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SIX MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE . Rams Subdue 49ers; Contenders To Clash By EARL WRIGHT United Prtti Sports Wrtter The Detroit Lions meet the San Francisco Forty-Niners, the Cleveland Browns play the Chi cago Bears and the New York Giants tackle the Philadelphia Eagles next Sunday, in three of the National Football League's most important 1954 games. All six teams are contenders for the Division titles." Chico State; 39-12 Victor Over Raiders Ashland Chico State rolled to a 39 to 12 decision over the Southern "Oregon college foot ball at Chico, Calif., Saturday, getting two touchdowns on breaks in a hotly contested first half and then rolling up three TD's in the third quarter as the Red Raider defense faltered. Coach Alex Petersen of South ern Oregon said today that first half play was closer than .the score indicated. He reported that "disappointing" line play in the third stanza hurt the Raid ers. ;" ' Period scores were 12 to 0, 19 to 6 and 39. -to 6. . ; ; Chico got the ball on the SOC six yard line in the first quarter when the Raiders failed to get a punt away and later in the Quarter took over on the 24 after a pass interception. Both breaks produced touchdowns. f , LeRoy Springer got the second i quarter Raider touchdown after a short drive. Jim Wright went over from the two-inch line for SOC in the iourtlr quarter. The Raiders had put the ball on about the one-foot line and three'suc cessive Chico offsides moved the pigskin, forward. . V Regular Quarterback Bill Sey mour of SOC did not make the trip for the Raiders because of a leg injury. Southern Oregon therefore ran. from a spread rather than its regular T and Springer, normally an end, held down the tailback slot, most of the time. Also . absent from the Raider crew was Len Heston who was dropped from the squad for fail ure to train. - - - ? . - "Wright .was outstanding and 'Backs Glen Nelson and Springer clayed well. Petersen said.. By UNITED PRESS Oregon College of Education maneuvered its way into a shot at the Oregon Collegiate Conference-crown Saturday by its 33-6 win over Eastern Oregon at La firanrlp in thi nnlv rnnfpronro game played. I ' V ':. " The Wolves are tied for second place with Southern Oregon with a 2-1 league mark, and will be gunning for a first place tie this week end when it hosts the unde feated Oregon Tech Owls. ; - . - The loop's other member trav elled out of the conference for. games with California schools, winning two and .losing one. Portland State upset Los Angeles City College 20-0 at" Portland and OTI blasted Lassen, Junior College 53t13. . Southern Oregon was "humbled 39-12 by a strong . Chico State team.; ..?'-."' ' ; In the only other game 'this week end . conference-members. Port State plays Lower Colum- uia. uumur .t.unege xnoay mgnt, SOCE and EOC are both idle. Tibbs Ail-Around Cowboy Titlist San Francisco (U.R) Casey Tibbs. 24-year-bld cowboy from Ft. Pierre, S.D., was named the International 'Rodeo Associa tion s all-around champion last nighf for "the ;' second "straight year. - - y ' - . .' '. The award was announced during the final performance of the 10th annual Grand National Livestock Exposition, Horse Show and Rodeo at the San Francisco Cow Palace. ' Over 900 cowboys compete fori the honor in 76 IRA-sponsored rodeos throughout the country during the season. ' . Other . champions included uean uiiver, xxapa, idano, cau roping; Ross Dollarhide, Lake- vipw Orp .' strppi. wroetHnw Tim Shoulders, Henryetta, Okla, bull riding; and Jim Smively, Paw huska, Okla., steer roping. Bob Jones of Merced, Calif., and , Olin Sims, of Madera, .Calif., tied for the championship in team roping. Injured Matson Should Be Ready for LA Game Chicago 0J.R) - Chicago Cardinal halfback Olbe Matson, who suffered a severe concussion in the team's 30-14 loss to Phila delphia, was expected today to be ready for action against the Los Angeles Rams next week. Dr. Ralph O'Halloran, Cardi nal team physician, said last Philadelphia that he would keep Matson in a hospital overnight for observation. . - . - NAMESAKES A Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) Rob ert Burns and James Boswell are taking freshman ; English at Memphis State College. - The Lions, beaten-only by San Francisco, grabbed a one-game lead in the Western Division when they beat . the Baltimore Colts Saturday night, 27-3, and the Los Angeles Rams followed with a 42-34 Sunday triumph over the Forty-Niners. - -Detroit can boost its lead to two games with five to-go if it defeats second-place San Fran cisco at Briggs Stadium and if Cleveland, whips Chicago. - The Bears-Browns tussle at Chicago will be important to both. divis ions. The surging Bears are IVi games behind