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-11 AGGRESSIVE DEFENSIVE ACTION FEATURED IN REB-MAROON GRID ACTION back Roy (Sonny) Fisher (12), (right photo), after a short gain through the line. dogs with the Rebels' End Woody Dabbs (89), Tackle Jim Dunaway (78), and Tailback Chuck Morris (23) closing in on him (center photo); Ole Miss Wingback Louis Guy (32) is stopped by State Fullback Sammy Dantone (31) and Quarter fing (15) is being brough down for a loss by State Tackle Tommy Neville (70), while Rebel Guard Don Dickson (67) and' State Guard Pat Watson (60) come up on the play (left photo); Halfback Ode Burrell (44) picks up a gain for the Bull Determined efforts and spectacular defensive play was the order of the day for both the Mississippi State Bulldogs and the Ole Miss Rebels at Hemingway Stadium at the University Saturday afternoon. Ole Miss Quarterback Glynn Grif- Ole Mi Overcomes Valiant State Effort To Climax Perfect Season In 136 Win FOOTBALL SCORES Bulldogs Fight Hard But Yield To Rival Rebels Sugar Bowl Bound After Victory 'LP (DIB Post-Game Reactions Are Varied eiauomlleoger Jackson daily news i Sunday, December 2, 1962 SECTION add greatly to the interest on the part of football fans all over the South and Southwest." Coach John Vaught of the Rebels, elated over the school's first perfect record in history (9-0), while Ole Miss starting gridiron competition back in 1893, said SOUTH Ole Miss 13, MSU 6 Georgia Tech, 37, Georgia 6 Tennessee 30, Vanderbilt 0 Alabama 38, Auburn 0 Miami 17, Florida 15 Virginia 41, Rutgers 0 SOUTHWEST Baylor 28, Rice 15 Houston 42, Cincinnati 14 TCU 14, SMU 9 Oklahoma 37, Oklahoma St. 6 EAST Navy 34, Army 14 Boston Coll 48, Holy Cross 12 WEST USC 25, Notre Dame 0 UCLA 14, Utah 11 By WAVNE THOMPSON Clarioiv-I edgei Sports Editor HEMINGWAY STADIUM, UNIVERSITY After fighting their way through the jungle of determination that was the Miss. State University Bulldogs for a 13-6 victory, the Ole Miss Rebels found their "holy grail" at the end of the gridiron rainbow here Saturday afternoon.

This trophy, symbolized in local competition between these intra-state rivals as the golden egg, gav the Rebels their first perfect season in history after years of coming so close. Navy's Onslaught Crumples Hapless By LEE BAKER Daily News Sports Editor HEMINGWAY STADIUM, UNIVERSITY The conclusion in both dressing rooms in the post-game post mortums was the same: Mississippi State had given an excellent effort. The Maroons' Paul Davis said, "No question about it, this was our best effort of the year." "the invitation to meet the fine Arkansas team in the Sugar Bowl comes as a fitting reward for an outstanding jgroup of athletes It also clinched the Southeastern Army Cadets 34-14 STATISTICS who have worked hard to attain Conference championship, will send the Rebs into the Sugar Bowl with that scarred but un PHILADELPHIA (AP)-Navy's hit the scoreboard in the waning Johnny Vaught, his opposite OLE MISS RUSHING Atf Gain Loss minutes of the second period, Player success. I am very proud of them. "We will certainly make every effort to do a good job of representing the State of Mississippi 51 0 BASKETBALL SCORES scoring a TD that left the Middies in front 15-6 at halftime.

Dunn 6 Weatherly 5 Guy a Jennings ,..5 marked record and gave them at least a shot at further national honors. Net 51 38 24 22 21 17 14 13 1 Staubach again threw bombs at Randall 4 F. Roberts 7 26 22 21 17 35 13 5 1 10 0 0 0 21 0 0 Griffing 11 But, it wasn't easy. Just ask any Morns Kinard Johnson 5 1 1 PASSING the Cadets in the third period, passing for one touchdown and a 22-6 Navy lead at the end of the quarter. Trapped and with Army tacklers handing on, Staubach and the Southeastern Conference against an Arkansas team which we believe is the best in the history of that institution." The Arkansas record is 9-1 with its only loss a 3-7 setback by of the 30,000 here this perfect December afternoon or the other thousands who sweated every play Player Abh Compl Ink Yds Griffing lj 1 5 1 weameny 1 Morris 3 3 By CARL WALTERS Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer HEMINGWAY STADIUM The 5 Ole Miss Rebels defeated the Mis-: issippi State Bulldogs 13 to 6 here Saturday afternoon to -to wind up their 1962 season with a 9-0 record and immediately ac-; cepted an invitation to meet the i University of Arkansas Porkers fin the 1983 Sugar Bowl game at New Orleans on New Year's Day.

