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Section Two FREEPORT JOURNAL-STANDARD Sporf Section FREEPORT, ILLINOIS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1963 Coll eges Prepare For Cage Tourneys Star's Loss Doesn't Upset Huskies Coach LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP)Washington Coach Jim Owens doesn't appear particularly upset over the fact that his star fullback, Junior Coffey, won't be playing in the Rose Bowl. At least, he isn't showing it. "I don't think this will change our game plans at all," said Owens Sunday night after returning from a weekend at Palm Springs. "We are just now starting to put in our special stuff.

The other fullbacks run the same plays so we will go right about our business." Coffey, who carried the ball 90 times for the Huskies this season, broke a bone in his left foot during a pass defense drill Saturday afternoon. Coffey's replacement for the New Year's Day game against Illinois will be Charlie Browning, a 6-foot, 200-pound junior from Stockton, Calif. Browning was the top ground gainer for the Huskies this year with 421 yards in 48 carries for 5.0 average. He was Coffey's replacement during the first five games this year when the All- Coast fullback was sidelined by other foot injuries. Bobby Hull Helps Hawks Beat Boston By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Bobby Hull appears to be on his way to a single season goal- scoring record and the Chicago Black Hawks may need just that to nail down their first National Hockey League championship.

The slumping Hawks used Hull's 20th goal of the season as a springboard to a 4-1 victory at Boston Sunday night and maintained their four-point lead over fast-closing Montreal. The Canadiens ripped Detroit 6-1 and Toronto tied New York 1-1 on Bob Nevin's third period tally while the Leafs were shorthanded. Hull, who normally does his heaviest firing in the last half of a season, is ahead of schedule this year. His 20th goal came in the Hawks' 32nd game. The Chicago super-star shares the NHL record of 50 goals with Montreal's Bernie Geoffrion.

Sunday's success was only the third for Chicago in its last 11 games. A month ago the Hawks looked like a runaway winner. Last year, the Hawks led most of the way, but lost the crown Michigan Wins; Purdue Loses 4th CHICAGO (AP) The Big Ten's top basketball teams, led by unbeaten and third-ranked Michigan, swing into rugged holiday tournaments this week in final big tuneups before opening the championship race. Before the tournament rounds, however, there are several single engagements. Ohio State (4-3) entertains Houston Monday night while Purdue (24) is host to New Mexico and Michigan State (5-2) is at Brigham Young in Utah.

Action for Big Ten teams then ceases for Christmas and resumes Thursday. Illinois (3-2) and Michigan (6-0) enter the Los Angeles Classic which runs Prep Basketball By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Saturday's Results Parker 60. Tilden 51 Alleman 69, Moline 57 Sterling 66, Rock Falls 50 Forreston 81, Stillman Val. 59 Winnebago 63, Byron 48 Grayslake 77, Woodstock-Marion 75 Prophetstown 59, Geneseo 55 Shabbona 79. Hampshire 61 St.

Patrick 71, Joliet Cath. 49 North Park Acad. 61, Walther Lutheran 54 Morton West 62, Glenbrook North 60 Notre Dame 61, Ela-Vernon 44 Immaculate Conception 76, Marian Catholic 48 Lawrenceville 64. Paris 48 St. George 48, Rockford Boy- Ian 41 Cathedral 64, Illiana 57 East Peoria 51, Peoria Central 48 Limestone 66, Pekin 61 Peoria Spaulding 56, Peoria Manual 54 Galesburg 73, Thornton Harvey 48 Springfield Lanphier 75, Lincoln 49 Western 59, Northwestern 39 Hamilton 68, Bowen 48 Robinson 57, Palestine 55 Oblong 95, Grayville 71 Alton 75, Breese Mater Dei 60 Gillespie 49, Bethalto 42 Alton Marquette 78, Quincy CBC 50 Lincolnwood 100, Ashley 57 Shawneetown 59, Joppa 52 Marion 73, Anna-Jonesboro 68 Mt.

Vernon 55, West Frankfort 40 Holy Cross 60, Maryville 49 Kankakee 29, Bradley 25 York 73, Willowbrook 58 to Toronto by a single point. In Saturday night's action, Montreal nipped Chicago 3-2 and Toronto blanked Detroit 3-0. through Saturday. Iowa (4-1) is in the Far West Classic at Portland, and Minnesota (5-2) plays in the Holiday Festival in New York Thursday through Monday. Milwaukee Classic Wisconsin (3-4) enters the Milwaukee Classic Friday and Saturday and Northwestern (23) competes in the Quaker City Classic at Philadelphia Friday through Monday.

