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at fit sf. JEK MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuttdty. November 23, I9S4 Taylor, Aides, Quit i CCorvallis (U.R) - Head Coach Kip Taylor and his three assistants resigned yesterday from the varsity ' football staff at Oregon State college. ' The three assistants resigning are Line Coach Lea Younce, Backfield Coach Ward Cuff and Fnd Coach Hal Moe. Remaining is Dick Twenge, rookie fresh man coach. . ; Dr. A. L. Strand, president of Oregon State, said the resigna tions were, submitted yesterday to the 11-man athletic board, which accepted them after a meeting last .night and recom mended that the college admin istration likewise accept the resignations. " Taylor, in a letter to the board, said that, "in view of the apparent increasing pressure in the Oregon State college football program," he- was submitting his resignation, effective July 1. Dr. Strand said the four res ignations would be placed be fore the State Board of Higher Education at its next meeting Dec. 14 with "my full expecta tion that they will be accepted." Dr. Strand's announcement did not come as a surprise. Stu dent rumors were circulating before and after the game with Oregon here ' Saturday, which concluded the worst football season in the school's history. Oregon state won only one , game," while losing eight. The athletic , board, which is composed of students, faculty and alumni, held a 10-hour meeting following Oregon State's 33-14 loss to the Univer sity ;of Oregon football - team, to "review the football situation." A spokesman said after last night's 2 Vfe-hour session that the group "after full consideration of the football program" had agreed to accept the staff's res ignation.' The acceptance was unanimous. ' R. S. (Spec) Keene, director of athletics, said "We all have great respect and admiration for Kip Taylor and his coaching staff. They have contributed greatly to the welfare of OSC." Sine 1949 Taylor has been head football coach since 1949. During his six-year stay, his teams won 20 and lost 36 games, compared to the school's all-time record of 237 victories against 181 losses. Taylor began his coaching ca reer in 1934 at George Rogers Clark high school, . Hammond, Ind. He became an assistant to Biggie Munn at Syracuse univer sity in 1946, and was end coach and scout under Munn- at Mich igan State the following year. . He replaced Lon Stiner at Ore gon State in 1949. Younce, after playing football at Roosevelt high school in Port- land and at OSC, was with the New . York football Giants for six years before joining the OSC coaching staff in 1949. Backfield coach Cuff played for 11 seasons in professional ranks and was a teammate of Younce with the Giants. He was an all-America halfback at Marquette in 1937. After coach ing high school football for three years, he came to OSC in 1951. Moe,' an all-Coast back in 1 932 while playing for Oregon State, also played pro ball be- earns fore entering coaching. He was Beaver backfield coach from 1936 to 1941 and became head football coach and athletic di rector at the University of Port land after his. discharge from the service. He resigned in 1949 to join the OSC staff." MEDFOIUrijTRIBUlfE siPODDinrs f ilJ,; ; ' BREAK FIVEtYEAR STREAK At Cprvallis, University of Ore gon players, Phil McHugh (left) and. Dick James, carry, their quarterback, George Shaw, from the field after downing Ore gon State college, 33-14. It was the' first time they beat the Beavers in five years. .. ' DiMaggio's Doctor Studies Ulcer Surgery San Francisco (U.R) Joe Di i Maggio's doctor says he will know tomorrow whether the Yankee Clipper must undergo surgery for a duodenaJUulcer. " "I hope he won't hC to un dergo an operation," said Dr. Clifton J. Bennett. "He is rest ing better, but we can't tell yet." Annual Major League Draft Of Players Now Underway New York; (U.R) Fans for the Kansas City. Athletics and Pittsburgh Pirates may not have much to cheer about after the 1955 baseball season starts, but they can be proud today of their teams' showings in the annual major-league player draft. . , The, A's, living up to new own er ,Arnold Johnson's "money is no object" rebuilding" promise, bought the largest number of players in the draft three pitchers and enthusiastically shelled out $35,000 for them. 'The Pirates picked only one player, outfielder Robert Cle mente, but as usual General Manager Branch Rickey was a real "bargain hunter" and paid only $4,000 for the highly-touted "sleeper." All told, there wasn't much ac tion in the annual ,talent grab bagonly 10 of - the Iff . teams bothered to make, selections and the-total purchase price of the Is there any reason twhy you should settle for less than the BEST? There is a reason more and more people prefer Gordon's gin. For Gordon's alone gives your gin drinks the distinct advantages of high (94.41) proof and ex clusive Liqueur Quality. That's why every gin drink made with Gordon's is better . . . it's sustained in flavor, velvety smooth and never, never tastes thin! So ask yourself: why take chances with having any thing less than the finest? That's why more and more people ask for a Gordon'$ Martini wherever it's served 'or sold:'. " ' ' Z"' There's no gin like Gordon's too: NEunwi spirits dismin fion tmttmoii'S went co., .. umdoi. h i 13 , players picked was only $122,500. . There is. always a chance that the total may grow, for teams have until midnight tonight to make additional selections. Selections Listed: Here are the selections al ready made with players' 1954 records, in parentheses: .. By Kansas City: Pitcher Art Ceccarelli (15rl2) ' of Birming ham Sou. Association; pitcher Cloyd Boyer (2-3) of Rochester International League; and pitch er Bob Spider (13-16) of Los An geles Pacific Coast League. By Washington: Shart stop John Kline (.319) of Birming ham. ; '',.., . 