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TWELVE MTOFORD (OREGON) Ducks End Shaw Gets CorVallis (U.PJ George Shaw, Oregon's Ail-American quarter back candidate, wound up a brilliant college football career Saturday with three touchdown passes as the Webfoots ended a five-year Oregon State victory string, 33-14, in'the 58th renewal of their "Civil War" rivalry. Shaw, mixing his plays beau tifully, intercepted a pass that set up the first Oregon touch down after Oregon State had taken a sudden 7-0 lead. Oregon then blazed to two more scores before the first half ended to go convincingly in front. j Shaw ended up with 121 net yards Saturday, giving him a' total for the season of 1536 and the national yardage gained title .over Paul Larson of California. - Two of Shaw's touchdown Corvallis-. (U.R) Oregon's Captain Ron Pheisler Satur day lost his first coin loss of (the season as Oregon and Ore gon State opened their 58th football game at - Corvallis. Pheister had won nine straight coin tosses in earlier games this season. Odds against him making 10 in a row were 1024 to one. - passes went to Halfback Dick James and the other to Halfback Lloyd Powell. Fullback Jasper MeGee plunged, to the other two Oregon touchdowns. Oregon State scored on a pass from Jim Withrow to end Wes Ediger in the opening minutes and again near the end of the game ona four-yard plunge by Dick Mason. First for Cas :., - ,It was Oregon's 28th win in the long series but was the first time ' a. Webf oot team coached by Len Casanova has beaten a Kip Taylor-coached Oregon State squad. ' . y ; Oregon State started out as if it meant to make it six in a row. The Beavers moved downfield after the opening kickoff on a long pass from Withrow to Jack Tl-A 3 J IXTill- row's 11-yard toss to Ediger. Oregon was held until midway in the second period when the alert Shaw intercepted a With row pass and returned it 38 yards to the Oregon State 48. The Ducks moved downfield with McGee plunging over. Another Strike V Moments later, after James re covered Peterson's fumble, Shaw- hit Campbell with a strike on a play good for 50 ; yards and a touchdown. Oregon intercepted Langlois to Fight Olson San Francisco U.R) Pierre Langlois of France replaced Joey Giardello as champion Carl Bobo Olson's opponent in the scheduled Dec. 15 middleweight title fight here after the bout al most wound up in" moth balls. Langlois Friday cabled from France that he would meet Olson for the crown and the offer im mediately was snapped up by the International Boxing Club and promoter Bennie Ford while manager Sid Flaherty added that "Bobo was ready to defend his title anywhere agamst any body." , Ford scratched Giardello from the fight Friday when the pro moter wds informed by D3C President Jim Norris that the Philadelphian's left knee had started to stiffen up following a workout. Some torn ligaments had been removed from the knee in Oc tober. v."- V .- "Norris told me that a doctor has said Giardello's knee would be all right in two weeks but rather than risk losing the bout altogether I asked the IBC to get another fighter for Bobo," Ford said.. .. EN THAT WAY SINCE HIS . Blocks withstand the most unusual wear. Come rain. snow, cold or heat . . . it makes no difference. Blocks . . resist all variations of weather. If you don't know about blocks, find out from us NOW! Phone 2-4107 v BUHLHDEIirS SUPPLY 727 W. McAndrews Buid Belter... MAIL TRIBUNE Long Drought, 33-14; 1 ,536 Total for Title another pass and Shaw topped another drive with a scoring strike to James. The Webfoots went out ahead 33-7 in the seer ond half on a 51-yard pass play from Shaw to James and a plunge by McGee before Oregon State mustered enough drive to push over, a final touchdown. Shaw, who played the entire HONESTLY Mrs. Anthony Martinez rewards son Vince with a kiss for his honesty. Martinez revealed a $20,000 bribe offer for him to throw his fight with Carmine Fiore in Madison Square Garden Oct 29. He stopped Fiore in seven rounds after rejecting the bribe and reporting the incident to N. Y. State Boxing Comsr. R. K. Cbiistenberry. Oregon Tech Blasts SOC 44-1 4 in Homecoming Fray Ashland A large homecom ing crowd at Walter Brooks field in Ashland Saturday saw Southern Oregon ; college close out its football season with a defeat at the hands of the pow erful Oregon Technical institute, 44-14. The loss for the