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KG Ken Washington's Runs, Passes Blast Bruin Back Oufgains All Cal Eleven Firpo's Touchdown Gives U.C. Jump on Uclan, But NoUse Wtibunt VOL CXXXI OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 5. 1939 A-9 NO.

123 BRONCS SWAMP TRIBE -TROY BEATS O.S. G. By ART COHN, Tribune Sports Editor MEMORIAL COLISEUM, LOS ANGELES, Nov. 4. The University of California football team today discovered that it can lose as easily on the road as it can at home.

After blowing four out of their last five starts on the Berkeley sod, the once-Golden Bears came 500 miles, somewhat skeptical as to whether they could possibly lose to U.C.L.A., in this city, for the first time in their seven years of rivalry. And their worst fears seemed to be realized just three minutes after Conference Standings rv Jff 1' mil f- Team Won Lot Tied Ptt. Asst. (JSC. U.C.L.A.

Oregon Stat Oregon California Washington Washington Stat Stanford 19 64 45 7 80 22 13 1 the opening kick-off when Tony Firpo scored a touchdown and California assumed a 7-0 lead. Despite this setback, California ultimately succeeded in finishing on the light end of a 20 to 7 score-no small feat KENNY BIG FACTOR But California that is, the Berkeley branch does not deserve all the credit for the achievement. Because a fellow named Kenneth Washington had a hand and two strong legs in all three U.C.L.A. touchdowns. Irony, too, there.

Three years ago last September a young Negro from Central Avenue, Los Angeles, showed up on the Berkeley campus. He wanted to enroll. There are two versions why he didn't. The official one is that he didn't have sufficient scholastic credits. The real one is that he was told, politely but no less definitely, that Negro football players are persona non grata at the Berkeley branch.

Whereupon, after spending nearly iWVfiiirniiiBMwiiiiitwiii-iirmiprliirn-ifmir mMmMMMMMiiiiiiir niiiiiiiiiiiiiiniitiniiiiiiiiiimiMiiiiwiiiiiw i the goal line. To the left is Breheny (48), Stanford guard, and his ran nlng mate Patterson (26), is helpless on the ground. Tribune photo. big hole is still evident. McCarthy (44), quarterback led the way for Jack.

Sturgeon (34), Stanford back, probably hasn't seen Roche cross Jack Roche (40), Bronco fullback, is pictured scoring the first touchdown against Stanford yesterday. He smashed right through guard and the 4 a I fi I I I 1 1 I I I TROY, ROSE BOWL BOUND, SMOTHERS BEAVERS, 19 TO' 7 Best O.S.C. Team in. Years Proves No Match for Power of Thundering Herd MULTNOMAH STADIUM, Portland, 4. (U.R)-The University of Southern California Trojans passed through here today on their way to another Pacific Coast Conference football championship and their sixth personal appearance in the Rose Bowl.

The Trojans paused long enough to topple Oregon State College from the thinning ranks of the Nation's untied, un'de- SANTA CLARA OUTSMARTS, OUTPLAYS STANFORD, 27 TO 7 Daffy, Dazzling Game Won on Long Gainers; Albert Sparks Tribe Touchdown By BILL TOBITT STANFORD STADIUM, Nov. 4. This guy Buck Shaw oughta start picking on someone his own size mentally. One more of these cranium mismatches and we'll be having an investigation, or something. Tiny Thornhill, the mental midget, was a pushover here today.

But that's nothing new. This makes it four straight years he's played the same punch-drunk role. WM two weeks to find out that he wasn't welcome, Kenny Washington joined up with the Southern Branch, where all God's chil'lun' may find a haven, especially if they're good football players. HE HAUNTED 'EM And today that sable specter returned to haunt the University that didn't want him. But how, to coin a phrase.

Observe: 1 He scored the first U.C.L.A. touchdown on a 35-yard run. 2 He hurled a pass to Don Pherson that was good for 38 yards and the second touchdown. 3 He fired a pass to Woodrow Wilson Strode that went for 22 yards and the third touchdown. 4 He carried the ball 22 times for 147 yards, which was 35 yards more than the ENTIRE California team gained.

It was sweet revenge for Mr. Kenneth Washington. A DIRTY TRICK Albeit, it was a dirty trick that the Los Angeles branch played on the home office. Duplicity, I call it. All week long the Bruins scared the Berkeley Bears by broadcast ing that Jackie Robinson, its great Negro halfback, was in tip-top condition to run wild as he had in every game this year.

