Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983, September 26, 1954, Image 21

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Newspaper Page Text1 hnford Crew Wrecks Webfoots 18-13 ivers Bounce jidals 13-0 PCC Opener i By PETE CORVACCHIA of The Register-Guard R STADIUM; Corvallis Coach Kip Tavlor's I who play football at Oregon State may "have r afternoons this autumn in the cavernous stv alifomia but they showed enough here Saturday In beating Idaho, 13-0, to promise a rough finale s Webfoots. jer's snphomorish Beavers, who "played for fun" last mav nave iu uni. mi icw giggles again this fall, lit least 11 players on the field for the Pacific Coast Clash and that, in view of recent history, is enough for It Oregon. wgon Slate handled the ball on the kickoff and then Iho handle it during t first quarter, the ' the most of what pv tallied their first it the end of the first dded another one ai the fourth, both on ir coacn skip omu ls barely missed six iat first period. minute was leu in and Idaho was in . js own 23, yuaricr- je Eidam unleashed a jr" Ward End Frank nr i, who was at least 15 , beur-d the nearest Beaver l kd across the midfield (,E.)m's P'cn bounced off tm's strained fingertips ilr tor thanked Santa Claus Hilt if his aDsent ucicnsive UMBLE hated 9,000 folks in i and summer dresses fe otiiciais rap ine vards for taking too I to regroup, af.tcr the ler and then Idaho ...168 164 2.V 10 2 . 36.3 . 2 . 35 1 9 112 42 22 a 1 7 37.7 5 20 ftat was a mistake, for Dick Van Lorn recov he Idaho 27 and the ere behind after the ison, junior halfback and, found a nice hole ickle, cut to his right ped into the end zone Bconds left in the pe- Jr Westfall, promising ! quarterback from ( failed on his conver tement. !ubbagc, former Eugene Ban who proved rugged iturday as a sophomore r, put Oregon State in its second six-pointer, homore center inter . My Cozian's pass at mid rf the final play of the period, and halfbacked ttf the Idaho 28. Jeavers needed seven t reach the 14 before ck Jim Withrow hit B Sampcls, who was cut yards from home. Tom Iphomore halfback from hies, used right tackle touchdown and Withrow extra point on a place- fer 1:58 of the final (TARS Gary, junior halfback from San Pablo, Cal., most of the minor dam- red by Idaho. He finished tards in 13 trips. Deepest on by the Vandals, who nail live times on fum- i to the Oregon State 30 rst period. as stopped on the Idaho of three serious threats icond period, while fum interceptions were the ne third heat. V Periods: Slate 6 0 0 7-1.1 : o o o oo wns: Mason, Berry. Point "downs: Withrow. Scores COP Beaten 18-0 By WSC SPOKANE wi Speedy Duke Washington raced 45 yards for a first quarter touchdown Saturday night and triggered a Washine- ton State offense that upset Col lege of The Pacific 180. The Cougars scored the first time they got the ball and put points on the scoreboard in every way possible touchdown, extra point, field goal and safety. The favored COP Tigers, mere 13-12 losers to Stanford a week ago, were outclassed in every de partment and their heralded passing attack was a fizzle. Before the half was out, Sarno had kicked a 26 - yard field goal at an angle and the big Cougar line stopped the only serious COP drive. The Cougars went 87 yards to open the third quarter with Sar no pitching 20 yards to Russ Quackenbush, a fancy fielding end, for the touchdown late in the period. Doug Riggs smothered COP'S J. B. Girard in the end zone in the fourth quarter on an attemp ted pass to give WSC its safety. The game, played before about 12,000 fans, got rough in spots and Don Cornell, the Tigers' hard-running halfback, was tossed out in the third quarter. Scoring: Washington Slate ... 