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Newspaper Page Texto: Broun, Klarchetti Head Voting For Pro Football All-Star Club By VAXL WHICMT New York 1& Jim Brown, rooki fullback for tha Cleve land Browns, and Gino Mtrchet ti. veteran Baltimore Colt end, led th voting for the 1957 United Press National Football league All-Star team. Brown, winner of the rushing title, with 942 yards in 12 games, received 27 votes for fullback end two for halfback. He col lected 29 of a possible 31 votes end became the first rookie ever to lead the balloting for the mythical two-platoon team. Gino Hard -Charger Marchetti, who charged Into rival backfields so savagely this year that some teams assigned as many as three men to try to block him, received 28 votes. It was just Sunday afternoon fun for Marchetti, a 240-pounder who fought in the Battle of the Bulge When he was 18. 0 While Brown and Marchetti earned berths by huge margins, Y. A. Tittle of the San Fran cisco Forty-Niners won the closest race when he eded John Unitas of Baltimore by one vote for the quarterback post. Tittle received 13 votes and Unitas 12. Tittle was one of four Forty Niners who won first team berths. End Billy Wilson made the offensive unit while tackle Leo Nomellini and linebacker Msrv Matuszak made the defen sive platoon. Lions, Giants Place Three The "Detroit Lions and New York Giants each placed three players. Linebacker Joe Schmidt, halfback Yale Lary and safety man Jack Christiansen won de fensive positions. Tackle Roose velt Brown and halfback Frank Gifford of the Giants made the Ooffensive team while teammate Andy Jlobustelli won the other defensive end berth. Cleveland, Baltimore, the Chi cago Bears and Green Bay Pack ers each filled two positions. Be sides Jim Brown, Lou Groza of the Browns won ar. offensive tackle berth, while tackle Art Donovan of the Colts joined Marchetti on the defensive pla toon. Center George Strickland and linebacker Bill George of the Bears won berths along with offensive end Bill Howton and safetyman Bobby Dillon of the Packers. fTuards Dick Stenfel of the Washington Redskins and Duane Putnam of the Los Angeles Rams and halfback Ollie Mat son of the Chicago Cardinals completed the offensive unit. Jack Butler of the Pittsburgh Steelers won the other defensive halfback post. SFCOND TEAM Offense E Mutscheller. Baltimore; E Brew tter. Cleveland: T McCormack Cleve land: T Creekmur, Detroit; G Stroud. New York; GSeweU. De troit; CRingo. Green Bay; QB Unitas. Baltimore; KB Moore. Baltimore- HB Wilson. Loe Angeles; FB Bosseler. Washington. Defense . E B r 1 1 o. Washington: I 2Td Cleveland: T Colo, Cleveland: f Gain. Cleveland: LB Bednank. Phila delphia: LB Richter, Los Angeles; LB Michaels. Cleveland; HB Davis, Baltimore: HB David. Detroit; S Tunnell. New York; S Moegle, San Trancisco. Honorable Mention Ends Hirsch. Los Angeles: Berry, Baltimore; Carson. Washington. Q Tackles Gilbert and Williams. Chi cago Bears; Ane. Detroit; Lipscomb and Parker. Baltimore. . Guards Stephens, Washington; Spinnev. Baltimore. Centers Wietecha. New York: Gat ski Detroit: Schrader. Washington; Beatty. Pittsburgh, Morze. San Fran- Linebackers Shinnick, Baltimore; Hazeltine. San Francisco: Dodrill, Pittsburgh: Forrester, Green Bay; Drazenovich, Washington; Huff, New Offensive backs O'Connell. Cleve land: Arnett. Los Angeles: Rodoley. Washington: McElhenny. San Fran cisco: Casares. Chicago Bears. Defensive backs Paul. Lahr and Konz, Cleveland: Norton. Philadelphia: Alban. Pittsburgh; Sherman. Los An geles. Bob Zuppke, Famed Coach, Dies Champaign, 111. W The body of Bob Zuppke lay in state today near the University of Illinois where the beloved little coaching genius once gave the nation "razzle-dazzle" football and the legendary Red Grange. Robert . Zuppke, as he was formerly named but seldom call ed, succumbed early Sunday at the age of 78 to a long battle against cancer along with com plications of high blood pres sure and a heart ailment. Funeral services will be held In the First Presbyterian church Tuesday at 12 noon (EST) with tlie Rev. Malcolm Nygren offic iating. Afterward the body will be cremated in accordance with Zuppke's wishes. Illini Captains Called Meantime the body of the witty little Dutchman who had brought