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Ren fro, By HAL WOOD I PI Sports Writer SAX FRANCISCO L'PI -Southern California and Wash ington, still battling for the right to jo to the Hose Bowl, placed three men on (lie first team of live United Press International All-Coast Stars announced to day. In an unusual year of selec tions, made tough by injuries and by the fact that so many men failed to live up to their past reputations, the University Texas Maintains Lead; ! Sports, Nebraska Gain NEW YORK i LTD The seven-week reign of the Texas b'nghorns atop the college foot ball rankings has been rivaled enly by tlie famed Oklahoma Sooners of the mid '50s. Sporting a perfect 9-0 record. Texas today was ranked No. 1 for tlie second consecutive week by .12 of the .13 coaches com prising the Uniled Press Inter national rating board. Michigan State and Nebraska "made major advances in the ratings this week. The Spartans forced Mississip pi out of Hiird place for the (ir.-t time in a month by a sin gle point, with Pittsburgh a very close fifth. Nebraska re placed Oklahoma in sixth after defeating tlie Sooners for tlie Big Eight championship and Or ange Bowl invitation. Nebraska, ranked ninth last week, shoved the Sooners to 10th. Navy nailed down the runner up position to Texas for the third week running, receiving two first-place ballots. Alabama (No. 7' and Illinois (No. Ri remained stationary, and Auburn moved up a notch to ninth with its victory over Florida State. Not since 1056, when Okla homa held first-plate for nine of tlie 10 weeks the ratings were conducted, has one team so dominated the scene as the First Cage Poll Puts Beavers 10th NEW YORK (LTD Defend ing NCAA champion Loyola to day was chosen the nation's top team in the annual pie-season balloting by the 35 members of the United Press International board of basketball coaches. The Ramblers, who heat Cin cinnati for the national title by a scant two points last season, again found themselves ahead of the Bearcats by a slim mar gin in the coaches voting. They received 22 first-place votes and a total of 325 points. Cincinnati, meanwhile, had only 10 first - jilace votes but 285 points. New York University, with three first-place votes, was third with 203 points. Duke was fourth; Wichita fifth; Arizona State sixth; Ohio Slate seventh: Texas eighlh; Michigan ninth; and Oregon State was tenth. Loyola, which opens its sea son Monday against North Da kota, will defend its champion ship with four of U.o five start ers who brought the crown to the Chicago campus. Loyola and Cincinnati were the only teams named on all 33 ballots and were the only teams receiving first place votes with 1 he exception of NYU. Points are allotted on the basis of in-9-3-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 for first through 10th places. The "second 10" included, in order. Kansas Stale. Kentucky. UCLA. Providence. San Francis co, Illinois Stanford. Oklahoma Stale. Villanova and West Vir ginia. NEW YORK 'UP1' - The United Press International hnard of coaches pre-season ma- SLATS HAS PROBLEMS Another Good Cage Season Foreseen By Oregon States Veteran Court Mentor CORVALLIS 'UPU - Oregon State basketball Coach Slats Gill admits he has problems but "I also have Mel Counts." And Counts, a 7-foot renter with a knack of scoring points, figures to be enough to cairy lis- Beavers t" "another g"! season.'' according to the v etc: -an coach. The 2"(-p"und senior pi"i tar led Oregon State lo the NC.W Western regional cham-p.on.