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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
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hated 9,000 folks in
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fe otiiciais rap ine
vards for taking too
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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.
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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
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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.
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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'!!!
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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
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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
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