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i McDonald Does It Again for Michigan, 20-12 BY JOHN F. MAYHEW I Scorine Dasses to Tonr Branoff Northwestprn ANN ARBOR (P) 'and John Veselenak in the first 'sion attempts were missed. Duncan McDonald, gave Michigan a lead to bolsterj The victory was undefeated Mich. the Wolverines rolled back 94 yards gan 32 and it took Northwestern and called on McDonald again, only seven plays to score, with half-Three times, Michigan ends let the back Dick Chandler making the last ball slide from their fingers. The; seven yards.

Rondou's kick was B-an'! anHv-hnirpH nairnr! place 5lanQmBs ln xne As-jigans iourtn straight and its sec ei Fress poll 01 sports writers. ond in Big Ten competition. I fourth time, Veselenak gathered it wide. wizard, passed and kicked 7 1. Two Northwestern touchdowns in! Tre rugged Northwestern line! in for the touchdown.

third period brought McDonald Northwestern came "back strong v.on rfM v.Q waa. owuus uu flituoiiaia again, xi victory over Northwestern naff llicr netnra tha onrt r-i a aiLCl liic UILCIIIILViIMII. CM. I l. niT rV-T-T hrroctorn rtafanrna here yesterday in a thrilling riod to pitch a screen "pass thatj 1 Thomas.

a of Michigan misplays. i pass play, tossing to Kress, who nuiumcaiciu iuuiuies iiie lirst camp nn wpnpr ntprrpn. o-oTi-. Big- Ten football clash. i halfback Ted Kress carried 49 yards w.w ifcamjfcjcu imy mc riiu iUIlC AiiC fnrth.

nfci, KUieo their best chances and started tion of Lou Baldaeei's na nn tho r.iTr mrA ao oifOgLU. aMuuu47 a. a.ui uiiati kuv ikiiiiikuii vv vu at uo hibition of spot passing, before aof danger and locked up its second J-ne wolverines rolled Michigan 37. Ten plays later Weber I As fttt.p of fflrt crowd of 65,490 frenzied fans. straight conference victory.

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yd lu Diaji- uon mmore lai pa tn ponvpn wnpn nff pnntH fv, on score snowea. Throws 3 TD Aerials The eagle-eyed Flint. Converts, Too Branoff missed the first conver- 'v win! oct-jtiie uuia center roiiea piong One Out of Four unui iciu me iirst perioa. tne ground. junior appeared in the waning sec- muu irv dul Aicuonain man nnrn T.nr in the novj- na tm rounte I i "U.Da55.

"lct aMcke fumbIe Minutes later. Ed Demyan gobbled ii.i.uuiueu iur marcn to tne Michigan Branoff fumble on the Michi- The Flint tosser threw four passes to get Michigan's second touchdown. The first and third were perfect strikes that slipped off Topp's outstretched fingers. The second, thrown after Northwestern was moved back to the 6 for roughing, was missed by Veselenak. As it was, McDonald completed six of 11 tries for 128 yards.

Of Mirhicnn'a fivp t-nnrVirfrnrns nrul MSG Stings Indiana, 47 to 18 in two Big Ten games, McDonald has passed for four of them. ENQUIRER AND If -V Air-Ground Attack Carries Spartans to 28th Straight STATISTKS Mirhlcau First downs 16 RushinfC yardaKO 211 Passtjig yardap. lti Passes 19 Passes completed 9 Passes lntelvenied orthwetrn IS 339 27 li 1 34 2 65 Punts 4 Shirt-Sleeved Crowd of 51,698 See Hoosiers Grab Punting averape. 33 Fumbles lost 0 Yards penalired It was McDonald's nrllpst. nn- barly Lead, Then Wilt Before Superior Power.

