Texas ends frustration, gains national football title
NEW YORK (UPI) - Two
years of frustration during
which the University of Texas
missed the national football ti
tle by a total of seven points
, ended for the Longhorns today
when they were crowned the
1963 major college football
champions by the United Press
International Board of Coaches.
For 13 seniors, the national
championship was particularly
gratifying, remembering how
narrowly they missed the hon
or the last two seasons.
"We had a little pact between
us (seniors) this year that we
wouldn't settle for less than
10-0," senior tailback Tommy
Ford, the Southwest Confer
ence's leading rusher, revealed.
The Longhorns produced the
perfect record, the only one in
major football this season and
Texas' first In 43 years, to at
tain the apex which slipped
through their grasp in l'Jfil,
when their only blemish was a
6-0 defeat by Texas Christian,
and again last season when
Rice hurt them with a 14-14 tie.
Navy Finishes Second
Navy finished a distant sec
ond, but nonetheless reached
the highest ranking held by a
service academy in the 14-ycar-
history of the UPI ratings. They
held the runnerup spot for the
last month of the ratings and
collected the other four first
place ballots.
The Middies play Army Sat
urday in their traditional rival
ry for a possible bowl invitation
but their opportunity to unseat
Texas was spoiled by a 32-28
upset by Southern Methodist, a
team coach Darrell Royal's
eleven downed, 17-12.
No newcomers could crack
the top 10 the final five weeks
of the season but the third
through 10th positions were re
shuffled in the final tally.
Pittsburgh, a loser only to
Navy, replaced Michigan State
in third; Illinois, the Big Ten
champ, climbed four places to
finish fourth and Big Eight
champion Nebraska advanced
one position to fifth.
Auburn, once-beaten, jumped
from ninth to sixth; twice-tied
Mississippi dropped from fourth
to seventh and Oklahoma ad
vanced from 10th to eighth.
Alabama fell to ninth and Mich
igan State completed the top 10
in 10th place.
Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi
and Alabama were the only
members of the 1962 top 10 to
repeat.
Mississippi State, Syracuse
and Arizona State led the sec
ond 10 in 11th, 12th and 13th,
respectively, Memphis State,
unbeaten but tied, claimed 14th
and Big Six winner Washington
was 15th. Sixteenth was a three
way deadlock among Southern
California, the defending nation
al champion, Penn State and
Missouri. North Carolina fin
ished 19th and Baylor filled
No. 20.
A LOOK AT
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;ni coach
Thanks thief
for success
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'Old Coop' bolsters
OSU coaching staff
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by Web Ruble
Bulletin Starts Editor
Coincidences (it's a small frankly, he did.
world department.)
Some call him "Old Coop."
But he's really not that old.
Maybe it's because Coop was
one of those guys that you term
"Good Old Coop," and hence,
"Old Coop."
Anyway, he's only 26, and the
latest addition to the Oregon
State University football coach
ing staff.
After the game at Hayward
Field in Eugene Saturday, the
sportslooker had a hunch he
should take an after-the-game
tour of the locker rooms. (I get
these inklings now and then and
I can't explain why.)
It was into the Oregon State
Beaver room with me. I was
looking for Jeff Harris, an ex
Aberdeen (Wash.) prep gridder
who had just finished his last
year of football for OSU.
I was still looking for him
when I noticed someone across
the room who looked familiar.
It couldn't be. . .no, it just
couldn't. I kept watching him
for a while.
Then it was certain, it had to cace3
be "Old Coop." Braving the
ice (and the years), I intro
duced myself. Yep. It was him.
Coop's name is John Cooper.
I knew him when we used to
play on the same United States
Army grid team in Germany.
About all I can remember is
that we had an undefeated sea
son. . .(we didn't defeat any
body)
Ironic?
It is more than ironic that
Cooper should wind up at this
date on the OSU coaching staff.
While In the service, Cooper
joined the ranks of countless
others from around the South
and Midwest that regarded the
Pacific coast as the doldrums
of the football world.