-hip and a 22-9 recoid la-t season "Me! is dm; everything be' r this ear-i"oting. rebound ing, defense." Gill said. "He's Burke of W ashington scored what must hae been an all-time first when it had Junior Coffey named as the first-team fullback, and Charlie Browning the second team fullback. "The problem was." said one coach who aided in the selec tions, "that rliey were just about the only fullbacks who did out standing jobs tins year among the major schools." Craig Morton of California, who led the Big Six in passing current Loimhorn-. Syracuse again led I he second 10 in llth-place followed by Arizona State 'No. 12'. Penn State No. 13' and Mississippi State 'No. 14' the same trio it headed last week although in inverted order. Wisconsin gained a step to 15th. Southern California and Kansas rated lii-17. respectively, and Memphis Slate. North Caro lina. Baylor and Utah State knotted for lllth. NEW YORK 'L'PI' - The United Press International ma jor college football ratings with first-place votes and won-Io.-t records in parentheses: Team Points 1. Texas i.12 ' ft-0 " .147 2. Navy '2i I8-1 289 .1. Michigan St. .6-1-1" 221 4. Mississippi Hi 1 7-0-1 1 220 5. Pittsburgh (7-11 214 6. Nebraska 1 0-1 166 7. Alabama i7-li 150 8. Illinois '6-1-1 I4ii (I. Auburn B-1 ' RH 10. Oklahoma ( 7-2 25 Second 1011. Syracuse Hi; 12, Arizona State 14; 1.1, Penn State 10; 14. Mississippi Stale 9: 15. Wisconsin 6; 16, Southern California 5; 17, Kansas 4; in (tiei, Memphis State, North Carolina. Bavlor and Utah Stale all 2. jcir college basketball ratings for the 10li3-64 season (first place votes in parentheses': Team Points 1 Loyola (111." 22 ' 325 2 Cincinnati (10 .1 New York U. 4 Duke 5 Wichita 6 Arizona State 7 Ohio State 285 205 181 146 139 115 66 65 61 Kansas State. 35; 13. UCLA, j 8 Texas 9 Michigan 10 Oregon State Second ten: II. 42; 12. Kentucky, 33; 14. Providence, .11; 15. San Francisco. 26; 16, Illinois, 24; 17, Stanford. 22: 18. Oklahoma Stale. 21; 19, Villanova, 17; 20. West Virginia, 13. Football Classic Scheduled MIAMI (LTD The Florida A&M Rattlers will get a re venge crack at Morgan State College of Baltimore Dec. 14 the annual Orange Blossom foot ball classic here. Dr. George W. Gore, president of the Tallahassee school, an nounced the match Monday. Florida A&M annually plays the role of host team in the classic in the Orange Bowl. Morgan Stale handed the Flor ida school its worst beating in 20 years when the .Northerners rolled over A&M 50-0 jn im.i. ju-t nin'e mature now Counts has scored 1.I93 punts in two var-:ty seasons. As a jun ior, he tallied 6M points and pulled down 4a.i retiounds in 31 games after collecting .Vt7 pom's and snaring 401 rebounds in 29 conte-ts as a sor-inmnre. The Oregon State senool scor ing record is 1.48 points, set hy Dave Gambce from I9."6 throu;ti 19'Jt. "He's one of the be-t h'2 men ever hi college." Gill said of Counts. How liics Gill, tn his loth season as lie ad baske'hall coach at Oregon State, rate Counts Honored J and to:al offense, was named t" 1 the quarterback spot in a tight battle with Washington's ball handling expert. Bill Douglas. Bob Berry of Oregon was a close third in the balloting, fol lowed by Gordon Queen of Ore gon State. Repeaters on the squad are the two guards. Damon Bame of Southern California and Rick Redman of Wa-hinaton, Junior Coifey of Washington and All America Mel Renfro of Oregon. Renro. however, was far from 19 6 3 A 1'V !-'-if . JF , $"- fJ M :" ' . ' t , . v WASH UMU i . &h. . .vM.7.-.""'