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SportJL The WsconsteAlkate Journal SpoJdA. Alc(-tmding Newspaper Section Four 29 MADISON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1946 Gun Pii i iru ng Up 34-0 Win ere HENRY Mccormick gers It was right years ago that Wisconsin made its first and last trip to the Pacific Coast for a football engagement. The 1938 Badgers played University of California at Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.), and they traveled in the best available These Two Bad ger Touchdown Plays Broke Hill toppers Back Saturday transportation at that time, had the most plush of accommoda t'nf s. 4 tions, and won a significant victory. Those 1938 Badgers made the trip on the famed streamliner City of Los Angeles, put up in the exclusive bungalows that are a part of the Ambassador hotel, and wound up by scoring a 14-7 victory over a U.C.L.A.

team that included the famed Kenny Washington and Woodrow Strode. Marquette Not in Same Class as Wisconsin Kindt and Maves Break Up Game With Long Touchdown Runs Bv HENRY J. McCORMICK (State Journal Sports Edltot) Wisconsin's 1916 football team opened its campaign Saturday afternoon before a capacity crowd of 45,000 at The 1916 Badgers will play the University of California at Berkeley this and this time the Cardinals will be airborne. "I I -f 4 4 3 Otherwise, the schedule for plush travel and accommoda-t i remains unchanged. Coach Harry Stuhldreher may be careful of the university's money on most occasions, but there's nothing niggardly about the little guy when it comes to taking care of his players on trips.

And for a guy who's so careful of handling the university's money he's about as loose as they come when it comes to personal expenditures. The Badgers will leave here Thursday morning at 8 o'clock on a chartered United Airlines DC-4. This will handle a party of 44 with baggage. All arrangements were com "St? Camp Randall, and it guaranteed other crowds of the same proportions at future home games by handing Marquette a 31-0 lacing. Only merciful treatment by Coach Harry Stuhldreher of Wisconsin prevented the score from mounting to even more impressive figures.

Marquette was a thoroughly beaten team, and in the last quarter it found itself unable to -t' r' y- Tin -J 4 1 kMt score against even louuu, and sixth string Badger players. Hilltoppers Lacked orrense Coach Frank Murray had been JOHN 'BLACKIE' O'BRIEN champion trencherman pleted, last week with, a United Airlines representative. sure his Marquette team would score on Wisconsin, and he had 2 believed he had a pretty rair chance of winning. As it tumea out, Marquette never got farther than Wisconsin's 19-yard line. and it never had a chance of winning.

Until events prove different, Marquette must be considered as The DC-4 can carry a maximum load of 18,000 pounds; the "Wisconsin party and baggage averages out at about 12,000 pounds. The party will fly non-stop to Denver, arriving at 11:30 a. m. and leaving at 12 :20 p. m.

Arrival at the'Oakland airport is scheduled for 5 p. m. Wisconsin's party then will be whisked off to Old Hearst Ranch at Pleasanton, a plush spot with private golf course, swimming pool, and other such items. The squad will be quartered there Thursday and Friday nights, working out Friday afternoon on, the 18th fairway of the golf course! The Saturday trame at Berkeley is expected to draw around a team that was overrated, ror the Hilltoppers failed to display even the siigntesi trace oi tn oftensivw wizardry that was sup posed to be theirs. It was a case of too much and too many, the Badgers being talented down through a terrific array of substitutes.

Wisconsin had figured to have a rugged time against Coach Frank Murray's highly regarded Hilltoppers, but the game was under way but a few minutes when it became evi 4" im't 'V" dent that Marquette's chances of State Journal Staff Photo by Phil Harrington Stuhldreher Not Satisfied "We Aren't Sharp', He Maintains Wisconsin's Kadgers struck with sudden swiftness late in the first quarter and early in the second Saturday afternoon to ring: up the first of their five touchdowns against Marquette. Only 24 seconds remained, as the large clock on the field house, indicated, when Don Kindt (11) went through a hole at left guard and defty stepped 36 yards for the first Badger touchdown. The above photo shows Kindt stepping away from the last would-be Hilltop tackier. Two minutes and four seconds of the second period had elasped when Fullback Earl Maves (35) broke around his own right end and breezed 84 yards down the west sidelines to the second Wisconsin touchdown that took the spirit out of the Hilltoppers. Maves is shown on his way in the photo at the right.

