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The Miami News from Miami, Florida • 25

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The Miami Newsi
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Miami, Florida
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ffl. i- i.T. i'. i .1 .1 Jr i Fishing Forecast sjp For IFecAeirl The Miami New; Section Classified Sports rAGE 8-C Miami, Sunday, Oct. 26, 1958 BOSTON COLLEGE WINS 6-2 ON 48-YARD RUN Lo allows in iviuc 1VJL Futile 6-2 before the Boston College Eagles, a one- ran 48 yards for a touchdown in the third period.

From then on, Boston held ferociously to their 6-2 Morris By TOMMY FITZGERALD Spoilt Reporter of The Miami wt BOSTON, Oct. 25 In proper Boston, where the Lowells speak only to the Cabots and the Cabots speak only to God, the University of Miami Hurricanes weren't even on speaking terms with themselves here this drizzly, cold, gusty afternoon. They were left leaden-tongued and heavy-hearted as they sank in a football field of mud by touchdown underdog. For a while, in the second quarter, it looked to the 11,000 brave and hardy customers, the Hurricanes also were on a conversational level with the Almighty, as a gift of providence a wild center-pass safety gave them a 2-0 lead. But a fullback named Vin Hogan slipped through the right side of the U-M second unit and McLemore Sports Editor Gus Isn't Alone In Defeat, The Losers Gather 'Round While listening to Troy Glidewell's radio account of Miami's oggy loss to Boston College yesterday afternoon, it became more and more apparent that the weisenheimers will have selected their mental hand holds on Andy Gustafson's hide before the morrow dawns.

Here in the office, we booted the subject around for a while Howard Kleinberg suggested the rain and slick ball actually i cum (M) in ST M. IT hurt Boston College "because BC is a passing Ed Pierce, rapidly parting with 24 bucks in losing bets, snorted: "It hurt Miami more Miami is a fumbling team," Certainly Miami is some kind of a team different from the kind of team we thought it to be About that time, the teletype machine bringing Tommy Fitzgerald's story about the sickening defeat straicht from the press box to the shop for this edition, went blooey GL'STAKSON lead, its ends tackling so viciously that Miami was never able to get deeper in Bonton territory, than the B.C. 39 in the second quarter and again in the third. It was a game of many fumbles, especially by Miami, and of heavy penalties on B.C. Miami had planned to shock staid, conservative Boston with a wild, wide open attack a departure in policy from its old way of playing in an effort to redeem itself with its fans in the wake of that 41-0 loss to L.S.U.

two weeks ago. Terrible weather conditions were not suited for the unveiling of their new attack, featuring a widely spread halfback as well as a widely spread end. But they tried it anyway without success and at the finish were back with their driv scries striving to salvage this game from the muck. B. C.

kept to the ground in this slippery going, out Gaining Miami 211 yards to 132 and compiling 12 first downs to Miami's six. iYo Time For Passing Each team passed only four times and each completed only one toss and each netted only 10 yards this way. Miami fumbled the ball all this dreary afternoon, losing it five times on muffs. B. C.

gave the ball up three times on fumbles and pid a big toll in penalties 95 yards to 10 for Miami but B. C. refused to be discouraged and outbat-tled the Hurricanes. The rain coated, umbrella protected crowd of 11.000 found the misery worth it as the Eagles, twice beaten by Syracuse and Villanova, made U-M its third victim. They previously had whipped Scranton and Marquette.

Miami now has won only one over Baylor and has lost three times to Wisconsin, L.S.U. and now to Boston College and this was the most humiliating of all Miami has failed to score a touchdown in three of its four games. Nobody Wants The Ball Miami won the toss, chose the goal with the wind and kicked off. Boston had to punt and, gelling possession on its 23, Miami publicly unveiled its new ofiense a "halMnnesome end" and a "half-lonesome halfback," each about 10 yards wide. It's first play was an unsuccessful long pass.

Then fumbleitis easy io contract on this muddy field with this slippery ball set in. U-M fumbled to B.C., B.C. fumbled right back on its first play and U-M immediately returned the ball to them on a fumble. Three plays, three fumbles. Now B.C., had the ball on its 36, was penalized for clipping back to its 21 and moved in two first downs into U-M territory about the 40.

Another 15-yard penalty for illegal use of the hands stalled the drive and they punted. Miami's second unit was in there now. Maclntyre returned the punt 31 yards to the B.C. 45, but another U-M fumble, this one by Mitchell on a pitch-out, gave the Eagles the ball on the B.C. 46.

