THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Section 2 Pag 1 Ploen, Hawkeyes Ruin Beaver Rose Bowl Hopes 35-19 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, January 2, 1957 orts Report By CHUCK BOICE What are the chances of the New York Football Giants, hence forth to be known as the World Champion Giants, returning next sum mer to Willamette university or their early training? They are nil, we are sorry to say. A good many of you already have guessed the reason. When the Giants thumped the Bears for the title they walked right into the lush College All-Star Game to be played in Chicago, Aug. 14. Jim Lee Howell's New Yorkers will go into training a little early this year and, for publicity rcasoni It nothing else, doubtless tn the Chicago area. However, that still leaves a coudIb of weeks during which time the Giants could reside at the Willamette dorm between exhibition games on the Coast. This year they will have their pick of stadiums and dates as to exhibition games. The LA Rams, for example, have several pre-season 1st Quarter Fumbles, TDs Spell Iowa Win OSC Equals TDs After 1st Period; Clark's Placekick Record Ends With Two Blocked Boots Key Reverse Play Good for 66 Yards and Iowa TD GAME STATISTICS Iowa FlTt rinmni 16 Rushing yardage 301 Passing yardage . fasses 107 11-15 Passes intercepted by o Punts 2-3? Fumbles lost Yards penalized . 3 50 OSC 19 168 130 10-14 1 3-35 COACH HOWELL AND HALFBACK GIFFORD . . . after the Giants' greatest victory commitments in the Coliseum but may want that mammoth site for the champions rather than Portland. On the other hand, the Rams probably will want to return to Portland next August after skipping yThe Giants and the 49ers drew a sell-out crowd at Multnomah last year and that could be a factor. One thing certain, Willamette will be more than happy to have them return and the Giants would like nothing better than to take up residence here once again. While In Portland last year, man agement, staff and players all said Oregon had It over Vermont by a long ways. Let's hope after winning the title, they don't become superstitious about New England. Sunday a Great Day for Giant Fans Oh man! For the local friends and backers of the New York Giants there never was anything like Sunday and that resounding vic tory over the Chicago Bears for the World's Championship. Except for the Bears' famous thumping of Sammy Baugh and the Washington Redskins, 73-0, back in 1940, this was the most onesided play-off victory. Also, it was the second highest total points scored by the winner. Cnmhininff all factors such as the Bears having been established as favorites and the long-standing rivalry between the two teams (and ownerships), the win was doubly significant. Too, the Giants wore basketball shoes on. Hie frozen turf Juit as they did in their famous upset of the Bears 22 years ago. This time, however, they didn't have to raid a college locker room on SunHav nJ nalt until halftime to don their sneakers. One hardly could say there was a turning point in such a rout but there was a point at which It was all over, as many doubtless noticed. A'eio York Bounced Back in a Hurry The Bears quickly capitalized on Em Tunnell's fumble of a punt to score. That cut the Giants' lead to 20-7, less than the 17-0 margin the Bears had matched a few weeks ago to gain a ue witn we wants. Chicago definitely was back in the game but only for a moment. Tho riionu tnot th kicknff following the Bear score and quickly had another touchdown. It was all over. The bad break hadn't phased them. Ttin rehnilt Giants, who had their beginnings at Willamette U a couple of summers back, were one of the greatest last Sunday. Here 'n there: We assume and hope there Is no Northwest Conference or NCAA rule against some of the Willamette fans coming through with a little aid for Don Hoy, the Willamette basketball captain, who lost practically all of his clothing when that car burned on the team's return trip from Reno. Like most hard-working married students, Don wasn't covered by Insurance. Royal Could Have Run for Office Prnhahlv the trouble with Darrcll Royal was that he didn't have political ambitions. The Washington grid coach who quit after a one season stay must not have been influenced to stick around by the his tory of his predecessors, Howie Odcll and Johnny Cherberg. They were fired, received the money for a year or so of their contract and then were elected to fairly good paying state jobs by the Washington voters. Portland U's basketball team, a very ambitious crew, has their big test this week against Seattle. They'll