EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday, rforember 3, 1954
Crater Comet' Morale Up
For Black Tornado Clash;
Med ford Players Injured
If the spirit the Crater highjness then because of a bad
footballers have shown in the
first two days of practice this
week is any indication, the Med
ford high Black Tornado will
have a real game on its hands
this Frday night when it en
gages the Comets on "the Med
ford field in the second "grid
meeting in modern history be
tween the two schools.
Crater Coach Leonard last
night described Crater morale as
the best ever this season. Spirit
was really up in yesterday aft
ernoon's workout, according to
the Comet mentor. The players
were "really talking it up."
Warren reported that the
Comets are working at the
whole thing" in getting ready
for the Black Tornado, even
going back to fundamentals,
blocking and tackling. Defense
is getting much attention as
Crater aims at stopping the
Medford backs, particularly
Rocky Stone, Lorin Jacobs and
Mike Hawkins.
Physically Improyed
The Comets are in the best
physical shape they've been
since the Yreka, Calif., ruckus
a month ago, the coach said.
Guard Jim Welch, out much of
the season, first because of ill-
Twelve Die
From Hurts
On Gridiron
Los Angeles (U.R) Twelve
players have died directly as a
result of football injuries and
three indirectly at the halfway
point in the current season, ac
cording to Dr. Floyd R. East
wood. Dr. Eastwood, dean of men at
Los Angeles State college, an
nually computes football fatal
ities for the American Football
Coaches association.
Dr. Eastwood said direct fa
talities through Oct. 29 showed
seven high school deaths, two
college deaths, one athletic club
fatality and two sandlot fatal
ities. Heart Attacks
The indirect deaths were due
to two heart atacks and a case
of bone cancer from an injury
suffered last year, he said.
At this time last year, Dr.
Eastwood said, there were 11
direct deaths from football. He
said the most disturbing increase
this season was in the high
school ranks, which recorded
only five deaths at mid-season
last year.
Head injuries caused seven of
the direct deaths this year, spin
al injuries from head blows
three more and internal injur
ies the remaining two, Dr. East
wood reported.
ankle, may see some action this
week. Back Vera Parent is still
troubled with Lad ankles but is
expected to see his usual amount
of duty.
In the Medford camp drill
this week is with the anticipa
tion that the Tornado "probab
ly will have a ball game on its
hands." Medford work, too, has
reverted to fundamentals. Play
ers were put through tackling
and blocking work Monday. The
Tornado lapsed in both depart
ments against Marshfield last
Friday.
In addition to the contact
work in fundamentals Monday,
Medford began lining up its de
fense for the Comets and ran
through its offense. Hard scrim
mage was the order of the day
yesterday with both offense and
defense getting attention.
DeVore. Kaslner Hurt
While it appeared that the
Tornado will be "ready" so far
as morale is concerned, the
picture was "not so geod" physi
cally. Both Center Mike DeVore
and End Bud Kastner, two-way
starters, were on the sidelines
yesterday, Coach Fred Spiegel-
Derg said. DeVore rehurt a knee
in practice last week, had the
hip banged up again in the
Marshfield game.
DeVore's knee is bruised and
awfully sore, according to Med
ford's head coach. He may not
be used much against the Com
ets. Gary Shaffer, 188-pound
junior, may get the pivot job on
offense with Jack Gregory, 158
pound junior, getting the call
at DeVore's defensive guard
post.
DeArmond Gets Post
Kastner is under doctor's or
ders not to work out until his
hip heals. ' Gordon DeArmond,
155-pound senior, is expected to
get the bid at Kastner's offen
sive flank.
Both DeVore . and Kastner
were looking on at the drill last
night. Coach Spiegelberg indi
cated, that his starting crew
will be about the same as usual
at the other positions
Medford had its regular eve
ning session yesterday, viewing
movies of last year's Crater con
test and having blackboard drill.
Marshfield would not permit
taking movies of the game at
Coos Bay last week.
Medford will aim Friday to
even the score for .a 20 to 14
upset last year at the hand of
Crater,
Shaw Keeps
Lead in PCC
In Offense
Los Angeles (U.R) George
Shaw of Oregon continues to
lead the Pacific Coast confer
ence in total offense with 1069
yards passing and 177 rushing
for a total of 1245 to .1117 for
Paul Larson of California.