What, Again? Yes, Again! They began moving again, but they lost the ball on a fumble on the U-M 38, With a 15-yard run by Maclntyre, U-M penetrated to the B.C. 45. The attack bogged, the Hurricanes punted and B.C. had the ball on its 15 as the first quarter ended. Boston kicked but again was guilty of illegal use of the -v -f it 7 Finally, it started up again, with a brief message from Tom's Western Union operator.

"Kripes," it said, "his typewriter broke down and he writing in pencil and it almost impossible to read Apparently the operator was not forewarned of the quality of Fitz's penmanship. Otherwise, he would have lugged an extra typewriter for just such an emergency And Fitz always will hate me, I'm sure, for sending off to a game like that, in all that icy goo. He had to hurry out lo the airfield immediately, of course, to accompany the team home and with a busted typewriter banging against his cold shanks as he raced (or the plane The best thing to be said for the Hurricanes is that thry tried some new formations and other measures to break the hex that is plaguing them but BC was the aggressor at practically every stage. You can't win them all, that's for suie but it's nice to win one occasionally, lads. This is the first time since 1944 that a U-M club has dropped three of its first four games.

Speaking Of Action There was this fellow talking about the action around here, or the. lack of it Some guys go for cigarettes, others for wild, wild odds and when they start tapering off it's with four horse parlays. This fellow was such a one. "Miami's gone to pot," the tote board degenerate declared. "In fact, Florida's deader'n a old ladies home on Tuesday afternoon "That's why," he picked a short butt from his side pocket and burned his nose lighting it, "I gotta go with Vegas and Havana There, country boy, are places a man can stop anywhere and get a brt down," He can, indeed, which reminds me of a conversation one evening in Havana, some months ago.

Jake Lansky, a chap known for a broad-minded attitude about being seen in the same room with dice and bird cages, asked me to pull up a chair in the Nacionals' dining room. We chatted about this, that and over yonder in the States, in several of which Jake has been the object of public interest, If not scrutiny. As manager of the Nacional's posh gambling hell, Jake continued associations and friendships with old buddies from the days when he had the Plantation and other clubs hereabouts. These had In common a liberal attitude toward dinner guests who wished to have a bit of acey-deucy after the baked Alaska, which, It should be noted, was not bad. "Legalized gambling for South Florida?" Jake mulled the question as he poked at his coffee cup with a subby finger.

"Well, like I was telling you," he reflected, "my family's living up at Hollywood right now Legalized gambling? no. It would bring in an awful mess of bums Thursday Opening Despite a sudden lurch in favor of the legalized opening of horse parlors hereabouts by Jack Dempsey and Metro Commissioner John McLeod about as unlikely a political quin-iela as one can imagine it doesn't appear there's any great groundswell of demand for their scheme. upi Teieptyito. hands and had to kick again this time from its one. And this time, center Poirer squirted the soggy ball high over Continued On Page 3-C, Col.

1 DON'T LOOK BACK I KAN FOLLOWING YOU Curci About To Hit From Behind By Eiseiihatier After 8 Yard Gain BEAT VOLS 10-0 FSU cores Va til Greatest Its Victory Yet By GREGORY FAVRE Atlanta Journal Mnff Writer KNOXVILLE, Oct. 25 Tom, Nugent has waited nearly six long years for this day to come and finally his patience paid dividends as the Florida State Seminoles grabbed their greatest, victory here this afternoon. The fulfillment of the dream came at the expense of Tennessee, many times the mighty king of the Southeastern Conference. The -5-H scrappy Seminoles blanked their fcorefoerd heavily-favored opponents, 10-0. Using the illustrious most of the way, Nugent's forces turned in their finest defensive show of Miami 2 Tennessee 0 On the other hand, those citizens infected by the virus of chance and several scarred losers to the disease are only feet away from me at this moment can get all the action they need in the established, legal tracks and frontons of this state.

And there's nothing small about their facilities or operations last year alone, the horse, dog and jai-alai promoters processed some $315,546,506, of which $24,225,971 went into the state's coffers. the season and what surely must BOSTON BACK WALK (ARROW) ALL OVER MIAMI Jim Colclough (40) Uses Bill Hayes As Stepping Stone To Gain Boston College 6 Florida State 10 Army 14 Purdue 29 be classed as their best offensive 'H effort, considering the reputation of this Volunteer line. Army Lucky In Tie With Pitt DEMPSY Illinois 16 John Sheppard kicked a field Pitt 14 Notre Dame 22 Michigan State 0 Minnesota 19 Ohio State 7 Kentucky 0 goal from 16 yards" out in the third quarter for three of the 10 The AaruK'ialrd I'rrfts PITTSBURGH, Oct. 25 The Army football team, rated No. 1 in the national rankings and No.

