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PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1941. Texas Massacres Heavier Oregon Squad 7 1 to 7 in Final Game mecham scores only touchdown for coast team Oregon -Texas Statistics Even Second And Third Stringers Add Points Webfeet Outclassed. Auitin, Tex.. Dec. 8. (AP) The team called Texas' greatest In history reached the end of the gridiron trail today witn a cmashing 71 to 7 victory over the University of Oregon. i Outclassing the heavier Pacific coast conference team at every turn, the Texans, scoring almost t will, used three full team to submerse the WebfooU. The Longhorn first stringers, headed by Pete Layden, Jack Crain, Malcolm Kutner, et al, were accorded a tremendous ova tion when they left the field for the last time. About the . only weapons used with any effect by Oregon were passing and a tricky hand-off reverse play oy wnicn n man- sed its only score. This touch down came In the second period when, catching the Steers flat- footed. Halfback James New- quist handed the ball to Curt Mecham, who chased wide for eight yards and the marker. Newquist booted the point. Devastating blocking and rag ing line play on the part of the Steers featured the contest which bowed out 18 Texas seniors. The , game was played In fifty-degree weather under a bright sun and before 26,000 spectators. The Longhorns' first touch down came after a 71-yard march. Halfback Jack Craln, who turned In one of the great-.- est performances In his career, ! chasing over from the one. Full- back Pete Layden and Halfback Noble Doss also carried the ball In the campaign. Layden hurled one to Kutner for 20 yards and the Steers' sec- - ond marker while Doss, on beautiful SB-yard gallop which ' carried him through most of the Webfoot eleven, tallied the third. The Oregon score culminated ', a 31-yard drive, Mecham crash . lng to a first down, then passing to Tony Crlsh. A penalty placed - the ball on the Texas 27 from j where Mecham aerialed to New t quist who was nailed on the . eight from where Mecham scor ed. Texas scored again when Guard Jack Freeman recovered ' Mecham's fumble on the Oregon '. 10. Spec Sanders of the Steer sec ond team crashed through for five and Ken Mathews added four. Sanders ripped around end for the tally. The Longhorns managed four points on safeties by blocking ( Webfoot punts which rolled out i of the end zone. One of these oc- curred shortly before the half time whistle, making the score ' Texas 30, Oregon 7. Freeman , blocked the kick. A 59-yard drive resulted In an : other Texas marker to open the . second half. A pass, Layden to Preston Flanagan, set up the j score, with Layden crashing ov- - er from the two. After Doss intercepted an Ore gon pass, Kutner on an end- around shook off several tack- lers in a 20-yard romp to the seven. It was Craln who scam pered around end' and then fought his way over to pay dirt. Opening the final Derlod. R. L. Harkins uncorked rainbow overhead good for 69 yards all told to set up the next Steer tal ly. He then hurled one to Wal lace Scott on the Webfoot 7 from where he Tipped through the middle for a score. The Longhorn third-stringers, not to be denied, then went out and punched over a score of their own a 29 yard campaign, fra j luring Walton Roberts. Lewis Mayne and Max Minor who went 1 over from the seven. The Longhorn first team, re turned to the fray by Coach D. JC. Bible for one last exhibition, obliged with another touchdown. It drove 43 yards on two passes, one from Layden to Doss who was hauled down on the Oregon five and Layden to Vernon Mar tin, the Steers' great blocking back. In the end son. It was Martin's only touchdown of the year. A final Texas marker came when Texas second-stringers passed 27 yards, Mayne to San ders, over the goal after halting an ineffective Webfoot pass bar age. Crain, Sanders and Flanagan booted all the Steers' extra points. The lineups: Oregon Texas Crish LE. Flanaga,. Austin, Tex. Dec. 8. (AP) Statistics of the Oregon-Texas football game her today: Or. Tex. First downs 12 18 Yards gained rushing net 80 215 Forward Passes at tempted 21 17 Forward Passe Com pleted - 7 13 Yards gained by for ward passing - 94 277 Yards lost attempted forward passes 0 0 Forward passes Inter cepted by 0 ' 4 Yards gained runback of Int. passes 0 12 Punting average from scrimmage 30.9 43.0 Total yards all kicks returned 148 128 Opponents fumbles re covered 2 2 Yards lost by penalties 25 50 TR0UNC1 1ST Eugene, Dec. 6. (JP) The stunning to put it mildly 71-7 defeat suffered by the Univer sity of Oregon football team at the hands of the University of Texas at Austin Saturday sent local statiticlans scurrying to find some Pacific Coast Confer ence school that had suffered worse defeat In past years. The 71-7 defeat was the worst in Oregon gridiron history, the 53-0 loss to the University of Southern California in 1931 be ing the next most severe beat ing. On th other hand, Ore gon's highest-scoring triumph was posted In 1910 when the Webfoots defeated tha College of Puget Sound 114-0. Although only conferenca rec ords were available, the 78-0 vic tory of USC over UCLA In 1929. was the most severe licking, closely followed by the Trojans' 74-0 triumph over California in 1930. THE DALLES PICKS WALL, DAVIS, WRAY The Dalles. Dee. 8 fSol) Bend, Medford and Milton-Free-water high schools each placed three football players on The Dalles high's all-opponent team. released here Wednesday. Hood River and Camas placed one player each to round out th eleven chosen by the squad, which now lays claim to tha state gridiron championship of Oregon. Only two members of oppos ing teams were unanimous choices: Quarterback Don Sam uel of Hood River and End Bill Wall of Medford. Following ara th first team selections: Ends, Wall of Medford and Valley of Bend; tackles, Glllis of Bend and Heldenreich of Mil- ton Frecwatrr: guards, Meland of Bend and Davis of Medford; center, Wilson, Camas; quarter back, Samuel, Hood River: half backs, Yantls of Milton-Free-water and Wray of Medford; fullback, George, Milton. Moshofsky ..LT Cohenour Jackson ..LG.. Jungmichael C H. Harkins ...KG Daniel .RT Garrett ...RE Kutner " Martin Patton Culwell Ashcom Regner Roblln Dunlap Mecham Iverson Oregon AERIAL OFFENSE OF TEXAS AGGIES ..Qtl Crain ...RB.., Doss ...FB Layden 0 7 0 017 Texa 14 18 13 2871 Oregon scoring: Touchdown. Mecham; points from try after touchdown, Newqulst (sub for Dunlap) (placekick). Safeties. Mecham, Oxman (had punts blocked which rolled out of end zone). Touchdown In First. Half Gives Victory Stars Fail To Shine. Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 8. (JP) A couple of substitute sophomore backs teamed In the fading mo menta of the first half today to score the only touchdown for Texas A. & M., and give the Aggies a 7 to 0 victory over Washington State college before upwards of 25,000 fans today. The starring sophomores were pass pitching Leo Daniels and Cullen Rogers. Moser, the Aggies' star passer, had done most of the work as the Aggies got to the Cougar 38. Then Daniels replaced him. He threw a long sharp pass to his left. Rogers hauled it, spun as the flying body of defending Felix Fletcher, W. S. C. half, Uled to flag him, then turned and outran safety man Jay Stoves for the touchdown. Jack Webster, fullback, kicked the extra point. Up to that time the Cougars had dominated tha first half. The second half, however, was just about all Aggie. Early In the first quarter Sewell, Washington Stat half back rushed a 19-yard pass to Fletcher on the Aggie 21 as the Cougars launched a lightning drive. But it bogged down on the Aggia 10 with Sewell'f In completed fourth down pass. The Cougar came right back. Sewell threw 10-yard pass to Fullback Kennedy who fought his way across tha goal line for a 50-yard gain, but a double penalty against W. S. C. nulli fied the play. It was ruled the Cougars had only five men on the line when the ball was snapped, besides which, they il legally had some backs in mo tion. After Small fumbled, and Guard Maples recovered for th Texans on the Cougar 25, the Aggie worked their way to th W. S. C. five-yard line in the second period before Moser fum bled on fourth down and threw th ball away. The Cougars winding up by taking over on their own 21. Th Aggie center, Sibley, end ed another Cougar threat with one of his vital pass Intercep tions on tha Aggie 25 near the end of the second period. Then came the touchdown pass from Daniels to Rogers. The Aggies took the offensive at the outset of the second half and pretty well controlled play. They tried 33 passes, completing 14 of them for 188 yards, Includ ing those precious touchdown yards. Moser threw 23 and Daniels 10. The Aggies out downed the Cougars. 