In non tournament firing Saturday, Michigan State is at Butler and Ohio State at Utah State. Michigan registered its sixth straight triumph Saturday in ripping the zone defenses of fifth-ranked Duke 83-67. Cazzie Russell topped the Wolverines with 21 points, and Bill Buntin scored 14 and picked off 18 rebounds. Biggest Point Total With Pete Gent netting 33 points and Marcus Sanders 29, MSU ran up its biggest point total in history in beating Oklahoma 118-110 for third place in the Sun Devil Classic at Arizona State U. After two straight losses, Ohio State bounced back to wallop Wichita 78-60 behind the 28- point production of Gary Bradds.

Minnesota trounced Drake 6451 with four men in double figures, topped by Mel Northway's 14. Four other Big Ten teams were losers. Evansville handed Purdue its fourth setback in a row, 110-84. Although Rich Falk scored 28, Northwestern bowed to Notre Dame 70-68. Wisconsin lost a 90-87 overtime battle to Princeton in the third place game of the Kentucky Invitational.

Indiana, for the second night, was trimmed by Oregon State, 56-52, after the Beavers solved the Hoosiers zone defenses in the second half. High for the Hoosiers was Dick Van Arsdale with 16 points. Polo's Cage Meet Starts Thursday The annual holiday tournament which throws two Route 72 conference teams and two Blackhawk Conference teams together in round-robin battle will begin Thursday at Polo. Last year the tourney was held at Stillman Valley. Route 72 representatives will be Stillman Valley and Byron, while Blackhawk delegates are Polo and Mount Morris.

The holiday meet will run Thursday through Saturday. Two games are scheduled each night, the first one starting at 6:45 p.m. with the second tipoff coming at 8. The action will take place in the Polo Community High School gymnasium. The pairings for the meet are as follows: Thursday 6:45 p.m.—Byron vs.

Mount Morris 8 p.m.—Polo vs. Stillman Valley Friday 6:45 p.m.—Mount Morris vs. Stillman Valley 8 p.m.—Byron vs. Polo Saturday 6:45 p.m.—Stillman Valley vs. Byron 8 p.m.—Mount Morris Polo Polo Pro Basketball By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Eastern Division W.

L. Pet. G.B. Boston 23 4 .852 Cincinnati ..21 13 .618 Phila'phia ..13 17 .433 New York 9 26 .257 18 Western Division Los Angeles 20 11 .633 St. Louis 21 14 .600 1 San Fran.

16 14 .533 Baltimore ..10 21 .323 10 Detroit 7 20 .259 11 Saturday's Results New York 127, Boston 117 Baltimore 108, Cincinnati 106 St. Louis 100, Detroit 91 Los Angeles 126, Philadelphia 113 Sunday's Results San Francisco 118, Philadelphia 104 St. Louis 116, Baltimore 104 Duffy Daugherty is the 17th head football coach in Michigan history. A assies Will Pit Fraser, Emerson Against U.S. Team By WILL GRIMSLEY ADELAIDE, Australia Australia has decided to stick with experience and throw its two biggest tennis guns, Roy Emerson and Neale Fraser, against the United States in the Davis Cup Challenge Round starting Thursday.

This means both sides will gamble on two-man teams holding up in Adelaide's sweltering 100-degree heat through both singles and doubles over the three-day test. The Americans plan to bank on Wimbledon champion Chuck McKinley and Dennis Ralston. Harry Hopman, Australia's long time captain, left little doubt that Fraser was his No. 2 singles man after watching the Melbourne veteran whip through a smashing workout reminiscent of his peak three years ago when he held both the Wimbledon and U.S. crowns.

"If Fraser continues his present rate of improvement would have to be counted as the man for the job," Hopman said. "He has this vast store of experience behind him and he is gradually coming back to his old form." It is a one-shot deal for the good-looking Victorian judge's son, who retired from big time competition 18 months ago after winning the U.S. championship twice, and also capturing Wimbledon, become the world's No. 1 amateur. There had been some concern that Fraser, now 30, and away from championship competition for more than a year, might not be able to hold up under the rigorous grind and pressure applied by the more youthful and eager Yanks.

