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BIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL 01': 'ft Fumbles Help Hawkeyes In 35-19 Victory By HAL WOOD Pasadena. Calif. OI.R) A pledge, a pass and some of the finest breakaway running ever seen In the 43-year history of the Rose Bowl gave Iowa its smash ing 35-19 victory over Oregon State. That's the way Coach Forest Evashevski summed up the Hawkeye triumph that prolong ed the Big Ten mastery of the Pacific Coast conference in the oldest of the post-season foot ball bowl games Tuesday. According to Evashevski, it went this way: 1. Before the game the play ers got together and pledged to dedicate the game to Calvin Jones, the All-American tackle from last year's team who was killed in a recent Canadian air plane crash. They also voted to give the game ball which must be a winning one to Cal's mother, living In Steuben ville, O. 2. The "pass" was the per formance nut on by heroic quar terback Ken Ploen who com pleted nine out of 10 aerial at tempts for 83 yards and one 16 yard toss to end Frank Gilliam for a touchdown. 3. The breakaway running in cluding a 49-yard Cakewalk down the sidelines by Ploen in the first quarter in which the talented back was merely knock ed down twice, but kept his feet long enough to get through the heavy traffic and break into the clear for a score; a 65-yard touch down run by halfback Mike Hagler; and a 37-yard run to the nine yard line by halfback Don Dobrino which set up the sec ond score of the game. Got The Breaks "But on top of all of that we got the breaks Just as we have been getting all season," said the smiling Evashevski of the Hawkeyes. "You have to be lucky to win and we have been that way all season. You have to get the breaks In this game." The breaks included four fumbles by the Oregon State team, three of which were re covered by Iowa. Two of them came early in the first quarter and led to Hawkeye touchdowns. Iowa took a 7-0 lead in the first few minutes of play on Ploen's breathtaking run; made it 14-0 after seven minutes of the first quarter when Hagler scored from the one after a Beaver fumble and Iowa re covery. Oregon S'ate scored early In the second quarter, with the touchdown being set up when Sterling Hammack returned a punt 25 yards to the Iowa 15. Fullback Tom Berry plunged over from the one for the score to make it 14-6. But before the half, Iowa upped the lead to 21-6 on a 55 yard march that was climaxed by Bill Happel scoring from the five. And the game was sealed early In the third stanza when Ploen handed off to Don Do brino who in turn handed to Hagler who went 66 yards for a score. That made it 28-6 and the fat was in the fire as far as Oregon State was concerned. Money Play "We used that same play in the Notre Dame game and it went about the same distance for a touchdown," said the proud Evashevski. Oregon State came back with a 13-play line-plunging attack that netted another touchdown in the same quarter. But at the opening of the fourth period Ploen passed 16 yards to end Jim Gibbons for a score to make it 35-12. Oregon State counted again midway in the final period with Joe Francis passing to Hammack on the 11 and the Beaver halfback ramb led Into the end zone from there. It was a long way from the best Rose Bowl game but it was one of the most entertaining. Iowa gained 408 yards from run ning and passing and Oregon State 296 an indication that the offensive on both sides was clicking. "We played one of our best games of the season to win this one," said Evashevski. And Ore gon State was a much improved team over the club we beat 14-13 early In the season. The breaks were the difference." Coach Tommy Prothro of the Beavers was disappointed in the outcome naturally. "I thought 19 points would win th game," he said. "But we scored 19 and got beaten by 16." Pasadena, Calif. U.R) Statis tics of the Oregon State-Iowa Rose Bowl game: Ore. St. Iowa Rushing yardage .... 166 301 First downs - 16 16 Passins yardage 130 107 Pssrs .- 10-14 11-15 TRIBUNE UMPS MedfordWTribuke SMUTS Fullmer Favored to Stop Ray Robinson By JACK CUDDY United Press Sports Writer New York U.R Sugar Ray Robinson, 35, risks his middle weight crown at Madison Square Garden tonight against brawny young Gene Fullmer, the most dangerous opponent since the old master came out of retire ment. Stocky, bull-necked Fullmer of West Jordan, Utah, is a slight favorite at 13-10 because of his youthful, headlong aggressive ness and because he never was stopped in 40 fights. However, increasing support of the once-great champion may send them into the ring at even money for their age-vs.