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o o BIOKT MEDrOUD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, November 19, 1S56 Copple, nanimous All-Conference Plumley U Selections Footbail : f " - I I I DICK COPPLE Unanimous at End txcg Mclaughlin Back 'to YV . : i ELDOU FRANCIS Back BOB APPLE Guard GARY RILEY Back High School Scores SATl'RDAV GAMES Redsport 20 Seaside 12 Eagle Point 21 Pleasant Hill Sherman 25 Merrill 6 Stanfield 13 Wallowa Culver 52 Mitchell 6 Alsea 61 Camas Valleys 14 Use Tribune Want Ads . . -i " "fr f 9"'; 5 ri- r - 8 c ' I J? 1 Medford Places 7 Players On 1st Team, Klamath 3, Crater, Grants End and kicking expert Dick Copple and giant tackle Neil Plumley, both of the Medford high state semi-finalist Black Tornado, were top selections on the Medford-dominated 1956 Southern Oregon conference all star football squad picked by eoaches, sportswriters and sportscasters lor the Mail Tribune.- They were1 the only unanimous choices among 35 players who made the first or second teams for honorable mention. Medford gained seven spots on the 12 man' first aggregation, fourth place Klamath Falls got three berths, third-place Crater three and second place Grants Pass one. Copple-Plumley, and hard-driving Medford halfback Gary Ri ley, were all repeaters from the 1955 first team. Other Tornado performers named to the 1956 No. 1 team were tackle Larry Cranston, guard Bob Apple; half back Eldon Francis and quater back Dick McLaughlin. Rilay. Juveland Tie Riley, unanimous pick last year, barely, made the top com bination this time, tying with halfback George Juveland, Cra ter, for the fourth backfield pos ition. End Mike Sparlin was the lone .Grants Pass representative on the first team. Klamath choic es were center Cal Tichenor, guard Al Siegner and quarter back and halfback Verlund (Butch) Kimpton. With the exception of Sparlin, a pass-snagging end, the first team members were two-way players for their teams. The com bine boasts good weight in both the line and the backfield and the backfield has both power and speed with runners of breakaway ability. In the voting players got two points for first team selection and one point for a second team vote. With -15 ballots cast Cop ple and Plumley got 30 tallies each. McLaughlin, ace Tornado field general, and Sparlin were next with 24 each. Francis got 23 and Kimpton 22. Lasher Shaded In the close race for backfield spots Juveland and Riley with 21 points apiece just shaded half back Chuck Lasher, Grants Pass. Lasher totalled 20 to lead the second team choices. Grants Pass and Crater head ed the second team polling with four players from each school. Medford placed three men and Klamath one. Here again 12 men were named. Dave Parker, and Dick Davis, both of Crater, tied for a tackle berth. Both Copple and Sparlin won first team berths by wide mar gins. Plumley stood out above the other tackle candidates. Cranston beat Larry Walker, Grants Pass, by two points for the second first string tackle post. Siegnor, Apple and Tiche nor were voted in by comfort able margins. Pollsters Listed Participants in the polling were sportscasters Tom Mac Leod, radio station KYJC. Med ford, Warren Bunyan, KFJI, Kla math Falls. Larry ' Gordon, KWIN, Ashland, and Dave Al- ' ; '' LARRY CRANSTON TACKLE (Landis-Shangle photos) JUVELAND Crater All-Sia- Back tSUniord Payne Photo) ILK.' Pass One len, KUIN, Grants Pass; coaches Mel Ingram, Grants Pass, Fred Spiegelberg, Medford, John Mc Ginnis, Klamath Falls, Al Simp son, Ashland and Leonard War ren, Crater; sportswriters, Clay ton Hannon, Klamath Falls Her ald and News, Glen Prescott, Ashland Daily Tidings. Dick Jewett, Medford Mail Tribune, and George Curtis, Grants Pass Daily Courier, and Central Point businessmen Bill Askwith and Jim Glenn. Askwith and Glenn were in vited to cast ballots since Cen tral Point, where Crater high is located, has no daily newspaper or radio station. Votes were tabulated by the Mail Tribune sports department. IOC Session Marks Start Of Olympics By LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor Melbourne iU.R! American coaches confidently predicted victory in both basketball and swimming today as the official program of the 1956 Olympic games got under way with the solemn opening of the 52nd meeting of the International Olympic committee. Blaring trumpets and formal speeches opened the IOC con clave with 2,000 officials pres ent in Melbourne Town Hall, al though actual competition in the games does not begin for three more days. The officials heard Avery Brundage of the United States call on "the politicians of the world" to follow the "good ex ample" of Olympic fair play and sportsmanship so that "there will no longer be any necessity for wars." Meanwhile, U. S. basketball Coach Gerry Tucker of Bartles ville, Okla., and swimming Coach Bob Muir of Williams Col lege summed up their squad s chances in the coming cempeti tion very optimistically. Predicts Victory Tucker, who scouted the high ly touted Russian team in a scrimmage against a local Aussie team, said, "I still think we should win the Olympics rather handily." The Phillips Oilers coach sized the Russians up as a "fast breaking team" that "handles the ball well and is in amazingly fine condition," but added that the Soviets' seven-foot, two-inch giant, Yajouv Kulan, "doesn't move very well" and predicted that Canada also may beat the Russian team. Coach Muir foresaw a sweep in diving events and general U. S. success in swimming events. "Mrs. Pat McCormick should retain both the high and low board crowns in women's diving, with Gary Tobian taking the men's platform title and Don Harper tops in the springboard event," Muir said. Basketball By UNITED PRESS Two week end victories over the Rochester Royals enabled the Boston Celtics to open a one game lead in the Eastern Divi sion of the National Basketball association. The Celtics whipped the Roy als, 108-86, at Boston Saturday night and then roared to a 101 87 uphill triumph Sunday night at Rochester. The Syracuse Nationals snapped a five -game losing streak by edging the Philadel phia Warriors, 99-97, on John Kerr's last second field goal, while George Yardley's 22 points helped the Fort Wsyne Pistons to a 111-107 victory over the Minneapolis Lakeri. PCL MEETING San Franciscc (U.R) The Pa cific Coast League met here to day to consider a proposal by a group of Vancouver, B.C., busi nessmen to purchase the fran chise of the Vancouver Moun ties. The PCL directors also dis cussed the 1957 schedule, consid ered a proposed new park in San Francisco, and instructed league President Leslie O'Connor on how to vote at the. major-minor league meetings in Florida. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airoort MedforivTribuni 1956 Medford Mail Tribune SOUTHERN OREGON CONFERENCE All-Star Football Squad FIRST TEAM SECOND TEAM Player and Points Poj. Player and Points Dick Copple, Med. (30) E Mike Stearns, Med. (13) Mike Sparlin. G.P. (24) E Gary Tompkins, P.G. ( 7 ) Neil Plumley, Med. (30) T Larry Walker. G.P. (16) Larry Cranston, Med. (18) T Dave Parker, Crater ( 6) T Dick Davis, Crater ( 6 ) Al Siegner, K.F. (19) Bob Apple, Med. (18) Cal Tichenor, K.F. (19) Dick McLaughlin, Med. (24) Eldon Francis, Med. (23) .. Verlund Kimpton, K.F. (22) George Juveland, Crater (21) ... Gary Riley, Med. (21) HONORABLE MENTION: Ends Carl Koellner, Crater (2). Tom Hamlin, Medford (2), Phil Paquin. Grants Pass (2), Ted West, Klamath Falls (2); Dennis Eck stein, Grants Pass (2). Tackles Bill Morse, Crater (4 also 2 points at guard), Paul Bilant, Klamath Falls (2), Larry Thompson. Grants Pass (2). Guards Jack Eberhart, Ashland (3), Doug Smith, Grants Pass (3), Dick Graves. Grants Pass (3 also 2 points at tackle). Centers Dick Swinney. Medford (8). Jim Funston, Medford (5). Backs Jim Smith, Grants Pace (3). Gordon Owsley, Med ford (3). f5ysr j r i. ' aJM ' 5 - , . , V f -1 ; v.. - t , A h.