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o o O o o Q O TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL .TRIBUNE Thursday, November 8. 1956 Georgia Tech Least Scored On in 1956 New York UP- The meet ing of Georgia Tech and Ten nessee on" Saturday will pit the nation's best defensive unit in the past decado against the top scoring team in the past three 6 banner. Hefty Glide Aggregation To Oppose Eagle Pointers Eagle Point A hefty aggre gation which has made the suc cessful transition from Class B six-man football to Class A-2 variety. That's a quick descrip tion of the Glide Wildcats, whom 175, and Eldon Sinnott, 160, with Richard Harvey, 196, and Jim McCoy, 214. billed at tackles. Lenny Crow, 200. may be at center. Others who should see con Eagle . Point high will oppose siderable service are Bill Es- in' the play-off for the District years. According to statistic re leased today by the NCAA serv- - ice bureau, the Engineers from Cieorgia Tech are the least scored up'in team thus far this year, a department they have led the last 10 years. And. Ten nessee, with a 31.3 point per : game average, tops the nation's major teams in scoring. During the past decade, Geor gia Tech has allowed its oppon ents just 81 points in 104 regular-season games, or an 8 S point average. Thus far this sea son the Engineers have given up an aggregate of 27 points, or 4. J per game. Last year they led all major teams in this de-. partmcnt with a 4.6 points per game average. However, the Engineers are not so tight-fisted in permitting their opponents to move up and down the field. Last year they. . were lGUi in yards allowed, while permitting the least scor ing, and currently are 16th in total defense, though first where ! defense counts the most. Okla homa's 5.2 figure is next in the points allowed -department fol lowed by Miami, Fla., 5.3, Tulso, 5.7 and Penn State. Baylor and . Texas Christian, tied st 6.5 points. Mississippi Leads For the third straight week, Mississippi leads in total defense and pass defense while Havy is r on top in rushing defense and Colorado A&M is the punting leader. Mississippi's total defense average jumped trom 149.5 to 160.4 to top the other major schools. Texas A & M jumped torn 16th to second after allow ing Arknsa only 82 yards, all on the ground. Navy's line held Notre Dame to only 55 yards to take over in rushing defense. Boston College, fast week's leader, slipped to third behind Miami, Fla. Navy's averaae stands at 101 8, Miami at H0.2 and Boston College at 118.8. The Colorado Aggies, who've )Men among the 'top kicking tearat all season, finally took over the leadership qti sis: punts that averaged 46.5 yards last week against Xavier, Ohio. Their season niark stands at -t.6 yards on 39 punts. Flink Holds Golfing Lead Lee Flink with 70-70-69 209 tilt is leador in the fall golf handicaps at Rogue Valley Country club. Way will end Sunday, Nov. 11.: In the 54-hole tournament Frank Allen with 73-68 141 is among those who have finished only two rounds remains in con tention for the laurels. Fifteen linfcsmprt have com pleted the three rounds. There are 54 entrants in the tourney Low finishers include Dr. Wil- Miller 70-72-72214 and VVendeil Wissler ,71-72-76219 RPbiv. startine Nov. 12, at the R.VCC will be over the old lay out. Holiday handicap play will ODerton Nov. 29. It will be point affair with entries adding G up. the count of their four best rounds during me winter piay. Turkey Shoot Entrants Will Vie in Classes All contestants will shoot in their respective classes Sunday in the turkey shoot at Medford Gun -club. The shoot is one of two merch - ancttse events prior to Thanks giving. Traps will open at 10 a.m. Hams, as well as turkeys, vrill be prizes. Spectators are welcome to at tend, oclub officials said. The o groonAs are on Central Point O Market road just west' of the 0 Crater Lalre highway Four Cor- ners. o " , cEunch will be available on 0 the1 grounds. The Eagles go lo Glide f or a 3' p.m. encounter on Saturday This has been Glide's first sea son in. 11-man football. The Wildcats were six-man state run-ners-up in 1955. For the cur rent campaign they are unbeaten ;in seven games and a tie with Sutherlin is the lone mar on their record. The 'Cats took the Umpqua - Valley loop toga last week when Douglas helped out by tripping Sutherlin. Big gun o-f the Glide club is Dick Smith, six-man Ail-American. A 192-pounder and fast, he runs from the left halfback slot and is the team's leading ground gainer and scorer. He can cross np the opposition .with his pass ing. ' . ISS-Pound Fullback Wayne (Moose) Kennaday, 196, -is the' fullback. He's said to be slow but hits hard. Burt Bak er. 160, is likely right half, with Curijts Cheron. 