Shaw is second to Larson in
the number of pass completions
with 73 to 93 for the Golden
Bear ace. .
Dick James of Oregon is tied
for second in number of touch
downs with eight. Bob Daven
port and Primo Villaneuva qf
UCLA have nine each while
Jan Arnett of USC has eight.
Wilhrow Tops Punters
Jim Withrow of Oregon State
continues to top the punters with
a 41.7 average on 21 boots.
James is fourth in total num
ber of pass catches with 21 and
Phil McHugh of Oregon is fifth
with 16. Jim Hanifan of C a 1
Pleads this department with 30.
James is second in punt return
yardage with 132, while Sam
Brown of UCLA has 235.
In team statistics, Oregon
leads in passing offense with
1293 yards and is fourth in rush
ing and punt returns, fields led
by UCLA. Oregon is second to
the Brums in total defense, giv
ing up 220.1 yards a game to
210.1 for UCLA.
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Bobo Olson
Faces Panter
Richmond, Calif. ; (U.R)
World middleweight champion
Carl (Bobo) Olson takes the final
tune-up for his Dec. 15 title de
fense tonight when he trades
punches with slugging Garth
Panter of Salt Lake City in a
10-round bout.
The fight, nationally - tele
vised without a local blackout,
is expected to attract about $10,
000 worth of customers into the
new Richmond Memorial audi
torium. Olson was expected to weigh
in today at around 165 five
pounds over the middleweight
limit, but reputed to be his best
for hard-hitting. In previous
tune-up fights since winning the
world crown a year ago, the
champion' has won everything
with knockouts over Joey Rin
done, Jesse Turner, and others.
Real Slugger
However, in Panter he meets
a real slugger. This lad has
scored 40 knockouts in 57 vic
tories, while losing 16 in his
career. He has fought Olson be
fore, too losing a close de
cision to him a couple of years
ago at Butte, Mont.
" He holds victories over such
well-ranked stars as Pierre Lang
lois, Walter Cartier and Norman
Hayes and definitely can be ex
pected to punish Bobo at some
time during the evening.
The bout is slated to get un
der way at 10 p.m. (EST) over
the CBS network.
Olson's next bout -will be the
title defense against Joey Giar
dello of New York. ;
TO DISCUSS PAKISTAN
London (U.R) Prime minis
ters of the . British Common
wealth may meet in January to
discuss Pakistan's plan to be
come a republic, informed
sources said today. If agreement
is reached, Pakistan would be
the second republic within the
commonwealth. Indian was the
first to sever her relations with
the crown and join the common
wealth as a democratic republic.
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Joe Ziegler
Appointed
By Beavers
Portland (U.R) Joe Zieg
ler, who last year was general
manager of the Buffalo entry in
the International League, last
night was named general man
ager of' the Portland Pacific
Coast League basball team. -
Clay Brown, president of the
club's new board of directors,
said Ziegler had been signed for
one year. He did not disclose the
salary.
Brown said Ziegler was chosen
from among 20 applicants,
"many of whom were from the
east. He comes highly recom
mended and we feel fortunate in
landing a man with his broad
baseball experience."
Ziegler said his plans for the
team were still "a little sketchy."
However, he said it would ap
pear that the "crying need" of
the Beavers was player person
nel. He said he expected to
"have the groundwork laid for
the deals that will help the
team" by the time the Major
Minor meeting starts in December.
Nagurski's Son
Shows Promise
As Footballer
International Falls, Minn.
(U.R) The most rugged compet
itor football ever has known ad
mitted today on his birthday he
hasn't seen a college game in
"four or five years" but indi
cated he'll be paying more at
tention next fall.
It was Bronko Nagurski who
was "glad you reminded me" of
his 46th birthday, but somewhat
at a loss when asked to com
pare modern day ball with the
powerhouse game of the old
days.
"I'm afraid you've got the
wrong guy," Nagurski said. "It
must be four or five years since
I've seen a college game except
on television."
When you've played in as
many games and seen as many
as I have, you just don't feel
like driving 400 miles to Min
neapolis to see a game, the
Bronk admitted.
Make Difference
But next fall another Nagur
ski Bronko Jr., will start
college, which "probably, will
make a difference" , to his dad.
Young Bronko, a strapping
215-pounder only .17 years of
age, already has given plenty
of promise of living up to bis
name.