--H Paris (U.R) Budge Patty of Los Angeles and aris won the Canet cup Sunday by defeating "Shed let over 20 UjD; sunny BROOK THE OLD KENTUCKY Sunny T G ..Tom Merlon, Med. (11) G Gary Hadsell, G.P. (10) C Neil Green, Crater (13) B Chuck Lasher. G.P. (20) B Don Goyette. Crater (18) B Lee McGill. K.F. (17) B ....Loren Christean, Med. ( 5 ) NEIL PLUMLEY Everybody's Choice at Tackle (Landis-Shangle photo) aroslav Drobny of Egypt, 6-4, 6-4, 8-6, in the final round of an indoor tennis tournament. that frown, friend, some sunshine in Sunny Brook bourbon, warm and friendly as a man's handshake, good as his word ...the finest of fine Kentucky bourbons! 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And in the sec ond place Southern Cal has to knock oyer UCLA the follow ing Saturday to make the Bea vers the undisputed champions of the Pacific Coast conference. Both things might take a bit of doing. Oregon, coming on fast late in the season, whipped USC 7-0 in the mud last Satur day and would dearly love to deal out some of the same to its intra-state rivals. OSC Flat And Oregon State proved flat against Idaho as the Beavers sewed up the Rose Bowl bid with a 14-10 win over lowly but fired up Idaho by scoring a touch down m the final three minutes. UCLA, ineligible for the bowl for two reasons, could wind up in a tie with Oregon State if the Bruins ' whip USC's Trojans Saturday even if the Beavers win. However the Uclans can't go to Pasadena because (1) they went last year, and (2) they are sitting out a three-year penalty imposed for conference rule vio lations. So the Beaver win over Idaho, shaky as it was, insured the Bea vers of their second Rose Bowl bid but the first one they will play in Pasadena. In 1941 Ore gon State got the bid and the game was immediately moved to Durham, N.C.. where the Bea vers trounced Duke 20-6. Lucky To Win "We were lucky to get out alive Saturday," Prothro said, in reference to the conflict with Idaho. He added that he planned to work all week in preparations for the Oregon game and hoped his starting ends, Bob DeGrant and Norm Thiel, would be back in shape for the game. Both were injured in the 20-19 victory over Stanford Nov. 10, the game that virtually settled the PCC Rose Bowl representative. Even though Prothro said he that is! OF NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS CORPORATION, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. PROOF. KENTUCKY BLENDED WHISKEY, 86 PROOF, 65 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS.. was looking forward only to the Oregon game, he had some com ments on Iowa. The Hawkeyes took a 14-13 decision from Ore gon State early in the season at Iowa City after the Beavers held a 13-0 lead after three quarters. "Iowa was lucky to win it after we held that 13 point lead," Prothro said. But he added hastily: "But we were lucky to hold a 13 point lead." Oregon Bruised Prothro didn't allow the smell of roses to bother his plans for the Thanksgiving day game with Oregon. He sent his charges f. rough a workout Sunday after noon. Oregon, meanwhile,, counted bumps and bruises. Three Web foots left halfbacks, Charlie Tourville, Jack Brown and T,e Roy Phelps, were suffering leg or muscle injuries. It .was Tour ville who climaxed a 50-yard drive by scoring from three yards out Saturday against USC. Fullback Jack Morris, who made his 21st straight conversion,' also had a minor injury. OSC's two sophomore flashes. Paul Lowe and Earnel Durden, combined to give the Beavers their Idaho win. 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Pete Conacher, peddled to Buffalo at the start uf the sea son, slapped in the Bisons' final goal in, a 4-2 win over Provi dence which shot his team into second place a lone percentage point behind Hershey. By UNITED PRESS Ted Lindsay . of the Detroit Red Wings, who seems to be im proving with age, has joined Gordie Howe,. Maurice Richard and Nels Stewart -as the only 300-goal scorers in th history of the National Hockey lague. The 30-year-old left wing passed' the 300-gaal milestone Sunday night by tallying three times as Detroit routed the Mon treal Canadiens, 8-3. 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