BY DOUGLAS GRAHAM EAST LANSING (U.R) Michigan State crush pH In pearance in a Michigan game in three years. A week ago against Iowa he appeared in the fourth SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1954 SECTION 4 PAGE 7 penoa to direct Michigan last touchdown drive. Yesterday he diana 47 to 18 for its 28th straight victory yesterday with made it in the first quarter. an air-ground attack that Indiana could not stop. McDonald Is Difference Anyway you look it it, McDonald ine victory kept coach "Zr.

fTfTif 1 lit Clarence (Biggie) Munn's Spartans unchallenged atop was the difference. Michigan's ground game netted 200 yards, with Kress the top ground gainer with 47 yards. Northwestern matched that with a 170 yard production. the Western conference standings with three wins. Enquirer and Newi Wirephoto.

CATAPULTING TO A TOUCHDOWN Northwestern back Gerald Weber seemed to catapult er the goal line lor a touchdown in the third quarter of the game with Michigan yesterday at Ann Arbor. That's Michigan halfback Ted Kress with his hand on Weber's helmet. Michigan end Bob Topp (81) looks on helpless, also. Michgan won the battle, 20-12. It was Indiana's second Big Nick Chandler's 39 varris tnni for the Wildcats.

Thomas thrpw tn kitt rAApH'ra completing 13 of 25 throws for 139 yaras. OSU Pulls Out Michigan's cause was hurt uhon the unusually reliable Branoff Rally Enables Drewrys To Keep Pin Title Drewrys Beer, defending city match game bowling champion for the past two years, came through in the final three games of the 1953 eliminations tournament at the Michigan Recreation last night to overtake Goebel "22," the early leader, and walk off the alleys with a 1953 championship. The Drewrys team fired a total of 8241 pins for the nine-game set to beat out the Goebel squad by 35 pins. The defending champions GeorgiafTech Rambles Past Auburn, 26-6 Win Over Penn Stanford Upsets UCLA, 21 to 20 Bobby Garrett Passes And Kicks Uclans Dizzy. fumbled to set up Northwestern' second score.

The misplay came in the third period that was completely dominated by the Wildcat except for the last, fnnr mhn. 10 loss. Seven Touchdowns Eighty-five degree heat kept the overflow crowd of 51,698 in shirtsleeves but failed to wilt the rambling Michigan State powerhouse as it rolled to seven touchdowns. Three came by ground attacks, three on passes one a 67-yard scoring gem and one on a 58-yard pass interception. The 47 points was Michigan State's biggest score this year, and its best offensive show since the Spartans racked up 62 points against Marquette in 1952.

Indiana scored first late in the first period on a 45-yard drive after Michigan State backed itself into a hole on miscue by halfback Leroy Bolden. Instead of downing an Indiana punt behind his goal, Bolden chose to run and was when McDonald replaced Baldacci. Atlanta u.pj Georgia Tech'Buckeyes Hard-Pressed in 12 ine victory maintains Mfrhicran' perfect 1953 rprnrd fnshlnn.H To 6 Triumph. conquests of Washington, Tulane. turned loose little Leon Hardeman and a pack of circus-catching ends on eager but fumbling Auburn yesterday to score a ringing 36 to 6 victory and go through its 31st iuwa ana iNonnwestern.

I he lineups: Northwestern Left end. P.nm.i. PALO ALTO, Calif. (U.PJ Bobby Garrett gave one of the fnest passing performances in west coast football history yesterday as he game without loss. PHILADELPHIA (P) Fumbling Ohio State finally hit its stride in the last period to nip underdog Penn, 12-6, yesterday with Bob Watkins smashing home to climax naa a 2773 series last night while Goebel fell off to a 2664.

son. Merman. A capacity crowd of 39,500 saw Tech explode with its advertised Hottest team in the final three- power for the first time this vear carried Stanford from a two-touchdown deficit to a 21-20 triumph that knocked UCLA out of the nation's a 93-yard drive. I.eft tackles Searcy, Sacks. Roch.