seven Big Ten champ ionships and four national crowns to Illinois, will lay in state at the Mittendorf Funeral Chapel in Champaign. Intimate friends of the late coach will act as honorary pall bearers. They include all living former Illini football captains, along with Ray Eliot, the as sistant who succeded Zuppke as head coach and Big Ten Com missioner Kennth L. Wilson. SPORTS BASKETBALL SATURDAY COLLEGE GAMES By United Press Iowa 77, Oregon St. 67 (Overtime) West Texas St. 74. Santa Clara 72 Humboldt St. 53. Whitworth 43 Idaho St. 63, San Jose 59 Portland St. 57. Pacific 51 Willamette 84. Central Wash. 53 Linfield 75. Seattle Pacific 62 Alaska 71. Eastern Washington 70 Western Washington 66. OCE 39 St. Martin's 71, Northwest Naza- rene 57 Westminster 90. Eastern Oregon 86 Tulsa 57. Wyoming 51 Iowa St. 68. Illinois 60 Marquette 79. Nebraska 64 Oregon 63, Brigham Young 55 Kentucky 78, Minnesota 58 Prep Scores SATURDAY BAKETBALL By United Press Bend 46. Eagle Point 41 The Dalles 60. St. Helens 52 Beaverton 51, Corvallis 47 North Central of Spokane 53, Pen dleton 30 Klamath Falls 48, North Bend 46 Marshfield 53. Longview 49 Ashland 49. Tillamook 42 Myrtle Point 43. Myrtle Creek 23 Battle Ground 51. Wy'East 42 Knappa 46. Warrenton 45 Hermiston 46, Toppenish 45 Sandy 51. Neahkahnie 39 Powers 41, Nestucca 39 Waldport 48, Taft 25 Oakridge 51, Crater 39 McKenzie 44, Monroe 43 Newport 51, Bandon 46 Ontario 49. Vale 47 (2 Overtimes) Tillamook Catholic 56, Santiam 53 Willamette 53. Madras 40 BURIETTE WINS AWARD Columbus, Ohio IIP) The Co lumbus Touchdown club an nounced Sunday its award for the outstanding sports achieve ment for 1957 will go to Lew Burdette, Milwaukee Braves' World Series pitching hero. Bur dette will accept the award at a banquet Jan. 17. Court Carnivals Spin Throughout Country By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer North Carolina has fallen, and in an excited air of "anything goes," college basketball rushed this week into that basket-happy period known as holiday tourna ment time. Before Christmas week is over Crater Falls To Oakridge Again 51-39 Central Point Crater high bowed 51 to 39 to the Oakridge basketball crew Saturday night at Oakridge after giving the Warriors a tougher skirmish than on Friday. The Warriors outscored the Comets by six points in each of the halves. Midway score was 26 to 20. Crater made several pushes to come from behind but fouls tooted against the Comets snuffed their rally efforts. Comet players had the advan tage 31 to 18 in the scrapping under the backboards but Oak ridge shot more accurately from the field and capitalized on more chances at the free heave line. The Warriors made 16 of 42 tries for a .381 average in field goaling to Crater's .255 on 12 of 47. At the free stripe the home club made 19 for 37 for .513. The Comet average was .609 on 14 for 23. Oakridge took the lead for good in the early moments and was sparked offensively by Wil lie Snyder who collected 18 points. Wayne Allen with 14 and Randy Campbell with 12 topped Crater. The Comets will have two tought tangles this week end, facing Willamette on Friday and Coquille on Saturday. Both games will be at Central Point. BOX: Crater Campbell, Kime. 1 . White, c . Teeter, g . Allen, g ... Bennett . Burns FG .. 3 .. 0 1 .. 2 .. 6 .. 0 0 .. 0 FT 6 2 1 0 2 1 1 3 PF 2 4 5 5 4 2 0 2 24 TP 12 2 3 4 14 1 1 2 39 TP 18 6 10 7 6 4 51 Pfaff Totals .12 15 Oakridge Snyder, f Bergman, f . Schmidt, c . Hays, g Stanley, . Hauser FG 7 2 1 3 1 3 FT 4 2 8 1 4 0 PF 2 3 1 3 5 3 Totals .16 19 17 BROWN TO ENTER ARMY Manhasset, N. Y. (IP) Jim Brown, rookie fullback for the Cleveland Browns, will enter the Army Jan. 25 at Ft. Ben ning, Ga., for a special six month training period and is scheduled to be out of service in time to train for the 1958 Na tional Football leagre season. Washington Rio de Jainero, ; like Washington, D. C, is locat ed in a special territorial unit called the Federal District. Cur iously Rio's city government in cludes a Department of Agri culture because many of the district's 450 square miles are given over to forest land and farms. Paul Brown Has Eye on Wrong Club Cleveland HP) Coach Paul Brown of the Cleveland Browns said today he thought the San Francisco Forty Niners would beat