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in AUSTIN (Minn) HERALD lit riday Dec '29 1961 Pacelli Dethrones Cotter in inale iigh scoring Larry Mod quarter six did' real weir in but other state college teams did St Olaf and Winona swing into Loan Blooming leteJ Wl Ln7 Sp BeachhM5 ream I Photo) 'J East West Squads Have Talent Galore 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 7 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 2 1 0 COLTS INK LINDSEY BALTIMORE Gft The Bal 2 I 1 0 1 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 5 11 0 14 0 0 1 0 Claassen Sticks With Minnesota 14 21 3 51 14 II 33 jeski to hit a winning combina By RICH MELIN HERALD Sporti Editor ROM THIS ANGLE' By RICH MEltN HERALD Sport Editor 0 0 4 11 4 3 0 Only 5 of chances hit the mark Oles meeting LaCrosse State and Winona taking on Luther College in first round games in the La Crosse Invitational Minnesota led most of the game including 37 32 at halftime but fell to a rally in the last five min utes Eric Magdanz counted 23 points for the Gophers and John Koekinen hit a like number 'for Temple the former a triple overtime wint The Vikings outrebounded reeborn 32 to 25 but Dison addetLZIWe usually have a to rebjiuid Roberts was Way hisYeomen hustled back after be ing 'down by as many' asinine points "Italso'was the first time we pressed this season (the first By ACK STEVENSON SAN RANCISCO (AP) oot ball stars with speed power and aerial accuracy clash Saturday in the 37th annual East West game atKezr Stadium with the out come depending on who stops whom V'' The West must halt the running of such driving" backs as All Americans Emie Dayis of Syra cuse and Bob erguson of Ohio State while also guarding against the pass threat of quarterbacks Roman Gabriel of North Carolina State and Ron Miller of Wiscon sin East defenders face such rush ers as Ron Bull of Baylor and Curt McClinton of Kansas plus an i aerial bombardment triggered by 1 Mel Melin of Washington State John Hadi of Kansas or Kermit Jorgensen of Washington The West is expected to go into the air more frequently than the East and Hadi says "You ask for a better group of They include fleet Mack Burton of San Jose State at wingback and ends Buddy Iles of TCU Bobby Lane of Baylor Oscar Donahue of San Jose State and Kent Petersen from Oregon Additionally Bay lors Bull proved an adept pass catcher during the 1961 season Weather conditions were uncer tain for the 2 pro'kickoff but the week has been clear and cool As usual a capacity throng of 59000 is expected The game will be i televised nationally by NBC To Davis and erguson West Coach Jim Owens of Wash ington picked a defensive line averaging 230 pounds and an chored by Uth huge tackles All America Merlin Olsen Cotter's Modjeski Is Lon eRepea ter Winona Larry Modjeski was the lone repeater 6n the all tournament team selected after the finals of the Pacelli Holiday Basketball Tournament Thursday night Modjeski told teammate Judge were the Rambler pieksv while champion Pacelli also land ed two spots forward Ed Han son and guard Bill Goblirsch Jon Edie of Hopkins Blake and Jon Theobald of Rochester Lourdes TP 7 2 2 5 2 0 TP 4 7 IS 2 15 2 3 1 1 unidentifiable player Others in the picture are the Shamrocks' Bill Jahr (12) and the Ramblers' Larry Mod jeski (41 Pacelli dethroned Cotter 43 36 in the finals of the former's own holiday tournament Thursday night (HERALD Photo by Ken Han son) BOXSCORES ltllOBN rm I fi Baah 1 11 Miller lixhultr I a 2 Herman 1 Dugans Win Tie for 2nd II 17 55 31 33 35 31 53 53 MEADOW (33) TP 0 2 Prairie's over the out The third output 14 points almost dou bled efforts and the vic tors assumed a 30 23 margin before playing on an even keel (13 points apiece) in the