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A. i t- i. I. ti I MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER ALABAMA JOURNAL SUNDAY, NOVEMBER VI 1 9 5 6 1 i West Virginia 4 5 rj 'is f. r.

5 St Nips VMI, 13-6 MORGANTOWN, W. Nov. 10 (UP) The highly-favored West Virginia Mountaineers, battling to prevent an upset by the fighting Cadets of Virginia Military Institute, bE-rely eked out a 13-6 victory today. West Virginia went out in front 7-0 late in the first quarter on a 30 yard pass from quarterback Alex Szuch to end Bruce McClung. But the Mountaineer attack after that a sputtering thing until the middle of the fourth period.

Fired-up VMI began to move against the heavier Mountaineers midway in the third period and threatened to pull the biggest upset in the Southern Conference before a small crowd "of 12,000 on this cold, gray day. VMI sent halfback Pete Johnson over fro mthe two-yard line with 15 seconds left in the third period after end Carl Kafko recovered a fumble by West Virginia's Ralph Anastasio on the Mountaineer 18. A bad pass from center ruined quarterback Duke Johnston's extra point attempt and a chance to tie the score. PERFORMERS FOR BLUE GRAY HALFTIME SHOW The Tell City High School Band, which will make an ap-pearance here in Montgomery for halftime ceremonies during the "Blue and Gray game, stretches out in formation with Drun Major Darrel Morsby out in front. The Tell City crew is the best march v.1 k.

I Brv Ducats GoingFast For Post-Season Slue-Gray Tilt; Montgomery Football Fans Anxiously Await Kick-Off 4-1 GOES FOR FIRST DOWN Pitt halfback, Jim for a first down and make it on the Pitt 41-yard line. Don Costa and-Bd Sullivan (52) bring him down. UP Telephoto Pitt's Panthers Pound Irish, 26-13, To Hand Notre Dame Fifth Straight Loss By RUSS HOLMAN Montgomery will host one of the finest post season football games in the country on the last Saturday in December. The cream of northern and southern football players will meet in Cramton Bowl for the Blue and Gray game. The South will present a great coaching staff, as never been seen on one football field at one time.

Here for the game will be North Carolina's Jim Tatum, Auburn's CAPITOL HEIGHTS ROMPS Baldwin Takes 27-0 Win To Notch Championship ing band in the tate of Indiana, Lanier, will provide the halftime classic. sellout long before game time. The first two Blue players for the contest were named during tht past week, and they were two of the best quarterbacks to be found anywhere. Purdue's Len Dawson, considered the finest quarterback in the Big 10 will be, one of the field generals for the Yankee forces as they try to get back on the win trail after last year's 20-19 thriller. The other boy named to the Blue squad was Missouri's fabulous Don Hunter, who is a key Split quarterback for the Missouri squad.

Quite a number of out of town ticket orders are beginning to pour into May and Green's Sporting Goods Co. All mail orders should be accompanied by an additional 25 cents to cover the cost of mailing. Halftime entertainment will be provided by the bands of Lee and Lanier, and by the visiting Tell City High School "Marching Marksmen," from Tell City, Ind. The Tell City group the best in the state of Indiana, -where it was organized in 1928. They have won first place in the First Division in' every district, state and national band contest they have ever entered.

They recently won the Division I rating in the Indiana State Marching contest on Oct. 27. Both the Lee and Lanier bands ara top rate marching units and put on excellent shows for the local fans throughout the football season. So, all-in-all, a fine program at halftime, and what should be a great football game will be offered for the fans who attend. The game will be on a nation- Popular Grappler To Meet Blimp Lee Fields, popular grappler, has been matched to meet Baby Blimp in the feature of next Friday night's wrestling card at the Dixie Graves Armory.

It has been agreed that if Fields beats the Baby Blimp the latter will have his hair cut off. To see that the thing is done right, promotors have arransed for a special new referee for the occasion. The gent is "Butch" Costello. Lester Welch and Buddv Fuller will team together to meet Mario Galento and Al Smith' in a tag team match. Mi and they, along with Lee and entertainment for the December wide television and radio hookupj Prices for the ducats to tha game are: Reserve seats, West Side: $4 and $5.

