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o TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, November 15, 1953 Sooners No. 1 ; Terps Drop To Third As Michigan State Advances In UP Press Poil New York (l.P.) The United Press college football ratings with fint-place volei and won-loi record! in parenthesis: Team Points 1. Oklahoma 18 105 2. Michigan State IB (7-1) 290 3. Maryland 4. Notre Kame 5. -ICI.A S. Michigan 7. Texas Christian 1 (7-1) 273 222 (8-1) 218 (7-1) 159 (9-0). (7-1)- ..114 95 (7-1-1) 84 (7-l-l - 82 (6-2).. 8. Ohio State 9. Texas A 4 M 10. Georgia Tech Others: 11, Navy, 35; 12. Auburn, tie, Pittsburgh and West Virginia, 5 each: 17, Stanford. 2: 18 (tie), Iowa and Miami (Fla.), 1 each. New York (U.R) Oklahoma retained the No. 1 United Press college football rating today, but Michigan State moved up to sec ond place ahead of Maryland and threatened to explode the Orange Bowl hopes of staging a showdown between the nation's two top teams. And ironically. Michigan State which has swept aside some of the nation's toughest opposition since its lone defeat at the hands of Michigan on Oct. 1, may not even receive a bowl bid for its imnressive efforts. A comparatively formful week end produced few changes in the United Press top 10 teams selected by 35 of the nation's leading coaches. Six of this week's first seven teams all except fourth-ranked Notre Dame are New Year's Day bowl prospects. Oklahoma's split-T terrors were the first-place choice of 18 of the 35 coaches; Michigan State was picked tops by 10 coaches and Maryland by four. The only other teams that at tracted first-place votes were fifth-ranked UCLA, with two, and seventh-ranked Texas Christ ian, one. Oklahoma and Maryland Orange Bowl promoters are pulling for Oklahoma and Mary land to finish 1-2 nationally and thus make their Miami classic an actual battle for the college football championship. The Sooners, who have won 27 straight games and already have clinched an Orange Bowl berth, have games remaining against Nebraska and Oklahoma A&M. Maryland, with, a string of 14 triumphs and almost cer tain to be the Atlantic Coast con ference representative, winds up its regular season against George Washington Saturday. Michigan State moved ahead of the Terrapins this week after walloping Minnesota, 42-14, last Saturday while Maryland strug gled for one half before down ing Clemson, 25-12. However, Coach Duffy Daugherty's Spar tans will go to the Rose Bowl only if sixth-ranked Michigan loses to eighth-ranked Ohio State. Notre Dame advanced to fourth place, changing places with UCLA. Michigan and Texas Santa Says: Buy Appliances at Specialists in Homewares Medf""' Central Point FREE PARKING UCLA Picked To Beat USC Los Angeles (U.R) Southern California football writers have picked UCLA to defeat Southern California in Saturday's cross town rivalry grid battle for which more than 100,000 tickets have been sold. At yesterday's football writers luncheon, a ballot of the out come of the UCLA-SC game fa vored UCLA, 21 votes to 15, with one tie. The average score predicted was 19 to 16, favoring the Bruins. UCLA Coach Henry (Red) Sanders and SC Coach Jess Hill, who spoke at the luncheon, both threw possible injury alibis out the window regardless of the outcome of Saturday's nationally televised game. Hill said the only man he thought would miss the UCLA game from his squad was guard and co-captain George Galli, whose ankle has failed to re spond to treatment. Like Sand ers, Hill also has a half-dozen men with lesser injuries but he feels most of them will be more or less ready to play. Southern California has drawn inspiration from Washington's near win over UCLA Saturday. Hill, whose Trojans fell be fore Washington 7-0, said he was not surprised that the Huskies all but beat UCLA in the thrill er which the Bruins won by a field goal in the final 18 seconds. Christian clung to Nos. 6 and 7 ratings; Ohio State jumped two places to eighth; Texas A&M held ninth, and Georgia Tech dropped two places to 10th. Of this group, UCLA is the likely Pacific Coast conference representative in the Rose Bowl; Michigan can