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Michigan Beaten 18-14
; Hectic Game, Won
.' Last Quarter.
Columbus, O., Nov. 25 (U.R)
"With the grit and fight born
only of a champion, Ohio State
came back from near oblivion
here today to icore a touch'
down in the closing minutes of
the same to defeat Michigan
' 18-14, and win the 1944 Big Ten
.' football championship with an
i unmarred record.
, With dusk settling over Ohio
' stadium, Jampacked by 71,958
, fans, Lea Horvath, brilliant four-
year veteran, led his valient
teammates back from the brink
of defeat.
Less than four minutes were
left when Ohio State smashed
; their way 80 yards in 14 plays
I' to send Horvath over from the
; two-yard line with the winning
.' touchdown. That was the ball-
game, which had been filled with
: bruising and Inspirational play,
,'' and gave Ohio State a season
jj record of nine straight victories,
i their second championship in
' three years, and put them in the
' foreground as a possible Rose
'. Bowl selection.
- Championship dreams were
' broken, mended and broken
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Sunder. Not. it. 1944
again as Ohio State took the vic
tory margin twice, lost It twice
and then re-captured It in tne
final minutes as Horvath grab
bed himself a bit of gridiron im
mortality, Michigan defending co-chanv
plons along with Purdue was
never anything but a great team
today, bulwarked by the play of
an inspired line. But Ohio btate
was not to be denied.
Michigan, before sliding off
Its throne, seemed to have vic
tory twice, especially in the last
quarter when it roared back to
go 83 yards in 17 plays and send
Halfback Billy Culllgan over for
a touchdown and a 14-12 lead
Ohio State won because It had
a forward wall that wouldn't
say die and because it had Hor
vath. Ohio State gained 225
yards rushing to Michigan's 162,
and the 23-year-old dental stu
dent gained 104 yards himself,
Ohio State opened the scoring
In the first quarter by moving
56 yards in 61 plays with Full
back Ollie Cline cracking over
for the touchdown. Michigan
bounced back in second on a
29-yard push and Culligan went
over from the two. Quarterback
Fonetto converted for a one
point lead.
Horvath rallied his crew and
In the third quarter, the Buck
eyes scored after center and
Capt. Gordon Appleby recover
ed a fumble on Michigan's 23.
Horvath smashed his way across
the goalline, after seven plays
had moved it to the one.
TO
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Promoter Mack Llllard an
nounced yesterday that he hasA
signed Gust Johnson, newly
crowned Pacific coast Junior
heavyweight champion, for the
main event of next Thursday
night's Medford amtory wrest
ling card.
Johnson's championship belt
Is not to be confused with Jack
Riser's light heavyweight title,
from 175 pounds' to 190. John
son's crown Includes 190 pounds
to 200. ' '
Coming from Minneapolis.
Johnson entered a tournament
on the coast recently and came
out undefeated for the title. He
Is said to be an exceptionally
clever and rugged' wrestler,
Llllard announced that Harold
(Blood . and Guts) Davidson
would be back and Tarzan Tot
vln, a flashy-Canadian, will also
appear on the program, the com
plete card to be announced tomorrow.
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Southern California Expect
ed to Invite Ohio State for
New Year's Clash. '
Los Angeles, Nov. 25 U.R)
A x high-flying University of
southern uainornia Trojan gria
machine rode Into the Rose
Bowl today with a surprisingly
easy 40-to-13 triumph over a
dazed and outclassed University
of California at Los Angeles
team before 90,000 fans, the na
tion's largest football crowd
this season.
The statistics showed how
badly the Trojans devastated the
Bruins The men of U. S. C. out
gained the Bruins 335 yards on
the ground to 34. Only in the
air were the Bruins superior,
marking up a 114-to-68 yardage
advantage. U. S. C. piled up 21
first downs to U. C. L. A. 7.
With the Trojans due to re
ceive-an automatic bid from
tho Pacific coast conference to
night. U. S. C. officials were
expected to tender an Invita
tion to Ohio State's unbeaten
machine if the Big 10 relaxes its
long-standing ban on post-season
games.
The Trojans began their
touchdown parade midway in
the first period, smashing 47
yards for a touchdown.
A few minutes later the Tro
jans had crashed across the goal
line for their second score.
A misfired aerial by Bruin
Captain Bob Waterfield led to
the third Trojan score.
George Callanan and Bob
Morris cracked tackle to tho
one, and Hardy snuck through
center for a touchdown from
the one-yard line, and the Tro
jans left the field with a 20-to-0
half-time lead. -
The Trojans bobbed right
back from intermission to score
ii. the opening minutes of the
period. Seconds later tho Tro
jans added another six points to
their growing margin. Sub Quar
terback Don Murphy culminated
a 63-yard fourth period march
for U. S. C. to score from one
yard out.'
The Bruins staged a belated
rally in the final minutes of the
fourth period that netted two
consolation touchdowns,
closing ttine for Sunday- Too Lute
lo ClniMiry S 80 Saturday afternoon
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Football Scores
(By United Press)
Balnbridge Navy 31, Camp
Peary 13.