The alternatives are Fred Stolle, a range 24-year-old stylist who has a good but unspectacular record, and John Newcombe, a brash 19-year-old rookie whose confidence and slashing play has won Hopman's heart. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS football players arriving for their game in the Rose Bowl New Year's Day are greeted by Rose Bowl queen Nancy Keeland, her six princesses and the president of the tournament Hilles M. Bebell. Leading the team off the plane at International Airport in Los Angeles are Coach Pete Elliott and co-captains Dick Deller and Mike NEA Photo. Huskies Lose Star Back Illinois Holds Ragged Drill; Elliott Stresses Hard Work By JERRY LISKA PASADENA, Calif.

Irked Coach Pete Elliott of Illinois cast a worried eye at the calendar today after his Illini got off to a ragged start in preparation for the Rose Bowl game with Washington's Huskies. "They just looked much hitting and not much enthusiasm," said Elliott Sunday. It was the team's first full-scale outdoor workout since their Thanksgiving Day conquest of Michigan State for the Big 10 football title. The Illini were to hold their second West Coast workout this morning, before joining the Washington squad for an afternoon tour of Disneyland. Go Into Seclusion After today, Illinois will have only seven single-session daily drills.

Monday night, Dec. 30, the team goes into seclusion in the Passionist Fathers Retreat House at the nearby Foothills community of Sierra Madre. Elliott sympathized with Washington for its loss of star fullback Junior Coffey for the Rose Bowl game. But he made it plain he had troubles of his own readying for the New Year's Day showdown. "It's most unfortunate," Elliott said of the fractured left foot suffered by Coffey in a Saturday drill.

"I'm very, very sorry he will not be able to play. But I'm sure Charley Browning (also a top Huskie fullback) is a fine player." At the same time, Elliott stressed "we have an awful lot of work to do in every running, kicking, and throwing and catching the ball." He continued: Drilled Outside "We looked yesterday just like you would expect a football team to look after a three-week layoff from outdoor work" Washington has had two-a-day sessions at nearby Long Beach since Dec. 16. Illinois also start- ed drills at home the same day, but were held to limited indoor maneuvers for five sub-zero weather days last week. Elliott diplomatically discussed Washington's apparent on-the-scene training edge.

Secret Practices "I'd say our preparations will be the way we have to do it, and Washington's have been the way they wanted to do it," he said. "We've got to be ready a week from Wednesday, and so DICK BUTKUS One More Honor Pro Hockey Pts. GF GA Chicago 18 7 7 43 108 69 Montr'l 17 9 5 39 102 83 Toronto 15 9 6 36 86 72 Detroit 10 15 5 25 67 89 Boston 7 16 7 21 63 88 New York 7 18 6 20 83 104 Saturday's Results Montreal 3, Chicago 2 Toronto 2, Detroit 0 Sunday's Results Montreal 6, Detroit 1 Toronto 1, New York 1 (tie) Chicago 4, Boston 1 do they." The Illini are practicing at Brookside Park, adjacent to the Rose Bowl, a site once used for spring training by the Chicago White Sox. Several policemen have been detailed to ward off possible spies who might ferret out Illini secrets. After Sunday's practice, Elliott cracked: "I hope Washington finds out exactly how horrible we were today." Dick Butkus Named MVP By Tribune Dick Butkus, Illinois' unanimous All-American center- linebacker, Saturday was named by the Chicago Tribune as the most valuable football player in the Big Ten.

The Chicago Vocational High School graduate is the fourth Illini to win the newspaper's Silver Football. Red Grange won the first award in 1924, while Alex Agase Northwestern's new football coach was the 1946 winner. Bill Burrel took the honor in 1956. Selection is made by conference coaches, a panel of veteran officials, Big Ten Commissioner Bill Reed, Tribune columnist Dave Condon, and Tribune sports editor Wilfrid Smith. Butkus received more than half of all first place votes Halfback Sherman Lewis of Michigan State was second, while quarterback Ron DiGravio of Purdue finished third in the balloting.

Passes Win Bowl Games Trull, Mira Are Stars TWO QUARTERBACKS on the South team netted 38 yards on a single pass play in the North-South All-Star game at Miami, Saturday. In top photo George Mira of Miami was chased after he took a handoff from Dick Shiner of Maryland. Mira threw a pass across field to Shiner (31), middle photo, who followed interference until he was trapped on seven-yard line, bottom photo. The South won, Photo. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The air was filled with footballs at Miami and Houston, but at Long Beach, the air was filled with the talk of be exact the fifth one of Junnor Coffey's left leg.

