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HERALD .AND NEWS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1955
UP Board Favors USF
To Lead Hoop Picture
NEW YORK (UP)-The Univer
sity o! San Francisco's defending
NCAA basketball champions, led
by All-America Bill Russell, were
picked today by an overwhelming
vote of the United Press Board
of Coaches to win the -national
title once again.
In a near-unanimous display of
sentiment, 33 of the 35 outstanding
coaches who will rate the college
basketball teams weekly for the
United Press during the coming
season voted Phil Woolpert's Dons
as the best bet for 1959-56.
North Carolina State was the top
lire-season choice of one coach am
fit. Louis University was selected
West
Shrine
Team Told
BAN FRANCISCO 11 The West
goes Into this year's East-West
Shrine name with a solid team,
maybe a little short on flash but
lone on Dower and weight a squad
almost tailormade for head Coach
Jess Hill's single wing.
The 24-man squad, announced
Tuesday night, includes seven men
already picked on tfte pro national
Football League aran.
The West backlleld includes Bill
Tarr. Stanford s hard-hitting ana
elusive fullback, third in Pacific
Coast Conference rushlee with
4-yard average, and Earl (Earth
quake) Lunsford, 3-tlme Missouri
Valley rushing champion from
Oklahoma A&M.
From Utah comes Herb (Smack-
em) Nakken, one of the Skyline
Conference's best backs.
At Quarterback will be Hill's
own Jimmy Contratto of USD and
6-foot-4 John Roach of Southern
Methodist.
Dick James, 174, of Oregon and
Nebraska's Rex Fischer, at 165
pounds, the Big Seven's second In
rushing, put speed in the back
field. Up front, Gene Cronln, Most Val
uable Player at College of the Pa
cific, will be at guard and 238
pound Forrest Oregg of SMU,
heaviest on the squad, at tackle.
Helping Hill In picking the team
were assistants Dal Ward of Colo
rado and Len Casanova of Ore
' gon. '
The seven picked In the NFL
draft are fullback Henry Moore of
Arkansas by New York; Preston
Carpenter, Arkansas halfback, by
Cleveland; Oregg, Green Bay.
Roach, Chicago Cards; end A. D.
Williams of COR, Green Bay and
traded to Los Angeles; end Menan
Bchrlewer of Texas. Chicago
Bears; and end Leon Clarke of
U8C, Detroit and traded to Los
Angeles.
The sauad has nine Coast Con
ference nlayers. Including three
each from Stanford and USC,
Profits of the Dec. 31 game go
to the flhrlne Hospilnl for Crippled
Children. All 61.000 tickets lor tne
game were sold by early October.
Otnera on tne west squaa in
elude:
Ouards: Orlando Ferrante,
Southern California; Tony Moslch,
Stanford; Vaughan- Hitchcock,
Washington State.
by another. Of the two coaches
who did not vote for San Francisco
one picked the West Coast Dons
third and the other seventh. On a
point basls,that gave San Fran
Cisco 342 out of a possible total
of 350.
TOP TEAM
San Francisco was picked as the
nation's No, 1 team last season
after winning 23 out of 24 games
during the regular campaign. The
Dons then lived up to their top
ranking by winning the NCAA
championship at Kansas City,
beating LaSalle In the final, 77-63.
Kentucky, which has a peren
nial basketball powerhouse under
Coach Adolph Rupp, was picked
as the No. 2 team in the coaches'
pre-season sizeup, followed by
Utah, North Carolina State and
Iowa. Dayton was picked No. 6;
Illinois and UCLA were tied for
seventh, with Duquesne's 1955 Na
1 1 o n a 1 Invitation Tournament
champions ninth and George Wash
ington 10th.
According to these pre-season
ratings, here are the teams the
coaches expect to win the major
conference championsnips:
Southeastern Kentucky.
Skyline Utah.
Atlantic Coast North Carolina
State.
Big Ten Iowa,
Paclflo Coast UCLA.
Southern George Washington
Missouri Valley St. Louis.
Southwest Southern Metho
dist.
Big Seven Kansas.
Ivy Princeton.