Detroit after ral lying to beat ' the Green. "Bay Packers, 28-23 Sunday. The Eagles, Giants and Pitts burgh 'Steelers started the'week end tied for the Eastern lead. New York's 30-6 triumpbover Pittsburgh and . Philadelphia's 3014 .victory over the Chicago Cardinals set up an Eagle-Giant clash for the undisputed lead at New York. : ; , .. Browns Rolling The Browns, started slowly but a revival of the superb defensive play that has been the basis of their pfest success now has them only a half-game behind the leaders in their bid for a fifth straight Eastern title. Their 62-3 triumph over : the Washington Redskins in Sunday's other game was the biggest margin run up in the NFL this year. Los Angeles rallied to win be fore a capacity 60,000 at San Francisco as Norm Van Brocklin threw" two TD passes to Elroy Hirsch and one to Bob . Boyd while' completing 16 of 18 throws for 276 yards. The home team cut the Ram margin to 35- 34 in the fourth quarter '- on touchdowns . by. John :.Henry Johnson and Gordie Soltau But Tank Younger, who averaged 16.3 yards for 18 rushes, then got the clinching TD on a five yard plunge.' . Hifsch deserves a lot of cred it for the victory. He made some fine catches and -was superb on defense,'? Ram : Coach -. Hamp Pool said after the 30-year-old pro starred for both platoons. Charley , Conerly threw TO passes to Kyle Rote, Ken Mac Afee and Bob Topp-as the Giants capitalized on Steeler errors and left many o fthe 36,358 Pitts burgh fans booing their ' team. Johnny Lattner got the Steeler touchdown as his club skidded to fourth place. The Giants turned two of five pass interceptions and two of three recovered fum bles into touchdowns. Blanda Passes For Clincher . Veryl Switzer helped - the Packers , take a 23-14 lead by scoring on a 93-yard punt return but he fumbled another punt and Wayne Hansen pulled the Bears within, range by scooping it up and running for a TD. George Blanda then passed to John, Hoffman for the winning touch-' down before 47,083 fans at Chi cago. " ... . , . George Ratterman, the league's highest-paid substitute', relieved Otto Graham at quarterback with ' Cleveland leading 13-3. When Otto who had hurt his left arm returned to action about 17 minutes later, Ratterman had completed 10 of 11 passes while guiding , the Browns to four touchdowns and a 41-3 lead. Coach Paul. Brown used defens ive men on offense while trying to hold down the score but War- . j . . . ren riajar t oeiensive oacs, ran 20 yards., to" score the first time he carried the ball. Cleveland, which collected 33 first downs and 515 yards, limited Washing ton to four" first downs and 64 yards. Bobby Thomason threw scor ing passes to Dom Moselle, Toy Ledbetter and Pete Pihos as the Eagles won before 21,963 fans. Ollie Matson, Cardinal halfback who thrilled the Philadelphia crowd with a 59-yard TD dash with a punt, was knocked out in the final period. He flew back to Chicago with the team, 'j ' Bobby Layne threw a scoring pass to Hunchy Hoernschemeyer an his short .tosses kept Detroit rolling before 25,287 Baltimore fans. ' : .. '., Tickets for Play-Off Grief Fray Go Rapidly At least, three-fourths of the available reserved seat tickets for the Medford-Marshfield state play-off football game here Fri day were sold out by 10:30 a. m. today. Tickets went on sale at 7 a. m. Ducats are being limited to four to a customer. Season tickets are not good for the clash but holders of their tickets -are being given through Wednesday to purchase their same seats. .. -,; -' FOOTBALL SATURDAY COLLEGE SCORES : Whitmore, 38. Pacific Lutheran 3 . . Santa Barbara 13; Pepperdine 12 ' , Idaho State 21, Colorado Mines 14 College of Pacific 13. San Jose State 7 Fresno state is. cai poly 13 . Cincinnati 34. Arizona . (Tented State 6 Texas Tech 28, Arizona 14 San Francisco State 14. Humboldt State 1 . - College of Idaho 33, seatue Ramblers 13 4 Whittier 21. IA. State 0 Chico State 39, Southern Oregon 12 Portland State 20. LACC 0 Pacific 20. Linfield O - , Willamette 24. Puget Sound 21 Central ' Washincton 25. British Columbia 18 Nevada 27, Sacramento 14. ...... . . ... Monday. NoTcmbcr t. 1954 up Takes Shape By JOHN GRIFFIN - United Press Sports Writer The official lineup for. those glittering football bowl games started to take shape today with Southern California assured of a Rose Bowl berth and. unbeaten Ohio State and Arkansas both close to clinching conference championships. ' .', , Southern Cal's once-beaten Trojans, though still having three games to play, made certain they will represent the Pacific Coast Conference, in the Rose Bowl tromrcirig Stanford,; 21-7, on Saturday. - Meanwhile, Ohio - State -remapped one game ahead in the red-hot. race" for the Big Ten's Rose Bowl berth as it won a non- league, game-. from