175, at quarter. wine. 130 defensive safety, John ny Livingston. 140, and Gary Wagner. 165. backs, and Dave Evans, 160, Larry Swanson, 170 and Paul Anderson, guards, 170. Glides victories were 24 to 0 over Douglas. 25 to 0 over Yon calla, 38 to 0 over Riddle, 33 to 0 over Oakland. 20-13 over Myrtle CreeU, and 40 to 7 over Elkston. Nelson Sidelined Eagle Point has been taking advantage of better weather this week to work on a "little of ev erything." Coach Stan Smith said his club has been hampered some by colds. Tackle Ron Nelson, a 160 pound regular has been sidelined by a knee injury but Smith has groomed Roger Hooper, 170 pound sophomore for the spot on offense and Roy Reagon, 189, for defensive chores. Reagan has been out for foot ball only a week and a half. He was on the club last season but burns suffered in a cycle acci- Ends are Allen Smith, cousin dent prevented him from turn to Dick, and Chuck Meracle. 155. ing out at the start of this sea Likely guards are Gary Eaton. Isnn. Skin grifts were necessarv. o o o MEDF0RDSWTRIBU?fB SJPdDffiT St. Mary's To Encounter Good Defensive Team in Title Scuffle at Merrill Crater, KF Vie for 3rd In SO Loop Central Point Crater high travels to Klamath Falls Friday night with the aim of winding up in third place in its first year of Class A-l Southern Oregon conference football. The Comets of Central Point and the Pelicans are now tied in third with one win and two loss es each in the loop. Cold could prove a handicap for. the CP club but the Comets likely will go well prepared with long woolen underwear, stock ings and gloves. Both clubs have a host of seniors in their last football ap pearance for their respective school and the Comets have 12 seniors considered regulars. For Crater they are Carl Koellner, Fred Herrmann. Dave Parker. Bill Morse, Dick Davis. Roger Seaman. Don Hubbard. Dick Rai ney. Neil Green and Ray Birge in the line and George Juveland, Don Goyette and Ron Harrison in the backfield. Wrist Cut Harrison is expected to see action despite a cut wrist. He suffered the injury last Friday morning and had 16 stitches ap plied to sew up the wound but still played that night at Myrtle Creek. Coach Leonard Warren said the wound is well padded and bandaged. Sophomore back Jerome Mc Quades has missed Crater drills this week because of flu and Al len Barnes, another soph back, will miss the tussle because of injury. For Klamath Falls Butch Kimpton has been moved to halfback from quarter to make up for possible loss of Richard Humphrey who hag been side lined by a concussion then flu. Jerry Bramwell has taken the quarter post. "These boys will be hard to beat this week end." That was the comment this morning of Coach Millard Webb concerning his St. Mary's high football club. St. Mary's will go to Merrill or a 3 p.m. Saturday combat for the District 5B champion Ship. It Is the third straight year in the play-off for the Crusaders of Medford, Jackson county champions. Merrill unseated Ma lin as- Klamath county titlist. Webb indicated by his words that St. Mary's morale is high, condition of the team good and that the Crusaders will be at their best this Saturday. Against Merrill, the SM eleven will face a club which has a good defensive record despite overall lightness. The Huskies will be lighter on the line but heavier in the backfield than the Crusaders. Merrill has a seven win, one loss standing for the season, com pared to the five-two record of St. -Mary's. The Husky setback was to Henley on a last minute touchdown. No team has scored more than one touchdown against Merrill this season. Husky victories have been 7 to 0 over Chiloquin, 24 to 0 over Bo nanza, 12 to 7 over Malin, 33 to 6 over Sacred Heart, 7 to 6 over Talent, 33 to' 6 over Rogue River and over Tulelake, Calif., with the. score' unlisted. St. -Mary's has defeated Jack sonville 33 to 0, Talent 14 to 12,' Rogue River 40 to 7 and the Cra ter jayvees 7 to 6 and 19 to 14. The' Crusaders lost 7 to 6 to Illi nois Valley and 13 to 7 to Sacred O o CITY LEAGUE MEET Eleciwn of ofiicers for the 1956-1957 season will be one of the majr, items on the ag enda Friday evening at a meet- ing of the Medford Independ ent Basketball league. Presi dent Dick Phillips has called the session for 8 p.m. at the : Medford armory. Tornado Gridders Keeping in