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V4 SECTION 4 -If JACK TROY SPORTS EDI I OR Grantland Rice John Bradberry Thad Holt John Martin Melvin Pazol Al Sharp Charlie Roberts Jack Cuddy Kenneth Gregory LI '11 II I I- A Radio Classified Real Estate 1 VOL. No. 141. ATLANTA, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2, 1941. Bulldogs Score in Last Seconds for 7-0 Win; Duke 14, Tech 0 Army and Irish Fight to Scoreless Deadlock Resurgent Green Wave Jolts Vanderhilt, 34 to 14 jBY JACK TROY am njijujn i ti wji.imjj iniwwi mnuijj i oiji i immn i nnn vrn -r -emu i wwww iww map iwyow- numu i iiimnimi rr li'iim J(' 5 r-'V -v f.t' "7 7.

cV; V-? V' -Atf-v wm; .1..,, Vr, ilvJ I' I It DID Happen Here Jbe wrl? 7t0Psy I I turvy, sho null. Imag ine what happened to Tech High Friday night happening in Atlanta! Maybe you hadn't heard about Tech High's incredible misfortune. Well, sir, all tied at six-all and with only a minute to go, Tech high loses to Memphis Tech on a referee's ruling. Pass interference is called in the Smith ie end zone and the ball put out at the one. A buck through the line gives the visitors a last-second decision.

Village Smithie Jack Couch, a great boy, was fighting for the ball, quite naturally, and one official ruled it was okay and another with greater authority said it wasn't. So there you are. Pass interference in the end zone in the last minute! And if I ever hear Walter Stewart, Dave Bloom, George Bugbee or any other Memphis sports writers ever say visitors don't get the best of it in Atlanta the shootin' will start. As a Brooklynite might have said, "What happened to Atlanta Tech High shouldn't happen to Hitler!" Inspiration raner unique football injury has 1 just come to light. Names aren't im portant, neither is school, in this case.

It seems that this particular coach was very inspirational and that one of his players was sort of fidgety and was heavily swayed by the emotions of the coach. The player, a star back, couldn't stay still. He almost hopped around awaiting the signal to go out for the kickoff against a second-rate opponent. The coach was in one of his better spell-binding moods and at the end of his pep talk he said, "Let's go!" The fidgety player led the charge, bounced out the door, slipped on the concrete runway and sprained his ankle! He didn't get to play from then until a month after the season opened. Ilvstcria stoiy remindful of the coach who hit upon such an inspirational vein that he, himself, was swept up by the fervor of his oratory.

He was talking to the team in the gymnasium and there were two doors that looked just alike, one leading to the field. Upon the conclusion of his pep talk he shouted, "Let's go get 'em!" And himself led the charge to the door. He grabbed the handle and dashed right into the school swimming pool! Do" Down at Corpus Christi, Texas, where they're training boys to keep 'em flying, Allan Wilcox, one of the Wilcox boys who starred for Tech, is enlisted. They tell quite a story on Allan, who was a recent visitor at the Flats. When a newcomer arrives at Corpus Christi, as in any other training camp, they immediately determine whether or not the boy's got it under the belt.

Apparently Allan, who is not very tall and has a baby face, didn't impress his instructor overly much as the fellow prepared to take him aloft and give him the works. So up they went and the fellow gave Allan everything the ship could take. He figured, toward the end, that Wilcox probably would be huddled in the cockpit with his eyes closed. What he saw brought him up out of his seat. Wilcox was whirling the machine gun in all directors, spattering imaginary enemy ships with "hot lead" and with that old Yellow Jacket gleam in his eyes.

There was a glow on his face. "He'll do," the instructor said cryptically in his report to headquarters. Bowl Spectator coach is going to a bowl, but only as a spectator. Leahy writes: "Dear Jack: "Just a note to let you know how much I enjoyed seeing you again over the Notre Dame-Tech weekend. I am only sorry we could not have been together longer.