Pittsburgh, 26-0, and now can clinch at least a tie for the Big Ten title by 'beating Purdue this Saturday. Cinderella - And amazing Arkansas stayed out front in the Southwest Con ference by springing another up set, 28-15,- over Rice. Now the Razorbacks, who surely must be rated the "Cinderella team of 1954" for their unexpected pow er, can clinch the league title outright and an automatic, berth in the Cotton Bowl by beating Southern Methodist this Satur day. Also drawing close to . title clinchings are Oklahoma in the Big Seven and Yale in the Ivy League, but the additional lure of a bowl berth is missing in these Cases. The unbeaten Oklahoma Soon ers, who are seeking their sev enth straight Big Seven crown; routed Iowa State, 40-0, and now can clinch a title tie by beating Missouri this Saturday. Yale suffered humiliation in a 48-7 trouncing by Army on Saturday in a non-league game, but still can clinch at least a lie for the Ivy League crown by beating Princeton-this week: ' Les Lingscheit Close To Winner In Harrier Race; Les Lingscheit, Medford high sophomore, was only five yards behind winner Bob Potter, Wash ington (Portland),. Saturday in gaining his second place in the jayvee division of the state prep cross country meet at Lewis and Clark college In Portland. , ; Potter built up a lead on a downhill stretch and Ling scheit was closing the gap at, the finish. It was a two-man race with the winner, and runner-up 20-yards ahead of the field: There were about 120 entries in the 1.25 miles race. Medford was not contending for team honors and Lingscheit was the only Tornado entry in the jayvee run. x- The four Medfordites entered finished in the upper half in the senior division. Glen Allison was ninth, 30-yards behind winner Mark Bobbins, Roseburg. Dave Egan ran 44th, Jack Pool 60th and Jim Benson 90th in the field of more than 180. Egan, an inexperience senior harrier ran a "terrific" race, ac cording to Coach Vera Wolthoff. He was well back in the pack near ther start of the 1.8-miles romp and passed a lot of men. , Wilcie Winchell had been scheduled to make the trip for Medford but was ill. Benson was his alternate. Bud Garfield Grabs Toga Bud Garfield was crowned chamnion last nisht nf tho mpn'n spring golf handicap tourney at Rogue Valley Country club. The 13-handicapper won with a net score of 209 (69-72-68). He finished the 54 holes early last week. Roy Gilbertson, one of the last to comnlete his rounds, was run ner-up with 210. He is a five handicapper and had net rounds of 72-69-69. Fred Conrad was next with 212. Norm . Hillyer, Ron Gandee, and Paul Meyer had 213s. With 125s were Brad Broyles, Larry Butler and Ever- en xacuraw. George ' Stacey carded 216. , In the lefthanders toumpv started last week Meyers has 137 nei wo-71) for ins completed two rounds. - Only five of .the 10 known lefthanders have signed up. and officials in charge have urged all southpaws to partici pate. Play ends on November 18. Ordinary Foes For Oregon ians By UNITED PRESS ... Portland (U.R) The Univer sity of Oregon-and Oregon State College football teams are due to revert, to ordinary opponents this weekend, after their respec tive trouncings Saturday by UC LA and ..Minnesota, two of the best elevents in the nation. The Ducks, who fell 41-0 to topranked UCLA, meets Wash ington State at Eugene in what could be a freescoring battle, Oregon State is also slated for an easier time after losing 44-6 to mighty Minnesota at Minne apolis. OSC meets the hot and cold California Bears at Berke- II t J """""""T" I J ft IpS '- . , 1 - . -. - ' ' ...... TRICKY PLAY Bruin Jim Decker is about to be stopped by. Oregon's Ron Pheister (50) as he picks up six yards on a reverse play at Los-Angeles. UCLA has had phenomenal success with this play this. season. The Bruins walloped Oregon, 41-0. v ; ' . - - MedforivTribune SIPODIFJTS St. Ma ry Ta Face Moro In State B Quarter-Finals Portland U.R) The lineups for r state high school football championships playoffs were completed today for the A-l and A-2 schools, but one berth in the B school quarterfinals still re mains to be settled. In the A-l quarterfinals, Jef ferson of Portland meets South Salem at Salem; Marshfield of Coos Bay' takes on Medford at Medford; Lincoln of. Portland faces Pendleton at Portland, and Beaverton plays Milwaukie at Beaverton. All games are sched uled for. Friday night. First-round games in the A-2 playoffs send defending champ ion Prineville against Vale; Junc tion City against Coquille; St. Helens against Reedsport, and Dallas against: Central of Monmouth-Independence. District 8B Unsettled On the B school level the play off slate is completed except in District 8 where Wallowa and Union are tied. Wallowa plays Enterprise - Thursday in a holi day game and if Wallowa wins, a vote will be taken among dis trict representatives ' to determ-: ine the : district -winner which will meet Echo in the playoffs-- -v .. ; ... i The rest of the B playoffs line up like this: Knappa vs. Siletz; BOUTS SLATED .. New York U.R) Middle weight Gene Fullmery Utah's un beaten copper miner, will make J the first eastern test of his dyna mitefists tonight against rugged Jackie La Bua of New York in a television 10-rounder at Brook lyn.