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F0TT1T TTATTIESBURG (MISS.) AMERICAN Monday, December 1, 1941. Southern Celebrates End Of First Undefeated Season SJW "V5M.l SOUTHEASTERN SOUTHERN Winds Up as One of 20 Unbeaten Teams ST. MARY'S Falls 7-0 in Final Game for a gain of only one yard, but Braskel Naron added six on a reverse and Latham powered to another first down on the 214. In two more smashes he went over and Vetrona added the extra point from placement. Although St.

Mary's had played the Southerners on even terms before that, the remainder of the cams was all Southern, as the Jubi NEW YORK. Dec. 1. Only Utah aw am r. university of the nation's 20 unbeat en football teams has unfinished business on Its program.

The Utes, Mississippi Southern college today hailed its first undefeated football team In history an amazing aggregation dominated by sophomores and Juniors who Saturday night wound up the year with nine victories and a single tie by whipping lant Misalssipplans threatened time after time and kept the ball In Rattler terrltoy. Paced by the brilliant Sandlg. who after the game came Into the Southern dressing room to tell the Southerners that "You've got a great already the Big Seven chumpons. play Arizona Saturday and travel to Honolulu for a meeting January 1 with Hawaii university. Of the unbeaten teams, II are all-winning while the remaining nine have one or more deadlocks team," St.

Mary's was always dangerous. The Rattler's deepest penetration, Just before the half ended, was to only the Southern 20, however. Lineup and summsry: each. The teams, showing games won. games tied, points scored and points St.

Mary's university of San Antonio, Texas, 7-0 on the Rattlers' home field. Thus, a Southern eleven which at the season's start was expected to win few more than half its games, goes down as the greatest elub the school has ever produced. Mo6t astounding thing about the Southerners and their brilliant record Is that only 11 men on the squad had ever played senior college football before this year. Most of the remaining 20-odd gridders came up Southern Tm. St.

Mary's scored against: For PA Strlngfellow Ochos Loper LT Fisher Thames Pedlgo Autry Carter Duke 9 0 311 41 Midland, Teach. 9 0 198 88 Miss. Southern .......9 1 246 40 Western Col. ...8 0 204 13 Mllliken 8 0 267 10 Clements (e) Semanek Stevens Dowd Witt McKnlght this fall from Mississippi's Junior Minnesota 8 0 186 38 bv, sPrs l-r JJIA I VnL) I SINKWICH I PSAN. JENKINS 1 I Back-CeWa Tfi VT fr-i T7 i HAPES HAZEL I ZzJt EUBANKS EDMIST0N jT XrJ yr-- A BackMiss.

Guard-Miss. EndMiss. Tackle Tenn. 1 1 1 11 1 u- if 1 BLANDIN jr MmmZX Jackie Tulane I I N. college circuit, while two of the boys Durjuesne ....8 0 143 23 are freshmen.

Notre Dame 8 1 189 64 Emerson Q3 Snipes Dews LH Sandlg Van Tone (c) Lyle Ratham Koch Score by periods: The Southerners whipped Georgia Thlel 7 0 147 7 St. Cloud. Mia, Teach. 7 0 108 21 Teachers. Louisiana Tech, champion of the Louisiana Intercollegiate con Eastern Car.

Teach. ..7 0 159 20 Southern 0 0 7 07 ferenee: Southeastern Louisiana, St. Mary's 0 0 0 00 Rofe Poly 7 0 229 35 Youngstown ........7 1 144 28 Millsaps. Spring Hill, Louisiana col leee. Louisiana Normal, Southwest Southern scoring: Touchdown, 8t.

Joseph's (Ind.) ....7 1 140 25 Latham: extra point, Vetrano era Louisiana. Delta Teachers and finally St. Mary's, In that order. The (placement). Ststlstics: First downs.

Southern lone tie came with soutnwesiern 12, St. Mary's 10; net yards gained Louisiana, which lost only to the Delaware 7 1 178 28 St. Francis (Penn.) ...6 1 182 79 Utah 5 2 197 59 Carroll (Montana) ...5 1 43 0 Plattsvllle, Teachers 3 2 67 19 rushing, Southern 309, St. Mary's 67; net yards gained passing, Southern University of Alabama and Loulsi ana Tech. Coaches none, St.

Mary's 98: passes attempt ed. Southern 2, St. Mary's 13: passes Plenty of credit for Southern's completed, Southern none, St. success belongs to a pair of fine Mary's passes Intercepted, none; punts, Southern eight for an average young coaches. Reed Oreen and Thsd "Pie" Vann.

who took a green squad and made a great team out of CUDE Center Vanderbilf Sports Briefs (f 7 NELSON IS 1 I RAST I I I Guard Alabama) JMM Back-Alabama End-Ala. of 42 yards. St. Mary's eight for an average of 34 yards; opponents' fum Jt. Theirs undoubtedly was tne finest coaching Job in Mississippi bles recovered.

