EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGOIT)
hso State's Coach Begins
Woes Session on Rose Bowl
Editor's note: This is the sec
ond of 10 dispatches on the
teams which will play in the
major bowl football games
New Year's Day.
By BOB GRIM
Columbus, Ohio (IP) Coach
Woody Hayes, disturbed over a
growing casualty list, today pre
scribed plenty of work and
sweat for his national champion
Ohio State Buckeyes before
meeting Oregon in the Rose
Bowl New Year's Day.
Hayes pinned his hopes on the
Southern California sunshine
working its healing powers on
the squad, which numbered eight
injured players prior to Ohio
State's departure for Pasadena.
The Buckeyes' No. 1 patient
was halfback Don Clark, their
topo scorer and ground gainer,
who suffered a groin injury
against Purdue.
Clark was the only doubtful
starter for the Rose Bowl, how
ever, barring further and more
serious injuries.
Not Indispensable a
Before Oregon supporters be
gin raising their hopes for an
. upset, it must be pointed out that
the Buckeyes rolled over their
two toughest opponents, Iowa
and Michigan, without Clark.
Although Clark's absence hurt,
Hayes unveiled another standout
running back for his grinding
split-T offense. Taking over
where Clark left off, sophomore
fullback Bob White was a one
man wrecking crew against Iowa.
He personally guaranteed the
Bucks the Big Ten title and Rose
Bowl trip in the final minutes.
In one of the most spectacular
individual displays ever seen in
Ohio Stadium, White carried the
ball seven times in an eight-play
march for the winning touch
down. He gained 66 of the 68
yards covered in the drive.
The trip to the Rose Bowl will
be the second in four years for
Hayes. His 1954 unbeaten power
house crushed Southern Cali
fornia, 20-7, in the rain and mud.
Eight Straight Victories
Hayes believes this Buckeye
team has fewer stars but works
better as a unit than the 1954
Gill Praises
Gambee Over
SU's Baylor
Corvallis HP) Coach Slats
Gill of Oregon State Monday
said Elgin Baylor, Seattle Uni
versity star, is a great basket
ball player but declined to say
whether he thought he was bet
ter than his own ace, Dave
Gambee.
Gill said, "Let's just leave it
as this. I wouldn't trade Dave
Gambee for Baylor, or for any
one else."
The veteran mentor said that
perhaps Baylor had "a bit more
spring in his legs, plays the
board a little better and clears
the ball for the fast break as
well as anyone I've seen since
Red Rocha." Of Gambee he said,
"Dave has a more wide variety
of shots . . . and perhaps is a lit
tle harder to defense.
The two played against each
other last week when Oregon
State took Seattle 63-55. Baylor
had 17 points with Gambee
guarding him much of the eve
ning. Gambee scored 18.
Kegling Standout
At Camp White
Camp White Members of the
Veterans Administration domi
ciliary, Camp White get a treat
on Friday, Dec. 20, when Harold
Asplund, topnotch bowler from
California appears in an exhibi
tion and demonstration at the
VAD lanes.
Asplund,a member of the
Brunswick, Balke, Callender
company advisory staff, is a 200
average bowler in four leagues.
He has been a member of the
All-West bowling team and has
recorded eight 300, or perfect,
games and two 299 games. He
has placed second three times
and third twice in the Peterson
classic at Chicago.
Tourney titles include the
Ritz classic, St. Louis, Mo.; the
Bowl More classic and Presiden
tial sweepstake, Denver, Colo.;
the Diamond classic, Amarillo,
Tex., and the BPOK classic,
Spokane, Wash.
Illinois Coach Moves
To Furman on February 1
Greenville, S.C. API End
coach Robert B. Bob King of
the University of Illinois will
quit his post after 11 years to
return to Furman University, his
alma mater, as head football
coach.
King, whose shift was an
nounced to Furman alumni Mon
day night, said he will leave
Illinois "certainly with a feeling
of sadness," and on Feb. 1 take
the job of building up Furman's
sagging football reputation.
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squad. Its record speaks for it
self, eight straight victories after
an opening loss to Texas Chris
tian. The main Ingredients for the
Ohio State success were the de
velopment of sophomores like
White in the backfield, end Jim
Houston and tackle Jim Mar
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For Detroit Must Game
San Francisco OP) The San
Francisco Forty Niners went
back to work today to prepare
for Sunday's playoff game against
the Detroit Lions at Kezar Sta-
dium the third straight "must
win" game for each team.
