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Sunday, Nov. 28, 1954 2-C Sr. Pcttr.burg Timet foodies assDSsnppa eirou ,3 it tAt PFm Sugar Bate; Tech Nips Georgia For Cotton Bid (g) Co) U(o) I Victory Keeps Improved FSU In Bowl Picture 1 Engineers Rally For 7-3 Victory In Big Bailie DALLAS Georgia Tech last Bight accepted an Invitation tt. meet Arkansas New Year's Day la the Cotton Bowl football game. The Yellow Jackets were selected minutes after they defeat ed Georgia 7-3 yesterday to end the season as runnerup la the Southeast Conference with record of seven victories and three defeats.

Arkansas, champion of the Southwest Conference, finished with eight victories and two defeats, including yesterday's 19-0 decision over the University of Houston. Ole Miss Stops Maroons 14 To 0 For Orleans Trip By Rt'SJj DALEY United Press Sports Writer) OXFORD, Miss. I CP) Mississippi in the space of three mmutcs turned two breaks into touchdowns yesterday and hX its greatest football Jackpot a 14-0 victory over Mississippi Slate, a Sugar Bowl dale with Navy and the Southeastern Conference title. An overflow crowd of 3UXK) wakhed the determined Rebels defeated only by Arkansas this year fight off a Mate rally and own championship jiitcr to wait only the formal Cill from cwr Orleans. It bad been made 1 1 A av i 4 p- Miami 14, Florida 0 If fTime Phnto by Johnnir Eiantl Florida ed WelUa Loekhart pounces a Miami fumble the ne yard line I slave tiff a Hurricane louchda) a.

'Cane halfback Gordon MaJley (32) vaulted lata the end Ene only find be didn't have the ball. florida State halfback Billy Graham heads for a touchdowa in the third period against Mississippi Souther at Tallahassee yesterday. He rapped his 31-yard seoring ran by kicking the extra point which proved be the winning margin as the Seminoles pulled a 19-11 upset. THE BOWL PICTURE: OVER ARCHRIVAL NORTH CAROLINA Soke Orange eorgia Tech, Arkansas Sears After 47-12 Uiciory Cottosi Bowl Rivals Jam. The Associated Press Navy, a football team made up of gobs of talent, spanked proud Army 27-20, won the Eastern championship and pow ered its way into the Sugar ow 1 all in one majestic sweep yesterday.

lation. had to arouse itself for a 14-10 victory over Virginia. The only two teams to stumble on the bowl path were Florida, de fealed by Miami banned from a bowl appearance by NCAA probation 14-0, and Baylor, losing both a share of the Southwest Conference title and a Newr Year's Day LSIorton Stars As Vaniy in low) Stock three minutes with Pascal scoring from the 15. Guard Jim Nelson converted the first of his four extra points. The Tar Heels, who made a came of it the first half, drove 67 yards late in the first period for its first touchdown with quarter back Len Bulloch sneaking over from the 1.

Duke added another touchdown in the second period, three in the third and two in the fourth. The Tar Heels scored their second touchdown in the closing minutes. Duke North Carolina 7 7 20 1347 6 0 0 612 Sooners Nudge Aggies 14 To 0 STILLWATER. Okla. The Oklahoma Aggies, not given a chance to stay in the same stadium with the powerhouse Oklahoma football team, threw up an amazing defense against the Soon ers before going down to the na tion's No.

3 club 14-0 yesterday. The victory was Oklahoma's i 19th straight and gave the Sooners their first all-victorious season since 1949. I Oklahoma quarterback Gene Ca Jame scored his team's touch- downs on 1-yard plunges and half I back Buddy Leake kicked both ex- 'tra points for all cf the game's scoring in the second period. I The Aggies came close to scor-jing in the final quarter as fullback Earl Lunsford. led his team's longest drive.

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'-v Stuns Tennessee 2S- TALLA1LA.SSEE. if) norida State's hard running Seminoles upset highly regarded Mississippi Southern 19-18 yesterday and thereby enhanced their chances of winning a year-end bowl bid. The win was the fourth in a row- in the last eight games for the improved Seminoles. Florida State now has a 7-3 season record marred by losses to Georgia. Auburn and Abilene Christian.

It plays a final game with the Uni versity of Tampa next Saturday in Tampa. A third period conversion by halfback Billy Graham provided Statistics MP PI tltlF. II is 11 i a 4 rtrai r4t raikmf Xambrr ml pmatt eita( mrrtmgt tambir kit si i the margin of victory'. Mississippi Southern had a chance to tie it up in the fourth period when end Hub Waters took a 10-yard scoring pass from quarterback George Herring to make it 19-18. But FSU fullback Joe Holt broke through and blocked the conversion at tempt by Carl Bolt.