East side (steel grandstand) all reserved, $2, 3 and 4. North side, covered seats, reserved, $2.50. General admission, $1.50 and $2. Box seats on side line, $5 each. Mail orderes to May and Green Montgomery, Ala.

No tickets will be mailed unless 25 cents is enclosed for postage and registration. Villanova 'Cats Trim Citadel By 46-0 Mark PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 9 Villanova University, scoring In every period, ran up a two-touchdown lead in the first 10 minutes and coasted today to a 46-0 victory over outclassed Citadel. The Wildcats, able to win only one game last year, got over the .500 mark with the victory to make their 1946 record 4-3. Citadel has a 3-4-1 record now.

Villanova controlled the ball so effectively that its first punt a 69-yard boot by Tony Esgro didn't come until the last play of the third quarter. The Wildcats took advantage of numerous Citadel fumbles, one which a Villanova player caught in the air and converted into a touchdown. Rollie West, 215-pound fullback, got Villanova off to a good start with two TD's on short runs in the first half. Quarterback Billy Ma-gee sneaked one yard for the othei first-half score. Again' the Wildcats took only 1C minutes for two touchdowns at the start of the third quarter.

John Ferruolo-ran 26 yards for one and Jim Grazione went 6 yards for the other. The last-period touchdowns were scored by on a 22-yard dash and guard Mike Delucia on a 30-yard run. DeLncia Iambered tc his TD after tking a lateral from end Gene O'Tellawho had recovered a Citadel fumble in Citadel 0 0 0 01 Villanova 13 14 13 4( Villanova scoring touchdowns: Mage (1. sneak): Wesw run: 1. plunge) Ferruolo (26.

run): Grazione (6. run); Bauer (22. run); DeLucia (30, run-lateral trotr O'Tella). Conversions; Bauer 2, Sapienza Grazione. Styia Brown 2276 Slack 2755 Burgndy in this new In -'il- 1 in the second period as Salvaterra climaxed a 72-yard drive by scampering 11 yards around right end without a Notre Dame tackier putting a hand on him.

With onjy 49 seconds of the first half remaining, the Panthers drove 87 yards with Salvaterra hitting end Joe Walton on a 10-yard touchdown pass in the end zone. It was Walton's sixth touchdown pass of the year and put him within reach of his own Pitt record eight touchdown passes last season. Late in the third period Pitt started a 91-yard drive which carried over into the fourth period with the ball on the Notre Dame 7. It took onlv two plays before Jim Theodore broke around left end for 4 yards and the Panthers Ground Attach Mary, 34-6 interception of a Hardage pass by Dick Fadel. The Cadets registered their final tally late in the fourth period on a 56-yard drive, with right halfback Pete Dawkins plunging over from the three-stripe.

Army 6 7 7 14-34 William and Mary 0 6 0 06 Army scoring: Touchdowns, Roesler (7, run); Bourland, (25, run); Kyasky 2 (7, run and 6, run); Dawkins (3, run). Conversions, Murtland 3, Kennedy. William and Mary scoring: Touchdowns, Peccatiello (10, pass from Rubal). BuckeyfesDown HoosierClub COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 10 (UP) Ohio State rolled up a 21-0 margin in the first half here today, then held a fighting but out-manned Indiana squad even the rest of the way to earn the Buckeyes a 35-14 Big Ten victory before 82,073 fans.

The win for the conference lead, ers was their 17th consecutive victory, a new Big Ten record. The previous mark was 15 straight set by Michigan from 1946-48. In addition to eclipsing the consecutive win streak they set the previous week, Ohio State's ground attack also set a new Big Ten rushing mark of 465 yards. The old record of 454 yards was set by Purdue in a game with Indiana in 1948. Indiana 0 0 7 7 14 Ohio State 7 14 7 733 Indiana scoring touchdowns: Fee 2 (1-foot plunge; 1-foot plunge).

Conversions: Cichowski 2. Ohio state scoring touchdowns: Brown (5, pass from Ellwood); Clark (73, run): (3. run): Rllwnrvt 9. f1-fnnt plunge: 4. run).