And this one is really a "must
win" game because there can be
no tie. If the two teams end the
regular 60 minutes with a tie
score, they will flip a coin for
option and continue playing un-
Prep Quints
To Contend
in 13 Games
Available information shows
13 games on the slate this week
for high school basketball teams
of this area.
Heaviest night is Friday with
seven conflicts listed.
Jackson County B leaguers
have, two scraps this evening
with Jacksonville at Talent and
St. Mary's at Butte Falls. Phoe
nix will meet Illinois Valley at
Cave Junction. The two clubs
are Rogue league members but
this will be a non counter. They
also play on Friday at Phoenix.
Two-Game Stands
Crater and Ashland of the A-ls
have two-game series. The
Comets are at Oakridge Friday
and Saturday nights and Ash
land is host to Tillamook those
nights. Eagle Point is also a road
team playing at Bend on Friday
and Saturday.
Other Friday hassles are Jack
sonville at Prospect in the B
league, Roseburg at Grants Pass
and Crater junior varsity at
Rogue River varsity.
Eagle Point reportedly is
seeking games for Dec. 27 and
28 to fill out its schedule.
Point Lead Held
By Detroit Star
New York fW George Yard-
ley of the Detroit Pistons is
maintaining a National Basket
ball Association scoring lead
that really is wider than it looks.
The balding Piston star led
Bob Pettit of the St. Louis
Hawks by only seven points, 686
to 679, in weekly scoring statis
tics announced today by the
league.
The Celtics' long reign as the
league's top scoring team was
being menaced by both New
York and St. Louis. The Celtics
still led with 110.7 points per
game, but the Knicks had 110.0
and the Hawks 109.2. St. Louis
allowed the most points per
game, 105.8.
Bold Ruler Named
'Horse of Year'
Baltimore (TO Wheatley Sta
ble's Bold Ruler was crowned
"Horse of the Year" today by
the nation's leading sports ex
perts in the Turf and Sport Di
gest s 22nd annual poll.
Of the 175 writers and sports
casters voting, 78 voted Bold
Ruler the best horse in the coun
try while Ralph Lowe's Gallant
Man and Mrs. Charles Ulrich
Bay's Idum were tied for second
place with 28 votes each.
Hoop Referees
Will Convene
Rogue Valley Basketball ref
erees association will hold its
regular meeting on Wednesday,
Dec. 18, at 7:30 pjn. at Medford
Senior High school. Assignment
of officials to games will be a
matter on the agenda.
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shall on the line and a slightly
greater emphasis on passing with
quarterback Frank Kremblas.
The Buckeyes' secret of win
ning comes from the absence of
damaging fumbles and pass inter
ceptions. Kremblas had' only
one aerial intercepted all sea
son. til one team wins both the game
and the Western Division cham
pionship of the National Football
League.
And that gives the winner the
right to meet the Cleveland
Browns on Dec. 29 lor the NFL
championship.
Kezar Stadium will be packed
to 60,000 capacity for Sunday's
crucial game. Tickets went on
sale Monday morning and sold
out in five hours.
Some fans began forming the
line Sunday afternoon as soon
as the Forty Niners defeated
Green Bay to gain a spot in the
playoffs. They weathered a
night-long driving rain to be
among the fortunate.
Monday, the players rested
while Coach Frankie Albert and
his staff looked at films of the
Green Bay game and plotted new
plays to throw against the
Lions.
Most local observers believe
the Forty Niners might be out-
manned by the solid Detroit
team, but San Francisco will be
fighting for its first divisional
championship and that could
make the difference.
One fan, who stood in the rain
all night Sunday to buy tickets,
said he figured Albert and his
boys would dream up something
to outsmart the Lions.
"They have done it so manv
times this season that now we've
sorta come to expect it," he.
explained.
Orders Accepted
For Rose Bowl
Game Booklet
University of Oregon, Eugene
University of Oregon f odtball
fans planning to see the Rose
Bowl game telecast on New
Year's Day may do so with the
official game program in hand.
These programs are being
made available by the Pacific
Coast conference for the fifth
year. This unique service has
made a hit with television and
radio fans throughout the coun
try. Orders are now being accept
ed, and will be filled and air
mailed to purchasers when the
attractive 56-page booklet comes
off the presses about Christmas.
The nominal charge for this
service is $1. The program sells
for 50 cents at the game, but the
additional charge covers 42
cents airmail postage plus han
dling and addressing.
To order; simply mail $1 to
"Official Rose Bowl Game Pro
gram, P.O. Box 909M, Pasadena,
3, California."