I hope to see you at the Sugar Bowl game. I plan to witness it this year as a spectator. "Sincerely yours, "FRANK LEAHY." Notre Dame will never play in a bowl game so long as Leahy remains there as head coach, he declared upon the occasion of the Irish-Tech game here. The Irish don't need the money (bless 'em). if i.

1 II 111 111 DUKE ON MARCH Tom Davis, star Duke halfback, Goddard (64) leading his interference. Davis gained a Constitution Staff Photo Kenneth Roger. played a big part in Duke's 14-0 victory. He threw both touchdown passes, one to Lach, the other to Gantt. is shown as he gained 11 yards on an end run, with Guard total of 42 yards against Georgia Tech yesterday and Tulane Storms TliroughVandy In Power Show Battling Army Holds Irish to Scoreless Tie Sinkwich-to-Davis Pass Stuns Plainsmen, 7 to 0 By JOHNNY BRADBERRY, Assistant Sports Editor.

MEMORIAL STADIUM, COLUMBUS, Nov. 1. The amazing Frankie Sinkwich and his running mate, Race Horse Lamar Davis, exploded on the last play of the game today to connect with a 64-yard pass to give Georgia a hard-earned 7-0 victory over Auburn before a hysterical crowd of 17,000 fans. Outplayed Duke Scores Twice on Long Aerials By JACK TROY. Constitution Sports Editor.

Bottled up on the ground, a big, lumbering Duke team struck twice through the air to defeat a scrapping Georgia Tech eleven, 14 to 0, yesterday afternoon at Grant Field. It was not much of a victory for the Blue Devils from Durham. The Tech line was master of the day and, in ground gaining, Tech was vastly superior to the apparently Bowl-bound Wade dreadnaughts. Army Halted at 10-Yard Wave Knocks Commodores From Ranks of Undefeated. By ROMNEY WHEELER.

NASHVILLE, Nov. 1. (JF) Tulane's mighty Green Wave roared over Dudley Field today, THE LINEUPS. AUBURN Fos. GEORGIA Tech, four times within easy THE LINEUPS.

It was one of those things the scoring play and it is a bet that it will never happen again. Monk Gafford, who played a whale of a game for the inspired Tigers, punted. The ball rolled out DUKE scoring distance, was denied touchdowns by the superhuman efforts of the Blue Devil defense. The Jackets went once to the 11, once to the 10, once to the nine swamping Vanderbilt University's L.E. Smith Karmazin 1 Burns Tun nnnin 1310 in I III' I' 1 II i L.T.

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Divit. Georgia Scoring pigsKin areamDoat, ji-h, ana sweeping the Commodores from the ranks of unbeaten, untied teams. While 22,000 fans yelled themselves frantic, Vandy surged to a seven-point lead in the first five minutes of play and held it until Tulane's terrific power smashed through the Commodore defense for two touchdowns in the second quarter. At the start of the third quarter, Halfback Art Rebrovich pitched a pass to Fullback Bernie Rohling, who wheeled 71 yards for a tying touchdown. END OF VANDY.

That was the end of Vandy's drive and of Vandy's luck. With the crushing power of a runaway steamroller, Tulane plowed its way to one touchdown by rush Line; Irish Threaten Twice. By BILL BOM. NEW YORK, Nov. 1.

(X) Mud, mire and a hard-bitten Army halfback from Lowell, combined to hold a favored Notre Dame football team to a scoreless tie today. At the end of an afternoon of slipping, sliding and sloshing over the Yankee Stadium gridiron all the players were so many mystery men, so far as identification was concerned. But there was no doubt in the minds of the spectators that, obscured as he might be by muck, Cadet Hank Mazur was the star of the game. Mazur, who last year helped another underdog Army team outfight if not outscore the Irish, was one of the Cadets' three 60-min-ute men. It was his running, off tackle and around the ends, that piled up most of Army's 120 yards rushing (to 86 for Notre Dame), and above au it was his punting, for an average of 39 yards a boot, that helped keep Notre Dame from getting into position for any serious threats.

