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THE BATTLE CREEK ENQUIRER AND NEWS Sunday, November 14, 1954 St. Philip Ends Season Here Today Against Bay City Eleven Sec Four Southern Methodist Mustangs Sting Arkansas, 21 to 14 Crucial Tilt Set On Walsh Field Oklahoma Rambles Over PorkersHanded Ppp Le5.ds St. Joseph High frrnceton lo Boasts Strong Record Rugged Missouri, 34-13 21-14 Upset St. Philip will compete In the tost football action of the 1954 First Setback Frank Eidom Scores AIISMUTDs NORMAN, Okla.Ut Oklahoma A crowd of 57,000, third largest season In the Battle Cieek area this afternoon when the Tigers NEW HAVEN, Conn. UP) ever to see a game at Owen Field, breathed easier as Fat O'Neal, a struck twice through the air with lightning speed yesterday and Inspired by Royce Fllppln, back entertain Bay City St.

Joseph of the Saginaw Valley Parochial in action for the first time In nearly a month, flred-up Prince league. The contest will be played FAYETTEVlLLE, Ark. (ffl third string quarterback, broke the scoring ice late in the second period by hurling touchdown passes of 14 and 22 yards to Bob Hern-don and Billy Pricer within a at Walsh Field, with the kickoff 2:30 pan. rolled 'on to a 34-13 triumph over Missouri in a Big Seven football game that assured the Sooners a half-interest in their seventh straight conference title and knocked the losing Tigers out of a chance to go to the Orange BowL Southern Methodist's Mustangs, led by the brilliant Frank Eidom, built up a three-touchdown lead A win over the visitors from Bay ton upset Tale 21-14 yesterday with Fllppln scoring all three touchdowns for the Tigers. The winning one came with only 16 space of 25 seconds and sending 0 7 if J' it vw s-' VJ city is a necessity if the Tigers are to post winning record for the season.

Coach Joe Repko's St. Oklahoma into its halftime rest with a 14-0 lead. 17th Straight Win In the second half the Sooners, seconds left in the game. Flippin's performance, which in ranked No. 3 nationally, shifted cluded a 70-yard scoring dash their ground attack into high gear early in the final period, was nearly romp club has an even spilt In seven games, with three wins, three losses, and a tie.

A year ago, St. Philip needed a victory over the same St. Joseph club to gain a winning mark for the year, but the Yellowjackets pinned a 25-14 defeat on the Tigers in a contest at Bay City, and St. Philip wound equalled by a desperate Tale rally Broncos Rip Favored Foe By 38 to 0 In the closing minutes. The Ells, as Buddy LeaKe, Gene caiame and Herndon scored at the end of 67, 41 and 31-yard drives to wrap up their 17th straight victory in' a streak stretching over two years.

trailing by 14 points, tallied twice and added the extra points. up witn a mark of four victories A crowd of 51,700 saw this 77th Missouri, held to a net gain or 7 yards on the ground, didn't renewal of an ancient series be and held on to hand the Arkansas Razor backs their first defeat of the season 21-14 here yesterday. The loss stopped Arkansas' winning streak at eight straight games, beginning with the final game of the 1933 season. 27,300 on Hand In winning, BMU kept alive its hopes of winning the Southwest conference title, and moved into the lead In the championship race. Arkansas needed no more than a tie to clinch the crown, but the Porkers couldn't stop the vicious Mustang attack.

A crowd of 27,300 turned out for the game, highlight of Arkansas' 33rd homecoming. The crowd saw Arkansas' vaunted defense crumble before the Mustangs' onslaught, well-led by Eidom, quarterback Duane Nutt and halfback John Marshall. Score on Pass and five losses. Kokaly Is Beady tween traditional rivals that dates score until the final period when St. Philip looked good despite the back to 1873.

quarterback Vie Eaton and his un With the score tied at 14-14 and loss to St. Augustine at Kalama-boo last time out The Tigers derstudy, Tony Scardlno, hurled the game in its final moments matched an early Irish touchdown touchdown passes that covered 67 and 10 yards and avoided a shut Princeton rolled 58 yards after the Tale kickoff with Fllppln bulling with a score of their own, but dropped a 21-6 decision when two out. The Sooners, whose sower on second-period breaks gave Kala over from the two with the winning touchdown. the ground netted 355 yards rush mazoo two unusual touchdowns. St Philip outgalned St Augustine Idr the entire second half, but couldn't ing, kept the game completely under control except for a leaky pass defense that yielded 184 yards to the Tigers.

close the first-half margin. Auburn Manhandles Georgia, 35-0 The Tigers have one thing In common with the Bay City team Eidom scored all tnrea of SMU's KALAMAZOO UF Western Michigan icored a 38-0 upset victory over Western Reserve University's football team from Cleveland, yesterday. The Ohioans previously had defeated Marshall and Toledo which had victories over Western. Reserve threatened early in the game, taking the opening kickoff and marching to the Western 0 but losing the ball on downs. In the first period, the Broncos marched 91 yards for their first touchdown with Chuck Hidiffer going over from the 2.