. :" ": Y" - .U S'auboch Ellr Blrloi ;J1 8urk " ' v '' WAV ; WINN. IU.U. tf ORE ':' - S c y ' s KANS HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath NAIA Playoff Voting Writes Finis To Pioneer Grid Season KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPU -The National Association of In tercollegiate Athletics today an nounced selection of College of Emporia (Kan." and Prairie View (Tex. I A&M as the third and fourth learns to compete in semifinal playoffs for the NAIA football championship. Last week, St. John's 'Minn." and Kearney 'Neb. I State were chosen for the playoffs. A. O. Duer. NAIA executive secretary, said Kearney "9-0' and Prairie View '80' would meet Dec. 7 al Kearney. Col lege of Emporia H0-0' and St. John's '8-0' will meet this Sat urday at Metropolitan Stadium in Minneapolis. Winners of the playoff games will collide Dec. 14 in the Camellia Bowl at Sacramento. Calif. Winner of that game is regarded as the nation's small college football champion. Northern Illinois '9-0' ranked No. 1 in today's linal NAIA foot hall ratings, could not partici pate in tlie playoffs because conference rules prohibit the school from competing after No veinlier. St. John's finished second in anions the piayeis he has coa lied? "Well. I d have tn think a lot before I would put anybody ahead of him." The Beavers' bi;get problem will lie their lack of height alt er Counts Gill said he piitiably will o;en the season aainst Wash ington State at Pullman next Monday and Tuesday wilh Counts at center. 6-7 junior .Jim Kraus and 6-3 sophomore S "'t Eaton at forwards and 6-iool junior Jim Jarvis and R-2 J m lor Frank Peters at piaids "We re going to be a a dis- In All-Coast Selections; unanimous due to the fact he wa injured so often. There were three unanimous choices: end Vern Rurke of Ore gon State: center Marv Harris of Stanford: and halfback Mike Garrett of Southern California. Garrett is the enly sophomore on the first team. He made such outstanding perlormances in every city in which he played th.it nobody forgot him. Mel Profit of UCLA, the other end: and tackles Gary Kirner of I'SC and Mike Briggs of Wash- A pp I to n TEXAS U Falls, Oregon Tuesday, November 26, 1963 the balloting, followed by Kear ney in the No. 3 spot and Col lege of Emporia and Prairie View tied for fourth. Alter thai came Northeaslern Oklahoma U0-0i in sixth place. Southwest Texas State '9-0 in in sevenlll and Lewis & Clark 'Ore." '8-01 in the No. 8 spot. L&C Eleven Stops Work PORTLVND (LTD - 1-ewis ami Clark football players, dis appointed at not receiving a bid to compete in the NAIA play offs, turned in their suits today. The team had been working out since completing the regular season with an 8-0 mark in hoK?s of landing a berth. But the NAIA today announced Col lege of Emixiria. Kan., and Prairie View A&M of Texas were picked for the final two spots in the four-team playoff. l,ewis and Clark had an 8-0 re cord. "Well, that's it," Coach Joe Huslon said when he was noti fied. a'lwtntaje because out foiward are ma!i." the Beavers' coach explained, "Kraus is tall but not really strong " ((uicker Tram "But I think we will have m(te qiik knese than last season and our outside shooting should be bofer. And we will Iry to run when we tan Isecause oi of Counts' higet assets is got- I ting tlie bail off the defensive j fioard " I Top losses to graduation were ' football star Teiry Baker, a 6-.1 UOud. ani Hack standout Sieve ' Pauly. a fi-4 forward. Tliey I ranked as ttieir team's second I incton rounded out tlie squad i all with a solid following, i This is nie of the smaller teams in recent vcars. with the biggest nun the 217-pound Har ris. However, it has a let of Seed and lieight. It s the type of club that the professionals like and already the pins have dialled via the "redshirt" method. Burke and Profit. Of tlie others eligible for the draft this year. Harris, Renfro and Kirner are expected to go PAGE 9, Rounding out Hie (op 10 are Central Washington State 1 9-0 and Florida A&M '7-1 1. Top Honors To Kelso NEW YORK i L'PI" - Kelso, the mighty gelding who boosted his lifetime earnings to $1,581, 702 in 1963 by winning 9 of 12 races, today was hailed "horse of the year" by Triangle Pub lic.il inns for the fourth consec utive season. All .16 staff members of the Daily Racing Form and the Morning Telegraph agreed that