final Pct 1000tootoo500333 i 250 HAYIELD (53) TP TP 0 7 Joedohl 3 I 2 3 2 3 3 COTTER (36) 16 Modjeikl 5 Judge 5 Czcpl'zki 10 Starzeck 5 Schultz 2 Welch 00 0 Speck Note Thorp Duaont Leuthold Sauer 2 Eagle 2 j2 Brown Derby National Guard 1 RESULT THURSDAY Dugan 64 Eagle 57 6 GAME TONIGHT Thorn Loan Iron Dorhv a Show Gym Dugans overcame a 49 45 third quarter deficit to clip the Eagles 64 59 Thursday night and tie with Thorp Loan for second place in Qty League standings Both are 4 1 behind unbeaten (6 0) Nates Bill Holton scored 27 to key the attack while teammates Rick Holton and Ron Ronwedder added 16 and 12 re spectively Terry Weise and Earl Butler shared high honors for the osers with 16 each Only scheduled game tonight xts Thorp Loan against Brown Derby (1 3) at 9 Shaw Gym BASKETBALL Suspen ded in mid air Pacelli's Bill Gob lirsch a quarterback during the foot ball season appears to be handed off to teammate Chuck Voneldt (34) but he's actually getting set to throw up a shot while surrounded by Winona Cotter's Bob Judge (31) and another MODJESKI HELD TO 6 CITY LEAGUE STANDINGS 0 I 1 1 4 333 3 4 200 20 1 2 0 0 fvjan Poulton Ruitk c'S luck 6 3 15 Schultz Koikovlch 6 3 ISHomtad Slehlty TOTAL! Scor by Quarter: Hayfield 15 raebor 10 IL PRAIRIE (52) GR ert rn 0 II Wright 1 1 Benton 2 2 Jo'bion 7 21 Low a a Ja Own nnurten 2 Kennedy 2 0 0 IP 15 55 TOTALS 22 20 EASY TWO POINTS Hayfield's Joha Valen(white jersey goes up with a close in shot for an easy twp ppints despite the efforts of reeborn's Al Beach (in foreground) who scored 18 himseIMn a losing cause as the Yeomen: dropped a 55 53 over time decision in a first Blooming Prairie Hay field Holiday Tourney battle at Blooming Prairie 7 Thursday night Red Schultz (22) Brad Miller (sec ond from rinhtl anri Orv Inrkl iaa i i '7 iwwHir i ii luuvun oui At the free throw line Cotter was deadly making 8 of 9 i tries Pacelli meanwhile missed 13 of 20 chances PACELLI (43) Hamon Sheedy Vonelt Johr a Goblirsch a Bxk Whalen TOTALS It 7 43 TOTALS Score by Quarter: Cotter BLAKE (41) Edie Batkin Noth c7 Burnt I Anderson nuenn Campbell rmrtlnnd wfiwMyiv xhoemng 0 00 Curry Bean I 0 2 Gibbon New York (AP) Santa Claus eft these bowl predictions on a well smudged slip Minnesota over UCLA': Minne Golden Gophers lost consid erable prestige as they went down to a 17 7 defeat in the Rose Bowl against Washington a year ago They are banking on Sandy Steph ens to return the luster to their crown at the expense of UCLA on New Day Texas over Mississippi The Rebels from the Southeastern Con ference poured it on against Texas in the 1958 Sugar Bowl winning by 39 7 Not only do the Longhorns have good memories but they also have Jimmy Saxton and Mike Cot ton when they meet Monday in the Cotton Bowl Georgia Tech over Penn State: The Georgia swifties will get loose often enough to overcome Penn power in Gator 1 Bowl showpiece Alabama over Arkansas: Ala bama has permitted each of its in previous rivals this season matk 22 potatsa game It also has Pat' ii i 'J ana mnie rraccnia Ar kansas counters with Lance Al noting that tvp earlier victories worth in Bowl one and two point triumphs Louisiana State over tColo ratio LSU beat Mississippi and also crtished'' Tulane 62 0 Colpraito had to struggle for most of its 1 i 1 a cutie by Michigan football coach Duffy Daugherty on the Rose Bowl mixup: release this 7 but Murray Warmath (coach of Min Rose Bowl bound Gophers) and Jack allen i aiumni secretary ot umo State which spumed the Pasadena invitation) are first cousins! The Minnesota High School League has refused to allow the Rochester High hockey team to play preliminaries to the Rochester Mustang home games at Mayo Civic Auditorium The Mustangs are officially amateur and belong to