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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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