local club gave SOC a season's record of two wins and five losses and a tie for third ard fourth in the Oregon Collegiate" conference. The invading Owls from Klam ath Falls ended their season with a respectable second place in" the conference. Big" Lead The booming Owls jumped off to a big lead in the first quarter, which ended 19-0. They scored first on a pass from Ray Rosa to Willie Stinson. The extra point was missed. Their second score came when Calvin Smith danced 75 yards for the paydirt, and they failed on the point after touchdown. Rosas passing arm , was I good again later when he hit !Odie Canada for the third score, and Canada kicked the extra point , for the quarter end of 19-0. OTI failed to score m the second period. However, the Red Raiders gained the score board when Jimmy Wright ran a kick return back for the TD. OTI threatened near the end of the first half, but failed to cross the goal line. In the third quarter, a SOC kick was blocked by Canada, who ran' for another touchdown on the next play, making the score 25-7. OTI recovered on the second of two SOC fumbles and Doug Crippen ran from the OTI 40 to the SOC four-yard line. He scored on the next play, making it 31-7, when Canada missed his kick. "' ' ? " The host club gained its final touchdown in the fourth quarter when a pass from Bill Seymour to Chuck. Crandall. paid off and and John Garrett-kicked the MOTHER &ECAME MOT MASCOT Build Block! Sunday, November 21, 19S4 game, handed the ball off to re serve senior quarterback Don Holt on the final two plays rath er than try to increase his yard age total. Oregon State actually out first downed Oregon, 17-14, but three Beaver fumbles and inter cepted passes nullified many of them. extra point for a 31-14 score. OTI jumped back after blocking LeRoy Springer's kick on the five-yard line of .SOC. Dave Thomas scored on a quarterback sneak and Canada kicked suc cessfully for a 38-14 margin. Lyle Fleetwood made the final OTI touchdown and the extra point was missed for the 44-14 result. ' . Loaded Guns OGC Target Portland ttJ.R) The State Game Commission 'wants author ity to crack down on persons who carry loaded guns, in their automobiles. The commission, meeting here Fridav. aDDroved a bill for sub mission to the next Legislature which would make it unlawful for anv, nerson in anv motor ve hicle, on any public Ihighway or j. T . j-t oiner rigni oi way open to ine public to carry a loaded rifle or shotgun. - The bill wouldn't apply tp law enforcement officers carrying guns while on duty. The proposed measure calls for a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $500, or for imprison ment of not less than 10 days nor more than six months, or both. Dr. John Rayner, chief of the fisheries division, asked for a bjgger season's bag limit on steel head and salmon. He said he would like to see the limit in creased to 20 steelhead and 20 salmon from the present 20 steel head or salmon. John McKean, chief of the game division, said deer in cen tral Oregon already are coming out of the mountains and are feeding on stacked-hay, especial ly along the Crooked river. Ap proval was given for construc tion of 300 panels at a cost of $1,155 to protect hay stacks in the area. ... FURNITURE CONCRETE BUILDING "A Safe Place for Your FURNITURE MOVING PADDED VAN ; Dependable Service Ratet Reasonable F. E. SAMSON CO., Inc. 4TH & FRONT MEDFORD PHONE 2-5295 SIPODIMTS Marshfield, South Salem Get into Finals By UNITED PRESS It's Marshfield against South Salem and Vale against St. Hel ens for Oregon's two top high school football titles. ,The powerful Golden Pirates from Coos Bay and the smooth Saxons from Salem won as ex pected in Friday night's class A-l semifinal games. Both teams still are unbeaten, making this week's title game at Multnomah Stadium in Portland a natural. South Salem .which was tied this season by Corvallis, racked up Beaverton 27-7 at Multnomah stadium Friday night before 6289 fans. Marshfield took a tough Lincoln team 20-7 before a crowd of 4,500 at Coos Bay. Vale, the team which upended Prineville only a week ago, whacked Coquille 21-7 at Vale Friday night as Tony Arena passed to one touchdown, scored another and kicked three extra points. St. Helens crushed Dal las 38-0 at St; Helens in a game' highlighted by a 68-yard punt return by the -winners' Neil Kel logg. Others Given , Site of the Vale-St. Helens