The program not only con
tains all the regular game infor
mation ' but also includes many
stories and pictures about the
oldest of all bowl games. It
makes a timely gift for a foot
ball friend who will be view
ing the New Year's Day game
over the nationwide NBC net
work. NEW COLLEGE COACH
New York (IB Henry (Hank)
Majeski, who batted .282 during
14 seasons in the major leagues,
succeeded Jeff Safford today as
baseball coach at Wagner college.
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Schmidt
Factions
By SCOTT BAILLIE
San Francisco OP) Out of
the wreckage of the Pacific
Coast conference walks the lone
liest figure ever associated with
it, Victor O. Schmidt, who is re
signing next June as commis
sioner. The bookish- 53-year-old law
yer had the job of proving in
fractions of the house rules aft
er the gridiron scandals of 1956
began to break. This led to rows
between him and UCLA and
Southern California, which
were fined $15,000 and $10,000
respectively by the conference
for not letting him come on the
campus to quiz athletes under
suspicion.
And these fines, plus other
stiff penalties against the two
schools which joined California
in bolting the conference last
Friday, led to many attacks
against him in the Los Angeles
area. Such hostility may have
been too much for the unobtru
sive Schmidt.
Here's how one source close
to the PCC squabble put it to
the United Press:
Defamed in Los Angeles
"Vic would have stayed on
the job if he had not been de
famed so often by certain fac
tions in Los Angeles."
But as matters stand, there
may not be much of a job left
anyway now that Stanford is
the only California school
which has chosen to stay in the
conference.
Schmidt, who had announced
his resignation on Dec. 5, term
ed Friday's secession "a great
disappointment."
And this walkout came on the
heels of an erratic fortnight
which saw the PCC first beat
down a move to curtail his pow
er, then accept his resignation
and finally get sandbagged by
the Bear-Bruin-Trojan triumvi
rate. Schmidt, willowy and shy,
joined the conference in 1940.
He became acting commissioner
in 194 upon the death of Edwin
Atherton. The latter was a rug
ged FBI man. Schmidt is a stu
dent who reads history in his
spare time rather than football
features.
Not an Athlete
"He never was an athlete him
self,", another source told the
United Press. "And this often
has been thrown up into his face
by the PCC x athletic directors.
They would prefer to have some
ex-football star or coach hold
ing the post."
In fact, the directors once vot
ed to drop him after his present
contract ran out. They were
overruled by the faculty repre
sentatives who had hired him.
Last September the bombard
ment on Schmidt got a little
hotter during an investigation
of the staggering PCC by a com
mittee of the California state
legislature. Assemblyman Jo-
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Takes Rap By LA
During PCC
seph Shell of Los Angeles
charged that the Bruins and
Trojans were fined an extra to
tal of $25,000 because the com
missioner had been "affronted"
by their refusal to let him on
the campus.
His announcement that he
PCC Draws
Tilts for '58
Grid Meets
San Francisco (IP) Athletic
directors of the shaky Pacific
Coast conference met here Mon
day to develop football sched
ules for 1961 and 1962 "on the
premise that there had been
no withdrawals from the confer
ence." However, California, UCLA
and USC voted last Friday to
withdraw from the conference
after the 1958 season.
"We went on the premise that
there had been no withdrawals
from the conference," said Al
Masters, athletic director at
Stanford and spokesman for the
group.
"We drew up the football
schedule as usual but I can't
tell you what the schedule
called for."
Masters said the group did not
discuss possible renegotiating of
games scheduled previously for
1958, 1959 and 1960.
"Any possible renegotiation
of games already scheduled for
those years become, matters for
the individual schools concerned
to decide," he said.
Ohio State Lists Single
Drill During Final Week
Columbus, Ohio (IB National
champion Ohio State was listed
for only one pre-Rose Bowl foot
ball practice this week because
of final examinations.
Coach Woody Hayes said'the
Buckeyes would hold a light
workout on Wednesday and will
leave Saturday for Pasadena,
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Reign
was quitting just after getting
what amounted to a vote of con
fidence by the PCC faculty rep
resentatives drew another reac
tion. "There was much to indicate
he wasn't pushed but was
shoved," wrote Art Rosenbaum
of the San Francisco Chronicle.
One way or the other, he now
can get out of the rat race and
into the quieter realm of writ
ing contracts.
