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Friday, November 29, 1957
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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.
Vaughn Battles
Jones Tonight
New York (IP) Middle
weight Willie Vaughn is favored
at 7-5 to beat Ralph (Tiger)
Jones tonight in their substitute
TV 10-rounder at Madison
Square Garden.
It will be televised and broad
cast nationally by NBC at 7 p.m.
(PST).
Willie and "The Tiger," both
unrated, are substituting for the
originally scheduled bout be
tween lightweight contenders
Paolo Rosi and Johnny Busso,
which was called off, for the
fourth time, when Johnny suf
fered an infected eye.
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