The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 35

iCTTO Mb IMS fkil C7nJ 11 EDI1 IS ALL IN THE GAME JACK ffl Football Atmosphere SSUKShMWflBS phere surrounding the colorful clash of Georgia Tech and the Navy. New York, for instance, a football game is lost. There's no fuss around hotels and no demand for tickets. You can ark 10 0 people who's playing and probably not one of the 10 could answer. But here, along Peachtree street, you get wept up by the spirits.

This is my place for football." Bob Brumby, famous Marietta boy, was on hand to see the came before shov. in? off for China and India, where he will handle broadcasts for Mutual Broad-casting System. Grantland Rice, came back home to report the same for the New York Sun, and the North American Newspaper Alliance. Granny always gets a (treat thrill out THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION Sunday, Oct. 22, 1944 1 LC Bowen Boots Field Goal To Win Game 35,000 Fans See Smart, Fighting Team Upset Navy Here By GRANTLAND RICE.

In one of the wildest, weirdest and most dramatic football games I've ever seen in over 40 years of football. Georgia Tech defeated Navy, 17 io 15, on a sunny afternoon yesterday at Grant field before a packed crowd of 35.000. Georgia Tech, completely overshadowed in manpower and speed, celebrated Coach Bill Alexander's twenty-fifth year as a head coach with smartness and fighting spirit for Old Man River that not even Navy could match. This game must take its place as the top of all the football thrillers when you look into the dusty records of time. DRAMATIC FEATURE Wiih only ten minutes left to play the most dramatic feature took place.

At that time Navy was leading Tech by the scant margin of 15 to 14. Tech was then on Navy's nine-yard line. And he kid who carried 55-year-old Alexander to victory was a 3 7-year-old freshman from Greenville, who led all the high of returning; to Atlanta and seeing his old friends. He wai with Bob Jones durinir most of his stay. "There's no finer place to watch a football came than the rim alone the west stands at Grant Field.

And what a beautiful day," Rice enthused. Color was rampant. The stands began to fill early. Forests at autumn time, with colors of the rainbow represented in the leaves of the trees were never more vivid than the splash of spectator color in the historic Grant Field horseshoe. It was a great Navy show.

I mean the Navy predominated in the pregame activities, on the field where Navy V-12 boys battled Midshipmen and in half-time ceremonies. It was a day long to remember. Football representatives of the U. S. Naval Academy should come south more often.

Their first visit was thoroughly enjoyable. MnirlPT Thrilled Too ther of Slim Sutton, Georgia luoiners- lnruiea. 100 Tech center wh0 was kmed in the South Pacific a year ago. was a guest, of Georgia Tech yesterday. Mrs.

Sutton was supremely thrilled over the magnificent victory of the Yellow Jackets. Another Tech mother was present to thrill at the performance rf her son. Mrs. Allen Bowen, mother of Tech's Dinky, enjoyed every minute of the game when Tech was ahead. Personally, in the few moments I had to look elsewhere, I got a kick out of V.

A. (Bill) Alexander, the Old Man. It in't often the Old Man sets off the bench. He might arise and casually talk to a player entering the (tame, but action on the field hardly ever makes him stand up. So yesterday, as a Georgia Tecb team, made up mostly of second-string performers, held the Navy off for four downs-just four yards short of victory it was quite a kick to see the Old Man kneeling yard or so in front of the bench, right beside Bobby Dodd.

A most happy man afterward was Trainer Claude Bond. "I could have kissed Luke Bowen for playing 57 minutes." Bond and Sandy Sandlin. Tech trainers, were most happy every injured Tech player got in the game and gave a good account cf himself. TJJ Another Georgia Tech man, a former star JdCKGI Honored athletei has won fame in world War II. Kendall J.

Fielder, assistant chief of staff, G-2, Pacific Ocean Areas, General Staff Corps, has been awarded the Legion of Merit for "exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstand 4 i LHjirv im Tqpn1 TSfgrar 1 1 I I 1 school scorers a year ago. His name was "Dinky" Bowen. He dropped back and with all the poise of a veteran placed a field goal squarely through the posts from the 20 yard line to put Georgia Tech in front by 17 to 15. And Tech defended that narrow margin with such skill and spirit that not even Navy's many stars could break through. As the game began to close out a battle of thrills continued, with Navy's fast, surging and hard-hitting backs putting in new pressure.

