ebfoots Suffer Second Loss, 7-6
Giants Clinch Series With 7-4 Victory
m. Il ll ' " " " " ' 1
lamps Build
illy lead,
issl To Win
0SCAR FFALEY
S.rin. bals carried
hNeVYork Giants
tf Saturday for a
incl0 .Sr.he World
Kci handed the huniili-
. hnnus
MJ5rS.,home
IT slrode to the
K e th inning to halt
b,fcwiand rally. Then
W i ., mm2 hung on
'I inooed the In-
ESd tri-
,krwd 0 BOD Lcm-
K.had.ostaheart;
FT, 10th inning "Chinese
'.. n.iv Rhodes. But the
P ".',.. ..n,,H fmir
w Giants bim "w- -----
w 74) lead and then
Kottreifealed Cleveland at-
r . L .tt (ha flnnr
.J. tn pel oil
.1, ih. fifth World Scries
C for the Giants in their
&jj National League his-
nd marked tne una "'"--iwhrr
had piloted a
Eld champion. Durochcr failed
illtmpts to win wonu km
i Rmklvn Dodgers in 1941
V Ciuts in 1951 both times
m the Yankees.
mi Indians made a gallant try
it in tvery game ot tnis up-
fcries, they tad too little, too
Inity still were hopeful Satur-
u they went out in sprawi
Municipal Stadium before a
hi crowd as favorites. But
Et mi no stopping those cin
Mi Giants, who came out of
Sire to win the National
ii pennant and were bent
tipping the surprise leat. ot
norti year with a fourth
lucht win.
M since the miracle Braves
UK beat the Philadelphia
Slititi in four straight had an
turn League team gone
tto such ignominous defeat,
then this classic started it
fat believed possible that the
could accomplish such a
U they did, and it was young
py who came striding out of
(Ml pen to make it possible.
PI FALTERS ONCE
pi, pitching smoothly, had
W only once as the Giants
W P a 7-0 lead. That was
Ik bottom of the fifth when
Giant errors put two men
f and then he served a
neran pitch to Hank Majeski.
tie faltered asain in th
P Md the Giants summoned
J wiuelm, their usually re
m nlief .i..
jjihta choked off that one-i
r mm rauy hut in the
r one away and two on
PW 01 an f rrnr J .
WUoDuroehed beckoned
1 IW bull npn unA v. i
- r' mm im inhume
Wane to the rescue.
r?wertt,tte hitting hero
was up there swing-
JUL Sr-J' 'F
aw x 7 ?W " j h25. --
. ' ... .... -
r-'wnffl, looked M big as
Z "VhMy. the kid
PJiown swinging and then
i?hh 2f? fast bal1 f0
t WesUake with in,
W pitch.
P&f Off H am Uent(!'
C3 a walk. num.
I kba anH k V nny ennncd
. and
lor a
then iirrd ,
'""""W Oil Pan, rp.
third
final
Offense Sputters
As Oregon Falls
HALFBACK DICK JAMES WASN'T THE ONLY OREGON player in
an intcrscctinnal football game on Hayward Field Saturday when the
invading Skyline Conference Utah Utcs upset the Oregon Webfoots of
the Coast Conference 7-6. Oregon's lack of blocking can be seen here
(Reslstcr-Guarrt photo, Wiltshire eng.)
as James made five yards on a wide cutback to his right while a swarm
of Redskins swarmed him. Captain Ron Pheistcr was injured on the
play, but returned in the fourth quarter to intercept a pass and give
Oregon its chance to score.
SPORTS
CLASSIFIED
LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER.
SECTION C
EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1954
Huskies Topple
Beavers, 17-7
Grid Scores
PACIFIC COAST CONFERENCE
Standingi W L Pet. ft!. Op,
Stanford 1
USC 1
Washington 1
Oregon 1
Oregon Stat 1
Idaho. 0
WSC 0
UCLA 0
California 0
l.ooo
l.oon
l.ooo
.500
.500
.000
.000
.000
.000
PORTLAND, Ore. OftWash
ington's Huskies turned two Ore
gon State fumbles into touch
downs to defeat the Beavers 17-7
in a Pacific Coast Conference
football game Saturday night,
hut lost the services of Quarter
back Sandy Lederman for the
season when the nation's top
passer suffered a broken leg.
