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o o Co n 1 U 6.A-2 Glide Eagle Point high joined the ranks of state football quar- ter-finalists Saturday afternoon defeating the Glide Wildcats 20 to 0 here for the District 6 A-2 championship. Ciuarter-linal play will send, the EP eleven against Pleasant , Hili. Coach Stan Smith of the ' Eagles said the game is planned for Saturday at Eagle Point or Medford. Running of backs Jack Greb, Jim Duncn and Norm Hooper and another strong defensive performance by the linemen car ried the Eagles to their ninth consecutive victory this season. EP scored on three 16-yard sweeps around the ends, two by Greb and one by Duncan. The Eagles stemmed two big Glide scoring threats in accomp lishing the triumph. They held after the Wildcats recovered a blocked, punt on the EP six-yard line and they halted the home dub again in the first Tialf on . the 12-yard line. Except for a few times when standout halfback . Dick Smith broke through, EP pretty well restrained the 'Cats. .Onigained 'Cat " Eagle Point out-offensed the Wildcats 267 net yards to 154, errill Subdues St For District SB Grid ; : Merrill The -Merrill- high Huskies, capitalizing on two touchdowns by Perry Lancy and Stubborn defense in the dutches donned the District 5B football crown here Saturday afternoon. Outgained on the ground and through the air, the. Huskies, nevertheless claimed the pay-off in the. most important depart ment, touchdowns, in a 13 to 7 verdict over St. Mary's high of Medford here. St. Mary's was the Jackson county champion and Merrill had won the Klam ath county title. Merrill crossed the goal in the second and fourth quarters -and St. Mary's in the waning mo ments of the game. Laney inter cepted ' a Ron Pruitt pass and rambled 21 yards for the first Husky score. John Haskins ran the extra. , The winning margin was pro vided oh a 69-yard drive with Tom O Neil passing to Laney for the final seven. St. Mary's took the ball after the MerriU kick off and went from .its own 35 yard line in seven plays to score. Pruitt threw to Jack Daley, for the last 14 yards-. Eddie Fogel converted with a run. SM Stopped on Throe On its drive for its second touchdown Merrill had punches by John Reed and Haskins into the end zone called back because ' Df penalties. f . Twice in the first, quarter the Huskies crushed Crusader -marches, halting -one drive on the three and the other on the ESCORTED TOUR 22 days from PORTLAND includes: De luxe accommodations every night 5 nites. 4 days in New Orleans with special sightseeing Gay banquet... Krewe of Alpheus Bail Special farewell dinner On the trip you'll also see. ..Santa Fe Indian Country. Carlsbad Caverns. Las Vegas. Los Angeles. San Francisco En route entertainment Transportation aboard de lux "Highway Travel' . Services of competent escort ' ilroughout trip G c four departs fb. 21 371 50 TWIN 0 DOUBLE ROOM RATE ; . PS PERSON, PLUS TAX C - FROM MEDrCRD c GRIYHOUHp kA oritur J HortAt c2t2 North' Bartlett Street j0Phon 2-2202 0 ORSEE YOUR TRAVEL AGENT G-218A-106 D 0 I POINTERS CAPTURE iATLE IN FOOTBALL ! picking up 209 on the ground i and 58 in the air, while Glide got 131 rushing and 23 passing. First downs also favored the Eagles nine to 6. There was no scoring in the first period. Greb swept the right flank and sped to the end zone in the last 26 seconds of the first half. He carried over for the conversion for the 7 to 0 midway count. Both of the other EP touch downs were in the third quarter. Half way through the period, the Eagles took a punt on their own 33 and marched the 67 yards goalward. It took nine plays with Duncan going around left end for the score. Conversion run was stopped. The Eagles surged from their own 45-yard line in five plays for the final TD. Greb circled left to the pay line and Norm Hooper drove up the middle for the bonus point. The defeat was Glide's first this year, it's first season of full time 11-man competition. Eagle Point has not been beaten since it dropped a 6 to 13 nod to A-l Crater at the start of the cam paign. 