7 3 II 2 la College of Pacific 0 0 0 00 Scoring: Touchdowns Washington, WuacKcnousn. r leia goal barno. con version Sarno. Safety Rlggs tackled Girard in end zone. V f " p Indians Upset Favored Ducks In Portland Tilt By DICK STRITE Reclstcr-Ouard Sports Editor MULTNOMAH STADIUM. PORTLAND Stanford's Indians took command here Saturday night with authority as Chuck Tavlor's underdogs scored in the opening 84 sec onds of play and then managed to protect a one-touchdown lead to defeat Oregon 18-13. Stanford scored again in the first period and again m tne trurci, wnue uregon scorea in the second and fourth. A crowd of 30,214 cash customers turned out on this Indian summer evening, expecting to see Len Casanova s best Oregon offensive club keep alive soma OREGON'S FIRST SCORE came midway through the second quarter when End Hal Reeve took a George Shaw pass and fell into the end zone against the Stanford Indians in their PCC football encounter at Multnomah Stadium Saturday night. (AP Wlrcphoto, Wiltshire engraving) Stanford Quarterback Jack Gebert (14) makes a futile attempt to stop Reeve, aloa; with two other defenders. Stanford defeated the Web foots 18-13. WEST Oregon Slate 13, Idaho 0. UCLA 32, Kansas 7. California 45, San Jose 0. Michigan 14, Washington 0. California Poly 19. Willamette 12. Fort Lewis 47, OCE 13. Stanford 18, Oregon 13. Washington State 18, COP 0. San Francisco State 30, Nevada 19. EOCE 0, Camp Hanford 0. MIDWEST -Iowa 14, Michigan State 10. Notre Dame 21, Texas 0. Pcnn State 14, Illinois 12. Minnesota 19, Nebraska 7. Northwestern 27. Iowa State 14. Ohio State 28, Indiana 0. Oklahoma 21, TCU 16. Purdue 31, Missouri 0. Wisconsin 52, Marquette 14. ROCKY MOUNTAIN Colorado 40, Colorado A&M 0. Kansas State 21, Wyoming 13. Arizona 54, Utah 20. Cincinnati 42, Dayton 13. Wichita 32, Utah State 7. SOUTHWEST Arkansas 41, Tulsa 0. SOUTH Navy 27, William 4 Mary 0. Auburn 45, Chattanooga 0. Georgia. 14, Clemson 7. Florida 13, Georgia Tech 12. Tennessee 19. Mississippi State 7. Memphis State 13. Tulanc 13. Virginia 27, Lehigh 21. VPI 32, Wake Forest 0. North Carolina 20. N. C. Stale 0. VMI IS, George Washington 14. . Alabama 12, LUS 0. Okla. A&M 14, Texas A&M 6. Bavlor 25, Vanderblll 19. Mississippi 28, Kentucky 9. Mississippi 23, Kentucky 9. Bavlor 25, Vanderblll 19. EAST . South Carolina 34. Army 20. Brown 18, Columbia 7. Colgate 19, Cornell 14. Dartmouth 27, Holy Cross 26. Duke 52, Pcnn 0. Princeton 10, Rutgers 8. Yale 27, Connecticut 0. SPORTS CLASSIFIED coat LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER, SECTION C EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1954 Arizona Whitewashes Utah; Cleveland Sets New Record Dodgers Cinch Second Place 'Cats Colled 54-20 Victory SALT LAKE .CITY W) Utah's defense crumbled before the bril liant running of Art Luppino Sat urday night as the Arizona Wild cats humbled the Redskins, 54-20. Arizona roared back after trail ing at halftime, 20-13. Utah was stricken with a severe case of fumbleitis. And the Wildcats, playing heads-up football and taking advantage of every break, staged a dazzling offensive dis play before 12,479. Middies Open Season With 27 to 0 Victory ANNAPOLtS, Md. Itf) Navy crushed William and Mary Sat urday 27-0, as both clubs opened their football , seasons before a sunbaked alumni week-end crowd of 13,369. Navy scored in every period but the third. South Carolina Trips West Pointers, 34-20 WEST POINT, N. Y. (IP) South Carolina scored three last half touchdowns Saturday to upset Army's football team, 34 to 20. jl j i-t JkJfT JOB. T 'ft 4 ... .... J i i fBAf'U' llf.- nr.n.r.nno.T 1. U! f.nrtntC OH(l AnPt tllP f'liarlpStnn f If '.T 7lU r. . . rtiinnour counts si-,a , , , v Pffy. Idaho's fine halfback, jolts the Oregon State receiver loose from a pass by Perback Jim Withrow. The action came in the second period of a Pacific Coast wuference tilt won b.y OSC, 13-u, aluraay ai urvnuis. HIGHCLIMBER By ' Dick Strife ic Oregon's football players should get to know Nick Busch, the fellow with the two-inch whisker stubble who sat between Len Casanova and Margann Slocum at the airport coffee counter in Lewiston, Ida. last Saturday night. ... Nick is a sheep rancher with about 1,500 head of animals and you wouldn't believe that the former Gonzaga University lineman holds several master's degrees, a doctor's degree and was a for mer college professor. ... Busch looks like a guy who has just crawled off the rods, although he holds his master's papers in the merchant marine and was a lieutenant colonel in the U. S. Marines. ... He played football with Len Casanova on .. - i"'1'!!! r v Earl Avcrill Nick came out of the the Olympic Club team in San Francisco, until they learned that he had played professional football with Dick Reed a t member of C. C. Pyle's fabu- ' lous "George Wilson Wildcats," a New York