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6 b: CENTRAL PHOENIX Phoenix - Dick Wiese's passing and a set of speedy backs led Central High school to a 28 to 14 victory over Phoenix in the Oregon state A-2 class playoff semifinal In Phoenix Friday night. Central struck for two quick touchdowns in the open ing period to provide the mar gin of victory. They added ftp .-: -Vf. - .fill v FIRST TORNADO 8CORE Dan Sleg rams Bill Pierce (22) aver the goal for Medford high's iown in state semifinal football Friday with David Douglas. Dick Ragsdale 14) below Sleg has smashed ahead to help jpen the way. Scots Dave Hensen (26) and Missouri By GARY KALE United Press International Arkansas clinched the host berth in the Cotton Bowl and Yale completed its first per fect football season In 37 years Saturday while Kansas beat nationally top ranked Missouri In the major upheav al of the day. Arkansas clinched a share of the Southwest conference championship by walloping Texas Tech, 34-6. They cash ed In early on a fumble re covery and a pass Intercep tion. Five different players figured in the scoring, with Lance Alworlh's touchdown the most spectacular as it came on a 61-yard pass play from quarterback George Mc Kinney. Yale nailed down the Ivy league title and the Big Three championship as Ken Wolfe started a 3D-6 rout by romp ing 41 yards for a touchdown on the first play from scrim mage. The combination of quarterback Bill Leckonby and halfback Connie Shimer accounted for two more scores through the air. Kansas killed Missouri's hopes of a Big Eight title and the school's first perfect sea son in history with a 23-7 vic tory over the Tigers. Sopho more Bert Coan gave Kansas its first Big Eight crown since 1030 with a pair of touch downs, one on a two-yard plunge and another on a 19 yard pass from quarterback John Madl, Missouri, despite the loss, goes to the Orange Bowl. Minnesota retained hopes for a Rose Bowl bid as the PANTHERS OVERCOME IN A-2 PREP RUNOFF another in the second stanza and one in the final period to knock the Pirates out of the championship race. The Monmouth -Independence club will go Into the finals next week end against either Myrtle Point or Sea side which met last night. Seaside was A-2 champ In 1950. first touch- ifter the shutter gam here carried him Into the end zone and Pierce was bowled over. The touchdown and Dan Miles kick tied the score at 7-7 In the first quarter. David Douglas went on to win 20-14, Loses to Kansas fourth-ranked Gophers clob bered Wisconsin, 26-7. The victory enabled coach Murray Warmath's squad to gain a share of the Big Ten title with third ranked Iowa, which beat Notre Dame, 28-0, in a non-conference contest. Gopher quarterback Sandy Stephens was the key to vic tory as he scored on two runs from within the 10-yard line and Intercepted three Wiscon sin passes. Iowa gave retiring coach Forest Evashevskl a farewell present In handing Notre Dame its eighth straight loss to mark the most disastrous season in Irish annals. Fifth ranked Washington won another close one with an 8-7 win over Washington State, but the No. 8 Duke Blue Devils weren't so lucky in losing a 7-6 squeaker to North Carolina. Washington, the host In the west coast's New Year's Day Rose classic, won its third one-point game this season thanks to a Bob Hivncr to Don McKeta touchdown pass midway in the final quarter. North Carolina tarnished Duke's chances for a bowl berth when Ray Farris hur tled the line from three yards out for a touchdown and Bob Elliott kicked the winning ex tra point. Ed Dyas set two field goal records in 10th-ranked Au burn's 57-21 triumph over Florida State. Dyas' 21-yard boot gave him a single season mark of 13 and a career rec ord of 17. Mississippi, No, 2, and Navy, No. 7, were idle. Money hasn't been used in costly re-tooling for a yearly model change . . . IT'S BEEN PUT INTO THE CAR TO GIVE YOU A BETTER VW FOR THE SAME PRICE! Com in and driv th '61 Volkswagen . . . th best VW yetl MORSE MOTORS Southern Oregon VoUuvrifon Headquarter Although the Panthers won by 12 points, their victory wasn't insured until they scored their final tally in the fourth quarter. They held a slim 19-14 halftlme lead. They were unable to score in the third frame. Going into the fourth period, there was still