22. St. Mary's also was spurned after going deep in Merrill ter ritory in the second panel. Laney turned the trick by intercept ing his second pass of the after noon. For the second week end in a row Merrill was outrushed and outpassed but still won a title game. They tripped Malin under the same circumstances a week ago for the Klamath pennant. Yesterday St. Mary's piled up 244 yards from rushing and 38 from passing for 282 total. Mer rill backs totted for 173 net yards and passes picked up 26 for 199 Red Raiders Flayed By Hawaii Rainbows Honolulu. T. H. (U.R) The University of Hawaii Rainbows gave Southern Oregon college a lesson in Hawaiian football Fri day night by trouncing the Red Raiders, 59-0, before 5,500 fans. Oregon's ace quarterback Bill Seymour was hospitalized with a neck injury early in the game. Hospital attendants reported his condition as satisfactory, but he was kept under observation. But the visitors were out classed and outraced by the fast attacking Hawaii team, led by fleet halfback Skippy Dyer, who set up the first touchdown early in the first period with a 45-yard run and returned the second half kickoff for 95 yards and an other TD. The Rainbows, who suffered mainland losses to Fresno State and Iowa, took it out on the small Oregon school and rolled to nine touchdowns. Breaks Fail Raiders Southern Oregon got none of Sooners Keep Win Record Ames, Iowa. (U.R) Okla homa sent a parade of backs into the Iowa State end zone Satur day for a 44-0 victory and a new all-time 37-game winning streak in college football competition. The oniy win record standing in the path of the Nation's No. 1 team was 36 straight by great Penn teams in the 1890s. And that one fell under a bone crunching Sooner attack that scored in every quarter and held Iowa State to only four first downs. Earlier this year. Oklahoma broke the modern day scoring record of 33 straight. But Wilkin son's teams have not been de feated .in Big Seven competition since lie took over as coach in 1947. PURDUE STUBBORN East Lansing. Mich. (U.R) Michigan State, aided by two short punts, battered a stubborn Purdue defense with a relentless ground game Saturday to eke out a narrow 12-9 victory be fore 56,431 fans in Nachlin sta dium. i BAYLOR OVER TEXAS I Warn Tex. (U.R) Halfback Donnell Berry kicked a 19-yard field goal in the fourth, quar ter. Saturday to give Baylor a 10-7 victory over Texas in a Southwest conference contest be fore 22.000 fans. Berry shared spotlight honors with halfback Bel Snofner. -who raced 55 yards to score Baylor's only touch down and "darted 47 yards to set die stage for .Berry's three pointer, College Park, Md., (U.R) Patched-up Maryland narrowly miased turning Clemson Orange bowl dreams into nightmare Sat urday, battling the favored Tig- iers to a 6-6 tie and coming with I in six yards of an upset, victory in the closing seconds. . j SPORTS High School Scores By United Prest Gresham 26. Parkroae 6 Astoria 13. Beaverton 12 Central Catholic 18. David Douglas 0 Milwaukie 14. Hiusboro 13 Amitv 19. Yamhill 12 Verboort 19. Jewell 12 Talent 13. Clendale 6 Silverton 9. Woodburn 7 Cascade 13. Mt. Annl 12 North Marion 14. Stayton 13 Crater 27. Klamath Falls 21 Sweet Home 27. Cottage Grove 14 Pnneville 33. Bend 7 Toledo 18. Newport 13 Sherwood 28. Dayton 21 Sherdan 29. Willamina 13 Grant Union 31. Pilot Bock 20 Reedsport 13. Myrtle Point 7 Roseburlf 7. Tillamook 7 Seaside 39. Wy east 19 PITT WHACKS IRISH Pittsburgh (U.R) Pitts burgh mixed a crushing ground attack