70.000 people, and immediately alter the contest the Badgers will go to the Mark Hopkins hotel in San Francisco, another hostelry with a national reputation. There will be night dinner for the squad in the 'Argonaut Boom. Wisconsin's party will spend Saturday night at the Mark Hopkins and will board their plane for the return trip Sunday at 9 a. m. There will be a stop at Denver at 2:55 p.

and 30 minutes later the big DC-4 will head for Madison, arriving here at 8 :30 p. m. This will be the first time Wisconsin and California have mt in football, but it may mark the beginning of an extended lifiiiie-and -home relationship with California definitely scheduled to jliiy here in 1917. There will he quite a gathering of people now residing in California, among them a couple of famous football Rtars of the past, Pat O'Dca (1896-97-98-99) and James L. "Jimmie" Bra.ler (1918-19-20-21).

There will be some other people flying out from here on the regular commercial flights. Your correspondent will be one. Also, there will be William Hoard of Ft. Atkinson, a member of the University of Wisconsin athletic board and a fellow I let carry my typewriter at A. E.

"Dolf" Friede has a plane reservation, and so does Earl Daniel Haley. Furthermore, the university may have to send three rr four of its party on the regular flight. Coach StuhMivhcr w-ill carry a full complement of 30 players, the same number as he takes on Western Conference trips. The Wisconsin chartered plane will carry the players' personal luggage as well as the equipment trunks and sufficient drinking water. It also will carry food for the noon luncheon, and I imagine that will account for something like 200 pounds, football players being fellows who are highly efficient at stowing away large quantities of food.

By MONTE McCORMICK "We aren't sharp yet. We have winning were about the same as for catching lightning in a bottle. Badgers Finally Strike The Badgers were no finished team, and Coach Stuhtdreher will have no trouble in picking plenty of spots to criticize, but the potential ability was there, along with raging spirit. Marquette inanuged to avert disaster through most of the first quarter, but big Don Kindt brought down the thunder from the massed spectators in the final minute of the period when he bolted through a hole at left guard, impatiently shook off a tackier, and stepped 36 yards for a touchdown. Lisle Blackbourn place-kicked the extra point, and Wisconsin held a 7-0 lead.

It was only about three minutes later that Wisconsin had a 13-0 margin, the second touchdown coming on a dash of 84 yards by Earl Maves, a mad running fullback of whom you will hear plenty this year. That touchdown of Maves came directly after a brilliantly executed kick had traveled 60 yards and pushed Wisconsin back to its own 11. Blackbourn was held to to do a much better job of block ing," was Harry Stuhldrehers reaction to Wisconsin's 34-0 victory over Marquette. And from Harry's words it was sn w. apparent that he was far from satisfied with Wisconsin's offen 4 sive play in its opening game.

Harry declined to pick out any individual stars whom he thought performed up to standard, parry ing the question by saying, "Earl Maves and Clarence Esser played i good steady ball but so did many of the others. It would be unfair to pick out any one or two who stood out." Mini Power Too Much for Pitt a yard. Johnnv Pinnow lasherf Harry's lack of enthusiasm over for four, and then Maves went State Journal Photo by Art Vlnje Wisconsin's showing for an open ing game was not shared by many wheeling outside Marquette's left end and sprinted up the west sideline for 84 yards and a touchdown. of the experts who were on hand However, 1 don't believe there is any chance that a mem either as scouts or spectators. Coach Frank Murray of Mar PITTSBURGH (U.R) The ber of this squad will mark himself as a trencherman in the same class with one of the 1938 regulars.