Lederman was carried from
the field early in the second per
iod after passing the Huskies
into a 70 lead the first time
Washington got the ball.
With its aerial arm lost Wash
ington relied on the hard run.
ning of Bobbv Dunn and Stu
Crook to open its conference sea
son successfully. Dunn scored the
first touchdown on a 33 yard
pass play from Lederman and
Crook bowled over for the sec
ond Husky tally in the fourth
period from one yard out. Dunn
added a field goal with four
minutes left. He also made good
two conversions.
Oregon State was stymied in
the first half but got back in the
ball game in the third period
when the Beavers recovered
fumble on the Washington 12
and Dick Mason plunged over
from the half-yard line.
That tied the score at 7-all
but early in the fourth period
Mason fumbled and Gene Peder-
sen recovered from Washington
on the Husky 48. Washington
then marched to the winning
touchdown with Crook's 25 yard
run the key play. Crook broke
awav for a 41 yard romp late in
the period and Dunn booted a
field goal lor tne cuncner.
osc
First downs JJ
Rushing yardago JJ
Passing yardage 9
Passes attempted ljj
Passes completed 1
Passes Intercepted by 1
Punts - J
Puntlne- average 4,
W
15
251
77
14
5
3
2
40.5
3
30
Fumbles lost J
Yards penalized H0
Score by periods;
Washington 7-MM0-17
Touchdowns: Dunn, Mason, crooK.
Points after touchdown: Dunn a, west
fall. Field goals: Dunn
I
If .
WEST
Utah 7, Oregon 6
Washington 17, OSC 7
San Jose St. 38. Idaho 7
Stanford 12, Illinois 2
Montana 39, Idaho St. 20
Pac. Lutheran 6, UBC 0
Wyoming 23, Denver 2t
Lewis & Clark 14, CWE 1
Washington 17, OSC 7
EOCE 31, Carroll 25
Colorado A&M 14. BYU 13
Utah St. e. New Mexico 0
Whitman 22, Pacific 14
MIDWEST
Army 26, Michigan 7
Ohio State 21. California 13
Indiana 34. COP 6
Iowa 48, Montana 8
Purdue 27, Notre Dame 14
USC 12, Northwestern 7
Colorado 27, Kansas 0
Missouri 35, Kansas Stale 7
Wisconsin 6, Michigan St. 0
Nebraska 39, Iowa State 14
Cincinnati 40, Tulsa 7
SOUTH
Texas A&M , Georgia 0
Virginia Tech 18, Clemson 7
Duke 7, Tennessee 6
Virginia 14, Geo. Washington 13
Kentucky State 20, Knoxville 12
Miss, State 46, Arkansas St. 13
North Carolina 7, Tulane 7
Florida 19. Auburn 13
Bcthune Cookman 13, Paul Qutnn 6
Wake Forest 26. N. C. Slate 0
Florida State 47, Louisville S
W. Virginia 26, S. Carolina 8
Memphis St. 6, Abilene 6
Davidson 13. The Citadel 0
VMI 19, Richmond 8
Kentucky 7, LSU 8
Alabama 28, VanderbUt 14
SOUTHWEST
Texas 40, WSC 14
Rice 41, Cornell 20
Arkansas 20, Texas Christian 13
Texas Tech 13, Okla. A&M 13
Georgia Tech 10, SMU 7
EAST
Navy 42, Dartmouth 7
Massachusetts 13, Harvard 7
Colgate 18, Holy Cross 0
Minnesota 46, Pitt 7
Boston College 12, Temple t
Penn State 13, Syracuse 0
Yale 28, Brown 24
Fordham 13, Rutgers 7
William & Mary 27, Penn 7
New Hampshire 33, Rhode Island 7
Princeton 54, Columbia 20
Boston U 41, Connecticut 13
Slippery Rock 7, Edinhoro Tchrt 0
Brandels 27, Springfield 7
Boston Col. 12, Temple 9
Maine 24, Vermont 20
Carnegie Tech 23, Lafayette 21
Tufts 26, Wesleyan 6
PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL
Colts 20, New x otk is
Steelers 37, Washington T
22 "teal of SJTAGGED out by Cleveland's shortstop Sam Dcntc, on this at
irttm. iL01. second in fho ii f Bo.iirrfav's World Scr cs game. The
"Am" llmn. The Giants went on
-mpionsnip with a 7-4 victory over me inei.oi
Milligan Tied
ASTORIA W Four were tied
with scores of 148 Saturday after
36 holes in the fourth annual
medal play championship of the
Oregon Golt Assn. nere.