They passed and carried the ball to Tech's four-yard line with four cracks left. They flung big Bobby Tom Jenkins and the fleet Ellsworth a this Yellow Jacket guard, composed largely of second stringers, who were fighting for Old Man Alex, the greatest figure in football today. On the final plunge Elsworth drove to the six-inch line, and" there the star Texan was thrown back. The roar that came up from ing services in a position ot nign responsibility while serving as assistant chief of staff, G-2, of the Hawaiian Department and later of the U. S.

Army Forces, Central Pacific Area." The presentation was made by Lt. Gen. Robert C. Richardson commanding general of Army Forces in the Pacific Ocean Areas. The citation states that "by his foresight and energy, Col.

Fielder auickly expanded the Military Intelligence Section and directed its efficient operation. He de iiis pi'CKen crown is still covering the red clay hills of Georgia. This team had been a team outclassed in speed and power. It rose up to win through smartness and spirit, rose up to win the greatest victory Georgia Tech ever won in its long football history. 600 YARDS LOST Here was a game in which over 600 yards were lost in penalties, when you consider the eround COL.

FIELDER veloped a counterintelligence system which proved effective In protecting the Hiwaiian Department and the Central FaclfirArea from internal threat. -f His devotion te duty and exceptional administrative ability reflect great credit upon himself and the military service." CoL Fielder's home is in Atlanta. 1327 Teachtree. He was captain of (he Georgia Tech football team in 1913. He played on the teams of 1311.

'12 and '13. He was a left halfback "and plenty good." declared Coach Bill Alexander. Fielder also played shortstop on the baseball team and was a itandout. "He was a fine all-around athlete," Coach Alex recalled. Fielder entered the last war at the start, came out a captain, and atayed in the Army.

He was a great cavalryman and polo player. He married Dr. Cryton's daughter. They're proud at Tech of the honors that have come to another former Yellow Jacket athlete. Constitutor Staff Photo M.

J. fttrto off a last-minute rush by the Navy, halting the Middies inches short of a touchdown after they had put the ball in play at the four, first down and goal to go. The Jackets offset superior Navy manpower with beautiful teamwork. PLAY THAT DECIDED TECH-NAVY GAME The fans that jammed Grant field yesterday afternoon and saw the Jackets beat the Navy, 17-15, will never forget the sight of that football sailing through the uprights in the final period for a Tech field goal. Dinkey Bowen, the freshman from Greenville, booted the all-important three points from 20 yards out with Tech trailing, 14-15, and it put Tech into the lead.

The Jackets had to stave In spite of hurricane and high water, Bob" Perrott. top cowhand of the 10. 2 and 4 Bob and Jeanette FOOTBALL RESULTS Ms, lamo jPtay l-l KNOXVII.LE, Oct. 21. backs, who could gain in the mid-tnessee faltering after recovering Ranch.

St. Simons, and his charming wife, Jeanette, made it to Atlanta for the Tech-Navy game. Jeanette is a Chi Omega, Univer-aity of Georgia. "We left Rhett Butler and Scarlett (their famous Great Danes) treading water." Bob explained. But, of course, he win only kidding.

If the water hadn't subsided Bob wouldn't have budged. High water, flooding homes and submerging automobiles, caused the chief damage at Sea Island, St. Simons and Brunswick. There were no casualties and. while the area was cut off as wires were blown down, the trains kept right on running.

Bob and Jeanette wantpd to spc Tech and Navy play. In spite rf hurricane and high water, they realized their hopes yesterday. gained and' then lost. It was a game packed with many great plays, many dumb plays, with fumbling and penalties a game loaded with every type of good and bad football. Navy threw in 10 star barks from Texas, Notre Dame, Alabama and many other notable football hives against this Tech team, and while many of them, Jenkins.

Ellsworth and others, were brilliant in spots, they could never track this Georgia Tech spirit nor overcome Georgia Tech's superior smartness and skill. The first two periods of the game should belong to football history. It wns unbelievable mixture of thrills, upheavals, general turmoil, penalties and fumbles, and the roughest possible football. As a starter Jenkins took Tech's low bounding kickoff on his own 27-yard line and then ran 83 yards for a touchdown. The peculiar feature of this play is the fact that big Jenkins ran down an open boulevard with only one Tech defender within half reach of him.

Just eight seconds had passed with Navy leading, 6 to 0. From that point on everything connected with the old game of football began to take place. Tne startled Terh tenm rallied immediately, with Bowen and Broyles passing to Navy's 7-yard line. Navy's pass defense was s1evelike. There Navy raided again.

