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i Wins Stanford i Bow! Cairns Rose 13-7; Nebraska Jurkovich Only 60 VOL. CXXXIII- 10-A OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1. 1940 NO. 154 PORTRAIT OF A FOOTBALL COACH GETTING THE AX-AND LIKING IT Stanford Gets 1 3-0 Lead in First Half; Bears Score in Game's Last 20 Seconds; 'Reinhard Hears Game From Hospital By ART COHN Tribune Sports Editor Kmxmmmmm Iltjj i- I Back in 1773, I am reliably informed, a band of citizens disguised as Indians threw a boatload of tea into Boston Harbor, much to the disgust of Great Britain, as well as the fish. Yesterdav.

with mv own eyes, I saw a band of students disguised as football players almost hurl a tribe of Indians, formation and all, into football's bargasso sea. California- might have won the Big Game but Stanford did, 13 tn 7 California might have, made two touchdowns In the final quartet but a rock-ribbed Stanford.line held lor lour aowns on us own 1-yard line to choke off the tying, perhaps winning score. California might have whipped Stanford had Bob Reinhard, its All-J American tackle, been in there but the closest he came to the Big Game was at. the side of a radio In his room at Cowell Memorial Hospital. I California might have still had a chance to win had Jim Jurkovich, t' Jts outstanding back, been able to play more than one.

minute but the Inspirational sophenom suffered 'a head injury on the second play of the game and watched the remainder of the battle from the bench. California might have still outsnookered Stanford, even with those two stunning losses, if Its defense had not relaxed just once In the I first quarter but that one lapse was suicide, because Pete Kmetovic I took full advantage of it, roared 19 yards to the California l-yara line I "Sr 9 1 to set up the first touchdown. Califprnia might have yet nosed out Stanford in a photo finish if Harlan Gough, the Bear center, had not made a bum pass to Stan mj Cox, back in the slot to punt but the wild throw, which lost 30 precious yards for California, gave Stanford the ball 30 yards from the Bear goal line, and seven plays later tne score was la to u. I California might have produced the season's greatest upset in i 3 -iLUt i Parlfic Coast football but Stanford won Its ninth straight game to Vt ff I roll into the Rose Bowl undefeated and untied come January 1 against parties unknown. the moment believed to be Nebraska).

No, chums, this humble hack cannot Improve on Whlttler'i im mort.nl lines: I i. -fix- "Of ail sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been'," Bears Mode 225 Yards to Tribe's 1991 The world at least that part of it represented by some 75,000 upper I Wt i I and lower case citizens seated inside Memorial Stadium will never know whether Stanford could have beaten a California team at full itrenelh. 1 IS 1 imnii, I But no loval son of California or any adopted alumnus who received his dioloma by taking the short end of the odds will ever admit that Stanford would have won if Reinhard and Jurkovich had worked their regular shifts. After all, the gamboleers had Installed Stanford a to'l favorite even money that the Indians would win by .8 points without knowing that Jurkovich would Play only 60 seconds and Reinhard. pone.

I I Yet, that band of California students, disguised as football players, finishedjust six points behind tne team tnat must ce ranitea sso. in the United States today. That CalifoVnia did not score Hi touchdown until the last 20 seconds of the flarne and against Stanford's second team, at that cannot 1 -A detract from the indisputable fact that the Bears ncKea fctaniora in we second half of that ball game, 7 to 0. It took blood and sand to march 88 yards In seven plays with the game Irrevocably lost, but California did it, Fullback. Jack McQuary plowing over the final ten Frankie Albert and Rod Parker draped around his neck.

It took raw courage to smash through that Stanford team for eleven first downs and 225 yards on running plays alone to. the Indians' 199, with Orv Hatcher lugging the pill for 135 yards but California did it. It took brains and brawn to stop Stanford's vaunted air attack cold, only three passes being completed for a tof 34 yards but California did it. It took indomitable fortitude to do all (his and more in the knowledge that the team's two greatest players were lost but California did it. And what of Stanford, you Wow Boys must have done something.

Yes, chums, they did. And the most eloquent tribute that can be paid them is this: They were good enough to beat California yesterday. 4 LaJ i The celebrated Stanford Ax became thai in fact as well as name yesterday when the Indians defeated California," 13-7, to win the traditional trophy from the Bears, who held it since The symbol of Big Game victory stands between Frank Albert deft) and Coach Clark Shdiighnessy in the Stanford dressing room, where it was carried for temporary safekeeping after its official presentation to the Indians. It goes to Palo Alto to remain on the campus until a California Big Game win. Tribune photo.

