The Town Talk from Alexandria, Louisiana • Page 11

ALEXANDRIA DAILY TOWN TALK, ALEXANDRIA-PINEVILLE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1959 PAGE ELEVEN Tonight For Till James St Oberlin Ms Berry, Brown, Huff Lead All-Pro Team Both Seeking First Grid Championship By Bill Carter Town Talk Sports Editor OBERL1N, La. Oberlin pins its hopes on one of the most powerful backfields in Louisiana high school football tonight when it more and Jim Ray Smith of Cleveland at the guards and Jim Ringo of Green Bay at center. John Unitas of Baltimore won the quarterback berth by a wide margin, receiving 27 votes. Frank Gifford of New York and J. D.

Smith of San Francisco won th team berth. Del Shofner of Los Angeles won the offensive end berth opposite Berry. The remainder of the offensive line was composed of Roosevelt Brown of New York and Jim Parker of Baltimore at the tackles, Art Spinney of Balti halfback spots to round out the backfield with Jim Brown. The defensive unit was composed of Gino Marchetti of Baltimore and Andy Robustelli of New York at the ends; Gene Lipscomb of Baltimore and Leo Nom-ellini of San Francisco at the tackles; Huff, Joe Schmidt of Detroit and Bill George of th Bears at the linebacker spots; Dean Derby of Pittsburgh and Abe Woodson of San Francisco at halfback and Jim Patton of New York and Jack Butler of Pittsburgh at safety. NEW YORK (LTD Raymond Berry of the Baltimore Colts, Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns and Sam Huff of the New York Giants today led the voting for United Press International's 1959 National Football League All-Star team.

Berry and Brown were unanimous choices. They were named Colts Remain Slight Favorites Over Giants on each of 31 ballots cast by sports writers' who covered the campaign in the 11 league cities. Huff was just one ote shy of being a unanimous choice, appear ing on 30 ballots. Berry and With the game already tabbed as the biggest individual betting event of 1959, Baltimore fans were in a fever of anticipation while the Giants tried to dig out of a seven-inch snow in New York. Ewbank, aware that Baltimore's fans will produce a tornado of sound Sunday, has installed a set of hand signals to help quarterback John Unitas communicate hosts St.

James in the championship game of the state Class playoffs. Game time is 8 o'clock and a crowd of more than 2,000 is expected to overflow the Oberlin stadium for the title content. Coaches and writers who have watched the Tigers in action this season believe their backfield compares with any other in the state, regardless of classification. It includes quarterback Ray Reed (185 pounds), halfbacks Olan Brown were the first men ever named on every ballot in the annual UPI poll. with ends Raymond Berry and Jim Mutscheller and flanker back Lenny Moore.

The Colts raced through a brisk workout Tuesday in Memorial Stadium, concentrating on offense. Unitas, who fired a season record of 32 touchdown passes this year, did plenty of throwing in near-freezing temperature. Coach Jim Lee Howell's Giants Baltimore, the Western Division champion, placed six men on the Cannon Denies Houston Pact United Press International The Baltimore Colts, who may ase hand signals to beat the crowd noise in Sunday's National Football League game with the New York Giants, remained 3'i point favorites today for the professional classic. Bookmakers estimated Coach Weeb Ewbank's defending champions would be four-point choices over the Giants when the game begins in Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. The Colts needed a sudden-death overtime to score a 23-17 victory over the Giants in the 1958 championship.

Bookmakers figured the teams would score BATON ROUGE (UPI) -Billy! til after the bowl games," he said. BADGERS RELAX IN HOLLYWOOD Members of the Wisconsin Badgers football squad exchange quips with singing actress Monica Lewis as the team visited at Revue Studio on an afternoon off from football practice Tuesday. The Badgers meet Washington in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. At right is back Ronald Steiner. (AP Wirephoto).

mythical two-platoon team. New York, the Eastern Division champion which meets Baltimore Sunday in the championship game, filled five berths. The San Francisco Forty Niners filled three while Cleveland and the Pittsburgh Steelers each won two berths. The Los Angeles Rams, Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears each placed one player on the team. The Philadelphia Eagles, Chi Cannon, Louisiana State's All-; Cannon, this year's Heismann were unable to practice at Yan-America halfback and the No.

