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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) Wave of Upsets IHI Sts AD9-CoDDege Adolph Rupp Seeks 500th Win Tonight By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press SjJorls Writer If high-riding Kentucky needs any danger warning about its tournament clash with upset- happy Utah tonight, it need only look at the wave of disaster that struck down all four first-round favorites in the All-College Tour nament at Kansas City. Ousted in All-College sur prises Monday night were Wy oming and Wichita, both nation ally ranked powers, the always- strong Oklahoma and tall and rugged Houston. Meets Utah Kentucky, playing host in its own Holiday Tournament at Lex ington, Ky., collides in the first round there tonight with Utah, the same hot-shooting club that upset LaSalle on Saturday night and knocked it right out of the No. 1 ' National ranking. Ken tucky will be risking two streaks, a 23-game winning skein and a 126-game home court winning streak, and Coach Adolph Rupp will be seeking the 500th win of his career. Oddly enough, LaSalle will be rooting for Utah to register an other big win. LaSalle is favored over Southern California in to night's other first-round game and is hoping for a second shot at Utah in Wednesday night's finale. GW Upsets Okies " George Washington, reigning champion of the Southern Con ference, upset the Oklahoma Ag gies, defending champs of the Missouri Valley Conference, 56 46 in the feature game of Mon day's All-College opening pro gram. The Aggies, defending and 11-time champions of this tour nament, trailed all the way after the first two minutes as Walt Devlin and Joe Holup scored 20 points each for George Washing ton. Wyoming, ranked 15th nation ally, was beaten by Tulsa, 69-64, in a ding-dong1 battle that saw the score tied 35 times. Bob Pat terson and Dick Courter were al most the whole Tulsa ; attack with 29 and 24 points respective ly. Wichita, ranked 19th nation ally, took a 94-75 drubbing from oan a rancisco, wnicn raced to a 25-3 lead in the opening minutes and had the game's high scorer in Jerry Mullen with 29 points. Oklahoma City downed Houston, 72-65, although it couldn't stop Houston's 7-foot center, Don Boldebuck, who tallied 28 points and snared 24 rebounds. . City went into the game with a 1-3 record, Houston with 5-1. In second-round games to night, San Francisco plays Okla homa City and Tulsa meets George Washington. 1 Other Ranked Teams Win Four other nationally ranked teams--Duquesne No. 10, Cincin nati No. 13, Louisville No. 17, and Alabama No. 19 scored im pressive wins in non-tournament games. Duquesne ran its record to five victories in six starts by whip ping St. Francis (Pa.), 71-58. Cin cinnati made it 7-for-7 by trounc ing College of Pacific, 97-59. Louisville won another intersec- tional clash just as easily, beat ing Oregon, 101-72. And Ala bama followed up its title tri umph in the Birmingham Classic tournament by beating Nebras ka, 88-76, as Jerry Harper tallied 28 points. In other games: Ronnie May er s 30 points led Duke to a 90 j l ll K fj Want to be sure of pleasing your friends? ll fcSj ll ScflgUUnfc Serve Seagram's 7 Crowa, the whiskey with ff i A jtn&K the taste that has pleased more ; jllg fiji sJS millions than any other J pBSp'' MffjffsM 5 -15"" whiskey in history t i ' jxaa .rx r?: ., SEAGRAM-DISTILLERS COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. BLENDED MAIL TRIBUNE Tommy; Dayton, O. U.R) The University of Oregon's basketball team runs from the frying pan into the fire tonight. The Ducks dropped a 101-72 decision last night to Louisville University at Louisville, Ky., a team ranked 17th in the nation in the United Press ratings. Tonight, Coach Bill Bo'rcher's team clashes with Dayton here, a team ranked sixth in the country. To morrow night Oregon meets Detroit. Louisville started slow but got hot and pulled ahead 42-34 at the half. The Kentucky club finished with a 53 per cent shooting average from the field. It was the most points ever scored against Oregon i'i a single game. Jim Loscutoff led Oregon in scoring with 19. points. Center Max Anderson followed with 16, while Jerry Ross had 10, Ray Bell nine and Ed Bingham eight. Charley Tyra led Louisville with 22 points. MEDFOWViTRIBUNE Illinois Takes No. 1 Spot in Hoop Ratings Utah Moves to 2nd By EARLY WRIGHT United Press Sports Writer New York (U.R) Illinois, which managed to escape the early season upsets that struck some of the country's top college basketball teams, today took over the No. 1 spot in the United Press weekly ratings. Illinois received 11 first-place votes and a total of 283 paints New York (U.P.) The United Press college basketball ratings with season records through Dec. 18. , . 1. Illinois 5-0 t 283 2. Utah 7-0 237 3. Kentucky 3-0 21 4. LaSalle 5-1 ....210 5. North Carolina State 8-0 173 S. Dayton 6-0 . 