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Indiana Hoosiers, uncorking a hard running attack and then mixing passes with their running game, defeated a Nebraska eleven Saturday, 17-0. It was the opening football game of the season at Memorial etadium before 33.000 fans. Coach Bo McMillan's Big Nine gridders scored a touchdown and a conversion to lead 7-0 at the half and increased the advantage with a field goal, touchdown and conversion in the last half. The Cornhuskers battled gamely; against the rugged team and virtually held their own during the first 30 minutes of play, despite the 7-0 lead acquired by the visitors. Miss Three Chances.

The Huskers three times had fine: chances to score. Twice the ball-toter slipped wheh it appeared that he might be on his way for a touchdown. Once, just as the final few seconds slipped away, the home team reached the two-yard line on a pans completion. The highly touted George Taliaferro was the spark in the Hoosier running attack, cutting through the line for consistent gains. The Huskers, with a stout defense, prevented the Negro star from getting away for long jaunts though.

The Indiana forwards blocked well, making openings in the Nebraska forward wall for the. gains that figured In the drive for the first Hoosier Firt Threat. Indiana started to march on the opening kickoff and rambled to the Husker 25, where it lost the. ball on downs. That was the only threat for the Hoosiers in the first period.

Then in the second quarter following a pass interception by Taliaferro, who brought the ball back 15 yards to his own 48. the Hoosiers marched for a score. Taliaferro, Dick Deranek and Harry Jagade figured in the Indiana march, and the ball was carried to the one-yard line, where Jagade blasted through the middle for the score. Rex Grossman placekicked the extra point. Bad Break.

Following two Indiana kickoffs which went out of bounds Nebraska took over on the Hoosier 40 yard line. On the first play, Frank Collop'y, behind fine blocking, got in the open and seemed headed for a long gain. Be stumbled and fell down and his effort was good for only Jour yards. With three minutes remaining in the period, Nebraska recovered I FISCHER IN aL PI The a of 15 30 I 'ttEaFLOPP 41 fischer en) EAnr: 31 ROUGH i GUN PHOTOS BT MAURICES HORNER, 17-1 outplayed the once mighty minutes of play on a 69-yard pass. The pair connected again later in the same period to make it 13-0.

Fumbles. At that point it looked like repeat of last year's lopsided jStanford victory, but too many fumbles and the all-around play of Idaho's Williams proved too much for the Indians. A Stanford second team opened the second quarter but the com bination of WilMams and Halfback Gerald Diehl, aided by the capable receiving of End Orvilla Barnes marked up six points for the Vandals. I Coach Marchie Schwarts moved his team back Into the game at the opening of the 1 third period and, after three line plays failed, Guard Mavry Feldman made good a place kick from the Idaho 10-yard stripe. Stanford took over on its own 22 after the kickoff and drove to the 33 where Fullback Jim Nafziger fumbled, and Chet Johnson of Idaho recovered.

Williams Agaln. Williams opened up again to Barnes on a 21-yard pass to make the score Stanford 16, Idaho 13. Dixie Howell's boys took charge in the fourth period when the Indians fumbled on their own 19. Williams, who, kicked, passed and ran through Stanford throughout the game, passed to Diehl to give Idaho its winning margin. 3 Teams Battle For A.B.C.

Title BATTLE CREEK, MICH. (U.P.) Three teams Saturday were left in the American Base-' ball congress' "little world series" after Knoxville, eliminated Curtis, 2-0. Knoxville meets undefeated Birmingham, today and Bir-j mingham then plays Pontiac, Mich. If the Alabamans lose one of the games, it would necessitate a third game, with Birrninghana meeting the team which defeated it. If both tea.ms defeat Binning ham, they will meet in the championship game Monday.

William and Mary Drubs Davidson NORFOLK, VA. (P) Davidson played William and Mary on al most even terms during the first half before bowing to superior depth. 21-0, here Saturday. Fullbackack Cloud scored two of the Indians' touchdowns and Richard Hungerford, 202-pound substitute end, went over for the third. Stanley Magdziak added the three points after touchdowns.

GOLDEN THORN WINS. SALEM, N. H. CTV John L. McKnight's- Golden Thorn, steady going at all distances, made his most impressive race of the season Saturday while winning th Endurance Handicap No.