-' ' -- -i Another newcomer, light weight Kenny Lane of Muske gon, Mich., makes his second New York start tonight in a tele vision 10-rounder with fourth ranking Orlando Zulueta of Cuba at at. 1 lunulas Arena. - ' feaiii " Monroe vs., Oakland, and St. Mary's of Medford vs. Moro. . The Harrisburg Eagles take on Culver in the six-man semi finals. Eagle Valley of Richland and Glide clash in the other six man playoff contest. . ' 33 on Unbeaten Football List New York U.R) A total of 33 proud teams were left stand ing today in football's rapidly dwindling undefeated and untied ranks. . .. u Seven teams, headed by Miami (Fla.) a 14-13 upset victim at the hands of Auburn, fell from the perfect record list during the weekend, leaving 'UCLA, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Cincinnati as the only remaining unbeaten and untied major col lege teams, ; f . Those teams which dropped from the perfect record list dur ing the week end in addition to Miami were Alfred, South Caro lina State, Pepperdine, Western Kentucky State, Southern S,D. kTeachers and Mihot N.T. Teach ers. :.!'-' -; ' . Five teams on the unbeaten list completed their schedules Saturday. They-were Worcester Tech, Northwestern Wis., Col lege, Ashland, Ohio, Hastings, Neb., and Carlton, Minn. NO DUCK Portland, Me. U.R) There had been such heavy rains, Rich ard Kilby wasn't at all surprised when he dug what looked like a duck from his garden. But the find turned out to be five po tatoes that. had grown together to resemble a duck. First railway dining car made its appearance in the U. S.in 1868. - v ' .. Proved in over 2 billion . Mere's a .'flfflM jMobilgasl i nT" t iirJ -nr-iiai-M-f 1 -rt Pioneers Gain Contender Spot In NW Grid Loop By UUNITED PRESS Lewis and Clark College over ran" a light Whitman team 27-8 at Portland Saturday in the top Northwest Conference football game to become a contender for the league championship. Tied in second place with the Pioneers is Willamette, which out-lasted a strong College of Puget Sound team 24-21 at Salem in a non-conference game Saturday afternoon. College of Idaho, defending champions with an undefeated conference record this season, disposed of the Seattle Ramblers 35-13. In the other conference game of the weekend, Pacific romped over Linfield 20-0 in a battle for the cellar. Willamette, with a 3-1 confer ence record, challenges C of at Salem this Saturday in the league's top game of the week. A Willamette victory could throw the Coyotes into a three-way tie with the Badgers and the Pio neers. '; . ' '". Lewis and Clark, winner' of its last six starts after losing to Col lege of Idaho early in the sea son,, meets an improved Pacific squad . at Forest Grove. Linfield travels to Whitman. , Portlander Champion In Duck Calling Test - Dayton (U.R) The persua sive honks of A. L. Douglas, 44-year-old Portland lawyer, won him the title of champion duck caller at the Pacific Flyway duck calling meet, here , Satur day. ; ; ; v.;? ' f. ' ' ' ' i Douglas used two' duck calls to defeat the 24 other contes tants. One 'was a high pitched reed for distance calls and the other a low-pitched honk to at- track close-in wildfowl.' " RalDh Underwood. Salem. placed second and Mrs.- Gordon Hallsten. Beaverton. was third. 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Troy made a bid to the rose- strewn classic a certainty try -defeating Stanford 21-7 on Satur day and racking up its fifth vic tory of the Pacific Coast Con ference race.. : ; ' The win kept Coach Jess Hill's warriors deadlocked for first place in the PCC with UCLA, which overran. Oregon 41-0, but the Bruins are restricted by con ference regulations from making two straight appearances in the post season, contest." Los Angeles (U.R) - Unde feated and untied UCLA, the GRID CAREER OVER Philadelphia (U.R Notre Darnel center Pick' Szvmanski faced the end of his college foot ball careers today-following an operation on a ruptured spleen. ' une 21-year old senior was in jured in .Saturday's Notre Dame- Penn game which the Irish took 42-7. Physicians at the Univer sity of Pennsylvania Hospital said the 217-pound workhorse was "doing well" after the op eration but that he would be sidelined for the remainder of the season his last with Notre Dame. 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