SEVEN REPEATERS
Of this pre-season's top 10 teams
seven were in the select group
last season. They were San Fran
cisco and Kentucky, which were
1-2: Utah (fourth), Iowa (Fifth),
North Carolina State (sixth), Du
quesne (seventh) and Dayton
10th). LaSalle. the NCAA runner-
up which lost ootn Aii-flmerica
Tom Gola and Coach Ken Loeffler
Iter earning the No. 3 ranking
last season, was among the also-
rans.
Holv Cross, New England's lead
ing hope for national prominence,
was picked no. ii, louowea in
order by Marquette, Fordham,
Washington and Alabama. St.
Louis and Indiana were tied for
16th; Oregon State and Southern
Methodist tied for 18th and Kan
sas was 20th.
Sports I
World ;
Shorts j
NEW YORK (UP) Three young
amateur tennis players Carol
Fageros of Miami, Fla., Althea
Gibson of New York and Robert
Perry of Los Angeles left by
plane lor London Tuesday on the
first leg of a six-week exhibition
tour of the Far East. Hamilton
Richardson of Baton Rouge. La.
Joins the group in London and they
will see their first action In Ran
goon, Burma, Dec. 1.
COLUMBIA, B.C. (UP) Rex
Enrlght, who serves as football
coach and athletic director at the
University of South Carolina, to
day dismissed reports that Mary
land assistant Warren Gicse may
replace him as head coach and
said that he doubted any announce
ment would be made until Janu
ary "anything that might be said
or written now might Drove wrong
laier," ne said.
NEW YORK- (UP) Columbia
University will renew Its football
rivalry next season with the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. The Quak-
kers, who last met the Lions in
1952, replace Navy on the Colum
bia schedule announced Tuesday.
Army and Rutgers will be Colum.
bia's only non Ivy League oppon
ents.
WKAL GABLES, Fla. (UP)
wiuie nartack, who Is bidding to
become only the second Innicev
ever to score 400 or more winners
in a year, booted home two more
winners ai Tropica Park Tuesday
to run his 1955 total to 392. Willie
Shoemaker had 485 winners in
1953.
SOKANE, Wash. (UP) Prn.
moter Gus Cozza has nffprprt Cfln -
000 to the winner of tonight's wel
terweight championship bout be
tween title holder Carmen Basilio
and Tony DeMarco to defend here
against Vince Martinez. Cozza
made the offer tav Msr t ti
Norris, president of the Tntcm,,.
tlonal Boxing Club, and the mnn.
agers of Baslllo and DeMarco. The
fourth-ranked Mart
Ernie Greer of Oakland, Calif.,
here Thursday night.
Reports Say
Nashua To Go
On Sale Block
NEW .YORK 11 Despite a
denial by an executor of the es
tate, there were persistent reports
Wednesday that Bclair Stud, In
cluding the great Nashua and other
race horses of the late William
Woodward Jr., valued at 6 million
dollars, will be put up for auction
within DO days.
Several New York newspapers
published the report with The
Dally Mirror stating that the fa
miliar red and white polka dot col
ors of the Bclair Stud, under which
two generations of tho Woodward
family raced their thoroughbreds,
would be retired.
The Mirror story, under the by
line Of sports editor Dan Parker,
said the decision had been reached
by executors of the estnte led by
Woodward, a prominent sportsman-socialite
who was shot to
death accidentally by his wile last
Oct. 30.
John W. Ludrwig, one of the
executors, denied tho report, how
ever. "Everyone Is free to speculate
of course," he said. "But no de
cision has been made in the matter."
LAST
NIGHT.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
RICHMOND, Calif. Art Ram
poni, 137, Oakland, Calif., stopped
t ommy Manaois, 135, Los Angeles,
TAMPA, Fla. Willie Pep, 127
i. Hartford, Conn., outpointed
rappy uault, 124, Spartanburg,
S.C., 10.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Rex
Layne, 209 'A, Salt Lake City, out
pointed Mike Hammer, 190 'a. De
troit, 10.
FT. WORTH. Tex. Jackie
Blair, 134, Dallas, stopped Tom
my Baker, 134, Albany, N.Y., 3.
HOLYOKE. Mass. Sammv
Walker, lSB, Springfield, N.J.,
outpointed Pete Adams, 157;,
Newark, N.J., 10.