Michigan 20 Wisconsin 7 Georgia 28 W. Virginia 20 Syracuse 14 Holy Cross 16 Harvard 16 Villatwva 13 Buffalo 34 Yale 14 Brown 47 Big as this was, it was 2.29 percent under the take of the year before Sufferers from bitsetes of the gambling bug couldn't see the tote boards for the goosebumps in our most miserable winter Now, there's a new deal and, according to long range forecasts, a new set of temperatures in the offing, or, rather, we're supposed to get back our old, pleasant winter days and nights, when a fellow could study the form charts without seeing his hands fall fff, The Flaglor dog track the old, Flagler" no longer Is accepUbia toey say opens the tip hunting season on the coming Thursday 'With expectations of a most auspicious beginning, this track and the others figure to make up the slack of last winter, plus a bit of gravy, since the general economic trend is on the rise. Action aplenty can be had here, in other words. But at least our lords in Tallahassee have made sure the adventurous citizen must, go further than the back of his favorite soda parlor to get some. To this, amen.

4 and Bobby Renn blasted over from the one in the same period for the extra cushion, PUNT LOSS Tennessee picked up what was surely one of the most unusual breaks it has ever received early in the first period. Renn, kicking from his own 42, slapped the ball with the side of his shoe and it traveled backwards two yards. The Vols' single wing puzzled the Seminoles momentarily and they moved to the FSU 17 before a 15-yard assessment set them back. And from the 30 they were forced to kick. With time running out in the Continued on Page 2-C, Col.

4 brought both the touchdowns and the important extra points. But it also led to four interceptions just when the Panthers looked as if they were going places. The big, confident Pitt team, whose 'only defeat was at the hands of Michigan State, outplayed Army through the greater part of today's game. But when it Came to a showdown, the Army defense was just good enough to hold out. What it amounted to was Army winning the first half by a narrow margin and Pitt the second half by a big one in everything except the score.

A crowd of 50,287 sat in the rain until the end as touchdown just before the half ended and another with an all-important two-point conversion just after the third quarter started. From there on, it was a battle in which neither team could get the breaks it needed to win. Pitt got close enough for two field goal attempts in the third period, but missed them both. Army's one good drive bogged down in the mud on the Pitt 4. TITT CONFIDENT The deciding play, which gave Pitt its tie, was a simple shovel pass from Ivan Toncic to Dick Haley for the two-point conversion Pitt's vaunted passing attack Pitt mounted a final drive which came close to a score after stopping Army with a great goal line stand.

Army, after taking charge with a superb defensive show in the first quarter, grabbed the lead at the start of the second period. PITT ARMY 14 Flrat IWn. 11 IIS Running Yardm 104 1X7 Pansmt Vardaia si HI-IS Puiri SIS Paaura lnlpneplrd Br 4 4 -i Punt S-'ie. fiimhlrii l.nut a Yariln l-rnallird 441 Army 0 14 0 0- 1 Put OSS 0-14 At my Walilmp i run (Waltera kirk i Krrnv ury 7 pas from Anderson (Wnlteri kick) Pitt Flara 43 PJ from Kalldta tpasii fallrrti Pitt Zannt pmi from Toncia lHaley pan from Toncicj Va. Tech 20 Penn State 6 Boston U.

8 Dartmouth 8 Richmond 6 Columbia 14 Colgate 7 Rhode Island 6 Princeton 8 Hofstra 0 Lehigh 13 Fayetteville I 1 on offense, turned into a stubborn defensive squad today and barely escaped with a 14-14 tie against a fired-up Pittsburgh team rated second only to the Cadets in the East. The deadlock kept in tact Pitt's record of never losing to Army in the big Pittsburgh Stadium. For a while today in the rain-drenched second half it looks as if the Panthers would run the Cadets rryit out of the big bowl. Pitt, trailing 14-0 after nine minutes and 36 seconds of the second quarter, came back to get one Cornell 34 Cortland 8 Rutgers 44 St. Augustine 18.

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