I trophy winner, will play in the kee Stadium Tuesday because of draft choice of the Los Angeles Sugar Bowl when LSU meets Mis- a heavy snow and worked an Rams, today denied acceptance of sissippi Jan. 1 and later will go to hour and 40 minutes indoora at a a Texas millionaire's offer to play Hawaii for the Hula Bowl. New York Armory. They hoped to for Houston in the new Cannon refused to discuss drill outside Wednesday. Football League.

Adams' offer. He said he was "un- Howell was pleased with the The 210-pound Cannon admitted decided" on which team he will zip displayed by his men. He receiving "a very nice offer from P'ay- I said they showed the same spirit Manuel (183) and Leonard Smith (170) and fullback Hoyle Granger (208). Granger is a sophomore. Smith is a senior and the others are juniors.

However, Manuel's eligibility will be completed tonight because of his age. Five Field Coals about as many points as they did Mr. Bud Adams' of the Houston; He said he has received no ad- that marked their workouts the in that thriller, estimating a to- team. ditional offers from the Rams week before they clobbered the tal of 42 for the two clubs. 1 "But I wont do any signing un-l since his talk with Houston.

I Cleveland Browns, 48-7. Reed is a deceptive runner, an cago Cardinals and Washington Redskins failed to win a first- Texas Can't Find Syracuse Weakness By Lloyd Larrabec AUSTIN, Tex. (UPI) Texas football Coach Dar-rell Royal, whose Longhorns meet Syracuse in the Cotton Bowl Jan. 1, said today if the Orangemen have a weak- adequate passer and has booted five field goals in eight attempts this season for what may be a state record. Kicking into a strong wind, Reed missed two field goal tries in the semi-final win over Mangham last Friday night, one it isn apparent.

ness izl v3 Tff. tt 46.9 yards per game but it In eluded nine touchdown throws. Royal's major emphasis was placed on the ground game, with from 22 yards and another from I 26. Both barely mussed, being swept away from the uprights by the wind. Manuel is the team's breakaway threat and, like Smith, runs witn both speed and power.

The big power runner, though, is Granger, who isn't often contained by a single defender. He has been particularly effective the the main power being furnished by halfback Rene Ramirez and sophomore speedster Jack Collins on pitchouts or handoffs from senior split-T quarterback Bobby arlrcv last four or five games. The Longhorns, trkhampions of the Southwest Conference and fourth-rariked nationally with a 8-1 regular season mark, face their biggest task of the year in Syracuse, national champions and winners of five of the nine principal offense and defense titles. Royal, whose team paced the Southwest Conference in per-game offense with an average of 2T3 yards, declined to be drawn out on whether he planned to step up his passing attack. "We'll just have to see after the lame gets started.

I don't know whether we'll throw any more than we have or not," he said. Texas admittedly weak aerial attack netted an average of only Occasional telling blows were All are equally talented on de fease. Granger is an all-district defensive tackle, Manuel backs up administered on passes by Lacky or Collins, or on pitchouts or reverses winding up with the ball being thrown by the left-handed the line and Reed and Smith hold down the halfback or safety posi tions. Manuel is regarded by many as one of the finest linebackers in Cenla. He and Reed made both the all-district and all-Southwest tearrj.

Oberlin was tied by Basile in the season opener, 20-20, but later lost this game on a forfeit because it unintentionally used an ineligible player Later, the Ti gers were drubbed by Bunkie 74-14. Both were non-district games. In the loss to Bunkie, coach Mike Ramirez. Royal said after viewing movies of Syracuse, its "Sizeable Seven" line and "Fearsome Foursome" backfield, that he cam out with "the same impression I had before they're a tremendous football team." Line Sett Up Touchdown The "make-the-breaks" Long-horns can be counted upon to play the opportunistic "jaw-to-jaw" type of football that has been characteristic of Royal in his three seasons at Texas. During the past season when the Longhorns tied for the Southwest Conference crown with Texas Christian and Arkansas the hard-charging Texas line helped set up almost two-thirds of the team's 30 touchdowns.