TRENTON, N.J. Jimmy Gar
cia, 165, New York; stopped John
ny Bowman, 162, New York, 2.
FLINT, Mich. Duke Harris.
147, Detroit, stopped Mickey Sav
age, 147, Flint, 2.
PLAINFIELD. N.J. Hardv
Smallwood. 160, Brooklvn. outpoint
ed Tim Jones, 160, Plalnficld. 8.
FRESNO, Calif. T o m m v
Flores, 140, Stockton, Calif., stop
ped Manuel Garcia, 139, Mexico
City. 8.
BUFFALO. N.Y. - Paul And
rewsBob Satterfleld bout post
poned to Tuesday, Dec. 8 (snow
storm).
Sports Cont'd
From Page 13
CORVALLIS. Ore. im Tho
Oregon State varsity basketball
team came out on the long end
of a 59-54 score Tuesday In a
practice game with an alumni
squad.
Tony Vlastelica, Tex Whitman.
Ron Robins and Bill Toole and
other veterans were on the alumni
sb.uad, which played a team made
up of forwards Dave Gambee and
Larry Paulus. center Phil Shadoln
and guards Ken Nanson and Jer
ry Crlmmins.
Oregon State opens against Oregon-
Friday night. i
MOSCOW, Idaho CP Sonhn.
more forward Jack Mitchell
in 22 points for scoring honors to
pace the Idaho varsity to a 78-65
basketball win over the Vandal
Frosh In a pre-season game here
Tuesday night.
PORTLAND M Thaddeus B.
Bruno Tuesday was sworn in as a
new member of the ExDositlon.
Recreation Commission, the city
agency which is to select the site
ior remand s eight million dollar
sports center.
Ameche,
Graham
Top Pros
PHILADELPHIA (UP) The
Individual passing and rushing
races remained unchanged after
the 10th round of play In the Na
tional Football League but the pass
reception championship Is a wide
open scramble.
Rookie Alan Ameche of Balti
more clung to the rushing lead to
day with 867 yards In 185 carries,
a total of 99 yards more than
second place. Howie Ferguson of
Green Bay.
Otto Graham of the Cleveland
Browns, who held the passing lead
by a fraction of an inch over Ed
Brown of the Chicago Bears last
week, widened his gap as a result
of a brilliant performance against
the New York Giants. Graham
held a 9.36-yard average gain for
each of the 148 passes he threw.
Brown had an 8.85-yard average
average for 143.
Billy Wilson or San Francisco
took the completion lead with a
total of 44 for 728 yards. Wilson.
co-champion last year, was tied
for fourth last week.
In the reception shuffle, Tom
Fears or Los Angeles, was bumped
out of first place with 43 com
pletions, and 1954 co-champion
Pete Pihos of the Philadelphia
Eagles Jumped from seventh into
third place tie with Dave Middle-
ton of Detroit, each with 41.
Harlon Hill of the Bears, tilth
in pass receptions with 39, leads
in touchdowns with eight and in
yards gained with 741. j
Fred Morrison of tne Browns ;
ranked third in rushing, with de- i
fending champion Joe Perry of San J
Francisco fourth and Frank Rogei
of Pittsburgh fifth.
Bobby Thomason of the Eagles
stepped into third place In the
passing race, pushing Y. A. Tittle
of the Forty-Niners to fourth.
Tittle and Tobln Rote of Green
Bay lead in touchdown passes with
14 each, and Jim Finks of Pitts
burgh leads In yards gained with
2,004.
Doak Walker of Detroit, with 87
points, held a six-point lead aver
Vic Janowlcz of Washington in
scoring, and Norm Van Brocklin
continued as the leading punter
with a 44.8 average, a mark of
3 yards better than second place
Adrian Burk of the Eagles.
Ollie Matson of the Chicago Car
dinals moved up front in punt re
turns; Al Carmlchael of Green Bay
is the leader In kickoff returns and
Willard Sherman of Los Angeles
leads In Interceptions with nine.
PRO BASKETBALL
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tuesday's Results
Boston 105, Syracuse 97
Fort Wayne 104, New York 99
St. Louis 108, Philadelphia 95
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