Cooper, however, had as high
a praise (in those Army days)
of Oregon State as he did for
any other team in the West.
Now that he is in the horse
latitudes, he likes it. He h a s
found a coaching home at Cor
vallis. His only complaint con
cerns the amount of rain that
descends from the heavens over
the valley town that Oregon
State calls home.
Cooper is listed simply as as
sistant coach. He does a great
deal of scouting for the Bea
vers, and concerns himself off
season with recruiting duties.
He disclosed that one of his
areas is Eastern Oregon, i.e. . .
all of that lying east of the Cas-
Shows Promise
Coop's success in coaching at
OSU this past season (and per
haps, too, in seasons to come)
stems from his seemingly inex
haustible knowledge of the
game. At the young age of 26,
Coop is destined to become one
of the better ones who will
1 emerge from the current gen-
cratton of youne coaches. He
of rabid college football fans in a head start, and he has a
Dnrranlro at Kfllf tonrt- "til III uwauiimiiv pius a mv-
Veihingen (7th Army HQ). I
transferred in long after the
others had spent a number of
months there. With my addi
tion, every section of the coun-
I hnrkyrnnnd. He has done well
this year.
Though the Beavers spent
most of the afternoon reeling
last Saturday when the Untver-
try was represented, two from isity of Oregon Ducks tore them
the South, one from tne Mid
west, one from the Southwest,
and myself from the West.
Oregon State was riding high
Itbat year, so I was termed a
Beaver fan. (I took a certain
.'amount of joshing as the West
-wasn't looked upon with admir
ing eyes by football connois
seurs, though it has changed
.some since then.)
Actually, as a grid squad, us
Patch Barracks boys really
didn't do too bad.
Soon after the season was un
derway, I was transferred from
the unit. Of all the players 1
played with Coop stood out in
my memory the most.
Football Savvy
Cooper was one of those ath
letes of no outstanding ability.
He was one of the slowest
backs. He didn't have a lot of
size, and to look at him one
simply wouldn't guess that he
was a top-notch athlete.
Cooper had an uncanny abil
ity of being at the right place
at the right time. He had a
good pair of hands and was a
Rood receiver. But the thing
that made him the best com
petitive nthlete on the team
was his strength and his gen
eral all-around savvy of
ball.
It carried him through the
storm and through his weak
spots.
Alter moving away from the
unit, word reached me that
Cooper had given up a chance
of playing at Wofford College ' notnts.
apart, Coach Tommy Prothro's
Beavers did emerge with a 5-5
season record. It came with a
crew that pre - season looked
pretty shallow in the talent de
partment, the coaches (Loop
was one of them) took it in
their stride and managed to put
together a reasonable season,
in spile of what the dopesters
said they had or didn't have.
Loop-leading
Denver faces
LA Blades
By United Press International
League leading Denver is at
second place Los Angeles to
night in a big Western Hockey
league battle that highlights a
full evening of action.
While the two leaders fight it
out, third place Seattl" will try
to gain ground at Vancouver,
while San Francisco hosts Port
land. Meanwhile, veterans Guyle
Fielder of Seattle and Phil
Mnlnnpv nf V'nnrnlivpr have
foot- I n,nin cwnnnpft nlnrps nton offi
cial scoring statistics.
Fielder last week registered
four assists to climb to 34 total
points, based on eight goals and
a league leading 26 assists.
Mnloney managed only two
assists last week and has 33
no mugwump,
hints favor
LOS ANGELES (UPI) Foot
ball coaches, generally speaking
are mugwumps they sit on a
non-controversial fence but at
least coach Bill Barnes hints
that Illinois should be favored
over Washington in the Rose
Bowl game at Pasadena New
Year's day.
Barnes, whose UCLA team
beat Washington and lost to
Illinois, would not make a defi
nite pick.
The Bruin coach, however,
, made a few revealing remarks
I at a meeting of the Southern
I California Football Writers
Association Monday.