The Sugar Bowl invitation was 1 extended by Marshall David, "President of the New Orleans MidAVinter Sports Association, and accepted on behalf of Chancellor J. D. Williams of the Uni-' versity and its Athletic Commit-l tee by Athletic Director Claude (Tad) Smith. "We are both pleased and proud to be invited to play in the Sugar Bowl," Smith said, "and we the invitation with pleasure. Arkansas has an outstanding team and the game should be one of the very best if not the best 'i ef the post-season classics.

"Our relations with the New Orleans Mid-Winter Sports Associ-; ation have been very cordial for a number of years and our play-ers are happy over the opportunity to return to New Orleans." Mr. David said, "we feel that our 1963 Sugar Bowl game match-'' ing Ole Miss and Arkansas will take rank with the best in history. Both squads have excellent records and the old rivalry between the two schools that represent the Southeastern Conference (Ole Miss) and the Southwest Conference (Arkansas) will 12 3 TD number for Ole Miss, readily agreed that State had given the Rebels quite as tough a tussle as any along their route to a perfect season. Davis was both pleased and dissappointed happy that his team had been able to mount an outstanding effort that pushed one of the nation's greatest teams to the final second; dis-trought at least a little at settling for less than victory. Vaugh, poised as always, merely pointed out that one-point wins always are enough to content him Texas, with the Steers winning in 0 passed to Nick Markoff, who caught the ball at the Army 40 and galloped into the end zone to complete a 65-yard touchdown play.

Van Sydow kicked the extra PASS RECEIVING No Yds 6 69 1 15 1 12 1 10 PUNTING the last minute of play. Arkansas played Alabama in the 1962 Sugar Bowl, losing by a score of 3-10, and the Razorbacks figure they point to make it 22-6. Player Guy Davis Johnson Brown Player Dunn Player Guy Jennings Pleyer Morris Guy PHILADELPHIA (API-Statistics of tht Army-Navy football game NO 5 KICKOFFS RETURNS No 1 1 PUNT RETURNS No ARMY NAVY 0 0 Avf 33.1 Yds 17 2e Yds 3 4 Yds 20 will avenge that defeat as well as four regular season losses to sophomore quarterback Roger Staubach hung Army and its Chinese bandits from the yardarm Saturday as he scored two touchdowns and passed for a pair in a 34-14 victory for the Middies over the Cadets before 100,000 fans including President Kennedy. It was Navy's fourth straight win in the annual service classic. Navy led 8-0 after the first period on a safety and a touchdown pass from quarterback Roger Staubach to end Neil Henderson.

On a fourth down punting situation Army center Lee Grasfeder centered ttie ball over punter Dick Peterson's head and out of the end zone for a safety with less than 5 minutes gone. Army, with the help of a 45-yard punt return by Joe Blackgrove to the Navy 40, drove to the Middies 25, but bogged and Dick Heydt was wide with a field goal try from the 27. Navy then drove 80-yards on 9 plays, a 39-yard pass completion from Staubach to Ed Merino highlighting the series. Staubach passed to Henderson 12 yards for the touchdown. A two point conversion failed and Navy led 8-0 at the end of the quarter.