Conversions: Ellwood 3, Kremblas 2. Electric AND iUtnr UNfT Of THC 1U SYSTEM PITTSBURGH, Nov. 10 UP) With quarterback Corney Salva-terra scoring one touchdown and passing for another, Pitt's bowl-hopeful Panthers crushed Notre Dame 25-13 today to hand the Irish their fifth straight defeat worst losing skein In its history. The defeat was the sixth in seven games for the Irish who are doomed for their poorest record since they began playing football. In 1933, their worst year before this season, they had a 3-5-1 record.

Notre. Dame tallied one touchdown on a 50-yard run by quarterback Paul-Hornung in the second quarter and another on an 84-yard kickoff return by Bob Ward in the final period. The first Pitt touchdown came Army's Strong llowns William WEST POINT, N.Y., Nov. 10 (UP) Fullback Bob Kyasky spearheaded Army's strong ground attack today for a 34-6 victory over scrappy, aerial-minded William and Mary before 16.835 frigid spectators at Michie Stadium. Kyasky of A I scored two touchdowns in the second half and was a factor in other drives that jesulted in two Cadet tallies in the first half.

In the third period big Bob, a former quarterback, went seven yards over his left guard to end a push from the 24 where he had intercepted Bob Hardage's pass. Early in the fourth quarter, Kyasky again went over his left guard for six yards and a tally that ended a 53-yard march, which also had been set up by the Utah Unleashes Powerful Attack; Trips Colorado FORT COLLINS, Colo, Nov. 10 VP The Utah Redskins unleashed an overpowering running attack in the second' half to smother Color-nado 49-27 today in a Skyline Conference football game. The outmanned Aggies held the Utes to a 14-13 halftime edge but the Redskins, led by halfbacks Stuart Vaughn and Karl Jensen, scored five touchdowns in the second half. Jensen and Vaughan accounted for two touchdowns apiece in the Utes second half splurge.

Vaughan scored one on a dazzling 43-yard run after intercepting an Aggie pass. Utah 14 0 21 1449 0 13 0 1427 third touchdown. Pitt's 'final touchdown was a 44-yard, pass-run play from quarterback Dar-rell Lewis to Bugs Bagamery. Notre Dame 0 6 0 713 Pitt 0 13 0 1326 Notre Dame scoring touchdowns: Hornung (50. run); Ward (84, run).

Conversion: Horn ling. Pitt scoring touchdowns: Salvaterra ill. run); Walton (10, pass from Salvaterra); Theodore (4, run); Bagamery (44. pass-run from Lewis). Conversions: Lewis, Bagamery.

LSV Bengals Break Skein With Z3-0 Win BATON ROUGE, Nov. "lO (iP) Burly Jimmy Taylor, 200-pound junior fullback, pounded for one touchdown and set up another tonight as Louisiana State dumped Oklahoma 13-0 to end a six-game losing streak. A chilled crowd of 25,000 saw LSU in its first victory, punch over two touchdowns in the first half, then fight off every Aggie scoring threat. LSU drove 54 yards for its first touchdown in the opening period, with Taylor bucking over from the 3. Taylor kicked the extra point.

Early in the second quarter, the powerful fillback exploded 17 yards on a quick opener over guard to the Aggie 2 where halfback J. W. Brodnax drove over on the next play. Taylor also sparked a fourth period drive to the Aggie 12 with a 42-yard sprint over guard, but the threat was halted by a fumble. In all, he carried 12 times for 104 yards, an 8.6 average.

Quarterback M.v C. Reynolds, replacing, the injured regular starter, Win Turner, jleverly directed the LSU attack and kept the offense rolling by completing seven of 11 passes for 95 yards. The Aggies, who gained a lot of yardage around midfield with a powerful running attack, had only one serious threat. In the fourth period, drove to the LSU nine, but lost the ball on downs when a fourth down pass fell in complete. Basketball Officials To Holrl Rules Clinic The Central Alabama Basketball Officials Association will hold a special Basketball Rules clinic at the Robert E.

Lee high school Gymnasium Thursday night at 7 o'clock. Cliff Harper, Executive Secretary of the Alabama High School Athletic Association, will conduct the clinic. Members of the Lee high basketball squad will take part in a scrimmage tilt for the clinic. Shug Jordan, and Texas Bear Bryant. Coaching for the Blue squad will be three of the finest In Northern ranks, including Murray Warmath of Minnesota, Jack Mollenkopf of Perdue and Don Faurot.