win the Big Ten trip to Pasadena, Calif.; and TCU is the best bet as the South west conference host in the Cot ton Bowl. Georgia Tech also is a bowl prospect. With points distributed on the basis of 10 for a first-place vote, nine for a second and so on down to one for a 10th place vote, here is how the top 10 lined up: Oklahoma 305, Michigan State 290, Maryland 273, Notre Dame 222, UCLA 218, Michigan 159, Texas Christian 114, Ohio State 95, Texas A&M 84 and Georgia Tech 82. The Michigan - Ohio State and Notre Dame and Iowa games ap pear the most likely to cause shake ups in the next week's ratings. Oklahoma took over the top spot last week after Michi gan had led for four straight weeks. Navy topped the second group of only nine teams mentioned in this week's voting by the coaches. Auburn, Mississippi and Duke filled the next three rank ings in order, while Pittsburgh and West Virginia were tied for 15th. Stanford ranked 17th, and Iowa and Miami, Fla., were tied for 18th. West Virginia suffered the biggest decline among the lead ing teams, dropping to 15th from a tie for 10th place last week. 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(U.R) Near zero weather and five inches of snow forced the Washington State Cougars into their field house today as they scrimmaged in preparation for Saturday's tra ditional game against Washing ton. Quarterback Bob Iverson, who suffered a slight muscle injury in a knee during the San Jose State game, called signals in practice and Trainer Bucky Wal ters said he jvill be ready to play against the Huskies. Listed as "doubtful" was half back Rey Avardo who suffered an injured ankle. Sophomore end Roger Glazebrook was dropped from the team because of an injury to a neck nerve. McCARTER READY Seattle, Wash (U.R) Full back Jim McCarter probably will be ready to play Saturday when the Washington Huskies meet Washington State in the season's finale, but guard Ed Sharon may miss the contest. McCarler suffered a split hip muscle in the UCLA game last week end and Sharon banged up a knee. The Huskies moved indoors for a light workout and mov ies of the Washington-UCLA game as frigid weather froze the practice field. FRANCIS IN LINEUP Corvallis, Ore. (U.R) Coach Tommy Prothro of Oregon State college said today injured tail back Joe Francis should be well enough to see action in Satur day's traditional against Ore gon. Francis, the only Beaver play er hampered by injuries, played briefly in last week end's nar row win over California. He suffered a bruised shoulder earl ier in the season and missed sev eral games. McLoughlin Has Hoop Tourney McLoughlin junior high stu dent council home room program is sponsoring a basketball tourna ment this week, Student Body President Fred Funston has an nounced . Twofold purpose of tourney play is to permit a large number of boys opportunity to partici pate and to give coaches a chance to see every hoop aspirant in action. The tourney is under general direction of Coaches Mel Bolde now, Bill Shepherd and Bob Williams. Seven teams of seventh graders will compete with each other as will eight quints of eighth graders and eight of ninth graders. The elimination affair will end on Friday. Games start at 3:30 pm and parents are invited to watch. Seventh graders are playing in the girls' gym and eighth and ninth graders in the boys' gym. Funston also announced ap pointment of four commissioners to help coordinate student ac tivities. They are Mike Murray, grounds; Linda Slessler, activi-1 ties; Ronald Reich, safety, and j Pat Hanson, welfare. i BIG JOB Eugene, Ore. (U.R) Coach Len Casanova, whose Oregon Ducks meet second-place Ore gon State Saturday, said to day his biggest job this week is installing confidence in his team after the shellacking they took at the hands of Stanford. , Despite the disheartening 44-7 beating, the Webfoots came out of the game with only . one injury. Lineman Norm Chapman suffered a few bruises which Casanova said should slow him down in the OSC game. BIG GAME, Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) Coach Lynn Waldorf said today his University of California Bears were in the