Navy made it 15-0 on a 9-pIay, 63-yard drive before Army finally First downs Rushing yardage Passing yardage Passes Passes Intercepted by Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized 13 17 120 102 138 220 8-13 12-15 0 2 3 1 35 55 1 PROFESSIONAL Detroit 117, New York 115 Boston 129, Syracuse 110 Cincinnati 131 Chicago 121 ABL Long Beach 93, Philadelphia COLLEGE Lama Tech 94, University of Southern Mississippi 77 Southern Cal 70, Denver 62 Furman 90, Woftord 62 Southern Univ. 81, Tougaloo 54 Alcorn 89, Jarvis 70 Memphis State 80, McNeese 52 Tulane 105, Southwestern (Memphis) 71 Carson-Newman 62, Cumberland 60 Virginia Tech 80, Kentucky 77 William Carey 68, Loyola Freshmen 51 Tennessee 61, East Tennessee 52 Ohio State 62, Utah State 50 West Virginia 86, Citadel 61 Cincinnati 97, DePauw 39 Duke 76, Davidson 68 North Carolina 89, Georgia 65 Southern III. 73, St. Bonaventure 66 Arkansas 85, Millsaps 57 Indiana 90, Virginia 59 Minnesota 78, Wake Forest 66 Centre 55 Sewanee 52 Florida State 92, Tampa 60 Penn State 62, Maryland 61 Kansas 68, Montana 56 South Carolina 68, Lafayette 60 Kansas State 66, Mich. State 56 JUNIOR COLLEGE Northwest 89, Copiah-Lincoln 74 East Central 65, Jones 61 HIGH SCHOOL St.

Joseph 61, Vicksburg Jett 44, boys Vicksburg Jett 37, St. Joseph 22, girls Louisville 59, DeKalb 56 Louisville 45, DeKalb 28 (girls) MSD 30, Satartia 25, girls Satartia 46, MSD 44, boys Lake 96, Sebastopol 61, boys Lake 44, Sebastopol 29, girls Forest 47, Pearl 17, girls Forest 58, Pearl 43, boys PUCKETT TOURNAMENT Raleigh 33, Puckett 32, girls, final game Puckett 67, Raleigh 49, boys, final game PASS INTERCEPTIONS No Ole Miss in 1958-59-60-61 by winning over the newly-crowned SEC champion Rebels at the Crescent City on January 1, 1963. Player Guy 1 MISS. STATE RUSHING Art bain Loss Ole Miss-State Staff Photography By Perry Nations, Kimble Sutherland through the aid of electronics. Not until sophomore Quarterback Jim Weatherly, pulling the greatest fakd here since the feds feinted at the Lyceum Building and got the contraband into Baxter Hall, raced 43 yards for the clinching touchdown late in the fourth quarter was the issue settled, and, not definitely then.

5 point underdogs going into the game, but ahead 6-0 after 4:4" of the first period on a two yard carry by Ode Burrell to end an 81 yard march that took only six plays, the Bulldogs made the real animal of that name look like an Ostrich by comparison. They kept fighting and the State far brave enough to come here Saturday did not give up until the Rebs gained final possession in the final minutes and started a ground march that kept possession. The State players they didn't quit even then. POINT BLOCKED Biggest play of the first half came when Tackle Fred Roberts broke through to block Sammy Player Weaver 6 22 The Ole Miss record is 9-0, as stated above, is the first perfect 0 6 0 0 Burrell 10 Dantont 4 Sparks 2 season record in the school his University Sets Rules Cook 3 26 14 8 4 1 2 0 1 0 2 21 7 2 3 Net 22 20 14 3 1 -21 Yd 174 Td Fisher Jenkins Furlow Player tory. The Rebs have been "close and almost" several times, but a single defeat or a tie has kept them from an all-winning cam PASSING Att Compl Intc then added that when the margin was only a point (to the 5:17 mark when Jim Weatherly ran for the conquest-assuring second Ole Miss touchdown), he really 1 0 paign until this year.

On Tickets UNIVERSITY The Univer The 1963 Sugar Bowl game will Furlow 22 13 Fisher 3 1 PASS RECEIVING Player No Burrel! 6 Hullo 2 Cook 3 Baker 1 Gibbs 1 Inman 1 mark the fifth post-season ap wasn't fully satisfied. Yds 65 16 75 6 14 3 pearance by the Rebels in as sity of Mississippi Committee on Weatherly's six-point 1 Continued On Page 4B Intercollegiate Athletics Saturday Continued On Page 2B announced the following regula tions and priorities covering the sale of tickets to the 1963 Sugar Bowl game. 0 0 0 0 0 Ave 27.0 43.S Yds 22 10 Yds 7 Yd PUNTING No 5 2 KICKOFF RETURNS NO 2 1 PUNT RETURNS Player Furlow P-'Hock Player Cook Weaver Player NO 1 PASS INTERCEPTIONS Fisher Player Vvatson No 1 GAME STATISTICS Statt Ole Miss Mist. First Downs 18 By Rushing 13 By Passing 5 By Penalty 0 Total Rush-Pass Plays 64 Total Yards Gained (Net) 318 Total Yards Gained (Net) 318 Number Rushing Attempts 48 Net Yards Rushing 212 12 3 0 56 216 216 31 47 30 25 14 179 1 1 1- 70 2- 10 1-1 Yards Lo't Rushing 31 Passes Attempted 16 Passes Completed Yards Gained Passing .106 Passes Intercepted By I Yards Intercepted By 1 Yard'. Interc.

