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O O OO TWELVE MEDFQRD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Grants Pass, Bedford, Foes Friday in District 6 fl-1 Titular Ruckus Grants Pass high will try for its seventh consecutive football triumph of the season and its first area championship since 1953 when the Cavemen engage the Medford Black Tornado at the senior high stadium here Friday night for the District 6 q A-l and Southern Oregon con- ici cute uidiiiies. The Tornado, host for an 8:15 (7) p.m. outing, goes into the all-out skirmish whirling for a fifth straight triumph and fourth con ference title. Steadily rising and showing strong in the late season, the Cavemen are unbeaten since fbeir season opener loss by a scant 29 to 19 to Albany. Since then they have overcome North Bend, Roseburg, Crater, Ash land. Klamath Falls and Tilla mook. Modtord, 5-2 for the full year, has tripped Crater, Klam ath Falls, Eureka and Ashland since a setback 12 to 0 at the hands i Marshfield. rG P Passing Acclaimed The ruckus between the fav ored Cavemen and the Tornado shapes up as a match between the combined running and pass ing offensive of the T formation GP eleven and the ground on slaught of a Medford attack which mixes the power of the single wing and the explosive ness of the T. Statewide attention has been focused on the GP passing, a big factor in its march into the dist rict deciding conflict. However, a check of season statistics shows the largest share of Cave man scrimmage yardage gained from rushing. Net yards for GP on the ground in seven games have been 1,367. Through the air the Cavemen have picked up 964. Key to the important role played by the passes is this: Six teen touchdowns have been scored on throws by Quarter back Jim Smith. In all, 61 of 111 GP aerials have been completed. Smith has flung 103 and hit his receiver on 58 for 928 yards and .563 fir ing average. Only three of Smith's tosses have been , inter cepted. End Mike Sparlin has gathered in 31 throws for 525 yards and 13 touchdowns. Many Receivers Statistics further reveal that Medford pass defenders won't be able to concentrate on Spar lin alone as a receiver. Halfback Jack Dean, End Paul Lindquist, Fullback Mike Rose and Half backs, Richie Condray, Marvin Terry, Don Lewellyn and Larry Drake all have caught GP 0 passes. Dean has taken eight for 133 yards, Lindquist six for 76, Rose five for 54, Condray 3 for 60, Terry three for 67, Lewellyn three for 45 and Drake two for 14. In rushing Dean has been the top gainer with 102 carries, 639 total yards and 6.36 average. Rose follows with 78 for 348 and 45. Don Lewellyn has 53 for 210 id 3.95 and Terry. 13 for 68and 5.2 yards. Smith in 22 times with the ball has grossed 7 but has been spilled for loss totalling 50 yards. ihuch higfcer amount of G Medford's scrimmage yardage has been picked up on the ground. The Tornado records show total of 1,618 yards rush ing tooust 201 gained tnrougn the air. That's a total of 1,819 compared to 2,331 for the Cave men. Medford rushing has been pace4)by Ron Reich, Bob Gee and John Jones. Only three Medfo! passes have gone .for touchdowns. For the championship fray Grants Pass will field an aver age sized backfield behind a lightweight line whift Medford will be a bit lighter in its back- field but heftier in the line. Siarlers Listed O Possible starters for the Cave men are Sparlin and Lindquist, ends; Jerry Putnam and Paul Slaven, tackles: Wendell Win terbottom and Ollie Woolsey or Dick Byrd, guards; Dick Cald well, center; Smith, quarter back; Dean, left half; Lewellyn, right half, and Make Rose, full back. For Medford the line may be Tom Hamlin and Mike Russell, ends; Tom Morris and Dick Sor enson, tackles; Tom Merton and Frank Albert or George Ice, guards, and Jim Funston, cen ter. Backs may be Tony Brau ner, quarter; Jones, left half; Reich or Dick Durante, right half, and Gee or Larry Brown, fullback. Reports from the Black Tor nado camp indicate, that the Medfordites are extending them- Selves in efforts to be ready forfpionship game isn't necessary to the Or passing. Defensive work rtjpt much intention in yester day drill. Dummy offensive scrimmage also was conducted. 