Southern 2, St. Here is the 1941 Southeastern conference all-star foot-f Mary's penalties, Southern 6 for 70 yards. St. Mary 0 for 30 yards. Substitutions: Southern, DeVall, Carasso, Applewhite, Waldvogel, Bv HUGH FLLLERTOV, NEW YORK.

Dec. 1. (Wide Naron, Vetrano, McSwain, Albritton, Th ree Rebel Stars Named On All-Southeastern Team ball team selected for the Associated Press by the coaches and their scouts. Alabama and the University of Mississippi tied, each with three men on the team. Alabama's men are Holt Rast, at end; John Wyhonic at guard, and James Nelson in the backfield.

Mississippi players are Homer Hazel, guard; Bill Eubanks. end; Merle Hapes, back. Vanderbilt placed two men on the team, Robert Gude, center, and Jack Jenkins, back. Others on the team are 81ms, Taylor, Katrlshen, Dement, and Osrton; St. Mary's, Ohlmeyer, World) Must have been a surprise to west coast football fans to learn that Fordham and Missouri had Ball, Fitzgerald, Denham, Scar shown so little Interest in the Rose Bowl that they weren't given a borough.

W. Elliott. Coulter, Teeth-erston, Oabitch, Nichols and chance" to turn down a bid Still there shouldn't be any com this year. The boys showed their appreciation by hoisting the mentors to thetr shoulders and carrying them off the field after winning Saturday night's game. They also bought ties and presented them to the coaches on the return trip from San Antonio.

The team arrived here early today, following an unbroken trip back from St. Mary's. The boys and coaches went to bed Immediately, while Mississippi Southern students this morning were preparing a celebration In their honor. A welcome which had been planned was disrupted when the return trip was made in quicker time than had been expected. Saturday night's victory was a glorious close to the undefeated season.

The Southerners played great football to beat and capable team Tulane's Ernest Blandin, tackle; Donald Edminton of Tennessee, tackle, and Frank Sinkwich of Georgia, back. By ROMNEY WHEELER ATLANTA, Dec. 1. As versatile plaint about Duke except from Southern California sports writers who blasted Wallace Wade the last time he was out there Wonder If Duquesne. which needs the dough as a flying circus, and as formidable as a tank corps.

That's a thumb nail description of the 1941 South Roster Standings and could put up a swell show, will eastern conference all-star football ATLANTA, Dec. 1. Final 1941 get the go-by from all of them? Mall Is full of suggestions for Sun ATLANTA, Dec. 1 (APJ Here Is the 1941 Southeastern Confer football standings in the Southern coaches decided in a poll conducted by the Associated Press. They rated Jack Jenkins of Vanderbilt and Jimmy Kelson of Alabama next, and Blondy Black of Mississippi State fourth.

Other choices: Best lineman Holt Rast of Alabama. Best ball-carrier Sinkwich of Georgia. Best blocking back Lloyd Cheatham of Auburn. Best passer Ermal Ellen of Kentucky. Best kicker Nelson of Alabama.

ence All-Star football team, selected for the Associated Press by the coaches and their scouts. ntercolleglate Athletic association: Team PF PA Presbyterian I 0 0 126 Poe. Poe. School Class Age Hgt. Wt.

Home EL Holt Rast, Alabama Senior 23 6:00 185 Birmingham, Ala. Bowl teams, but nearly everybody figures Texas Tech will be in there. Another mail campaign favors putting Capt. Bill Curry of Arnold college (New Haven. Conn.) on the little all America team.

He must be pretty good if so many guys like him. Fullback Merle Hapes of Mississippi. For the ifrst time in many a year, blocking backs came Into their own. Although the coaches voted for their backfields on all-around effectiveness, the selections placed regular blocking backs on each of the first three honor teams. Lloyd Cheatham of Alabama and Walter McDonald of Tulane won places in the second team bckfiaeld, while Cliff Kimsey of Georgia was selected for the third team, Three of the four Juniors who made all -conference in 1940 repeated in 1941.

They were Rast. Gude and Jimmy Nelson. Junie Hovious of Mississippi yielded this year to the other half of the Rebels' H-combin-ation, Merle Hapes. Every man in the first team back-field distinguished himself during the season as a brilliant competitive T. Ernest Blandin, Tulane Senior 22 6:03 233 Ketghley, Kas.

