. December 2, 1941 9
Coast Grid Attendance Falls
Despite Jump Over Nation
j By GAYLE TALBOT .
NEW YORK, Dec. l-P)-Though the absence of a standout
team on the Pacific coast caused the. average attendance to take
an amazing Humble in that section, the rest of the country has
just ! waded through the most prosperous football season on
rtcord. Athletic treasuries should be bulging like corn country
silos.
A study of home attendance figures for 74 of the nation's
leading gridiron foundries reveals
an average increase of 4 per cent
over last year, despite the west
Basketball gets bigger and big
ger as the seasons come along at
Salem high.- -
This was" emphasized Monday
when Coach Harold Hauk, after
cutting his potential varsity team
to 26 players, announced the pos
sibility of two Junior varsity clubs
in addition to four sophomore
teams.
And It wasn't so long ago that
Salem high had only the varsity.
Frank Beer, who coached the
Washington state champions at
Castle Rock in 1929 and who came
to Salem from Grants Pass, is
assisting Hauk and is scheduled to
coach one junior varsity aggre
gation. Willamette university physical
education "majors will mentor the
sophomore teams, which will play
in the City Intramural league
along with Parrish and "Leslie
junior high schools.
At present, Duane Mellem is
tutoring those basketeers cut
from the afternoon varsity squad
at nights and it is probable he
will mentor the second junior
varsity team.
Hauk's varsity aggregation as
it now stands:
Forwards Joe Bowersox, Don
Cutler, Dutch Simmons, John Hof
fert, John Johnson, Louie Hough,
Martin Svarverud, Gordy McMor-
ris, Travis Cross, Bob Warren,
Allen Kent and Jim Sheldon.
Centers Courtney Jones, Bruce
Hamilton, Keith Morris, Bill Rein-hart
Guards Bud Coons, Stan Prattl
er, Bob Sederstrom, Bland Sim
mons, Wally Gemmell, John
Dowd, Don Chapman, : Rollie
Haag, Bill Ransom and Rex
Hardy.
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BOWL-BOUND BEVOS Didn't make It here, as little Don Durdan,
Oregon State halfback, was swarmed under by a horde of Webfoets
on the Oregon one-yard line, but they went on to win at Eugene
Saturday, 12-7, and clinch their January 1 appearance In the lose
Bowl against Duke. The Oregon Una held the Beavers fat this
quarter stand, with Tackle Dick Asheom tossing Bob Dethznaa a yer
short on fourth down and one yard to go for a teuchdowau UN phots.
Bettina Bops
fay to Nod
Over H. Bobo
PITTSBURGH Dec. l-(P)-A-
though floored for a nine-count
in the 10th and final round, Melio
Bettina, of New York, former
light-heavyweight ehampion, won
I a split decision Monday night oyer
Harry Bobo, giant Pittsburgh
Negro slugger. It was Bettina's
i28th consecutive victory
Bettina, who weighed 183; or
21 pounds less than his op
ponent, carried the fight to the
t-. t,Kii inth niar Negro from the start, making the
last week after Its tie with Baylor contest ne f J best heavy-
and loss to Texas Christian, re-1 wel,u UIWU
The bout drew $14,392 gross.
TCU, Georgia
To Meet in
Orange Bowl
MIAMI, Fla., Dec. l-(P-The
coast's drop of nearly 19k per cent I lineups for the nation's four major
for its 38 principal games;
The fall madness struck a new
high in the south, where the
crowds averaged 15 per cent
higher than in 1940. In the
southwest the figures leaped 10
per cent, in the east 9 per cent
and in the sprawling mid-west
over 2 per cent, .with the big
nine shattering all records.
bowl fcames were completed Mon
day night when Texas Christian
university accepted an invitation
to play Georgia in the Orange
bowl here New Year's day. ?
Orange Bowl Association Pre
sident W. G. Ward said final
arrangements, for TCU's accept
ance had been worked out by
telephone Monday night with
Howard Grubb, business mana
ger of the school. Ward said
Grubb had obtained the appro-'
val of the Southwestern confer
ence of which TCU Is a member.
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. try
Bowling
Scores
gained considerable prestige and
vaulted up to fourth by knocking
Texas A and M out ot the un
beaten class. The Aggies, in con-
seauence. dropped from second
to ninth.
The rest of the first 10 con
sisted of Michigan, which ied
Ohio State for runner-up spot
In the Western conference (the
Buckeyes were ranked 13th);
Fordham, which with 329 points
had an edge of one and two-thirds
over its Sugar I Bowl opponent,
I
In the eight-round semi-final,
Ossie Harris, 154,, hard-hitting
Pittsburgh Negro, dropped Tony
Ferrara, 148, White Plains, NT,
for a nine count la the second
round, opened a cut over his op
ponent's right eye in the sixth
and woh the referee's decision
after the judges spUt
oul Carrabantes, 148, of Chile,
ched out a decision in eight
ds over George Silvasey, 147,
Beal
Lhamon
Total
Master
Handicap
Cross
Schoenlin .