That would be John University of Illinois gave a quette had great esteem for Wisconsin's possibilities after the East Prep Eleven Bows, 12-0, to Rockford West in Opener gridiron preview of things to come this season by defeating the "Blackie" O'Brien, fiery 168-pound guard. "Blackie" is the champion eater among all the fine per formers I have seen on Wisconsin football trips. game. "That is a real good team and it will go a long ways," Frank remarked. "Yes, a good team in University of Pittsburgh 33-7 in the opening game Saturday be fore 35.000 fans.

any year," he added. Murray gave Don Kindt and He got into the dining car early Sunday morning on the return trip from Los Angeles. The players were allowed some Earl Maves credit for breaking his team's back with their slash While the inexperienced Pitt team was not a complete test of Illinois vaunted power, Buddy Young and company served notice to their Big Nine opponents that their tempo would be fast Edgewood Seeks 17th Badger Bench Cleared Blackbourn's try for the extra point was wide, and that 13-0 score still stood up at halftime although Wisconsin had outplayed Marquette by a much wider margin. The Badgers rolled ap 14 points in the first 10 minutes of the third quarter and added seven more point la the last quarter when Coach Stuhldreher cleared the Wisconsin bench of all bat the physically Infirm. Wally Dreyer scored one touchdown on a six-yard shot over tackle to culminate a drive of 70 yards, Ben Bendrick tallied another on a five yard surge over tackle after Jack Wink had set it up with a pass interception, and the last one came on a pass from By MONTE McCORMICK Madison East high school's footbal team opened its season Saturday night at Breese Stevens field by dropping a 12-0 decision to Rockford West in a game in which the Purple and Gold showed surprising strong defen and furious.

Grid Win in Row Today One minute and 45 seconds after the opening gun, Young leeway ordering breakfast; that is, there were certain op tions. "What you want, suh?" asked the colored dining car waiter. "I want a dozen scrambled eggs," said O'Brien in a tone that brooked no argument, "and I want my order right away. I'm a coach," he added as the waiter hesitated. He had his order filled and made himself a nice little snack of it, having padded it out with about a pound of bacon, a couple of servings of cereal, two baked apples, and a quart of milk.

made his post-war college debut ing runs of 36 and 84 yards, respectively. Murray felt that Edgar Callahan at guard played a great game for Marquette and he also picked out Ray Kuffel for his defensive play. Irv Uteritz, former assistant in football and freshman baseball coach at Wisconsin, and C. M. "Nibs" Price, who followed the late Andy Smith as head football coach at California, were here scouting the Badgers for California.

"I don't know how strong Marquette is, but that looks like a really good team to me," Uteritz un its chain of victories to 16 broken links. Much of the Crusaders punch will be carried by Tom McCor 1 Bob Engle to Dale Flowers that mick, All-State back last fall, at They won't be able to get away with anything like that sive line play but little as an offensive threat besides the tricky Don Erickson. The power was taken out of the East attack when Fullback Ken Sachtjen was forced to leave the game in the first quarter with a broken nose. Don Erickson tried his best to carry the load but was given little offensive help. Ramon Mueller injured his ankle in the last period.

Furgold Line Shines on the plane this time, and I can believe that any of the pres ent crop would lr equal to such able destruction of food. fullback and Donnie Ryan at right half. Ryan broke his leg in the opening game last fall. Both he and McCormick are starting their fourth year of competition. 3 Regular Backs Return a success by circling wide around his left end for a 46-yard touchdown dash.

Tom Gallagher's conversion was good. Pittsburgh's retaliation was momentarily halted by a 15-yard penalty. End Leo Skladany's recovery of an Illinois fumble was a short-lived Pitt hope. But minutes later, Louis Cecconi, playing in his first college game, intercepted an Illinois pass which set Pitt in scoring position on the Illinois 22. After three ground advances, Cecconi drilled through center for a touchdown.

Carl De-paspua kicked the extra point. Illinois stepped up its offense in the third quarter. Fullback Russ Steger's hard running But I could be fooled. I'll let you know after I see them in action at the post-game dinner Saturday night in San Fran cisco, a city famed for its fine food. Edgewood high school, which should have one of the outstanding prep football teams in this part of the state this fall, will seek its 17th straight grid victory when it opens its 1946 season at 2:30 this afternoon against St.