0 Head Coach Fred Spiegelberg reported his crew in about the same physical shape as reported e-rlier in the week. Reich, who turned (ti ankle in the Ashland yjzae was on hand in uniform last night but nfined his work to a bitf running. Top Crowd .vlediord's top football crowd of the season is not just expect ed. It's certain for this big one. Reserved seats have been sold out in both Grants Pass and Medford. There should easily be ' HI " i TORNADO "FOOTN1K" LAUNCHERS Shown here is the ball-booting combination of the Medford high football squad. Their kicks probably won't reach outer space and become satellites but they will make every effort to thump them far and accurate Friday night in the scrap at the senior high stadium for the District 6 A-l championship. The Sport Parade New York (IP) Fraley's Fol lies and the weekend football "winners" along with a few recollections on around the world in 80 hours. Game of the Week Navy over Duke The Middies are rolling in high gear and the Blue Devils have been stuttering of late. The Navy attack plus a good defense should win, barring a letdown. The East Holy Cross over Syracuse So the Orange can give me more juice. Army over Utah Jimmy De Maret wowed 'em signing auto graphs in Japanese. Dartmouth over Columbia Sam Snead made me sorry I play gin rummy. Princeton over Harvard But Red Smith made me wish for a slow boat. Also: Brown over Cornell, Yale over Penn, Pitt over West Virginia, Boston College over Boston U., and Colgate over Bucknell. The South Alabama over Tulane The Commies rap those who use Hong Kong's rickshaws. Mississippi over' LSU The Reds claim it's degrading. Auburn over Mississippi State But they don't give the boys free rice. Maryland over Clemson And the natives are the biggest riders. Also: Tennessee over Georgia Tech, Kentucky over Vander bilt, Florida over Georgia, VPI over Wake Forest, North Caro lina over South Carolina, North Carolina State over W&M, and Miami over Florida State. The Southwest Arkansas over Rice Bangkok is a sardine fisherman's para dise. Texas Aggies over SMU They're up to their gutters in canals. Texas over Baylor Every body fishes, for anything edible. Oklahoma State over Wyom ing It's fishing, strictly from hunger. Also: Texas Tech over Tulsa, Tempe over Texas Western and Hardin Simmons over Arizona. The Midwest Michigan State over Notre Dame Rome's Circus Maximus would make a great race track. Iowa over Minnesota That's where Ben Hur swung low his chariot. Ohio State over Purdue The cfonlirief -mrxm -ri 1 r Tint rV om draw a big throng. Just put the Medford and Grants Pass foot ball teams on the same field. That will assure a crowd. Medford will rate the roll of underdog for the first time this season, if comparative scores gnd state rankings are consid ered. But there's considerable feeling that a close battle is in the making and odds among the betting fraternity for the most part are sentimental. The old grandstand has been reserved solely for Grants Pass and Medford high students. Adults who do not have re served seats will have to find a place on bleachers. Thursday, NoTember 7, 1957 By OSCAR FRALEY Sports Writer United Press Coliseum looks like a midget Franklin field. Michigan over Illinois And I swear you can still smell the Lions. Also: Oklahoma over Missouri, Wisconsin over Northwestern, In diana over Cincinnati, Nebraska over Iowa State, Penn State over Marquette, Kansas over Kansas State and Detroit over Villanova. The West Oregon over Washington Drivers never rant in Japan. Oregon State over California They admire the rival who "bluffs" 'em successfully. Stanford over Southern Cal. Rome's drivers are the most vol uble. UCLA over Washington State But New York cab drivers still scare me most of all. Also: Brigham Young over Fresno State, Colorado over Col orado State, Denver over Air Force Academy and Idaho over Utah State. Plainsmen Top Defense New York, (IP) Auburn's rise to third place in the college football ratings this season was reflected today in the latest'team statistics released by the NCAA service bureau. The Plainsmen ranked first among the major colleges in total defense, allowing an aver age of 136.7 yards for their first six games, and also topped the "scoreboard defense" with an aggregate yield of 14 points, 2.3 points per game. Georgia Tech was second in total defense with an average of 163.5 yards allowed per contest and was followed in order by Princeton 172.5, Navy 172.6 and Oglahoma State 182.0. Iowa Leads Iowa led in rushing defense, limiting enemy ball carriers to 66.2 yeads per game. Auburn 76.2 was second, followed by Miami Fla. 88.7, Arizona (Tempe) State 96.C and Prince ton 