1 milt and a half feature at Rockingham Park. 9 1 Hungry BEAR LINEMEN HALT MIDDIES STATISTICS. Cat. Navy First downs 6 14 Yards rushing 1S3 109 Yards passing 80 96 Forwards attempted 14 23 Completed 4 8 Intercepted 4 6 Punts 8 8 Average 41.7 3S.5 Fnmhlee 1 .2 Recovered 1 1 Penalties 9 4 Yards Inst 55 30 By Hal Wood. BERKELEY, CAL.

(U.P.) A powerful California football team, getting its first taste of glory in a decade, humbled the Navy, 14-7, here Saturday in one of the early season's most stunning upsets. A terrific Bear forward wall, featuring a quartet of great ends, smothered every Navy thrust. wasn't until the final minutes of play that Navy was able to work into California territory. Second for Waldorf. It was the second straight victory for Coach Lynn Waldorf as head man of the Bears and, following last week's smashing 37-7 triumph over Santa Clara, stamped the Berkeley club as one of the nation's potential powerhouses.

An overflow crowd of 80,000 jammed Memorial Stadium for the intersectional contest, the Midshipmen's first appearance on the west coast in 18 years. While the Bear ends John Cunningham, Harry Agler, Dave Hlrschler and Frank Van Deren were smashing the vaunted Navy end and off-tackle smashes, a of young scat backs paved the way for California victory. Bob Celeri, 160-pounds of lightning, used only as a spot passer in most instances, set the Bears on fire in the waning minutes of the second period. He end and sneaked however, down the sidelines for Nebra.ska had to kick. 16 yards.

Two plays later, howitzer photo by bob long. Nebraska's, first flash against Indiana came early in the opening quarter a Lincoln Saturday when Cornhusker Cletus Fischer circled Sinks Nary, 14-7 4 the 10 and went over for a touchdown. Grossman's kick was again successful. Last of Series. The contest was the final of a 12-game series between the two schools in which Nebraska had held its own until the war.

The Huskers had three wins, one loss and two ties up through 1941. Indiana won the last sir meetings to give it the edge in the classic. The line play of Wilfred Rawl and Howard Brown, the Indiana captain, stood out for the Hoosiers. Fred Lofenz and Gene Wil-kins played well in the line for Nebraska while Tom Novak stood out with his line backing. INDIANA 17.

NEBRASKA O. Ravensherg L. Samuelson Morrical 1.. T. Toogood Brown a.

Polce C. Harbison R. G. Goldsberry R. T.

Mihajlovlch R. E. Grossman Q. B. Taliaferro L.

H. Sedtacek Novak Wilkins Hall Pesek Wiegand Hutton Deranek R. H. Fischer Jagade F. Adams Score by quarters: Indiana 7 3 0 7 17 Nebraska 0 Summary Touchdowns.

Jagade. J. Bartkiewicz; field goal. Grossman (place kick. Substitutions Indiana: F.nds J.

Bart-fciewiex. Hoppe. Lysohir. Legei: tackles, Moorbread. Wagner.

Rawl, Erickson; guards, W. Bartkiewicz. Witucki, Brooks: centers. Karstens, Sinkora backs. Russell.

McKinnis. Grooraes. McDonnell. Sebek, Robertson Armstrong. Nebraska: Ends.

Damkroger. Sailors, Cochrane: tackles. DiBlase, Sim: guards. Hoy, Lorenz; center. Costello: backs.

Mueller. Collopy. Myers, Moomey, Acker-man, Salaptrom. N. Texas Bows To Arkansas U.

LITTLE ROCK, ARK. VP) Tough, inspired North Texas State college gave the University of Arkansas Razorbacks a full afternoon of trouble here Saturday but bowed before the Southwest conference champions, 12-0. Arkansas' speed demon backs, Clyde Scott and Aubrey Fowler, provided the victory punch, Scott scoring on an 11-yard end run in the first quarter and Fowler racing 75 yards on a punt return for the other touchdown in the third period. The Razorbacks made 11 first downs to the Eagles' 10 and gained 177 yards net rushing to S3 for the Texans. Jl'l tf FRANZ (C) Jtif when they overpowered and Stanford university Indians to win a 19-16 Pacific Coast conference victory.

It was the first Idaho victory over Stanford in the history of football competition between the two schools which began in 1923. In five previous meetings Stan- ford had rolled up 166 points to Idaho's 14. Th Vandals, led spectacularly by triple-threater Bill Williams, a 164-pound half-hark, came hack to overcome a 13-6 halftime deficit. Stanford scored twice with esse In the first period, but appeared sluggish and butt erf ingered after the initial spurt. The Indians opened the game with a 40-yard runback by Bob Anderson, who later left the game with an injured shoulder.

