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rargLVS MSpF 0RD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, November 29, 1957 O Midwest, South Players Mead Coaches' ASS-American Eleven BY BOB DODOR tfaifed Press Sports Writer jlinneapolis, Minn. (IP) The South and Midwest, each with fhiee players, dominated the JS57 All-American football team selected Friday by the American Football Coaches association. The coaches chose as the first players at their positions this sea on: ENDS Jim Phillips, Auburn and Dick Wallen, UCLA. TACKLES Lou Michaels, Kentycky and Bob Reifsnyder, -.Navy. GUARD Aurelius Thomas, Ohio Statt and Jack Simpson, Mississippi. CENTER Dan Currie, Michi gan tate. QUARTERBACK King Hill, Rice. HALFBACKS John Crow, Texas A&M, and Clendon Thomas. oOklahoma. FULLBACK Walt Kowal- czyk, Michigan State. 511 Coaches Vole Ballots were cast by 511 mem bers of the association, includ ing the 35 outstanding coaches who make up the United Press football rating board. The grid tutors based their picks on what they saw for themselves on the playing fields, on scouting re ports and on reviews of movies of key games played through Saturday. Nov. 23. Currie, whose hard tackling and brilliant blocking have sDearheaded Michigan State's drive to the No. 2 spot among the nation's teams, was their choice as the outstanding in dividual player of the season. The team picked by the coaches is the 68th All-Ameri ca in the tradition originated by Walter Camp in 1889. The team was popularized for more Chief Crew Stiil Boasts Elgin Baylor (This Is another in a series on the outlook of West Coast basketball teams for the coming season.) than half a century by Collier's magazine and, since that maga zine suspended publication last December, has been sponsored by General Mills, Inc., as a pub lice service to assure the con tinuation of the Camp tradition. The United Press was selected as the sole distributing agent of the coaches' team. The voting was supervised by a committee of eight noted coaches; George (Lefty) James, Cornell: Bud Wilkinson, Okla homa: Duffy Daugherty, Michi gan State; Bobby Dodd, Georgia Tech; Red Sanders, UCLA; Jess Neely, Rice; Andy Gustafson, Miami Fla., and Ray Eliot, Il linois. The team this' year is com posed of three players each from the Midwest and South, two By RAY ANDREWS Seattle, Wash. fiP) Dick Stricklin is gone but the mighty Elgin Baylor still is on the court so don't be surprised if Seattle's Chieftains roll to another fine basketball season. And Coach John Castellani has a solid replacement lined up to take over Stricklin's place up front. He is Don Ogorek, a 6-5, 200-pound sophomore from South Bend. Ind., who is better known as "The Ox" to his team mates. Ogorek meshed an average of 25.9 points per game in the rug ged Northwest AAU league last season. He also set a first year school scoring mark of 675 points. "Ox" Hard Worker "The Ox" also is a hard work er and doesn't kid around when Tie goes up for a rebound. With Baylor and Ogorek, Castellani obviously has power. Yet he glumly points out that the Chief tain's might drop "about 10 games" this season. Baylor, who finished , third among the nation's major col lege scorers last season with a 29.7 average and took over a second team spot on the UP All American team, has looked bet ter than ever in workouts. "There's nothing more to say about him," Castellani asserts of the 6-6, 225-pound shooting ar tist. "He's just great." But Castellani figures that his team, which stormed to. a 24-3 record last year, "won't jell un til it has a few games under its belt. We'll have some rough mo ments." Lot of Support In addition to Baylor and Ogorek up front, Castellani is expecting a lot of support from Thornton .Humphries, 6-7, and Jerry Frizzell 6-5. Among the reserves he has Bill Wall, John Stepan and Jude Petri. Five players give Castellani plenty of solace in the guard de partment. Right now it looks as if the fleet Jim Harney, a 5-10 senior, and Francis Saunders rate the starting posts but they are fighting for their jobs. Among those most apt to move into the starting five are "Sweet Charlie" Brown, a 6-2 transfer from Indiana, and soph omores Don Piasecki and John Kootnekoff. McLoughlin High Asksf A-2 Status Portland W The Oregon School Activities association met here today to consider upgrad ing of five A-2 schools and down grading of one A-2 school. Mac-Hi of Milton-Freewater has asked to be placed in the A-2 class from A-l. Due to jump to A-l are Molalla. Silverton, Sandy, Wy'east and Jesuit. An amendment to the present football playoff plan also is up for discussion. Seaside protested when Vale was awarded the A-2 football title game site. At pres ent the Board of Control of the OSAA pick semi-finals sites with final sites made by a telephone vote. from the Southwest, and one each from the East, Far West, and Midlands. Honorable mention was given by the coachis to: Ends Jim Gibbons. Iowa: Fred Du