Ticket; for the Contest are going fast, braving already surpassed the $50,000 mark. The Ducats have been selling at better than $400 worth a day and at the present sale rate the, game will be a Bellingrath eleven, 45-18, in a game featured by long runs throughout. Rodney Bell and Kenneth Dickey each tallied a pair of touchdowns for Capitol Heights, with Ben Wood, Craig Hopson and Don-nie Phillips racking up one apiece. Henry Pope accounted for one TD for Bellingrath with Freddie Wilkerson scoring two six-pointers. Every man on Capitol Heights bench took part in the game.

Bellingrath played its best game of the season, with Pope and Wilkerson starring in the ball-carrying department. Bill Goodwin, Rees Carr and Rudy Thrash were line standouts for. Capitol Heights. Bill Hart and Steve Wright stood out in Bellingrath's fore-wall. The two games were sponsored by the Montgomery Quarterback Gab in its annual "Evening of Football." Baldwin is coached by Tom Springer, and the new champs are rated the best ever to represent the school.

Bellingrath is coached by Clarence Sandusky; Capitol Heights, by Kyle Renfroe and Cloverdale by Hubert Sellers. Lineups and summary: Baldwin 2) Fo. Hollon E. Roehm L.T. Hunkapillar L.G, Griffin C.

Cobb R.G. Boutz R.T. Boatner RE. Wilson Q. Waggoner L.H.

Ott RH. Brown F. Baldwin Cloverdale Scoring Touchdowns: Hollon. Boatner. Extra Points: Brown Cloverdale (0) Suggs Brissette Britton Mathews Savage Rikerd Spendifl Massey Guyden Crysel Bourne 7 0S 1427 0 0 0 00 Baldwin Brown 2, 2, Waggoner.

Capitol Hgts. (45) Bellingrath (18) Pos. Davidson L.E. Hart L.T. Kirkland L.G.

Hare C. Elston R.G. Mnich R.T. Wrlgtit RE. Nunn Q.

Hale Thrash Bethea Goodwin A. James Carr Phillips Hopson Dickey Bell Campbell L.H. Pope RH. Wilkerson F. Bellingrath 12 7 26 0 618 0 1245 Capitol Heights Scoring Touchdowns: Wilkerson 2: Capitol Bellingrath Pope, Heights Dickey 2.

Phillips. Wood. Bell 2. Wood, Hopson. Extra Points: Bell 2, tie marring its record, kept its bowl hopes alive with a 47-yard drive midway through the third quarter.

It took the Tigers 16 plays through Maryland's tough defenses to cover that ground, fullback Bob Spooner scoring from about three inches out. Clemson, content to settle for a tie, ran out the cloc't with two plays into the line for the remaining half minute. Maryland 0 0 0 6 -6 CTemson 0 0 6 06 Maryland scoring: Touchdown, Selep (2, plunge), Clemson scoring: Touchdown, Spooner (1, plunge). By GENE REEDER Baldwin Junior High School won the championship of the City High Football League last night, soundly defeating Cloverdale, 27- 0, in Cramton Bowl, before an estimated crowd of 3,000 fans. It was a.

clean sweep for the champs, already having wins over Capitol Heights and Bellingrath. Melvin Brown, Baldwin full back, put on a show for the Tigers, scoring two touchdowns and assisting in good part to help score the others. Baldwin lost no time scoring, taking the ball over on Clover-dale's 30, after Cloverdale failed in an effort to kick out. J. W.

Wilson lugged the ball to the two where Brown went over for the first TD, and also added the PAT, giving Baldwin a 7-0 lead. No scoring in the second quarter and Baldwin went out at the half with the 7-0 lead. The winners second TD came from a 40-yard drive. Brown skirted his left end for 17 yards to reach pay dirt. Lamae Waggoner's try for the extra point was no good.

Score: Baldwin 13, Cloverdale 0. Two quick touchdowns were scored in the fourth period by Baldwin via the air route. The Tigers took over on Cloverdale's 33, ana wnson passed to Diuara Hollon who raced across unmolested for the TD. Brown added the extra point. Wilson intercepted a Cloverdale pass on his own 20 a minute later, and then passed to Ernest Boatner who scored the fourth and final TD for Baldwin.