play Saturday night in Van couver and Sunday afternoon at the Portland armory. The Sunday show, starring Elgin Baylor, will be on TV, incidentally. The NCAA watches all such series very closely in arriving at their selections for the independent district representative. It figures to be Seattle or Idaho State, once again. Some, but not all. of the highly-touted Pilot sophomores are juniors In the eyes of the NCAA. They played varsity ball last year and the NCAA permits only three years of varsity competition for Its major members and Portland wants to become a major. $20,000,000,000 Wagered on Sports Sport magazine has a glib article In the Feb. Issue entitled "Who's Betting on What These Days." Says baseball gets the big play. It has a nice long season and the boys trust the umpires and players. Says business Is booming and It represents a 20-billion-dollar-a year-business. We did say 20-billlon halt our defense bud get. UCLA finally has. said they are sorry they broke all those rules. Claimed they have been trying to say it for some time but they couldn't get the ear of the press. Sportswriters outside of Westwood don't recall hearing a thing. . . . except "foull", "unrealistic", "we'll pull out", etc. The conference must be safe. Corvallis high lost its second game in seven starts the other night to Dallas, 61-45. Sounds like Gordon Kunke has another good one brewing over in Polk county. His Dragons earlier edged North Salem. The San Francisco press and Coach Buck Shaw jumped to the defense of John Brodle, Stanford Ail-American, and Jon Arnett, ISC All-Amerlcan, when the two were In an automobile accident at 4:30 a.m. while "preparing" tor the East-West game. Arnett was driving and they hit a pole after both had fallen asleep. Seems they had been bitter rivals but discovered each other to be human and talked eagerly until 4:00 a.m. at an S. F. night spot. Were very lucky and became great friends and later they beat the East. By A. C. JONES Capital Journal Sports Editor PASADENA (Special) History repeats itself only sometimes, but often when it does, it does the most damage to the Pacific Coast Conference football prestige in the Rose Bowl. Under the cracking whip of Quarterback Ken Ploen, who went out for repairs in the first quarter, the Iowa Hawkeyes bent history to their own purpose and won the 43rd Pasadena classic New Year's Day, 35-19. The shock treatment given the Oregon State Beavers ex tends the Big Ten's domination of matters on this famous turf to 10 of the last 11 games and fourth in a row. It also repeats the 14-13 early- season Hawkeye conquest of Coach Tommy Prothro's PCC upstarts, and adds quite a bit to it. It ended, with definite overtones, Oregon State's string of one Rose Bowl victory accomplished in 1942 against Duke. Two Kicks Blocked It brought to an end the consecu tive place kicks made by John Clarke, the talented sophomore from Central High, at 16. But he didn't have a chance as both his attempts yesterday were blocked by a line that has run up against and bested the Big Ten's best. Ploen, for his production of mis ery, was named player of the game by the Helms Hall commit tee. The senior from Clinton, la.. completed nine of 10 passes for 83 yards and had none intercepted; he carried the ball eight times for 59 yards, and he used his head in mixing up the plays. The hinterland crew scored two touchdowns in the first period and once more in each other quarter. They had some inspiration quite early encouragement from two OSC fumbles which spoiled genuine offensives that looked like they had a goal in suht. An Explosive Game As Iowa's coach, Forest Eva- shevski, said after the battle: 'This was one of our best games more explosive than most of the season and we moved the ball as well as against Notre Dame (48 8)." He continued, in a jovial mood: "Yet Oregon State is one of the toughest teams we faced this year and moved the ball against us much better than last time." The Beavers' 19 points were the second best showing against the vaunted Iowa defense this year. Purdue scored 20. Yet. OSC could n't shake Earnel Durden or Paul Lowe loose as much as usual be fore the charging Hawkeyes. Francis moved the freight the most and farthest. Prothro had his comments: "Iowa was tremendously im proved offensively than when we met them earlier. They ran hard er and trickier and we did not tackle well." Ploen Ranks With Brodle Iowa was the best team OSC played this year, Prothro volun teered, and Ploen ranks with Stan ford's John Brodie as the best quarterbacks to meet OSC. To add to history, it can be point ed out