Western scored three times in the second period and twice in the fourth to make it a walkaway. Western Reserve. 0 0 0 00 Western Michigan 6 19 0 1338 Western Michigan scoring: Touchdowns, Hidiffer 2, Kelder, Ganzel, Breed, Finnefrock. Conversions, Czyz, Finnefrock. Missouri 0 0 0 1313 Oklahoma 0 14 6 1434 touchdowns one on a pass from com nave suffered an unusual number of injuries this season.

Coach Art Nixon's Yellowjackets If Wlrepnoto. Notre Dame'i Jim Morse, sophomore halfback from Muskegon, Mich, gets the Irish off to a firing tart yesterday in Sonth Bend by returning the opening Uckoff 77 yards aralnst North Carolina. He's No. 17. Tarheel player attempting to overtake him are guard Jimmy Neville (74) and tackle Roland Perdue (71).

Notre Dame went on to win, 42-13. Nutt, one on a two-yard plunge and one on a 28-yard sprint off tackle. Nutt's touchdown pass was the first aerial score given up by Ar lost their top halfback. Mike Finn, COLUMBUS Ga. Wt An awesome Auburn offense led by Joe Childress and Jim Pyburn with a broken arm.

and operated for a number of weeks without kansas this year. their other regular halfback, Bucky crushed Georgia's "Cinderella" team 35-0 yesterday in a crucial Southeastern Conference football IRE INSURANCE Arkansas' offense couldn't find Notre Dame Sweeps Bench Koicaiy. KOKaiy, However, recov a loophole in the Mustang de came. Georgia Tech Blanks 'Bama In 42-13 Rout of Tarheels ered from an ankle sprain In time to play against Bay City St James last Sunday, and he tallied four touchdowns In a 39-6 victory to prove that he's back in shape again. Finn, of course, will not see The defeat virtually ended Georgia's hopes of winning the SEC title but Auburn emerged fense for three- quarters.

The Razorbacks finally came to life In the fourth period to score twice, but by then it was too late. Walt Matthews, a spot pass receiver, set up one Arkansas touchdown by recovering a fumble, and the Razorbacks drove 80 yards for from the game as a fine candi only in the first half, on runs of GLENN PARKER 21 W. Territorial M. PHONE WO 8-8458 Hardware Mutuals AS NATIONALLY AOVEtTIUD STATISTICS No. Carolina action this weekend.

date for a New Tear's Day bowl trip despite three early season Notre Dame Michigan State's LeRoy Bolden played only 16 minutes 23 seconds of the 1954 Purdue football game but led the team' in individual rushing with 30 yards and scored ATLANTA VP) Tiny Jimmy one ana 10 yards. St. Joseph enters today's game with a record of five wins In eight losses. contests. The Yellowjackets shared Auburn scored on four of the first five times it got the ball.

The other Irish score came when Tom Carey was at quarterback and he passed to Jim Munro for me otner. Sophomore tailback Georee one touchdown. Thompson, smallest man on the field, and his speedy sophomore teammates sliced the nation's leading defense to shreds yesterday and hauled Georgia Tech to a Pint down 11 Rushing yardaga 64 Paaslng yardage 124 Paaaea attempted 25 Paaaea completed 11 PaiiM intercepted by 1 Punta Punting arerage Sl.S Pumblei loit 1 Tarda penalized 20 is 1SS 213 5 12 2 1 it 2 ss second place In the Valley Parochial league with Bay City St. Walker passed for both Arkansas with Childress, a battering lull' nine yards and the marker. touchdowns.

He hit wingback Joe back, and speedy halfbacks Dave Stanislaus, while the title went to (pOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOg Thomason from 20 yards out for Middleton and Bob James doing Saginaw St Andrew. Some com 20-0 football victory over Alabama, the damage on the ground. Quar parison of the relative strength of tne lirst tally and tossed 22 yards to Jerry McFadden for the second. Al Long was the major reason for Carolina's scores. He passed for 64 yards on six pompletlons in 17 attempts, but connected on four in a row for 60 yards and the The lightning-fast Tech attack, terback Bobby Freeman's passes to Pyburn, an All-Amerlcan end hopeful, kept Georgia defenses By ED SAINSBURY SOUTH BEND (U.R) Notre paced by the 5-foot-6, 150-pound Thompson, consistently bewildered the Valley competition and the Southern Michigan Catholic loop can be gained by the 19-19 tie played by St.

