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"Woody Hayes Plans Surprises For Trov on New Year's Da v M Editor's note: Thij is the second in a series on the teams in the bowl football fames.) BY HASKELL SHORT United Press Sports Writer Columbus. O. : (U.R) State's unbeaten Buckeyes plan- to throw a few surprises at South ern California when the teams clash in the Rose Bowl. Coach Woody Hayes naturally doesn't say much about this but he made sure he would have a practice field near Pasadena where his Big Ten champions could work out In secret for the New Year's Day classic. Hayes, said before taking his 44-man squad to Pasadena Sat urday that he was pleased with the way the men kept in condi tion during the lay-off since the Michigan game Nov. 20. He in dicated, however, that he was be hind schedule in getting his de fenses set for Southern Califor nia, a team that impressed him greatly in its close contest with Notre Dame. . "Those kids kept In good con dition during the lay-off," Hayes said. "They've got the spirit it takes to go with ability to pro Guglielmi Takes Over as Boss of East's Gridders; Receives Praise from Coaches By HAL WOOD United Press Sports Writer San Francisco (U.R) Hand some Ralph Guglielmi, the Ital ian Irishman from Notre Dame, without so, much as saying a word, has taken over as "boss" of the East team for the Shrine All-Star classic Jan. 1. That's the kind of personality the star quarterback has, one that has "executive" marked all over it. . "This boy," said one of the coaches, "exudes personality all over. Just watch how the other players, some of them All Americans, too, hang around him. "He Is a "take charge boy, if I ever saw one." - While the West, with its fine line and great backfield talent. lis being installed as a favorite to. win the 30th annual all-star classic, the East coaches think Guglielmi may have something to say about that. In fact, even the West coaches agree. All Around Star "This Guglielmi," says Coach Eddie Price of Texas, one . of the West aides, "can pick you to pieces. He is an all-around star who knows what he is doing every moment on the field." Coach Eddie Anderson of the East team, is hopeful with Guglielmi at the helm, too. "Last year," Anderson says, "I think the West had -the best quarterbacking. This year, with Guglielmi and Don Bailey of Penn State calling the signals, I think we'll have the edge there." -' Even Coach Lynn Waldorf of A -teasioire of Mesiswe fi V 1 " selling whiskies. - ' - ' & II ' - - 1 '" -"'.vf Star. V m-ff 1 BLENDED WHfSKE1f-&.S PRODFS GSAltt WEUTMMRtTCtV St SELLERS CO.". N Vrc.l rT VII llili- - " - -" . in,,-.- iTniifhnJ M duce a champon." The stocky Hayes, who has had three unbeaten seasons in nine years as a college coach, often pointed to team morale and team play as a big factor in the nine victories. He was pleased to note that the Buck "I know nobody is going to stop them for 60 minutes." . Hayes pointed . to halfback Bobby Watkins, the Mr. Inside of the Buckeye split-T attack, as a typical example of Buckeye spirit. The 191-pound senior from New Bedford, Mass., en rolled in Ohio State because he wanted to play in the Rose Bowl. He said he figured state was the school with the best chance to win Big Ten championships year after year. Defense Needed Work But Watkins had to work ex tra hard for a starting berth this year because he was weak on defense- He put in extra hours, kept his starting place, became one of the most feared tacklers on the team, and led the team in rushing yardage for the second straight year. The well conditioned Buck California, head man for the West squad, had to admit that he would have to "put Guglielmi ahead of Paul Larson and George Shaw." "I'm just making that state ment on hearsay," said Pappy. "But, after all, Guglielmi made most of the Ail-Americans head of Larson and Shaw. And what little I've seen and heard of him here, I guess he is the man we'll have to beat." Friendly Fellow Guglielmi is just .about the most personable man on the squad. At the Crippled Chil dren's hospital, he was off in a corner talking to a 7-year-old lad about football, just like they Shaw Receives ' San Francisco (U.R) George Shaw, ' Oregon's great all around athlete, has had sev eral "nibbles" from Canadian football promoters, he said today- ft . However, he won't sign any football contract until after the Pacific Coast Conference baseball schedule is over, he said. "I'm not sure yet whether I want to play professional foot ball or pro baseball," he said. "I've always wanted to be a baseball player, but this year I'm undecided. "I've talked to representa tives of some Canadian teams, but we never got to the money stage, because I'm not inter or oid - Calvert Satisfies like no other