105.5. The leading defender against passes was Georgia Tech. The Engineers have limited their op ponets to only 213 yards in the air for an average of 35.5 per game. Their closest rivals were i Missouri 43.4, Tulane 44.6. Flo-! rida 45.2 and Kentucky 51.9. Charlie Johnson At Bear Guard Berkeley, Calif. W Charlie Johnson moved into Harley Mar tin's guard spot today as the Cal ifornia Golden Bears continued to work on defense for the Ore gon State game this week end. Martin was forced to give up football on the advice of the team physician because of recurring head injuries. He suffered a con cussion against Navy earlier this season and another against UCLA last Saturday and doctors ad vised him to quit the game to avoid possible serious consequences. Black Tornado meets Grants Pass. The kick ers, left to right, are Guard Tom Merton, on kickoffs, Tackle Mike Murray, for points after touchdowns, and Quarterback Tony Brauner, on punts. Holding for Murray and seeming tired after a long drill is Fullback Fred Funston. Eagle Point Opposes IV Eagle Point Eagle Point and Illinois Valley highs wind up their football seasons Friday night with a Rogue league game at Cave Junction. Both clubs are out of the race for the crown. The Eagles will seek to keep third place in the final stand ings. On Tuesday Eagle Point jay vees rallied from 12 to 0 first quarter deficit to turn back a similar Talent team 20 to 1& Mike Palmer scored on a sen sational catch of a pass from Jim Nease for a second quarter EP score. Bill McClure crossed the goal twice on short runs in the second half. Paul McLean ran two extra points. Talent got a fourth quarter TD. Giants, Dodgers In Conference With PCL Men New York IP) Officials of the Dodgers and Giants meet in secret with the representatives of the Pacific Coast league today in an effort to settle upon satis factory indemnity sums without going to court. . Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick called the meeting, and will sit in on it, but denied he would serve as arbitrator. He said he set up the meeting "at the request of the interested parties" and that they would discuss "the reorganization of the Pacific Coast league and the questions of realignment." Money Problem However, it was known that the big problem was the money to be paid the PCL for encroach ment on its territory by the Brooklyn now Los Angeles Dodgers and New York now San Francisco Giants. It was reliably reported from last week's meeting at Sacra mento, Calif., that the Giants and Dodgers each offered only $50,000 to the PCL. Some PCL owners were talking of sums as high as $1 million, and have threatened law suits. Wherein does The Medford Merchants Association derive the power to take away a legal holiday from the Medford Em ployees Association November 11th is Veterans Day (Armistice Day). ' December 25th is Christmas. MEDFORD EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION, Jack Vaughn, Secretary Crabtree's Play Quiets Faultfinders By HOWARD APPLEGATE United Press Sports Writer Eugene W A much criticized senior from Lakewood, Calif., is making his faultfinders eat their words this football sea son and as a result the Univer sity of Oregon is nearing its first Rose Bowl appearance since 1920. He's Jack Crabtree. playing his first season as regular quarter back for Oregon. Quarterback is the key position in Oregon's split-T offense and it was gen erally agreed at the season's start that the Webfoots would rise or fall on how Crabtree made out. There were many who said he simply didn't have it. After Ore gon's first two games It appear ed they might be right. Against Idaho, fullback Jack Morris ran 79, yards to ,the one- ; yard-line in Crabtree's first play from scrimmage as the regular quarterback. But on the next four plays the Ducks traveled backwards and were stopped on the eight. They barely managed to beat Idaho 9-6 and the Mon day morning quarterbacks had plenty of unkind things to say about the quarterbacking. Pilt Game Worse The next week aginst Pitts burgh it was even worse. Oregon led 3-0 late in the game when on a fourth down play near midfield Crabtree call ed a pass instead of a punt. It went awry. Pittsburgh went on to score a touchdown on a pass with 22 seconds to play over Crabtree's defensive position to win 6-3. It turned out .acocrding to the Oregon coaching staff, that Crabtree had been hit hard on the play preceding the ques tionablepass call and