Final Score: Baldwin 27, Cloverdale 0. The entire Baldwin line played heads-up ball and it meant the difference on the offensive side. 'Brown, Frank Ott, Waggoner A 1 l.f.'lJ standouts. Cloverdale's stars in the ball-carrying were Lewis Gayden, Jimmy Crysel, Jim Massey and Tom Bourne; line play by Billy Britton, Ray Suggs and Charles Savage was excellent. In the consolation game, Cap-! itol Heights walloped a plucky West Virginia finally moved out of danger midway in the fourth period when fullback Noel Whip-key plunged five yards for a touchdown after a march of 82 yards from the kickoff.

The Mountaineer attack was frustrated most of thg afternoon, failing to score on repeated long drivers. A 63 yard drive was stoppe'd on the VMI 16 midway in the first period. In the second period, another drive to the VMI 24 was stopped by a pass interception and a third long drive was stopped on the VMI one-foot line. In the third period, a push to. the Cadet 13 was halted on downs and two successive lost 'fumbles by Anasatsio enabled VMI to score.

VMI was unable to get into West Virginia territory until midway in the third period when successful passes by Johnston of 32, 31 and 13 "yards allowed the Cadets to move to the WestVirginia 8. West Virginia end Joe Kopnisky stopped the drive by blocking Johnson's pass attempt on fourth down. Another long VMI drive ended on the West Virginia 25 late in the final period. The victory gave West Virginia a 5-3 record and 'VMI a 3-5-1 mark for the season. West Virginia can win its fourth straight Southern Conference title next week by beating Furman.

West Virginia 7 0 0 6-13 VMI 00606 West Virginia scoring: Touchdowns, McClung 30, end run); Whitkey (5, plunge). Conversion, Snider. VMI scoring: Touchdown, Johnson (2, plunge). Wake Forest Ties Gobblers In 13-13 Tilt By DON MARTIN United Press Sports Editor BLACKSBURG, Nov. 10 (UP) The passing of Charlie Carpenter and the record breaking ground game of fullback Bill Barnes sparked the Deacons of Wake Forest to a 13-13 tie with Virginia Tech in an inter-conference game here today before 7,000 fans.

Carpenter's aerial offensive included eight of 10 completions good for 155 yards in the first half and a 7-6 midway lead. Barnes ground out 103 yards in 23 rushes to break the old Atlantic Coast Conference rushing record of 782 yards set by Clemson's Joel Wells in 1954. Barnes now has rushed for 859 in eight games. Virginia Tech's pony backfield, led by Jim Lugar, Don Divers and Ray England, started the scoring with a 76-yard drive near the end of the first period. Lugar set up his own one-yard scoring plunge with a 35-yard gallop.

Barry Frazee's kick was wide. The Deacons of Wake Forest got their equalizer midway, through the second quarter, mostly on the Carpenter Dick Daniels passing combination. Barnes punched over from the one' for the score, and Larry Brooks' successful conversion gave the Deacs their half-time edge. Sheer speed of the Tech back-field in the person of England put the Gobblers back on top in the third period. England outdistanced the Wake Forest secondary on an 18-yard run for the touchdown, and this time Frazee's conversion was good.

The see-saw battle came to its end in the final period on the runs of fullback Barnes. He rushed 60 yards in five carries to set up a one -yard quarterback sneak by Carpenter that gained the Deacons their tie. The opportunity for an upset nullified by sophomore Tech tackle Jim Burks, who rushed in and blocked Brooks kick. Wake Forest 0 7 0 613 Virginia Tech 6 0 7 013 Wake Forest scoring: Touchdowns, Barnes (1, plunge); Carpenter (1, plunge). Conversion, Brooks.

Virginia Tech scoring: Touchdowns, Lugar (1, plunge); England (18, run). Conversion, Fra-zee. Air Academy Ties With Whittier, 14-14 LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10 Undefeated Air Force Academy's football team ran into a passing attack it couldn't handle today, and had to come from behind to gain a 14-14 tie with WTiittier College. The tie ended the Academy's winning streak at six games.

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