Francis of Milwaukee at Breese Stevens field. Studded with regulars off last year's second straight undefeated and untied team and reinforced with reserve letterman, Edgewood will field a team that will have only one non-letterman in the lineup. Vets Lead Crusaders St. Francis was good enough to place second in the Milwaukee The East line can take a great deal of credit for its showing Saturday night. They boys up in the front line showed their true mettle in the fourth quarter when Rockford took West four downs Statistics on Badgers, Hilltops FIRST DOWNS Opponents recovered 1 Mnrnuet to score from the one-yard line, Wisconsin Total 13 By rushing Hv passing By pf-nally 12 1 0 remarked.

"They have fine depth and good general speed," he added. Carroll Widdoes also was here scouting for Ohio State and he was of the same opinion as Uteritz. Jack Ryan, a man who has been head coach at both Marquette and Wisconsin, thought Wisconsin played fine ball for an opening game and remarked in particular about the fine group of freshmen on the squad who are pushing the veterans for regular berths. Coach Harry Stuhldreher used every man on his squad fit for action. The four held out were Ashley Anderson, Stan Schultz, Mike Fisher, and Armond Hoehn.

An idea of the talent on the re- Fumbled 4 Own recovered 3 Opponents recovered 0 helped Illinois move to Pitt 38. Art Dufelmeir moved like a wraith, evading the opposing Pitt and even then Sam Rebecca had covered 37 yards and which was tipped into Bowers' hands by a Marquette defender. Marquette didn't make a first down until' the last quarter when it rolled up six. five of them with passes. Wisconsin made 13 first downs, 12 by rushing.

Card Back Drive Ilari Wisconsin rolled up 444 yards to Marquette's 115, the Badgers making 372 rushing and 72 passing; Marquette made five by rushing and 110 by passing. Marquette's aerial attack was its only weapon of any caliber, and even that was a treacherous thing, as witness the fact that Wisconsin intercepted five of the 18 passes the Hilltoppers attempted. Wisconsin's backs ran hard, driving for every inch. Toughest of the Badgers was Maves, a rugged block of a boy out of Stanley. and late of the 11.

S. Marines. He carried the ball nine times and rolled up 155 yards. He went around Ray Kuffel's end to sweep his right end to turn the PENALTIES AND YARDAGE Wisconsin 6 for 87 yds trick: (Continued on Page 31, Sports) Marquette 3 for 25 yds Catholic Confer The second Rockford touchdown Marqurttp Total 6 Ry rushir.R 1 By pas'ime 5 Bv prraltv 0 YARD VGE GAINED Wisconsin Total 444 By rtishmp 372 KH KUIFS AND YARDAGE Phil Schwartz at left tackle and Barron "Duke" Cawley at center are, the bulwarks in the line. Schwartz is active at 235 pounds and Cawley is 180 pounds; both are regulars for the third straight year.

Jim Devine and Mike Gentilli give Edgewood a fine pair of guards who are rugged and fast and veterans at their positions. Sam Prestigiacomo is back at quarterback, giving Edgewood three backfield regulars in the starting lineup. Ted Maglio at left half divided duties at that position last year, playing nearly half of the time. Tom McCormick will captain the Crusaders today. Probable lineups: Edgewood St.

Francis 66-Heilinan L. E. 93-Blohowiak 53-Schwartz 98-Hubpr 63-Devine L. 86-llillig ence last year, Wisconsin 6 for 277 was a gift. East took the kickoff Marquette 1 for 42 KICKOEF RETURNS AND YARDAGE 72 Wisconsin for 12 yds aiiu mis jcai la being coached by Orv who tutored, undefeated St.