98 7. Ohio State 4-0 j 7 8. Missouri 4-1 95 9. Niagara 6-1 79 10. Duquesne 1 4-1 78 Second Ten 11, UCLA. 67; 12, Southern California. 45; 13.' Cincin nati, 31; 14. Iowa, 19; 15. Wyoming 18; 16. Kansas. 17; 17. Louisville. 16; 18, Holy Cross. 14; 19 tie, Alabama and Wichita. 13 each. Others Indiana and Purdue. 11 each: San Francisco, : HI; George Washington, 8; California and Se ton Hall. 7 each; New York Uni versity. Stanford and St. Louis. 6 each; St. John's. 5; Southern Meth odist. Washington and Oklahoma A and M. 4 each; Villanova. Wis consin, Pennsylvania and Minnesota, 3 each; Notre Dame, 2; Duke 1. after boosting its record to 5-0 with a 66-57 triumph over Notre Dame Saturday night. The '35 leading coaches who make up the board based their voting on games played through Saturday. Utes Make Big Gain While Illinois advanced from third to first, Coach Jack Gard ner's Utah team made the big gest gain. Gardner's Skyline Conference outfit upset LaSalle, 68 triumph over Pittsburgh; Frank Ehmann tallied 30 for Northwestern in 83-66 decision over Louisiana State; Bradley, 11 points down with eight minutes left, rallied to beat Wayne, 72-68; Ohio U. beat Loyola (111.), 72-70, on Dick Garrison's driving lay up with seven seconds left; Tu lane downed Wisconsin, 69-66, as Hal Cervini scored 20; Bart Johnson of Utah State scored 33 in 80-61 win over Baylor to set his six-game average at 27 points; Bobby Thym's 28 points led Vanderbilt to a 94-67 win over Texas; South Carolina edged Georgia Tech 69-67; Mem phis State defeated Texas Tech, last year's Border Conference champion, 75-66; Michigan wal loped Denver, 104-77; and Colo rado A and M, defending Sky line Conference- champ, beat Regis 61-54. Tuwday, Dteember 21,1954 1Top-CSainilked dJ tes FDay which topped the rankings dur ing the first twcT weeks, Satur day night. That victory earned Utah seven first-place votes and 257 points and moved the West ern team from eighth to second place. Kentucky, .which plays host to Utah tonight, slipped from sec ond to third although it raised its record to 3-0 with an 18 point triumph over Temple Sat urday night. The Wildcats drew eight first-place votes and 216 points. LaSalle, defending ' NCAA champion and the coaches' No. 1 choice in 'the pre-season rank ings, dropped, to fourth. The Philadelphia team received three first-place votes and 210 points. Drops to Fifth North Carolina State slipped from fourth to fifth despite its 8-0 record. The Atlantic Coast Conference team collected two first-place votes and 173 points. Dayton joined Utah in making a big jump, advancing from 12th to sixth because of its 6-0 record. The Ohio team attracted one first place vote and 98 points. Ohio State was close behind, collecting one first place vote and 97 points on its 4-0 record. Missouri received 95 points and moved up from ninth to eighth. Niagara, tied with Iowa for 10th last week, was. ninth with 79 points. Duquesne re ceived one first place vote and rounded out the top 10 with 76 points. Duquesne was - seventh last week. ' TV Viewers May Get Rose Bowl Programs Pasadena, Calif. (U.R) Pro grams will be made available for the second year to television viewers of the-Rose Bowl foot ball game between Ohio State and the University of Southern California. . The Rose Bowl Program Com mittee anndunced yesterday it would mail out to those sending $1 to Rose Bowl game program, postoffice Box 750, Pasadena, programs in time for the game. Last year as an experiment the programs were prepared in time to be mailed to televiewers and thousands sent in for the books. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday : 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day WHISKEY. 86 J PROOF. 65 Fdvcs DM Keiraft aocky Andy Kerr Still Favors Double Wing By SCOTT BAILLIE San Francisco' (U.R) The storied double wing on- which Colgate and coach Andy Kerr rode close to gridiron heights 25 years ago remained close to his heart today as he headed toward his 28th East-West Shrine game. "Mr. East" will be at his famil iar spot on the 50-yard line Jan 1 as he works his sixth year as advisory coach to that squad after 23 games as the top man. The T and single wing may have pushed the Warner sys tem into the background but Kerr maintains it is far from gone. .. "Most of the pros use the double wing when .they start a pass play only you hear it de scribed, by broadcasters as a 'spread formation,' " Kerr said. "It is the best passing formation in football." But the canny Scot from Carlisle, Pa., would not be trapped into saying that the dou ble wing is the best overall sys tem. . "I'll put it, this way," he grinned. "You can do a lot more things better from the double wind." v Terrific Interference Terrific interference helped make it crackle in Kerr's heyday with the Red Raiders, and -so did fullbacks like Len Macaluso, who scored 