that Prothro never has had the pleasure of associating with a Bowl champion, since he lost as a player with Duke in 1942 in his only other appearance in a bowl. For Francis he had high praise: "I think Joe has All-American po tential next season." Iowa's 320 yards by running are said to be the most yielded by the Beaver line this season. They came on a bright day before 97,126 fans some 3000 short of filling the circular stadium. Fans, seeing the first Rose Bowl game in 15 years that didn't have a California team in it, saw real action. Beavers Defense OK Mostly All the movies of Iowa games and scouting reports didn't help OSC stop the high-geared Hawk- eyes. OSC did defense Ploen well in his running game, for of his 59 net yards 49 were on his sparkling touchdown run in the first quarter that helped take the sharpness off the tiger-disposition ot tne Beavers. Oregon State began suffering the miseries early. After demonstrating some New Year's Day potency with two crisp gains to test both sides ot tne lowa line, the demon fumble crept in. Durden had zipped 13 yards off right tackle and Francis nine over left tackle, only to see Fullback Tom Berry fumble on the Iowa 40 after a seven-yard thrust. Perhaps the fact that All-Ameri can Karras, the tackle playing smack in the middle of the line on defense, hit him hard made a dif ference. Nevertheless, the Beaver temperature went down two de grees, at least. Jim Gibbons, left end. recovered for Iowa. Ploen was ripe for the opportun ity. Down the Sideline In two runs for five, a Ploen-to-Gibbons pass for nine and a loss of three back to the OSC 49, Ploen swept right end with the ball hid den on his right hip. All-American Tackle John Witte was blocked out with a holding block and he wasn't around to stop what was shaping up. Ploen nicked his way cunningly down the right sideline, almost be ing unrooted by Berry on about the 25 but regaining his balance to cross into the promised land. Only 4:16 was gone. Bob Pres cott. reserve end. got his first ex ercise in converting and it was 0-7. If that didn't help de-starch the Beavers, next came rrancis tum ble two plays after the next kick off. He had just completed a 14- yard pass to Bob DeGrant, then charged viciously for 10 yards when the ball was shaken loose on the Iowa 39. Collins Hagler re covered for the Hawkeyes. Four plays and 66 yards and 3:16 later, it was 14-0. There was a run for six. a pass Ploen-to-Gibbons for 14, a frolic by Don Dobrino for 39 yards outside right tackle (Witte's side) where he cut left sharply and was clear by the time he reached the secondary. Francis obliged by catching him on the OSC 9, but on the next effort the Big Ten machine scored as Bill Happel happened to go over left tackle, cut left and across. Four Plays to OSC TD Prescott converted his second of five place-kicks. As the quarter ended it still was 14-0 but the lads from Corvallis weren't counted out yet. Hammock took a punt on the Iowa 40 to open the second period, returned it 25 yards, and in four plays OSC made the scoreboard lights blink with their own touchdown. Bery drove with fire to the 9. Francis tried the right side to the Iowa 7, Berry sliced off left guard to the 2 and a first down, and Berry hit left of center for the score with 2: 12 gone. Gilliam spoiled Clarke's record and it remained 6-14. Iowa asked for the next few minutes, going 57 yards in 12 plays. Without the injured Ploen, Iowa had Randy Duncan to do the chores. He passed to Gibbons for 14, then to Nocera for nine to reach the OSC 20. Gravel churned the pebbles to the 18, Happel wouldn t go down as he squeezed to the 6 and three plays later Happel visited the end zone around left end, Durden missing him on the sidelines. There was 3:23 to go and Pres cott converted for the 21-6 halftime count. One Point Margin In 2nd slalf Ploen's return was more bad medicine for Prothro's crumpled Beavers. Iowa outscored OSC by only one point in this half but Ploen s passing was enough to make the Beavers look quizzically toward their coaches. He completed six of seven, one for a touchdown not long ones but aerials that sought their target like a peepsight. The third quarter was only 2:31 old when Hagler galloped across from 66 yards away on smoothy that must have been new unscouted Iowa play. Ploen handed off to Dobrino, who relayed to Hagler, who cut to the right like a knife to avoid a herd of four OSC defenders. Prescott converted and it was 28-6. Ouch! OSC monopolized the next, sev en minutes. In 15 plays it stamped ed 70 yards, the last two yards requiring two plunges. The big gains in this