While George Mira and Don Trull sent footballs sailing at a record clip Saturday in the first major session of post-season college football activity, Washington suffered a severe jolt to it Rose Bowl hopes when Coffey broke a bone in his left foot during a practice session. Coach Jim Owens made this short, terse comment on the injury: "He will not play in the Rose Bowl," he said. Third Foot Fracture The Huskies, who face Big Ten champion Illinois in the Rose Bowl New Year's Day will substitute Charlie Browning for Coffey, who was Washington's leading scorer. It was the third foot fracture suffered by Coffey, How will Coffey's loss affect the Huskies' chances? "It's going to hurt them," a team spokesman acknowledged. On the playing field, Mira led the South all-stars to a 23-14 victory over a North team in the Shrine game at Miami, and Trull paced Baylor to a 14-7 decision over LSU in the Bluebonnet Bowl at Houston.

And Mis- sippi State held off North Carolina State 16-12 in the Liberty Bowl at Philadelphia. Still To Come The big attractions are still to come, with three games scheduled for Saturday, another set for Dec. 31 and the New Year's Day classics around the corner. Mira completed 27 of 42 passes for 366 yards, each figure a North-South record, as the Dixie stars overcame a 14-0 North lead and went on to win the 16th Shrine affair. The Miami wizard fired two touchdown passes and a two-point conversion flip.

in what probably was the last Liberty Bowl. Sponge Thrower Only 8,309 showed up in 100,000 seat Philadelphia Stadium Trull, who hasn't decided be- and promoter Bud Dudley indi- tween professional offers from cated after the 8 am that he'll Houston of League and the American Baltimore of the NFL, came up with a clutch performance in the Bluebonnet Bowl. The Baylor ace directed two fourthquarter scoring drives and capped both with touchdown split end a 14-7 James In- throw in the sponge if he can't lure a top Eastern team to chilly Philadelphia in 1964. North Carolina meets Air Force in the Gator Bowl in one of two televised classics next Saturday. The East-West Shrine game is the other.

The Blue- Gray game at Montgomery, Ala. passes to gram for a 14-7 victory over stubborn LSU. Trull pitched 261 also is scheduled. strikes in 37 efforts for 2551 SMU and Oregon clash in the vards iSun Bowl at El Paso on Dec. DON TRULL Paces Baylor's Win Mississippi State scored on an 11-yard run with a blocked punt, a three-yard sweep and Justin Canale's 43-yard field goal into a 15 m.p.h.

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John Horvath, 648; same, 279. 772 Teams Compefe In Holiday Events By BOB GREEN Associated Press Writer The mad, mad, mad, mad world of college basketball reaches its maddest moments this week with 112 teams competing in 22 separate least at last and each one of them is supposed to mean something. Actually, they rarely do. The serious part, conference play, is still two weeks off for a majority of the nation's myriad teams, with this week's annual Christmas holiday tournaments serving as the breaking point of the season. The madness began last week with a handful of major tourneys.

The big one was in Lexington, where the home folks got downright frantic when Col. Adolph Rupp's host Kentucky lads won their own tourney with a 98-75 conquest of Wake Forest in the final game. Seventh Straight The victory was the seventh in a row for unbeaten Kentucky, ranked second in the nation and obviously angling for the top spot, held by defending national champion Chicago Loyola. The champs refused to yield ground, however. Loyola, 6-0, maintained its 100-point-a-game average with two victories during the week, 112-68 over South Dakota and 91-47 over Ohio Wesleyan.

Other ranked teams remaining unbeaten included No. 3 Michigan, 6-0; No. 6 UCLA, 6-0; No. 8 Vanderbilt, 7-0, and No. 10 Davidson, 7-0.

Michigan Wins Michigan romperd over No. 5 Duke 83-67; Butler defeated No 9 Toledo 82-61; UCLA snapped Creighton's nine-game winning string 95-79; Vanderbilt beat Louisville 91-82 and Davidson romped over East Carolina 105 77 in Saturday games. Seventh-ranked New York University wasn't in action Saturday but suffered a midweek upset at the hands of Wagner. No. 4 Cincinnati also was idle Saturday after two victories during the week.

Princeton, unranked but sporting one of the brightest individual stars, took third in the Kentucky tourney, edging Wisconsin 90-87 in overtime. Bill Bradley, a 6-foot-5 junior, poured in 47 points. Ranked teams in tourney action this week include UCLA vs. Yale and Michigan vs. NYU in the first round of the Los Angeles Classic; Chicago Loyola vs.

Georgetown, D.C. in the first round of the Quaker City Classic in Philadelphia, and Vanderbilt vs. Memphis State in the Van- derbit Invitation at Nashville, Tenn. Cincinnati is the only ranked earn in action tonight, playing host to Kansas State. Saturday involving the Top Ten include Kentucky vs.