Like his dad, he won Iron
Range conference high school
All-Star honors for two years.
The junior edition was the
mainstay at tackle in Interna
tional Falls high school's unde
feated season this year and he
made the All-Conference team
last year as guard.
But whether young Bronk
will follow his Dad to Minnesota
where the elder Nagurski won
All-American honors in 1928-29
playing offensive fullback and
defensive tackle, still isn't decided.
Silver Salmon Released
In Willamette Branches
Portland (U.R) Some
,120,500 silver salmon finger
lings have been released in
three Willamette River tribu
taries duping the past two weeks
by the Oregon fish commission,
according to Irvine French, di
rector of fish culture.
French said 50,000 of the four
inch fish -were released in the
Yamhill river, 45,500 in the Tua
latin and 25,000 in the Molalla
river. The f ingerlings are the
offspring of 225 adults salvaged
at Oswego creek last winter.
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END ZONE SWIPE University of Washington quarterback
Bob Cox (right) leaps high to intercept pass in the end zone in
tended for Oregon's left halfback Dick James (left). Cox ran it
back to his own 20 yard line in the game at Seattle. Oregon
won, 26-7. '
SIPODIMFS
Larson on Shaw's Heels
In Total Offense Battle
New York (U.R) Oregon's
George Shaw and California's
Paul Larson, a pair of senior T
quarterbacks, head in to the fi
nal three games of the season far
ahead of the field in the indi
vidual total offense race, with
defending ohampion Larson
streaking desperately to over
take Shaw.
NCAA Service Bureau major
college statistics showed today
that Shaw is still well ahead
with 1,245 passing-plus running
yards to Larson's 1,117, but that
Larson cut 62 yards from
Shaw's lead last week. The Cal
ifornia star, who is the country's
top passer by a wide margin, did
it the hard way, piling up 259
yards against unbeaten UCLA
Sanders Chosen
Coach of Week
By CARL LUNDQUIST
New York U.R) When he
described his team's "offense as
"a horse and buggy with a tele
vision set in the dash board,"
his boys didn't exactly like it.
Using his old-fashioned single
wing with a balanced line, they
went out and ran up slaughter
house victories of 67-0, 72-0 and
61-0. Against sterner opposition
they met the challenge again and
proved their right to the No. 1
national ranking. Then they
asked him, "How do you like
our horse and buggy now?"
He's the United Press Coach
of the Week, Henry (Red) San
ders of those unbeaten, untied,
unmerciful UCLA Bruins.
Using his "conservative" of
fense with a little dash of modern
technique to streamline it, UCLA
has piled up 292 points in seven
games while yielding only 40 to
lead the nation in scoring. Sat
urday's triumph over a fired-up
California eleven, in a tradition
al rivalry by a sizeable 27-6 mar
gin, convinced all the skeptics
that Sanders had a truly great
outfit.
while turning in the best passing
performance of the season 25
completions in 38 tries for 280
aerial yards. Now Shaw must
face UCLA this Saturday.
Great Defense
Larson is making an even
greater run in defense of his
crown than he did last year in
his come-from-behind victory.
Then he made 616 yards in the
last three games. In his last
three up to now, he has made
679. He's trying to become the
third man to win two .offense
titles. Only Oklahoma A&M's
Bob Fenimore in 1944-45 and
Drake's Johnny Bright in 1949
50 have done it.
And as a passer, Larson has
a shot at a completion average
record and already has complet
ed, in seven games, more than
twice as many passes as any
other player in California's
earth-bound history. Until he
himself completed 85 last year,
no Bear passer ever had more
than 46. Now he's No. 1 man,
with 93 completed in 142 tries
for 65.5 per cent. The record
for a minimum of 150 attempts
is 60.1 per cent, set in 1950 by
Don Heinrich of Washmgton.
Shaw is second in comple
tions with 73, but first in at
tempts with 150. Larson has
most yardage through the air,
1,125, to Shaw's 1,068. No one
else has 1,000.
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San Francisco (U.R) San
Franciscans have voted in favor
of major league baseball for San
Francisco.
Final election returns today
snowed tne voters overwhelm
ingly approved a $5,000,000 bond
issue to build a new ballpark.
Backers of the measure said con
struction of the municipal stadi
um was the "first step" toward
bringing a big league ball club
to the city.