-youth battle. Previously, the 25-year-old apprentice welder from a Utah copper mine had been fa vored as high as H-5. Their 15-rounder will be tele vised and broadcast nationally TITLE FIGHT STATISTICS New York U.R) Here's the tale-of-the-tape for tonight's Ray Robinson-Gene Fullmer middle weight title fight: Robinson Fullmer 35 yrs. age 25 yrs. 15914 lbs. ' weight 158',4 lbs. 5 ft. 11 in. height 5 ft. 8 in. 72 '4 in. reach 69 in. 36Vi in. chest normal 38 in. 38 in. chest exp. 422 in. 28Vi in. waist 31V4 in. 15 in. neck 17 in. 22 in. thigh 23 in. 133i in. calf 16 in. 1134 in. biceps 15 in. 1034 in. forearm 12Vi in. 11V4 in. fist 12 in. 9 in. ankle 9V4 in. IVi in. wrist 7V4 in. Togo Palazzi Makes Debut For Nationals By UNITED PRESS The Syracuse Nationals re ceived a"shot in the arm" today from the player the Boston Cel tics couldn't use when they ac quired Bill Russell. Togo Palazzi, the ex-Holy Cross star making his debut for Syracuse, scored 10 points in the final six minutes to give the Nationals a 106-102 victory over the New York Knickerbockers Tuesday night. The Knicks led. 91-81, when Palazzi entered the game. Palazzi tallied six points in 30 seconds and two minutes later scored the goal that tied the score at 94-94. With a key de fensive play by Togo a big fac tor, the Nationals soon pulled away to 100-94. They now trail the third-place Knicks by two games in the Eastern division of the NBA. Tom Heinsohn and the 6-10 Russell were the stars as the first place Celtics, who have won five straight and six of eight games since Russell joined the team. Oregon Entries Get Prizes in Rose Parade Pasadena (U.P) Two Ore gon entries walked off with coveted prizes yesterday in the 68th annual tournament of tpses parade. In the class for cities outside California between 150.000 and 500.000 population,, the float entered by the Portland Rose festival captured first prize. The state of Oregon's float de picting Oregon scenic attrac tions, was a second place win ner in the competition between states and territories. The order of finish in this di vision was cut on the same pat tern as the Rose Bowl game. Iowa was first. Seattle Pacific Stops EO in Hoop Encounter La Grande (U.R) Seattle Pacific overwhelmed Eastern Oregon with a furious second half rally last night for a 77-57 basketball victory here. The winners led 29-24 at half time. Bill West and Earle Smith each had 15 points for Eastern Oregon while Don Hughes and Bill Marston had 12 each for Seattle Pacific. Punts 3-35 2-36 Fumbles lost 3 2 Wednesday, January 3. 1957 by ABC at 10 p.m. EST, with TV blackouts in the New York and Philadelphia areas. Contestants' Second Date Promoter Jim Norris said an advance sale of $100,000 indi cated a gate of $150,000 and a crowd of about 15,000. In addi tion, the TV-radio package pro vides $100,000. This intriguing fight probably would have been a $225,000 sellout had it been staged on Dec. 12 well away from the holidays as originally scheduled. But Robinson's virus attack necessitated a postpone ment. Robinson the only man that ever gave up two world titles, the welterweight and middle weight, and the only one that ever won the middleweight crown three times admitted after Tuesday's exercises and rubdown: "I'm not as fast as I used to be, but I'm punching a lot harder." Robinson has knocked out 90 of his 146 opponents. He lost only three ' decisions and was stopped once, the night he col lapsed in 104 degree heat while trying to wrest the light heavy weight title from Joey Maxim. The slender champion appar ently hits much harder than muscular Gene, who registered 20 kayoes in his 40 fights and lost but three times, all on de cisions. But whether Ray can hit hard enough to tag rugged Gene with his first knockout de feat is a big question of the fight. In addition to punch, Ray has advantages of experience, skill, height and reach over the chal lenger, who is attempting his first 15-round bout and who never fought a major opponent wearing the small, six-ounce gloves. Fullmer, who was named after Gene Tunney, has advantages of youth, superior body attack, re markable ruggedness and appar ently unusual stamina. Fullmer After Sixth Straight Eager Gene seeks his sixth straight victory. He won five fights in 1956 