Tied for first place after Sat
urday's round were Rick Cooney
land Kermit Smith, Portland, and
Dr. E. G. Palmrose and Kaipn
Dichter, Astoria.
Sid Milligan, Eugene, was one
of four tied for fourth place with
151.
HIGHCLIMBER
By
Dick Strife
1c Want to be owner of an organized ball club?
The new proposed class B Northwest League would like noth
ing better than to have Eugene as a member of a circuit that
would take in southern Washington; northern California and
Oregon. . . . One of the reasons the Western International League
failed was geographical Salem, Tri-City, Vancouver and Edmon
ton. ... All you have to do is draw a line between the four cities
and you can easily see how costly transportation of the athletes
would be. . . . Another reason for failure of the WIL is under-
table dealings, paying players
more than the salary limit per
mits. ... A third, and very
important reason, was the size
of the league cities Van
couver (275,000) and Lewiston
(10,000). . . .
We feel that Eugene and the
Emerald Empire area would
support a class B ball club and
that with the right kind of
management the club could be
operated without a loss pos
sibly a slight profit. ... The
secret would be an inevitably
profitable' series with Salem.
. . . You can expect lots of spec
ulation during the next few
months, with baseball men pop
ping into Eugene every now and again. . . . What is needed most
to make possible a Eugene entry In organized baseball for the
second time is leadership by some individual with the time, a
knowledge of baseball operation, and with the confidence of the
sporting public and the people who .would be willing to finance
such an operation. . . .
-4- Earl Averill Jr.. whose father was a Biff League star,
could possibly follow in his Dad's footsteps if some minor
league manager can find the position most suited for tne neavy-
hipped youngster you played in the outfield, at third and also
caught for Coach Don lurscns uregon- wemoots. . . . ne nas
been Dlavine all three of those positions for Reading of the class
A Eastern League this season. . . . Averill hit around .300 dur
ing the regular season and batted .364 in nine Shaughnessy play
off games, won by Albany's tnird-piace ciud in tne regular season
Another former Oregon- outfielder, of earlier vintage, Dick
Whitman, had a disappointing season for the Montreal Royals in
the stronger International League, but in five playoit games re
oorted in The Snorting News to date, is hitting .500. ... The
record for the two ex-Oregonians in playoffs follow:
Farrell Albright
fr -
By DICK STRITE
RcgiKter.Gtiard Sports Editor
An alert pass-defending Uni
versity of Utah football team, led
by a 5-foot, 6-inch, 170-pound
nighty mite in Louie Mole, reg
istered the Skyline Conference
school's most important football
victory in seven years here on
sun-drenched Hayward Field Sat
urday a 7-6 triumph over the
University of .Oregon.
A crowd estimated at 11,000,
including a couple of thousand
"Newspaper Day Guests," watch
ed the Indians from Salt Lake
City score in the first 11 minutes
of the opening period and kick
an extra point.
The unbelieving customers also
watched the Utes stop repeated
Oregon scoring threats and saw
the Webfoots score and then
falter in the last 35 seconds of
play, losing the chance for a dead
lock on a wide point-after-touchdown
placement.
Mele, a 20-year-old Junior from
Price, Utah, not only scored the
Utah touchdown with a drive off
his left tackle from just outside
the five-yard line, but kicked the
extra point and repeatedly inter
cepted or knocked down Oregon s
aerials rated the most potent in
the nation until the Utes inter
cepted three.
SHAW APPEARS LATE
George Shaw, Oregon's Ail-
American quarterback candidate
and until Saturday leading the
nation in total offense (also No
in passing), did not appear in
action until the second quarter
was five minutes, 19 seconds old.
He paced several scoring drives
and eventually found the combin
ation, Dick James scoring from
the half-yard line on fourth down.