A-2 title class wll be announced early this week. In class B 11-man action, Mon roe won its way into the finals by downing Knappa 32-14 at Corvallis. Monroe will meet the winner of - Saturday's Union Moro game for the title this week. 1 Glide hosts Culver Saturday for the state six-man title. Marshfield ,tuck to the ground in its win over Lincoln. WSC Socks UW, 26-7; 2nd in Row Pullman, Wash. flJ.P.) Wash ington State, led by Fullback Duke Washington and Halfback Jim Hargerty, broke loose in the second half Saturday to wnip arch-rival Washington 26-7 for WSC's most decisive victory in the 47 year history of the Pacific Coast Conference series. Washington' State, held to last minute touchdown in the first 'half by the punchless Huskies, scored the three first times it had the ball in the third period. The speedy Duke Washington, meanwhile, ; ripped off big chunks of yardage as the rugged WSC line ripped the Washington line to shreds .Halfback Jim Hagerty scored his team's only touchdown in the first nan on a 46-vard trass play, then ran for two more in the third period. 1 Helfback Mert Furneu. enaea the scorine for the victors on shot pass late in the same period. Washington's lone score came with one minute to pley in the final period when Quarterback Bobby Cox, brilliant in defeat, connected with Corky Lewis in the- end ?one.. Dean Derby kicked the extra point. The noint snread was WSC's largest in its history against its cross state foes. It was the first time the Cougars had been able to hang up two wins in a row against the Huskies. High School Scores FRIDAY RESULTS Class A-l Semi-Fin alf Marshfield 20, Lincoln 7 i South Salem 27. Beaverton 7 1 Clan A-t Semi-Finali : Vale 21. Coquille 7 St. Helens 38, Dallas 0 Class B Semi-Final . Monroe 32, Knappa 14 FRIDAY COLLEGE SCORES: Miami (Fla.) 23, Alabama 7 , E. Central State 58, S. E. State 7 . San Jose State 28. Fresno State 0 S, F. State 7. Chico State 6 Santa Rosa JC 14, City Col. S. T. 12 Cal Poly 13. Humboldt State 0 Everett JC 37. Shasta JC 19 STORAGE DRY & CLEAN Household Goods" The Pirates tried only two pas ses, neither of which was com pleted. Halfbacks Johnny John son, who ran for 192 of Marsh- feld's 303 rushing yards, and Danny Baker, who scored two touchdowns, were the Marsh field stars. South Salem broke its game with Beaverton open in the third quarter, with two touchdowns as quarterback Herb Juran smoothly guided the Saxons' T formation attack. Union ,Ore.-4J.R) The Union High school Bobcats defeated Moro 14-6 here Saturday after noon to earn a berth in the Ore gon State Class B football finals. The defending champion Bob cats scored both touchdowns in the second period on runs by Gene McKinney and , Ronnie Dunham. Moro was scoreless un til the final period. Glide, Ore. (U.R) The Glide warriors won the Oregon six man high school football crown Saturday by defeating Culver 39-14. The victory was the ninth straight this season for Glide under Coach Jack Forsythe. Gene Polley and Charlie Fer guson both scored twice for the victors, and Bob Gilbert and Dick Smith added single touch downs. Cal Stops Indians by Slim 28-20 Berkeley, Calif. ' U.R) California's Golden Bears ex ploded for three touchdowns in the second quarter vand a 21-0 halftime lead, then hung on grimly through a - tense second half for a 28-20 victory over Stanford in the 57th anrmal "Big Game" before 81,490. ' , v With peerless Paul Larson performing with his. usual bril liance in the air and new sen sation Jerry Drew running wild, California had a 28-0 lead early in the third quarter. ! But this is the "Big Game" and the underdog Stanford team actually played over its head as it completely outfought Cal dur ing the last .17. minutes. With John Brodie taking care of the major aerial chores and Bill Tarr and Gordon Young run ning, the Indians made it the usual thriller . as they scored three touchdowns in 15 minutes. Roaring Climax ,But the Bears finally eked out the win in a roaring climax to another great game that gave California the lead in the' an cient series for the first time 24-23-10. f Larson had another great day in the air p a s s i n g for one touchdown and gaining 150 yards. But he lost 40 rushing for a net of only 110 for the afternoon, thus losing the Na tional Yardage Gaining cham pionship to Oregon's George Shaw. . '-; ; v. ' Larson, a former halfback, set a national