including decis ions over Rocky Castellani, who had Robinson on the deck in a comeback fight and Ralph Tiger Jones, who beat Robinson in a comeback fight before Ray re captured the title. It will be Robinson's 10th fight since he returned to the ring after two years of retire ment. And it will be his second defense of the 160-pound crown that he recaptured for the second time on a second-round knock out over Bobo Olson, Dec. 9, 1955. In his first defense he belt ed out Olson in the fourth round, last May 18. Win or lose, Robinson gets a lopsided ' share of the loot to night. He receives 47Vi per cent of the net gate and $60,000 from the TV-radio money. Fullmer draws only 12Vi per cent of the net gate and nothing from TV radio. Brown-haired Gene, some times called The Dee, is a strict Mormon, who never tasted tobacco, alcohol or coffee. His father, Lawrence "Tuff" Full mer, a former amateur boxer, gave Gene his first boxing gloves at the age of six. And he has been tossing leather ever since toward the big goal tonight. HOCKEY By UNITED PRESS The Boston Bruins made it plain today that they intend staying in the National Hockey league race all the way. The fast-starting Bruins were supposed to be all but collap sing by this stage of the race but they're back in front after a 5-3 victory over the New York Rangers. The victory vaulted the Bruins past the idle Detroit Red Wings into first place and left them three points ahead of the third place Montreal Canadiens. who swamped the Chicago Black Hawks, 6-2. in the other game Tuesday night By UNITED PRESS The four-team fight for first place that marked the first two months of the American Hockey leagtie season has developed into a three-way struggle for the last playoff spots. A seven-game win streak by Providence and a three - game ; streak by Hershey have carried those teams far ahead of the pack. Providence, in first place, drew a 2-2 overtime tie with Rochester Tuesday night while j the Bears defeated Cleveland, ' 5-4. i Cleveland, which has lost four j straight games, is in third place j one point ahead of Buffalo and two ahead of Rochester. Buffalo lost to Springfield, 3-1. , Two late goals by Dune Fisher BOWL RESULTS By UNITED PRESS Rose Bowl Iowa 35, Oregon State 19. Sugar Bowl Baylor 13, Tennessee 7. Cotton Bowl TCU 28, Syracuse 27. Orange Bowl Colorado 27, Clemson 21. Sun Bowl George. Wash. 13, Texas West ern 0. Prairie View Bowl Prairie View 27, Tex. South ern 6. Tangerine Bowl W. Tex. St. 20, Miss. Southern 13. KAMINSKI VICTOR Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Ger many U.R) Russia's Nicolai Kaminski won an international ski jumping event Tuesday with leaps of 252.56 and 262.24 feet for 217.9 points. Prothro Says Beavers Had Mental Problem in Contest Pasadena U.R) There was gloom in the Oregon State dress ing room yesterday after Iowa handed the Beavers a 35-19 de feat in the Rose Bowl. Coach Tommy Prothro of the Beavers said "we had a serious mental problem and our reac tions were slow." Prothro said his Beavers were A-l, B Leagues Initiate Play This Week ROGLE LEAGUE STANDINGS W. L. Esile Point 2 0 Illinois Valley 2 0 Brookings 2 0 Rogue River 0 6 Phoenix 0 0 Glendale 0 0 Pet. l.ono l.ooo l.ooo .000 .000 .000 Class A-l and Class B leagues of this area open their 1957 cam paigns this week and the Rogue loop made up of five A-2 teams and one B club' continues action. Four members of the A-l Southern Oregon conference will initiate play on Friday with Medford tackling Crater at Cen tral Point and Grants Pass trav eling to Ashland. The clubs re verse playing sites on Saturday with Crater at Medford and Ash land at Grants Pass. Klamath Falls draws a bye in the SOC which has eight teams each playing 16 games this sea son. Medford is defending champ. B Clubs Vie All of the Jackson County B loop crews have counting games on Friday. St. Mary's begins its title defense as host to Rogue River in Medford. Talent goes to Prospect and Jacksonville to Butte Falls. In the Rogue league Illinois Valley travels to Eagle Point on Friday. Phoenix, the 1956 champ, journeys to Rogue River Satur day night. Rogue River is the lone B school in the circuit and is a con tender in two leagues this sea son. The Chiefs have played three of A-2 Rogue members each twice already, dropping the six games and giving Eagle Pomt, Illinois Valley and Brook ings each 2-0 standings as 1957 opens. Champ May Defend Title Milan, Italy U.R) Mario d'Agata's