ARMY RIDES HIGH. With this showing Army, in its first season under Civilian Coach Red Blaik, definitely regained its place in football's big-time. Both clubs had c6me up to this battle unbeaten and untied, and what little edge there was in the game belonged to the Cadets. Point After Touchdown Cotta (for Sinkwich) (placement). Substitutions: Georgia End.

Phfttps; tackles, EMenson, Posey; guards, Burt, Home; centers, eociwin, Costa; backs, Allen, Dudish, Kauper. Auburn Ends, Barton, Canzoneri; tackles, Crimmins, McClurkln, Schuler; guards, Morris, Cornelius; center, Pharr; backs, Kennell, Clayton, Irby. Duke scoring: Touchdowns. Lach, Gantt. Points after touchdown, Prothro 2 (placements).

Quke Substitutions: Ends Morgan Beamer. Dempiey. Tackles Redding. Thompson. Guards Poole, Liptcomo.

Center Gill. Backs Storer, Long. Bo. binsky. Tech Subs: Ends Burroughs, Webb.

Tackle West. Guards Hardy, Ryckley, Centers Manning, Wright. Backs Faulkner. Kuhn, Piaster, Oliver, Sheldon, McHugh. of bounds on the Georgia 36-yard line.

THREE SECONDS LEFT. Gafford had been punting away from Davis all afternoon, but if he had kicked to him on this play, the game would have been over after the tackle. But he kicked out of bounds and there was three seconds left by the' timer's watch. As Big Bill Godwin snapped the ball to Sinkwich, official time ended, but the game couldn't stop until after the play was completed. Sinkwich raised his arm and shot a pass straight down the middle.

It looked as if Davis, who had eluded both Gafford and Clayton, would never get to it. But he gathered the ball in with a sensational catch on the Tiger 25 and there wasn't a man on the field who could catch him. Lippy Leo Costa came in and place-kicked the extra point to make the score seven, but it mattered little as the whole thing was already over as far as the officials were concerned. The payoff covered 39 yards in the air and was one of the few Georgia completed against a brilliant Tiger defense all afternoon. "ALL-AMERICAN" PASS.

Thus did Sinkwich, who played harsh fate. They lost spark-plug Johnny Bosch rather early in the game. He departed in the second quarter never to return. Here probably went the difference in the ball game. DUKE NOT SUPERIOR.

Duke was not superior to Tech yesterday. The score, for the records, will remain 14 to 0. But the cold facts will also remain that Duke was bewildered and baffled most of the time and was fortunate, indeed, that Bosch suffered a recurrence of an old knee injury. The triumph was Duke's sixth straight of the season. The Blue Devils are the only unbeaten major force in Dixie.

And they also are the luckiest. On the ground yesterday Tech led by 204 yards to 165, but trailed in passing offense by 67 yards to 136. It wasn't even close in first downs. Tech had a wide edge of 19 to 13. They don't pay off on figures, never have.

It's the final score that counts and, so far as the records are concerned, Duke still is a great team. But a poll of the 28,000 fans who witnessed the game at Grant field might produce an entirely different opinion. Tech had the class, Duke had the points. Georgia Tech had a superior line in spite of all the Duke superiority in weight and reserves. And even in the back-field, except for the passing, the Tech team was more effective.

The Golden Jackets' operated with a seven-man line most of the time and the Lachs, Longs' Siegfrieds, Davises and others met their match. Duke scored with less than a Rod Blaylock Sparks Mercer To Thrilling Homecoming Win ing and two more by passing the last two in the final quarter of play. Jack Jenkins, Vandy's great blocking back, led the outweighed Commodores again and again in assaults on the mountainous Tulane line, but except for the opening quarter, when Vandy drove 55 yards in nine plays, most of the gains came by air. Vanderbilt was credited with 283 yards for the day and 165 was by the overhead route. Tulane gained 375 yards, of which 308 was rushing, 67 by passes.

Tulane's right end, Bill Hornick, set up the second Green Wave touchdown when Vandy's J. P. out from the 12-yard line and Moffat Storer raced back to th thirty-three. Apparently little Davey Eld-redge, who played a brilliant offensive game, was caught unawares. There was no particular deception to the pass play that brought the opening touchdown.