actually thought he had called a punt. But this didn't silence his critics. Coach Len Casanova admitted he then received letters suggest ing that Crabtree be put on the "fourth team." But Casanova ignored the suggestions. The next week, against favored UCLA, Crabtree was at the signal-calling slot and definitely was on the spot. All he did was call one of the finest games ever seen in Multnomah stadium as Oregon won 21-0. Crabtree hit seven out of eight passes as well as handling the ball well and faking beautifully. But it took some more sterling performances by Crabtree to really convince . Webfoot fans that the 21-year-old kid had it. He Comes Through Two weeks later against Wash ington State, Crabtree came through like a pro. With time running out in the first half, he called his plays without a huddle to save time and on the last play of the half sneaked over for a touchdown. Oregon won that game 14-13. Against Stanford last Saturday he did exactly the same thing and scored himself just five sec onds before the half ended. Ore gon again won by one point, 27-26. In that Stanford game Crab tree hit eight out of nine passes. He's also been keeping the ball on the option more often. It is this type of playing which keeps the defense guessing and allows speedboys Jim Shanley, Charley Tourville and Morris to ramble on the ground. For the season Crabtree is 31 for 56 in passing, a neat 55 per cent. Little wonder that Coach Chuck Taylor of Stanford said "Crabtree leads the team mar velously." The faultfinders' are beginning to agree. Boston Streak Now Seven Frays By UNITED PRESS . When the National Basketball association season started there were some joking remarks about whether the ' powerful Boston Celtics, defending champions, ever would lose a game, but to day it appeared that may be no joke. Certainly the Celts have done something no other pro team in so powerful a league ever has done win its first seven games, six on foreign courts. The latest was a 103-94 victory Wednes day night over Minneapolis at Minneapolis. Fanfare Winner of the Medford-Grants Pass high District 6 football game here Friday night will meet the District 3 champion in state A-l quarter-finals and win ner of that tussle will face the Portland victor in semi-finals. Beaverton appears almost a sure bet to win in District 3, which is the Metropolitan league. The Beavers are 6-0 in their cir cuit and are favored over Gres ham in the loop finale this Fri day. Milwaukie is in second spot in the Metro with 5-1. Jeff erson and Grants are unmarred in the Portland Interscholastic league and play this Friday. The PIL makes up Districts 1 and 2. The District 6 champ will travel for its quarter-final scrap. JACK MORRIS PRAISED High praise for the play of Wood Picks Both Oregon Grid Clubs BY HAL WOOD United Press Sports Writer Los Angeles (IP) Pacific pigskin picks: Stanford over Southern Calif ornia: This always is a bruiser, but the roll-outs that beat UCLA should be able to accomplish the same result against the Tro jans, by 13. Washington State over UCLA: Ihe curse of the Palouse coun try still rides high when Calif ornia teams invade Spokane. Even with Red Sanders' new de fense scrimmage gimmick of having the Bruins use two pas sers throwing balls at the same time won't stop the Cougars. By six. Oregon State over California: We're still waiting for the day when the Golden Bears break out with that 50-point scoring rash that a scout recently pre dicted. Can't see it happen against this strong Beaver de fensive outfit. By one. Oregon over Washington: The Ducks flying high and they'll give the fans in Portland a show as they head for the Rose Bowl. By 12. Idaho Choice Idaho over Utah State: Van dals get back into their own class and prove again that they have one of their better teams this year. By 14. College of Pacific over San Jose State: Traditional rivalry and a battle for the independ ent championship of the West. The Tigers by 20. Arizona (Tempe) State over Texas Western: As we keep say ing, those Sun Devils should get a big bowl bid. By 13. San Francisco Forty Niners over Los Angeles Rams: Biggest crowd of the year out to see one of the great young stars of the game, the incredible R. C Owens. By three. Also: Santa Barbara over Pep- erdine, Los Angeles State over Long Beach State, Bringham Young over Fresno State, Cal Poly over San Diego Marines, Cal Tech over Cal Baptist, Oc cidental over