with pinpoint passing Saturday to defeat Notre Dame 26-13, and hand the Fighting Irish their sixth loss of the sea son before 58,697 fans. It was the first time Pitt beat Notre Dame at its home grounds since 1936. Mary's Title overall net. Merrill accumulated 13 first downs, St. Mary's 11. Along with three pass inter ceptions and stout Merrill re straint when it counted, the Cru saders of Medford were hurt by penalties. Sixty yards were as sessed against them while Mer rill was set back 35. St. Mary's lost the ball twice on fumbles ine Medfordites fell on one Husky fumble and intercepted two passes. Each club completed five passes, Merrill in 13 tries and St. Mary's in 12. the breaks, giving up one touch down when it failed to down a free ball in the end zone after a kickoff. The alert Hawaii team also used a fumble recovery and an Oregon pass interference pen alty to set up two other scores. The track meet proportions of the game were not overlooked by Southern Oregon Coach Al Akins, who told the United Press that the Hawaiaan boys "were just too fast for us. Our lack of speed was what really hurt." Akins said he was going to give the team a chance to enjoy their Hawaiian vacation through Sunday, before leaving for Med ford, Ore., at 6 a.m. Monday. Score by Periods Hawaii 20 12 6 2159 Southern Oregon ..0 0 0 0 0 Hawaii scorings: Touchdowns: Fel lez (16 yard pass). Kim. 2 121 yard pass, recovered fumble in end zonei. Wright (14 yard pass!. Strothers (9 yard run). Dyer (95 yard kickoff re turn). Kawawaki 2 (17 yard run anH. 36 yard run.) Ealeimemahu (71 yard pass-run). Safety: Garrett tackles by Silva in end zone. Conversions: Dyer 2. Hedrick Students Have Intramural Intramural basketball for boys and a soccer tournament for girls are underway now at Hed rick Junior High school. Rivalry is on a home room and class base and will conclude on Nov. 20. The basketball competition is giving coaches a chance to look over material. Barney Riggs is ninth grade coach again this year. Bob Huff will handle the eighth grade and Bruce Nelson the seventh. COLORADO CLINCHES BID Colubia. Mo. U.R) Colorado capitalized on two Missouri fumbles for a 14-14 tie Satur day and virtually clinched the Big Seven Orange bowl bid. Missouri must beat the nation's No. 1 team, Oklahoma, next Sat urday to make a race of it with Colorado. THIS SEAT COVERS AIL 1st QUALITY - MADE AND INSTALLED IN OUR SHOP HURRY! BE FIRST -For COOD Color Siltstiois PHONE 2-2990 Southern Oregon Open Season by Opposing Alumni Ashland Southern Oregon college opens its 1956-1957 bas ketball schedule on Nov. 27 and the Red Raiders will engage in 10 contests before opening Ore gon Collegiate conference rival ry in January. A tussle here with the Raider alumni opens a regular season slate of 26 conflicts. SOC will have six games at home and two game trips to Linfield and Chico State colleges before the Christ mas holiday break. Conference tussle begins on Jan. 4 and 5 with Eastern Ore gon college coming here. Home games before Christmas will be played at the college gym and those on the 1957 slate at the Ashland high court. Ash Talent Ends Season With 13-6 Victory Talent Talent high defeated Clendale 13 to 6 in a non-conference ruckus here Friday after noon to wind up with a break even football record for the season. The Bulldogs had four wins and four losses for the campaign. A pass interception gave the Talent eleven a 6 to 0 lead in the first quarter. Mike Jacobs snared the ball and ran 19 yards to the pay zone. Other Bulldog touch down came in the second quarter on the end of a 68-yard drive with Ron Weinhold plunging the last yard and also running the extra point. Gary Combs broke loose for 21 yards on the push. A Collins to Randle pass in the fourth quarter gave Glendale its lone