whiskey I This season Calvert is all decked "out for the holidays'in beautiful silver and golden Treasure Chests. And in these glistening pack ages is a treasure of pleasure ... a whiskey that is always rich and satisfying and truly smoother going down. That's why Calvert, in any season, is one of the world's two largest- ... eyes, who became known In the Big Ten as a club -that wore eyes were not among the na tional leaders in various statisti cal departments, except in hold ing down the score of opponents. "Those boys came from behind to win four games," Hayes said, down and outran opponents, kept -its attack on the ground most of the time. The Bucks gained 2,201 yards rushing, al most twice as much as opponents and they gained 672 yards pass ing. But quarterback Dave Leg- gett, deftly mixing , his plays, used his passes carefully and threw seven for touchdowns. - The backfield-has power and speed at all positions and good depth. Howard Hopalong Cas- sady, the All-American halfback, is the most widely known be cause of his flair for the sensa tional play, but Leggett, Wat kins, "and fullback Hubert Bobo are all good runners. Leggett and Watkins are former ' full backs i arid Bobo, the blocking fullback, was the state's top high school scorer as a halfback. were Kids on tne same corner of a sandlot. But Guglielmi at tracts friends like molasses does flies and it wasn't three minutes before a half dozen of his team mates joined in the fun with the youngster. Did he mind giving up the hol idays at home to come out to play in the Shrine game? "Certainly not," he said. "There have been a lot of Notre Dame men play in this game before and I had heard all about it. It is an experience one never will forget. ' P. S. Guglielmi is the 22nd Notre Dame All-American to play in -the Shrine classic, and it could be that he is the best. Pro Offers ested until after the baseball season is over." Shaw said he had rejected a bid to play in the Hula bowl in Honolulu, because then he would be a professional and unable to play baseball. His name will come up in the Na tional League football draft next month. He is here to participate in the annual Shrine East-West game on Jan. 1. . Olympia, Wash. (U.R) Ore gon Tech dropped a 55-46 basket ball decision to St. Martin's here last night although holding the winners to only five field goals in the second half. The winners led 32-25 at the midway point. D o J,TL.lJAAJ)jftf.-.V....VJJ,-,V. T45 QT. i : ? K5 o ! SWEDEN DOWNED-Hamilton Richardson (left) of Baton , Rouge, La., gave the U. S. Davis Cup tennis team a clean ; sweep of its interzone series against Sweden at Brisbane, ; Australia by whipping Sven Davidson (right), 6-0, 6-3, 6-3. 1 Richardson's surprisingly easy victory came after Tony - Trabert of Cincinnati downed Sweden's Lennart Bergelin, : 6-2, 6-1, 3-6, 6-2. : MedfordjTribunb SDDdDDfirirS Niagara Mentor Must Use Starters or Lose Contests By ED FEINEN United Press Sports Writer Niagara Falls, N. Y. - (U.R) After 20 years of basketball suc cess by smart usage of strong reserves, Niagara's John (Taps) Gallagher has changed tactics this season. Facing a - typical gruelling schedule of 23 games, Gallagher is determined to string along with an "Ironman Five" of four seniors and one tall junior. The reason is simple Gallagher's bench hasn't come up with one capable replacement for the five veterans who carried Niagara to a 24-6 record and third place in the National Invitation Tourna ment last year. Logic Convincing The logic of the curly-haired Brooklyn Irishman is convincing. As long as he has En Fleming, Charley Hoxie, Tom Hemans, Jim McConnell and Hube Brown in the lineup, Niagara is as good as any. quintet in the land. Fleming, a center with tremen dous spring in his legs, has .been the wheelhorse in Niagara's sweep to six wins in seven games so far this season. Averaging 23 Tarheel Hoopster Rhodes Scholar, Good Rebounder 1 BY OSCAR FRALEY ' United Press Sports Writer New York (U.R) Sports in general and those in the South in particular owe a vote ,of ap preciation today to a shy young basketball player at the Univer sity of North Carolina named Paul Likins. The usual conception of an athlete is that he is a well padded brute whose conversa tional ability consists of a few well-chosen "ughs" and who couldn't count up to 20 if he happened to be wearing shoes. Southern schools get it the vorst as muscle factories which specialize in Kelly pool and extension courses in the ABC's. Likins, a three-year letter man at North Carolina, knocks this theory flatter than a dehydrated flounder. -Wins Rhodes Scholarship Because Likins last week won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford; is president of Phi Beta Kappa; has a straight A average