1 : By Detroit: Pitcher Bennett Flowers (11-12) of Louisville American Association. -. By , Boston: Pi t c h e r Joe Thimble ' (9-12) c of Burlington, S.C. Carolina League. '.- By Pittsburgh: Outfielder Ro berto. Clemente -(.257) of Mon treal International League. ; By Chicago Cubs: Outfielder Jim., King (.315) of Rochester; and pitcher Vicente Amore (18 11) of Oklahoma City Texas League. By Cincinnati: Outfielder Glenn Gorbous (.283) of. Fort Worth; Texas League; and pitch er ;Jerry Dean (15-2) of Green ville, .Miss.-- Cotton States League. . .- ' - . By Milwaukee: Pitcher Ro berto Vargas (12-13) of Reading, Pa.-Eastern League. By New York Giants: Catcher Mickey Grasso (.333) of Indiana' polis American Association. - Teams made their selection in the inverse order of the way .they finished in 1954. So, Pitts burgh, eighth-place team in the National League.' had first pick, followed by Kansas City, eighth- place team in the American League, BASKETBALL MEETING Sponsors and managers of Itams planning io participate ' this season in ths Medford In dependent . Basketball league are asked to attend a meeting at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Medford Armory on North Bartletl st. UCLA Heads UP Poll Fifth Straight Weeli STEVE CRIPPEN ' On PAL Card 6 Out of 15 Tussles Set On PAL Card Hugh Jennings, head coach and matchmaker of the Med ford. Police Athletic league an nounced today that six of the top bouts on the all-star boxing show December 4 at Merricks arena are set to go. Fifteen bouts in all are planned for the Medford PAL club benefit box ing carnival.. In what is expected to be a sensational headline event Steve Crippen,' 148, Medford, goes against Portland's Northwest Golden Glove champion, Phil Moyer. Moyer, classy boxing master has stated he intends to hand the Medford Bomber a boxing lesson, while Crippen makes it clear that he considers the Northwest champion a pow der puff puncher whom he will KO before the battle ends. Denny Moyer Coming Holding down the semi-wind-up spot will be Denny Moyer, 140 pounds, , versus the Eureka, Calif., sensation, Jim Wilson. Jim Zack, : assistant boxing coach of the Medford PAL club has said that he believes this will rival the main event for action and boxing thrills. In the featured preliminary bout, - Junior McDonald, the redheaded knockout artist, re turns to the local ring against Marion McCovey, 135-pound bat tler from Eureka. Here again is a fine bout. Another good one pits Med- ford's Bobby Lyons, state champion, vs. Eureka's Blaine ersu b.wldllkCVfclay Laundin. Lyons, hard-punching speed merchant is vastly im proved since last year and fans can expect a sharp performance from the local champion. Lewis Improves Yet another featured match has Larry Lewis, Medford's lit tle Jack Dempsey, against - an opponent yet to be picked from the Portland area. Young Lewis has improved so rapidly that only a few boys in his class have the .ability to trade punch es with him. Portland officials of the AAU have promised to send a worthy opponent. Bobby Apple, 128, who was runne'r-up in last years state championships, and who many fans believed should have been awarded the title, goes against the Eureka flash, Stanley Fer ris.' ' -- . . Billy Wright, 140, who packs a tremendous wallop, will bat tle the Eureka left hook artist, Tucker Spot. : As additional matches are lin ed up officials of the Police Ath letic league plan to announce them." Tickets are now-available from any member of the Med ford police department, and the members of the Medford Junior Chamber of , Commerce as well as numerous business firms. College All-Stars Pick Pro Heads Chicago (U.R) The 1955 col lege' All-Stars have raided the ranks of professional football for the first time in history in an effort to end a four-game losing streak to the National Football League champs. Curly Lambeau and Hunk An derson were named coaches of the 1955 college Ail-Star team Monday night.- . The selection of Lambeau and Anderson was announced by Arch ward, sports, editor of the (Chicago Tribune, which sponsors the late summer charity clash. The All-Stars have won eight of the .21. All-Star games, but have lost the last four games. The first free hospital for the treatment of tuberculosis, the Charming Home, was founded in Boston, Mass., in 1857. j By NORMAN MILLER i New York (U.R) UCLA, j having completed the first per- , fect-record season' in its football I history, topped the United Press I ratings . today for the fifth straight week, and now awaits next weekend's wrapup ' games for approval as 1954 national champion. - , , . -After finishing their season with a resounding 34-0 victory over Southern . California to clinch the Pacific Coast confer ence title for the second year in a row, the Bruins were chos en No. 1 by 22 coaches on the 35-man United Press . rating board. ' "' .: - . 