completion record for passers this year with 125 out of 195 for a 64.1 average breaking the mark of 60.9. The old mark was set by Don Heinrich of Washington. California's Hanif an won the national pass receiving title as he caught five tosses this after noon for a season's total of 44. ; HARVARD VICTOR Cambridge, Mass. (U.R) -A gallant Harvard team, battered and outplayed by the huge Yale line, rallied for two last period touchdowns ; Saturday to upset the favored Elis 13 to 9 in thei 71st renewal of their Ivy league classic. . : . SHRINER'S! STAG SMOKER . All Members of Masonic Orders Invited at the Rogue Valley COUNTRY CLUB MON. NITE NOVEMBER An An Fun Begins 6 p.m. o Tickets 1.50 Covers Food and Refreshments Plenty of Turkeys & Hams Two Uclans On Colliers All-America Conway,' Ark. (U.R) UCLA and Oklahoma, with two play ers each, dominated' Collier's All-America team which was re leased prematurely here last week. : : A copy of the Dec. 10 issue of the magazine, , scheduled for release Nov. 26, was mailed by mistake to a Conway hospital, and officials of Collier's permit ted release of the teams. UCLA, the nation's No. 1 team in United Press ratings, placed two men on the mythical team, Jack Ellena at tackle and Jim Salsbury at guard. Oklahoma, the No. , 3 rated team, placed Max Boydston at end and Kurt Burris at center. Other schools placing one player each were Army, LSU," Arkan sas, Notre Dame, Rice, Ohio State and Wisconsin. - Ends: Max Boydston, Okla homa; Don Hollender, Army. Tackles: Jack Ellena, UCLA; Sid Fournet, LSU. Guards: Jim Salsbury, UCLA; Bud Brooks, Arkansas. Center: Kurt Burris, Okla homa. . , Quarterback: Ralph Gug lielmi, Notre Dame. -; , Halfbacks: Dicky Moegle, Rice; Howard Cassady, Ohio State. ... . ' Fullback: Alan Ameche, Wis consin. Idaho Tops BYU by 7-0 Boise '(U.R) A brutal Uni versity of Idaho line literally stopped the Brigham Young uni versity Cougar in its tracks Sat urday, then opened gaping holes for its own runners who plunged to a 7 to 0 football victory. The game was played in crisp 50-degree weather before, an es timated 10,000 fans. i It was the fourth straight win of the season for the Idaho Van dals of Moscow, who dropped the first five games they played this year. The last time Idaho won four games in a row was in 1923. : . The final score in Saturday's game failed to show' a true pic ture of the complete domination of play by Idaho. The Vandals chalked up 19 first downs and rambled to 311 yards by rushing, chiefly on the running kof junior fullback Wilbur Gary. and Bill Lawr, a senior right halfback.. Imbros Beats Out Ka rim Albany, Calif. U.R) Andy Crevolin's Imbros beat out Kar im ' and stablemate Determine, winner of the Kentucky Derby, Saturday to capture 1,he $10,000 Pacific Handicap at Golden Gate Fields. Leading from flagfall to finish, Imbros scored a length and a quarter victory over Karim who beat Determine by five lengths. It was Determine's ' first start since. July 3, after being laid up witn a jaw infection. - Johnny Longden had Imhros out of the gate in a hurry along the inside, quickly opened . up three lengths and had his mount pretty much in hand at the wire. ' Time for the six panels for three-year-olds and up over a track labeled "slow" was a good 1:11 15. The Crevolin entry re turned "$3.40 to win. Imbros packed high weight of 126 pounds in the field of six. Hartwig New South ' Wales Tennis Champ ; Sydney, Australia U.R) Rex Hartwig, bidding for one of Aus tralia's two singles assignments in the forthcoming Davis Cup challenge, sound, won the New South Wales tennis champion ship Saturday by trimming Mer vyn Rose, 6-3, 6-4, 8-6. . The crowd of 9,000 appeared disappointed with the caliber of play demonstrated by the final ists and Davis Cup selectors re served judgment on their quali fications for helping defend the cup here Dec. 27.