Boyer
Ashby
MU1S
Total
Missoun; ana avy, . -1,. Billy Murray, 140,
ivy league cnampion wmcn Bellaire, O., a stablemate of Bet
tenth place.
Oregon State's Pacific Coast
conference champions and Rose
Bowl entry could earn no bet
ter than 12th position from the
experts, while Georgia, - voted
Into the Orange Bowl, drew
14th and Alabama, Invited by
Texas A and M to the Cotton
tina, easily defeated Sammy Ad-
ragna, 141, Pittsburgh, 6)
Personal Slalisnery
77-
Hare distinguished letter pa
per, visiting cards, ana -row
briefs," at little cost.
. "Say It Smartly-
Fi!::!:: Cc.: .
JOB DEPARTMENT
ill S. '-Cmaerelal.X;4-:
Bowl, a mere six points for 20th
place. :. , ";ilC--
The standing of the teams (first
nlace votes in parentheses, points
figured on 10-9-8-7-8, etc, basis):
First ten: , .
iLMinnesota, (84H) 945H
tilDuke, (9H) "5H
tJ-pNotre Dame 1- 75
4-Texaa, (1) " -494H
5-MIchigan 455
fXFordham ,i. : S9H
7-Missouri. (1)
8Duauesne
iJTexas A and M
10Navy
-32S
..S09H
-229H
Second ten 11. Northwestern,
167; 12. Oregon State, 132; 13.
Ohio State. 8l:i 14. Georgia; 62;
15. Pennsylvania. 61; 16. Miss
isslDDi State. 18; 17. Mississippi,
lOf 18; Tennessee 8; 18. Wash
ington State, 7; 20rAlabama, 6."
Also-ran-Virginia i and . Texas
Tech, 3 each; Penn State, 2;'Texas
rHrfstlan-i Washington, narvara
and Tulanej 1 each- - .
BADIOS
AT
INC.
453 Court Street,
j
Gunner Visits Home
" UNIONV ALE Lloyd Versteeg
an airplane gunner of Jhe navy,
stationed at San Diego, left Satur
day after a week's furlough spent
with his mother, Mrs. Henry Ver
steeg and other relatives here. He
expects to soon 'embark . on ; the
airplane carrier Saratoga .for the
Hawaiian islands. - ---'t
125
ISO
199
164
172
850
. 47
. 179
. 172
. 129
. 200
. 195
. 918
The 359 home games tabulated
by the Associated Press drew a
total attendance of 8,455,962,
whichriwils down to an average
audience of 23,555. The same 74
teams drew 8,138,700 customers to
their 359 home contests last sea
son, an average of 22,673.
The University of Pennsylvania
topped them all, playing to 358,000
in six home games. Unaffected by
the blight that hit other coast commercial league
foams TTniwanntv ji Cni4Vara I SUlldttl
.?, wiuium -VW A I Tollman
uauiorma emeruunea a wnoopmg Sundin
S9"2 ftftrt in slv ffamaa s T j-c An I Hart
geles. Michigan ran third with a
total of 301,666 for five contests at
Ann Arbor."'
The Big Nine, with Michigan,
Minnesota and Ohio State pack
ing them in, attracted L503.740
for 39 home games, topping last
year's 1,488,526 for 38. Michigan
had two 85,753 sellouts.
Due to a run of bad weather, all
of the Big Six teams except Mis
souri and Kansas fell off. De
troit's home attendance was the
highest in 10 years, thanks to the
defense boom. -
Hardest hit on the coast was
little St Mary's, its home attend
ante more than cut in half. Call
f ornia and UCLA also fell off
heavily, but, surprisingly enough,
Stanford's "T" formation drew
more fans losing this year than it
did knocking the daylights out of
everybody, last season.
Tale, after one of the most
embarrassing campaigns It ever
experienced, surprised the keep-,
er of the poll by coming up with
a healthy attendance increase.
Army,' thanks to a couple of so
called "home games' with Notre.
Dame and Navy,' vaulted up to
248,500, 'Harvard, Brown and
Georgetown had - notable r In
creases. ..yCA.