the dark-skinned son nf Your Host whs the best thoroughbred in the country this season just ns he was in I9fin, 11 and 12. Kelso, now a 6-year-old, had a brilliant season. After a shaky start in which lie won only one of three races, Kelso ripped off eight straight victories only to finish second in his final race of the year, tlie $130,000 Wash ington. DC, International. T C U AND MEL COUNTS and thud best sroreis as sopho mores. "Our schedule is really going to he something." Gill said. "Stanford. Seattle. California. W ashington and Oregon all are going to be tough on the Pacific Coast and. in addition, we play Indiana and Cincinnati." He added, "I'm particularly worried about those games with Cincinnati " And, indeed. Jve fbould be. Cincinnati, which meets Ore gon State al Corvallis Jan 3 and at Portland Jan. 4. wallop ed the Beyers mv, in tlie NCAA semifinals last year. high on (lie list of both the Na tional and American Football Leagues. SAN FRANCISCO 'UIM' -Tlie ltu'vt United Press Interna tional All-Coast college football teams: First Team Pos. Player School E Vein Buike. Oregon State T Mike Briggs. Washington G Damon Bame. Southern Cal C Marv Harris, Stanford G Rick Redman. Washington T Gary Kirner. Southern Cal A s. 1 Wilkinson DUKB V PSC Vik Officials 'Explore' Big Sky OGDEN. Utah (UPU - Expan sion and greater recognition w ill come to the infant Big Sky Athletic Conference in due time. Commissioner Jack Friel said today. Friel told the league's athle tic directors and faculty repre sentatives meeting here that he was pleased with the progress made by the new league and "the future is bright." Expansion was one of the major topics at Monday's open ing session when representatives from Portland State College sat in on league meetings. Friel said Portland Slate didn't make a formal applica tion for membership and that the discussions were "explora tory." "They wanted In see how our league operates and get in formation from the leaders of member schools," said Friel. F'riel said Portland Male, one of the fastest growing institu Fine Kentucky bourbon aged 6 Holiday favorite tseauuiuuy pacnagea lor gifts and parties yl65 1, Attractively priced 1 i o THCOOLD HERMITAGE DISTILLERY COMPAQ, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, 8 PROS - - ' o- Boh Berry Mentioned E Mel Prolit, I'CI.A Q Craig Morton. California HB Mike Garrett. Sou Cal. HB Mel Renfro. Oregon FB Junior Coffey. Washington Second Tram Pos. Player Sohn'l E Frank Pattitucci. Stanford T larrv Hanse. San Jose St. G Wall Dathe. UCLA C Jim Phillips. California G Koll Hagcn, Washington St. T Al Hildehrar.d, Stanford E Gerry Shaw. Washington St. M In NOTRE DAME tions in the .state of Oregon, was doing an extensive review of its educational and athletic program. He said Portland Slate representatives allended the sessions at the request of the conference. OSAASets Title Sites PORTLAND ( HIM i The Ore gon School Activities Associa tion Monday finalized dates and sites for the four slate high school championship games this weekend. The Grant-North Salem A-1 tille clash will he played ns previously announced here Fri day night in Mullnnmah Stadi um The North Catholic-Phoenix A 2 game will be played al South ern Oregon College in Ashland Saturday at 1:30 p.m. Jefferson In the West... holiday i r? r,"TX r -vt w ? 