! UCLA lost to Illinois 18-12
early in the season and upset
Washington 14-0 two weeks ago.
Questioned about the Illini,
Barnes opined:
"They're a much better team
than they re given credit for.
I Illinois has big backs and fast
ones.. .Jim Grabowski and Sam
Price.. .and fine linebackers,
Dick Butkus and Don Hanson,
Illinois has a good-sized team.
You're not going to run over
them very much. You can
throw on them a little bit. If
they have a weakness when
we played that's what it was."
Then in a reference to Wash
ington coach, Jim Owens,
Barnes said:
'I don't think this is the
best team Jim has brought
down here."
As a member in good stand
ing of the coaches' mutual ad
miration protective, society,
Barnes hastened to add:
"Washington will bring down
a team well prepared."
A somewhat mournful coach
John McKay of the University
of Southern California also
spoke at the writer's meeting.
McKay said with a wry smile
that the big mistake during the
season was losing to Washing
ton. This was the only Trojan
loss in the Big Six.
"We could have finished the
season 9-1 and we wouldn't
have gotten the Rose Bowl bid,"
he said, "as long as that loss
was to Washington."
The Trojans had an over-all
7-3 record for the season.
McKay disclosed that his No.
1 quarterback Pete Beathard
was "not 100 per cent for most
of the season" and couldn't
practice. Beathard was ham
pered first by a groin Injury,
then by a bad ankle, and then
by a torn cartilage in his back.
"Maybe I should have held
Beathard out more," said
McKay. "He was not at 100 per
cent during much of the season.
He could not practice because
of his injuries."
Oregon wants
6 The Bulletin, Tuesday, December 3, 1963
Back-fo-back aces raise
ante for 2nd Loyola fifle
Boros named top pro golfer
By United Preis International
Loyola of Illinois has back-to-back
aces in Leslie Hunter and
Vic Rouse as an ante for a sec
ond straight NCAA college bas
ketball championship.
Hunter and Rouse, taking up
the slack left by graduated All
American Jerry Harkness, con
trolled the backboards and dom-
By Oscar Fraley
UPI Staff Writer
SEBRING, Fla. (UPI) - Jul
ius (Moose) Boros, at 43 voted
the professional golfer of the
year, today thanked a thief for
the most successful season of
his entire career.
The placid, easy-going Hun
garian admits that he was "fit
to be tied" last spring when
after finishing third in the Mast
ers two shots back of winning
Jack Nicklaus he found that
someone had stolen his putter
the U. S. Open championship in
1952.
Answer li Putting
' "The answer is in my put
ting," says Boros, who admits
that he isn't as long off the tee
or as supple as he was in the
past. "You putt and you win.
Don't putt and you struggle."
There was the added factor
of a new driver , which he or
dered and which added "about
15 or 20 yards" to his tee
shots.
The combination carried him
inated the scoring in the top- i Texas walloped Howard Payne,
ranked Ramblers' 90-54 opening I 89-58-
eame victory over North Dako-. Cotton Nash registered 33
A Big Ten Sweep was led by
seventh - ranked Ohio State's
74-68 win over Butler and eighth
ranked Michigan's 73-47 triumph
over Tulane. Iowa trounced
"irtL cIoSw mT ' "Nothing better ever happened to victory in the Colonial Invito-
rlZia aHAVt tnZx I to me" he ginned as he teed tion, ending his long drought,
"wSwhtioed !l ii"f,5amP;l?"d "t bin! on fire on the8pro
. inn .Mm .wn in nil nitio nnn . mill-
Haig challenge round at Hard
er Hall Golf Course today.
It had been three long years
since Boros had won a tourna-
Colorado, 71-61, and lOth-rated
Open at Brookline.
Nobody would have given the
Moose much of a chance against
the so-called "big guns" such
as Jackie Nicklaus and Arnold
Palmer when they teed off at
Brookline. But the Moose ad
mits he "had a hunch." He
was right.