Tulane, though, disappointing on
the field, showed the way to the
south., at the turnstiles .with
gratifying' attendance . of 253,319
for -six games, an increase of more
than i 70,000. ; Duke's ,. unbeaten
Blue Devils', played to- 117,000 in
four games at Durham, compared
to 37,000 in live games last tea
son. -, ' -
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ISO
157
188
159
157
809
59
173
141
118
155
157
803
128 403
172 519
155 540
177 500
162 491
7942453
47 153
132 484 1
132445
128 371
134 489
130 482
7032424
STANFORD STOPPED As California crushed last year's coast and
Rose Bowl champions, 16-0, at Palo Alto. Frankie Albert, Stanford
Quarterback, rushes to thump the ball into the stomach of Buck
: Faweett at extreme left. Stanford's play clicked, with Fawcett rambl
ing behind the splendid blocking for a 36-yard gala before UeAetl
(84), California end, dropped him. Tackle Bob Reinhard (45) of tfttt
Bears was dropped on the sod.
General
HandicaD
West
Parker
Victor
Clark
Murdock
Total
Paului .
Garbarino
Burch
Krech
Hill ...
Parker
Total
Nieholsoa
HandicaD
Thompson ,
Kirby
Hawkins .
Payne
Edwards
Total
Straw Straw
Averill ..
Bob Straw .
Woolery . ,
Bud- Straw
Newman ,,. .,
Total
12
174
, 143
. 184
. 133'
.182
. 788
. 180
151
134
164
164
793
11.
181
141
148
158
155
Woolworths
Grove
McCarroU .
Vernon
Keep
Topo ., ,-m
Total
Parrish
HandicaD
Kelloct
Beauchamp
paterson
Olney
McMuUen
Total
149
142
125
151
158
721
199
188
178
109
.193
857.
f "S
177
, m
.153
. 168
. 141
. 831
12
204
182
174
109
178
859
170
147
190
161
158
828
f
17
154
155
155
138
161
198
119
191
183
167
160.
828
12 38 1
190 S68
193518
194 532
164 406
186 526
9392586
224 674
178 476
166 490
151 476
224 546
9432562
17 51
164 409
125 421
125 426
130 .422
154490
7182309
170-1 430
152 488
175 493
in 485
159471
8282379
State St.
Handicap.
Scales
McClary
Mapea -
Hauser - .
KWnk
Total
32
188
133
169
rJSS
159
183
148
171
188
838
l"
162
198
129
142
192
744
16
189
172
172 8l
139 818
157 479
188 438
214887
8422538
2 t
184823
151 4M
159 -437
150 460
143 476
788-2351
3280
182 837
: 139 464
A
y
fit.
r
A
i -
168
ilS iSl ?Z nUSXIES HUMPTo 14-U win over University of Soctheni CaU-1 back, out of Wmnda for a alight gain taUds brief acUosi
147 158 463
the
830 80S : 838-4476
H. Barr ;
Tallman .
Jaskowiski
Welch ,.;.,
K. Barr .
Total.
167,
134
158
153.
.151
.784
179
m
199 841
148899
awwf i i J- jrar w . ' " I mtm, wiuu WCW IMVI lam.
Washlngtom halfback, stopped and drove Bob Esbertaon, Trojan I : -( ' , . - " - . '. .
148 J 179-
I'M'
'126
171
738
03
158
7872289
PkUknrfk
Peterson -Mendrto
Kenyon "4
Lloyd Kay .
Total
Gookes
148
157 ,
184
137
210
813
142V181 488
131. 129 417
191V 143498
168 - 121 429
:i52 157- 59
762
H Ducks oii IWay
To Texas fllix
Handicaa " . 39
curk . , ..
Ross,
English
Curry-.....
Barker . , j ,
EUGENE, Dec.l.-(ff)-Th.Uni-
72376 Iversity of Oregon football squad
was en , route " to . Austin, Texas,
117
142
182
158
178
13S
830
ISO
: 178
"154 191
194 ; 166 5.18
141 : 155 435
:bs8
iso 442 1 Monday lor its Saturday game
503 I tw uiuvnut; w& iMia.
Coach Tex Oliver said the 32
menU, hem Angelesand Tucson.
At Tucson Oliver wOl be honored
at 'banquet Wednesday night
He formerly' was University Of
Arizona coach, . ; - v?.t.V'
Orksha Qub.Offercd
BOISE, Idaho, Dee. L-(V
Eaydn v Walker, president-owner
of the Boise Pilots of the Pioneer
iiiZisS players would vrorlr out at Sacra- league; said Monday night he had
Greenbei Given
service Award ;: '
WVSergeant 'Han k Grecnberg,
Detroifa high-salaried outfielder
received avfranchlse offer for an
Omaha . club - In the. Western
league . "but putting a ball club
in there is something else again.1
due to be released from the army
Friday, was awarded a certificate
of service Monday by his regi
mental cocomander. - r- . '- '
i The certificate' was presented
Greenberf and 4 fellow aoldiera
by Colonel Isaac GLuV.wfco
told newsmen: - J J 1
' reenberg food' soldier; he'
100 'per' cent" r..'r-J'r " ; .