the AAU but professional MSH1SL specifically prohibit prep teams from playing prelims to pro fessional contests A In small college basketball coaching circles Ham 1 hne a Joe Hutton is at the head of the list The shrewd) VXr wcuiw ww guiaeatne Bt Haul team to'i lirvxn ULIRS in IMllZ lUZlU nnri 1UR1 a Kentucky Adolph Rupp in number of games won by caches in the sport 20 years Hutton in his 31st season aripmvwe sianas orn nationally in number of games won 7 Angle Notes Wdgy radio Wonder cage team which includes former Minnesota stars Ed Kalafat Chuck Mencel Dick Enckson and Whitey Johnson will be in Blooming Prairie next Wednesday to play a charity game against rugh school faculty members Proceeds will go to the pcplorer Scouts for its entry fee in next Aquatennial canoe derby Murray Oldermann of the Newspa'per Enter prise Association thinking out loud: if Minnesota trill pull another Bronko Nagurski All America tackle Bobby Bell to fullback where still be the fastest man on the team regarding boxing: Minnesota Ath letic Commission ChairmanJames Waters says Ro couple of years has become fight capital of the scheduled five bout card at Mayo Civic Auditorium headlines Del lana I gan and Tommy (Chief) Caldwell in a 10 rounder Toaolll HallKk MMyktni MotMfl Carting Cola Ingvalwn Thorion Kosttr Symai Hundllck Mcarlin TOTALS 13 32 TOTALS Scora by Quartart: Blooming Proirlo 7 Grand Meadow i REBOUND BATTLI Blooming Moeykens (white iersev) aoes hiah stretched hand of Grand Meadow's "Jerry Jacobson to grab a rebound in the Blossom's relatively easy 52 33 firshround victory in the Blooming Prairie Hayfield Holiday Tourney at Blooming Prairie Thurs day night Bob Losey (15) and Duane Benson (45) I ft I woifw ciiw mg wave lunoni 4De hind Benson) look on as the pair battle (HERALD Photo by J' B' Skrivseth)' 4 ''I day Orange Bowl affair East over West: No matter who loses or wins this game in San rancisco the real four games were easy victor whiners will be crippled kids in he added the boys the Shrine Hospital did real weir In thatjphase 2 6 1 7 6 I 0 2 3 5 I 0 0 0 I 2 1 2 4 16 23 55 27 46 55 IB 34 41 Blossoms Bid for Title Repeat Against Hayfield BLOOMING PRAIRIE Defending champion Blooming Prai rie and Hayfield athletic arch rivals for many years will lock horns again at 8:45 tonight ih the finals of their own Holiday Basket ball Tournament Each of the teams has a score if7 would like to settle in the feature which figures to be a tremen dous rebound hattie Hayfield wants to make amends for its 61 58 loss in Blossoms By GORDON BELSHAN HERALD Sports Writer Bill long push shot sec 1 onds before the halftime buzzer Modjeski was limited to gavePacellj a 16 15 edge and I points bn a trio of field goalshon' rnnrh inn rark Thursday night comrared with rolled' up a 29 point second half! the 21 he bagged in the period li jto ce 4h 4(1 nref mi inn virrnrv nvnr lu 1Uc2I tv Ct "lu MU 11 Jllllipxi Wvl VIVI iwinona Cotter in the finals of Lourdes Wednesday the Shamrocks' second annual A full court press by Nett's Holiday Basketball Tournament team in the final quarter slowed Tha IniiTYinh wnc YViVfincyA mu vvy 4 for Pacelli who tumbred to Coach John Ramblers '55 51 in title game of the1960 Jrpm the fipld arid lack of augural tourney Earlier sea son the Shamrocks also eked out a 42 40 Ravoux Conference win over CoWei In 'the consolation game Roch ester Lourdes got balanced scor ing while beating Hopkins Blake 55 41 The Theo bald and Jon Edie of Blake tied for high individual honors with 15 points apiece Trio Team Up Onte into the lead in the cham pionship scrap team had to fight hard to keep it: But for ward Ed Hanson guard Bill timore Colts announced the sign Jahr popped in 16 and 10 respcc jing Thursday of Larry Lindsey tively while Bill Goblirsch was 22 a defensive specialist from the putting a net like defense on I University of Houston Late Temple Rally i ks op rs 70 66 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS found thT host team? Bemidji Minnesota was beaten in the st 77 49 and Stout opening round of the1 Hurricane state VPeWng defending charii Basketball Classic rsday night Pion LincoIn M07 67 59 but other state college teams did St Olaf and Winona swing into well in various holiday tourna tournament action today with the meats around the country The Gophers fell to a second half Temple rally and were beat en in the Miami Beach la meet 7EK66 1 In the Gulf South Tournament in Shreveport La Hamline ousted Northwestern Louisiana 73 66 and Gustavus Adolphus took the mea sure of Dakota Wesleyan M7 to the second round of the Hastings Neb tourney The Gusties lost Wednesday Concordia and North Dakota gained the finals' of the Red River Classic at Moorhead semifinal victories1 Concordia stoppec Macalester 65 53 and North Da kota tipped Moorhead 64 63 In consolation games Minnesota Du lath whipped Augsburg 73 64 and North Dakota State walloped May ville Teachers 75 50 St CIoud state captured the Hto rOi tournament title Thurs day hy blasting Augustana Col lege of Sioux alls 62 43 St Thomas won the con solation crown with 59 57 victory over Huron Opening round games Tn the mbI Jhnyao tourney to Bemidfili Meeting Will Be 1 1st on Gridiron A few rose tinted tidbits in our final of 1961 from this typewriter about first football game of 1962 thejkwe Bowl battle against Bruins: Ironic but true the Gophers and Bruins are meet ing for the first time In football and both are seek ing their initial Rose Bowl victory Coach Murray War team of course was upset by Washington 7 7 Jan 1961 The Bruins are making their fifth appearance in the of all bowl which dates back to 49 0 whitewashing of Stanford in 1902 UCLA lost to Michigan State (17 14) in 1956 Michigan State again (28 20) in 1954 Illinois (45 14) in 1947 and Georgia (9 0) in 1943 expected defensive struggle at Pasadena will be the 48th Rose Bowl game Only gap was a 14 year stretch be tween the 1902 Inaugural and the 1916 fea ture i which found Washing ton State tumb ling Brown 14 0 Thus far they seen too much action hut TV viewers (3 pm NBC) should keep their eyes open for Minnesota Nos 21 and 55 Those numerals are on the backs of Terry Brown and Terry Maus two members of the traveling squad When constructed in 1923 the Rose Bowl was a horseshoe affair running north and south with the opening at the south end it seated 53000 The capacity was then progressively increased in 1929 to 7000(1 in iu oouuu ana in to MUUUU" The final increase took place during 1949 with funds being raised by public subscription The 1950 Rose Bowl game which found Ohio State edging Cali fornia 17 14 set the present bowl record of 100963 fans Including all 47 Rose Bowl games Southern Cali fornia sports the best record with nine victories in 12 tries Alabama is second with 4 1 1 Top Big 10 team is Michigan with a 3 0 mark while Michigan 'State Iowa arid Illinois all have 2 0 records Grand much shorter eagers gave the Blossoms quite a battle before hitting a 'chilly streak which saw them go 9:37 without a field goal tote In the first halt and for more than half of the third quarter After a slow deliberate opening eight minutes which saw Coach Paul Larks assume a 9 '7 advantage Blooming Prairie guard Dop Matson top scorer with 21 points keyed a drive to push the winners to a 17 13 lead with 2:40 left until halftime when trouble set to for Grand Meadow All it could mus ter was a single free throw by Ken Jacobson late in the first half while Coach Jim Blossoms were