But Dick Pavlat, the best place-
kicker on the Oregon squad, miss
ed what looked like a kick that
split the uprights.
On paper and looking at the
statistics, it is difficult to under
stand how Oregon could have lost
to a Utah team that seldom had
possession of the ball after its
touchdown drive. The outcome
was much like the Stanford game
of last week when Oregon out-
gamed the Cards, but lost. The
present Oregon gridiron regime
fast becoming famous for its
ability to "beat" its opponents
but lose.
Actually the Webfoots penal
ized and fumbled themselves out
of a chance for their fourth
traight win over the Utes. who
last defeated OSC 7-6 in 1947 for
their only other victory over a
PCC team not counting Idaho's
"cousins." Oregon had beaten
Utah 26-7 in 1933, 8-7 in 1934,
and 6-0 in 1935.
PENALTIES COSTLY
Oregon had seven penalties
and on six of them the Webfoots
made good gains, four times first
down were nullified, A total of
yards was gained on plays
that also cost 32 yards in penal
ties, an aggregate loss of 101
yards but the most costly pen
alty came with Utah in possession.
Utah's offense was sifting
through the sieve-like Oregon de
fense rather effectively with a
first down on the Oregon 38. The
Webfoots appeared nonchalant
until Hal Reeve, bruising vet
eran end, was charged with a
personal foul. Reeve was disqual
ified, too. That gave Utah first
down on the Oregon 22 and two
plays later Mele had scored
For an Oregon team that some
folks hoped had Rose Bowl pos
sibilities, it is a football team
definitely without a courageous
all-around team defense or with
an offense with enough imagi
nation to make use of its vast
amount of individual personnel.
Oregon definitely lacks a hol
ler guy" who can bring their
forces to full strength. Otherwise
the old song, "California Here I
Come, will ring on the deaf ears
of Bay Region fans when the
Webfoots sing to the Golden
Bears at Berkeley next Saturday
afternoon.
Averill
Whitman
AR
33
10
Ave.
.364
.500
MR RBI SB
2 7 0
0 1 1
A F. Pet.
0 3 .8.10
0 0 1.000
Averill played well afield in the playoffs (left field) for six
games, but was charged with three errors in the last three games,
two in the finale. ... He picked up $896 series money, one of
the smallest cuts in league history. . . . Whitman hopes to play
in the Coast League next season and probably will move unless
he has a continued new playoff performance.
Oregon's first decathlon candidate since the days of
Les Steers Is now attending the university of southern can.
fornia. . . . Bill Bowerman, Webfoot coach, thought that Bob
Lawson, 195-pound, 3-inch Aberdeen, Wash., youth would enter
Oregon until he made a trip to southern California. ... As Karl
Schlademan, Michigan State track coach, said to Bowerman last
spring, "Will anyone ever break up the dominance of the USC
Trojans?" Bowerman's answer was, "No!" Bill explained by
asking how many track scholarships the Spartans have and found
that M.S. and Oregon were the same six. , . . USC has 15 fresh
men alone, which means 45 varsity scholarships and a total of 60.
(Continued on Pag 2-C)
CASH REGISTER HURT
Financially, Oregon's athletic
cashier has taken as bad a beat
ing during the past two weeks as
have the Webfoot players and
the coaches. Without the $40,000
fumbles against Stanford and the
$20,000 scoring duds here Satur
day, the Orcgon-Cal game will be
lucky to draw the players' par
ents and Pappy Waldorf's Aunt
Kate. Had Oregon beaten Stan
ford and Utah, as the Webfoots
are capable of doing, the Memor
ial Coliseum might have been
taxed to its 90,000 capacity. Now
the crowd will likely be less than
20,000.
Next Saturday's game at Ber
keley . is still a "key" contest
The Bears are still Rose Bowl
contenders, in view of the fact
that UCLA is not eligible. Ore
gon is capable of beating all three
of its other California opponents,
Cal, USC and UCLA.
With Shaw wearing stockings
to cover the adhesive bandage
that covered his bad leg from
ankle to hip. Sophomore Johnny
Keller had his big chance to lead
the Webfoots. Although a capable
sophomore, he has not come of
age."