Q. John Wyhonic, Alabama Senior 21 6:00 198 Connorvllle, O. C. Robert Gude, Vanderbilt Senior 22 6:01 205 Memphis, and one which played its finest game of the season, even in defeat. Bent Team Coao Llyod Russell of St Mary's told Coach Green after the contest that Southern was the best team he had met all year and that his boys had been ready and played in top O.

Homer Hazel, Jr, Mississippi Senior 22 5:09 190 Marshall, Mich. TODAY'S GUEST STAR Dick Cullum, Minneapolis Times "Can it be that Clark Ehaughnessy team, selected for the Associated Press by coaches and their scouts. Three Juniors and eight seniors, drawn from exactly half the schools In the 12-member athletic federation, comprise the all-conference team, and in contrast to 1940 when home-staters predominated, the players list their residences from California to Michigan, and from Texas to Ohio. Two players Fireball Frankie Sinkwich of Georgia and Holt Rast, of Alabama, were unanimous choices for the all-conference first team, and a third, Alabama's versatile Jimmy Nelson, lacked but one vote of being unanimous. Here's how they'd line up, if some fortunate post-season game could get the first team: Ends Rast of Alabama and Bill Eubanks of Mississippi.

Tackles Ernie Blandin of Tulane and Don Edmiston of Tennessee. Guards John Wyhonic of Ala will be saving, 'well, the forma Open Dally P.M. flat. A.M. form.

Miami 3 0 0 41 Centre 2 0 0 46 MIm. Southern 6 0 1 123 Louisiana Tech ..5 1 0 134 East Kentucky 3 1 0 99 Tennessee Tech ..310 64 Union U. (Tenn) .311 73 Georgetown (Ky.) 2 1 0 40 Woford 2 1 0 25 West Kentucky ..211 46 West Tennessee 3 2 0 80 Southwest La. 3 3 1 66 La. Normal 4 3 1 64 Tampa 3 3 0 69 Rollins 2 3 0 69 Louisville 1 1 0 20 Murray 3 3 2 87 Newberry 2 3 0 84 tion was my story and it looks If I'm stuck with If." Even so, the Southerners had a clear superiority and richly deserv ed their triumph.

The lone touch MONDAY MATINEE The Cardinals took a delegation of Mattw 2o Night 4o Children 10 down came late In the third period and was set up by one of several T. Donald Edmlston, Tennessee Senior 21 6:01 190 Midland, Pa. E. Bill Eubanks, Mississippi Junior 21 6:03 184 Winona, Miss. B.

Jack Jenkins. Vanderbilt Junior 20 6:00 200 Texarkana, Tex. B. Frank Sinkwich, Oeorgia Junior 21 8:10 180 Youngstown, O. B.

0James Nelson, Alabama Senior 22 6.00 180 Live Oak, Fla. B. Merle Hapes, Mississippi Senior 22 5:10 175 Garden Gr. Cal. Second Team: Third Team: Forest Ferguson, Florida Bill Hornlck, Tulane Bill Arnold, Miss.

State A Milton Hull. Florida Jack Tittle, Tulane Walter Ruark, Georgia Bernle Llpkla, Louisiana State Ray Graves, Tennessee Oscar Brltt, Mississippi George Hecht, Alabama Charles Sanders. Georgia Tech Chet Kozel, Mississippi George Webb, Georgia Tech George Poschner, Georgia Lloyd Cheatham, Auburn CHIT Klmsey, Georgia John Hovious, Mississippi Tommy Harrison, Florida 43 36 to the minor league meetings at great punts made during the course 41 1 Jacksonville, wonder If that ln- 19 'Jacksonville. Wnder If that inwy of the evening by Halfback Joe Vet rano. 51 1 eluded a traffic cop to keep them This particular boot scooted out 71 from getting tangled among them BEAUTY to rave about! RHYTHM to cheer! Middle Tennessee 2 3 1 68 87 selves? Part of the ballyhoo for 4QRassler Ignaclo Martinet Is that he 73 has been suspended in nearly every Miss.

College 1 3 0 33 of bounds on the Rattler two-yard line. Curt Sandlg's return punt was a liner to Vetrano at mldfield, and the little halfback dashed to the so state ne nas appeared m. Must be John Black, Mississippi State Bob Glass. Tulane Bg a nice gentle guy Manager on Lew Burston Is planning a New York Transylvania 1 3 0 74 Oglethorpe 1 3 0 35 Troy 1 4 0 3 Southeast La 1 4 0 40 La. College 1 6 0 30 MUs.

Delta 16 1 62 Union College Ky. 0 1 0 6 bama and Homer Hazel, of Mississippi. Center Bob Gude of Vanderbilt. Blocking back Jack Jenkins of Vanderbilt. Halfbacks Sinkwich Of Georgia and Nelson of Alabama.