Brown 32, Colgate 20.
Dartmouth 18, Columbia 0.
Notre Dame 21, Georgia Tech
0. .
Duke 33, North Carolina 0.
' Pennsylvania 20, Cornell 0.
Pittsburgh 14, Penn State 0.
Indiana 14, Purdue 6.
Rutgers 15, Lehigh 6.
Swarthmore 13, Ursinus 0.
Yale 6, Virginia 6.
Great Lake N. T. S, 28, port
Warren 7.
Iowa Pre Flight 30, Iowa 6.
Tennessee 21, Kentucky 7.
Mississippi 13, Mississippi
State 8.
Nebraska 35, Kansas State 0.
Ohio State 18, Michigan 14.
Atlantic City Navy 31, Prince
ton 6.
. Murray State 68, Millsapi 0.
Tennessee State 12, Florida
A. & M. 0.
Southern Methodist University
7, Texas Tech 6.
Fort Pierce A. Q. B. 21, Jack
sonville Navy 0. -Oklahoma
A. & M. 28, Okla
homa 6,
Texas Christian University 8,
Rice 6. , -
Minnesota 28, Wisconsin 26.
T ASKS LIMIT
OF BOIL WIS
Washington, Nov. 25 (U.R)
Sponsors of the 1945 post-season
football howl games have been
asked by the Office of Defense
Transportation to limit atten
dance to local residents, it was
disclosed today.
Telegrams asking such restric
tions were sent to officials of
the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif.;
Sugar Bowl, New Orleans; Cot
ton Bowl, Dallas; Orange Bowl.
Miami; Sun Bowl, El Paso; Oil
Bowl, Houston; Vulcan Bowl.
Birmlnhim, Ala.; Flower Bowl,
Jacksonville, Fla., and the an
nual Shrine East-West all-star
game, San Francisco. .
loiva Pre-F lighters -'
Wcllop Iowa, 30S
Iowa City, Nov. 25 (U.R)
Checked by the weatherman and
a fighting University of Iowa
football team for three periods.
tho powor-ladened Seahawks of
the Iowa Pre-Flight school roll
ed into high gear in the final
quarter to whip the Hawkeyes
here this afternoon, 30 to 6. A
crowd of 2,000 mostly cadets,
sat in a driving rain to watch
tho Seahawks' win' their 10th
straight game.
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DEATH COMES TO :
BASEBALL CHIEF
Day Long Rain at Portland
as Rivals Bunched For
Finals. .
Chicago, Nov. 25 (U.R)
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lan
d's, who saved baseball when its
existence was threatened by the
"Black Sox" scandal, died in
St. Luke's hospital where he
had been confined since Oct. 2.
' His wife, who is a patient In
the hospital convalescing from
a fractured wrist; his son, Col.
Reed G. Landis and his daugh
ter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Richard W. Phillips, were at his
bedside when he died in his
sleep at 5:35 a. m. CWT. He
was 78. ..'
Leslie O'Connor, his secre
tary, announced that "In com
pliance with his wish, no fu
neral service Will be held. Also
in accordance with his desires,
cremation will take place pri
vately and friends are asked
not to send flowers." .
Landis had entered the hos
pital with a bad cold for a "rest
cure" and was well on the road
to recovery until early this
week when he suffered a heart
attack. He rallied later, but
suffered another relapse yester
day and last night the hospital
aescrioea mm as "a very sick
man."
Speculation on his probable
successor centered on an un
official proposal to have a com
mittee of three named to take
his place. The committee would
be made up of President Har
ridge of the American league,
President Ford Frick of the Na
tional league and probably
u Connor. .. -
Evanston, Hl.,r Nov. 25-r(U.R)
Claude "Buddy" Young, Il
linois sprint star who likes to
play football, made a grand exit
from the 1944 grid season today
by typing Red Grange's 20-year-old
scoring , record in a game
with Northwestern In which the
Illlni romped over the hapless
Wildcats 25 to 6. .
Young, the sparkplug of
Illinois' "stop-watch" backfield,
scored two touchdowns to boost
his season total to 13, equaling
the mark set by Grange when
he played in the Illinois back
field in 1924.
Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 28 (U.R)
Indiana University returned
the "Old Oaken Bucket" to its
campus at Bloomlngton today
by stopping Purdue 14-6.
Thrills were a dime a dozen
for the capacity crowd of 29,
000 that packed Ross-Ade sta
dium In freezing gray weather.
It was Indiana's 17th triumph
against 25 losses and five ties
with Purdue. ;
Madison, Wis., Nov, 25 (U.R)
By scoring each point after
touchdown, Minnesota nosed out
Wisconsin 28 to 26 In its final
game of conference competition
today before 30,000 fans.
Texas Christians
Southwest Champs
Houston, Tex., Nov.. 25 (U.R)
Texas Christian university won
the 1944 southwest conference
football championship today Its
first circuit crown since 1938
with a 0 to 6 victory pver Rice
Institute in a hammer-and-tongs
battle before 12,000 drenched
spectators, and earned the right
to meet Oklahoma A. & M. in
the Cotton Bowl January 1 at
Dallas. .