28-Poini Margin . That gave Coach Henry (Red) Sanders', men a 28-point margin over Ohio State and 43 over Ok lahoma, both of which have been dogging UCLA in the ratings for the past four weeks. Ohio State, which wound up an un beaten ' and untied season and won a bid to the Rose Bowl, was the first-place choice of eight coaches, while Oklahoma, with a 9-0 record and one . game left to, play, was the top pick of four. " . - . ' Notre Dame, which retained fourth place, attracted the only other first-place vote in this week's ratings. The coaches will vote on the final 1954 ratings after next Sat urday's game, which involve seven teams among this week's top 10. UCLA swept through its nine game 1954 schedule with a scoring average of, nearly 41 points per game. Despite its impressive record, however, the Bruins are ineligible for the Rose Bowl because they played last year. The" Rose Bowl berth went to Southern Cal, which dropped from sixth to 13th in the ratings after being trimmed by UCLA. . -. ' Army Ranks F4fth . Army, . which r meets Navy in the annual classic at Philadel phia Saturday, ranked fifth once more, keeping the order of the top five teams exactly the same as last week. Navy and Mississippi each moved up one notch to sixth and seventh, re spectively,. followed in order by Wisconsin, Arkansas and Mi ami, Fla. -. .- .' Wisconsin and Miami were the ; week's newcomers among the top 10, both' returning after an absence of a few weeks. Both advanced five places from the previous week. Arkansas moved up one place, even though it was upset 7-6 by Louisiana State last Saturday. 1 , ; x Southern' Methodist, like Southern , California, dropped out 'of the top 10. With points distributed oh a 10 '9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2 and 1 scale for votes from first to 10th place, here is how" the top 10 lined up: UCLA 332, Ohio State 304, Oklahoma 289, Notre Dame 236, Army 186, Navy 126, Mississip pi 109, Wisconsin' 82, Arkansas 45 and Miami 40. ';' ; Baylor headed the second 10 teams, followed in order. . by Michigan, Southern- California, Maryland, Penh State, Duke and Southern Methodist. Rice , and West Virginia were tied for 18th and Georgia Tech and Wichita were tied for 20th. K You'll Always Find O Reliability Uniformity O Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX CONCRETE TruMix Concrete Co. FAST. PROMPT DELIVERY McAndrews Road Phone 2-5271 .The ,3,000 . voluntary associa tions ' organized to fight : tuber culosis in the United States will conduct their annual Christmas Seal Sale from Nov. 22 through December this year. . Ohio State nates Loop Teams By ED SAINSBURY Chicago- (U.R) Unbeaten Ohio State, Rose Bowl bound as the Big Ten champion, placed a starting player for every posi tion on the first three all-conference teams selected by coaches for the United Press. ; ; Three Buckeyes, including the only , unanimous choice in the balloting, ' halfback Howard (Hopalong) Cassady, made the first team. ' Other Ohio State players on the first team were end Dean Dugger : and tackle Francis Machinsky. . Wisconsin and Michigan, tied for second place, and Purdue, grabbed two- places each on the first team, while the other two spots went to guard Calvin Jones of Iowa and halfback Bob McNamara of Minnesota. Wisconsin, landed its record setting fullback, Alan Ameche, for the third straight year and also placed center Gary Mess ner, who received honorable mention a year, ago. Ameche, completing his fourth season of varsity play, gained 3,212 yards during his career for a new na tional collegiate mark. Purdue's Tom Bettis was the only other repeater on the first team, gaining a spot at guard for the second season, while 'the other Boilermaker to make the club was sophomore quarter back Len Dawson, who threw 15 touchdown passes during the season. - . ..,:. Michigan placed sophomore end Ron Kramer and senior tackle Art Walker. The Buckeye domination of the squad showed on the second and third teams as well as on the first. Five Ohio State play ers, " including three backs, Dave Legett, Bobby Watkins and Hubert Bobo, were on 'the second team, together! with guard Jim Reichenbach and tackle Dick HilinskL .' A-2 and B Game Places Named - Portland - (U.R) The Oregon School Activities association yes terday named .the , times . and places for the class A-2 and class B state football ' championships.' St. Helens and Vale will "play at Vale at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the A-2 finals; and Monroe and Union will meet at s Corvallis high school in the class B finals at 8 p,m. Saturday. ; - " . The A - 1 championships, matching Marshfield . against South Salem,, was. set earlier for 8 p.m. Friday in Portland's Multnomah stadium .: - A We're Loaded With IHIIE&TriEIIRS . - Help Us Get Rid of Them! 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