MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1962
And They Haven't Played A Game Yet
UPI Basketball Coaches Poll
Ranks Beavers 5th In Nation
Baker Is NFL'sTop Draft Choice; LA Rams Pick Him
New York - lliPH - The Uni
versity of Cincinnati, whioh
displayed an awesome attack
in its opening game o the
season, today was a near
unanimous selection as I he
nation's No. 1 college basket
ball team in the first weekly
balloting of the United Press
International Board of
Coaches.
The Bearcats were selected
as the top team by 33 of the
35' famous coaches who com
prise the UPI board and were
named second by the two dis
senters. Thus Cincinnati re
ceived 348 points of a possible
350 as it begins its campaign
to capture the national title
won the last two years by
Ohio State.
Major casualties in the first
week's voting were Kentucky
and St. Bonaventure, each of
which suffered a stunning up
set in season openers last Sat
urday. Kentucky had been
rated third in the coaches' pre
season forecast and the Bon
nies ranked eighth.
The Wildcats, who lost an
80-77 decision to Virginia
Tech, dropped to 14th in the
ratings while St. Bonaven
ture, a 73-66 loser to Southern
Illinois, fell entirely from the
list.
Duke, which received the
other two first-place votes, re
mained second with Loyola of
Chicago moving from fifth to
third, West Virginia retaining
fourth place and Oregon State
moving up a notch to fifth.
Tile board -of coaches will
rate the nation's teams weekly
throughout the season and
points are compiled on a basis
of 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 for votes
from first place through 10th.
A permanent trophy will be
presented by UPI to the top
team in the country as the
end of the season.
On a point basis, Duke re
ceived 285, Loyola got 194,
West Virginia 176 and Oregon
State 141.
Mississippi State was sixlh
in the balloting, followed by
Illinois, Kentucky, New York
university, Arizona State,
Ohio State, Indiana, Dayton
and Southern California.
The United Press Interna
tional major college basket
ball ratings with first-place
votes and won-lost records in
parentheses:
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Team Points
1. Cincinnati (33) (1-0) ... 348
2. Duke (2) (1-0) 285
3. Loyola (111.) (1-0) 194
4. West Virginia (1-0) 176
5. Oregon State (0-0) 141
6. Mississippi State (0-0) 101
7. Illinois (1-0) 85
8. Wisconsin (1-0) 73
9. Kansas State (1-0) 66
10. Bowling Green (1-0).... 56
Second 10 - 11, Stanford
47; (tie), Creighton and UCLA
41 each; 14, Kentucky 38; 15,
New York U. 28; 16, Arizona
State 24; 17, Ohio State 21;
18, Indiana 19; Dayton 18; 20,
Southern California 14.
Stanford, Arizona State,
Idaho Breeze To Wins
By United Press International
Powerhouses Stanford, Ari
zona State and Idaho bree'.ed
to easy basketball wins be
fore delighted home court
crowds Monday night.
Stanford was picked as a
potential national top 10
squad in a pre-season UPI
poll and has done nothing to
change the experts minds in
its first two games. The In
dians blitzed Utah 81-50 Mon
day as they held the Utes to
18 points in the final half.
Big Tom Dose and Don
Clemetson took high scoring
honors for the winners with
16 apiece while slim Darrell
Sutherland opened up the
game by scoring seven points
in a row early in the second
half.
Arizona State, which posted
the West's best record before
losing in the NCAA regionals
last year, is loaded again. The
Sun Devils won their 35th
consecutive home court vic
tory in downing Fresno State,
89-61.
Tony Cerkvenik and Den
nis Dairman paced the win
ners with 21 and 17 points
respectively. The Sun Devils
have lost their brilliant play
making guard, Larry Arm
strong, but have a surplus
of huge front court men.
They could yet jell into a na
tional power. Tony Burr had
19 for Fresno.
Idaho displayed a highly
touted transfer in Gus John
son. He did not disappoint a
packed house of 3,700 as he
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accounted for 21 points while
the Vandals bounced over
Long Beach State, 85-68.
Veteran Chuck White of
Idaho hit 25 points, while
Johnnie Johnson had 14 for
the losers.
In other action Monday,
Arizona toppled Wiscon s i n
51-46 as the Wildcats success
fully stalled the last seven
minutes away. Al Johnson had
19 for the winners, but what
really cost the Badgers the
ball game was the fact that
they meshed only 10 of the 24
free throws.
Nevada toppled Weber of
Utah, 78-62, thanks to the 26
points of soph center Bill
Robinson. The 6-foot-5 pivot
man led the Far West confer
ence in scoring last year as a
freshman.
Other scores found Orange
Slate toppling Redlands 76-55;
Arizona State at Flagstaff dis
posing of Colorado Western,
76-62; and Eastern Washing
ton waltzing past Whitman
87-61.
Five Teams
In SOIBL
Three teams from Medford
and one each from Grants
Pass and Glendale will make
up the Southern Oregon Inde
pendent Basketball league for
the 1962-63 season, it has been
announced. The Medford en
tries are John Wheeler Log
ging, last year's champions;
Sambo's Restaurant and
Drews' Manstore.
It is planned to start league
play the week of Dec. 17 and
each team will probably play
the other four times. There
will be no league games dur
ing Christmas and New Year's
weeks, league officers said.
Crater Booster
Club To Meet
Central Point First reg
ular meeting of Crater Boost
er club will be held at 7 p.m.
Thursday at the Pioneer club
here.
Three organizational meet
ings have been held.