Irfft guards Nosal, Rina. HIgley Centers Damore, Haffner. Callawar, Rifcht guards Anderson. Hren. Rlfctit tackles Young, Krueeer.

Right ends Demyan, Biever Racks Thomas. P.earden nnnM. t- and go tnrough and above the Auburn defense almost at will. undefeated ranks. For three periods the Ivy league Quakers, supposedly being led to raels.

chandler Kinc. But Auburn fumbles set up four of the drives fumbles forced by slaughter on their suicide schedule, In one of the most sensational games ever performed in Stanford stadium, Garrett completed 18 out Weher, Clansman. Michigan I-ett ends Toi.p, Stanford, rj. Williams. Left tackles Slr.ir.w.M outplayed the visitors from the Big 10.

Five times Penn threatened deep in Ohio territory, only to have its own mistake and a desperate Ohio STATISTICS Mlrh. State Indiana First downs It 12 Ru.ihinK yardaR 11)1 3fi9 Passing yardape 75 Passes atlempied 14 20 Passes completed 7 7 Passes Intercepted 2 Punts 5 9 Puntinff average 4.1. 37 Fumbles lost 2 2 Yards penalized 62 5S sar. jarring Tech tackles and tne visitors were denied a score of their own when halfback Bobby Duke lost the ball going into the end zone. Hardeman, squatty five-foot game set was the Sharkey Recreation outfit which came through with a 2832 to move into third place and beat out Skidmore's, which posted a total of 8116 on a final 2742 series.

The victory gives the Drewry's team the match game title and along with it the local entry qualifies for the state fi-man elimini-nations which will be held at the Ken Nottke's Bowl fn November. Pfeiffer's finished in fifth spot on a 7885 total, helped along with a final 2740 last night. Louise Men's Wear had a total of 7726 for sixth while Nunn-Bush hit 7601 and Columbia Cleaners 7315 to round out defense close the door. Comeback For Penn seven-inch halfback, scored the first Left guards Bugger. R.

WI'Hami. Centers Morrow, O'Shaughnessy. Right guards Relson, Carney, BennstL Right tackles Balog, Geyer. Right ends Knutson. Veselenak.

Backs Baldacci. McDonald, Kaneia. Kress. Hlckey. Branoff.

Hurley, Baer. Engineers touchdown in the first Then the Ohio State club, still period as he skirted right end for smarting from last week's upset by trapped on his own 2. Michigan lb yards. He scored again iust State had to punt out and the Hoo after the second half on a darting lAt.ir... siers slammed back 45 yards to score Enquirer and Nwi fr Wirephoto, Enquirer and Nwi Wirephoto.

j-yara gallop. Georgia Tech 9 7 14 636 with quarterback Flonan Helinski driving the last 12 inches. Auburn 0 0 0 6r 6 TIMfc FOR A CHANGE Back Leroy Bolden of Michigan State noias nis shoulder pads as his shirt hangs in front of him after he was tackled by an Indiana player. Bolden had picked up a first quarter 7-yard gam for MSC on the play yesterday in East Lansing. Michigan State easily won, 47-18.

67 -Yard Pass Play Illinois, Began to roll with Watkins churning yardage and Dave Leggett hitting his mark with passes. It was a startling comeback for Penn, which had been humiliated, 40-0 by California last week. Only two weeks ago Ohio State bombed California, 33-19. Bob Felver scooted home from the four for the Penn touchdown early in the first period after Leggett 's Kalamazoo College Loses MIAA Thriller, 21 to 19 ADRIAN UP) Adrian made a last minute goal line stand to edge Kalamazoo college 21-19 in an MIAA football game yesterday. With the clock running out, Kalamazoo went from its 24 tn Adrian-.

Munn's second stringers started Washington Beats the eight-team field. The Drewrys team fired games of 937-903-933 for their 2773 last night. the second period and converted a break to score quickly. Indiana halfback Earl Holzbach fumbled a punt and Michigan State tackle Roland Dosch recovered on the Tennessee Battles Alabama Oregon U.r 14 lo 6 Gordon VanGorder led the team and all individuals for the night with a 611 series while Mel Ralph 7 vard line Hut. Adrian vih i rumble had been recovered by Hoosier 17.