143 points' in the 1929 season. " 1 Despite the array of fine backs who played for Colgate in Kerr's 18 seasons there, his all-time choice : is lineman Danny Fort man. ' , , "He was a Phi Beta Kappa, became a guard with the great Chicago Bears of 1940 and now is a successful physician in Los Angeles," Kerr said. "All my players have gone on to become successful business men, lawyers or doctors. That means a lot." Kerr's top team was the Col gate eleven of 1932. "Sure I'll repeat it," Andy laughed. "Undefeated, untied, unscored on and uninvited. That remark will outlive me." But it was no laughing matter 22 years ago. For after the Red Raiders had turned in their greatest season in history, South tern California passed them up and invited Pitt to the Rose Bowl. The final score was ,USC 35, PittO. Recreation Loop Games Contested Eighty-four boys are partici pating in the Saturday recrea tion baskeball league at Medf ord senior high school, i " The 10-team loop opened last weekend with four games con tested. Gold Ray Salmon Backs beat Screwballs 24 to 20, Cotton pickers won from Mountain Boys 41 to 23, Senior Wieners downed Beany Boys 59 to 17 and Tweakers bounced the Flubbin' Five 23 to 18. Other entries in the circuit are Thunderbirds and N i c o Qdint. Next games are set for Janu ary 8 with Salmon Backs against Thunderbirds at 10 a.m., Senior Wieners against Nico-Quint at 11 a.m. Flubbin Five against Beany Boys at 1. p.m. and Cot tonpickers against Screwballs at 2 p.m. - ' GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS. TAKING REBOUND with feet flying University of San Fran cisco's 6-9 center Bill Russell dwarfs teammate K. C. Jones and Oregon State defender Bill Toole as USF beats Beavers 60-34 In San Francisco Cow Palace double header. - (International) Southern Cal To Upset Ohio By ALEX KAHN Los Angeles (U.R) Univer sity of. Southern California, its football players, " coaches and student body, are primed for an upset win over Ohio State in the Rose Bowl Jan. 1. There's a do-or-die air about Bovard Field every day as the Trojans buckle down for the New Year's Day engagement in Pasadena. Playing in the Rose Bowl is no novelty to Southern California which has represent ed the West there 11 times and holds the best record of any coast team, nine wins , and but two losses. i "Ohio State isn't going to chase us out of the Rose Bowl," says coach Jess Hill. "They'll know they've been in a football game. We went into the Notre Dame expecting to win and we feel the same way about Ohio State. We'll be ready." Won Midwest Respect . , Southern California von the respect of midwest critics in the Notre Dame contest when it took a 70-yard run in the closing minutes for the Irish to pull past the Trojans and win, 23 to 17. Coach Terry Brennan, who found the win too close for com fort, nredicted Southern Cali fornia would give the Buckeyes all the competition they , could stand. "And Southern Cal. could win," he said. , But the; feeling that an upset is possible doesn't keep either Hill or his players from con ceding that Ohio State off its record deserves to be favored. The first rundown of bowl odds found the Buckeyes favored by 13 points. After all, the Bucks went undefeated in nine games while Southern Cal. ended the season with an 8-3 record. Hill can't match the Buck backfield for individual bril liance. Southern California didn't , h a v e an all-American player and even on the all Coast' selections there, was -no agreement on any one player as worthy of sectional honors. , Lots of Keen Spirit But the youthful-appearing coach calls his 1954 team "the best-spirited" squad he had ever seen. HUl likes that, spirit. It was the. same spirit that two years ago gave his boys the Coast's only win over the Big Ten since the closed agreement between the conferences was Cleveland Baron's ' Scoring Trio Take Top Three'Places New York (U.R) The Cleve land Barons' scoring trio of Fred Glover, Eddie Olson and Jackie Gordon today regained posses, sion of the first, second and third positions in the American Hock ey League scoring race. Glover, the right wing, led the league in total ! points. He scored 17 goals and 26 assists for a total of 43 points." Olson, the left wing, was second with 40 points on 22 goals and 18 assists while Gordon, the center, regained third with 34 points on six goals and 29 points. In the other departments, Gordon's 29 assists led the league as did Olson's 22 goals, k ; ; The forward line of the Springfield Indians took the next three places in fourth place was Ross Lowe with 34 points on 14 goals and 20 assists while teammates Walt Atanas - and Graham Hastings are tied for. fifth with 33 points each. 1 5 N. CENTRAL . PH. 22970 Primed State signed for the Rose Bowl. The the Troians came through in clutch to defeat Wisconsin, 7 to 0, despite having ' their star back, Jim Sears, injured in the first few minutes of play. But what Southern California backfield may lack in individual brilliance this season it makes up in team speed. The backfield I e . , , x: j il . vi quaiLtix oacK . i un orurauo, halfbacks Aramis Dandoy, Jon Arnett and Lindon Crow is one of the fastest in the nation. Al ternating between the single wing and the T-formatiori, it has the trickery to give Ohio State's split-T players problems on d& fense.