The parsing team of Ainslee Bell to Gene Martin put the Redskins in front during the first five MSlHMiiasisaMHH SWEETHEART SUPREME. LONDON, ENGLAND Sweet-heart-on-Parade, famed show horse, won the Grand National championship for five gaited horses twice in 1931 and 1932, fumble on its 46 yard line. Dick Hutton picked up a yard on a running play and then Cletus Fischer made a spectacular catch a long toss by Delbert Wieg-and on the Indiana 15, a 39 yard gain. Fischer was ahead of the Indiana safety hut in turning -after the catch, fell to the turf. Three Nebraska plays lost six yards and with only seconds remaining Myers' long pass was taken by Ralph Damkroger on the Indiana three.

The pass made it a first down but time expired before the Huskers could run off another jpiay. Huskers Falter. The second half was all Indiana. Nebraska couldn't get its offense to click during the second half and failed to threaten. Early in the third period Indiana started rolling again.

With Jagade, Deranek and Hugh Mc-Kinnis sharing ball-toting honors and two completed passes by Quarterback Nick Sebek. the visitors marched to the Huskers one. With their hacks on the goal line, the Nebraska forwards battled, like Nehraskans of three plays found Indiana back orfthe three. On fourth down, Rex Grossman stepped back to the eight and booted a place kick to give Indiana a 10-0 lead. Penalty a Nullifier.

Early in the fourth quarter following Jack Pesek's punt, the Hoosiers started a from midfield. They reached the Husker 15 in nine plays. A fourth pass was completed in the end zone but Indiana was penalized yards for illegal use of the hands. Iter In the. period Indiana recovered a fumbled lateral on the; Nebraska 44-yard line and in three plays scored the final touchdown of the game.

Del Russell's long pass on the first play was dropped by Joe Bartkiewicz. McKinnis went through the line and reached the before he was brought down. On the next play Bartkiewicz took a long pass from Russell on California faded back and passed 12 yards to Cunningham. Runs 17 Yards. On the same formation, Celeri dropped back again, faked a pass, then ran 17 yards.

That left the Navy defense wide open. Celeri took the ball again, ran to the end and then cut down the middle of the field 21 yards for a touchdown with only a minute to play. Paul Keck-ley converted to give California a halftime 7-0 edge. lightning Strikes Again. The two teams battled through the third period in midfield.

But lightning struck again in the fourth, this time in the person of California's Jackie Jensen. The Rears had the ball on their own 37 when Jensen knifed through left guard, picked up a. horde of blockers and sprinted fit yards to the goal line. Keckley 'again converted to consolidate the score. Navy got its touchdown late in the final period' after recovering a blocked kick on the California two-j'ard line.

NAVY 7. CALIFORNIA 14. Mark el L. Hirschler N. Smith L.

Turner Emerson L. G. Baker) scott Duncan Golding R. Franz Shtmshack R. Borghi! Ryan R.

Agler! Kaystnger y. u. Erickson Lawrence B. Main McCully H. Fongl Hawkins F.

Graves! Score by periods: Navr 0 0 7 7 California 1 7 14 Summary Touchdowns. Celeri. Jensen, Baysinger; points after touchdown, Keckley place kick). Cullom (place kick), Hawkins (place kick. Substitutions r-California Ends.

Van Deren. Cunningham: tackles. Sockolov. Fraesettoxguards. Poddig.

Doods. Cullom, Shwayder: centers. Hileman. Elliott. Ple-per; backs, Jensen, Muir, Celeri, Keckley, Swaner.

Navy: Ends, Fmzier. tackles. Strahley. Tagliente; guards. Hunt.

Cooper, Weir; centers, Lawrence, Key: backs, Gerber, Home, Earl. Schwoef fertnan, Williams. Aillett. Moore. Officials Referee.

Louis Conlan of St. Marvs; umpire. William Corhue of Stanford, head linesman. James Hole of Michigan State: field judge, Frank Ml-lette of Southern "California. Officials Referee.

Louis Conlan of St. Mary's; umpire. William Corbus of Stanford; bead linesman. James Hale. Michigan Stater field ludge, Frank Malotte of Southern California, Keaves Baysinger (S6) of the Navy was snagged for a two-yard loss a fraction of a second after this picture was taken In the' second period of the Navy-California game played before nearly 80,000 fans in Berkeley Saturday.

The tackier was James Cullom (64). Coming up from behind Is California's Rod Franz (67). WIREPHOTO LT. TOP HIGH JUMPER NEW YORK. N.

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