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mwest ominates United Press All-America Voting Lead By Cassady Of Buckeyes By NORMAN MILLER United Press Sports Writer New York (U.R) The Mid- .west area, placing Howard (Hop- along) Cassady of Ohio State and four other players, dominated the 1955 United Press All-Amer ica football team selected today in a nation-wide poll of 304 sports writers and broadcasters. This year's "dream team" also was made up of two players each from the South and Southwest, and one each from the Pacific Coast and the East. Here are the players chosen as the finest in the country at their positions: Jon Arnelt Chosen Ends: Ron Eeagle, Navy, and Ran Kramer, Michigan. Tackles: Bruce Bosley, West Virginia, and Norman Masters, Michigan State. Guards: Bo Bolinger, Okla homa, and Calvin Jones, Iowa. Center: Bob Pellegrini, Mary - land. Backs: Howard Cassady, Ohio State; Jim Swink, Texas Christ ian; Paul Hornung, Notre Dame, and Jon Arnett, Southern Cali fornia. Cassady, the elusive 172-pound halfback who was the key fig ure in Ohio State's Big Ten championship quest, was the leading vote-getter on the All America team. He received a total of 2979 out of a possible 3344 points and was chosen for either the first or second team on all but 20 of the ballots cast. Two Repeaters Beagle, Navy's brilliant pass- catching end, was the second most popular choice with a total of 2738 points, and Kramer, Michigan's 218 -pound place- kicking end, was third with 2643 points. Cassady and Jones, 220-pound bulwark of the Iowa line, were the only repeaters from last year's All-America team. The only other collegian eligible to repeat was Don Holleder of Army. But Holleder, who made the 1954 team as an end, was shifted to quarterback this sea son and received only honorable mention. Beagle moved up from the 1954 second team, narrowly missing out for the top honor last 'year; Kramer was a third team choice in 1954. Seven Seniors Seven of the All-Americans are seniors and four are juniors Swink, Hornung, Arnett and Kramer. This represents the largest number of juniors on the first team since the World War II years when college football was played under unusual condi tions. 'The closest races in this year's All-America balloting were for the fourth backfield berth and for one of the tackles. Arnett won his backfield honor by a margin of 141 points over George Welsh of Navy, and Masters had a 193-point edge over Mike San dusky of Maryland in the voting for tackle. This year's backfield is com prised of a brilliant field gen eral and three of the finest ball carryers in college football. Hornung excelled in passing, calling plays, defense and gen erally engineering the big play in tough situations. Swink com piled a remarkable running aver age of 8.6 yards in his first nine games this season; Cassady had 5.9 yards every time he carried the ball, while Arnett averaged five yards per try from scrim mage and was exceptionally good in running back punts and kickoffs. Beagle, at 186 pounds, was the lightweight in an otherwise massive line, which had an over all average of 215 pounds per vman. Bosley, Masters and Pelle grini were the heaviest at 225 pounds each. No matter what the weight, however, each line man had speed and was a stand out both on offense and defense. MEDFORDvTRIBUKS rm 'teW ?3fB' jrB A REAL SOCKFEST Argentine middleweight Eduardo Lausse (left) swaps blows and grimaces with Gene Fullmer of West Jordan Utah, during their 10-round sockfest in few York that kept a crowd of 4000 cheering The bout was televised nationally. Lausse, who now wants a crack at Bcbo Olsons title, won bj a unanimous decision but Fullmer was m there slugging with him until the last belL It was Lausse's 30th straight win. Cards Thump Bears, Giants Knot Browns In Fro Grid tHassEes The personnel of the second and third teams: Second Xenm 1 Ends: Walker and Tom Maentz, Michigan. Tackles: Sandusky and Francis Ma cinski. Ohio State. Guards: Kardiman Cureton. UCLA, and Jim Parker. Ohio State. Center: Hitch Pitts. TCU. Backs: Welsh; Earl Morrall. Michi gan State: Tom McDonald. Oklahoma; and Bob Davenport, UCLA. Third Team Ends: Harold Burnine. Missouri, and John Paluck. Pittsburgh. Tackles: Frank D Agostino. Auburn, and Sam Huff. West Virginia. Guards: Franklin Brooks. Geor gia Tech, and Pat Bisceglia, Notre Dame. Center: Jerry Tubbs. Oklahoma. Backs: Joe Childress. Auburn; Vereb. Maryland: Don Schaefer. Notre Dame, and Sam Brown, UCLA. Honorable mention players those receiving 11 or more points included: Ends: Loudd. UCLA. 232: Stewart, Stanford. 