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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 5, 1963)
frKt.'TION K I'AlihS I Id H MedforbJwThibunb SPORTS MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 5. 1963 Competition Has Made America Great, Speaker Tells Medford Gridders Competition is what has martp America great and competitive athletics are a must, Jerry Long, assistant football coach at Oregon State University de clared in a talk here last night. Long addressed a banquet at tended by Medford High football players and their parents. The dinner at North's Chuch Wagon was sponsored by the Lineback ers Club. It was the second event of the day honoring Medford's South ern Oregon Conference cham pion squad. Footballers were luncheon guests of Medford Ki wanis Club at Rogue alley Coun try Club. At the luncheon, Head Coach Fred Spiegelberg announced that all-state Tackle Jeff Hard rath had been voted by his teammates as the outstanding player on the Medford team. Center and Guard Brian Peter sen was named outstanding line man and Fullback and Lineback er Bill Enyart outstanding back. Makes Things Progress Long at the evening event re buked the idea of a "growing element" in this country that football is evil and that some thing is wrong with competi tion. "You're competing from the time you're born," he pointed out. He added that competition makes things progress at a more rapid rate. Speaking of football as "the last great competitive sport," Long spoke of the Marines-like policy of coaches at Oregon State to drive athletes to the maximum. Some are weeded JEFF HAKDHATII MI1S Outstanding Player BRIAN PETERSEN' Tornado Line Standout BILL EXVAHT Top Tornado Bark M4 sstoJs' 1 " J v Ll " out. Those that are left are tough competitors, he reported. "You wind up with some great kids," he said. They respect and help each other. This is morale, he declared. There is a common bond. "The things worthwhile are the things you have to wnrk for," Long told the gridders. He brought out that persons are more appreciative of the things they work for. He maintained, too, that satisfaction breed mediocrity. "Your lucky to have a com munity like this," Long told the players, parents and Lineback ers. "The whole state looks down this way" on the Medford school system and athletic pro gram, he stated. Great Games Coach Fred Spiegelberg spoke of the tendency to remember teh games lost but he pointed also to the tremendous ball played this fall, too. He men tioned in particular the great play in the North Salem and Grants Pass games. Medford defeated Grants Pass when it was supposed to have been the Cavemen's year, he said. The Tornado's 32-13 victory over North Salem was over a team which went on to tie Grant lor the state championship. Spiegelberg had the players introduce both themselves and their parents. At the Kiwanis luncheon Spiegelberg looked back at the season as "the way things are." He thanked Bob Retzer, Ki wanian and manager of Oregon California Theaters here for having the football players as guests on pie-game nights for movies at the Craterian Theater. Blackman Receives UPI Honor HANOVER, N.H. (UPI)-Rob- ert L. Blackmail is a cherubic faced, slightly pudgy little fel low who looks like he might be a Bible salesman. Instead he is head coach of football at Dartmouth College a coach whose successes have made Dartmouth the terror of the Ivy League. For his latest coup, a stirring 22-21 upset victory over Prince ton, Bob Blackman is United Press International's "coach of the week." Blackmail's Indians, one of the few major unbeaten teams in the nation just one year ago, staged a two touchdown fourth quarter comeback to win Satur day and retain a share of the Ivy League title tney won out right in 1962. The victory had special meaning tor the 44-year-old Blackman. It was his 100th in a 15-year coaching career. It was Dartmouth's seventh of the season against just two losses, and set Blackman s record at 100-36-8 to rank him among the top winning percentage coaches in college football today. Linebackers Will Meet Emphasis will (urn to basket ball at the Friday noon meet of Medford Linebackers Club at North Chuck Wagon. Speakers will be Frank Roc landt and Dick Paup, head bas ketball coaches, respectively, at Medford and St. Mary's High Schools. They will discuss the person nel and season outlook for their learns. Miami Beach May Outbid Las Vegas , As Site for Fight j MIAMI BEAC H(UPI) -Money talks, and that's why Miami Roach is PXDectcd to out bid Las Vegas as the site for I next February s Sonny Liston- Cassius Clay heavyweight title fight. Millionaire sportsman Bill MacDonald offered a guarantee of $625,000 to the lighters Wednesday If they agree to stage their long-awaited bout in Miami Beach. MacDonald's offer reportedly exceeded by $225,000 the latest offer by Las Vegas promoters. 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