tally. It was good for 10 yards after the Pirates had taken the ball on the 11-yard line on a pass interception. Talent had 13 first downs to Glendale's five and ran up 191 net yards from scrimmage while holding the Pirates to a net of just 42. Waltonians Meet Monday Evening Jackson County chapter of the Izaak Walton League of Amer ica will elect officers at a meet ing, Nov. 12, at 8 p.m. at the Jackson hotel. Resolutions to be considered at the state division meeting at Eugene will be discussed. Two movies in color, one on hunting and the other on fish ing, will be shown. Frosh Whip Rooks 25-0 Eugene (U.R) The Univer sity of Oregon Frosh gained sweet revenge Friday for a pre vious football defeat to soundly trounce the Oregon State Rooks, 25-0. The Ducklings, in reversing a 19-0 loss to the Baby Beavers earlier at Coos Bay, ran up a total of 356 yards to 53 for the Rooks and piled up 16 first downs to four. One of the big guns in the Frosh attack was Herman Mc Kinney, former Washington high of Portland star, who scored two touchdowns in the first period. Denny Baker of Coos Bay and Willie West added later scores to the Frosh rout. MICHIGAN TRIUMPHS Ann Arbor, Mich. (U.R) Michigan fought back against a determined Illinois team Satur day for a 17-7 Big Ten victory before an estimated 81,000 fans to keep its slim Rose bowl hope alive. Spartans nose purdue East Lansing, Mich. (U.R) Michigan State scored touch downs in the first two periods and then held off a stubborn Purdue squad for a narrow 12-9 victory before 56,431 fans at Macklin stadium. TULANE UPSET New Orleans U.R) Sopho more quarterback Bobby Smith, who completed passes when it counted most, sparked Alabama to a 13-7 upset victory over Tu- lane Saturday to the amaze ment of 30,000 homecoming fans. IS RIDICULOUS! But We're Still Doing It! FIBRE $11.99 PLASTIC $15.99 JETSPUI1 $17.99 BURN AND SHOCK RESISTANT IKE'S MEDFORD Hoopsters Will land high frays in the Southern Oregon conference will precede Southern Oregon's OCC engage ments on three nights. The schedule for SOC is: NON-CONFERENCE Nov. 27 Alumni at Ashland; Nov. 30-Dec. i Linfield at McMinnville: Dec. 7-8 Chico State at Chico; Dec 10-11 Humboldt State at Ashland: Dec. 14 Alumni at Ashland; Dec. 18 19 Chico State at Ashland. CONFERENCE Jan. 4 and 5 Eastern Oregon at Ashland Ashland-Grants Pass high prelim. Jan. 4: Jan. 11-12 Oregon college at Ashland ( Ashland-Crater high prelim Jan. Ill; Jan. 16 Oregon Tech at Klamath Falls; Jan. 18-19 Portland State at Portland; Jan. 22 Oregon Tech at Ashland: Feb 1-2 Eastern Oregon at LaGrande: Feb. 6 Oregon Tech at Ashland: Feb. 8-9 Oregon college at Monmouth; Feb. 15 '6 Portland State at- Ashland (Ashland-Crater high prelim Feb. 16); Feb 19 Oregon Tech at Klamath Falls. Four Lettermen On Cage Squad At Grants Pass Grants Pass Grants Pass high has begun basketball drills un der the tutorship of Ray Davis with only four lettermen return ing from the 1955-1956 squad. The lettermen are Larry Hen derson, Gary Tompkins, Larry Walker and Jim Smith. All but Henderson played football. A fifth letterman, Roger Taylor, is still in school but is over-age for basketball. , Some 72 boys turned out last week to compete for places on varsity, junior varsity and wild cat squads. Around 50 were to be kept for action on the three crews. Davis has the help of Gordon Prehm in coaching the varsity and jayvees. Russ Werner and Mark Cotton are mentoring the wildcats, largely a sopho more group. The newly constructed girls' gym will be used for boys' bas ketball after 3:30 p.m. daily and makes the three squad program possible. Penn Stars Are Pests to Warriors By UNITED PRESS A trio of stars from Pennsyl vania colleges are making life miserable this season in the Na tional Basketball association for the defending champion Phila delphia Warriors. Dick Ricketts, Duquesne, Mau rice Stokes, St. Francis and Si hugo Green, Duquesne scored 59 points between them Friday night to lead the Rochester Royals to a 95-93 victory oyer the Warriors, their second win in three nights over the Phila delphia club. Pacific Players Support Stagg Forest Grove (U.R) All 39 members of the Pacific univer sity football team and the assist ant coaches signed petitions Fri day announcing their full sup port of Dr. Paul Stagg, Badger head coach, who was hanged in effigy Thursday. 