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By HAL WOOD
San Francisco (O.R) Time
changeth all things!
The complaints now pour m
that Coach Lynn (Pappy) Wal
dorf is using "too much pass
ing" and that he is attempting to
be too spectacular.
Well, sir, it was only a year
or so ago that some of the men
connected with the football
world were charging that Wal
dorf's offensive was so stereo
typed that everybody knew
what was going to happen next.
In fact, after Waldorf lost
three Rose Bowl tilts in a row
to the Big Ten teams the rea
son was given that f'Waldorf
didn't use any imagination" in
his offensive plays.
Now I see where he is being
charged with not building a
running attack and using too
much of an aerial circus.
No Alibi
Without attempting! to alibi
for Pappy, it seems to me that
the man once known as "The
Wise Walrus of Strawberry Can
yon" is being second-guessed
more than somewhat.
wnen waiaorf naa sucn ime
running backs as Jackie Jensen,
Jack Swaner, Pete Schamarum
and Jim Monachino and winning
80 per cent of his games, he
was accused of sticking too close
to the ground when he was los
ing one or two games a season.
Now, with one of-the greatest
passers in the history of the
Pacific Coast Conference in the
person of Paul Larson, there is
the complaint that he never
thinks about running.
I can remember, too, when
Waldorf was first hired: one of
the "musts" the alumni demand
ed was that a T-formation coach
be hired to succeed Frank Wick-
horst after his disastrous 1945
season. Wickhorst coached the
wing system.
Made The Change
So Pappy, an old single-wing
coach himself, converted to the
T."
Then the complaint was that,
with his fine running attack
Waldorf should be using the
single-wing, because the T-for
mation primarily was for a pass-
mg attack. .
Along about the time Bob Ce
leri, the "mad engineer" was
playing quarterback, Waldorf
had a pretty well balanced com
bination passing and running at
tack and still the club lost on
occasions.
Coach Jess Hill of unbeaten
UCLA praises Waldorf for hav
ing the finest T-formation at
tack in intercollegiate football
today. !
Now some of the same pun
dits who charged "sterotyped
offense" claim there is too much
dipsy-do.
Which proves, of course, that
the guy who said "you can't
please all of the people all the
time" was more than right.
Crusaders Stress Conditioning
In Practices for Chiloquin Fray
Conditioning is something
Coach Ed Hummel has stressed
all season for the St. Mary's foot
ball team and the Crusaders
were getting more of it this week
as they girded for the District
5B championship play-off.
The Crusaders, Jackson coun
ty champs, oppose Chiloquin at
Merrill . this Saturday afternoon
for the pennant and the right to
enter the sate B championship
quarer-finals.
Coach Ed Hummel said today
that he has been running his
crew a lot to get it in better
shape" for playing at the higher
altitutde of Klamath county.
COMPLACENCY FEARED
Los Angeles (U.R) Southern
California Coach Jess Hill
cracked down on his Trojan
charges today as he said he
feared his players might be get
ting complacent about meeting
Stanford.
His uneasiness prompted him
to put his team through its hard
est Tuesday workout of the sea
son yesterday a rough half
hour of scrimmage and then 90
minutes on blocking.
The coach reported the Cru
sader squad in "pretty, good
shape" physically. A doctor last
night banished fears that a knee
injury suffered by Halfback Stan
Bead might deter the SM club
in the district titular scrap. Read
get the knee bruised a bit in
the Crater jayvee game Satur
day night. It bothered him some
in practice Monday and he laid
off yesterday to see the doctor.
The Crusaders may leave .Fri
day for Klamath county, have a
workout there and stay over
night at Klamath Falls in order
to get accustomed to the higher
elevation.
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FIGHTS
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Washington, stopped Tommy Thomp
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Miami Beach, Fla.: Paul Andrews,
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NOVEMBER 6, 1954
Texas at Baylor (TV)
California at Washington
Duke at Navy
Nebraska at Kansas
Washington St.' at Michigan State
Oregon State at Minnesota
Oregon at U.C.L.A.
Southern California at Stanford .
Army at Yale
Crater High at Medford High
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are to be split in case of ties. Each week everyone
in the group picking the most winners wins a $1.50
necktie. ONLY ONE ENTRY PER PERSON.
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