a chance the Pirates could pull the game out of the bag. try to make the stop but, clicked, Sicg's momentum Utah Slnlc was lopped from the slate of perfect teams and forced Into a Skyline confer ence title tie with Wyoming when arch-rival Utnh scored a 6-0 victory over the Aggies. Halfback Bud Scalley's five yard touchdown drive with five minutes left to play spoil ed Utah State's attempt for a first perfect season since 1007. KC Syndicate Hopes To Keep Club in Town Kansas City, Mo. - (IIPD -Withdrawal of a rival syndi cate brought renewed hopes by a hometown group seeking to buy the Kansas City Ath letics. J. W. Putsch, a wealthy restaurant owner here who is co-chairman of the Kansas City group, said he hopes to take his bid before Probate Judge Robert J. Dunne at Chi cago next Wednesday. Elliot Stein, head of a St. Louis syndicate which had re ceived court approval to make the purchase, canceled his bid Friday to give the Kansas Citv interests an inside path to ward purchase of the Ameri can league team from the estate of its late owner, Ar nold Johnson. Putsch and Ernie Mehl, sports editor of the Kansas City Star, head the group of 100 Kansas City businessmen who have invested from $10,- uuu to 5200,000 each to buy the team. Their main concern Is to assure home ownership of the Athletics so the club will re main here. 6th and Ivy Medford I6I VW enly $1,782 del. in Med., Inc. vinyl interior, flee, wipert, heater-defroitor. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. However, a three yard smash over center into the end zone snuffed out any Phoenix hopes. Phoenix never crossed the midfield stripe in the last period. Driv 56 Yards Central took the opening klckoff 56 yards in 10 plays to score. Steve Rule went the final two yards. Jim Vander- feen booted the extra point and Central led with only minutes gone, 7-0. Phoenix took the following klckoff and couldn't move the ball. They punted on fourth down to the Central 28. Eight plays later, quarterback Dick Wiese heaved a 60 yard scor ing pass to halfback Dick Wildfang for another score. The kick was blocked and Central looked like they were going to make the game rout, holding a 13-0 lead. The Pirates came roaring back in the second quarter. They took the kickoff to the Central 46. Thirteen plays and four first downs later, Monty Combs raced around right end for four yards and a Phoenix score. Gary Colfax added the extra with a kick. Colfax Intercepts The Buccaneers weren't done. They intercepted a Pan ther pass on the next scries of plays. Colfax snared the stray aerial and was brought down on the Central 42. Sev en plays after this, Mike Cons bruck went two yards over left tackle into the end zone Colfax kicked the extra point, and, to everyone's amazement, Phoenix had fought back to take a 14-13 lead. Central carried the kickoff back to its own 40. Five plays moved the ball to the Pirate 40. Then Wiese rolled out to the left, cut back over the middle and went 40 yards into the end zone. The score came with four minutes remaining in the half. The extra point kick was wide to the left. This climaxed first half scoring. Central went to the dressing room with a 19-14 edge. Push Stalls Phoenix came out for the second half looking like it Intended to take the lead. 11 look the kickoff from Its own 27 to the 45. The drive stalled however, and the Pirates were forced to punt. The Panthers drove to the Pirate 25 on the following series of plays. However, at this point the Phoenix de fense stiffened and the home team took over the ball on downs. Again the Pirates looked as if thev were going to go places. In eight plays they moved the ball from their own 25 to the Panther 34, Disaster then struck. Phoenix is primarily a single wing team. Apparently coach Jack Woodward had installed a few T-formation plays for special use in this contest. The fum ble came on a quarterback handoff. A Central lineman nounccd on the loose ball. and that was the story of the game. Central made the fumble pay off as it drove 67 yards in 13 plays for the clincher. The drive was spearheaded by Wiese who completed five passes in the march. Wildfang went the final three yards early in the fourth quarter to score. Leon King kicked the extra and Central had their final 26-14 winning margin. Standouts for the teams were Wiese for Central and fullback Consbruck for Phoe- ni. Wiese completed nine of 18 passes good for 149 yards. Consbruck gained well over 100 of Phoenix 197 rushing yards. statistics: Cm. First downs 13 Yards rushing .,... 