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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13. 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. TORNADO LIGHTNING FELLS AXEMEN; MEDFORD GAINS A-1 GRIDIRON SEMIFINALS Mighty Medford's dazzling football lightning once more has struck with jarring, crash ing touchdown thunder. And, if South is to rise again, It .will be some later time -South Eugene that is. The Axemen of the Emerald city, intent on hewing out an upset over No. 1 rated. Med ford's howling Hurricane had their blades quickly, bluntly and decisively dulled by elec trifying Black Tornado thun derbolts here Friday night. Matching its season-average seven-touchdown pacing, Med ford's Class A-1 high school gridiron defending champions projected themselves into the Oregon big school titular semifinals for the third suc cessive year. The Tornado flattened South Eugene 4" to 6 in the quarterfinal tangle. Medford's grid gladiators will entertain David Douglas here next Friday night. The victor will meet this week's Newberg-North Salem winner at state finals on Nov. 25 or 26. Ragsdale Goat 67 Dick R.igsdale, the skilled, poised director of the Torna do multiple offense, flashed his running ability as well as his passing art and general ship as the undefeated Med fords piled up their 10th lop sided triumph of the year. Ragsdale fake-reversed on a punt' return and romped 67 yards to score. He ran 22 yards to touchdown land on a keeper play and hurled the ball to Mikt Hood for another tally. Another Ragsdale to Hood tabulating heave was wiped out by a penalty. Hood, Dan Sieg and Phil Humphreys, the way opened by sharp teammate blocking and utilizing their elusiveness, stormed through and around the Axemen as explosive Med ford moved to the TD zone. Humphreys crossed the goal line twice for the Tornado on hight and 15-yard jaunts and had an 18-yard TD sweep call ed back. Sieg crossed the pay stripe on a 48-yord journey and Hood flung the ball to Bob Quinney on 59-yai?d pay off play. Dan Miles booted five Med ford extra points. Two of his kicks were blocked. Robertson Scores Dick Robertson, a starting quarterback in early season but a reserve in more recent games, fired the Axemen to their only touchdown with just 10 seconds on the score board clock. He gained con sistently running from a deep back spot and boomed over the goal from three yards out. Bo Blair's extra point kick was wide. This closing 55-yard drive marked the only time South Eugene got within the M3d ford 26-yard mark. The Axe men looked as if they might make a game of it in the first quarter of the test. After Medford first has scored, they moved out from their 25 and, with Bob Ferguson, Jim Brooke and Ross Carter pack ing reached the Tornado 28. Then Ferguson fumbled and Terry O'Sullivan and John James came up off the ball for Medford on the MHS 26. Medford blazed out to its second touchdown. Big Wind defense collected its resistance and stymied the Choppers until reserves took over in the final period of play. The Tornado held the Axe men to 129 yards rushing, a bit over 55 yards of it (figur ing penalty adjustment) on the SE scoring drive. South was limited to a pair of pass completions for 19 yards and two throws were intercepted. Fumbles did hurt the Hewers. They, this way, lost the ball three times. "If Medford has the ball, it will score," seemed to be the theme on Friday. The Tor nado tallied the first five times it had its hands on the pigskin. Only a penalty and the halfway horn kept it from being six. The Tornado had a 21 to 0 first quarter spread. It was 34 to 0 at the midway spot and 41 to 0 after three stanzas of contention. "This was Medford's best game of the season," said Tor nado Coach Fred Spiegelberg. "They were real sharp and I hope they stay that way, be cause they'll need it when they play David Douglas." Real Unison Offensively,' the mentor de clined to cite any particular individual. "It was a good team effort-real unison,", he said. Defensive end Larry Brown and middle guard and line backer Al Funston did draw North Salem Will Battle Newberg United Press International Medford, Newberg and North Salem joined David Douglas in the Oregon high school class A-1 semi - finals Friday night. The powerful Black Tor nado crushed South Eugene, 47-6; Newberg defeated Jesuit, 33-13, and North Salem shut out Bend, 25-0, in quarter final action. Douglas won its quarter final game Thursday by beat ing Jefferson, 13-6. r The win put the Black Tornado in the semi-final round against Douglas. The game will be played at Med ford next Friday. North Sa lem and Newberg clash in the other semi-final game at Sa lem Friday. North Salem rolled up 409 yards in beating Bend and Newberg used three first quarter touchdowns to get past Jesuit. 