1 The Badger players, who faced Linfield at McMinnville last night, said in the petition that they disapproved of the effigy hanging and that Stagg has "our vote of confidence." IOWA SPILLS GOPHERS Minneapolis, Minn. (U.R) Iowa upset Minnesota 7-0 Satur day before 64,531 fans to keep its Rose Bowl hopes alive and just about finish the Gopher's Bowl chances. PUPS TIP COUBABES Seattle (U.R) Halfback Jim Graham galloped 33 yards for a touchdown and ran over the extra point late in the fourth quarter yesterday to give the University of Washington Pups a 13-7 victory over the Washing ton State Coubabes. Buy At Builders Supply DUALITY BLOCKS Bricks. Fines, Drain Til 727 W. HcAndrews Phone 2 4107 621 E. JACKSON Sunday, November 11, 1956 Comets Clip Klamath 27-21 in Loop Finale Central Point The Crater High Comets put forth an ex plosive ground offensive and an all-around solid team perform ance to bounce the Klamath Falls Pelicans 27 to 21 at Kla math Friday night and to write a bright finish to a good first year in Southern Oregon con ference and Class A-l football competition. Victory earned Crater third place alone in the final stand ings of the league and District 6. Never trailing in the conflict the Comets of Central Point led 7 to 0, 14 to 7 and 20 to 7 at the intermissions. Crater's deceptive crossbuck ing ground game was the big factor in polishing off the Pels. Klamath's three touchdowns resulted directly or indirectly from its aerial efforts. George Juveland tallied Cra ter TDs on four and 61-yard jaunts. Don Goyette banged sev en for one counter and Jerry Kime collected the other by re covering the ball in the end zone on a bad Klamath center snap. Sophomore Jerome Mc Quade made good on three out of four conversion kicks. Butch Sports Broadcasts - Television station KBES will carry the San Francisco Forty Ninert-Los Angeles Rams football game at 1:30 p.m. today. Giants Seven Point Pick Over Cards By UNITED PRESS The New York Giants, favored by seven points, battle the Chi cago Cardinals for the National Football League's Eastern di vision lead Sunday and the Yan kee Stadium game will draw about 60,000 fans if the weather is good. While the Cardinals and Gi ants both 5-1 clash for the un disputed lead, the Detroit Lions are six-point choices to hold the Western division lead and stretch the league's only perfect record to 7-0 by defeating the Redskins 2-3 at Washington. Forty Niners at L.A. The Chicago Bears (5-1), a game behind Detroit, play host to the Green Bay Packers (2-4) and are 14-point favorites to win the 76th game between these old pro rivals. In the other games, the Browns (2-4) are four - point choices to defeat the Baltimore Colts (2-3) at Cleveland; the Rams (1-5) are five-point favor ites to down the San Francisco Forty Niners (1-5) at Los An geles; and the Eagles (2-4) are favored over the Pittsburgh Steelers (2-4) by the same mar gin at Philadelphia. AND AOJUS FOR NOVEMBER CRATER LAKE MOTORS . o O r. Phone 3-4547 Kimpton passed 34 yards to Lee McGill for one Pel TD and ran 72 yards for another. Jerry Bramwell heaved to Bill Shreeve on an 11-yard touch down play. McGill booted all three points after touchdown. The Comets struck pay soil off the opening