approach belonged to Francis, who spurted for 12, 13 and 11. Beamer Scores Nub Beamer, a sophomore, and not from California, charged from the 2 to the one-foot mark, then dived over left guard for the score. Again Clarke's placekick was blocked, by Harris and Gilliam. As the final period was launched, Iowa already was on its merry P" O vN k S3' LjSr i$ m -6 PASADENA, Calif. Iowa's Collins Hagler raced through the whole Oregon State team for 66 yards and a touchdown on this reverse in the Rose Bowl Tuesday. (1) quarterback Ken Ploen (No. 11) hands off to halfback Don Dobrino who reverses (2) to Hagler (No. 441. Hagler cuts inside the defensive tackle, who had been trapped, reverses his field (4) In the secondary and out sprints the Oregon State defenders (5) to the goal line. Note how end Frank Gilliam (87) and guard Bob Commings (50), lead ing Hagler In the picture (1) have hit the on-charging tackle In picture (2) at upper center. Iowa won, 35-19. (AP Wirephoto) Gloom Pervades OSC Dressing Room After Loss to Hawkeyes Mental Problem, Slow Reaction Blamed In Loss PASADENA (UP) There was gloom in the Oregon State dress ing room yesterday after Iowa handed the Beavers a 35-19 defeat Coach Tommy Prothro of the Beavers said "we had a serious mental problem and our reactions wcro slow." Prothro' said his Beavers were not tackling well. Time and again Hawkeye runners broke loose from the grasp of Oregon state men for extra and important yardage. But our first fumble that led to their first touchdown was awfully significant," Prothro said, adding that lowa vas the best team Oregon State played all year. He also praised Ken noen of Iowa as the best quarterback the Beavers had met all year, Coach Forest Evashevski of Iowa said the Oregon State team which played in tho Rose Bowl was better than the one his team defeated 14-13 early in the season. But on the other hand, our ot- Sidelights on the Rose Bowl South Salem Meets Grizzlies Tonight fense was clicking much better, too," he said. Sterling Hammack, Beaver half back who scored a touchdown on pass from Joe Francis, said "you just can't spot a club like that two early touchdowns and ex pect to win." Prothro had praise for Francis, the Hawaiian halfback who direct ed the Beaver attack and hit on 10 out of 12 passes. Oregon State failed on its first two extra point tries yesterday so on the third, Nub Beamer plunged over, Beamer also had one ot tne three Beaver touchdowns. The other was scored by Tom Berry on a plunge. Bayne Sidelined For Warm-up Contest The South Salem Saxons travel to McMinnville tonight to play the McMinnville Grizzlies in the Saxons' final warmup before Dis trict 8 play. South Salem walloped the Griz zlies 61-48 in December, but the McMinnville armory whero Mc Minnville ploys its games has al ways been a tough gym for Sa lem schools. In the Bowls Beavers Return Home To Campus Thursday SANTA MONICA. Calif, tffl Tho Oregon State College football squad returned to its hotel head quarters here Tuesday after the Rose Bowl game and will stay until early Thursday. The chartered plane is due at Corvallis with the squad at 4:30 a. m. Thursday. ROSE BOWL Iowa 15, Oregon State 19 COTTON BOWL Texas Christian 28, Syracuse 17 SUGAR BOWL Baylor 1J, Tennessee 7 ORANGE BOWL Colorado 27, Clemson 21 TANGERINE BOWL West Texas, 20 Mississippi Southern 13 SUN BOWL George Washington 13, Teias Western 0 PRAIRIE VIEW BOWL Prairie View 17, Teias South ern 6 Saxon Coach Dick Ballantyne will be without one regular to night. Forward Bob Bayne chip ped an ankle bone and pulled the muscles in his toot last ween ana will be out for at least three weeks. Jerry Brunelle, 6-2 senior. will replace Bayne in the starting five. Other South Salem starters will be Dan Moore at forward, Ron Russell at center, Larry Thompson at one guard and Jerry Coon or Bob Trelstad at the other guard. McMinnville will be missing one ot its usual starters tonight. Guard Jack Temple went to the Rose Bowl and will bo replaced by Jeff Durham. Coach Kldore Baiscn will bo along with his other regu lars including 6-5 Gene Carlson at a guard slot. South Salem opens district play at home Friday against Sweet Home. Two other counting games that night nut North Salem at Lebanon and Albany at Corvallis. PASADENA Wl Sidelights on the Rose Bowl football game New Year's Day between Oregon State and Iowa, won by Iowa 35-19: John Clarke of ObC converted 18 straight times in the regular season for the point after touch down. But both times he tried It in the Rose Bowl his kicks were blocked. The third time, Rose burg's Nub Beamer plunged over for