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The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 14

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TIE SOUTHS STANDARD KSWSPAFCt PACE FOURTEEN A tie constitution, Atlanta, cjl, Sunday, novexr is, itss. ornia, 7, to 6 (Bowl Bid Opjm.as-ffldsitiing&dnc Upsets Sou thern Calif All- Major Football Scores On Page 16A JAGK TROY. SPORTS EDITOR Grantland Rice John Bradbcrry Thad Holt Tom McRae Melvin Pazol Roy White Kenneth Gregory Eddie Brietz Alan Gould TECH AND ALABAMA PLAY 14-14 TIE icirk ictck Tulame Crushes WtM Wins, 21-0 GIBSON SETS UP SECOND TECH TOUCHDOWN WITH A 42-YARD PUNT RETURN TO TWO-YARD LINE Editor's Note: In the absence of Sports Editor Jack Troy. vho is HI at his home, this morning's "All in the Game" is written by Ralph McGill, executive editor of The Constitution. GRANT FIELD, Nov.

12. There was a hot sun puttinr a July smile on Grant field as the crowd began to gather for Tech struggle wtth the Crimson Crushers from Tuscaloosa. Ladies in new fall suits squirmed on the stadium benches and muttered "oh, dear, oh dear," as the sun warmed up the tweeds and woven woolens making up the new fall suitings. The same old lure brought our best and worst citizens in great numbers. Tech was rated the underdog but given one of those forlorn chances to upset the best known plans of football coaches and prognosticators.

Only the more rugged drinkers kept on the job. Their numbers, like those of the buffalo, grow smaller. It was warm but they sweated and entertained or annoyed their neighbors, according to the ancient custom of football drunks. The bands came in early, baneinjr drums and making great crashing of cymbals, a loud tooting of theif own horns and bringing with them the. stiff dignity which only a college band can muster.

The college bands never do anything new nut somehow they are a part of the game and the Jialf would re rather dull without their preening, strutting and elementary i V1 vr grade spelling. (After seeing the Alabama and Tech bands at the half, please forget it. Both bands came in with great shows. Tech adding singing which was good and the Alabama band a magnificent drill, plus an eccentric rendition of Alexander's Rag Time band which wowed the crowd.) The Georgia Tech freshmen manage always to put on the best show. When they stand and wave their yellow freshmen caps, they make a gaudy spectacle.

The Alabama band made a Crimson splash of color in the stands. They had an oompah player who was a candid camera fiend. He stopped playing an oompah long enough to take pic lures of his own band members with their cheeks puffed ou playing picolos and clarinets. One of the more familiar jokes concerns a picolo player who was addressed profanely by cowboy in a western saloon. They had what the loud speaker announcer called "a new innovation." They brought in a color guard and the band played the "Star Spangled Banner." The guard stood alone on "the field.

It was a good feature and a splendid innovation. THE USUAL MECHANICS. The teams took the field and went through the usual mechanics of getting off the nervous edges and warming up. They then went away for the last word from the coaches. They go into their dressing rooms.

The atmosphere always is tense. The coach goes over the lineup. He reminds the players of the anticipated offense and the prepared defense. There always is talk of what to do if they win the toss. The wind has been examined and a decision is reached well before the captains go on the field for the toss.

Usually the first play is decided upon, depending of course on where the ball is obtained. The players sit there a bit nervously, chewing gum, clearing their throats, and shuffling their feet. Thev go on the field feeling an emptiness at the pit of their stomachs. The feeling is forgot once, the whistle blows. It never comes back.

The players are caught up in the game. Rarely, if at all, do thev hear the cheers from the cheering sections. The cheering is a con (ft- 'tin 1 lMtallun. is Wesley, Jacket end. Ector went over for Tech's second touchdown three plays later.

Gibson, Frank Thomas agreed, was the most dangerous back on the field. Billy Gibson, No. 16, Georgia Tech halfback, comes to 44, Gibson picked up interference and sped down the side-the end of his 42-yard punt return against Alabama in the lines to the Alabama two-yard stripe where Mosley (No. 55) photo above. Catching Herky Mosley's punt on the Tide is waiting to tackle him.

No. 46 on the ground at the right, fused roar. It was this roar, incidentally, which helped bring 2d TideTouchdown SMASH HUSKIES apout me middies. LO, THE POOR SCOUTS. TROJANS' HOPES In the seats just below the press box sit the visiting scouts.

Was Illegal' Alex Tech Plays Gallantly To Tie Alabama Before They must suffer a double suffering. They must worry about DUKE DEFEATS SYRACUSE, 210 Blue Devils Rout Orangemen To Retain Unbeaten, Untied Record. SYRACUSE, N. Nov. 12.