Nicklaus didn't even qualify
for the final 36 holes. And, at the
end, there was Boros in a tie
with Palmer and young Jacky
Cupit. In the playoff his one un
der par 70 beat Cupit by three
strokes and Palmer by six, mak
ing Boros the second oldest
open winner in history.
in Big Six
(he hails from nearby Knox-
ville, Tenn.) In the South and
was casting eyes towards much
larger Iowa State at Ames.
Iowa. It was Hn eye-opener for
all of us. He landed a scholar
ship, and ground out four years
of football.
Defensive Specialist
Cooper had two good seasons
at Iowa State as a star defen
sive back and an offensive tail
back. Before graduation he took
over some coaching duties of
the Iowa State frosh squad, and
Vancouver's Buddy Boone still
maintains the league goal-scor
ing lead with 14 markers. Close
behind are Rudy Migay of Den
ver with 13 and Leo Labine of
Los Angeles and Bob Barlow of
Seattle with 12 apiece.
Denver's first place position
can largely be credited to Al
j Millar, who leads goalies Wltli
I a 2.80 average. Jimmy McLcod
of the Los Angeles Blades has
j the same average, but has
! played far less games.
Seattle s Larrv Zeidel has
received such high acclaim I spent 81 minutes in the penalty
from mentor Clay Stapleton, j box in 21 contests to top that
that tne Beavers at UhU jump- department.
ed at the chance of picking him
up this year to fill a coaching
vacancy.
An excerpt from the Oregon
State University book (I hadn't
noticed it before) reads: ". . .
while completing his scholastic
work at the Ames school, Coop
er was a coaching aide there
and came to Oregon State high
ly recommended by Stapleton.
"His work in spring drills in
dicated Coo)tr will fit in beau
tifully at OSU." And, quite
All teams were idle Monday
night.
SIGNS WITH CHIEFS
KANSAS CITY (UPD-Half-hack
Joe Auer of Georgia Tech
has been signed by the Kansas
City Chiefs of the American
Football iLeague.
He was drafted by the Los
Angeles Rams of the National
Fix thai! League. Auer, a speed
ster, has been clocked in 9.7 for
the 100-yard dash.
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)-The
University of Oregon made a
$224,000 profit from playing
; football In 1962, but still wants
j to rejoin the Big Six in an ex
panded conference.
LiCO rutins,, HIIIICUi: uiicvivi
at Oregon. Monday told the
Northern California basketball
writers that his school feels that
conference membership is bet
ter in the long run.
He cited better chance for na-
. tional recognition, improved con
I ditions for sports other than
football, and more say at the
! national level in such matters
as rule changes.
Oregon and Oregon State
' were voted out of the Pacific
' Coast Conference for various
reasons a number of years ago
I and the rest of the schools
i formed the Athletic Association
1 ot Western Universities, bciUr
, known as the Big Six.
Harris said that his school
cannot apply for membership.
"We must wait for an invita
tion." He said that entrance require
ments have been raised at the
school in recent years.
Prep Class B,
A-2 playoffs
Oregon Prep Football
By United Press International
(A-2 Finoii
Phoenix 13 North Catholic 0
(Bll-men)
1 Jefferson 14 Wasco County 0
(B a-man)
I Camas Valley 31 Eagle Valley 0
blank contained games
were on the season docket for
this week.
To compensate for this turn
about in slating, The Bulletin
decided to throw out the AFL
games.
Steve Cox of the Hillcrest Mo
tel in Madras missed eight, but
it was good enough to earn him
the $15 second prize. R. B. Som
erville, 333 Tumalo Avenue,
Bend, however, also missed on
ly eight, but was farther off
(by a lone point) on his "tie
breaker" guess. He, therefore,
emerged winner of the $5 third
award.
Another Bend citizen, Larry
Brown, 1238 E. 6th, missed on
ly eight but went prizcless. He
was farther off on his "tie
breaker." Robinson isn't
in fight form
GRENOBLE, France (UPD
It's the same old Sugar Ray
Robinson until he starts to
throw leather. Then it's just the
old Sugar Ray Robinson.