- -. '. Hill has nothing to be ashamed of in the line. Weak on reserves, the line is strong, big and fast in starters. They are from end to end, Leon Clark, Orlando Ferrante, Mario Da Re, Marvin Goux, George Galli, Ed Fouth and Chuck Greenwood. 'Notre Dame jvill attest to the rugged play of the Trojan line men. The tig question is wheth er they can play as well against Ohio State's admittedly fine line. If. LfA (ka rlMi No man, but no man ever has loo many shirts! So check off " these handsome sport , shirts for your gift-giving this Christmas! ' LUXURIOUS , Shadow Plaid SIPCSS SM D C5TS IMPORTED AUSTRALIAN WOOLS 100 WOOLS WOOL and ORLONS ALL WASHABLE ' . Comfortable weight yet warm! ' Greens, grays, browns, blues, reds, winter whites and many other colors! $S95 ?995 We Also Carry Famous Wool Shirts by Game & Lake . .414.95 6) Jl 229 EAST MAIN STREET Watkins Takes Of Injured Pasadena, Calif. (U.R) Right halfback Bobby Watkins today replaced injured Hubert Bobo in the fullback spot on the Ohio State football team, while Jerry Harkrader moved up into Watkins spot at right half, y - Coach Woody Hayes pulled the surprise switch yesterday as he started the Buckeyes off on three days of intensive twice a day drills for the New Year's MHS Should Have Height Edge in Fray Medford high's hoopmen took it easy last night, resting briefly on the laurels of their thriller victory -over North Bend, but were to have a hard, tough drill today in preparation, for the Roseburg Indians. . ' The Indians come here Thurs day night and Medford will try for its fifth win in six games. Medford should have the height edge on Roseburg judg ing from the newly arrived In dian press book. John McCauley, 6 feet 4 inches; up from the jun ior varsity and a s e n i or, is shown as the tallest. , Next is Jim Brooks, a 6-2 senior, who has played jayvee hall. Pinky Biddington, 6-1 senior, likewise is a former jayvee. ' . Three-Year Vet The experience M e d f o r d( counts five lettermen to Rose- tourg's three but all five of the Tornado players are one-year men while Howard Backen has two years and Nub Beamer three years on the Indian var sity. Both the Roseburg yets are seniors. Backen is an even 6 feet and Beamer is ,5-11. The other letterman is Dick Roberts, a 5-5 sophomore. ' . ' Roseburg varsity, coach; this year is Bill Harper, ex-Oregon State collegian. He moved up after handling the freshman team two years. Parts of two sentences some how got left out of the Monday story on the Medf ord-North Bend high game. They concerned- the Medford shooting. Med ford made 22 field goals out of 45 tries for a .488 average. The Tornadq put in 15 out of 28 free snot attempts wun jerry iv.aia pus collecting 10 out of 16.- He dropped in his first's even straight. Dead line Sunday ' Classified ' to at noon Saturday : 10 a.m. Monday for Monday, other days 530 previous day Buckeye Rose Boulers M Place Bobo for Rose Bowl game against South rn California. The backfield composed of Watkins, Harkrader, quarter back Dave Leggett and left halfback Howard Cassady ran through Buckeye offensive f or mations yesterday. : Bobo' suited up, but merely ran around the playing field testing his injured leg and said he thought he could start drill ing with the team soon. The Ohio State coach was worried about the warm weath er which climbed up to 80 de grees. He said he would have to anticipate such heat on New Year's day. Los Angeles (U.R) Guard Orlando Ferrante and fullback" Wayne Kurlak have joined Southern California workouts in preparation -for the . Rose Bowl clash against Ohio State. Defensive Scrimmage Ferrante and Kurlak took part in yesterday's drill in which the Trojan varsity held a defen sive : scrimmage . against Ohio State plays. It was -their first contact workout since Rose Bowl practice started. " , Wingback Lindon Crow, al though in full uniform with pads was kept out of contact work but did run through plays with the team. The only other injur- eu piayer, reserve ena j-iiuck. , . , i Leimbach, was expected to re cover in a day or two from a sprained ankle. . Last-night the players moved into a hotel where they will stay until New Year's day. Of the 43 men on the Rose Bowl squad, 14 wno are married were permitted to live at home. AMERICA'S LOWEST PRICED STATION WAGON ' Available in -! ; 2 or 4 Door Models SEE THEM NOW AT Medford . Hudson, Inc. - NEW HUDSON DEALER -t FRONT & JACKSON Phone 2-6281 fin MEDFORD, OREGON If