scoring 18 con secutive points to streak to a So 14 bulge with 3:57 remalnine in the third quarter 1M4 Ends the Drought Center Jerry Jacobson who paced Lark point' getting'with io tinaiiy ended the drought with a close in layup about a minute before the buzzer when it was 36 18 for the Blossoms Don basket to open the final period boosted the Bloom ing Prairie lead to 20 points at 38 18 but club re sponded by clipping off 10 straight points against the Blossom re serves aided' by a full court press which prompted Poole to activate his regulars again The remaining six minutes saw only a single Lark basket along with' two free throws Blooming Prairie which shot 37 per cent (19 of 51) from the field did a bit better with 14 points for the final 19 point margin Big Board Edge Grand shooting (27 per cent on 14 of 51 attempts) anything to crow about but it lost the game on the back boards where Gary Moeykens arid Dave Tonolli led the winners to a tremendous 40 to 17 edge Poole happy with his scoring balance 21 and 18 point con tributions were the only double figure players) and also lamented the Blossoms must cut their me chanical errors (16 against the Larks) II Ln ey re to defeat Hay Austinson shook his head when informed of Blooming big edge on the boards they were going to beat the form er Lyle eager said figured do it there We were fast JistlesS tonighL couldnV do a thin? ripht He also was displeased with dunng seasonan() will the free 'throw shooting 'do same REMINDER OR SOTBALL ANS A reminder to all city toft ball player ami other enthusi ast: forget "last meeting at 7 in Shaw Gym to organise an Aus tin Softball Association Creation of such an associa tion would greatly aid prepara tions for the 1963 state soft ball tournament which the city was granted at a meeting of state Park and Recreation brass in St Paul two months ago Those in attendance tonight will be asked to pay $1 mem bership fee Anyone interested but unable to attend should send their $1 fee to either Tom Bel ton (Shaw Gym) Gar Nash (303 16th St NW) or Bud Le rum (1200 Oakland Ave W) 3 Defending Champions Notch Wins Defending champions won jL three Austin area holiday baske ball tournaments Thursday nigh while another was dethroned a fourth tourney finals Wells won its Seventh straiglr contest Al points opening' Its title de fense against Minnetonka 53 to nne of two semifinals in ai bruit's four team rrieetz A pair of 18 ooint contribu by Craig Spry' and Crai" Manke Waseca clip hos: 'aribault 61 53 in the othei contest Thus Wells and Waseca will vie for the championship to night At Mankato Loyola Cold Sprinear St Boniface bids for a repca championship against host ov i la St Boniface topped jMankat Bethany 39 31 Loyol i blasted Owatonna Marian 59 36 Blooming Prairie was the third defending KtiUist to win as it tumbled Grand Meadow' 52 33) to one two first rourre of the third annual Bloom ing Prairie Hayfield tourney' Hayfield nipped prevlously unbeal en reeborn 55 53 to overtim? to gain a spot in finals against a repeal of last final match Only champ to fall Thursday night was Winona Cbtter who dropped a 43 36 championship decision to Pacelli in the own tourney Last year the Ram blers beat the Shamrocks 55 51 to the title game i St four team meet opens first round play tonight with Owatonna and Mankato of feBig 9 Conference playing Lu verne and St James respectively In Don conference prep tonight" Albert Lea Red Wing and Roch ester also Big 9 members all' face twin Cities quintets The Tigers and Wingers host Alexam der Ramsey and St Paul Hard tog respectively while the Rockets travel to Bloomington Rochester unior College mean while stays at home for Ef noil conference test against Virginia JC A Pasadena Beckons Goph