Trim Lots of running, along with Lindividual and group work, has been employed this week to keep the Black Tornado grid ders of Medford high in tune for state A-l championship play offs. . The Tornado rests from game action this week and drills Tuesday and Wednesday were light. No contact scrimmage has been held but there have been dummy drills and contact work has been done in individual and line and back group portions of the practices. lost of the hands have been at the workouts and head Coach Fred Spiegelberg indicated that drills were going "pretty good.'' He hoped for the return today of halfback Bilbee Lane, who had trouble with a tooth extrac tion last week and missed the Grants Pass game. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport Heart in their first games of the season. Heaviest offensive lineman shown for Merrill is center Roger Troutman. Next heaviest are three men shown at 160 each. Quarterback Tom O'Neil is passer and option runner for the Huskies in the unbalanced T and single wing attack mentor ed by Al Kech. Perry Laney, 16o, main ball carrier. LeRoy Schlecht, 195, is a regular de fensive lineman. St. Mary's depends on its big ger line to prepare the way for small fast backs and the hard running of its bigger back, Jim Darland. The Crusaders have a wealth of good little backs in Ron Pruitt, Rodney Read, Eddie Fogel, Dick Hayes and Dave Espey. Floyd Patterson, Sugar Ray Have New Ring Tactics Greenwood Lake. N. Y. (U.R) Young Floyd Patterson and vet eran Ray Robinson, both under dogs for approaching title fights, have adopted new ring styles while training hopefully for upsets. "No more flyin' saucers," said 21-year-old Patterson today. "I'm goin' to have my feet on the ground all the time when I meet Archie Moore." In the past Floyd has been a devotee of the leaping right lead. Speedy Patterson of Brooklyn fights 39-year-old Moore for the vacant heavyweight crown at the Chicago Stadium, Nov. 30. Moore of San Diego, Calif., is favored at 8-5. Switch-Hitting Middleweight champion Rob inson, in the same training ring here at the Long Pond Inn, sur prised observers with his brand new "shifting" tactics that in clude intermittent periods of switch-hitting and many walk aways, taken from the book of Jersey Joe Walcott. "I'm usin' the old noodle," ex plained 35-year-old Sugar Ray, who defends his 160 -pound crown against young Gene Full mer of West Jordan, Utah, at Madison Square Garden, Nov. 30. "I'm not go'nta jus stand there and let him pile into me on a straight line." Fullmer, 24, is favored at 7-5 because of his youth and stami na and headlong style, and be cause of doubts that Sugar Ray's aging legs could last 15 rounds, if necessary. Basketball Exhibition At Ashland Basketball players, coaches and fans of the area will have a chance to see a free exhibi tion this evening when Bill Closs, one of the southwest's top stars, appears for Converse Rub ber company. The exhibition will be at 7:30 p.m. at Ashland High school gymnasium. As part of the pro gram Closs will show specially taken sound movies of the 1955 1956 season's most important championship games. Closs, a 1943 All-American at Rice Institute, will demonstrate basket shooting, passing, drib bling, pivoting, offense and de fense and will discuss and an swer questions on rules. He sticks to fundamentals. His aim is to promote more interest in basketball. The Converse expert has play ed pro ball for teams in Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, and Ander son, Ind., and Philadelphia, Pa. Prospects Poor For Waterfowl In Rogue Region Portland (U.R) Weekly fish ing report prepared by the State Game Commission: Southwest: Hunting Water fowl prospects poor in Jackson and Josephine counties; Coos county elk hunting fair-with elk back in timber; duck hunting poor. x Fishing Few steelhead and goodly number of cutthroat being taken in upper Umpqua and lower portion of north and south Umpqua; cluster eggs best; Rogue improved but steelheading slow. Northwest: Hunting Pheasants to be had in north Willamette area with doss but hunting difficult: water fowl scarce: waterfowl hunting fair for Lane county with pintails, bald pates and Canada geese observed in the vallfv; Pleasant prospects poor; Elk hunting spotty in Cascade area. Fishing North coast streams in good condition with silvers in most of them; lew fresh run steelheads taken in larger streams. Central: Hunting for waterfowl should be fair; quail hunting in De schutes. Crook and Jefferson coun ties fair. Some