the Detroit Lions Sunday and "scouted the wrong team." "I was watching it on televis ion at home and I know I scouted the wrong team for a good part of the afternoon," Brown said. The Lions erased a 27-7 third period deficit and won the West ern division playoff game, 31-27. They'll entertain the Browns next Sunday with the National Football league championship at stake. Brown had four of his assist ants Howard Brinker, Paul Bixler, Fritz Heisler and Dick Gallagher at San Francisco scouting the playoff game. Not Surprised "They'll come back with their impressions of the game, but they probably scouted the wrong outfit too," Brown said. "We're not surprised that the Lions won," Brown said. "They wear very well because they're seasoned to this thing. "We know our problem. We got licked, 20-7 the last time we played them. And next Sunday they'll have the advantage of playing on their home field." The oddsmakers rate next Sun day's game a tossup although the Browns never had won at Briggs stadium in two 'regular season games and one title game. The Lions are the only NFL team that holds an edge over Cleve land but Brown doesn't believe in jinxes. merry-go-round court carnivals will be spinning in ever section of the country and just about the only national power that won't.be playing in one of them will be West Virginia, the team that wrcked Carolina. The Mountaineers won glory enough for one month when they upset Carolina's national cham pions Saturday night, 75-64, in the final round of the University of Kentucky Invitational tourna ment. Lose Inside Track As long as the champions kept winning, they had the inside track for the No. 1 national rank ing. But the streak is dead now, and the top spot is up for grabs. Besides West Virginia, top claimants include: Second-ranked Kansas, 58-52 winner over California although Wilt Chamberlain was held to 19 points, and third-ranked Kansas State, 70-63 winner over Wash ington as Bob Boozer scored 22, who are headed for a possible showdown in the Big Eight tournament starting Thursday. Fourth-ranked San Francisco, winner of the Blue Grass tourney championship at Louisville by beating host Louisville, 62-55; fifth-ranked Michigan State, which rallied from 13 points be hind to beat Notre Dame, 79-72, and seventh-ranked Cincinnati a 70-53 victor over Houston. Big Eight Tourney Set The Big Eight tourney at Kan sas City, matching all the mem bers of that confrence, will have to share the holiday season spot light with such top-notch hoop fiestas as: Dixie classic at Raleigh, N.C., starts Thursday North Caro lina tries to start a new streak in this one as four Atlantic Coast Conference powers play host to four guest teams. All-College at Oklahoma City Thursday San Francisco favored over seven rivals from every section of the nation. Far West at Corvallis, starts Friday Washington and Ore gon State are hosts to Utah and Yale. Southwest Conference at Houston Thursday SMU and Rice are favored in this one, matching all the teams in this conference. Queen .City at Buffalo, starts Saturday Visiting Iowa is favored over three upstate New York teams. Sugar Bowl at New Orleans, starts Saturday Maryland looms the favorite in a four-team field. Holiday Festival at New York, starts Thursday Seattle, Day ton, and Temple the favorites in a top-notch eight-team field. Buy At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Fines, Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrews Ph. SP 2-4107 SF Dons Win Blue Grass Tournament By GENE BRYANT United Press Sports Writer Pacific coast college basket ball teams entered the final big week of intersectlonals today with several squads still on the road after a generally dismal showing last week. With the exception of the Uni versity of San Francisco Dons, who bounced back from last week's 50-49 upset to Stanford to win the Blue Grass tourney at Louisville over the week end, most West Coast squads prob ably wished they had never left home. California, loser to Kansas and Kansas State over the week end, heads for New York and the Holiday Festival tourna ment. Keeping the Bears com pany will be the Seattle univer sity Chieftains, who dropped a 60-51 decision to USF at Louis ville but came back to trounce Army, 80-51. Oregon State, which