Halfback Jim Ellis came through with a 607. of 27 passes during the game, tossing for all three Stanford touchdowns. Trail 20-7 Before Garrett took to the air In the second half, Stanford had almost fumbled the game away, donating the Bruins two touchdowns on miscues. The Indians trailed 7-13 at the Intermission, as they stuck to the ground and watched Paul Cameron, UCLA's crack tailback, put on a fine running show. After UCLA had taken a 20-7 lead at the start of the third quarter, Garrett got his aerial circus underway.

The Indians took the ball on their own 32 and marched 68 yards for a score with 67 of the yards coming on passes from Garrett to ends Sam Morely and John Steinberg. 45,000 Watch Thriller In the fourth quarter, the Indians got the ball on their own 37. It was the same story. Garrett passed to Steinberg for 10; to Morely for nine. Then, when a seven-man UCLA line finally dropped back for pass defense, Garrett sent fullback Jarvis Watson around end lor 23.

So the UCLA line went back into the seven-man defense and Garrett passed to Morely for 1.4 and then to Al Napoleon for the touchdown that tied the score. Then To Thrilling Scoreless Tie and got the ball on downs on its three yard line with only 16 seconds left. Kalamazoo 0 7 6 619 yuaser jonn Lavln. Howard (Hopalong) Cassady put Ohio State back in the ball game with one dazzling thrust, a 61-yard run after taking a pitchout from Leggett at 10:19 of the second period. As both teams missed their con Adrian 7 7 0 721 BIRMINGHAM, Ala.

IP) Underdog Tennessee combined a perfect pass defense and alert ball hawking yesterday to gain a 0-0 tie with Alabama in a slam bang Southeastern conference game. Many millions of television fans engineered by third stringers with Gary Lowe skirting end for 14 yards and John Lewis taking a 34-yard pass from Yewcic for touchdowns. The lineups: Indiana Left ends Kellmcer, Zttcer, Lett tackles Klmbo Connors, Lancie-field, St. Jncqurs. Lett guards Hall, Kollias.

Centers Kthridge, Vesel. Razmlc. Right guards Karraa. Slosky. Rigtit tackles Jagielski, Skoronski, Rauchmiller.

Right ends Borden. Kobulnlckv. Packs Helinski, Brajtalone, Holzbach, Flshfr, Ellis. Rogers. Bell.

Kun. Ran version attempt they fought it out in a 6-6 tie until Ohio finally hit its stride with less than six minutes to go. Ohio State 0 6 0 612 Penn 6 0 0 06 PORTLAND. Ore. UP! Washington produced one lone pass and used a pass interception to overcome Oregon, 14-6t on a slippery field yesterday.

The victory kept alive Washington's hopes of winding up in the Rose Bowl. It was Washington's second Pacific conference victory to go along with a 13-13 tie with Southern California. Sophomore halfback Bob Mc-Namee scored both of Washington's touchdowns and, in addition, stopped what appeared to be an Oregon score with a desperate leap to bat down an Oregon pass in the end zone. A jump pass from quarterback barney Holland to end John Reed produced Oregon's only score. Brengle, back to punt, was run out to the one before Eckerly slammed him back into the end zone.

Eckerly and other 'Bama players protested that he had been tackled back of the goal line but the officials ruled otherwise. Alert Tennessee backs, with Jimmy Wade in the van. stopped Alabama's passers cold. Sophomore Bart Starr, a fine airman in previous games, could complete only three tosses for a net of Just 8 yards. In the final seconds Starr was nailed back on the 'Bama one as he and 40,000 in Legion field saw 'Bama roll up 287 yards on runnine plavs swung around end to score.