the point. Iowa's Ken Ploen, voted the game's most valuable player, car ried the ball eight times for an average of 7.37 yards and com pleted 9 out of 10 passes. Oregon State's 19 points were more than any team except Pur due scored on lowa in the regu lar season. Purdue's total was 20. OSC Coach Tommy Prothro said he had thought that 19 points would win the game "hut Iowa soon changed my mind." Both coaches agreed two early OSC fumbles were cosily. Iowa Coach Forest Evashevski said things "might have been differ ent" without them and Prothro agreed but said he doubted the fumbles were due to nervousness: "They were just tackled hard." Joe Francis, whose perform ance tor Irau was outsianaing, said that when he fumbled in the first quarter he had failed to pro tect the ball enough. "After get ting hit I turned, trying to pick up a few more yards and, Doom, the ball left my hands." After the game two minor fires broke out under the stands. They were presumed due to cigarettes and were quickly extinguished. www Some fans thought the game had ended just before the final play and Iowa rooters had one set of goal posts down when the ball was snapped for the final play. The game made Oregon State's record 1 and I In Rose Bowl play. It won its only other appearance in a game transferred by war time conditions to Durham, N. C, against Duke on Jan. 1, 1942. This was Iowa's first Rose Bowl game. WWW Oregon State's first touchdown was set up by a 25-yard punt re turn by Sterling Hammack to the lowa 15. One run by rrancis and three by Tom Berry hrought the score. When the kick was blocked Iowa led 14-6. In the first two min utes of the third quarter Iowa took its widest lead, 28-6, on a 66-yard run by Mike Hagler. WWW The last time Iowa won a Big Ten championship, in 1922, it was coached by Howard Jones, who left it for Southern California, the school which has appeared in 12 Rose Bowl games. Only once in Rose Bowl history has the losing team scored more points than OSC's 19. That was UCLA's 20 in losing to Michigan State 28-20 in 1954. Washington State scored the same number, though, in losing to Alabama in 1926, 20-19. Scoring In the second half of the game favored Iowa 14-13, the same margin as In the regular season game between the two teams. Prcssbox talk was that Joe Francis would be watched next season as a potential all-Ameri-ci-n. TAMPA Top-seeded Eddie Moylnn, Trenton, N.J., defeated Chile's Ivan Sales In the second round . of the Dixie International Championships. Robinson Defends Tonight Favor Sugar Ray Over Fullmer For Title By MURRAY ROSE NEW YORK wv-Sugar Ray Robinson, the still dazzling but aging middleweight champion, makes the second defense of his third reign tonight as an under dog to Gene Fullmer, strong, will ing, 25-year old challenger from West Jordan, Utah. Overnight backing for the sleek, 36-year-old titleholder dropped the odds from 8-5 to 13-11 and it even could be closer by the time they Garden ring for their once-postponed 15-rounder. The scrap will be broadcast and telecast coast to coast by ABC at 7 p.m. PST. Champ Takes Loot The New York-Philadelphia trca will be blacked out. Win or lose, Robinson will get 47'4 per cent of the gate and $60 000 from the air receipts. Full mer, desperate to get the crack at Robinson, agreed to take only 12V4 of the gate and nothing from the radio-TV purse. Robinson in all will collect about $120,000 and Fullmer $16,000. That's okay with me," said Fullmer. "I want that title." Two sensational workouts over the weeknd brought the late sup port for the Harlem dandy. Rob inson displayed his old-time pow er, fast combinations and pinpoint accuracy with his right hand. He was quick to take advantage of his sparmates' mistakes. . Louis Favors Sugar That's where Ray is best,". commented Joe Louis after watch- ing his buddy wind up his train ing. "He's quick to take advan tage of a mistake and Fullmer makes plenty. Gene Is strong ana. has to stay on top of Ray if he wants to win. But be tends to gee wild and you can't do that often against Ray. Once is enough in most cases. I've got to picn itay because of that." A majority of the experts, how ever, lean to the thick-necked, muscular-armed, iron-jawed chal lenger because of his youth, vigor and drive, tie never nas neen stopped in 40 pro bouts (37-3) and is a dedicated , superbly con ditioned fighter with a zest for the sport. The general opinion is that Robinson must take out Full mer within five rounds to win. Mil.0aiiLHIx33 150 Mcculloch 0-44 DirecWriye Chain Saws to be given away free! 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