kick-off. They went 85 yards in five plays. Juveland busted free for a 59 yard run to the KF seven-yard line and Goyette went the rest of the way. Klamath tied up the game with a comeback which opened on its own 45-yard line. Kimpton heaved the ball from about a yard behind the line of scrimmage and McGill made a fine snag in the end zone on the 34-yard gainer. Punt Goes Backwards A long run and break com bined to enable the Comets to get their halfway margin. Cra ter moved the ball from its own seven out to the 30. Goyette scampered from there 58 yards down to the Klamath 12. Juve land went to the four but Cra ter was called for clipping, put ting the ball back on the 22. The Comets gave up' the ball on the 12 but held the Peli cans on fourth down with Kimp ton back to put the center snap over his shoulder and in the melee in the end zone Kime caught onto the ball. Juveland's four-yard TD crack capped a 51-yard surge in the third quarter to make it 20 to 7. The Comet halfback ate up 20 yards of that drive on one run. Klamath struck the pay ter ritory first in the fourth quar ter. With the ball on the Pel 28 Kimpton faded to pass. He found his receivers well cover ed by Comets, decided to run and went all 72 yards to the goal helped by fine blocking. Crater restored a two-touchdown edge when Juveland broke away for a 61-yard scor ing journey. Klamath then took the ball on its 15 and moved McLaughlin JH Players Honored Six players were honored Fri day night at the annual Mc Laughlin Junior High school football banquet attended by eighth and ninth grade players and "their fathers. Ray Konopasek was named captain and Lynn Knight was named co-captain of the ninth grade team. Both are backs. Skip Bennett was honored as outstanding back and Pat Mc Laughlin as outstanding line man. For the eighth graders Al Funston, back, and Terry Earl, lineman were announced as co captains. Players, fathers and other guests totalled 123 at the dinner. The meal was prepared by the j school cafeteria staff. ' LINING CHECK o FOR PASSENGER CARS AMD LIGHT THUCKS O "WHERE GOOff SEBVICl IS A KUST" O o O Medfod "t - ... o O 0 , O MEDFORD (ORECCtt) VlhXL TRTBXTHE NTN J5 to the goal. A Kimpton folate- u Gill toss mi the long HHfJe, Cj taking the ball 41 ard tr ti e Crater SO. Ttiree play put the Pels on the 11 fliort of frstO - down. Inatead of. bucking for the needed yard, KF "weJit fr.r broke" with the Bramwell to O Shreeve tabulating pa.-a pUy; Crater Leads Yardage q Comet players and support- qO ers felt that the catch wat made O out of boundi but no official was cloie enough on the play to back their contention. CP Crater held onto the ball for the closing three minutes after the KF kick-off. Except in passing yardage the edge went to the Comets. They rushes for 4 anit picgad up q 23 passing for 472 total. Kla-C math got 897 yards' o Jha Oq ground. 107 in the air and 404 O total. Crater collected 1J fst downs and the Pelicans five, q The Comets finished thej'ear with a record of six victories, q one tie and two losses. SetbacKS were at the hands of Medford and Grants Pass, both Orated among the top 10 teams of the state through the season. Red- CD mond tied Crater. r Coach Leonard .Warren credO ited his whole Coajet crew wiPo playing outstanding ball against the Pelicans. c O soiiTnpav omgo o CONFERENCE HANDINGS (Final) Medford - 4 Grants Pas 3 Crater 2 Klamath J"all ., 1 Ashland & 'o 1.01(01 7.1B' 2 O -501, 3 .251V O Apartments! DUPLEX o RrrLEA n O , -pl-x New Campletal' Kmi4y to Sac Til. Iirki o Tile Kite.... o co J Oae ar Two goeroiwi0 n Viyl Flaor Coveriags f Makaaaay Cabinets Mahosaay Watdrak CIeH laialaM Willi & Ceitingt Rwiftn Brick Veaeer o Piaakcikf AvaiUbit) iTl No Orhtr lnvtmrff Will Pay As. 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