(JPi Geared to top efficiency, Duke's ruthless football machine rut down a courageous but help their own teams, because all of them are assistant coaches. And Georgia Can't Stop Green Wave Backs Held Scoreless in First Quarter, Billy Payne Leads Tulane to 28-td-6 Victory. By JOHNNY BRADBERRY. TULANE STADIUM, NEW ORLEANS, La, Nov. 12.

Billy Payne, Tulane's biggest disappointment of the season, ran like an unbroken colt here this afternoon to lead the powerful Green Wave to a 28-to-6 victory over a smaller but fighting Georgia eleven as 10,000 fans looked on. Both Touchdowns Are Scored on Long Distance Runs. 26,000, Scoring Twice First Quarter. By RALPH McGILL. r.PAMT TTFi.Ti att A.

Nov. 12. There's a wind that blows SEATTLE, Nov. 12. (UP) they must worry about the game before them.

The scouts must know football. If you think you have trouble following the ball in these days of reverses and hidden ball plays, consider the scouts who must diagram each play and each offensive and defensive change. They must watch it all the casual change of a player's position, the slight change in a defensive set. The change which may take place in offensive between the worlds and riding it la the rallying cry of those who have fought last-ditch fights since time began. It blew like challenging bugles into the ears of Georgia Tech crippled football legions at Grant Field Saturday afternoon and they outfought and led the favored Alabama eleven until the closing min less Syracuse eleven.

21 to 0, to day to register a victory that kept Pavne reached the creat heiehts expected of him today. He University of Washington's Huskies upset Southern California, 7 to 6, today, and opened up the race for the Pacific Coast conference title and the western Rose Bowl bid. The Trojans had been favored to dominate the division after they removed California from the ranks the tn-ide of Wortn arouna in utes to end with a 14-and-14 tie in one ei we great vpscu wi played only about half the game but while in there was unstoppable. He ran the ends and through the Bulldog line like a wild steer. the fore of the nation's teams.

With four regulars missing, with All they then have to do is go back home and tell the head Unbeaten, untied and unscored Three oi tne wave xour touch unnn when tnev came inio nn- two second-team men in the lineup, the golden-clad team from the coach how to win the next jrame. downs were made by this scrappy FLORIDA BEATS eient Archbold stadium, the Blue of the unbeaten last week. Chief sufferer at the Tech-Alabama came was Vernon "biggest disapomtment or tne season." And in addition, he kicked Devils maintained its status with brilliant offensive that nrougnx Flats made one. of the greatest fights the turf of Grant Field has seen. one of Tulane extra points to Sharpe, famous Vanderbilt center of some years aso, who had to scout Alabama and at the same time tfv to keep his mind off the Vanderbilt-Tennessce contest at Nashville.

touchdowns in the second, third personally account for 19 markers. and fourth ceriod and a aerense MARYLAND, 21-7 GAINESVILLE. Fla Nov. 12- Lead at Half. II to f.

They took the game away in the ine tsuuaog line cuuia not wye with the powerful forward of Red that smashed the Syracuse run fling attack and batted down the first hall, leading 14 to 0. Dawson and the backs were mail The slumbering giant from Ala ing most of the tackles all after aerials of the orange xamea wu-meth Sidatsingh. About 28,000 fans ()Florida added one bright spot in an otherwise disaDDointing foot bama came back to life with a NAVY IS VICTOR OVER LIONS. 14-9 NEW YORK, Nov. played a waiting game today, and proved to its own satisfaction that many things do come to those who wait, including in this instance a heart-stirring 14-to-9 victory over Columbia- The Lions roared loud and ef noon.

Approximately 18,000 fans braved a raw wind and pelting rain to see Washington outplay the Trojans all the way. The Huskies scored in the first period when Halfback Jimmy Johnston scam- 51 yards and crossed the S. C. goal line standing up. LONG RUN.

The Trojans' touchdown came in the second period as the result of a spectacular 70-yard run by Quarterback Grenny Lansdell after he caught a Washington punt. Lansdell slipped through most of the Husky team, shaking off several tacklers. watched the rout. quick touchdown as the third ball season here today with a well- MTMS PASS SCORES. The Green Wave defense had Alex Says 'Bama Used Illegal Play as Planned T.ri the Red TiDton.

running earned 21-to-7 victory over we air-minded Maryland eleven. terrifically hard from the tail quarter began. Tne weary legions from the Flats gathered themselves together again and stopped back position, scored the Iirst Georgia's running attack as bottled up as a pint of milk and only Billy Mims beautful pass to End Knox The Gators hit their top offen them. sive stride before a home-coming And so. the minutes dragged on Eldredge in the second period kept touchdown and was ixixe most brilliant offensive player.