(The Slllwater, Okla., team
was invited, and .accepted, at
Oklahoma City this afternoon af
ter its 28-6 victory over Okla
homa.) 0 Mall mount Want Ada,
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FIGHTING IRISH
BLAST TECHMEN
BY 21-0 SCORE
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 25 U.R)
The ever-fightin' football Irish
regained a measure of the grid
iron glory that once was Notre
Dame's todav. throwing nn
barrier of denial before Georgia
Techs touchdown-minded engi
neers to win the day's top inter
sectional feature 21 to 0.
The Georgia Tech defeat took
a lot of the luster off the Orange
Bowl football game on New
Year rfflv hpfupnn fha Fnd-
neers and the Tulsa Golden Hur
ricane.
Freshman Jimmy Brennan, a
naval trainee frnm- MllunulrPA
who arrived at Notre Dame too
late to get his name printed on
the team's roster, provided the
offensive spark for the second
week-end in a row. Striking
with force and fury from the 11-
Vard line he urpnt ihrntitfh n
gaping hole In the Georgia Tech
line tor an au-important first
period touchdown. -Their
second touchrinwn Hrlvo
came in the third period, when
long passes from the arm of
Frank Dancewicz netted 71
yards. The iiavoff nlav was, nn
a toss by Dancewicz to Bob
K.euy for 40 yards.
It was the irrespressible Bren
nan. Star of Nntrn T)nmpfQ xtin.
tory over Northwestern last
wees, wno came up- with the
final Irish touchdown. Gaining
the ball on the Tech 20 on a
pass interception by Martin
Wendall the Irish smashed
quickly for the scored A Dan
cewicz pass to Skoglund was
good for six and Brennan smash
ed four more to the 10. Kelly
moved to within one foot on
three plunges and on fourth
aown uancewlcz lateralled to
Brennan, who went over. .
The statistics oavn . Vntfa
Dame a wide edge. The Irish
scorea 18 first downs to Tech's
eight, gained 269 yards on the
ground to Tech's 47 and made
122 yards on passes against
Tech's 73.
ST.M
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BY 33-6 SCORE
Berkeley, Calif., Nov. 25 (U.R)
Beaten and battered, Univer
sity of California's Golden Bears
ended a dismal .poenn kaM v.,M
afternoon as they absorbed a
sound 33-8 beating from the
strong St. Mary's Pre-Flight Air
aevns Before 20,000 fans. The
lOSS Was the sixth mtlnmll,,.
defeat for Coach Stub Allison's
club.
Snarked hv '
Davis, 18-year-old prep star from
Clarksdale, Miss., the Airdevils
turned loose thpip tnm,i.,,n ia.
tent power in the second quar-
ler to run three touchdowns
across after the surprising Bears
had scored on a nasi inrproon.
tlon for a 6-0 lead at the end
of the first! period. ;
That lone counter for the
Bear's came when slippery Joe
Stuart intercepted one of Par
ker Hall's passes on the Pre
Flight 35 and side-stannpH Mo
way through the Alrdevil eleven'
10 pay-airt. Hank Borghi's at
tempted place kick was blocked
and California's scnrlnp nnnnr.
tun I ties were over for the day.
The heralded' Pre-Flight line
was as strong as clnlmprl anri
while holding the California
backs at bay on the defensive
side, it also opened big gaps for
young Davis to scamper through.
The wiry back went for 113
yards during the afternoon and
was tne major thorn in the Bear
defense.
Providence, R. I., Nov. 25
(U.R) A stalwart Brown eleven
combined 15-years of denial into
15 .minutes of vengance today
to defeat Andy Kerr's Red Raid
ers of Colgate 32 to 20 for the
first time since 1928.
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WEDNESDAY
FOR TITLE CLASH
Medford's Black Tornado
gridiron machine will entrain
Wednesday night for Portland
to meet LaGrande at Multnomah
Stadium Saturday afternoon for
the state high school football
championship.
LaGrande has played 10
games this season and has scored
268 points Against their oppon
ents' 44 points. LaGrande has an
average of 26,8 points per game
to 4.4 for their opponents. Their
undefeated record shows wins
over The Dalles 18 to 0, Baker
26 to 6 and 37 to 0. Mac-High 19
to 12 and 26 to 0, Pendleton 37
to 7 and 27 to 6, Enterprise 32
to 6, Nampa, Idaho, 13 to 0 and
Roosevelt 33 to 7.
Medford - has played nine
games for a total of 279 points
to their opponents' .52 points
Medford averaged 31 points per
game to their opponents' 5.8
points. The Tornado's unbeaten
record shows victories over
Weed 42 to 6, Coos Bay 33 to 0,
Eureka 28 to 6, Klamath Falls
21 to 0, Grants Pass' 41 to 0,
Bend 34 to 13, Ashland 42 to
13, Coquille 32 to 14 and Gre
sham 6 to 0. -
Coach Lester Harris of Med
ford high school said yesterday
there will be no reserved seats
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