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Then the Wind burst Sieg through the line and he vent all the way to score. After halting the Axemen on the 26 Medford bombard ed with a 74-yard surge in five plays one of which lost five yards. Hood went around left end on a reverse for 30 yards and Humphreys around right flank for 24. Sieg was dropped behind the line on a pitch but made back three yards to the 22. Ragsdale then tossed to Hood for a goal. South netted a yard loss on its next effort with the ball and Robertson punted to Rags dale on the Tornado 33. He ran right, faked to Hood, put the ball on his hip, kept on a swing to the sideline and was off to the goal. Some of the Axemen saw what was hap pening but there was nothing they could do. Gamble Fails Medford started for touch down No. 3 from the South 49 after an Axemen fourth down gamble failed to gain the needed inches but instead lost a yard. The drive requir ed eight plays with Humph- reys covering the last eight yards on a swing around right end. SE gained from its 40 to the Medford 35 and Robertson kicked out of bounds on the Tornado 13. The Hurricane looked a bit in trouble as the ball squirted away from Hood but was recovered safely back on the 10. South hopes were quickly squelched, Humphreys made three and 12 yards and Sieg 12 on a draw. Hood trav eled four to the Medford 41. From there Hood cast the ball to Quinney on about the South 30 stripe. Quinney, heading ffoalward. naused and looked back once out evi dently was Just changing gears. He spurted on across the touchdown line. Next opportunity came when Richard Connolly fell on a Jim Brooke fumble on the Medford 47. Ragsdale pitched downficld to Hood on the 53-yard gain to the final stripe. But, Medford was call ed for holding and put back 'o its 32. Seconds before the half ended the Tornado had gained up to the SE 25. Tremendous Catch Medford fought, from its 28, 72 yards to pay soil in the third quarter in nine plays. This drive featured a spec tacular pass by Bob Quinney. Hood's heave appeared that it might entirely overshoot, but 6-4 Quinney, putting forth all his effort, lunged and used his long reach and fine hands to snare the ball as he tum bled to the turf. The pass gained 32 yards to the SE 18. Humphreys circled end to r Q FUTILE PURSUIT Pursuit is hot but fu tile here as the Medford Black Tornado's Dan Sieg (white jersey) breaks away for first Devil Cloud touchdown in 47 to 6 vic tory over South Eugene here Friday evening in a slate Class A-1 game. Scenes like through the evening. center Dan Tobey. on page 7. football quarterfinal this were frequent Eugene's No. 41 is Other pictures of game CRUSADERS SPEAR WASCO IN QUARTERFINAL SCRAP Semifinal Reserves Go on Sale Reserved teat tickets will go on gale on Monday, Nov. 14, at 7 a.m. for Medford High school's state A-1 semi final football playoff game with David Douglas. The Black Tornado will meet the Scots at 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 18 at the Med ford turf. Ticket sal will be at the senior high office. ' Football season tickets and passes have been can celled. Persons who have had season reserves, how ever, will have until S p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 16, to buy their same seats for the semifinal fray, LIMIT OF FOUR Some 200 reserve tickets will be on general sale on. Monday, Limit is four per buyer. Medford Principal Letter Harris slated that, after Wednesday evening, reserves remaining will be open to general sale. The limit still will be four. Price of reserved seats is S2. General admission for adults is $1. Senior high students with student body cards and junior high and grade school students will be admitted for 50c for gen eral admission. There will b I large amount of general admis sion seating space. Surpris ingly, there were many, many empty bleacher seats last Friday. The semifinal will be Medford's last horn game. Maupin St. Mary's high of Medford, defending its laurels as 1959 state Class B football champion, fought out after a scoreless first half and whip ped Wasco County's Redsides 20 to 0 here Friday night in an Oregon quarterfinal play off scuffle. Triumph by the unmarred Crusaders carried them up the ladder in the prep elimina tions and gave Jackson coun ty three teams In the semi finals for two years in a row. Medford In A-1 and Phoenix in A-2 Friday also made the round in their respective classes. St. Mary's will oppose Um atilla this week end in the semis on the field of St. Mary's choice. Umatilla won 27 to 18 Friday from Union high. Two of St. Mary's three pass completions in seven throws scored ' touchdowns Friday. The other successful toss helped the Crusaders to another. The second half was hardly underway in the dry cold of north central Oregon when St. Mary's finally reached the the goal on the next play However, illegal use of hands was ruled. Medford worked from its 33 back to its 15 and Humphreys went over from there. Fourth quarter score for Medford came after a Med ford defender knocked the ball from Axemen Bo Blair's hands as he was attempting to pass. Funston recovered on the SE 27. Two