I Marquette 5 for 97 yds a PUNTS AND YARDAGE 110' Wisconsin 6 for 215 yds Marquette 8 for 339 yds Catherine I PINT RETURNS AND YARDAGE the title last fall. (Continued on Page 31, Sports) 13 Wisconsin 3 for 35 yds 3 Marquette 3 for 47 yds Dermody at one 9 INDIVIDUAL. YARDAGE GAINED time assisted By pa-sine MarquottrTotal 115 By running By passing PASSING RECORD Wisconsin AHpmpted Complrtcd Incomplete Marquplt" Attf pled Completed Incomplete PASS INTERCEPTIONS RETl'KNS Visconsin Jr rcrpled Rftuin total ya -d: I.lai quettf Wisconsin Att. Yds. Ave -7 Tom Lieb a 20 and succeeded in reaching the Rockford 47, mainly on a pass, Norris Ace to Erickson.

Don almost shook free on the play. East was trying for victory and it had to take chances. That meant a passing game and one of Erickson's tosses was intercepted by Don Ellis, who raced 70 yards to score. Visitors Have Edge The East line, which is being completely rebuilt this year, showed that it is much farther advanced defensively than offensively. Rockford made eight first downs but five of them came on passes, meaning only three could be charged against the Purple Football Scores WISCONSIN 34, Marquette 0 Iowa 39, North Dakota State 0 Illinois 33, Pittsburgh 7 Miami (O.) 13, Purdue 7 Army 35, Villanova 0 St.

Olaf 13, River Falls Teachers 7 Nebraska Teachers 13, South Dakota Wesleyan 6 Colorado 13, Iowa State 7 VMI 7, Catawba 7 Tuskegee 59, P. C. Smith 0 Wyoming 7, Colorado Teachers 0 West Virginia 13. Otterbein 7 Clemson 39. Presbyterian 0 Indiana State 13, Illinois Normal 0 Texas 42, Missouri 0 I.oras 23, South Dakota State 18 William Mary 61, Fort McClellan 0 Tulsa 53, Wichita 13 Arkansas 21, Northwest Louisiana State 14 Texas A.

M. 47, North Texas State 0 Oklahoma A. M. 40, Denver 7 Florida univer 10. sity.

Gerber 1 -7 Gagljardo 5 -3 COMPLETED PASSES AND YARDAGE Wisconsin Blackbourn to Pinnow F.ngle to Bowers Evans to Embach AND 18! Cox 2 Drvver 7 4 Kindt 6 Maves 9 Hfath 1 Rendrick 10 5 Bennie 1 41 i Hlnrknourn 8 Edgewood started its un 16 38 18 fir? broken string of so disdainfully that the big Hilltopper probably hopes he never sees Maves again. On the debit side, Wisconsin's passing game did not click because of poor timing, that will take work. Furthermore, some of the ball handling and faking in 40 72 38 155 -6 42 2 15 11 3 Yds. 10 2 2 64- Cawley 84-McKonna 58- Gentilll R. 64-GeraRhty 65- Beyler R.

99-Schmidt 46-Roach R. 88-Fredcrick 61-Pr't(i'c'mo CJ. 75-Koswatka 2-Magho L. 80-Grahnm 00-Ryan 77-Persak 59- McCormlck F. 70-Lussier Offirlals: Arthur Mansfield, Wisconsin, referee; A.

J. "Hunk" Barrett, victories with 6.3 17.2 -6 4.2 2 1.9 3.7 3 Ave. 1.4 1 2 2 Pinnow 3 Intercept 1 Kvana 1 i the last game of the 1943 season, Return total yard's Oi Marquette Att Marquette Platli to Carlson 6 Plath to Paksse 3, 7 Plalh to Schuette 17 Plath to O'Connell 6 Polczynskl to Schuett 19, 21 Polczynski to Hanson 12 then won seven TOm McCORMICK RECORD OS FUMBLES U'lath 7 Wisconsin i Srhurtte 1 Fumbled 1 F.lcer 1 Own recovered llTeik. I straight in l44 Bradley Tech. umpire: Mark SlueU (Continued on Page 30, Sports) and eight more last year to run 1 Notre Dame, headlinesman (Continued on Page 31, Sports) Polczynaki to O'Hagan 19 Oh.