aggregation that ! played 22 games as a traveling member of the 1926 American Football League. ... A former taxi driver in San Francisco, Nick was employed ; as a glad-handcr with the Chamber of Commerce before i the depression, and when he -saw the handwriting on the wall he took special courses at the University of California and collected his teaching cer- tificate. ... I There is an interesting story about Busch that might well insDire nridmen of slight stature Palouse hills to attend Gonzaga University and turned out for football, a sport he was told was rough and tough which he likes. . . . After two weeks of practice, ana Brutal scrimmages, Nick turned to his companion and asked, "When does that rough stuff I heard about start?" At 170 pounds or less, Busch was one of the toughest linemen in college football. . . . After leav ing Gonzaga he entered Georgetown University, at that time coached by Lou Little, and the present Columbia University coach told Casanova that Busch was the greatest little man in football he had ever coached or had seen play. . . . What Oregon needs are some Nick Buschs, and the Webfoots might well have one in Reanous Cochrane, the 5-foot, 9-inch sophomore guard from Coos Bay. ... He may be Oregon's best "watch charm" guard since Eddie Chrobot. if Should Eugene become a member of the Pacific International Basketball League, you can thank Jim McGregor and television. . . . Several weeks ago Jim called to get our thoughts on Eugene entering such a circuit, and truthfully, we thought he was cither balmy or had a "sucker" on the line. . . . We promptly told him we didn't think semi-pro basketball would draw flies, what with the Oregon schedule along with a raft of prep games'in and about Eugene. ... He thought TV might pay the freight Other cities involved in the proposed league would be Port land, Longvicw, Vancouver, Wash., Vancouver, B. C, and Seattle, the latter represented by Buchan Bakers. . . . McGregor is inter ested in the league because of his affiliation with Northwest Air lines and the possibility of arranging air invasions for South Pacific teams to the states and vice versa. ... He arranged Ore gon's trip, incidentally. . . . McGregor, a former USC athlete, is the guy who quit coaching at Whitworth College to take a post as sports director of a South American nation but quit when he found the rate of money exchange was 50 per cent against him. . Speaking of basketball, Hank Anderson, former Webfoot who is now coach of Gonzaga, tells us that Spokane's new sports audi torium will be opened Dec. 9 with a basketball doubleheader, matching Gonzaga against Whitworth and WSC against Utah State. . , . Capacity will be about 7,000. . . , Oregon will play Gonzaga at the new pavilion Jan. 17. . . . Hank hopes his Zags will develop this year, especially because of a scheduled Eastern tour. ... In addition to a good array of veterans, Hank will have (Continued on Page 2-C) 4 I Irish Blank Texans 21-0 SOUTH BEND, Ind. HI Quar terback Ralph Guglielmi scored two touchdowns and passed to a third as Notre Dame's Fighting Irish gave new Coach Terry Brannan a triumphant sendoff, 21-0, over the stubborn Texas Longhorns Saturday. It was the first Texas shutout since 1946. Guglielmi also made two great pass interceptions to harass the game Texans, who twice fumbled the ball away within Notre Dame's 10 when they were very much in the game. With his former coach, retired Frank Leahy watching from a box seat among the 57,594 shirt sleeved fans, Brennan uncovered an Irish team that gave all the indications of living up to its No. 1 ranking in the pre-season Asso ciated Press poll. Notre Dame moved ahead 7-0 in the second period on Gugliel- mfs 19-yard pass to end Dan Shannon. The Irish made it 14-0 in the third quarter with a 79 yard march in 10 plays, capped by Guglielmi's one-yard smash. In the final quarter, Guglielmi scored on a three yard slither around his left end after Notre Dame's new fullback find, Don Schaefer rambled 23 yards. outside hope of gaining the Rosa Bowl selection. Now, maybe it will be Stanford rather than Ore gon for a ticket to Pasadena. Back in 1951, in this same foot ball plant, Taylor made his Stan ford debut by defeating Oregon 27-20. No one dreamed at the time that Stanford