fish being caught in Ochoco reservoir. Northeast: Elk hunting improving in Umatilla area and elk moving down because of snow in Union, Ba ker and Wallowa areas: best pros pects in Grant count yare in Desola tion creek. Indian creek. Granite Boulder creek and Camp and Silver creek areas: waterfowl fair to good Southeast: Pheasant hunting fair in Malheur county: waterfowl fair to good: upland game shooting poor in Harney county; about 40.000 geese remain in Warner Valley shooting grounds. Bob Pettit Sets Pace for Hawks By UNITED PRESS Big Bob Pettit, who led the JS'ational Basketball association in most scoring departments last season, is picking up where he i left off this season. I" The- 6-9 forward from Lou I isiana State, who was the pro ! loop s top scorer in total points and had a 25.7 point per game average during the 1955-56 sea son, poured 34 points through , the hoop Wednesday night to lead the St. Louis Hawks to a 107-101 victory over the New York Knickerbockers. 1 In the only other game plaved. ; the Rochester Royals snapped a ! tour-game losing streak in beat i ing the Philadelphia Warriors, i 81-80. ' 1 Pre-Thanksgiving TURKEY SHOOTS NOV. 11 & 18 Medford Gun Club Crater Lake Hiway at 4 Corners TURKEYS - HAMS - BACON, Etc. Visitors Urged To Attend TRAPS OPEN 9 A.M. LUNCH SERVED ON THE GROUNDS BOW1LIIVG Clave Construction and Cubby's Drive-In moved closer to first place in the Commer cial Bowling league Wednesday night with 3 to 1 series wins over their opponents while the first place leader, Morning Fresh Bread team was losing a 0 to 4 decision to Desert Lumber team. High individual series was rolled by Duane Lubbers with 616, Frank Knox 610 and Ray Wise 601. Ray Wise rolled high game of 269. Standings: W. L. Morning Fresh Bread 30 14 Clave Construction 2!)'3 14'a Cubby's Drive In 29 15 Alexander-Brown Ins ur 'nee 24 2u Star Body Works 21 'a Quality Market 22 22 Desert Lumber Co 21 23 Table Rock Lumber Co 20 24 Crater Electric . 18 26 Medford Mail Tribune 17 27 Crater Lake Motors 16 Bates Candy Co 14 30 Results: Clave Const. V. Allen Olsen Chapman Clave Burroughs 302 5b8 480 500 C. L. Motors 1 Veisey 559 Cannon 480 Coleman 451 Monroe 47;i Farrar 52 u 2483 Desert Lbr. Bex FehJ Smith Knox Parker 4 460 490 441 610 541 2546 -M. F. Bread Becks Cabler Barry Shinn Spain Cubby's Piche Meyers Brooks Ramsby White 0 415 5AIB 509 464 546 2442 3 Crater Elcc. 1 595 Knapp 550 536 Dorff 418 460 McCormack 48 518 Vallee 528 527 H. Allen 459 2636 Star Body Thomson Bohannon Christianson Graham Patterson 2517 0 T. R. Lumber 4 509 Gardner 558 Lenz 563 O.Connor 4t8 Freeman 5 1 8 522 426 517 495 Schroeder 2469 505 , 3 4ftB 4(i8 523 512 2414 Mai! Tribune 0 Quality Mkt. 4 Anderson 550 Lubbers fil6 Mathes 433 Huston 513 LiddeU , 500 ,Kyker 473 Monsey 523 Henderson 519 Spaunhorst 516 Wise 601 Bates Candy Dimick J. Weber D. Weber Garrett Dixon 1 A-B Ins. 437 Boone 518 Guldan 483 Berrey 445 Green 452 Knapp 2333 2532 2724 MINOR LEAGUE Standings: W. L. Security Insurance 13 3 Cummins Diesel 11 5 Firestone Stores 9 7 MaUack's 8 8 Leninger's Rockettes 6'2 5; Team Three 6 10 Team Eight 6 10 K-Boy Keglers 4'j 11 2 Results: Team Three B. Mathews F. Coffin J. Sapp Handicap 388 409 321 138 1256 Cummins Diesel 2 E. Goode 359 N. Jones 484 Wilson tabs) 429 Security Ihs. 1 M. Janzen 403 W. Booth 415 Shelton tabs.) 321 1139 Matlark's D. Harris S. Coulter H. Paulson Handicap 3 353 404 408 Firestone 4 E. Sessions 377 E. Crismon 436 L. Turner 367 (FORFEIT; Team Eight V. Harris I. Ault R. Lowe Handicap 349 344 401 24 K-Boy Wiison (aba) 318 P. bmith V. Wilson 296 446 Wood Picks Indians Oyer Oregon State By HAL WOOD Uniled Press Sports Writer Papeete, Tahiti 'iU.R) The Tahitians don't know a football from a coconut, and some of my followers are convinced that I don't either. So while sunning myself un der the swaying palms on this tropical island, I listened to a native soothsayer come up with these pigskin prognostications: Stanford over Oregon State: Ugh! My papaya crystal shows Indians taking to air like flying fish. Beavers get beached on coral reef at 10 yard line. By one. Southern California over Cali fornia: Urn! Golden Bears crazy like loon. Don't know which di rection is up. Line like big bowl guava jelly. By 13. Washington over UCLA. Bruins get stuck-um in gumbo mud at Seattle. Huskies like fish. Always wiggle off hook. By six. Idaho over Utah State: This like Moore Island vs. Tahiti. Small time warfare by defeated nations. By 14. 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