Then Navy began to run over Tech with its antelope backfield. In one case Navy made a first down on two Continued on Fate 12 i Georgia Tech 0 7 7 3-17Villanova 0 7 0 07 Navy 6 0 7 2-15 Muhlenberg 0 0 0 00 N. C. Navy 0 0 0 3 3 Ohio State 6 0 0 20-26 Ga. Navy 0 0 0 0 0 Great Lakes 0 0 6 06 Brown 6 6 6 6-24 Army 14 27 21 14-76 Holy Cross 6 12 0 6-24 U.S.Cst.Gd.

0 0 0 00 Colgate 0 0 0 0 0 Indiana 7 7 0 014 Penn State 0 0 0 6 6 Northwestern 0 0 7 07 Illinois 12 7 13 7-39 Iowa 0 7 0 0-7 Pittsburgh 3 0 2 0 5 Purdue 0 6 13 726 Lehigh 0 0 0 0- 0 Kansas 0 7 7 6-20 LaFoyette 7 19 12 644 Nebraska 0 0 0 00 Cornell 0 0 6 7-13 Kentucky 7 7 6 6-26 Samp. Naval 0 0 0 6 6 V. M. I. 0 0 2 02 die of the field, were stopped by the Alabama forwards every time they neared the Tide goal.

Neither team could cash in on breaks, with Alabama failing to convert an intercepted pass into a serious scoring threat and Ten- KANSAS SMASHES C0RNHUSKER JINX LAWRENCE, Oct. 21. (VP) Kansas wound up a 48-year string of defeats with a convincing 20-0 victory over the hapless Nebraskans who got close to the Kansas goal line just once. Two end zone passes and a blocked punt produced the tallies. Kansas kept the ball in the air much of the afternoon, completing 10 of 20 passes.

an Alabama fumble early in the game in Tide territory. Tennessee started a march late in the final period, with Bevu on a quarterback sneak knocking off seven yards from the Vol two-yard line, where Gilmer had kicked out. A second sneak by Bevis gave Tennessee a first down and a 16-yard gain on the Vols' 26, but the Vols couldn't produce further and the Tide took over in midiield. The vaunted Tide passing attack clicked but momentarily, once in the fading minutes when Gilmer connected to Jim Perl on a 37-yard aerial that made it a first down on the Tennessee 22. With aerials everywhere, Alabama tried desperately to score, but Gilmer's tosses into the end zone were incomplete.

Tennessee made 145 yards rushing to 55 for Alabama, but the Tide made 62 yards passing to only six for the Vols. (UP) Tennessee and Alabama battled to a scoreless tic today before 33,000 fans in a game replete with scoring threats which, failed to materialize. Late in the last period Alabama's Crimson Tide made a bid for victory when Substitute Billy Fields tried a field goal from the Tennessee 20, but the charging Vol line rushed him and the ball went wide. Then in the final 25 seconds Tennessee's Billy Bevis halted a last Alabama effort when he intercepted an aerial on his own 15 which had been thrown by the Tide's Harry Gilmer from mid-field. Tennessee slammed Into Alabama territory time after time during the slam-bang battle between two of the south's best wartime civilian teams, but their Iowa State, Missouri In Thrilling 21-21 Tie COLUMBIA, Oct.

21. (ff) Iowa State and the University of Missouri treated 6,500 fans to a spectacular exhibition of offensive football today, only to wind up in a 21-to-21 tie. The result -and the power they displayed marked both teams as contenders for the Big Six football California Handed First Loss, 19-2 BERKELEY. Oct. 21.

OF) Fleet City Bluejackets, as underdogs, plastered the first defeat of the season on California today, 19 to 2. The Sailors scored two touchdowns in the second period on a 60 yard pass interception, and later smashed 25 yards ior another score. (MORE SCORES ON NEXT PAGE.) Jill iw7 iw iiPt Wj i Constitution Stuff Phntot Pete Rotnn nd H. J. SHyten.

are Adm. J. R. Beardall, commandant of the Academy; Mrs. Beardall, Mrs.

T. A. Torgerson and Cmdr. T. A.

Torgerson, Beardall's aide. At right, Tech rooters. ing world's fop thrillers of all time." Here are some of the lucky onlookers who yelled themselves hoarse. At left are sailors end WAVEs from the Atlanta Naval Air Sta AND ALL WERE HOARSE LAST NIGHT Grant field was peopled with 30.000 wild-ejfed rooters yesterday as Georgia Tech nipped Navy, 17 to 15, in one of the sport tion who reserved their cheers for the Navy's offensive fireworks. In the center is a group of dignitaries from the Naval Academy at Annapolis.

Seated, left to right,.