plays later Ragsdale went over from the 22. The TD march by Eugene followed. Robertson did most of the pac' 'ng up but Brooke, Carter and Harry Staynor traded off. With the ball n the two-yard line, Chuck Shaw intercepted a Robertson pass. This might have halted the drive and kept the Axe men scoreless but Medford was ruled offside. Bill Hobbs had a pass in terception for Medford when a teammate tackled Blair as he was trying to throw. scoring zone. Witli the ball ; on the SM 42-yard line, Dick Evans pitched a jump pass to Alex Mete on the Wasco 30. Mete covered the rest of the 58 yards to score. Jim Cal houn kicked the conversion. Knutson Intercepts A bit later in the period, an offside penalty nullified a Calhoun to Paul Elliott pass play. Calhoun punted out of bounds on the Wasco 14. The Redsides got up to their 25 but Aundre Knutscn inter cepted 'a flat pass on the 24 and ran back to the 20. Knutson wen from there to the seven and anothr play gained to the five but an in fraction put SM back on the 10. Calhoun passed to Jacob son for a marker. When Cal houn's kick failed the score reamined 13 to 0. The Crusaders moved from their own 28 for 72 yards to the goal in the fourth quarter. Evans gained up to the SM 41 and Mete made it to the Maupin 40. St. Mary's pushed up to the 33 and a Calhoun to Elliott throw carried to the 22. Evans pounded 21 yards to the one and went over the final line on the next try. Cal houn's kick for the extra was good this time. Fumbles Stops Wasco marched after the kick to St. Mary's 26-yard line but fumbled and the Crusad ers recovered to stop the threat. First half was hard fought and see saw with Crusaders once having fourth down and goal to go on the five-yard line. They lost the ball on an incomplete pass. St. Mary s out rushed Wasco 163 to 134 and had 79 yards on passing. Yardage on the Maupin school s two comple tions was not available. The Redskins led in first downs nine to eight. The Crusaders rolled on basic offense during the game rather than resorting to the razzle-dazzle. SM fullback Fred Lucas be came sick on the trip and did not play. Wasco reportedly was missing several players. MEDrDvWTlUBUNl SUPdDIffiTS Hawkeyes Drub Bucks 35-12 Iowa Clty-IUPli - Forest Eva- shevskt made his Inst home appearance as Iowa's head football coach a success Sat urday as the Hawkeyes drub bed Ohio State , 35-12, to clinch at least a share of the Big Ten title. Seniors were honored at the traditional Dad's Duy game but it was a set of fleet underclass backs which turn ed the game into a rout and moved Iowa back into first place in the Big Ten with a 5-1 record. The Hawkeyes, beaten by Minnesota last week, were given the opportunity for a share of the crown when Pur due edged the Gophers today, 23-14. Minnesota must beat Wisconsin next week to tie the Hawkeyes for the crown. The defeat ended Ohio State's hopes for a share ot the title as the Buckeyes, rat ed a slim favorite in pre-gama oddsmaking, were out-rushed, out-passed and out-played in the line. CHEETA SAID FASTEST Over very short distances, the fastest of land animals is the cheetah of central India which has been clocked at speeds up to 84 miles per hour. STATISTICS: SE 11 1 First downs rushing .. First downs passing ... First downs Densities Total first downs 13 Net yards rushing 12n Net yards passing .... 10 Total scrimmage net .. 14B ienauies a-i.- Punts and average ....3-30 Punt returns and avcrace 0-0 Kickoffs and avcrage..2-31 Kickoff returns and averace 7-17.3 Fumbles made-lost .... 5-3 Med. 14 S 0 10 272 IBS 42S 7- 65 0- 0 2-33.5 8- 30 2-13 5 1- 0 INDIVIDUAL RUSHING: South Eugene Fluke Staynor Kohertson Carter Brooks Blair Ferguson Medford Ragsdale Humphreys Barry McCullough Hood Sieg Chnrlev Clearwater TC Yds. Ave, .. 4 .. ..II ..10 .. 5 .. 7 4.5 3 A 2.3 4 -5.2 4.8 TC Yds. Ave. 3 .10 .. 2 .. 1 .10 .. 0 .. 3 14 74 8 2 PASSIM!: South Kugene Blnlr Robertson . Medford Ragsdale Hood .... PA PC Yds. ... 7 2 10 ...1-0 0 PA PC Yds ... B ,4 115 ... 2 2 01 c PASS lti:i'l:IVING: Smith Kugene Brooke Fluke Modfrod Quinney Hood Humphreys ... 1 1 PR .... 2 .... 2 .... 2 Minnesota Is Tumbled By Purdue Minneapolis - (UPD - Passing wizard Bernie Allen Satur day pitched Purdue to a 23-14 upset victory over previously unbeaten Minnesota, the na tion's No. 1 football team, to crumble the Gophers' bid for the national football championship. Allen, a 6-foot senior quar terback, set up the Boilermak ers' first two touchdowns with brilliant passing, and booted a 35-yard field goal in the third period to put the game out of reach for the Gophers, Minnesota remained In con tention for a Big Ten title tie despite the loss, the first of the season against seven victories. The Gophers must win In their finale against University of Wisconsin at Madison next week to tie for the crown. The Boilermakers got their last touchdown in a freak play with the clock dead. Tom King fumbler. 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