Reinhard in Hospital Friday, 2 P.M. As Saturday's 75,000 children trudged to Strawberry Canyon, they were greeted by the hysterical cries of the newsboys: "Reinhard Out of Big Game!" 5 1 For, as exclusively reported In early idifions of yesterday's Tribune, Cornhuskers Boston, Vols Reinhard was rushed to Cowell Memorial Hospital Friday with an attack of Influenza. OKLAHOMA SCARES BRONCS BUT- LOSES BATTLE, 33 TO 13 As late as 10 a.m. yesterday, University of California officials among them Walter Frederick, publicity director vigorously denied Wait Formal OK In Sugar Bowl! that Reinhard was even ill, let alone out of the game. But the truth i that Master Reinhard was in the infirmary at 2 p.m.

Friday hours before the kick-off. What's more, I understand that Reinhard was registered at the hos Two Unbeaten Teai Big Six Expected To Waive Bon pital as "Johnny Green" until his temperature soared to the dangerous peak of 103 degree at 10 p.m. Friday, at which time his noin de plume Broncos Get Jitters When Trailing 13 to 0 But Come to Life at Last By ALAN "WARD In New Orleans Battle January 1 was drooped. On Post-Season Game The All-American tackle, key man of the California defense and the West's greatest punter, was resting easily late last night. His tempera LINCOLN, Nov.

30. (U.fS NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 30. (U.PJ- ture had dropped down to 100. And, for an eyewitness account of the KEZAR STADIUM, SAN FRANCISCO, Nov.

30. Thev Nebraska was invited tonight to Boston College and Tennessee, two game he missed, he had as company Vic Lindskog. Stanford's hard meet Stanford In the Rose Bowl started like one of those roaring, devastating dust' storms bitten center, who was sent to the hospital with a slight brain concussion of the Nation's tew undefeated and untied teams, were selected tonight As soon as Master Lindskog regained his bearings he was expected to go over to Reinbard'a bed and tell him what happened and an January the United Hress learned from reliable sources, and ltiyas to play in the seventh annual Sugar Bowl football game January 1. interesting account it should be, too. peculiar to their btate, did those Sooners of Oklahoma here this afternoon.

They opened against the Santa Clara Broncos as though they Intended blowing their opposition out of Kezar Stadium undersjpod that acceptance awaited The story of a California team that was back on it own 10-yard The announcement by the New only formal action. line one minute alter tne opening kickoff. The story of a California Orleans Mid-Winter Sports Associa It was reported the invitation was sponsor of the' annual classic, and into ban i rancisco Bay, began as a veritable vtnai seemea certain to be slaughtered. The story of a California team come soon after tne two scnoois received shortly after, Stanford was tornado, ended as a zephyr. that should have been crushed, 40 to 0 but came within 18 inches of ended their iO-game schedules chosen as the West Coast represen They picked off two touch Wng, perhaps winning, the game.

without a blemish. tative in a poll of the Pacific Con downs in almost less time than his own 12 across the Santa Clara goal line. Behind excellent interference Just 18 inches of Berkeley sod, a foot and a half of sunlight, separated Tennessee, champion of the South ference schools. eastern Conference, ran 4ip 318 irom a toucnaown in tne lirst minute of the fourth quarter. four aowns to make one yard and California made half of it.

Formal acceptance by Nebaska it takes to tell about it, but the final score was Santa Clara 33, Oklahoma 13, and the finish and Mathews, who as a trackman does points to its opponents' 2fi in defeat-the100-yard dash in 9.6, Mercer, Duke, Chattanooga, siiiu mat was me Da 11 game, 13-7. must await university administra Alabama, Florida. Louisiana State, along the side lines like a rabbit pursued by a flock of hounds. Not tion approval which is expected to Southwestern, Virginia, Kentucky Jim Jurkovich Goes Out not the beginning of a football game is what counts in the record book. be granted.

and Vanderbilt. Only two teams a hand was laid on him during his The Big Six Conference also must Chattanooga and Virginian-crossed me moD settled into the stadium, not the complete 82,400 sellout progress. Jack Haberlein, point kicking ex. waive its rule against post-season the, Volunteers' goal line, B.C. GETS 320 POINTS games before Nebraska can partici pert, calmly sent the ball sailing Within 22 seconds of the quarter the Sooners had collected seven points, and in another nine minutes they had brought their oecause were were patches of empty -fceats behind both end tones and the 2400 extra bleachers erected on the field were hardly populated, f1 l5'm- an Were reslned the ot watching a Big Rout pate.