best physical shape in weeks as they started workouts for the "Big Game" against Stanford Saturday. Only tackles Bob Oliver and Don Tronstein were on the doubtful list and both were scheduled to visit the team doc tor for a final word. Three other Bear stalwarts suffered minor injuries in the Oregon State clash but were ex pected to be ready Saturday. They were tackle Bob Wheat- croft, quarterback Ralph Hoff man and end Mike White. . NO SERIOUS INJURIES ' Stanford, Calif. (U.R) The Stanford Indians came out of their victory over Oregon Saturday with no serious in juries and were "in good shape" for the "Big Game" Saturday against the so-so Cal ifornia Bears. The Indians concentrated yesterday on what Coach Chuck Taylor termed "the menial aspects" of the Cal game. The team viewed movies of the Bears' previous contests this season and heard a scout ing report on the game against Oregon State. Stand ford Team Seen As Best In Years By Waldorf Palo Alto, Calif. (U.R) Coach Lynn Waldorf of Cali fornia, who hasn't lost a game to Stanford since taking over the Bears eight seasons ago, agreed today that he may have come to the end of the line. "I feel this is the best all around Stanford team I've seen," the portly coach said yesterday as Cal prepared to wind up the worst season in Pappy's annals. "Quarterback John Brodie really can thread the needle with his passing and instead of the usual two receivers to worry about we have seven." Waldorf, noting at yesterday's meeting of the Northern Cali fornia Football Writers Associa tion mat comparative scores make the Indians a 58-point fa vorite, hastily added that his boys will try and narrow that margin. Columbus, O (U.R) George M. Trautman, president of the minor baseball leagues, said to day he hoped attendance had "turned the corner" and would increase next season. Minor league teams attracted 19,042,825 paying fans last sea son, a drop of 542,994 from 1954. Trautman was optimistic about the loss just the same. "That's the smallest drop in five years, only two per cent," he said. "Maybe we have turned the cojner and will be on our way up . soon. Minor league base ball is healthy and will get more robust." Trautman was happy to note that all 33 leagues which start ed out finished the season, un like the previous year. The min ors did lose . the class D Kitty league, which decided at the end of the season to disband. Its attendance dropped from 241,- 266 in 1954 to 120,187 this sea son. PCL Gains Best attendance in the minors was that of the Pacific Coast league, with a gain of 37,569 ov er 1954 for a paid attendance of 1,810,212. The league's all-star game brought 3204 paid admis-1 sions, boosting total PCL attend-1 ance to 1,813,416. The addition of Omaha and Denver to the American Associa tion boosted its attendance by 378,892, although baseball's sec ond class AAA league, the In ternational league, dropped 81,- 111. Attendance in the Ameri can association was 1,603,692, while in the International league it was 1,553,205. The New Mexican league, with a class AA rating, boasted a paid attendance of 930,795. The class AA Southern association gained 3777 to 1,127,112. The Texas league dropped 106,776, for an attendance of 1,059,343. Western League Down Class A figures showed the Eastern league with a gain of 71,947, for a paid attendance of 633,484. The South Atlantic league lost 41,606 to 616,640. The Western league, operating as a six-team league after Om aha and Denver joined the Am erican association, lost 377,392, for a paid attendanceof 497,437. In the class B leagues, the West Texas-New Mexico league was the only league to gain, for a rise of 289,322, up to 659,817. Losses were recorded by the Big State, Carolina, Piedmont, Three I, and the Northwest league, re corded a 391,490 paid mark. A small increase was noted among class C leagues by the Cotton States league, while the Arizona - Mexico, California, Longhorn, Northern, Pioneer and Provincial leagues were down. No figure was available for the Evangeline league. PASSING WORKOUTS Los Angeles (U.R) Coach Henry (Red) Sanders worked his three remaining tailbacks Sam Brown, Gerry