179 Yards passing 149 Yards lost rushing 0 Total nel yardaRC 328 Passes tried-completed 18-11 Yards returned punts .. 3 Yards returned kickoffl 4R Penalties 35 13 310 in: 4-0 Iowa Adds to Irish Misery South Bend, Ind., (IIPD -The power-laden Iowa Hawkcyes, No. 3 football team in the na tion, gave retiring coach For est Evashcvski a 28-0 farewell victory over Notre Dame Sat urday and plummeted the im potent Irish toward their most disastrous season in history. Sparked by the breakaway running of a bevy of backs and rugged delense that thwarted every Notre Dame effort, the lowans scored with only slightly more than four minutes gone, counted again in the second period : and quashed all Irish hopes with two quick touchdowns in 1 the final period. The victory enhanced Iowa's j chances to improve its na- j tional rating and win a bid to the Rose Bowl. The Hawk-; I Mvnc BMi,Pfil tli,i,Mcili'a nt n share of the Big Ten cham- j pionship a week ago but must j share the title with Minne- j sota, victor over Wisconsin to-i day. Beavers-Webfoots Play to Standoff Corvallis, Ore.-WPD-Oregon bitterly fought 14-14 tie in the war" football rivalry Saturday before 27,009 fans. Oregon State missed a field goal attempt from the Oregon 24 with only 19 seconds left. The tie, however, may have spoiled Oregon s hope for a nost-season bowl game. The Webfoots ended their regular season with a 7-2-1 record. Tailback Don Kasso accounted for all of Oregon State s scoring on touchdown runs of 1 and 6 yards and a two-point conversion. Oregon had to fight from behind to gain the tie. Pint sized Cleveland Jones was the Webfoot hero, hitting end Paul Bauge with a touchdown pass with 3:48 left in the game. Then he swept left end on a double reverse, for the two noints. Oregon State took an 8-0 end Leon Criner recovered an 24. It was the third fumble Kasso made a key 7-yard reversing his field after he appeard to b trapped. After half back Gene Hilliard picked up 9 yards on a sweep, Kasso carried it. over from a yard out. Then Kasso, a Berkeley, Calif., junior, went off guard for the first two-point conversion against Oregon since 1958, Moments later, Oregon Terry Baker's pass on the Oregon State 41 and returned to the 20. Oregon scored in six plays with Dave Grosz going over from a yard out. Oregon's attempt for a two pointer failed when Grosz conversion pass was high to Jones and Oregon State led at 8-6 Late in the game, Oregon cepted a Grosz pass on the 24. Kasso snaked by several tacklers to score but Amos Marsh' attempted conversion kick was wide. Oregon boomed right back, going 72 yards to tie It up. Two 15-yard penalties against the Beavers and two passes from Grosz to Kent Peterson ate up most of the yardage. Then Jones a, 5-3 handyman, threw a pass that Bauge snared just barely inside the goal line. It was the first pass that Bauge has caught all season. Oregon State made a great effort to pull the game out, moving from its own 20 to the Oregon 9 as time was running out. But Oregon stiffened and Tim Ankerson's field goal attempt was wide. Howard Hartman Beats Mark in Pass Portland -flJPU- Bob Pennel of Oregon College of Educa tion won the loop's rushing crown with a record-shattering performance. Pennel, a sophomore from Mapleton, had 749 yards on the ground for a 4.3 average to break last year's mark set by Stan Glass of Oregon Tech. Howard Hartman of South ern Oregon was the top pass receiver with 39 for 686 yards and his teammate, Doug Ol son, was the top passer with 57 out of 105 for 854 yards. Pennel led in scoring with 13 touchdowns for 78 points. Seven Vets On Chiefs' Hoop Squad Rogue River - Basketball practice has been underway for two weeks at Rogue River High school where seven lct termen have answered the call of Coach Jim Bowman. Five monogram men are seniors and, of these, Terry Gail, 5-10, is the only two year letter winner. Other sen ior vets are Jeff LeRoy, 6 feet and 1959-1960 captain; Jerry Kite, 6-1 and a leading scorer; Ron Laws, 5-11 who lettered season before last, and Phil Archer, 5-9 and