Ah, but that was Just a decoy, the old double-cross. Dr. L. B. Allison swallowed the bait, and all week long he plotted a defense for Robinson.

"Stop Robinson!" was the war cry. Imagine the embarrassment of the California boys when Robinson not only failed to start the game, You 11 go a long way back Vols Batter Louisiana With Ease, 20 to 0 Irish Defeat Army, 14 to 0 Bogarus and Stevenson Score for Notre Dame As 76,000 Watch Game NEW YORK, N.Y., Nov. 4. (U.W The cry was "leave it to Steve" In the ranks of unbeaten Notre Dame today and a pair of Steves Steve Bagarus and Harry Stevenson ran like wraiths to lead the Irish to a 14 to 0 victory nvcr Army. The victory gave Notre Dame dominion-over land and sea for the South Bend Simoon now has sent both the Army and Navy down to defeat and seems headed for one of its best seasons since the great days of Rockne.

It was one of those touch old Army teams, pointed to a fighting peak for this game, that Notre Dame ran into this afternoon be-, fore 76,000 persons in Yankee Stadium. But Notre Dame brought a tricky, smart squad out of the West and when it came time to leave it to Steve, there were a pair of them ready. Harry Stevenson, born across the Hudson River in Bloornfield, N.J., came back to put ona show for the home folks. He punted, he passed, he ran and he recovered Army fumbles. He was the spark that lighted the touchdown fire in the second period, scoring from the 7-yard line after the Irish lad recovered an Army fumble of a punt.

The other Steve Steve Bagarus decided to cut himself a slice of gridiron glory. It happened in the fourth period with Army seven points behind and trying desperately to rake the spark of a tie out of the ashes of defeat. Army was deep in its own territory when Johnny Hatch dropped back to pass. He got off a soaring, long one, but out of nowhere, running like a superstitious rabbit past a graveyard, came Steve Bagarus. He intercepted the pass one yard from the sideline and struck out for pay dirt from his own 45-yard line.

Three more Army men took shots at his bobbing knees and were shaken off. It was a bold and daring run, made almost without any blocking assistance at all, and how Bagarus stayed on the right side of the sideline is. something South Bend' will have to settle in the long Winter hours when all games are replayed around the hearth. Finally Bagarus went over and the other Steve Stevenson kicked the extra point Villanova Lucky DETROIT, Nov. 4.

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lllini Upset Of Michigan Grid Feature A fighting mtnoii eleven, un- awed by the record of their opponents, scored the Nation's greatest gridiron upset yesterday by defeating favored Michigan, 10 to 7. Other Important- gamei over the Nation: U.C.L.A. 20, California 1. Santa 27, Stanford 1, U.S.C. 19, Oregon State 7.

Washington 9, Montana 0. Oregon 38, Washington Stat 0, Idaho 19, Utah State 7. Notre Dame, 14, Army 0. Tennessee 20, tS.V. 0.

Missouri 27 Nebraska 13. Texas A and 27, Arkansas 0. Dartmouth 33, Yale 0. Alabama 7, Kentucky 1, Duquesne 21, Marquette IX Cornell 13, Columbia 7. into history to find when Thornhill and his gang have taken more punches than they received here today.

Shaw's Santa Clara Broncos kicked those Thornhill Stanfords all over this nice big stadium. When they'd finished the massacre the scoreboard read: SANTA CLARA 27, STANFORD i It was pitiful yet delightful; a rout, yet a wiggly one. It was brilliant and it was screwy. And over it all you can spread a heaping portion of praise for the coaching genius that is Lawrence Timothy Shaw, sprinkled with a handful of criticism which refuses to recognize Claude E. Thornhill's claim to the title "coach." LEARNED THEIR LESSONS Santa Clara can't have a much higher I.Q.

than Stanford, yet the Bronco athletes made it look so here today. The reason, perhaps, is because they've learned their lessons better. Scythe-like blocking and tackling; precision-built and smoothly performed spinners, reverses, passes and laterals. These factors moved Santa Clara from one end of the field and back again all afternoon. And quarterbacks, with the inigi-nation to use all this did so to full advantage.

'None of these things did Stanford have until belHUed Southpaw Frankie Albert went berserk, hog-wild and nuts in the second half. He, the gambling fool, passed from Stanford's end zone. He, the lamebrain, passed from his own 10. And he. the daffiest lefthander outside of baseball, was the only Indian on the field with sense enough to go crazy.