Seconds later Michigan State counted again on a 67-yard pass play from quarterback Earl Morrall to end Ellis Duckett, who ran the last 40 yards untouched. The Spartans made their third touchdown on a 47-yard march with Ellis plunging the last two yards. Fullback Evan Slonac converted, the first good one, and Michigan State moved ahead 19 to 6. Indiana rallied with a 49-yard march after halfback Billy -Wells fumbled a Hoosier punt at midfield and Indiana tackle Harry Jagielski recovered. An 18-yard pass from Helinski to Dave Rogers scored.

Helinski's conversion try was blocked. Wells Jockeys 58 Yards Michigan State scored twice In the third period, one on a 13-yard pass from Wells to Duckett and again on a 58-yard pass interception by Wells. He swiveled through the entire Indiana squad to the goal. Indiana scored its last touch only to fumble awav its maior kle wicz. chances.

GLENN PARKER Toledo U. Defeats Western Michigan Michigan Slate Left ends CJafnlan, Duckett Lewis, Knight. Left tackles Schreceneost. Jebh. Frank.

Fumble Away Chance Onp nf thpsp rnmo in thf tVurr Representing Haidys, Robinson. Left caurds Hallmark. Rnsi. Holism period on the Tennessee five, where 'Bama's Corky Tharp fumbled after a 40-vard run. That drive had start Lee.

Xy strom. while the hushed crowd of 45,000 held its breath, Garrett completed Centers Neal, Badczewskf. Rody. Palor. Right guards Fowler, Bullough, Masters.

Right tackles Muohv. Dotsr.h. Kenni. i failed to get off a last desperation pass. That was the final play of the contest.

ed on the Alabama nine. 241 W. TERRITORIAL RD. Foreman. 1 Immediately after this disaster tn PHONE WO 8-8458 Right ends Dohonev Kauth.

Dfenpr Fairbanks. i His personal rout of the highly-favored Bruins by k'cking the extra point that won the game. Score by periods: Stanford 7 0 7 721 UCLA 6 7 7 020 Racks Yewcic. Morrall. Matsorlr.

i Alabama, guard Charlie Eckerly came within inches of registering a safety for Alabama. A bad snap from the center to Tennessee's Bob Bolden, Ellis. Lowe. Ezclesron. Well, i Zagers.

MusettI, Buccs. Slonac. Planutls. Lakenta V. Postula.

I Texas Longhorns Trip Arkansas Eleven, 16-7 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. A brutish Texas line shoved the lightweight Arkansas Razorbacks around most unmercifully yesterday and the Longhorns opened the defense of their Southwest conference football championship with a 16-7 victory. The Texas offense operated In TOLEDO W) The University of Toledo scored its first victory in five games, a 19-7 win over its Mid-America conference foe, Western Michigan, here yesterday. Mel Triplett scored twice in the first period for Toledo, once on a 45 yard run and again on a seven yard run. Western's score came in the third period when Bernard Porter took a short pass and went 23 yards to score.

Toledo 13 0 0 619 Western Mich. 0 0 07 0 7 Undefeated Aggies Defeat TCU, 20-7 down just before the end of the third period after fullback Bart-kiewicz recovered a Michigan State fumble on the Spartan 33. Five plaj-s later Helinski went over. The irrepressible Munn-men tallied two more in the final period- just to widen the gap. The last score was jit mm SEEM shop I jSk MU 057 A BATTLE CREEK SI spurts except in the second quarter when the three-platoon Longhorns scored all their points in six mm utes.

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The Aggies beat the Homed Frogs even worse than--the scoreboard showed, with only a leaky pass defense in the final quarter respon-ible for Texas Christian's touchdown. Two second quarter touchdowns and another in the fourth kept Texas unbeaten record intact. 166 Main Open 9:30 to 6 P. M. Phone WO 2-3802 Headquarters for all supplies and equipment you need to "soup up" or sharpen up your car.

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