The conference waived the rule in 1938 and 1939 to permit Oklahoma over the crossbar. The record of Boston, outstanding Eastern team, includes victories The jitters which had gripped the and Missouri to engage in bowl Broncs was evidenced by Jimmv r' VBlnc. na ior tne lirst two quarters they saw little else. California wnn inia S(Dnfn-j .1 total of digits to 13, while an apparently hopelessly outclassed squad over Centre, Tulane, Temple, Idaho, Johnson's. -iumblel a iew seconds r.

i i ocv.tcu iu aexena ine norm goal, if 1 0,1 10 the Californi end ione, and Jim' Jurkovich, from Santa Clara sought to get its Continued Page 13-A, Col. 8 after the- Sooner score. boarings. Rams to Know ONLY 5000 IN STANDS iJ A "runt K1i nan, returned to California's 21. V1? tirs Plfly Hatcher hit right end ior three yards, but Cal was offside and penalized five yards.

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you may open a charge account, taking ONE YEAR TO PAY PAYMENTS START IN JANUARY JOIN KAY'S, LAY-AWAY CLUB A small deposit will Resarv ajtyarticla I For 15 minutes of this inter-see- tional game, a thin dime would not Cotton Bowl haw been traded for the Bronco's chances and there probably weren't a half dozen of the 5000 persons who imagined Santa Clara would so Rivals Monday much as-score against the visitors from Oklahoma. "WvfcMheBiort fragile player this writer has ever known, 1 Vgi E.UyAng fu.otb8U because his Every 6 to play' blockin Hatcher; he went 0 Pe-up and, for the umpty-umpth tima this season, knocked timself. out Somehow someone had kicked him in the heafc-V Groggy bleeding from the left temple. Jurkovich wa4ed" off the field -And he never came back. Physicians quickly patched him upand, hi.

head swathed bandages, the boy sat out the remaining 69 minutes of play next to Stub Allison, the old character-builder Lyle Smith recovered on the Santa Clara 26, and in a succession of assaults on the Bronco line, the Oklahomans reached the Santa Clara 4. But the Broncos held them. And then held them a second time, shortly thereafter, when the invaders were within feet of the goal line. It was Hamm's pass to Matthews, with the Sooners on the Santa Clara 25 and four downs to go, which yielded the second Sooner touchdown. SHAW CALLS ON SUBS "Matihews took the short spun and wriggled his way through a maze of potential tacklers.

and The opening kick-oK saw the DALLAS, Nov. 30. (U.R) Sooners claim the first touchdown. and the suddenness and drama of Georgia Beats Tech in Wild Game, 21 to 19 ATHENS, Nov. 30.

(U.R) The University of Georgia whipped Georgia Tech 21 to 19 this afternoon in a wild scoring game before 30.000 in Sanford Stadium. The Bulldogs were at their best today in the 35th renewal of this traditional classic and they rolled downfield on three long touchdown marches to humble an inspired Georgia Tech team which had been beaten six times previously but which pulled every trick in the book to pile up 227 yards running and the incident left the Broncos standing flat-footed and open-mouthed. sat mere glumly the rest of thr afternoon, htj helmet Dan D. 'Rogers, president of the Cotton Bowl announced tonight that Fordham's opponent in the New Year's Day Cotton Bowl! clash will be Texas A. and just before crossing the stripe Southern Methodist university, or Rice.

Rogers said that the team which will represent the conference as pain" but was nothing compared (ip he awful headache of Allison. 5 2 Jurkovich. playing just his ordinary shift' of 30 minutes, easily micht have turned the tide to California; but Allison did not dareend the bov back info the game, It might have been his last. Here is California, one minute gone in the game, all three regulars gone from the left side of the UmI Stuart Lewis is at left end for Ted Staffler, Stewart Cox for Rein- pulled free from- the grasD. of Al Samucci, moved xne Bronco starting line-up solely for the purpose of kicking-off, booted the ball deep into Oklahoma territory, where Orv Mathews, the mercury-footed Saoner right halfback, gatheredit into his arms andstarted places.

Mathews did Wore than merely start. He kept right on going, not halting until ha had raced1 from Johnson. Ralph Harris couldn't find the combination for the place kick. host team in the game will be issued an invitation after a poll of conference schools. This invitation will probably be extended by poll 1308 BROADWAY convinced his second string Continued Fare 15-A.

CoL I ContlneH rage ll-A, Col. on Monday of next week. I.