dropped a 77-67 overtime decision to Iowa Saturday, take on Indiana tonight before returning home to Corvallis for the Far West classic. The Beavers were unde feated before running up against the Hawkeyes. The UCLA Bruins also had an unhappy road trek, taking a 67- 43 shellacking at the hands of Bradley and losing to little Evansville, 83-76. The Bruins were the pre-season Pacific Coast conference title favorites Huskies Meet St. Louis Washington, another victim of Kansas and Kansas State over the week end, meets St. Louis tonight before heading home. Previously undefeated Santa Clara also returns home after absorbing a pair of losses on the road. The Bronces dropped two close ones to West Texas State, 68-67 Friday and 74-72 Saturday. On the brighter side, USF is first-seeded for the All-College tournament at Oklahoma City which gets underway Thurs day. Other teams in this annual holiday get-together include Denver, Tulsa, Idaho State, Western Kentucky and Niagara. And Oregon, with a surpris ing record of five wins and one loss, takes on Brigham Young again tonight at Provo. The Webfoots defeated BYU Satur day night, 63-55. Stanford, 77-70 winner over Denver Saturday, is at Colorado tonight while St. Mary's, 68-60 victor over Washington univer sity of St. Louis, takes on Brad ley at Peoria. The Washington State Cougars, beaten 71-64 by Utah Saturday, meet the Utes again tonight. Doubleheaderi Slated Several doubleheaders dot the schedule on the coast this week, with the Far West Classic hold ing the spotlight. In addition to Oregon State and Washington, Yale and Utah are entered in the two-day tourney which starts Dec. 27. Santa Clara and San Jose State will meet Arizona 'and Ari zona (Tempe) State in a pair of doubleheaders at the San Jose Civic auditorium Dec. 27-28. Another set of doubleheaders is scheduled at the Pan-Pacific auditorium in Los Angeles where Southern California and UCLA take turns playing Ohio State and Michigan State this week end. Exemption Repeal Opposed By Workers San Francisco (IP) The Cali fornia State Association of Elec trical Workers, which boasts a membership of 60,000, has is sued a statement opposing the repeal of tax exemptions for non-profit private schools. Union President John M. Car ney, San Bernardino, said the repeal of non-profit tax exemp tion "would place an additional unnecessary tax burden upon the people of California." Non - profit elementary and high schools not only render a genuine service in educating a portion of California's young people, he said, but in 1952 it was estimated th3l annual sav ings to taxpayers amounted to more than .41 million dollars as a result of non-profit private school operation. "Should the proposed initia tive pass on the 1958 general election ballot, some $1.8 mil lion of present tax relief would be quickly offset by a potential S350 million for new schools and some $118 million for oper ating costs in order to match present non-profit facilities," he said. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport Hollingswo Red Raider Ashland Southern Oregon College's Red Raiders, smarting from Friday night's loss, 62-52, to Lewis and Clark, moved out to Gresham's Union High school gymnasium Saturday night and pulled out all stops to down the Pioneers, 91-78, in the second game of the series. Center Bill Hollingsworth burned the nets off the Gresham hoops as he fired through 45 counters to lead the SOC attack. "Holly's" 45 points tied the OCC record set in 1955 by Jack Park er of Portland State. Faking his way through Lewis and Clark defenses for all .types of shots, "Wild Bill"' hit 16 for 22 from the field and followed up with 13 for 20 from the free line. The Red Raiders front line followed Hollingsworth in scoring as Dave D'Olivo dumped in 15 and Norm Oliva and Cliff Sutherland hit the double figure for 10 apiece. Shelton Has 29 The Pioneers were never in the ball game after the Red Raiders caught them at 9-9 and pulled steadily ahead despite a 29 point effort by the Pioneers Cliff Shelton. Shelton scored 18 of his 29 in the last ten minutes after the Raiders had pulled ahead by a gap of 30 points at one time and were never threat ened. Jim McAbee and Ron Maurer Passing by Crabtree Pleases Duck Mentor Pasadena, Calif. (IP) Ohio