11 to. 9, but were outrushed, 88 to 68. Gentry and Susoff, the two all-Coast ends from Washington State, were outshone by the ar ray of tall, fast, pass-catching, hard-hitting ends trotted out by th Texans. Moser and Daniels received excellent pass protec tion, despite the fact Gentry and Susoff were to rush the passer terrifically. Sewell. on th other hand, had Aggie ends In his hair all afternoon. PLAY TIE BATTLE Los Angeles, Dec. 8 (AP) The University of California at Los Angeles Bruins, and the fav ored Trojans of the University of Southern California staged an other of their cross-town football dog fights today before a roaring throng of 65,000 and wound up in a 7-7 deadlock as the curtain came down on the 1941 Pacific coast conference campaign. The tie, third in th brief his tory of the series, left the Tro jans with a season record of two victories, six defeats and one draw. The Uclans, with a non conference game coming up De cember 20 with Florida, boast a record of four wins five losses and this one tie. , U.C.L.A. burst out midway in tha third period, traveling 60 yards in 11 plays for a touch down and conversion. The Tcpjans took the kickoff and countered with a savage 63 yard attack through the air, ac complished in nine plays, for the tieing touchdown and place kicked the extra point. It was a bitter struggle. Troy dominated the offense. There was a fist encounter between Bruin Gene Alder and Muri Crit tenden, Trojan halfback, but this was squelched without further ado. Troy held an 8-3 advantage In first downs in the opening half, but its one sustained deep drive into U.C.L.A. territory ended with a fumble. U.C.L.A. threat ened In the final play with a long pass from Bob Waterfield to Burr Baldwin on the Trojan 10, but the gun ended things JAMBOREE WON BY NORTHERN TEAMS By Richard Jewett Butte Falls, paced by Johnny Kent, .turned on the only of fensive heat of the evening to overcome two-point deficit and give the northern division a 27 to 20 victory over the west as the Jackson county class B prep cage league previewed its season in Jamboree style here Friday night. The Loggers-downed Central Point, 10 to 1ln the finale of six games. Kent tallied eight of th counters. Western teams had accumulated 19 markers to the northern 17 In the five pre vious eight-minute periods. Defensive tightness and early season lack of finesse held the scores low. Best example was the scoreless third canto be tween Rogue River and Talent. Eighty-five hoopsters of the dozen schools in the league saw action in the gala contest. Girls' drill teams from Phoe nix, Jacksonville and Talent and the combined band of all the schools provided entertain ment during the intermissions. Accumulative scores follow: North (27) West (20) Sams Valley (2) Phoenix (6) Eagle Point (5) Gold Hill (3) Talent (0) Rogue River (0) Prospect (5) Kerbv (3) St. Mary's (5) Jacksonville (7) Butte Falls UO..Central Point (1) SAN DIEGO WINS San Diego, Calif., Dec. 8. (JP) San Diego State college de feated College of the Pacific. 12 to 6, in their football game here Friday night. Uee Mall rrtoune wane Ida. Football Scores (By Associated Press) Texas A. and M. 7, Washing ton State 0. Texas 71, Oregon 7. UCLA 7, Southern Cal. T. Utah 12, Arizona 6. Miss. Stat 26, San Francisco u. 13. ; MILL WORK CUT Westport, Dec. 6. (JP) The Westport Lumber company has reduced operations from eight to six shifts a week, blaming a drop In orders. Electrical outlets for Xmai IS Lighting Quickly Installed OLSEN ELECTRIC Dial ".) I . Central Follow The Sunshine a ARIZONA and VAH-KI INN st Ceolidge sdjalslng famont Cm Grande National Monument Via Kl Ira. an kout't drive (ran attkar Psoeals at Tunoa, eflcra comfort and canTentenee with a warms