best defensive player last year. Juniors are Barry Frantz, 6-2 and top scorer pf the past campaign, and Steve Simcr, 6-2 pivot man. Henley, Lakeview Added Sophomores up from the freshman team are Jack Sal ter, Frank Palmerton, Lanny Parsons, Tom Davidson, Jim Sloman, Robert Raigosa and Bill Logan. Sloman is tallest at 6 feet. Gary Daniels is a transfer from Grants Pass. Others out are Dana McBar- ron, 6-2 senior, Kinley Daily, 6-1, and Lewayne Huff. Addition of Henley (full time) and Lakeview to the Regue league and the holiday tourney at Cave Junction will give a slate of 20 games and possibly one of the strongest schedules ever for Rigue Riv er. The Chieftain open against Glendale on Dec. 2 at Rogue River and Dec. 3 at Glendale. Starting, with this basketball campaign, Glendale is shifting from the Rogue to the Ump qua Valley league. RR will try to improve last year's rec ord of five wins and 13 losses. Only competition outside of A-2 will be with Prospect, a class B school. in n'-g-- Off I iaiU i ijUiiiiiiV TO rTTTJ).'.IJl:.IrllTlfli U H.'.U.lL'.HnTTT NO SPARKS! NO SMOKE! IFWl k NO F100R DRAFTS! LOWERS FUEl BIUS! P.MteU'l Uniform heat from floor Burn wood, presto-logs or briquets. You control fire. Your home and family will be safer. Send fireplace width and height, receive Colorful Booklet free or phono SP 2-7166. Smith-Dynge Lmbr. Co. Corner of 8th and Fir State and Oregon played a 64th renewal of their "civil lead in the second period after Oregon fumble on the Webfoot Oregon, had lost. run in the touchdown drive, center Joe Clcsceri intercepted State's Grimm Mason inter Duck 40 and returned it to the Receptions Hartman's receptions broke the mark of 37 for 580 yards set by Gordon Carrigan of SOC last year. TEAM STATISTICS Tout Offense NYR NYP NYO Ave. SOC 1490 141)2 29B2 331.3 OTI .. 1310 11(19 2479 275.4 OCE 1522 441 1963 245 3 PSC ....1237 592 1829 22S 6 EOC ...... 877 581 145S 162 0 Rushing Offense TC NYO Ave. 413 1522 1902 387 1490 1(15.5 394 1237 154.0 3(W 1310 145.5 320 877 07.1 OCE SOC PSC OTI EOC Passing Offense PA PC NYO SOC . 203 105 1492 OTI Itit 76 1180 PSC 101 43 592 EOC 138 46 581 OCE 1)0 37 441 Pet .517 .47: .425 .333 .411 Total Defense NY 11 OTI 1378 PSC 12G4 OCE 1)03 SOC 1457 EOC 1838 NYP NYO Ave. 660 2038 22(1. 4 771 2035 254.3 1204 2107 203.3 1155 2012 290.2 1353 3190 354.5 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS rtushlln TC YL NYO Ave, Pennel, OCE. ...172 62 749 4.3 Barnes. SOC ...109 52 485 4 9 Mansfield. OCE 90 22 379 4 2 White. PSC 103 68 377 3.8 Mnupin, OTI .100 17 358 3.5 MeCorm'ck. PSC 92 20 330 3.5 Hamomnd, EOC 87 35 320 3.8 Bennett. SOC .. 54 24 290 5.3 Huniphr'ys. PSC 81 26 283 3.4 Wilson. OTI 55 63 269 4.8 Passlnx pa rc NYO Olsen. SOC 105 57 B54 Olivss. OTI .. 8 39 571 Johnson. OTI. 6!) 37 511B Burns. OCE .... 8!) 36 440 Grant. PSC .... 76 26 380 CarriRan. SOC 311 IB 203 Buck. SOC 48 1! 221 Dickenson. EOC 56 IB 200 Branaugh. EOC 48 17 2ti2 Hauck. PSC .... 27 11 166 Pet. .543 .443 .536 .404 .368 .527 .395 .321 .346 .407 Pass Receptions- No. llHrlmnn. SOC - 38 Farster. OTI 28 Hamilton. OTI .. 23 CarriRan. SOC 22 Palmorc. OTI .......... 14 Snook. EOC 13 HuRhcs. SOC 11 White. PSC 10 Pennel. OCE 10 Vaushn. PSC 10 Habel, OCE 8 Ydj. 686 341 .169 3.")2 358 189 97 292 87 . 73 128 Tl Seorlnc Tlli PATs TP Pennel. OCE -..13 0 78 0 48 Harlman, sou H Bransom. SOC 6 Barnes. SOC 6 Hamilton. OTI 6 Wilson. OTI .. 5 Palmorc. OTI 5 Lewers. OTI 5 While. PSC 4 Carrigan. SOC 4- Y Basketball Meeting To Be Monday Night An organizational meeting for Medford YMCA Basket ball leagues will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Y, Chairman Charles Thompson has announced. Leagues are planned In junior high, senior high school and adult divisions he said. Churches of the Medford area who wish to enter teams are asked to have representa tives at the meeting. to ceiltno. EASY TERMS Phone SP 2-7166 Vernon New Washington - IUPD - Mickey Vernon was named manager of the new Washington Sen ators Saturday night. Elwood R. (Pete) Quesada, boss of the syndicate which was awarded the Washington baseball franchise this week also announced the signing of Ed Doherty, veteran baseball executive to be general man ager of the nw baseball club here. Doherty has been head of the American association. Vernon, a