St. Mary's 23 before he was stopped. March Across Prom there. Joe Etrir.gfellow picked up four on an end-around and Falco Caratzo and Joe Latham fol Walter McDonald, Tulane Noah Mullins, Kentucky Honorable mention: Ends Al Hust, Tennessee; Mike Balitsarls, Tennessee; Harry Arthur, Georgia Tech; Jim McLeod, Louisiana State; Gordon English. Tulsne; Dudley Pillow, Louisiana State: Bill Portwood.

12o I campaign this winter for Dsve Cas- performer. Hapes Hapes. one of the best kckers and most devastating runner-passers in the conference, rounded out his football playing at Mississippi in spectacular style. In his three-year career he averaged 44.5 yards punting, and piled up a total of 1,728 yards, and scored 120 points. Working in tandem with Junie Hovious, Hapes was a marked man all season yet helped keep Mississippi at the top of the pile week after week.

Both starred in defensive play. Linemen, seldom seen in headlines, won a large share of the glory in 1941. Rast was by far the greatest defensive end in the south, and complimented his ability with a slashing offensive game. Eubanks was Mlssissipp's pass-snatchng phenomenon all season. Sinkwich was the most valuable player In the conference in 1941, 144 65 a.i uiioux, uanafla ugntweignt and welterweight champion Jimmy Conielman is going to Hollywood lowed with a couple of plunges for Kentucky; Robert Patterson, Mississippi State; James Roberts, Alabama.

Centenary 0 11 13 Morehead 0 3 0 20 a first down. Vetrano was stopped 48 1 soon to write a sertes of movie shorts Added: CoVor Cartoon Sports "Latest News of The Pay" on football. Erskln 0 4 0 12 08 Tackles: Harley McCollum, Tulane; Benny Lane, Florida; Charles Dufour, Tulane; Mitchell Olenskl, Alabama; Noah Langdale, Alabama; Bill Hazel, Mississippi; Homer Jones, Miss. State; Tommy Greene, DIXIE CONFERENCE Birmingham. Dec.

1. Pinal Oeorgia; Don Whltmlre, Alabama; Tom Anderson, Georgia Tech; Her ft bert Kendrlck, L. S. Joe Eddlns, Auburn. Ouards: Emil Frlti.

Vanderbilt; Henry Noel, Tennessee; Joe Atkinson, Vanderbilt; Harold Grove, Miss. State; Jim Patrick, State; Wex QUOTE, UNQUOTE Larry MacPhail: "We've spent $100,000 toward the 1942 ball club already. So far we've only been dabbling in minor league prospects." ERVICEDEPT. Two years ago Henry E. Walden, athletic publicity director at Louisiana college, released several gas-filled balloons during the college's homecoming pageant between halves Jordan, Oeorgia Tech; Roman Benta, Tulane; Dan Eastman, L.

S. Chubby Ferrigno, Florida. SPORTS ANNIVERSARY (By AiMMlated Praul Year ago today Boston College and Tennessee accept bids to play in Sugar Bowl. Fordham agrees to Cotton Bowl appearance. Three years ago Lieut.

Harry (Hank) Hardwich announces he will not continue as Navy coach, thus ending- two-year term. Five years ago Andy Varipapa rolls thirty-third 300-game In bowling. James Yeager named football coach at Iowa State and Harvey Harman re-appointed Penn mentor for next three years. 1941 football standings of the Dixie conference: Team PF PA Chattanooga 4 0 1 129 26 Howard 2 0 1 68 IS Miss. College I 1 0 10? 53 Millsaps 110 14 34 Southwestern ..,.0 10 0 7 Memphis) Mercer 0 2 0 38 94 Spring H1U 0 4 0 27 119 Centers: Emmltt Ray, Mississippi State: Joe Domnanovlch, Alabama; Your whiskers when 1 en's a kttnTrftf BfatfiM yotr Lawrence Rice, Tulane; Bill Robinson, Florida; Clyde Ehrhardt, Georgia; Tex Williams, Aubum; Dan Wood, Mississippi.

Backs: Lamar Davis, Oeorgia: Johnny Butler. Tennessee; Leo Bird, L. S. Johnny Bosch, Oeorgia Tech; Dave Brown, Alabama; Ike Peel, of a game with Louisiana Tech. One of them was found 12 hours later at Tennessee; BUI Nowllng.

Tennessee; Lou Thomas, Tulane; Monk Oaf- fm phone 8f Healthfully Air Conditioned Prlnrt Always 10e-31e-SM Open Dally P. M. baturda A. M. LAST TIMES TODAY Tbicke ford, Auburn; Billy Murphy, Mississippi State; Ermal Allen, Kentucky; Walter OorlnskL L.

S. Billy McKlnney. L. 8. Red Mack, Florida.

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