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BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1948
No. 10
East-West Game
To Suffer from
Too Many Bowls
By Robert Preticott
(United Preu Start Cormpontlent)
San Francisco, Dec. 16 m
That "bowl madness" infecting
college football was beginning to
spell trouble today for the great
est bowl game of 'em all, the
Shrine East-West classic.
For the first time in 24 years,
east and west coaches had a tough
time filling the 48 all-star berths
on their teams for the 1949 New
Year's day charity game.
They had to forget about the
'48 all-American crop and beat the
bushes for less-publicized, but
more-available, pigskin experts.
Only one "concensus" all-American,
Bill Fischer of Notre Dame,
was signed. For a game that has
attracted more than 150 "big
name" stars in 24 games, it's an
all-time low.
The new Shrine headache boils
down, of course, to too many
other post-season bowl games.
Eligible seniors with outstanding
records were scarce, since most
of them led their teams into some
sort of bowl game.
West Squad Hit Hardest
Hardest hit was the west squad.
With less than a fifth of the
nation's colleges west of the Mis
sissippi, the west coaches had no
happy hunting grounds like their
eastern opposite numbers. And
the real standouts like Heath of
Nevada, Walker of Southern
Mehtodist, Van Brocklin of Ore
gon, and Jensen and Swaner of
California are all dated up for
New Year's in other bowl tilts,
or still have further college eligi
bility. The east had its troubles, too,
with the likes of Choo-Choo Jus
tice of North Carolina, Bednarik
of Penn and Cloud of William &
Mary all unavailable.
But it was so tough for the west
that coaches couldn't even fill
their quota of blocking backs.
They had to make over a center,
Bill Renna of Santa Clara, for the
knoek-'em-down chores. Their sad
plight was forebodingly like last
year, when the east won by the
most iop-siaea score in history,
40-9.
Seats All Sold
Hard times aren't on hand quite
yet, however, for the game in
which "strong legs run that weak
legs may walk." For six months,
bl,uou-seat Kezar stadium has had
the sell-out signs posted for the
game. All the net proceeds, some
$100,000plus, go to the Shrine
hospital for crippled children.
And coaches for the two all-
star squads say that despite the
scarcity of grade-AAA all-Ameri-cans,
both teams will be repre
sentative of the football played in
their sections. In addition to
Fischer, the east will flash Co
lumbia's touchdown twins, Lou
Kusserow and Gene Rossides;
Notre Dame's John Panelli; Mich
igan's Ralph Kohl, Ed McNeill
and Gene Derricotte; Bob Spon
augle of Penn, and other top
notchers. The west stars include speedy
Jerry Williams of Washington
State; Don Doll and Jack Kirby
of Southern California; Bob Roh
rer, Stanford; Jim Winkler, Texas
A. & M., and Washington's guard
duo of Alt Hemstad and Bob
Levenhagen.
The west squad gathers here
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BASKETBALL
(By United Pre)
Pendleton 39, Central Catholic
(Portland) 29.
Columbia Prep 53, Scappoose
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Forest Grove 44, Vornonia 33.
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Salem 53, Eugene 46.
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Cardinal Star
Best in League
New York, Dec. 16 (U'i Point
producing Pat Harder of the Chi
cago Cardinals was named the
National football league's most
valuable player and Chucking
Charley Conerly of the New York
Giants was selected rookie of the
year today by United Press foot
ball writers.
The Cardinal fullback finished
the regular season last week as
the league's leading scorer with
110 points six touchdowns, 53
extra points and seven field goals.
He didn t miss a conversion try all
year and now has a record of
booting 97 out of 98 extra point
attempts since he started kicking
for the Cards in the last game of
the 1946 season. .
But kicking is ntot Harder's
sole talent. He's a top running
back, and. it is this versatility
which earned him the most val
uable player honors as his team
snared its second straight west
ern division championship hon
ors. , i i l
Conerly 's passing antics for the
Giants drew top rookie honors
for him even though his team had
a losing season.
Conerly, who signed with the
Giants at an estimated $40,000 a
year after concluding his collegi
ate career at the University of
Mississippi, started out slowly,
but got better as the season went
along.
He completed 162 passes in 299
tries for 1,175 yards and 22 touch
downs. All football men agreed it
was a remarkable record for his
protection was not too good.
Vanderbilf Baclf
Best Safety Man
New York, Dec. 16 (U Little
Lee Nalley, Vanderbilt univer
sity's 162-pound scatback, today
won honors as the best safety
man in college football during
1948, with a record runback yard
age to boot.
The Commodore star caught 43
opponents' punts and ran them
back for a total of 791 yards
an average of 18.4 yards per try.
His yardage total topped the pre
vious high of 616 yards set by In
dian Bill Geyer of Colgate in 1941.
next Sunday and, after several
days Kezar practice, will make
camp on the Stanford university
campus at Palo Alto. The east
erners will gather at Northwest
ern university for their trip to the
San Francisco bay area, and will
work out at Santa Clara university.
Five Cleveland
Browns All-Stars
New York, Dec. 16 u The
Cleveland Browns, professional
football's only perfect record
team, today placed five men on
the all-America conference's an
nual all-star team.
Cleveland, which will try for
its 18th straight victory and its
third consecutive con f e r e n c e
championship against the Buffalo
Bills Sunday at Cleveland, placed
fullback Marlon Motley, quarter
back Otto Graham, end Mac
Speedie, tackle Lou Rymkus and
guard Bill Willis on the first
team.
Graham, Speedie, Willis and
Bob Nelson of the Los Angeles
Dons also were chosen for the
third consecutive time.
The other first team selections
included end Alyn Beats and half
back John Strzykalskl of the San
Francisco Forty-Nlners; tackle
Bob Reinhard of Los Angeles;
guard Dick Barwegan of the Bal
timore Colts, and halfback Chet
Mutryn of Buffalo.
Redmond Teams
Honored at Dinner
Redmond, Dec. 16 (Special)
The Armchair Athletic club,
booster organization for ' Red
mond school teams, entertained
about 200 guests at the annual
football banquet at Redmond high
school Monday evening.
Speaker for the evening was
Dr. Paul Stagg, of Pacific univer
sity, who said "A coach probably
knows more about the boys on his
team than do their own parents."
He stressed the need of a closer
relationship between parents and
coaches and the value of loyalty
and good sportsmanship among
players. Motion pictures of the
Pacific-Lewis and Clark and Pacific-Willamette
football games
were shown.
Tuck Is Toastmaster -
Toastmaster for the dinner was
Art Tuck. Coaches present were
Hugh Hancock, Gilbert Kister,
Harry Gobbleman and Archie
Dunsmoor, along with members
of both high school and grade
school teams. t
Verdon Fultz and Kay McGreer
were presented with outstanding'
player awards for the grade
school team. Clayton Bliss receiv
ed the Weigand trophy for the
outstanding high school player.
The E. O. Adams sportsman
ship trophy went to Kenny Fair
child, while Verl Hammack, hon
orary team captain, received the
Central Oregon conference cham
pionship trophy for the high
school team.
"Silent Night" and "Adeste Fi
deles" were sung by the high
school girls' sextet.
The dinner was prepared and
served by women of the Commu
nity church guild. Mrs. Ethel La
rive had charge of the menu and
Mrs. Lucia Olsen planned the dec
orations and arrangements.
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