was a poten tial champ. No one believed Taylor when he boasted a few weeks ago this year's Stanford club was also a potential. With this victory people now believe that Stanford has a chance against such powers as UCLA, USC and California. While the loss will virtually eliminate Oregon's Rose Bowl chances, it is a sure bet the Web foots will have a corking good season and could go all of tha way from here on in. After all, statistically Oregon whipped Stanford for the second straight year, having lost 7-0 at Palo Alto last year. Touchdowns and breaks in the game were hard to come by for the Oregonians who were such kind hosts in furnishing tha Indians with perfect California weather. The second game of the season for both teams proved to be hard fought and there were several penalties on both sides unne cessary roughness, roughing tha passer and once there was a fistic flurry on the field. There NATIONAL W L ret. GB New York 98 57 .627 Brooklyn 91 62 .595 5 Milwaukee 89 64 .582 7 Philadelphia 75 7B .496 21 Cincinnati 74 79 .484 22 St. Louis 71 82 .464 25 Chicago 63 9(1 .412 33 Pittsburgh 93 10U .346 43 AMERICAN W L Pet. CB Cleveland 111 42 .725 New York 103 5(1 .673 8 Chicago 94 60 .610 17Vi Boston 6 as .444 43 Detroit 67 86 .438 44 Washington 66 67 .431 45 Baltimore - 54 106 .351 57V4 Philadelphia 50 102 .327 61 ASSOCIATED PRESS The rolling Cleveland Indians scored their 111th victory of the season Saturday, an 11-1 decision over the Detroit Tigers to break the American League record for one season. The former mark was 110 set by the New York Yankees of 1927. The Yanks went on to win the world championship that year. Early Wynn recorded his 23rd victory in the process and came close to a no-hitter. He hadn't allowed a hit until the ninth when Fred Hatfield opened with a sin gle and scored on Steve Sou check's triple. Elsewhere in the American League, the Boston Red Sox gained at least a tie for fourth by defeating Washington, 7-6, and the Chicago White Sox shut out the Baltimore Orioles behind Billy Pierce. In the National League Bur den i tossed a shutout for the Milwaukee Braves who stopped the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0. But the triumph availed them nothing as the Brooklyn Dodgers also won and clinched second place. The Brooks crushed Pittsburgh, 10-5, on the wings of home runs by Carl Furillo who hit two, Duke Snider and Sandy Amoros, who hit one each. The Chicago Cubs turned back the Cincinnati Rcdlcgs, 4-2 in the other day game. In night action, the New York Yankees defeated the Philadel phia A's, occupants of the Amer ican League cellar, 11-1, and the Philadelphia Phillies turned back the New York Giants, 21, in 11 innings. The Phils assured themselves of at least a .tie for fourth by winning. Hawks Nudge Sparts 14-10 IOWA CITY, la. IU - Iowa's Hawkeycs came from behind in the fourth period to down favored Michigan State, 14-10, before more than 50,000 fans and a na tionwide television audience Saturday. The mild upset not only ruined the coaching debut of Hugh Daugherty but also cast the Hawks, who finished strong in 1953, as a distinct Big 10 title threat. Eldean Mathcson, second-string halfback, set up the final Iowa touchdown with a 52-yard punt return to the Spartan three-yard line. For throe downs the Rose Bowl champions held but on the fourth, Quarterback Jerry Rei- chow followed Guard Cal Jones, Iowa's top nominee for AH Amer ican honors, over for the score. Coach Forest Evashevski's team, supposedly weak in re serves, pushed the Spartans all over the field in the first half, racking up one touchdown on nine first downs for 152 total yards Furgol Retains Tourney Lead WASHINGTON (in Marty Furgol, a veteran pro who hasn't cashed a winner's ticket since 1951, took a two-stroke lead today in the third round of the $40,000 Celebrites golf tournament with a nine-over par 67-68-69204 for 54 holes. Furgol, who shared the lead at the halfway mark in the 72-hole battle for golf's second biggest purse with Gene Littler, fired three birdies and suffered one bogey. The 37-ycar-old veteran from Lemont, 111., tied for third in last year's Celebrites competition. Littler, a 24-ycar-old pro from Palm Springs, Calif., blew to a four-over par 75 which was still good enough to stay fifth