Besides Oregons touchdown,
(Continued on Page 3-C)
Purdue Dumps
Notre Dame
By 27-14 Count
SOUTH BEND, Ind. 0B Sure
fire Len Dawson cuf down the
nation's No. 1 football team, No
tre Dame, Saturday with four
touchdown passes good for a
total of 156 yards to sharpshoot
Purdue to a stunning 27-14 upset
triumph.
The lanky six-foot sophomore
quarterback from Alliance, Ohio,
also converted three times and
keyed the Boilermakers' pass-defense
that eventually smothered
desperation ' shots by two Irish
aerialists, Ralph Guglielmi and
sophomore Paul Hornung.
The victory, before 58,258
screaming fans, snapped Notre
Dame's undefeated string at 13
and repeated history of Purdue's
28-14 decision four years ago
that ended the Irish's 39-game
unbeaten streak.
The 19-ycar-old Dawson, who
fired four touchdown tosses as
Purdue blanked Missouri 31-0
last week, was without peer Sat
urday as his range finding shots
put Notre Dame in the hole 14-0
in the first ova minutes of tne
game.
He hit senior end John Kerr
for an eight-yard payoff in the
opening 3V4 minutes then follow
ed with a 41-yard scoring pass
play to left-half Rex Brock.
After Notre Dame trimmed the
lead to 14-8 at halftime with a
safetyand Nick Raich's one-yard
touchdown blast after Hornung's
61-yard run, Dawson struck again
for touchdowns in the third and
fourth periods.
Stanford Blasts
Fading Illini 12-2
STANFORD, Calif. (IP) Stan-i
ford's underdog Indians struck
for two touchdowns in the second
period today, then completely
bottled up J. C. Caroline and Co.
to defeat Illinois, 12-2, and hand
the Illini their second straight
upset of the season.
It marked the first time in nine
games that a West Coast eleven
was able to subdue an Illinois
squad coached by Ray Eliot, who
brought his charges out here with
a record of eight straight tri
umphs over California opponents
since he took over in 1942.
But this time the bespectacled
mentor showed up with a lme
which consistently was outplayed
and never could give Caroline or
halfback Mickey Bates the pro
lection they needed.
The nationally-televised game
was witnessed by a crowd or
about 35,000.
Illinois' deepest penetration
came late in the fourth period
when Quarterback Hiles Stout di
rected the Illini on a 50-yard
march to the Stanford 14 where
he was thrown for a nine-yard
loss to stop the push.
Stanford went into the red, 2-0,
in the first period when Fullback
Bill Tarr was tackled behind his
own goal line after an offside
penalty put the Indians back on
their own 1.
Then the Indians started an 80
yard drive late in the first quar
ter which was climaxed in the
second when the same Tarr
smashed over from the 3 to put
Stanford ahead for the day.
The long hike started after
Caroline kicked dead to the In
dian 20. Key gains were register
ed by Tarr, who went 24 up the
middle; Gordy Young, who ran
for 12, and a pass from Quarter
back Jerry Gustafson to John
Stewart which gave Stanford a
first down on the Illinois 17.
Young smashed for another 9
through the thin Illinois line to
the 9 and Tarr went the rest of
the way for the capper.
Tarr then fizzled the conver
sion as the Indians rolled up the
weird record of getting only one
point after touchdown In seven
attempts.
Gustafson, a "hungry" quarter
back who is battling with sopho
more John Brodie for the job,
then flipped a 16-yard pass to
Stewart with 46 seconds to play
in the half which put Stanford
in the van, 12-2.
This score was launched when
Tarr intercepted a pass by Em
Lindbeck on the Illinois 34 and
ran 18 yards to the Illinois 16.
First downs 17
Rushing yardage 227
Passing yardage 55
Passes attempted 15
Passes comoleted 6
Passes intercepted by 3
Punts .. . .- J
Punting average 38.5
Fumbles lost
Yards penalized 89
Score by periods:
Stanford (I 12 (1
Illinois 2 0 0
Stanford scoring: Touchdowns Tarr,
Stewart. Illinois scoring: Safety Tarr
tackled In end zona by Wlman and
Smid.
1
10
101
109
20
8
1
5
35.4
2
18
0-12
0- 2