GOOD GROUND GAME Florida State scored two of its three touchdowns with its favorite weapon the forward pass but it was a surprisingly good running attack featuring the speedy Gra ham Lnal set up the scoring plays. Graham, a senior playing his last home game for the Seminoles. gained 82 of FSU's 200 yard rush ing and scored the second touchdown on a 31-yard burst through the line. Herrng. who filled in for the in jured Jim Davenport at quarter back, was a Mississippi Southern standout, tossing two touchdown passes to end Waters and scoring another himself on a one-yard quarterback sneak.

For the Southerners, it was a disappointing end to a season which began auspiciously with an upset victory over Alabama. The loss apparently dashed Mississippi Southern's chances of winding up in a year-end bowl itself. Southern had played the last two years in the Sun Bowl at El Paso and had hoped for a bid to the Gator Bowl or to return to the Sun Bowl. Mississippi Southern started as if it would make the game a runaway, going for a touchdown the first time it got its hands on the ball. Bolt took the kickoff behind his goal line and behind good interference ran it to FSU's 27.

After three running plays. Waters took a 17-yard pass over the goal line for the score. The conversion attempt was wide. But Florida State came right back and drove 60 yards for a touchdown to tie the score. Quar terback Harry Massey fired a 20-yard scoring pass to halfback Lee Corso.

A 70-yard scoring drive shortly before the end of the first period sent Mississippi Southern ahead 12-. Herring sneaked over from the one-yard line for the touchdown. The conversion attempt was again wide. Graham's 31-yard scoring play and conversion in the third period put Florida State ahead for the first time. A break a few minutes later gave Florida State its opportunity for the clincher touchdown.

Al Paci- fico. FSU guard, pounced on Ted Trenton's fumble at the Mississip pi Southern 22. Massey then stepped back and dropped a looping rass into the hands of Tom Feamster big 6 foot 7 end and Feamster went across to score. After pulling up to within one point of Florida State, Mississippi Southern's attack bogged down and a desperate last minute passing attack failed to click. Florida State apparently took Mississippi Southern off guard by taking to the ground instead of filling the air with passes.

Miss. Southern 12 Florida State 0 0 618 0 13 019 Mississippi Southern scoring: Touchdowns. Waters 2, Herring. Florida Slate scoring: Touch downs, Corso. Graham, Feamster Conversion, Graham.

WEST VIRGINIA EDGES VIRGINIA ClIARLOTTESVILLEN, it West Virginia, concentrating on a possible bowl invitation, almost forgot it was in a football game this cold, windy, wet afternoon but finally recovered to squeak.by Vir ginia 14-10. Twice the Mountaineers, the nation's 12th-ranked team, found themselves behind. The last time was in the early moments of the third period when halfback Stan Knowles put Virginia ahead 10-7 with a 10-yard field goaL CHAPEL HILL. N.C. Half back Bab Pascal scored three touchdowns as power-laden Duke sent its hopes of an Orange Bowl hid skyrocketing yesterday by blasting rival North Carolina.

47- 12, to win the Atlantic Coast Con ference championship. A crowd of S5.000 watched as Duke scored a touchdown in each of the first two quarters and then turned the game into a rout to run up its biggest score in games against Carolina. Duke and Maryland are both un beaten in ACC play, but the Terps have a 13-13 tie with Wake Forest to mar their conference record. It was Duke's fifth consecutive win over the Tar Heels and gave the Blue Devils a season record of 7-2 1. Duke took the opening kickoff and rolled 69 yards in less than Mighf Have Been Different, Says Vodruff (Continued from Page I-C) standing quarterbacking.

Woodruff said. "Those Miami quarterbacks hid the ball better than any team that we have played against this year." Yet Bilyk seemed to refute that argument, he said, "We didn't have any trouble seeing those handoff down on the field. Wc just couldn't do anything about it after that." Speaking of the year that has been Woodruffs most successful in Southeastern Conference games. he said. "We can certainly lootc ahead for belter days.

We may not wm any more baa games than we've done this year, but the experience ill help those young boys on our team. 'This 1954 team has fought hard against the toughest schedule in Florida's history. I'm very proud of them fumbles, mistakes and ail." i i invitation, was beaten by Bice 20- 14. Boston College, meanwhile popped up as another bowl possibility, with a 31-13 victory over Holy Cross. That gave Boston Col lege its best season 8-x since 1942, when it advanced into the Orange Bowl.

The Gator Bowl looks to be Boston College's objective. They got an able assist from the sharp passing of senior quarter back Jim Looney. Tennessee was flowed because its top backs were hampered by injuries and still more by a tough Vanderbilt line paced by junior guard Larry Hayes, who outshone his all-conference sidekick, Bobby Goodall. Tennessee failed to make a first down or get past midfield until the third period was more than half gone. Its top backficld ork as Bobby Brengle's powerful punting.