This came about through recovery of fumbles, blocked punts, hustle that brought on pass inter Lyles, dissatisfied with his regu fit t4 MZ5J Bourdon 6Lux Corr lars, pulled them early and let MARYHILL (Continued from Page 10) pace Sacred Heart to a 44-17 victory over Cabrini. Prompt Succor's girls won their econd game in a row, smashing Cathedral 30-15 with Jane Baillio wtting the pace with 16 points. The Sacred Heart girLs defeated Cabrini 30-11. Linda Becker paced the winners with 20 points Maryhill leads the High School league with a 3-0 record, followed by Sacred Hear (2-1), Cabrini (1-2'. St.

Rita (1-2), Cathedral 0-3) and Prompt Succor (0-3). Undefeated Prompt Succor paces the girls' Grammar loop with two victories with St. Rita and Sacred Heart tied, for second place with one victory each Ca ceptions, and short kicks by the opposition. The starting line is composed of brini and Cathedral are both win- ends Larry Cooper and Monte Lee, tackles Larry Stephens and less in two starts. St.

Rita and Sacred Heart, each Dick Jones, guards Maurice Doke and Babe Drevmala and center Jerry Muennink. with 1-0 marks, pace the boys Grammar League. Cabrini and Prompt Succor are deadlocked for second with 1-1 records, while LA. COLLEGE (Continued from Page 10) Cathedral winless in two starts bounds and 15 points and Larry Glover turned in his finest per forrnance of the season, with 17 his reserves finish. St, James Favored Since then, no team has come closer than three touchdowns to the Tigers.

winning the 5-B championship for the second straight year, Oberlin walloped previously undefeated Port Bar-re 28-9 in the first round of the playoffs and then whipped Mangham 26-6 in the semifinals. Oberlin is undefeated in district competition for the past two years, but was tied by Iowa in 1958. St. James, which reached its peak with a 34-6 romp over St. Michael, then the No.

1 team in the state, is undefeated, but tied twice. The Wildcats, coached by Leo Bo.ssier, have won their last seven after being deadlocked twice in the first four outings. In the playoffs, the Wildcats edged Erath 7-6, walloped heavily-favored St. Michael and then nipped Zachary 7-6 in the semi-finals. St.

James was idle last week St James has been made a four-point favorite over Oberlin by the Louisiana Prep Grid Standard, which was correct on 79 per cent of its predictions this season in all classes 735 of 931 games. St. James has a 94.7 rating to 90.38 for Oberlin. Neither Oberlin nor St. James has ever won a state championship.

Coach Lyles is expected to start these linemen on offense: ends Gilroy Granger (155) and Tommy Reeves (155), tackles Harrison Durio (147) and Walter Deshotel (160), guards Joe Pitre (155) and Btirchman Shuff (140) and center Alden Guillory (200). On defense, these boys will move into the lineup: end Larry Guidry, (195), middle guard Irving Reed (175) and tackle Lebin Benoit (195). points and nine Allgood was particularly im pressed with the play of hi.s freshmen in the tournament. Ed Young, a 6-6 prospect, contributed nine points to the Cats' cause against William Carey. Following the game, the play ers left for their homes to spend the holidays.

They will resume workouts after Christmas to pre pare for a four-game home stand, starling with William Carev Jan uary 8 and 9. Glenn Graff, Glover and White were named to the all-tournament team. RETAINS ASSISTANTS MANHATTAN, Kan. 'LTD -Corky Taylor and Bill Walsh named to the Kansas State Uni versity football coaching staff las spring, will stay on as assistant to new head Coach Doug Weaver 5 JSSJ GIVE BOURBON-but be sure its 11 waBwwiB- JK. LOS ANGELES Felix Pelon Cervantes, 123, Mexico, outpointed Bill Thomas, 126, San Francisco, (10).

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