while majoring in physics, and studies such varied sources as Russian and electronics. - - Nor is Likins "carried" on the Tar Heel squad for "effect." The 6-foot, 10-inch senior is the team's top rebounder and will have earned all four of his let ters when he leaves Chapel Hill. "I always blow my top when I hear those snide inferences that college athletes are dumbbells,' particularly in the South," says Coach Frank McGuire, the Yan kee Pixie who made good in Dixie. - .'' v , "Paul may have just a bit more on the mental ball than a lot of other kids playing col lege sports, but he is typical of You'll Always Find O Reliability Uniformity Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX CONCRETE Tru-Mik Concrete Co. FAST. PROMPT DELIVERY McAndrewi Road Phone 2-5271 points a game, Fleming, a senior from . Pittsburgh, is having his greatest year.- . Ironically, his best effort of 32 points came in the Purple Eagles' lone defeat, a 76-75 overtime loss to highly ranked LaSalle. Flem ing outscored . LaSalle's Tom Gola by one point as the two waged a bitter duel in Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium Dec. 11. Niagara's lack of reserves showed up for the first time against LaSalle. Going all the way with the "Iron Men," Niag ara never trailed in regulation time and led by seven points when Hoxie fouled out with ap proximately four minutes left. Against Toledo last weekend, the bench deficit again was evi dent. Niagara's starters rolled up a 20-point early lead and Gallag her inserted five substitutes. Within three minutes Toledo cut the margin by 10 points, and the Eagle regulars were rushed back into play to solidify an 80 61 triumph. : Other early conquests included Buffalo State Teachers, Ford ham, Lemoyne, Cornell and Syr acuse. the college kids of today. . Work Hart For Future "They know they have a fu ture out in the world," he adds, "and the very great majority of them work hard at their studies to fit themselves for that work." A shy 21-year-old, Likins came by his intellectual ability na urally. His father is a high school teacher in Elkhartt Ind., and Paul wasn't enough of 'a high school standout on the court to be in great demand among the colleges closer to his home. "BUt we're glad he came to Carolina," McGuire says. "Paul may - not be everybody's - All American but I never saw a boy work harder to be a good player. He gives it all he's got, even if his studies do force him to miss a lot of practice." Paul gets straight A'g in all his studies. But even though he's on the basketball varsity, he has only managed a B aver age in physical education.' Kelly pool huhl - r- r- -- - Beavers Meet Chiefs Tonight In Final Non-Conference Game ' r . Corvallis. U.R) Seattle Uni versity makes its only schedul ed Corvallis apearance of the season tonight " against Oregon State in a non-conference bas betball game. - 4 It is Oregon State's last home pre-season game before he con ference opener against, Washing ton State Jan. 7. Seattle U.: ap peared in the NCAA regional playoffs here in 1953- and Tyas beaten by Idaho State here for a 1954 playoff spot. i t Tuesday, December SI, 1954 Bob Grim Junior Circuit's Rookie of Yean Finigan, Al Katine Receive Ballots By CARL LUNDQUIST i United Press Sports Writer New York (U.R) - Bob! Grim, the , 24-year-old son of a Brooklyn bartender and the first Yankee rookie to win 20 games in 44 years, won the American League Rookie of the Year award today with 15 out of 24 votes. - - ' The ex-Marine who came out of the service and landed a job as a Yankee starter, even though his highest professional exper ience had been with Binghamton in 1951 in the Class A Eastern league, finished with a record of 20 victories and only six de feats. In the balloting by, a special committee of 24 members of the Baseball Writers, of America, the only other players to receive consideration we're Jim Finigan, the third baseman of the Athlet ics with eight ' votes, and out fielder Al Kaline of the Tigers with one. Grim, who had an earned run average of ,3.26, struck out 108 batters and walked 85. He also had one of the , best anti-home run marks of the year. Although he yielded 175 hits only nine were homers. Yankee Pitching Coach ; Jim Turner, who tabbed .Grim for stardom the moment he saw him work out, cited the youngster's delivery as "one of the best I ever have seen." "He throws a good curve and a good slider and he throws them both with the same smooth mo tion so that the batter has nd possible tip-off on what is com WITH ALL THESE FEATURES! O FAMOUS PHOTOPOWER CHASSIS Now you con get too reception whether you live in the middle of the city or way. out In the country. O ALUMINIZED PICTURE TUBE... 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