He passed to the flat, poorly defended by the Orange, and kicked in and the fourth quarter came. The the Buldogs from being Dianicea, crowd of nearly 10,000, scoring two touchdowns to one-for the Terrapins in a pulse-quickening fourth tteriod. Warren Bronco crunner was giant from Tuscaloosa was stopped, fighting for an opening that also a thorn in Georgia's side. He phenomenal xastuon. j.

fectively at the start as Sid Luck- scored the second touchdown for Twire in the first quarter the man treated Baker Field's capacity Seldom able to penetrate the Cator eround defenses for con Rii Devils threatened. Each the Wave and ran effectively all would not come. it came. things usually do, out of nothing. A short pass from Boswell to Bradford was completed at about the Tech 40 They had him.

The of 34,000 fans to an artistic pass time a fumble one on an Ill-ad afternoon, butting back on re sistent gains, Maryland kept verses with startling speed. vised lateral lost the bail, xnen The Trojans erected two stone wall goal line defenses to stave i off two other threats. The Hus-i kies were pounding toward pay dirt a few minutes after the first touchdown and again in the wan-: ing part of the last period. Southern California never seri Charlie Weidinger pitching forward nasses from beginning to Tulace was leading at the time: 7-0. but the Bulldogs bounced end.

The Terps took to the air ing and running display, and Bill Stickel booted a field from 18 yards out to take a 9-point lead before two. minutes of the second period had in the second the invaders got rolling. rr-. Tipton slashed off tackle, a favorite Duke 5 maneuver, for 27 vards to brine the baU to the briefly back into the game with 31 times, with Weidmger maxing fond en IS attemcts. the score.

The touchdown ously menaced the Washington climaxed a 60-yard march which By the Associated Press. A. Alexander, veteran Georcia Tech footbaU coach, charred last nltht Alabama rained a 14-14 tie with his team yesterday through an Uleral "screened pass." "I da not blame the officials. Alexander said In reference to the Crimson Tide's final, fourth period score, "bat I do think it is too bad that as fine a footbaU team as Alabama had to resort to an literal play to ret a tie." Specifically, Alexander said the Alabama linesmen charred across the line and blocked oat Murphy. Tech backer-ap, before Boswell tossed a short pass to Bradford.

Bradford was tackled after he had rlncd only a few yards but he Ute railed to Davis, who raced 0 yards for the tylnr touchdown. (The rules prohibit a linesman from roinr down under a pass and blocking or interferinr in anyway with the defenders before the pass is eaus ht) I cannot help but feel that play was deliberately planned and was used as a last resort to rob a courareous bunch of boys of the finest victory a Tech team had earned in years. Alexander said. The play definitely was not an literally planned one," Coach Thomas said when told of the accusation. I do not know If Murphy was blocked before the ball was caurht.

I do not think he was. But tf he was. it merely was an error In timinr and It absolutely was not due te any attempt to take an unfair advantage, Florida pushed over as touch started when the Bulldogs took Syracuse 29. The ball went to down in the first period and never -Then the Midshipmen sailed 78 yards on 9 plays with Lem Cooke Tulane's kickoff after the 'Wave's lost the lead. The score came on a 76-vard drive featured by the the 21 on two plays -and then Tipton smashed three times to hrin It trt th six.

first marker. tired Tech defense eased up lor one split second and in that second Bradford lateralled the ball to Alvin (Pig) Davis and he sped through the defense to a touchdown. Victor Bradford's toe swung and the ball was between the posts for the point that tied the game, his 12th out of 14 tries this season. Illegal Play: When It waf done. Coach W.

A. Alexander said that in his opinion the play on 1 which Alabama Carroll Thomas took Golumb's kickoff after the Wave touchdown passing to Lucien PoweU for their first touchdown in the second, and 67 yards in 11 plays for their third period score. Emmett Pumpkin) accurate heaves of Ernest Cody, who broke into the starting lineup goal after LansdeU's tiasny run. The best the Trojans could do placed them on the Husky 0-yard line. Their passes were continually knocked down and their reverses usually were stopped.

Fullback John Jones booted the extra point that produced Wash-incton's victory and relieved the and returned to the Georgia 40, for the first time today and turned Wood was sent crashing 1 yard through center for this touchdown in an able Four plays later Eric the Red went wide around right end for a touchdown and Tony Ruf fa kicked the point. Bob O'Mara scored the second early in the third period. Starting Hise' passed to Thomas for 18 Yards and a first down on the and it was he who placekicked Greenies' 42. Maryland T-T ri0 1421 attar taucftdWn. wtintr iaraa- roth extra points.

Hise then passed incomplete that had been put on 14 Contlnned in Page 18-A. Continued In Page 11 ji Continued In Page 18-A. 1 Continued in Page IS-A. Columbia.

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