one-time winner of the American league bat ting championship, is one of Washington's favorite all-time baseball stars. Last year, h Last year, he was a coach for the National league cham pion Pittsburgh Pirates. Both Present Both Vernon and Doherty were present when Quesada who will resign soon as di rector of the Federal Aviation agency, announced their hir ing. Both have been given two-year contracts, Quesada said. Doherty said he hopes that in "two to three years we should have a contending club." The new club must start virtually from scratch in replacing the team which Cal Yreka Eyes Cage Slate Yreka, Calif. Yreka High school Miners, under new Coach Mick Grcnsted, have a challenge in the 1960-1961 basketball season. That is liv ing up to the performance of the past couple of years. The Miners had a 30-1 rec ord for last season and were 23-4 for the year before. A limited amount of senior talent returns but Grensted feels he has some good pros pects from lower classes. The Miners will draw from a jay- vee club which was highly successful in the past season Three Back Back from the previous var sity squad are Jim Hill, Wes Russell and Chuck Shelton who saw limited service in 1959-1960. Among prospects from the junior varsity are John Ellis, Butch McCarthy, Curt Ealy and Dick Kinney Yreka plays in the Siskiyou County league which includes Dunsmuir, M c C 1 o u d, Mt Shasta and Weed. The Miners open on Nov 26 against Trinity at Weaver- ville. They have four games with Oregon teams, meeting Grants Pass at Yreka on Dec, 3, Eagle Point there on Jan 14 and here on Jan. 28 and St Mary's at Medford on Feb. 10 Attention Ford Owners... During and 6 cyl. V-8's For Convenient Appointment Call Service Department CRATER LAKE MOTORS lZi3M$ Main and Fir SP 3-4547 Washington vin Griffith transferred to Minneapolis. Quesada also told a news conference that the new base ball team here will still be nicknamed the "Senators as far as the new executive of the franchise are concerned. He said the name has become identified with baseball in the nation's capital and "noDoay has come ud with a better name." Joh Prooosal Quesada said he omainea permission from Pirate Man ager Danny Murtaugh last night before contacting ver non with the job proposal. Vernon, American league batting champion in 1956 and 1953, was a great crowa iav- orite here before Daseoaii trades took him to the Cleve land Indiana, Boston Red Sox, Milwaukee Braves and finally Pittsburgh. The 42-year-old left handed hitting first base man, who now lives in Wal lingford, Pa., broke into pro- Crusaders Battle Way To Finals St. Mary's of Medford, state co-champion in 1959, forged its way last night in to the 1960 finals for Ore gon 'Class B High school football championship. The Crusaders defeated Umatilla 6 to 0 at the Med ford stadium in a semifinal elimination game. Only Jackson county survivor in the prep playoffs, St. Mary's will meet Siletx next week nd in the titular gam. Siletx trimmed Harrisburg 14 to 0 last night in the other Class B runoff tangle. Their backs lo the wall throughout much of the first half, the Crusaders made the most, in the third quarter, of their biggest of fensive drive of the night. Dick Evans passed to tail Don Jacobson on the touch down play which went for 19 yards. Jim Calhoun's conversion kick was wide to the right. Bulletin Seaside - Myrtle Point downed defending champ Seaside high 12 to 0 here last night in a state A-2 semifinal football game. This Month Lubrication (All Makes) (All Makes) SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 20, 1888 Field Head fessional baseball In the Mary land Eastern snore leagutr in 1937. nu lade FARM STORES ; FARM SUPPLY OJF THE MONTH NULADE BATTERIES : For cm truck! tractors '. Built for heavy farm use. Kobalil. fortified for double me cnarge ra. High ampere hour capacity assure! the reserve power for accessories and instant cold morning startsi You can't buy a belter battery than Nu-Lade. From $13.95 HA 2HA 6 volt 36 mo. guar. 8E SAFE, BE SURE with deep-treaded Unice .-. REDI- GRIP 1 Mud and Snow Tires .- Get positive traction In all kinds of winter driving wnn inesc rar duty tires. Massive shoulder bars dig in with powerful "paddle wheel" action. 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