81: Houston. Washington, 75: Clarke. Southern California. 58; Carmichael. California. 52: Williams, College of Pacific. 40: Lewis. Wash ington. 23: McHtigh. Oregon. 18; Her mann. UCLA. 12. Tackles: Witte. Oregon State. 328; Robinson, Washington, 191: Wiggin, Stanford. 75: Jankans. Arizona State, 39: Nisby. College of Pacific, 24: Gun nari, Washington State, 23; Moreno, UCLA, 18. Guards: Ferrante. Southern Calif ornia. 166: J. Brown. UCLA. 145. Centers: Palmer. UCLA, 35; Goux, Southern California, 17; Long, Stan ford. 12; Watson, Washington, 12; Hatcher. Arizona. 11. Backs: Luppino. Arizona. 199; Tarr, St.yiford. 140; Knox. UCLA. 131; James. Oregon. 41; Brodie. Stanford, 23: Francis, Oregon State, 12. By EARL WRIGHT United Press Sports Writer The Los Angeles Rams and Cleveland Browns cling to half game leads in the National Foot ball league's division races to day because of inspired "spoil er" efforts by the Chicago Car dinals and New York .Giants, two teams with no hope of play ing in the Dec. 26 champion ship game. The Cardinals, I6V2 point un derdogs, knocked the Chicago Bears out of first place in the Western division Sunday with a thumping", 53-14 triumph in the 66th game of their bitter, mtra city series. Los Angeles, which had been a half-game behind the Bears, took first place by edging the Philadelphia Eagles, 23-21 on Les Richter's 26-yard field goal with only seven seconds to go. New York played its finest 1955 game to hold the champion Browns to a 35-35 tie at the Polo Grounds. The second -place Washington Redskins took ad vantage of New York's effort and cut Cleveland's Eastern lead to a half-game by downing the Pittsburgh Steelers, 23-14. Kept Hopes Alive The Baltimore Colts kept their hopes alive by defeating the San Francisco Forty-Niners in Sunday's other game, 26-14. Baltimore trails Los Angeles by one game. The Green Bay Pack ers, who lost to the Detroit Lions Thursday, 24-10, are IV2 games behind the Rams. All teams have two more reg ular season games. Cleveland visits Pittsburgh and winds up at home against the Cardinals. Washington winds up at home against New York and Pitts burgh. Los Angeles finishes at home against Baltimore and Green Bay. The Bears wind up at home against Detroit and Philadelnhia. Ollie Matson, Dave Mann and Don Stonesifer .each scored twice in a snowstorm as the Cardinals snapped the Bears' six-game winning streak. Cleveland appeared set for one of its patented finishes when Otto Graham ran 27 yards to sot up a 21-yard field poal try by Lou Groza. But Ray Krause, Pat Knight and other New York defensive stars who had blocked a 26-yard Groza field goal at tempt in the first half., broke throueh to block the boot with onlv 17 seconds to eo. But it was a different story at Philadelphia where Richter booted his third field goal of the game in the final seconds to put the Rams in first place. Norm Van Brocklin threw scor ing passes to Elroy Hirsch and Tom Fears to help Los Angeles beat Philadelphia for the first time in seven tries. Washington didn't complete a j pass at Pittsburgh but won on i two touchdowns by Leo Elter ! and a 19-yard punt return TD by Joe Scudero. At Baltimore, George Shaw threw a touchdown pass to Jim Mutschler, scored on a 21-yard run and set up a two-yard TD lunge by Alan Ameche to lead the Colts to victory over the Forty-Niners. Army Won't in By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer Overjoyed Army closed the books today on a 1955 college football season made glorious for the Cadets by their inspired upset victory over Navy, but there will be still another chap ter for bowl-bound Georgia Tech and Mississippi. The Cadets, triumphant by 14-6 over Navy in Saturday's dramatic gridiron classic at Phil adelphia, returned to the Mili tary Academy at West Point Sunday for a, tumultuous cele bration. Coach Earl Blaik, whose team