erites PASADENA Calif (JT) today had a strong Rose Bowl beach head as far as the official family wai con cerned Arrivng late Thursday was a plane carrying 60 top offlcali In cluding Gov Elmer Andersen of Minnesota and university vice presidents regent and of the athletic senate President Meredith Wilson arrived ear Iler Earlier thre plane arrived carrying the "big of the Gopher invasion 190 person in cluding the 160 member marching band and 15 cheerlead era and pom pom girls This chap eroned group 1 quartered at Oc cidental College The Gopher team which arrived Dec 11 is staying at th Hunt ington Hotel to Pasadena Before Minnesota and UCIA ml Ude on New Day a cara van of 15 buses will unload a twarm of hardy Gopher fan now enroute from the frozen Midwest The Gopher had another nigged workout Thursday a they conclud ed contact work Warmath sent his first and sec ond units through a 40 mtouto of I'enslve scrimmage against th No team the 1960 tourney title game while Blooming Prairie wants revenge for a 4B setback suffered against the Vikings in the 1961 62 season opener reeborn and Grand Meadow opening round losers will open the action with the Consolation finale at 7:15 pm The prevlously un beaten Yeoman toppled before Hay field 55 53 in an overtime session while the chilly shooting Larks were walloped by Blooming Prairie 52 33 Vikings Little Alan Wall was the hefo i for Hayfield In its crowd pleas i tog overtime triumph against 1 reeborn 1 The 5 8 Junior reserve guard cashed in a pair of free throws with 30 seconds remaining for the only points for either team to the extra session Then moment la ter he intercepted a Yeoman pass to cut off the last good chance to deadlock the game once more Al Beach rugged 5 1 for ward and the top scor er with 18 got a qulck layup to give Coach Jack Border League quintet a short lived 24) lead The Vikings reeled off seven straight points before Beach could answer again for the Yeomen Yeomen Roar Back It was 13 10 for the Vikings of Henry Dison at the quarter our more ties later Into the first two minutes of the last half guard Les Honstad got a three point play to push reeborn to front again at 25 24 with 6:46 left In the period Dave basket and Orv free throw tied it at 26 26 before Hayfield rammed i in nine straight points over a 24 i minute span to gain a com fortable 35 26 lead when the Yeomen decid ed to go Into a full court press i and it paid off It was 38 31 going into the final eight minutes but reserve center Bill fielder and two free throws plus another jumper by Beach against a lone charity toss by the Ruzek made it 44 44 with 3:54 remaining in the regulation game Two Beach Jumpers made it 50 47 with 2:25 left and it still was the Yeomen 53 49 as the clock passed the minute mark But the final 90 seconds gave forth with an abundance of ball losing violations and fouls reeborn score but Mike Koskovich got one close in at 1:11 and Noel two free throws at 25 seconds forced the overtime Wall almost gained the role in regulation time as his 30 foot shot pn the run at 'the' buzzer was Just left of its "They liketawftS smijing 13 0 6 13 4 i 0 6 00 Vai 4 LOURDH fCC 3 9 15 Theobald 5'010 Brown 4 Neill 3 Schemmel 4 NarvtAR 0 0Conway I 11 ftock'barh'T 0 2 VanCuyLXlO 1 Gibbons Olson TOTALS 15 11 41 TOTALS Score by uartprs: Lourdet 11 Blake the Shamrocks down a bit but enough to overtake them Cotter have exceptional height hu its' rebounding chafices Steady in 2nd Half Carlson again unhappy with Jiis numerous mechanical er rors thought his boys played steady ball to the latter '16 min utes "but" felt the overall perform ance was definitely down from Bur I their earner outing this season against the Ramblers 1 1 wfllw aTVkxI I IM Gary 1 I 1 wV jf jPtf 1 I.