State's Buckeyes got down to local practice today for their New Year's Day game in the Rose Bowl with the Oregon Ducks. Coach Woody Hayes ordered morning and afternoon drills for his team at the Buckeyes' East Los Angeles Junior college prac tice field. Coach Len Casanova's squad was scheduled for a mor ning workout and then an after noon of sightseeing. Both teams arrived Saturday. Oregon went to work Sunday with a light contact practice while OSU players toured Dis neyland in nearby Anaheim and Marineland at Palos Verdes es tates. Quarterback Jack Crabtree pleased Casanova with his ac curate passing to end Ron Sto ver and J. C. Wheeler. The Ducks also worked on kickoffs and put returns. Hayes said he would drill every day except Christmas and next Sunday, unless it rains, but he didn't know for sure if he would run the squad through a scrimmage. Feel The Way "We should know about thai in two or three days," Hayes said. "We have to feel our way along on a day to day basis. If Missile Blown Up To Study System Great Neck, N.Y. HP) Scien tists recently deliberately blew a long-range missile to bits in the final phase of a flight from Cape Canaveral, Fla., in a test to determine the accuracy of an electronic guidance system, it was disclosed today. The Sperry Gyroscope com pany indicated in its disclosure that at least some tests that have been labeled .failures because of missile explosions in flight ac tually were successes, as far as scientists were concerned. "Destructive tests are neces sary to reveal weaknesses," said Dr. Vincent E. Learned, a Sper ry research and( development di rector. "Missiles can't be developed without them." The company did not disclose the name of the missile it cited, but it said it was a long-range rocket, thus indicating it may have been one of the two Atlas intercontinental ballistic mis siles that were exploded in flight. ' HFC will make 6,400 loans today! OUSEHOLD FINANCE 128 E. Main PHONE: Monday, December 23, 1957 rrh Spurs Triumph turned in their usual outstand ing defensive game in the fore court as they held the Pioneers' freshman scoring aces to 14 points between them, as Royce McDaniels was only able to grab 8 and Ron Langos 6. Southern Oregon led by 17 points at the half 49-35, as there seemed to be no doubt of the Raiders' superiority on a good court. The Raiders dominated the encounter under both back boards with a 49 to 37 margin retrieving. Headed by Hollingsworth's torrid gunning the Raiders fired a sizzling .567 average from the field compared to .400 for the Pioneers on 28 for 70. BOX: SOC 97 FG FT PF TP D'Olivo. f 7 1 4 IS Hollingsworth, c 16 13 4 45 Oliva. f 4 2 2 10 McAbee, g . 4 0 3 8 Maurer, g 1113 Sutherland S 0 3 10 Crandall .. 0 2 12 Foust 0 2 3 2 Tenney 10 13 Love 0 0 3 0 Totals 38 21 2S 97 L and C 78 FG FT PF TP Fleck, f 2 0 3 4 Shelton, f 11 7 3 29 Dukes, c 2 2 4 6 McDaniels, g 2 4 3 8 Langos. g 3 0 2 6 Stemple 2 5 0 9 Brooks 0 3 5 3 Haller 4 119 Hutton 0 0 10 Jones 2 0 14 Daynes , 0 0 10 Totals 28 20 24 78 the team condition warrants a scrimmage, we'll have one." "We're not worrying about time," he said. "We've had sev en practice sessions at home and if a team can't get ready in 16 practices after playing a nine game schedule, it never will." The Ohio coach said he would take the Buckeyes to a nice, fluiet spot for observance of New Year's Eve, but the place will not be a convent like it was three years ago. "Couldn't get the place," Hayes said. Casanova said the Ohio squad is "immense." He said the pub lished figures of weights on the OSU team must "refer to their high school days." He said he could easily see why Ohio State, the No. 1 rank ed team in the nation, is a 19- point favorite for the New Year's Day classic, an opinion hardly shared by Hayes. "The 19-point spread favoring us is ridiculous," said Hayes. WANT A CAR WITH BETTER BRAKES? You get them m a '58 Stadebaker with safety finned drams, larger brake lining area ... for surer,' positive control. Test one today. (D Studebaker Packard 'DE' LEIGH MOTORS 134 So. Riverside, Medford, Ore. More people coast to coast borrow money from HFC than from any other con sumer finance company. They like our friendly, one day service. 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