Redlands, Pom- ona-Claremont over Whittier and University of Mexico over San Diego University. Souchak Winne In Links Tourney Apple Valley, Calif. OP) Ex football player Mike Souchak to day held the Lloyd Mangrum Clambake tournament laurels as the circuit-traveling host of pro golfers packed up to head for the $11,500 Long Beach, Calif., Open, starting Friday. Souchak came from behind on Wednesday with a powerful tee shot to catch another long hitter, George Bayer, and win with rounds of 69-67 136, giving him a three-stroke edge. You don't have to Get the All-American Economy King Come see the new err THt BEST OF BOTH . . . CO RAMBLER L American Big Car Room and Comfort 2. European Small Car fconomy and Handling East LEA MOTORS Fifth at Bartlett By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune Sports Editor Jack Morris, ex-Medford high star, in the University of Ore gon football game comes from L. H. Gregory, sports editor of the Portland Oregonian. Morris was cited specially for the many tasks he performed like carryinq the ball 14 times for 76 yards, kicking three points after touchdown, scor ing one .touchdown, punting twice, kicking-off three times, applying a key block for a touchdown jaunt of a mate and making some lusty tackles as a linebacker. Gregory said he was im pressed by Morris's "terrific knack of speeding up with touchdown in sight on the play to set it up.'l Adds the Ore gonian sports editor, "Think of anything else a backfield young man should do in one game? WeTe trying but not making out." Oregon's A-l and A-2 high school coaches prefer an earlier start in the late summer for foot ball practice and want more time to prepare for the first game of the season. That is the majority do, according to a poll conducted by Clay Hannon, prep writer for the Eugene Register Guard. Of 64 coaches answering his questionnaire, preferred starting practice the last week in August. Eight wanted drills during the last two weeks in August, 11 the first week in September and three at some other time. Fifty-three out of 65 coaches favored the first game for the second week of September, eight the third week, three the first week of September and one the last week of August. Fifty coaches want a state foot ball play-off and 15 do not among those polled. Thirty-nine like and 21 dislike the idea of a short "spring" football program in the form of a physical educa tion class for boys who will be returning the. following fall. FIRST LONE CROWN Southern Oregon college's Oregon Collegiate conference grid championship is the first unshared football crown in the history of the OCC. Students May Apply To Attend YOO Conference Application blanks have been available for all senior high school age boys and girls in the county who .wish to seek an op portunity to attend, the Young Outdoor Oregonians conference on Nov. 29 and 30 at Eugene. Members of the Jackson Goun ty chapter of the Izaak Walton league have placed the blanks in the offices of high schools of the county. The session at Eugene will be in conjunction with the IWL annual division convention. All expenses of students select ed to make the trip will be paid by the IWL or other community organizations. The expenses will included those for transporta tion, registration, three meals each day and rooms at the Eug ene hotel Friday and Saturday nights. It is not known now just how many young people will be chosen from the county. On the application the student is to list organizations in which he is active, tell why he wants to attend the -onference and how he expects to benefit and discuss one conservation problem in Oregon. Nationally known leaders in conservation will lead discus sions. FIFTH DEADLOCK Hanover, N. H. (IP) When Dartmouth and Yale played to a 14-14 tie in New Haven, Conn., Saturday, it marked the fifth deadlock between the two schools in football in their long and colorful series. drive a "gas hog" SP 2-61 85 Shanley Has Touch of Flu Eugene (IP) Oregon halfback Jim Shanley was recovering from a touch of the flu today but Coach Len Casanova said he ex pected Shanley to be able to play against Washington in Port land this week end when the Webfoots try to wrap up a tie for the PacLic Coast Conference title and a trip to the Rose Bowl. Casanova said reserve center Larry Newsom reinjured his knee leaving only sophomore Bob Peterson and Milt Blevins at the center position. 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