He punted seven times for an average of 42.7 yards. Vanderbilt recovered a'Tcnnes see fumble on the Tennessee 36 early in the first quarter and drove for a score, Horton plunging a foot for the touchdow and Good-all converting. VANDERBILT 7 13 0 626 TENNESSEE 0 0 0 0 1 aw' i r--, Statistics Ml il 1 Jl 1 3 ii 1 1 known before the game Mississippi was in the susar uowi won yesterday. The Rebels ma'le their own breaks to run up their margin in the first two periods. The fast Iteb-el backs ripped off wads of yardage during the rest of the jume but found the going tough and i.lirpcr" after the Intermission, and fumbles were frequent.

STATE MOVES Then State came bark and moved 61 yards to the Mississippi IS with fullback Charles Evans carrying the load but could not muster a scoring thrust. Four time the bij und powerful Rebel l.nc stopped State backs within the 20. The line had to be good because with their big goal within their grasp. Rebel backs forjot to bold o.i to the ball. Mississippi scored in the last two minutes of the first period and again in the first minute of the second.

State had recovered a fumble the Mississippi IS but end George Harris of the Rebels stole an enemy jntchout to run to his own 40. PATTO.N STARS From there, the Rebels moved raight on down on halfback Jimmy Palton'a dashes. Quarterback Houston Tatton scored from the two on what looked like a busted signal. Tatton looked surprised when he found he had scored. Right after the next kickoff, Mississippi tackle Billy Yclverton snagged a State fumble on the Maroon 22.

From there the Rebels moved to their second score la six plays. Quarterback Day had a 12 yard pas completion during the drive. Halfback Earl scored from the one. The best play of the whole day for State was a 45-yard pass from quarterback Bobby Collins to end Levaine lloHinfshead which carried the Mississippi 25. but State couldn't go the rest of the way.

MiTsSsippi 7 7 00-14 Miss. SUte 0 0 0 00 LSU Acrid Rally In Second Half Nips Tulane 14-13 NEW ORLEANS. tf Quarter-fcack Win Turner whipped two sec ond-half touchdown passes through the rain-soaked air ot sugar r.owi stadium yesterday, bringing Louisiana State University from behind for a 14 -13 victory over Tulane. But. the LSU Tigers still needed the accurate conversions from hail back Al Doggctfs toe for the win Binj edse.

TraL'Lnir 11-0 at halttime. LSI' bolstered its sagging spirits after Turner unleashed his pinpoint pass-In attack. The LSU tine, mangled in the first half, revived enough to stop Tulane's offense. LSU marched yards in to plays for Us f.rst touchdown in the third quarter. Five straight Turner pass completions accounted for C3 yards with the scoring ios covering seven yards to end Joe Tumi- nelio.

Turner arvl halfback Vincent Gonzales kept the fourth-quarter LSU tcorlnjj drive movinj. Gon-ilrc cussed 47 Yards to end John Wood to set up a nine-yard Turner to Tumineilo scorinj toss. In all. Turner completed eight passes for 91 yards. Tulane scored its touchdowns in the second quarter on a 33-yard run by halfback Willie and a one-yard buck by sub fullback Rome Oullian.

Emmet Zelenka con verted after the first and missed tirt "fn1 trv Statistics CA. TECS CC0RCI4 I It yif 1 4 a 1 lira, dawaa Rattling yardaf eaaaiua aardaaa laaara puamptad Faaara atamptrtrd Faaar tatcrerpted kf Puma 14 Funttnf avrrata St 34 Innalrt taat I lard peaailard 3a By MERCER BAILEY (Associated Press Sports Writer) ATHENS. Ga. A 19-yard pass from Wade Mitchell to Henry Hair gave Georgia Tech 7-3 football victory over Georgia's fierce Bulldogs yesterday, keeping Tech among the nation's top bowl candidates. Georgia's rugged line and a mud.

dy field combined to stop Tech's racehorse running game. But Mitchell's perfect peg and Hair's fine catch in the end zone were all Tech needed for a come-from- i behind triumph ovf its Southeast ern Conference arch-rival. Rugged line play by Georgia bottled up Tech's offense for the entire first half and the Bulldogs led 3-0 at intermission on Joe Graffs 20-yard field goal. Both touchdowns were set up by fumble recoveries. Rain which had been falling all day stopped shortly after the kick-off, but the field was slippery and players had trouble holding on to the ball.