Returned 20 No. Punts Average 5 33 1 Tunt Returns Average Klckolt Returns-Ave No. Penalties L. L. S-25 No.

Fumbles Fum. Lost Dantone's conversion attempt after that State touchdown to hold the Bulldogs to a 6-0 lead. State moved the first time it gained possession. A 10 yard pass to Burrell. who set an individual receiving record today with 24 receptions, started it off.

But, the big play was a pass to yards, all the way down to the yards, all th eway down to the Rebel eight. Perry Lee Dunn hit Cook at the 15 to knock him off balance and the State halfback finally fell at the eight. But, Bur-roll got four, Cook went to the twe and Burrell, trying right tackle, slammed in with 10:13 left in the quarter. Following a punt exchange, the Rebs got their offense rolling Ole Miss needed "just" yards here today for the national title in that department but were held to a surprising 318 late in the first period. REBS GO AHEAD Starting at their own 18, Ole M'ss moved the necessary 82 yards in IS plays with End Billy Carl Irwin kicking the convehsion that sent the Rebs ahead at 7-8 with 11:28 left in the half.

Big plays in the march were a 15-yard pass from Glynn Griffins to End Reed Davis; a keeper by Griffing for 22 yards to the Bulldog 29; and a fourth down sneak by Griffing to get a necessary Continued Oa Page 2B In approving the acceptance of the invitation and making the announcement, the committee emphasized the University's allotment of tickets will fall far short of the expected demand. Accordingly, there will be a limit of two tickets to any one family andor order. Alumni and the general public can purchase tickets by mail order only. Telephone or C.O.D. orders cannont be accepted and payment of mail orders must be in the form of a cashier's check, or Post Office or Western Union money order.

No orders can be accepted after midnight, Dec. 10. The tickets are priced at $6.00 each. Each individual ordering tickets must send in his own order. Group orders cannot be accepted.

Orders can be filled only to the limited number of tickets available. All orders not submitted in accordance with the above regulations will be returned. Sal Priorities are: 1 Playerj, coaches and their families; other Ole Mlsn students) 3 Faculty and itaft who purchased tickets tor 1962 home oamesi 4 Active M-club alumni who purchased 1962 season tickets; 5 Active alumni who purchased 1962 season tickets; Non-alumnl wh purchased 1962 season tickets; 7 other active M-club alumni) I other active alumni) Inactive alumni; 10 The general public residing In this area. All orders should bt directed to: John R. Holley, Assistant Director of Athletics, Box 247, University, Miss.

Add 50 cents to the total of each order te cover cost handling and mailing. 'ii. w. jf f' xkL" v-r-'t -i 4 Fox Hunters Ready Trials DURANT. Miss.

(AP) Open Fox Hunters Field Trials are scheduled to begin here Monday and run for five days. Representatives from Texas, Missouri, Louisiana, Alabama, Maryland and Mississippi and Washington are expected to be on hand. More than 150 persons are expected to enter the trials which will ese awards to fox hunters with more than 50 yeari' of hunting to their credit. Some 27 judges will examine th trials. STATE-OLE MISS GRIDDERS PERFORM ACROBATICS Sparks (40) frantically tries to retain possession of the ball while being tripped up in the Ole Miss line by Guard Fred Kimbrell (61) and Tackle Jim Dunaway (78), at Hemingway Stadium Saturday.

Mississippi State Halfback Ode Burrell (44) is flipped into th air (left photo) by a host of Ole Miss defenders including Fullback Perry Lee Dunn (10), End Woody Dabbs (89) and Tackla Jim Dunaway (78). In tha right photo, Bulldog Halfback John 4'.

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