Andrew and Lansing Another drive, also in the fourth quarter and again set off by the recovery of a fumble by Matthews, died on the SMU four. first touchdown. honest. Dame riddled North Carolina with crisply efficient blocking and Then Doug Farmer took over and connected to Larry McMullen for Resurrection fine team. The Plainsmen built up a 22-0 first half lead and then slacked the bigger, slower Alabama defenders.

Thompson, Paul Roten-berry, George Volkert and Johnny Menger all sophomores treated a sellout crowd of 40,000 and a nationwide television audience to tackling yesterday for a convinc The Yellowjackets won two of three non-league games, beating 18 yards and the other score. Score by periods: Don't SCRAP off. Pyburn scored two of the Plains men touchdowns, one on an eight Alma Scots Outlast Adrian, 33 to 20 Notre Dan.e 7 21 7 742 ing 42 to 13 triumph, Its sixth In seven games this season, before 55,410 fans. I Merrill by a 19-6 count and Coleman by a 26-0 margin, and losiag a 27-0 decision to Class Mt. North Carolina 0 0 0 1313 one of the better offensive shows of the season.

yard pass from Freeman and the other on a beautiful 19-yard, end-around play that fooled Georgia Carolina' was outclassed until Pleasant. In league play, St. Joseph blanked Saginaw St Mary, Thompson, from Bessemer, ADRIAN (fl Alma scored In every period for a fumble-marked 33-20 victory over Adrian in an completely. Pitt Beats Nebraska In Thriller, 21-7 James got two more. He swept MIAA game yesterday.

the final ten minutes when It scored both Its touchdowns against the Irish third and fourth teams. Until this surge the Tarheels had made only four first downs and trailed by 35 points. Alma fumbled five times but recovered two while Adrian fumbled three times and recovered and rubbing It In on his home state for passing him up, scored two touchdowns and twisted and squirmed his way for the major share of Tech's yardage in the one-sided Southeastern Conference victory. 11 yards around end for one and rammed three yards through the middle for the other. Childress, who was as valuable none.

Yourself! LINCOLN, Neb. Wt Pitt used a dancing 40-yard run by Chuck COst and a one-handed pass interception and 30-yard return by Center Ed Bose yesterday to trim Nebraska 21 to 7 before 40,000 Hornung Goes Great Paul Hornung, a sophomore who Four Alma men cut In on the scoring, with Richard Stephans 22-0, and won over Saginaw SS. Peter-Paul. 18-12, in addition to last week's win over St. James.

When both Finn and Kokaly were missing from the lineup In mid-season, the Jackets dropped a 55-19 contest to St Andrew's champions, and were beaten by St Stanislaus, 19-7. Today's game Is the only contest remaining to be played in this area. Every other area team either wound up last weekend or played final games last Friday night. as a decoy as a runner, 'kicked a field goal from the 14 in the final seconds of the first half and Rotenberry raced 45 yards for tne oniy piayer to get two touch' has played only as a fullback earlier, made his debut as an Irish homecoming fans. booted two conversions.

downs. Brian Graffa accounted for 110 yards for Adrian and got Auburn 6 16 7 6 35 Tech's first touchdown with the game scarceley a minute old. He was sprung loose on the "belly play" with the help of brilliant faking by fullback John Hunsinger. signal-caller and was a standout He intercepted one Caro All this was done by the Panthers in ''the third period one Georgia 0 0 0 0 -0 one oi uie losers touchdowns. that ended with Pit leading 14-7 DRIVE SAFELY lina pass and returned 70 yards to set up a four-yard touchdown plunge by Jack Witucki.

Alabama failed to score for the alter Nebraska struck back with a brilliant Willie Greenlaw-to-Ron third consecutive game, running Clark pass and run on a scoring In addition, he romped 38 yards THIS MAN NEEDS A NEW on an option play to the tnat covered 57 yards. It was the eighth straight time the Crimson Tide's string of scoreless quarters to 14. The Tide last scored In the second quarter of a 12-7 loss to Mississippi State Oct. 23. four before Frank Finn plunged over, and he converted after three that Pitt has come to Lincoln and left without tasting defeat.

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