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Potent Iowa Speeds to 35-19 Win Cos Angeles SMes ver Oregon State in Rose Bow CC WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 2, 1957 Part IV WING Iowa Quarterback Ken Ploen fakes handoff, breaks for' sideline, almost falls-, then bursts into clear as mates block Tom Berry. Ploen's 49 yard TD run gave Iowa 7-0 lead. iimcj juiraae eto pnoioi ay van Upsets Vols, 13-7 Beavers Stunned by Hawks' Speed BY BRAVEN DYER Iowa gave Oregon State a plain (spelled Ploen) and fancy beating in the Rose Bowl yesterday. There was nothing surprising about the 35-19 outcome except unadvertised speed by the Hawkeyes and uncommonly poor tackling by the Beavers. HAWK ON THE Alert NEW ORLEANS, Jan.

I. Wl Baylor's alert Bears, sparked by the brilliant run ning of speedy Del Shofner, capitalized on a fumble by Tennessee's A 1 1- A i a Johnny Majors in the final quarter, to turn back the fa vored olunteers, 13-7, in the Sugar Bowl football classic today. Trailing 7-6 after outplaying the nation's second-rank ing team by a touchdown in the first hatf, Baylor sent Third String Quarterback Buddy Humphrey over from air of a general as he car ried the ball eight of 10 times; in a march, halted briefly by a 15-yard holding penalty. Majors personally ended the drive by slanting off left tackle for the final yard Sammy Burklow added the extra point to give the Vols a 7-6 lead. Majors Fumbled Once Majors had the Volunteers in the lead, it ap peared as it the Bears were en route to defeat.

But the tide suddenly turned. Shof- CORN HUSKER IN TCU SQUEAKS BY SYRACUSE, 28-27 THRILLED Lauds Ploen BY FRANK FINCH "Now you fellows know why I built my whole offense around Kennv Ploen this sea-; son," grinned Forest Eva-shevski yesterday after the brilliant Iowa quarterback and his buddies gave Evy "the biggest thrill of my life a Rose Bowl victory." Carried off the field in the first quarter with a wrenched right knee, crying more from disappointment than from pain, the 21-year-old senior from Clinton, came back to hustle the Hawkeyes to a decisive win over the butter-. fingered Beavers of Oregon State. Another Chanco "We had given up hope of using Ploen in the second half, but he insisted that he was all right and asked for another chance," Evashevski said at a press interview. "I certainly agree with those who voted Kenny the player of the game.

He wasi great out there. Jerrv Reichow's under- study in 1954-55 when Iowa, ran a multiple offense, Ploenl came into his own this year! when Evy installed a wing-T attack especially designed for Kenny talents. 49-Yard Gallop Operating his pet run-pass option play to perfection, the rangy 177-pounder put Iowa ahead for keeps with a 49- yard gallop early in the first! period. He completed nine of: 10 passes including the first! eight in succession, and saved! at least one cinch touchdown Turn to Page 2, Column 1 second period when Bobby Jones passed 12 yards to Jerry Marcontell for a touch down. a 9.8 100- yard sprinter, had ripped off o4 yards to set up the pay-off play.

39-Yard Drive Majors, bottled up in the first half by the great Baylor line led by AU-American Bill Glass and Clyde- Letbetter and outshone by Shofner's fast footwork, finally got go ing in the third period. He took command with the Buffs Run Up Wild 27-to-21 MIAMI, Jan. 1 ffl In a Orange Bowl football game marked by fierce power-packed Buffa loes stormed 53 yards for a last-period touchdown by John (The Beast) Bayuk to day to score a thrilling, come-from-behind 27-21 victory over Clemson. Colorado struck for three touchdowns in just 5 minutes and 6 seconds in the second quarter to pile up a 20-0 mar- in, faltered badly the sec ond half as Clemson forged ahead 21-20, then drove for the winning score with 7:03 left. Fabulous Outburst Bayuk, Bob Stransky and Howard Cook were the heroes: of the Buffaloes' fabulous outburst in the second frame.

when they scored once on a o-yard drive and converted a blocked punt' and an inter- Turn to Page 8, Column 3 'ner booted the ball to the 7 and Majors swung upfield but he fumbled and Reuben Saage fell on the ball at the 15. With Shofner carrying the ball three times, the Bears covered 15 yards in six plays. Tempers flared in an otherwise cleanly fought battle in the third period and for a brief moment fists swung right and left. Larry Hickman, Baylor fullback, and Bruce Burnham, Tennessee guard, were tossed out of the Turn to Page Column VICTORY hind to nail down the San Ga-1 briel by two lengths. It was his first start at Santa Anita.

High Button, also finishing sturdily as Prefect II and the favored Posadas ran out of gas, was second by fourj lengths over the favored Posadas. Twelve Starters Twelve started in the mile and one quarter race over the turf. The winner, ridden by George Taniguchi, was clocked in 2:00 1-5 and paid $17.90, $9.00 and $5.30, High Button $9.40 and So10, Po sadas $3.20. Corn Husker is owned by Mrs. Richard Lunn, who races under the nom de course of Llangollen Farm, and is a 4-year-old son of her own stallion.