McDougall and Doug Bradley on passing today in hopes they can make up for the loss of star passer Ronnie Knox. Sanders, expecting a passing attack also from Southern Cali fornia in Saturday's big game, worked his secondary on pass defense against the ineligibles yesterday. All the players were in uniform and working, al though several were taped up for injuries and bruises. AIMS FOR UPSET Los Angeles (U.R) South ern California worked hard on both defense and offense to day, aiming at an upset win over UCLA on Saturday. The team showed a serious attitude and spirit in yester day's workout. Fullback Gor don Duvall broke loose for 55 yards to score and All-Am-, erican candidate Jon Arnett reeled off 35 yards. B. Courchesne Beats M. Berrios New York (U.R) Feather weight Bobby Courchesne's vic tory over Miguel Berrios Mon day night earned him another television fight at St. Nicholas Arena on Dec. 12. Rangy Courchesne of Holy oke, Mass., who won a majority 10-round decision over stocky Berrios of Puerto Rico at St." Nick's will get a return bout with lightweight Lulu Perez or with Berrios, promoter Tex Sul livan said today. Courchesne, 20, returned to the featherweight ranks Monday night for his exciting fight with Berrios, 23. Each weighed 128 pounds. Bobby was faster than on Oct. 10, when he tried to in vade the lightweight division and scaled 131 for Perez, who took the unanimous decision. WRESTLING WED. NIGHT NOVEMBER 16 GRANTS PASS Arena, Grants Pass Starting Time 8:30 p.m. MAIN EVENT Best 23 Falls or 1 Hour Umit Kurt von Poppenheim, 208 The Proud Prussian O Macerak. 205 Montreal These Two Bitter Rivals Are at It Aeain!!!! SEMI-FINAL Best 23 Falls or 1 Hour Limit Henry Lenz, 216 The Golden Boy From Muscle Beach Scotty Williams. 198 Springfield, Miss. EXTRA ATTRACTION: Before His I Match Henry Lenz Will Give a Muscle Exhibition Which Was Ac claimed hv Thousands of TV Fans'. Matches Under the Supervision of I the Grants Pass Boxing Comm. BARKER'S - MEN'S CLOTHING HOCKEY Montreal (U.R) Jean Beli veau, the, big man in the early surge of the Montreal Canadiens, today held on to his own top spot among the National Hockey League scorers with 22 points. The rangy center of the color ful Canadiens added two goals and an assist during last week's play. He now has 10 goals and 12 assists. Linemate Bert Olm stead remained just off the pace with 20 points. A pair of New York Rangers, center Dave Creighton and his wing, Ron Murphy, held down the third and fourth positions for the ' second week in a row, al though they picked up but a sin-' gle point t in three games. Creighton's 17 points were good for third while Murphy wound up the week with 16 points. Maurice Richard, perennial runnerup in the scoring derby, climbed over Detroit's Gordie Howe and Alex Delvecchio to pull even with Murphy. Hock ey's all-time scoring great had eight goals and eight assists for 16 points. I TWO WEEKS MORE TO GO! in Barker's Football Contest . i LAST WEEK'S WINNERS! . NINE CORRECT OUT OF TEN AT HIALEAH PARK Miami, Fla. (U.R) El Chama and Prendase, who finished 1-2 in the Washington, D.C. Inter national race, will campaign at Hialeah Park this winter, it was announced today. The Venezue lan horses will be pointed for the S100.000 Widener and the $50,000 Hialeah Turf handicaps. Start Rebuilding Richmond Virginians Richmond, Va; (U.R) Six local businessmen with an under standing of finances and a love for baseball began today the monumental task " of rebuilding Richmond's AA Virginians left without a manager and only 20 players. The group bought the Interna tional League entry for S20,000 yesterday at an unprecedented auction by the federal govern ment which was satisfying tax claims against the club. . When You See GEORGE LEWIS ROGUE TRAVEL SERVICE A FREE SERVICE We Reserve and Sell Airline and Steamship Tickets PHONE 2-6779 LOBBY HOTEL JACKSON C. C. ARCHIBALD . C. H. BARRELL BOB BUTLER BLAIR CROSBY STEVE CUMMINS MELVA GEBHARD KENNETH HULBURT, JR. RICHARD KLINE BILL OFFARD ' DON PATTERSON MARION POLK ROBERT RAE BERTHA RAE JOHN ROOT FLORENCE STACEY ROSE UHRINE G. C. 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