manager said Tuesday that the world bantamweight champion may defend his title against Alphonse Halimi of France instead of NBA cham pion Raul Raton Macias of Mex ico. Manager Libero Cecchi said he has obtained a S35.000 guar- i antee to fight Halimi but said the bout won't take place unless j the irench challenger guaran tees a return fight in Rome should d'Agata lose his title. Basketball By UNITED PRESS South Georgia 72. Florida State 68. All-American, Owensboro, Ky. Consolations Montana State 90. Iowa 73. Maryland 43. Virginia 39. Midwest Butler 72. Denver 69. Arizona State 80. Akron 72. Ohio State 84. Princeton 77. Michigan 75. Yale 62. and Al Nicholson enabled Her shey to overcome a Cleveland lead. Dead line Sunday Classified U at noon Saturday: 10 a.m Monday tor Monday: other days 5:30 previous day Bay At Builders Supply QCA1ITY BLOCKS Bricks. Fines. Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrews Phone 2 4107 Baylor Upsets Vols in Bowl; TCU, Colorado By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer A total of 348,678 on-the-spot fans and millions of televiewers got their money's worth from bowl games on New Year's Day and the consensus today was that the Cotton and Orange provided the most thrills, the Sugar the biggest surprise, and the Rose the most impressive winner. From locker-room oratory to a bitter fist-fight, this year's foot ball "classics" had everything a fan could ever expect. It had chills aplenty in the Cotton bowl at Dallas, Tex., as chuckin' Chuck Curtis led Tex as Christian to a 28-27 victory over eastern champion Syracuse despite three touchdowns and three conversions by hard-hitting Jimmy Brown. And in the Orange bowl at Miami, Fla., where Colorado blew a 20-point lead before nipping Clemson, 27 21. It had a "stunner" in the Su- not tackling well. Time and again Hawkeye runners broke loose from the grasps of Oregon State men for extra and im portant yardage. "But our first fumble that led to their first touchdown was awfully significant," Prothro said, adding that Iowa was the best team Oregon State played all year. He also praised Ken Ploen of Iowa as the best quar terback the Beavers had met all year. Coach Forest Evashevski of Iowa said the Oregon State team which played in the Rose Bowl was better than the one his team defeated 14-13 early in the sea son. "But on the other hand, our offense was clicking much better, too," he said. Sterling Hammack, a Beaver halfback who scored a touch down on a pass from Joe Francis, said "you just can't spot a club like that two early touchdowns and expect to win." Prothro had praise for Francis, the Hawaiian halfback who di rected the Beaver attack and hit on 10 out of 12 passes. Oregon State failed on its first two extra point tires yesterday so on the third. Nub Beamer plunged over. Beamer also had one of the three Beaver touch downs. The other was scored by Tom Berry on a plunge. Specials for V - 1953 WILLYS THE FAMOUS JEEP with a full top and heater. Thi is one of the best we have seen. Save many dollars. Buy this for $1095 1956 STUDEBAKER CHAMPION Flight Hawk Tudor Sedan. A lit tle two tone blue beauty with radio, heater and overdrive. Now $2195 1953 BUICK This ii a Riviera Sport Coupe and it is a Roadmaster with radio, heater, automatic trans mission, power windows, xiwer brakes & power steer ing. Marked Down to Only $1195 NEW 195 WILLYS All Models on Dis play. 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But tobacco-chewing Clemson Coach Frank Howard told his men at halftime he d "resign if they didn't do better. Clemson Rallies. Not Enough Result: Clemson battled back to lead, 21-20, and Colorado had to drive 53 yards for the winning touchdown in the fourth quarter with John (The Beast) Bayuk slamming over for his second TD. Bayuk, the game's top player, gained 121 yards. Before 81,000 at the Sugar bowl, Shofner of Baylor ran 54 yards to set up the Bears' first TD in the second period on a pass by Bobby Jones. Johnny Majors of Tennessee countered with a Tennessee touchdown on a one yard sweep around end'for a 7-6 lead, but All-America Majors proved a goat in the fourth per iod when his fumble gave Bay lor the ball on the Vols' 15. Six plays later Buddy Humphrey of BLIGHT KNIVES Bergman's SHOP 3012 Crater Lake Highway PHONE 2-6771 This Week 5 Everybody beats... - mm 1949 CADILLAC 62 MODEL FORDOR SEDAN Hydramatic, radio, heater. 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