gan. Davton; Les Walters. Penn State: Sam Wiiliams. Alichigan State. Tackles Alex Karras. Iowa; Char, lie Kreuger. Texas A&M: - Gene Hick erson. Mississippi; Tom Toppirg. Duke; Ben Preston. Auburn. - Guards Al Ecuyer. Notre Dame; Bill Johnson. Tennessee: John Wooten, Colorado; George Deiderich, Vander bilt. Centers Don Stephenson, Georgia Tech: Charley Breuckman, Pittsburgh; Bob Harrison. Oklahoma. Quarterbacks Dan Nolan, Lehigh; Bobby Cox, Minnesota; Lee Grosscup, Utah: Tom Greene, Holy Cross. Halfbacks Jim Pace, Michigan; Bob Mulgado, Arizona (Tempe) State; Jim Shanley, Oregon; Bob Anderson. Armv; Leonard Lyles. Louisville; Dick Christv. North Carolina State. Fullbacks Nick Pietrosante, Notre Dame: Jim Jones. Washington: Harold McElhaney, Duke; Billy Atkins, Auburn. MEDFORDIiTRLBUTiE grpcDiETrs Saturday Favorites Warned by Longhorn Upset Over Aggies By EARL WRIGHT United Press Sports Writer Navy, a six-point pick over Army, and other bowl-conscious teams playing Saturday were given a stern warning today beware the fate of the Texas Aggies. The Aggies, with a chance to clinch a tie for the Southwest conference championship and virtually assure themselves of a bowl berth, were upset, 9-7, by Texas in Thanksgiving day's big football surprise on a 28-yard field goal by Bobby Lackey. Now the Cotton and Sugar Bowl pictures are all scrambled, along with the Southwest title race.' Rice (4-1-0) must beat Baylor in its windup Saturday to , top Texas (4-1-1) for the league title and clinch the host berth in the Cotton Bowl. And both teams, along with the still hopeful Ag gies, are in contention for a bid to the Sugar Bowl if they miss the Cotton. Navy Favored Over Cadets Navy, favored in the annual classic at Philadelphia on the strength of Tom Forrestal's pass ing against a supposedly second rate Army air defense, is known to be receptive to a Cotton Bowl bid if it wins this one. Spoiling those ideas might sound like fun to the Cadets. Mississippi, the leading bowl eligible team in the Southeastern conference, seems in line for a Sugar Bowl bid but is picked Saturday by only four points over Mississippi State. Other "Turkey Day" high lights saw Utah, and VMI win conference championships and Brown and Denver win regionally-televised games. Utah wrapped up the Skyline conference crown with a 21-6 victory over Utah State. VMI Downs Virginia Tech Halfback Bobby Jordan scored twice on goal-line smashes for VMI for their 14-6 victory over Virginia Tech. After the game VMI players, who reportedly had "feelers" from the Sun and Tan gerine Bowls, voted against post season play and the coach admit ted he was "surprised." Frank Finney passed for two touchdowns and ran 95 yards for another in Brown's 33-7 win over Colgate. Sam Pagaono's conver sion with 2M minutes left gave Denver a 14-13 win over Wyom ing on Far West TV. The Texas Texas A&M game was screened in the South, Southwest and Mid west. Fred Doelling rushed for 163 yards for Pennsylvania in a 14-6 Ivy league win over Cornell as the game ended with a Cornell TD and a fist fight and Mickey Marinkov's 79-yard punt return TD gave Richmond a 12-7 win over William and Mary. Thelan Sparks Miami Dave Thelan's second touch down, cracking a fourth-period tie, gave Miami Ohio a 20-14 win over Cincinnati. Saturday's big program winds up the 1957 gridiron season, ex cept for a pair of top games next week. Other Saturday features in- Daily's U-Orive Medford Airoort elude: Auburn, 14-pomt pick over Alabama, seeks to clinch the Southeastern conference title and finish a perfect season; Ari zona (Tempe) State also out to finish a perfect season and clinch the Border conference title by beating Arizona: Oklahoma a 20 point pick over Oklahoma State; Georgia Tech by seven over Georgia; Holy Cross by three over Boston College; SMU three over Texas Christian; and Notre Dame by 14 over Southern California. Notre Dame Cause Hurt By Injuries South Bend, Ind. (IP! Notre Dame's football coach Terry Brennan had two major prob lems today for Saturday's match ! with Southern California first, who's going to carry the ball, and second, who's going to knock down their passes. - The Irish will have to go with a makeshift backfield at least part of the game and may be for the distance since Nick Pietrosante, the fullback and leading ground gainer, is out of action and now right half-back Dick Lynch, the leading scorer and leading pass reciver, prob ably will miss most if not all of the game. "Possibly more important is the fact that these two boys have been our best defensive backs," Brennan said. "Don't ask me how were 'going to do against Southern Cal." Brennan found Ron Toth an adequate replacement for Pie trosante against Iowa last week, but Toth has a bad ankle and it was uncertain how durable he'd be against the Trojans. Notre Dame remained a favor ite to rack up its sixth win of the campaign despite the injury problem. 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