The former welterweight and
five-time middleweight champ
ion is campaigning in Europe
because "1 mean to win back
my middleweight title." At 43
he's as cocky and jaunty as
ever but inside the ring the
moves come hard.
Robinson, 158 pounds, scored
a 10-round decision Friday night
over Andre Davler, 159, of
France. There were no knock
downs. Robinson started slowly,
fought well from the third
through the eight rounds and
then tired badly u the ninth
and 10th.
kin i fi )
indm Standings
By United Press International
Eastern Division
W. L. Pet.
Boston 15 1 .968
Cincinnati 15 10 .600
Philadelphia 9 10 .474
New York 7 16 .304
Western Division
W. L. Pel.
Los Angeles 14 8 .636
St. Louis 13 10 .565
San Francisco 9 10 .474
Baltimore 5 12 34
Detroit 5 15 .250
Sunday's Results
Los Angeles 114 Cincinnati 109
Philadelphia 132 Detroit 121
(Only games scheduled)
Saturday's Results
Boston 109 San Francisco 96
Baltimore 120 Detroit 101
recovered from a severe cold
knocked out contender Billy
Daniels of New York in the
third round Friday with a jolt
ing left hook to the body.
Cassius Clay, scheduled to
meet Liston in a title fight next
February, couldn't do as well
in a 1962 bout against Daniels.
It took casual Cassius seven
rounds to turn the trick.
Mildenberger's surprise vic
tory before a sellout crowd of
10,000 may have catapulted the
Ring Magazine's 10th ranking
contender into a future title
meeting. The German southpaw
also may have earned a fight
with former world champion
Floyd Patterson next spring.
ignored putter out of a closet
at home and suddenly regained
ta University Monday night. points in Kentucky's 107-91 win ment. But he derricked a long
Redmond man,
Jim Miller,
wins contest
Jim Miller, 140 W. Dogwood,
Redmond, is $30 richer today
after winning first place in The
Bulletin Football Contest this
week.
Miller's $30 prize is the com
bined pot from this week and
the previous. Nearly all the
games were postponed the week
before upon the assassination of
President Kennedy.
Miller missed seven out of
24. But this week's contest had
a bie problem. The Bulletin
Football Editor decided that all
AFL games will be played as
scheduled.
It was decided by AFL offic
ials that, since there were no
eames last week, the slate
should move back one contest.
In other words, this week's
games were actually the ones
Tl'lTLT - ".'I' '.weight champion Sonny Liston
ween utiuic. mc m)i ""J MiMnnu,;. ,u -0Mti
nnntainoH irames that """"'6' '"'"J
over Texas Tech; Larry Shef-
i field rang up 21 points as No
I tre Dame clobbered Christian
Brothers of Memphis, Term.,
98-65; North Carolina stopped
South Carolina, 92-87, with Bill
Cunningham chipping in with 25
points; Larry Lakins paced
North Carolina State's 64-60 win
over Penn State with 26 points;
sophomore center George Fish
er's 18 points helped Utah to a
94-77 win over Loyola of Los An
geles, and Davidson dropped
Wake Forest, 66-53, with Fred
Hetzel getting 24 points for the
winning Wildcats.
Also, west Virginia heat Cita
del, 58-53; Tennessee tripped
VMI, 71-59; Vanderbilt walloped
Rice, 82-68; Oklahoma City beat
TCU, 96-70; Syracuse won over
Toronto, 88-33; Maryland
trounced Virginia, 68-58, and
Rhode Island skipped past St.
Michaels (Vt.), 76-73.
German wants
to fight Liston
FRANKFURT, Germany
(UPI) - Karl MJIdenberger of
Germany has a talking point for
a future match with heavy-
He followed up with a second ;
place at Oklahoma City, was!
checked momentarily by a mus- j
cle spasm the following week, 1
tied for second at Indianapolis, i
won the Flint Open, and "rest- j
ed" through the Thunderbird
the touch which carried him to ' which came just before the US.
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