The Boosters, formed to
boost athletic teams in this
community, are formed along
the same line as the Medford
Linebacker club.
Ben Mushaney is president
of the Boosters. All other
members are vice presidents.
By ED SAINSBURY
Chicago -HOT- The National
Football League wound up its
player draft early today after
17 hours and 18 minutes divid
ing the spoils of 1962 college
football, generally rated a
poor crop.
drafted were "futures," and
22 of the first 26. Futures
can't be signed for another
year.
Paul Brown of the Cleve
land Browns said that after
the first few picks it was a
The 14 NFL teams chose 60 1 matter of choosing "between
"futures," players whose col
isge eligibility has not ex
pired, and a total of 280 for
w"om negotiating rights were
established.
Prospective quarterbacks
were rated so slow that only
15 were chosen, only three in
the first nine rounds, and only
one of these, the No. 1 choice,
was picked for immediate
service.
The pro clubs emphasized
burly tackles, choosing 74,
and halfbacks, with 78, while
only 19 fullbacks, another po
sition rated weak this year,
were named.
Michigan Slate topped the
individual schools in number
of players chosen with nine,
with seven players from Mi
ami, Fla., and six from Ohio
State, Pittsburgh, Penn State
and Georgia Tech. The Big
Ten ana southeastern confer
ences each furnished 37 of the
total.
Virtually all the "name"
players, plus a few surprises,
were picked In the first two
rounds.
The 1962 crop was so poor
ly rated that 9 of the first 20
six or eight players of about
equal ability at several po
sitions." George Halas, owner of the
Chicago Bears, agreed.
Baker First
The big names went fast.
Oregon State's quarterback
Terry Baker, the Heisman
Trophy winner, was the first
choice, by the Los Angeles
Rams. The Rams also picked
guard Rufus Guthrie of Geor
gia Tech on another first
round selection. St. Louis,
with two first round choices,
went for halfback Jerry Sto
vall of LSU and tackle Don
Brumm of Purdue.
WRIGHT WINS AGAIN
Dunedin, Fla. -IUPII- The
Ladies Professional Golf as
sociation has named Mickey
Wright of Dallas, Tex., the
winner of the Vare trophy
for the third straight year.
The trophy goes to the player
on the IPGA tour who has
the lowest scoring average for
the year in at least 80 per
cent of the association's spon
sored tournaments.
.llher first round picks
were Minnesota, tackle Jim
Dunaway, Mississippi; Phila
delphia, tackle, Ed Budde,
Michigan State; Baltimore,
tackle Bob Vogel, Ohio State;
Dallas, center Leroy Jordan,
Alabama, Washington, end
Pat Richter of Wisconsin; San
Francisco, halfback Kermit
Alcxande, UCLA; Cleveland,
end Tom Hutchinson, Ken
tucky; Chicago, center Dave
Behrman. Michigan Stale; De
troit, tackle Daryl Sanders,
Ohio Slate; and Green Bay
took end Dave Robinson of
Penn State.
Barnclt By Bears
Other notable selections
were Minnesota tackle Bobby
Bell by the Vikings- and Ore
gon tackle Steve Barnett by
the Bears on the second round,
and fullback Ray Poadge of
Texas by the Vikings, and
quarterback Dennis Claridgc
of Nebraska by Green Bay on
the third round.
Oregon tackle Ron Snidow
was picked by Washington in
the third round.
End Vern Burke, who has
another year to go at Oregon
State, got a future bid in the
fifth round from San Francisco.
JOINS SQUAD
Salem - IDPH - Stan Traxler,
6-3 freshman from Coos Bay,
joined the Willamette basket
ball squad Monday. Traxler
played football this fall.
Petrasso And !
Koenig Honored
Portland -(UPlu David Doug
las' Rich Petrasso and Mil
waukie's Ron Koenig were ,
picked Monday night as top
scholar athletes at the Port
land Chapter of the National
Football Foundation Hall of j
Fames banquet.
Coach Len Casanova of Ore- i
gon made the lineman presen
tation to Petrasso and Coach .
Tommy Prothro of Oregon
State presented the back
award to Koenig.
Petrasso, captain of David
Douglas, had a 3.7 grade point
average and was an all Metro
league linebacker,
Koenig had a 3.6 scholastic
average and was a Metro all-star.
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AAU Picks Carvallis
As Decathlon Site
New York -IUPH- The Ama
teur Athletic Union today an
nounced Corvallis will be the
site of the AAU track and
field decathlon championships
June 28-29. 1363.
The track and field penta
thlon will be held at Seattle
and the junior boxing cham
pionships al Butte. Mont.,
with dales tn be announced
later.
Ducks Meet Huskies
In Basketball Tonight
Seattle -WPli- Coach Steve
Bclko's University of Oregon
basketball team invades Ed
mundson Pavilion tonight or
a clash with the Washington
Huskies.
Belko said John Mack,
guard who missed the Brig
ham Young series last week
end. may be able to play.
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WIN GREY CUP
Toronto - UN1 - The Win
nipeg Blue Bombers, who par
layed brains, brawn and
pride into a 28-27 victory in
history's first "two-part" Grey
Cup game, reign as undis
puted masters of the Hamil
ton Higer-Cats.
The wounded westerners,
eight-point underdogs in the
pregame betting, built up a
one-point edge during 50 fog
shrouded minutes Saturday
and returned to CNE Sadium
Sunday to hold Hamilton
scoreless (or the final nine
minute? and 29 econds.
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