Sensible enough to do these dim-bulb stunts which gave Stanford its only touchdown, a score which salvaged the Indians only, bit of self-respect, DRAB, HELPLESS TRIBE Those seven points cut Santa Clara's victory-margin to a mere 20. Last year ihe Broncs boomed out a 22-to-0 win. But today they piled on an extra touchdown to i Continued Fag U-A, CoL Huskies Beat Grizzlies, 9-0, In Tough Tilt SEATTLE, Nov. 4 (U.R The University of Washington had to turn on 'all its power today to defeat th University of Montana, 9 to 0, In a non-Pacific Coast Conference game before 16,000 spectators. Washington scored on a field goal in the second period and a touchdown late in the fourth quarter.

Montana came within a yard of a touchdown after the best play of the game and turned back three other Washington drives for scores. Taking the ball in the third period on its own 20, Montana reeled off two first downs in succession to its own 46. Then Montana stunned the stadium with a double reverse, a laeral and a 50-yard pass from Left Halfback Jack Swarthout to. End Coley. who finally was hauled down on the Washington 7.

But the drive was stopped on the one. Fresno Defeats Pacific by 7-0 FRESNO, Nov. 4. (U.R) The Fresno State Bulldogs put another prop under their undefeated, untied 1939 career tonight by trouncing Amos Alonzo Stagg'g College of Pa. cific team, 7 to 0, before a record sell-out crowd of 12,000.

Poor Chicago, Loses To Virginia, 47-0 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Nov. 4. U.R University of Virginia went on a wild scoring" spree that netted seven' touchdowns as the Cavaliers defeated the University of Chicago, 47-0. today before a crowd of 5000, smallest to see a game here in rears. BATON ROUGE, Nov.

4. (U.R) Tennessee's unbeaten and. untied Volunteers moved another game closer to a post-season, bowl assignment today by, winning without difficulty from Louisiana State University, 20 to 0. More than 45,000 persons, a Southern record, watched the mighty Volunteers sweeping to a Southeastern championship, use everything in the book to score three touchdowns. Tennessee Halfback Bob Andridge scored the first touchdown in the second period on a 15-yard pass.

All-Amerlcan Quarterback George (Bad News) Cafego, ran 15 yards through the L.S.U. line for the second score In, the third quarte. Fullback Joa Wallen took the ball on the end of a power drive and slammed the line for the third score in the last period. L.S.U.'s highly touted passing unit, Halfback Leo Bird to End Ken Kavanaugh, failed to material, ire. Tor one thing, the Volunteers watched Kavanaugh too closely.

And for another, Tenness showd an alarming tndncy to intercept L.S.U. passes, no' matter for whom they were intended. Col Aggies Beat Cal Poly, 28 to 0 DAVIS, Nov. Scoring touchdowns In every period, Call fornia Agglea, defeated California Polytechnic' of San Luie Obispo 28 to 0 today before 1500 persons. Dario Marion! scored touchdowns the first and third periods with Les Heringer converting each time by placements.

In the second period Heringer passed 14 yards to a touchdown to Tom Kilday. Heringer again converted by a placement kick. John Thornburg made the last touchdown on an eight-yard gallop and Paul Schmidt converted. I A. paysfc: but never ot off the bench.

It was cruel, such deception. California was all lfady to stop Robinson But, hell, there was no Robinson to stop. He was out with a bad knee injury. OTHERS OVERLOOKED Naturally, Doctor Allison had not dignified any other member of the Westwood minstrels cast. Robinson was the star, wasn't he? If Robinson had come into the game the Bears undoubtedly would have stopped him.

Of that I'm coh-V-J fident. because their entire defense was devised for him. But when Mr. K. Washington took the ball the Bears were helpless, as you probably suspect by now.

Y'see, Doctor Allison had not told the boys how to stop Washington. At any rate, they didn't. And, because of this oversight, U.C.L.A. made 240 yards on the ground and completed 8 of 13 passes for 133 yards more. Against this Impressive total of 352 yards, and 15 first downs, California marched ust 112 yards on running plays and completed seven out of TWENTY passes for 94 yards.

Mind you, this is not a great U.C. LA. team. It Is an unsound club, with a miserable defense because V37 Its line is definitely Class but is Is a dangerous team and an unbeatable one against an opponent that doesn't have a pass defense. California didn't.

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