in the running for the $75,000 first money. Willamette Bows Before Cal Poly SALEM Ml Little Perry Jeter dodged through a Willamette Um versity football team to score two touchdowns and lead Califor nia Poly to a 19-12 victory here Saturday. Jeter put his team in front 13-12 with a 66-yard punt return to a touchdown in the second half, and then scampered 17 yards to another in the final period to sew up the dceion. PACIFIC COAST CONFERENCE Standings W L Pet. Pts.Opp. Stanford i 0 J.000 18 13 USC 1 0 1.000 39 O Oregon Stata 1 0 1.000 13 0 Oregon 1 1 .500 54 IB ' Idaho 0 Z .000 0 54 WSC 0 1 .000 0 , 39 Washington 0 0 .000 0 0 UCLA 0 0 .000 0 O California 0 0 .000 0 0 Purdue Blasts Missouri, 31-0 LAFAYETTE, Ind. an Pur due unveiled a passing sensation Saturday in sophomore Leonard Dawson, who fired four touch down passes and led the Riveters to a one-sided 31-0 triumph over Missouri before 26,000 swelter ing fans in Rnss-Adc stadium. It was the first opening game victory for Purdue since 1946 when they bested Miami of Ohio. 13-7, and it was the seventh straight year that the Tigers from the Big Seven dropped their cur tain raiser. De Marco Wins Bout BOSTON Wl Bomb-throwing Tony DoMarco, Boston's latest fis tic idol, vaulted into contention for the welterweight title by slopping highly rated Chris Chnslensen of Denmark at 2:10 of the sixth round of a scheduled 10-roundcr Saturday night at the arena. '1 was an unfortunate incident fol lowing the game the heartbreak of defeat and the "bounce of the ball" probably caused the differ ences. There was an inter-squad battle at the Multnomah Club end of the field, which was quiet ed after a few fists were, flung after the Oregon-Stanford brawl. The Indians engaged a number of spectators, resulting in Port land's "finest" carting off one of the civilian victims. Fritz Frul hie, an ex-Santa Clara player now filling in a tackle spot for Stan ford, was the victim of some body's fist in the melee, and had to be helped off the field. Oregon s play was just as hard as the brawling, but the efforts were not directed in the right place, especially on the flanker plays Stanford used extremely effectively questionable plays at that, with the flankers not on the line of scrimmage. Stanford's first two touchdowns came on flukes of a kind but also as the result of alertness. Guard Roy Krickeberg gobbled up Walt Gaffney's first-play fum ble on the Oregon 17-yard line. The formula changed from last week's 41-0 victory over Idaho when Gaffncy fumbled on the first play, but the Webfoots were penalized and , kept possession. This time Stanford gained and kept possession and after being off-sides, scored on the second play two sophomore sensations producing. Quarterback John Bro die passed to his left flat to Gordy Young, who juggled the ball for five yards before gaining posses sion. Young went near the side lines, was hit by George Shaw on the two and wrestled his way in to the end zone. Stanford's next scoring break came late in the same quarter when Brodio passed long and down the middle, where on the Oregon 27-yard line, both Shaw and Dick James defended the aerial against end John Stewart, but the ball bounced off the Web foots' hands and fell into Stew art's arms. Stewart was dropped on the 16 but six plays later Bro die went the last yard and one half to score. Oregon's attack ap peared to be frustrated, but even tually connected in the last five minutes of the second quarter Shaw passing to end Hal Reeve for 12 yards and the touchdown. Oregon had a first down on the Stanford 4-yard line at the end of the second quarter, but time ran out and that might well have been the turning point. A Northwest athlete, Billy Tarr, junior fullback from Bellingham, started wide to his left on a hand off and then cut back off his left tackle to outrun two Oregon line men and no deep defenders to go 55 yards for Stanford's final tally. It was a fourth-down situa tion, Stanford on its own 45, one yard to go. Few of the fans realized that Oregon's great quarterback George Shaw, was not in top con dition because of a pulled thigh muscle suffered prior to the Ida ho game. Ho was every inch an AU-American, too, both an of fense and defensive. He made re peated saves and on offense com (Continued on Page 2-C)