4- r ti 4- ! -w r i years since 1869 0 Bill Douglas, Washington HB Willie Brown Southern Cal HB Tom Hlanchlicld. California FB Charlie Browning, Wash. Third Tram Pos. IMavcr School I E Dick Imwalle. Oregon T Rich Koeper. Oregon State G Pete Dengenis, Linfield C Larry Sagouspe. Southern Cal G Dave Wilcox. Oregon I T Ken Sugarman. Central Wash I E Neal Potties. San Diego St. I Q Boh Berry, Oregon Burke, Redman West Choices On Coaches' CHICAGO ilTD Roger Stauhach of Navy today was named quarterback of tlie 19H3 college All America footoall team selected by the American Footliall Coaches Association. The Midwest, however, domi nated the first team wilh three selections. The Far Wet, South west and 'Midlands had two ea-.'h. Stauhach was I he eastern representative and Duke half back Jay Wilkinson, son of the Oklahoma coach, was the Souths only choice. Center Dick Bulkus of Illinois, end Jim Kelly of .Notre Dame and tackle Carl Ellcr of Minne sota were the Midwest choices. Vei n Burke, an Oregon State end, and Hick Rettmnn, a Wash ington guard, were the Far West representatives while tack le Scott Appleton of Texas and fullback Tommy Crutdier of Texas Christian represented the Pro Draft Eyeing Prize Grid Plums NEW YORK 'UP!' - Five lop quarterbacks are expected to be among the "pruc plums" to be picked next Monday when the National Foolhall League conducts its annual draft of col lege jilajers. The pros sometimes surprise the college football world with their first or second choices but then the pattern usually follows a fairly-predictable line. The stars whose names have caught the headlines during the college season invariably wind up high in the pro draft. The five quarterbacks exiec led lo he chosen early are George Mia of Miami, Fla., Larry Rakeslraw of Georgia. I'cle Bealhard of Southern Cal ifornia, Billy Lothridge of Geor gia Tech and Dick Shiner of Maryland. The San Francisco Forly-N'in-ers, with the poorest current record in the NFL, probably will have first choice and then the clubs will follow in inverse order of the two divisions' com bined standings as nf Dec. 1. A will meet Wasco County al Mail pin Saturday al 1:30 p.m. for the B crown and Eagle Valley will play Camas Valley al Myrtle Creek for the class B 8 man title, also al 1:30 p m. Sat urday. lflSMIl BTRAIOHT BOURBOW l JcvW'ftfiS HB Walt Roberts. San Jose St. HB Clarence Williams. Wash St. FB Charlie Reed, Whitworth Honorable Mention? Backs Sieve Thurlow, Stanford: Dave Kopay. Washington: Beau Cart er, Fresno State: Gordon Queen. Oregon State: Dick Ragsdale, Stanford. Linemen Pat Matson, Ore gon: Dave Tohey, Oregon: Jim Anderson. California: Bob How ard, Stanford: Ron Medved, Washington. Southwest. Guard Bob Brown of Nebraska and halfback Gale Sayers of Fiansas completed tlie first team. Staubach also as named tlie back of the year and Appleton tlie lineman of the year. Brow n was cited as tlie best college blocker of the season. The lflti.1 team is composed of four juniors- Staubach, Bed man, Butkus and Sayers and seven seniors. There were no re peaters from 1962 with Hal Bed 6ole, the only first stringer on last season's team in action this season, dropped to Hie third team hy tlie 567 members of the association who voted. The roaches based tlwir choic es on field observations, scout ing reports and analysis of more than 1.000 movies. The as sociation's choices are picked for the Eastman Kodak Com pany. total of 280 collegians will be selected on tlie 20 rounds. WHL Play To Resume WHL Standings By United Press International W L T Pts CiF GA 10 7 1 21 til 6 Los Angls San Fran Denver Seattle Portland Vancouver 9 0 2 9 6 1 9 8 1 6 9 3 6 10 2 20 60 64 19 66 48 19 57 55 15 )50 57 14 63 69 .Monday's Results No games scheduled Tuesday's Schedule Los Angeles at Vancouver Portland at Denver Tho nip -and -lurk Western Hockey League race, which came to a silent halt during the mourning period for former President Kennedy, resumes to night witli two of the front-running learns in action. Tlie Los Angeles Blades, cur rently leading the tightly-packed field willi a one-point edge over San F'rancisco, lakes on last place Vancouver in Canada. Tho Canucks are just feven points off the pace. time I KENTUCKY WHISKEY i --9 i oto n . ERMITA6 I Htm'CKY