FIELD GOAL Georgia fullback Bobby Garrard recovered Johnny Menger's fumble on Tech's 11 in the second quarter. The Bulldogs gained only one yard in three plays and Graff came on to boot his three -pointer. Graff had tried a field goal in the first period but it flew wide. After intermission, Georgia quarterback Jimmy Harper fumbled on the first play from scrimmage and guard Franklin Brooks grabbed the ball for Tech at the 19. Mitchell, who had been nursing a badly bruised chest since the Alabama game, then hit Hair, his right end.

with Tech's only pasi completion of the game. Sterling defensive play by Brooks and all-America center Larry Morris played a major role in Tech's victory. Morris, playing 60 minutes in the final regular season game of his college career, was credited with 24 tackles. Brooks with 20, Both broke through several times to throw Georgia runners for losses. PUNTING STAR Pin-point punting by Garrard helped Georgia keep Tech deep in its own territory most of the lirst half.

He banged a 37-yarder out of bounds at Tech's 1 in the first quarter and a 43-yarder out at Tech's 13 late in the second period. Tech made only three first downs, none in the first half when the Yellow Jackets had the ball only long enough for six plays from scrimmage. The victory, sixth straight over Georgia, practically assured Tech of an invitation to some post-season game, probably the Cotton or Gator Bowl. Georgia Tech 0 0 7 07 Georgia 0 3 0 03 Wimauma Edges Indians With 3 TOs In Second VENICE (Special)-Wimauma's Tampa Bay Conference Wildcats exploded for three touchdowns in the second period here last night and held on to defeat Veniee-No-komis 18-14 in the first "Little Tarpon Bowl." The hometown Indians took a first period lead on a 46-yard touchdown pass play from Dick Smith to Roland Kappleman and Edgar Gay's conversion from placement, but the big Wildcats stormed back for their big second quarter. The three Wimauma scores came when Roy Bclisle bucked over from the six capping a 42-yard drive, Clifford Draymon scored from the five after an Indian punt was blocked, and Bel-isle powered into the end rone from the eitht after a pass inter ception on the Indian 3.V Venice Nokomis scored in the last quarter on a 92-yard march, the last 29 on Gay's sprint around' end and his conversion.

WIMAUMA VENICE-NOKOMIS 0 18 0 018 7 0 0 714 NASHVILLE. Tenn. 'UP) -Vanderbilt loosed a three-way punch in the form of Don Hunt. Charley Horton and Tommy Har-kins yesterday to rise from a miserable season and trounce grudge rival Tennessee 25-0 in a game which almost ended in a free-for all. Many of the near sell-out crowd of 27,000 surged out on the field when the players started mixing it up in the final two minutes.

It was Vanderbilt's first Southeastern Conference victory of the season with a four-six record, its nine games. Tennessee ended the season with a four-six record, its worst in 16 years. It was Hunt. Horton and Harkins, all juniors all high school freshmen when Vanderbilt last defeated Tennessee in 1948 who did the scoring and kept Vanderbilt driving from early in the game. Horton is from St.

Petersburg. Fla. I ft t- Though not officially announced until after the contest, the New Year's Day appearance in New Orleans was every bit as challenging to the Middies as their traditional service rivals. Immediately afterward the Midshipmen yelled their approval of a post-season engagement and selected the Sugar Bowl over the Cotton Bowl as the site. A short time later Sugar Bowl officials announced it would be Navy vs.

Mississippi in the New- Orleans attraction as the Southern ers disposed of Mississippi State 14-0 to clinch the bid and the South east Conference title. In the only other official action by the nation's bowl selectors, Georgia Tech was chosen as Arkansas' opponent in the Cotton BowL The Orange Bowl committee will decide between Duke and Maryland as the opposition for Nebraska sometime today. Gator Bowl officials at Jacksonville are likely to come up with both their teams in a single announcement today or tomorrow. All but two of the bowl hopefuls kept their hopes alive with victories as the collegians virtually wrapped up the 1934 season. Georgia Tech.

with mm eye oa the Cotton Bowl, defeated Georgia 7-3; Duke won the Atlantic Coast Conference championship by mauling North Carolina 47-12; Auburn, basing its bowl qualifications on a whirlwind season finish, knocked off Alabama 28-. and West Virginia, preoccupied with the post-season pcti- 15,000 Turn Out At Tropical Park For Turf Opening MIAMI. I Heart Flash and Game Chance won the two divisions of the Inaugural Handi cap at Tropical Park yesterday as Florida' long thoroughbred racing season opened before 15,037 fans, second largest in the track's history. Heart Flash, paying $31.90 for $2, look the lead soon after the start of the 5'i furlong feature and won by three-fourths of a length over Lhe 3 2 favorite, Hy-phasis. Skirper Bill was a neck away in third.

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