Notre Dame at Louisville, and Tulsa at Cincinnati. The bulk of the interest, however, centers on the vast array of tournaments. Here's a partial ine-up, with several more get- ling underway next week: Thursday Holiday Festival at New York, Big Eight at Kansas City, Los Angeles Classic, WCAC at San Francisco; Far West Classic at Portland, Queen City at Buffalo and All-College at Oklahoma City. City at Detroit, Kodak Classic at Rochester, N.Y., Quaker City Classic at Philadelphia, Milwaukee Classic, Hurricane Classic at Miami Beach, Vanderbilt Invitation at Nashville, Evansville, Holiday, Poinsetta Classic at Greenville, S.C., Downeast Classic at Bangor, Maine, All-American at Owensboro, Gulf South Classic at Shreveport, Wagner Invitational at Staten Island, N.Y., Gator Bowl at Jacksonville, and the Watauga Invitational at Johnson City, Tenn. Carnival at El Paso, Tex.

Here's How Top Cage Teams Fared By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Here's how the top ten teams in The Associated Press college basketball poll did last week: 1. Chicago Loyola, 6-0, beat South Dakota 112-68, beat Ohio Wesleyan 91-47. 2. Kentucky, 7-0, beat Wisconsin 108-65, beat Wake Forest 9875. 3.

Michigan, 6-0, beat Duke 8367. 4. Cincinnati, 5-1, beat Colorado 82-64, beat Denver 64-48. 5. Duke, 6-2, beat South Carolina 77-70, beat Virginia 84-73, lost to Michigan 83-67.

6. UCLA, 6-0, beat Baylor 11261, beat Creighton 95-79. 7. NYU, 4-2, lost to Wagner 77-76 in overtime. 8.

Vanderbilt, 7-0, beat Texas Christian 113-56, beat Louisville 91-82. 9. Toledo, 6-2, lost to Villanova 63-59, lost to Butler 82-61. 10. Davidson, 7-0, beat Furman 89-63, beat East Carolina 105-77.

List Of Unbeafens Dwindling In State SPRINGFIELD, 111. (AP) Fast starting Collinsville and Lockport escaped weekend action unscathed and lead a dwindling list of undefeated Illinois prep basketball teams into holiday tournaments opening Thursday. Collinsville, ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press Poll, loom as the favorite in the East St. Louis tournament while Lockport gathers strong support in the Pontiac meet.

Four of the state's top 16 teams muffed chances to take unbeaten slates into the post- Christmas classics, falling before underdogs on a weekend card dotted with upsets. Ranked Sixth Decatur's Reds, ranked sixth, were stopped for the first time in five outings, dropping a 4541 decision to Champaign Saturday. Peoria Limestone handed Pekin its first setback, 66-61, and Springfield Lanphier walloped Lincoln 75-49. The loss was Lincoln's first in eight games. Maine East surprised previously unbeaten Riverside 6154, and Chicago Heights Bloom, rated fourth, bowed to Thornton 53-51.

Sterling Wins Sterling added Rock Falls to its list of victims by a 66-50 score Saturday and carries a 6-0 slate into the Pontiac competition. The field includes Lockport 7-0, Waukegan 4-0, Pekin 4-1, Lincoln 7-1, Streator 6-1, and Peoria Richwoods 5-2. Centralia's Orphans, third- ranked, rate as the team to stop in their own tourney. The Orphans made it six in a row Saturday by downing Harrisburg 72-48. Other teams in the Centralla event include Quincy, rated 10th with a 6-1 record; Pinckneyville 3-1, Lanphier 3-2, Benton 3-2, and Belleville 4-2.

Could Find Trouble Although Collinsville is the choice at East St. Louis, the Kahoks could find trouble in Springfield Griffin's unbeaten team, who defeated East St. Louis Lincoln 77-66 Friday for five straight. Danville, winner of its last three games, faces rugged opposition in its own tourney from Anna Jonesboro, Carl Sandburg, Blue Island Eisenhower and Rich Central. Decatur Eisenhower carries a 5-2 mark into the Paris tournament against Thornton Fractional South.

Christian Brothers Quincy, Wood River and Pittsfield are among the other entries. Cobden, winner of its first i nine games, steps into action with larger schools in the McLeansboro tournament. Undefeated teams booked for non tournament action this week include Rock Island and East Moline. Rock Island, 6-0, meets Iowa City and East Moline plays Moline in Friday games..