-29. Faimffaire The Mail Tribune's all-South ern Oregon Conference football selections probably will be an nounced, the middle of this week. Sportscasters, sportswrit ers and coaches in Medford, Grants Pass, Klamath Falls and Ashland are participants in the annual polL . GOOD IDEA - : - Coaches of the Rogue League came through with what we consider a good idea when they chose two line backers in. addition to the reg ular backfield in picking their football all-star club, This de partment will weigh the idea for possible adoption in con nection with naming future Southern Oregon Conference all-star squads. K ; v TO SEE BIG GAME When the Army and Navy clash in ; their traditional grid mix next Saturday, ( Medford Mayor Diamond Flynn and Mrs. Flynn are expected, to be in the Philadelphia for the conclave of the American Municipal associa tion. Flynn will represent the League of Oregon Cities of which he is new president. PACES HARRIERS John McCamanx recently lead Carleton college harriers to the Midwest conference cross country title for the second year in a row. . He is not only top runner on the crew but has coached the team for -' the Northf ield, Minn., school. McCamant, son of the Rev., and Mrs. Thomas Mc Camant. Medford, is . a senior at the school. This year's Mid west harrier run was held at Chicago. It's good to see that the move is now underway, to get the Med ford Independent Basketball League organized for another year. We hope to see a good turnout at the meeting Wednes day, November 24, at 8 p. m. at the Medford Armory. Every year there's the temptation to hang back . until - officers are elected and until someone else inherits the - work and then to want in the league. That's neither a fair nor efficient way to organize if harmony is to be achieved . for the season. All teams which intend to compete should be represented at Wednes day s first meeting of the season. OLD MAN'S CIRCUIT ' ' Fellows who feel that their really active playing, days are over or- that they've slowed down too much for the Med ford Independent League have a chance to consider a strictly "for fun" circuit to attend a ' ' meeting at 8 p. m. that day at the YMCA. i . SOC TO WRESTLE J Southern Oregon college plans Last Week!; vl A K iv - A R IV C " .t the store by-J - Southern O 2''" .Texas Christun.t . AU1 ..neiaTlse 1 -:-"ire eleven . - I '""JV the h'atace and evc;yc0 ols". : a. tor sec" . Every MONDAY AT NINE! Radio KYJC Television KBES-TV TOM MacLEOD on BARKER'S "LET'S KICK IT AROUND" A SILMACAST FEATURING Local' Coaches and Players , Happenings in Sports iTKIL' Bum 1 m M&ssBsakk ly DICK JEWETT a wrestling team this year. Coach is Jim McDaniel, student at the college. ? He wrestled for Medford high before graduation a couple years ago. ., Rose Bowl Data Here's some info from the Pacific Coast Conference sent out to clear up misunderstand ings concerning the method of selecting opponents in the Rose Bowl football game: . "1. Both teams in the game must be members of the re spective Conferences. ... "2. The Pacific Coast Con ference votes for its represen tative on the basis of it's most representative team.' The team which receives a major ity of the nine votes cast is the representative, regardless of the number or nature of its wins or losses during the sea son. x v "3. In the case of a tie Vote for first place in the Pacific Coast Conference, the team (or .. teams) most recently in the Rose Bowl is (are) excluded and the other tied team auto matically selected. (Note this formula applies . only' to breaking a tie vote; it does not apply to ties in final Con ference standings. .' ' : "4. Under the current con tract no team from either Con- -f erence can appear in the Rose Bowl two years in succession. ' UCLA and Michigan State are not eligible for the January 2. 1956 game.) "5. The January 1, 1955 game will be the first under a new three-year contract which will extend through the game of January 1, 1957." Fans Battle Montreal (U.R) A battered special football train carrying fiercely loyal fans to two rival Canadian teams arrived here 45 minutes late Saturday after its passengers staged an all night donnybrook over whose team was the best. Canadian National Railways officials - said . the train had been halted six times on its turbulent 374-mile trip to Montreal" from Hamilton, Ont when frightened passengers pulled the emergency cord be cause fist-fights had broken out in the aisles. Several win- dows were smashed and bro ken bo"lei littered the coach- es. , GRANT INVITED ' ' . .Portland , (U.R) The Grant high school .band which features five drum majorettes has been invited to the Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena, Calif ., Jan. 1. Director Harold S. Jeans said whether the 80-piece band, made the trip depended upon a drive to raise money. . . State' at TuUn ii ii espm, ,.v. of pW-' weeks. --, 1 - e for"Vor tbird.," - , . e ties. w,ns -