of genuine aeeaitaltrr. Its ratal capacity ! twenty guana It carefully salaried for conf roialit. Special coniideratioa la gTa t dim, IndMduil seeds sad wi.hre. Tripe fa pointe of interest and deaett aicnlee ars arranged and aereonally conducted by your onere. TREODOBA end WALTS SMTTH Ver taw tni ear PaeUrl aire dtittipnt httritvrt a ma Ceeae, "acr lie ei cmiI ftae-ere if VAH-kl IIUlUCOOLIDGfr rAaizoNA. WATCH FOR J RATE MAN THEATRE MISSISSIPPI STATE I0FFIC1ALS EXAMS ITS DONS 26-13 San Francisco, Dec. 8 (JP) Paced by a Seabiscuit in foot ball pants, a human dynamo who went over, under and around his opposition, Missis sippi State college scored a 28 to 13 rout over University of San Francisco's Dons in their intersectional game here today. Blondy Black, a halfback who seemed to have wings on his feet, led the Maroons in their devastating attack. While Black was only one cog in a well drilled squad of southerners who buckled down to business with the opening kickoff, his speed, poise and all around gridiron ability was the main factor in the one-sided contest. Black capped his afternoon with an 83-yard run through the entire San Francisco team. It was off a fake punt and the deliberate manner in which he received the ball, surveyed the field and galoped off, was one of the thrilling plays seen here this season. OPPONENTS TEAM PICKED BY J'VILLE Jacksonville, Dec. 8 (Spl.) Two Talent players and one each from Prospect, Phoenix, Myrtle Creek and Rogue River were selected by Jacksonville high's unbeaten six-man football team as their all-opponents' eleven. On the second team the Red skins placed three Prospect players and one each from Tal ent, Rogue River and Myrtle Creek. The first team: Dickey, Pros pect and Hollinger, Myrtle Creek, ends; Osburn, Rogue River, center; Slagel, Talent, Glime, Talent and Glover, Phoe nix, backs. The second team: Slack, Tal ent and Thompson, Rogue River, ends; Bevans, Prospect, center; Redding, Prospect, Fraederich, Prospect and Rust,, Myrtle Creek, backs. ATHLETICS SIGN UP CAL M1RWIN Portland, Ore., Dec. 8. (JP) George Vranlzan, baseball scout, said today he had signed Cal Mclrvin, Portland high school pitcher, to a contract with the American league Philadelphia Athletics. Mclrvin, who won 25 games while losing two last summer as pitcher for the Hillsboro Ameri can Legion junior team and the Silverton Red Sox of the State league, will report to the Ath letics' spring training camp in Anaheim, Calif., in March. MM mm (ID THE GREATEST I MATCH IN I TEARS! -i-ll; WED. V I Distributor Servlc Th annual examination for basketball officials will be held Monday night from 7 to 9 in room two at the Medford senior high school, under the direction of Russ Acheson, Tiger coach. Acheson said a general dis cussion of the questions would be held, after which the aspir ant! would take the written exam. The yearly fee for those taking the examination is $2. The Medford mentor said that only officials registered with the O. H. S. A. A. would be eligible to work district 4 games this season. He added that officials who passed the exam last year would not be required to take it again this season, but that they must pay their $2 fee. OLIVER COMMENT E Austin, Tex., Dee. 8. V Coach Tex Oliver of Oregon university, whose team was crushed 71-7 by Texas, would not comment tonight when asked his opinion of how the Longhorns would have fared in the Rose bowl, but he did have this to say: The WebfooU' play today certainly was not indicative of Pacific Coast conference play." Rumors current here had it that, except for doubt Oregon State officials had of the Long horns' ability to whip Oregon, the Texans would have been invited to the Rose bowl. The Rose bowl Oregon State last week defeated Oregon, 12-7. "I would not say the Texas team is tha greatest I've seen this season," Oliver replied to question. On the other hand! I woulcf not say iney are not in greatest I ve seen. "Texas has a migmy good team." he asserted. "Pete Lay den. Jack Crain, Calcolm Kut ner, that fine line and that abl blocking back, Vernon Martin, all stood out." DADO WINS Honolulu, Dec. 6. 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