came from behind to win on second-half touchdowns by hard slashing Pat Uebel and Pete Lash, hailed his team at the vic tory rally for "beating one of the best Navy teams in many, many years." Earlier Blaik had cast a personal vote against any bowls for Army by saying, "I have had enough football for one season." ' But Georgia Tech quickly ac cepted a bid to the Sugar Bowl and Mississippi accepted a berth in the Cotton Bowl after each wound up its regular season with an impressive victory on Saturday. That completed the following lineup for the major bowls on Jan. 2: . ' Lineups In Bowls Rose Bowl at Pasadena, Calif. UCLA vs. Michigan State. Orange Bowl at Miami, Fla. Oklahoma vs. Maryland. Sugar Bowl at New Orleans Georgia Tech vs. Pittsburgh. Cotton Bowl at Dallas, Tex. Texas Christian vs. Mississippi. The Gator Bowl at Jackson ville, Fla., was scheduled to hold a meeting today at which the two teams would be selected. It was believed that three Southeastern Conference teams were the ones from which the choice would be made Auburn, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt. The Sun Bowl at El Paso, Tex., filled one berth with Texas Tech, but did not expect to announce the other for "several days." Use Tribune Want Ads Quick in results! COMPTON PICKED Pasadena, Calif. (U.R) Comp ton Junior College, ranked No. 1 in the national jaycee poll, was named today to represent the West against Jones County Jun ior College, Miss., in the 10th annual Junior Rose Bowl foot ball game Dec. 10. 1 Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport OLSON GETS AWARD- Chicago (U.R) The Chicago Boxing Writers and Broadcast ing association will present mid dleweight champion Carl (Bobo) Olson with a plaque today as "Boxer of 1954." The award was voted a year ago but Olson was unable to attend the annual ban quet at which presentations are made. ON NORTH TEAM Miami, Fla. (U.R) Fullback Pat Uebel, quarterback Don Hol leder and end Ralph Chesnaus kas, three Army players who had a big hand in the upset of Navy Saturday, have been named to the North team for the annual Shrine North-South college all star football game in the Orange Bowl, Dec. 26. Monday, Norember 28, 1953 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINS Minor Loop Shifts Seen In Baseball By LEO H. PETERSON United Press Sports Editor Columbus,' Ohio (U.R) A number of triple A minor league franchise shifts loomed today as the major leagues met for their annual player draft. While the majors decide what players to select from those eligible from the minor leagues, the minors were engaged in pos sible changes affecting the American Association and Inter national League. It appeared possible that the TAKING OPENING KICKOFF and marching straight down field, George Welch (11) Navy quarterback, dives over for score in Army-Navy game at Philadelphia. (International) International League for 1956 would include Miami, Fla., and either Jacksonville, Fla., or Knoxville, Tenn. But before that can be accom plished, the American Associa tion must re-align its franchises, too. One clutj the Columbus Jets of the International League ap peared to hold the key to re alignment of those higher classi fication minors. The picture is this: The Milwaukee Braves, who operated the Toledo, Ohio, fran chise in the American Associa tion last year, want to move the club to Miami. That would make the Association an unwieldy loop, with Denver in the West, Minneapolis and St. Paul in the far North and Miami in the deep South. But the International League has a club in Havana, Cuba, and could take in Miami without increasing its schedule or travel ing difficulties. So the Association would like the International to trade Miami for Columbus. SKI DATE CHANGED Spout Springs, Ore. (U.R) Date for the National Cross Country skiing championships here was changed yesterday from Dec. 28 to Dec. 30 to make it possible for a larger field to take part. IT Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Flues Drain Tile Ml W. McAndrewa Phone 2-4107 ANNOUNCING Brooks Electric & Plumbing NOW LOCATED AT 1016 N. RIVERSIDE : 1 Block South of The Old Location "NEW ROYAL 76, PLEASE ft UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA