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East
Hofstra 60. Springfield 59
Georgetown (D.C.) 84, Cath. V. 88
South
Georgia Tech 61, Baylor 59
Memphis St. 70, Citadel 63
K. Kentucky 96. Hardin-Sim. 60
Phillips Oilers 78, Auburn 54
Texas Tech 79, Louisiana St. 72
Miss. South 68, SE Louisiana 63
Tulane 85, Centenary 75
Mississippi 81, David Lipscomb 59
Midwest
Creighton 69. St. Mchael's 51
Illinois 64, Colorado 46
Wisconsin 67, Rice 62
Wichita 81. Iowa 78
Nebraska 68, Denver 63
Southwest
SMU 65, Kentucky 64
Kansas St. 63, Arkansas 48
N. Mex. A&M 60, New Mexico 49
Thirty Staters
Meet Wednesday
Robert Knoll, Oregon State
college alumni director, will be
speaker at the regular monthly
meeting of the Medford Thirty
Stater club at 7 p.m. Wednesday
at the Jackson hotel.
He will narrate movies of the
OSC-Stanford football game.
All OSC men grads of the
Medford area are invited. Thirty
Staters is an OSC booster group
which promotes the college's
athletic program. It assesses no
dues.
HONORS FOR BRUNDAGE
New York (IP) The Sports
manship Brotherhood will hon
or Avery Brundage, president
of the International Olympic
Committee, and" Dan Ferris, Sec
retary of the AAU, at its an
nual award luncheon on Jan.
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Claims PCC 'Chaotic'
Says Schools To Drop
Seattle (IP) Dr. Henry I,
Schmitz, president of the Uni
versity of Washington, said to
day the 42-year-old Pacific Coast
conference should dissolve.
He indicated the university
would take immediate steps in
this direction.
California, UCLA, and the
University of Southern Califor
nia voted last Friday to with
draw from the conference after
the 1958 season.
However regrettable it may
be the fact is that the withdraw
als of the University of Calif
ornia at Los Angeles, the Uni
versity of California and the
University of Southern Califor
nia from the Pacific Coast con
ference have made "an already
confused situation chaotic," he
said.
"The University of Washing
ton cannot expect its athletic
director and his staff to operate
an orderly program under such
conditions.
Accordingly, the university
believes the only practical so
lution is an early dissolution of
the Pacific Coast conference.
And it is our intention to ex
plore the mechanics by which
this can be accomplished. Such
action will, we believe, serve
the best interests of all institu
tions concerned."
Schmitz says he has not pro
jected plans for Washington be
yond the breakup of the confer
ence. The school has commit
ments in football through 1960,
mostly with PCC schools.
Dr. O. Meredith Wilson, pres
ident of the University of Ore
gon, disagreed with Dr. Schmitz.
"I do not believe that dissolu
tion of the conference is the
line to follow," he said.
Dr. A. L. Strand, president of
Oregon State college, said "I
would rather let the fragments
of the explosions get down to
earth and look at them before
drawing any quick conclusions
about them. One thing that
might facilitate matters, how
ever, would be for those who
are withdrawing from the con
ference to make their withdraw
als effective immediately.
Dr. C. Clement French, Wash
ington State College president,
said the three schools that have
withdrawn have been at odds
with the conference and the
remaining six have much in
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common. "With six members re
maining, it would be wise to
try to retain that nucleus and
look for suitable additional mem
bers," he said. ;
Dr. D. R. Theophilus, presi
dent of the University of Idaho,;
also disagreed with Schmitz
"We still have a conference and
we should not move impetuous-'
ly to dissolve it," he said.
Ducks Turn
To -Finals
Before Bowl ;
Eugene (IP) The Oregon:
Webfoots worked out today to
prepare for the Rose Bowl game
with Ohio State New Years Day,
but had only one other workout
scheduled this week because of
final term examinations.
Coach Len Casanova said
another drill is planned Thurs
day. No scrimmages are slated.
The Ducks fly to Los Angeles
this Saturday and 10 practices
in 11 days are planned there.
Last week Oregon took four of
16 pre-Rose Bowl drijs alloted
and Casanova said the team re
turned after the layoff in good
physical condition.
After studying movies of the
Ohio State games against Iowa
and Purdue, he said, "Ohio
State is rightly ranked as the top
team in the country."
Hawkinson Tips
Pointers, 65-60
Hawkinson dropped Eagle
Point in a close basketball clash
in the Independent Basketball
league last night, 65 to 60.
Hawkinson moved out to an
early lead but Eagle Point came
back in the second half to tie it
and then moved out in front 38
to 36. Eagle Point then held a
two-point edge for several trad
ed baskets before falling - back
again when Hawkinsons took
over the lead with a 56 to 55
score.
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7 Harris
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