Endeavour II, and Miss Nebraska. Mrs. Lunn was not present for the running of the ban Gabriel, nor was she here when her Porterhouse won the Palos Verdes Handicap on opening Turn to Pago 9, Column 1 Baylor the 1-foot line with 5:43 left in the final period. The deciding tally came after Majors had fumbled a punt on the Tennessee 15-yard line. Streak Snapped The Baylor triumph snapped Tennessee's winning streak at 10 straight games and gave the Bears their first postseason bowl victory in three attempts.

The defeat was the Vols' seventh in 10 bowl appearances. A crowd of 81,000 saw Bay-lor go ahead at 6:30 of the1 Mississippi victor' over TCU, made good his resolve to play this one to the hilt if he could stay in there. Curtis Sharp Curtis passed for two touchdowns, scored one on a hipper-dipper run and his passing set up the fourth as lexas Christian shed the "second rate" tag with a magnificent performance that saw it win its first Cotton Bowl game in the last four tries. A crowd of 68.0007000 short of capacity watched tne great Brown almost carry Syracuse to victory sin-glehandedly. It was the first time the Cotton Bowl hadn't1 been a sellout in 16 years.

John Nikkei took a 6-yard Turn Pago 6, Column 2 TODAY IN SPORTS BASKETBALL Loyola at l.a. state, 8 p.m. WRESTLING Olympic Aumtonum, 8:30 p.m. 13 Geo. 7 Tex.

When vou pit a y' pit tackling against speed you get burned, even if you don't fumble. The hapless Oregon- ians started out as if the ball were a cake of Ivory. In the final analysis two: first-quarter fumbles set up two Iowa touchdowns inasmuch as the touchdown count was 5 to 3 at day's end, the Beavers really were ruined within less than 15 minutes. Ploen Tops The best player on the field was Ken Ploen. quarterback for Forest Evashevski's Big Ten champs.

With two good legs he was harder to overtake than Swaps. When they whittled him down to one solid limb he still plagued his foes with a performance which ranks with the best in Rose Bowl history. His mark of nine completed passes in 10 throws must top anything ever unveiled on Pasadena soil. Balancing Act His 49-yard run for the first score of the game, dur ing which he did a balanc ing act to compare with any the great Jon Arnett ever uncorked, started the Hawkeyes off on the right foot, never to be headed. His choice of plays was superb and when the battling Beavers began to get a bit frisky in the fourth quarter How They Scored FIRST QUARTER Ploen.

49-yard end Prescott. placement Hacler. 9-yard end run Prescott. placement SECOND QUARTER 2-yard Happel. 5-yard end run.

Prescott. placement THIRD QUARTER Hauler, 66 yard doubla reverse Prescott. placement. 1:40 Beamer. 1-Ioot plune, 9:40 FOURTH QUARTER Gibbons.

16-yard pasa by Ploen) Prescott. placement. Hammack (35-yard pasa by Francis) 9:41 Beamer. 2-rard plunce. his 16-yard pass to Jim Gibbons made it 35-12 and climaxed a brilliant day for the boy who proved again that selection as the Big Ten's Most Valuable Player for 1956 was richly deserved.

Fumbling, Loose Tackling? Of course, most of us sus pected, shall we say, that Oregon State wasn't the best team in the Pacific Coast Conference. But we still had hoped that they might be able to spring a surprise against the favored visitors from the land of the tall corn. Whatever chance they may have had was erased by their own fumbling and loose tackling. This is not to be construed as an alibi because I am of the firm opinion that Iowa showed enough class to have won even had the Corvallis kids not contributed so gen- Turn to Page 4, Column 3 SURPRISE BY PATJIr LOWRY Corn Husker, a converted hurdler from the East, was a $17.00 winner of the 529,000 San Gabriel Handicap over the grass at Santa Anita yesterday, sharing honors with the homebred Miss Todd, vic torious in the $22,000 Las Flores Handicap. The twin features brought out a crowd of 35,000 for the New Year's holiday bill.

Out of Gas Corn Husker, whose only- previous stages conquest was the mile and three quarter Louis Stoddard Memorial over the low sticks at Belmont last fall, came from be- THE WINNERS 1 Solid Jackson, $19.00. 2 Higher Up, $32.40. 3 Grand Tudor, $6.60. 4 Master Ace; $10.40. 5 Brooksickle, $12.50.

6 Miss Todd, $6.20. 7 Corn Husker, $17.90. So Valiant, $10.80. DALLAS, Jan. 1 Chuck fiurtis passed and ran and Harold Pollard added the foot today as Texas Christian edged Syracuse, 2S-27, in the Cotton Bowl.

Jim Brown, the giant Orange AU-American, added to his luster with one of the greatest performances ever seen here. It was the extra-point kick ing of Pollard that spelled the difference, but the crowd gaped mostly at the massive Syracuse Negro, who runs 100 yafds 10.1. He slashed up aod down the field in one-man show the likes of which the Cotton Bowl has seldom seen, scoring 21 points. Brown Gains 132 Brown battered and tore his way through the TCU line for 132 yards and was picked as the outstanding DacK ot me game, it was al most as effective as the 174 yards Curtis passed for. But Curtis, who missed last1 year's Cotton Bowl game be cause ot an injury on the kickoff and it led to a 14-131 SUGAR Baylor Tennessee.

SUN COTTON ORANGE Wash 13 TCU 28 Colorado Western 0 Syracuse 27 Clemson ROSE 27 Iowa 35 21 Oregon St. ..,19.