Tom Davis simply threw ti Steve Lach, who had galloped be-, hind Eldredgc, and a quick touchdown in the closing seconds of what miRht have been a scoreless first half resulted. It was a sickening break for a Tech team that had been completely superior for all except a minute of the first half. Duke started out in the game, after the opening kickoff, with a brisk march from the 22 to tha Tech 46. Steve Lach came in with a 17-yard run on the drive. STRATEGY BACKFIPES.

But the Duke generalship back- Bulldog goal. The Plainsmen bottled up Sinkwich as no other team has done this fall and tackled viciously on all the Georgia backs. However, a spirit that will never let them give up or quit gave Wally Butts' team their victory. They never stopped fighting against time to score. They drove 75 yards to the Auburn five-yard line just as the first half ended in their only other threat.

They gave indications of scoring only a couple of other times when Sinkwich sparked drives, but pass interception always killed it. CHEATHAM STARS. The Tigers, led by a flaming, tow-headed blocking back by the name of Lloyd Cheatham, who gave his all, marched deep into Georgia territory often in the second half, but were never able to climax the drive with a score. Meagher's lads went to the Bulldog 15-yard line twice and to the 18 once in the third period and again to the 16 in the fourth, but the Big Red team always seemed to rise to the occasion and stop the drive. Big Bill Godwin at center, Morris Phelps at end, Tom Greene at Continued on Pace S-D.

Under the conditions a steady rain that made a slop of part of the field before the game even began there could be few highlights. The most rudimentary kind of football was the only kind that worked, and with both clubs putting up stout defenses even that didn't go very far. The one real threat by either team came in the second quarter. On the next-to-last play of the first period Dippy Evans, Notre J.TACON". Nov.

1. (JP) Rodney Blaylock, Mercer halfback, thrilled a home-coming crowd today as he led his teammates to a 19-12 victory over Presbyteriaa College with a 12-yard touchdown sprint in the Second quarter and raced SOyards to goal in the final frame. Presbyterian scored first in the Initial quarter when Henry Caver passed to Ted Dunne over the goal line. But the Mercer Bears came back in the next frame when Blaylock climaxed a downfield drive with his 13-yard run. Again, near half-time, Mercer vent farther into the lead with Jo Davis rifling a pass to Glenn Ratliff, standing in the end zone.

In the final quarter Presbyterian came back to score on another pass by Caver, this time to Billy Callaway. With only a few minutes left in the game Arthur Yancey took the ball on Mercer's 14, ran it up to the 20, tossed a lateral to Blaylock. The halfback ran the remainder of the field, untouched. Red Raiders Earn TieWith Crusaders HAMILTON, N. Nov.

1. IP) Colgate and Holy Cross battled to a 6-to-6 tie today before 7,000 rain-soaked spectators. Both touchdowns came in the second quarter. a whale of a ball game although bottled up pretty well by a gallant Auburn line, pull his team from the fire and add further to his bid for AU-American. He gained 117 yards in 26 attempts during the game for an average of a little better than four and a half yards a try.

This was a little below his season's average of 670 yards in 119 attempts for an average of 5.6 a try, which includes today's game. Let it be said here and now that the Tigers played a whale of a bail game and deserved better fate than they got. Jack Meagher's eleven played brilliantly and constantly threatened to cross the Moore rumbled the kickoff after Tulane's first tally. Hornick fell on the ball on Vandy's 14, and in five plays Bob Glass and John Sims carried it over, Sims scoring from the one. Tulane, its battering-ram backs pounding their way for extra yards without interference, scored a third touchdown on nine straight Continued on Face 6-D.

i fired at this point and when a pass failed a penalty stopped the Blue Devils cold. In the second period before the) last-minute touchdown, Bob Bar- Dame most consistent gainer, got off a wobbling punt with the wet ball that carried only 11 yards from the line of scrimmage and Continued on Page 6-D. minute to go in the first half because of a Tech defensive lapse. Captain Charley Sanders kicked Continued on Face 3-D. Ml.

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